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orange_squeezer

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  • What is the meaning of life?

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  • It wasn't until I got to the cigarettes and cunts as currency that I realized this was not a particularly hardcore monologue from Gravity Falls, a popular show I had not watched, but Gravity's Rainbow. Great excerpt though.

  • Ever thankful

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  • Even the most well trained and socialized cats will still bite or scratch sometimes when excited or startled. Pretty much every cat owner has a story where their cat suddenly zoomed across them with claws out or randomly chomped instead of play biting. It's going to happen eventually, and that goes double with an undomesticated predator.

    There's a reason why zookeepers are extremely careful with large cats, even when they raised them from cubs. No amount of professional socialization makes them safe.

  • Ever thankful

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  • That's my point, 99.99% gentle is fine when they're mostly harmless, the problem with large predators is that .01% event puts you in the hospital if it doesn't kill you outright. A tiger's excited pounce can break half the bones in your body, an excited swipe can disembowel. If those little kickers start going, you lose everything below the waist.

    Having large predators for a pet pretty much always ends badly unless they get taken away in time.

  • Ever thankful

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  • You're saying that like cats socialized with humans never once bite or scratch hard enough to harm. It's not the thousands of play bites that are the problem, it's when they randomly crunch down and unmake your shoulder instead of making you dig out the neosporin.

  • Rebecca Shaw: I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down. But I didn't expect them to be such losers.

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  • What? It's literally the opposite. Do you remember the discovery that owning horses extends your lifespan by several years, not for any merit of its own, but because it strictly excludes the poor and most of the middle class?

    The more money you have, the healthier you are, the longer you live, and the happier you tend to be. It's straight propaganda that being rich is somehow a burden or requires people of exceptional mental strength to struggle on.

    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3139960/

  • Giant phallus-shaped iceberg floating in Conception Bay surprises residents of Dildo, Canada

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  • "Hey, it's cold out here!"

    That said, I'm somewhat in awe of your standards given its thirty foot tall height.

  • Hello?

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  • One of the examples from your wiki source on the font is in Hong Kong. It's literally just a calligraphy font using brush strokes, you don't write in pinyin in Chinese, so the only place it's used is to communicate east Asian calligraphy in Latin characters. The controversy is when it's paired with racist portrayals, not that it's racist in itself.

  • 'Andrew Tate phenomena' surges in schools - with boys refusing to talk to female teacher

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  • On the internet, people have to be more honest.

    I... don't think that's how it works lol.

  • China restricts exports of rare earth minerals in retaliation against Trump's tariffs

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  • Alright, but that's not what the article says. I even went back and the read the first of the three-parter, where the businesses they interviewed confidently stated

    MP’s Rosenthal, USA Rare Earth’s Althaus and McCarthy all said their companies — or proposed companies — could withstand a price war brought on by China. Which fundamentally requires China not be selling at a loss, unless it's actually cheaper to mine and refine rare earths in the US than it is in China.

    The closest thing to what you claimed was a snippet from the 100-day government review stating that “China does not operate on market principles of cost or pricing structure.” According to your own source, they never drove anyone out of business or sold at loss, they just happened to be the first to invest in rare earth production and processing, and nobody else wanted to build the facilities for it. At worst they provided subsidies, just like the US which also ignored market principles of cost or pricing structure, and allocated 400 million (Defense Production Act) to develop local mines and refineries.

    More than anything your article series blames a 1980 government regulation that requires US mines to seal mine leavings or risk liability for mishandling thorium.

  • China restricts exports of rare earth minerals in retaliation against Trump's tariffs

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  • ... Do you have a source for that, because it kinda seems like you made it up.

  • David Hogg, Parkland Survivor and D.N.C. Vice Chair, Hopes to Unseat Democratic Incumbents

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  • Feels like the first piece of good news I've read in days.

  • Catholic hospital argues a fetus isn’t the same as a ‘person’ to avoid legal damages

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  • Less than twenty years after the Catholic church formed "rat lines" to smuggle Nazis to South America to protect them from prosecution for their crimes against humanity.

  • In trade crisis, China courts the EU as a hedge against Trump, but experts say breaking a prolonged stalemate won't be easy for Chinese overcapacity is flooding the world with goods

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  • This is the funniest thing I've read all day. Just the fact that you think companies will just swallow lost profits instead of bleeding actual customers (that being you and me) dry.

    China is the world's second largest economy and they make all their own stuff. The entire US market is only 15% of their exports. That, with a centrally managed economy means that they can easily ride out the trade war while the US burns to the ground.

  • Let's gooooooo.

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  • There is, but it's basically made up to support the notion that it's very difficult to stay rich. It's actually very rare for subsequent generations to lose inherited wealth, it just gets partitioned out so there are dozens or hundreds of rich people instead of one disgustingly wealthy individual.

    Similar to lottery winners losing everything, it makes a much bigger headline when one loses everything despite it being incredibly uncommon.

  • Spain’s PM heads east to build bridges in China, Vietnam amid US tariff fallout

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  • Probably not, because they aren't soldiers. Private military contractors and random citizens can be found fighting all over the world. If China's military got involved in Ukraine it would be an enormous geopolitical issue that would be akin to shooting itself in the face for an unreliable partner.

  • Some ideas 💡 (not mine)

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  • Yeah, I excitedly checked out the environmental, non-google, private search engine I'd never heard of, only to discover that Ecosia "only" shares all your data with Google and Microsoft Bing, as it uses their search engines and ad services. They do plant trees, but, their website doesn't even pretend to be interested in privacy or avoiding Google.

    No idea what that walnut is smoking.