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TheFeatureCreature

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  • 10-year-old walked less than a mile to a dollar store, prompting a passerby to call police, who arrested his mom for reckless conduct.

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  • Pathetic. My sister and I used to explore around the whole city when we were that age. We'd walk streets and roads, explore parks and trails, visit malls across town, get into mischief like sneaking into people's backyards, exploring abandoned properties, and building forts in the woods. Some of my strongest memories are of the adventures we went on.

    You know what the worst thing that happened to us was? The occasional scrape or bruise from falls when climbing on shit. We both remembered all the phone numbers we needed to know and my sister, being a bit older than me, was very streetwise and knew the layout of the city like the back of her hand. We did our own purchasing, bought our own food, tended our own wounds, and so on.

    My sister grew up into one of the smartest and most independent people I've ever met.

  • Bike industry challenges continue as Giant and Canyon profits down 66% and 30%, while Shimano downgrades 2025 outlook

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  • Not surprising. COVID really messed up the bicycle industry with suppliers and retailers still having difficulty navigating the aftermath even today, 5ish years later.

    I recently bought a new ebike so I spent a lot of time browsing the inventory of local bike shops and there were a lot of bikes with steep discounts. My bike was around $2,000CAD off because they needed it to move asap. $400-700CAD discounts were common across numerous retailers.

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  • Not in elementary school, no. Some of my highschool teachers had phones on their desks or in their offices depending on what they did.

    They weren't landlines, though. They were connected to an internal phone network.

  • TIL Washington State Is Preparing For a Powerful Megafire That Will Be Nearly Impossible To Fight

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  • Climate change mixed with awful mismanagement of forests. Overzealous fire suppression and thoughtless tree planting has lead to forests that are artificially over-dense so when they dry out they practically explode when ignited.

  • Doug Ford floats notwithstanding clause in Toronto bike lanes case | The Narwhal

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  • He is so desperate to keep this culture war / distraction going.

  • What common thing should not only be banned, but criminalized with mandatory minimum sentences?

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  • Alcohol and gambling. The death and suffering these cause is unfathomable. Just within my small social sphere I've encountered numerous people that have had their entire families ripped apart or destroyed by these, particularly alcohol.

  • Microsoft no longer permits local Windows 10 accounts if you want Consumer Extended Security Updates — support beyond EOL requires a Microsoft Account link-up even if you pay $30

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  • The quality of those games is irrelevant. The user asked why people still use Windows and I gave a few examples. Simple as that.

    You are arguing for the sake of it.

  • Microsoft no longer permits local Windows 10 accounts if you want Consumer Extended Security Updates — support beyond EOL requires a Microsoft Account link-up even if you pay $30

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  • I never gave a reason why a game would/wouldn't run on Linux. I just said that games are a reason some people continue to use Windows.

  • Microsoft no longer permits local Windows 10 accounts if you want Consumer Extended Security Updates — support beyond EOL requires a Microsoft Account link-up even if you pay $30

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  • A lot of software still requires Windows.

    Games are a big one for sure, but there is a lot of productivity and creative software that does not run on Linux.

  • X plans to show ads in Grok chatbot's answers

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  • This was inevitable. LLM chatbots were always going to end up as vectors for ad delivery.

    The surprising part is that it took this long for a company to do it.

  • 100mph E-scooters Are Here – But Should They Be?

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  • Trump raises tariffs on Canada to 35% with no trade deal in sight

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  • Unfortunately we still rely on US trade at the moment. We are seeking alternative markets but it is going to take time.

    Also cutting off potash is certainly an option, but it is best reserved as a nuclear last resort. If timed right, it could potentially collapse the US agricultural sector but tariffs would be the least of our worries if we did that.

    Another option we need to consider is an other collaborative selloff of US bonds and other measures to devalue the US dollar.

  • what is something you've learned as you got older and wiser?

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  • Some people aren't even worth the energy and time to be angry at. They're not even worth the energy it takes to think about. The sooner you stop spending your energy on them the better your life will be.

    Secondly: The vast majority of people you encounter couldn't give less of a crap about you. This one has taken me a long time to process as someone with social anxiety problems, but once you internally acknowledge this concept then life becomes a lot easier. Dress how you want, talk how you want, do what you want - people really aren't going to care. And if they do, they'll forget in 10 minutes.

  • Trump Administration Says It’s Going To Start To Locking Up Homeless People

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  • And my parents have been predicting this for the last 40+ years.

    The US was always going to find any opportunity it could to bring back slave labour.

  • 30-lb ebike game changer fully charges in under 15 minutes

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  • The integrated battery is a bummer, but the rest of the bike looks like it uses normal bike parts, so not sure what you mean there.

    Honestly, other than the battery tech this bike seems kinda lacklustre and overpriced. A fast-charging commuter bike with no fenders, racks, or lights? Ouch.

  • What is something you never understood the hype for?

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  • Souls-like games, game streamers, turkey (the meat).

  • Why did our friends stop posting on social media?

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  • I'm a frequent Craigslist user for both sales and purchases. Selling stuff has become extremely difficult since Marketplace took over as the the "standard" for the area I live in. I'm in the same boat as I refuse to make an account on that shit heap of a website so getting my sales to move takes a lot more work.

    It also does not help that the second-hand landscape has changed a lot in the past 5ish years. People expect a lot more money for their used items now and buyers expect steep discounts for like-new condition items.

  • Intel abandons chip plants in Germany and Poland, confirms more layoffs

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  • I hate Intel and think they are a scummy dirtbag company but this is not good at all. Competition is what keeps everybody honest.

  • DuckDuckGo now lets you hide AI-generated images in search results | TechCrunch

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  • It's getting really bad. You can look up the most mundane, everyday search term and there will be a distracting amount of fake images in the results.

    I look up a lot of reference images for art projects and so I have to skim over a lot of AI slop.

  • Ubisoft Confirms a New First-Person Ghost Recon Game is in Development

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  • And I can confirm that I Won't Be Playing It because Ubisoft blows chunks.