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  • Superman mutates into Super-Landlord

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  • Anyone else notice the drip bucket and crack in the ceiling seem to be on opposite sides of the room?

  • North Korean troops so 'poorly trained that Putin army yet to throw them into fight'

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  • Training people can be harder when the trainees have to unlearn bad habits or knowledge. Ask anyone who has tutored previously self-taught students an artform or craft.

    In some ways, media exposure can help to introduce broad concepts, and sometimes there are excellent examples in media (My Cousin Vinny and Legally Blonde have been used in some US law school course curriculum to show how the parts of the judicial system are supposed to operate, iirc), but oftentimes preconceived notions can hinder training for the real thing.

  • Man who found smooth Mars bar gets £2 compensation

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  • American here; you're spot on. The US/Mexico version of the Milky Way bar has a layer of caramel in addition to the nougat, and 3 Musketeers is essentially the global version of Milky Way. Our bars may be also bigger in size.

  • Teary-eyed John Oliver begs reluctant voters to back Harris

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  • Are they forgoing voting in down-ballot races as well? Undervoting is a thing, and most electoral shifts start at the local level.

  • Whats a small habit or change you could make to improve your life only 1% today or soon?

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  • I forget if it was here or back when I was on that other site where I read it, but at least a year ago someone suggested "don't put it down, put it away" as a mantra to mentally recite whenever I'm holding something at home to prevent clutter build-up in common spits to sit. I don't always follow it, but it's been a huge help in managing my own item organization and management.

    As a way to combat the difficulty I have with noticing messiness in visually busy environments like a household room, I also try to pick up a piece of refuse or dirty dish l that may have been forgotten whenever I know I'm going near or to the kitchen; I've developed that into a reliable habit, which is extra helpful when I forget why I went to the kitchen in the first place- only to go back to the kitchen for a second time, with yet another item in hand.

    The individual actions are very easy, simple things I can remember to do in the moment when I think of them as I'm doing something else.

    Edit: I'm aware the ask was about things we could implement, not have implemented, but I felt I hit the general idea; very simple changes that may improve QoL.

  • Mail carriers reach tentative contract with USPS that includes pay raises and air-conditioned trucks

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  • Some states don't require observation of heat stroke risk mitigation for their workers. Getting it into their federal labor contract ensures a) the feature will be required as a functional feature in all their vehicles, and 2. they can't be told not to turn the feature on.

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  • To add to this: taking territory is the easy part.

    The hard part is holding it, because you don't just have to worry about staffing the front line, but maintaining security in the occupied regions long enough for non-state actors to cease hostilities and accept the invading force as the new legitimate authority- which may never fully occur- all the while dealing with resistance fighters.

    This means orders of magnitude more personnel, funding, and equipment for an unknowable length of time across a much larger area than just the line of incursion.

    It's taken them two years to fail to take the land, and now have an incursion into their own soil to contend with. so I'm skeptical they'd manage to keep it permanently.

  • A jellyfish with a superpower — it can fuse with another and become one

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  • The better we understand the nervous systems of other species, the better we can understand our own through comparison and testing, which in turn can lead to more ideas for medical treatments- or augmentation, if you're into that kind of thing.

  • The massive U.S. port strike has begun

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  • If there's anything to learn from US politics for the past, well, forever, it's that some politicians and voters don't let the truth interfere with their narrative or perceived reality.

    Springfield, Ohio is probably the best evidence of that.

  • Criminals set up fake online pharmacies to sell deadly counterfeit pills, prosecutors say

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  • This is one way that the DEAs' approach to ADHD medication boosts the black market. Artificially restrict the supply of legitimate prescription meds, and desperate people become easy marks for this kind of thing.

  • A man trying to cremate his dog sparked a wildfire in Colorado, authorities say

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  • Sometimes, in northern US states, people burn their houses down because they think they can use flamethrowers to melt the snow and ice off their roofs. Ice is pretty resilient to flames.

  • Judge to approve auctions liquidating Alex Jones' Infowars to help pay Sandy Hook families

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  • Personally, I think redirecting to Knowledge Fights' site would be a good move; though I mostly hope it doesn't wind up under ownership of some other grifter.

  • US Postal Service electric trucks are finally here and drivers love them

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  • USPS is self-funded through postage and other services they provide. They did receive $50 billion from an emergency funding bill back in '22, but that also removed a hefty, arbitrary load: back in 2006, legislation was passed that forced the USPS into pre-fund retirement plans for the next 75 years. The emergency funding bill lifted that requirement and gave emergency funding to the USPS under the condition that the USPS adopt changes listed in the bill to further address funding shortfalls and become solvent again.

    The people paying for USPS windshield replacements are effectively paying customers, much like how toll roads are supposed to fund their own upkeep by charging for its use.

  • USPS' long-awaited new mail truck makes its debut to rave reviews from carriers

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  • If lurking in the USPS subreddit for a few years had taught me anything, it's that some really love the LLVs and some just hate the platypus that's replacing it, as it was often called.

  • Teaching Jordan Peterson That Climate Change Is Real: Part One – SOME MORE NEWS

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  • The subtle difference between their voices is the crying.

  • J.D. Vance Told His Son to ‘Shut The Hell Up’ About Pokemon While Talking to Trump

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  • Trump's pick for Vice President. I didn't know who he was until he was announced, either.

  • A mysterious pile of bones could hold evidence of Japanese war crimes, activists say

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  • Not to add to the whataboutism, but don't forget how the US firebombed Tokyo.

  • Biden to call for 5% cap on annual rent increases, as he tries to show plans to tame inflation

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  • "Don't make perfect the enemy of good" essentially says that it's better to do what you can in the short term to reduce harm or make positive change than to wait for the perfect solution and do nothing in the meantime. The idea is that the good is still going to help some people while we wait for the perfect solution to the problem- which, crucially, may never come, or come too late for a whole bunch of people.

    One example would be letting a parent having their kid eat fast food instead of a perfectly healthy diet because their parents live in a food desert; not ideal, but it'll keep the kid fed and alive.

  • Rising sea levels will disrupt millions of Americans’ lives by 2050, study finds

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  • The Innsmouth people may like it.