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  • $80 for Borderlands 4 too costly? Randy Pitchford says, "If you're a real fan, you'll find a way to make it happen"

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  • If anyone deserves for his workers to get unionized, it's this asshole

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  • I use a sewing machine needle, works great, just don't go crazy and break shit.

  • South African President Calls Out Trump: ‘I’m Sorry I Don’t Have a Plane to Give You’

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  • Burying the lede a bit here, Trump spent that whole meeting talking about Afrikaner genocide and said that that was what Elon (who was present) wanted.

  • I don't understand some people

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  • I'm about to start a fight, I think.

  • I don't understand some people

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  • Idk, I think Discovery just sucks.

    Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks kick ass, though.

    Edit: Discovery and Picard. Picard sucks ass, too. I just cannot force myself further than episode two.

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  • The stupid thing here is that mass transit, pedestrians, and cyclists are all way better for small businesses than huge parking lots and enforced car dependency. There's lots of studies that show that car dependency really only benefits big box stores and big corporate chains. Fucking dumbasses.

  • Lawmaker Who Beat AOC for Top Democratic Role Becomes Third Democrat to Die in Office This Term

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  • It would be so goddamn funny and on brand if the democratic establishment's plan to keep AOC out of that committee chair backfires so hard that she becomes president or 360 no scopes Schumer.

  • Yosemite climbers unfurl transgender pride flag on iconic El Capitan

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  • Bro, if you want to get away from people, Yosemite ain't it. It's about as glamping as it gets you can get 5G signal basically across the whole valley. There's cars and people everywhere, including whole ass traffic jams so that people can drive right up to bridal veil falls.

  • Draw an arrow to each temperature

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  • Compsci ass answer right here

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    My lil brochure that i'm planning on handing out to my coworkers some time next week. Any advice or additions greatly appreciated! (part 2 in body)

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  • Honestly, most people aren't going to read that. I wish it were different, but most folks are going to take one look at that, say "oh, cool", think "fuckin nerd", and never actually read it. You need to send some of these words to the gulag, make it go simple, fast, and hard. Imo, you'd almost be better off trying to fit it onto a business card and handing those out (if not literally, then as an exercise). This is part of why art is such a huge part of political messaging; the brain can get a message out of a picture a thousand times faster than it can from a pamphlet. Organizers past knew this, and it's why union art and songs slapped so fuckin hard.

  • Lawmaker Who Beat AOC for Top Democratic Role Becomes Third Democrat to Die in Office This Term

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  • Russia classifies population data as birth rates plunge to 200-year low

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  • I'm a parent. I'm not going to try and sell you on having a kid; don't do it unless you know you want to. What I'm about to say isn't trying to sell you on parenthood or making apologetics, but just sharing my own personal experience having thought of almost all the same things you've thought and then crossed the bridge anyway. I figure that parenting really isn't about what you get out of it, and you do get stuff out of it- the love, the experience, the ups and downs, someone to depend on and who depends on you. In a lot of ways it's a microcosm of the human social experience in that you much more personally experience the things that make up existing with others in a society. You don't necessarily need kids the same way you don't necessarily need a significant other or a circle of friends, it's just that humans are, by our nature, social creatures, and we're almost always better off with richer social connections in our life than not. Yeah, you definitely do lose stuff; take autonomy, it's kind of similar to how you lose a certain degree of autonomy when you get into a serious long term relationship, only you really shouldn't break up with your kids if they piss you off. If that tradeoff isn't for you, that's cool!

    Everybody's different, but my kids have motivated me to get involved in politics (beyond just voting) at the local level and try to start planting trees whose shade I may never get to enjoy. It made me think hard about the kind of world that we're leaving to them, and about what responsibility I have as a parent to do what I can to make that world a better place. I don't expect anything from them; if they move away to live their life, that's fine, I trust them to use their best judgment and live their life how they see fit, and just knowing that they're depending on us to do everything we can for them has really motivated me to think differently about things in ways that I believe are generally positive. In case you're curious about it, you could always try hosting an exchange student. It's about the lowest commitment way to be a parent to someone, especially since they're typically older teenagers. If you hate their guts, you can always ask the host organization that they be placed elsewhere. I've hosted I think eight exchange kids, and in hindsight, I don't regret a single instance, even for the kids we didn't get along with and had to place elsewhere.

  • Russia classifies population data as birth rates plunge to 200-year low

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  • This might be a good time to pitch looking into joining or starting a local chapter of Strong Towns. They're a local-first advocacy group rooted in the premise that our cities are broken because we've been building them badly for nearly 100 years now. Strong Towns aims to restore cities as places that are built first and foremost for people to live in. As I've gotten deeper into this, it's really shocked me how much of the blame lies nearly exclusively with municipal policy and political inertia (politicians sticking with doing things the established bad way because that's the established way and they'd rather have a bankrupt, unlivable city than risk changing what they know). The good news is that municipal policy is probably the easiest, most accessible level of policy to effect, and it has the most direct and immediate impact on your life and the lives of people around you. Affecting good urban policy to make our cities livable is what Strong Towns is all about.

    You might also look at the Leadership Council for Justice and Accountability. They're another local-first group that focuses on all forms of justice for lower-income communities.

  • Russia classifies population data as birth rates plunge to 200-year low

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  • That's not unique to Russia. Birth rates in developed nations have been plummeting across the board. The only reason the US was escaping it and hanging out around replacement was because of immigration, and, well, I don't know if you've been keeping up with the news lately, but it seems like that's going to change.

    There's lots of reasons driving demographic collapse, but I don't think war is one of them. South Korea is usually heralded as the shining example of demographic collapse because their birth rate is the worst by far, and it generally seems to be the case that as economies becomes more "advanced", women have less time and supports to focus on motherhood, and so just choose not to have kids. I put advanced in scare quotes because it seems to me that a truly advanced economy wouldn't footgun itself with rapid demographic collapse. Not to say that the trend shouldn't be towards a smaller population that will tax the Earth's resources less, but the way to get there safely for civilization isn't by falling off a cliff.

  • So like public transportation with extra steps?

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  • Right. Well, IIRC property tax is collected by the county and then sliced up and divvied out to different municipalities, which, also IIRC, then goes into the municipal general fund. If the city is stupid and doesn't plan maintenance, and instead treats the rail as a free good, then when it comes time to keep up on it, it's easier to just shrug and replace it with a business service.

    What's more is that you also had GM going around and basically taking the EEE approach to municipal transit by offering ridiculously cheap bus services to replace trams, only to end them a short while later. So, it's not all on the cities, though one wishes they'd had the foresight to understand that private companies never do stuff out of the goodness of their hearts.

  • 'Trump says 'big bill' should only help GOP states: 'Don't want to benefit Dem governors'

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  • Let me sure I got this right. Your plan is to take states that don't like you and teach them to be more independent of the federal government, is that correct?

  • AOC Seen as ‘Face’ of Democratic Party — and It’s Not Even Close: New Poll

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  • Newsom is trying his level best to have a right-of-center glow up right now. I'm almost certain that the DNC plans to tilt the scales for him. They likely will resist running a woman again for a long time because they've stupidly come to the conclusion that it was the genitalia of the candidates and not the quality of the candidate, campaign, and platform that caused them to lose what should have been two of the most winnable elections ever.

  • Ron DeSantis rips federal tailpipe emission monitoring, 'woke roads'

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  • Fellas, is having breathable air gay?

  • Trump migrant detentions at Guantanamo Bay cost $100,000 per person daily, senator says

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  • OH OKAY, but my idea to replace ALL roads with high speed rail is "too expensive" and "ridiculous" and "you've gone over the public comment period, please stop before we have you arrested"