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voracitude

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  • 'Mitchell And Webb Are Not Helping' has been renewed for Season 2

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  • The first season fell kind of flat for me. Nothing as memorable as Sir Digby Chicken Caesar or "Are We The Baddies?". Hopefully they find their feet in season 2.

  • What's a time you stuck to your principles despite it being inconvenient to you?

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  • Danish postal service to stop delivering letters after 400 years

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  • Danes will still be able to send letters, using the delivery company Dao, which already delivers letters in Denmark but will expand its services from 1 January from about 30m letters in 2025 to 80m next year. But customers will instead have to go to a Dao shop to post their letters – or pay extra to have it collected from home – and pay for postage either online or via an app.

    The Danish postal service has been responsible for delivering letters in the country since 1624. In the last 25 years, letter-sending has been in sharp decline in Denmark, with a fall of more than 90%.

    But evidence suggests a resurgence in letter-writing among younger people could be under way.

    Dao said its research had found 18- to 34-year-olds send two to three times as many letters as other age groups, citing the trend researcher Mads Arlien-Søborg, who puts the rise down to young people “looking for a counterbalance to digital oversaturation”. Letter-writing, he said, had become a “conscious choice”.

    According to Danish law, the option to send a letter must exist. This means that if Dao were to stop delivering letters, the government would be obliged to appoint somebody else to do it.

    And then, right at the end:

    Announcing their decision earlier this year, Kim Pedersen, the deputy chief executive of PostNord Denmark, said: “We have been the Danish postal service for 400 years, and therefore it is a difficult decision to tie the knot on that part of our history. The Danes have become more and more digital and this means there are very few letters left today, and the decline continues so significantly that the letter market is no longer profitable.”

    The point of a postal system isn't to generate profit (although they totally can), it's to ensure the populace can send things securely without having to do it themselves. But... if the Danish postal system (or at least the bit that delivers letters) isn't profitable... why would a private company voluntarily take it over? They'll have to make it profitable, which means gutting either the services offered and raising prices, or gutting the company itself and selling off assets. I'm not sure if they'll be able to do the latter, so maybe some kind of government subsidy to ensure a profit? But then, why privatise at all?

    It's hard to see this as anything but concerning, for the Danish people.

  • Hello, We're Firefox

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  • I'm four years old and I think it's funny. Also, "skeet" as slang for "blue sky"? I love it, you're a visionary, how do we make this happen?

  • Math is not a democracy

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  • If it helps, I saw what you did there, and I exhaled slightly harder out of my nose while smiling wryly. It's even better the op didn't get it. So like, well done and stuff 😊

  • Looking for games to watch Let's Plays of: Recommend me something!

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  • Suggest Password Manager for me on Android

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  • I use 1password because I got tired of fucking around with KeePass. It works well enough; sometimes the password field won't show if the metadata isn't set up right on the page, but it's pretty trivial to open the app and copy me password to manually paste. I'm not sure you'll find one that always works 100% seamlessly.

  • Woman Hailed as Hero for Smashing Man's Meta Smart Glasses on Subway

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  • "I was making a funny noise people were honestly crying laughing at," he claimed in the caption of a followup video. "She was the only person annoyed."

    And then everyone clapped at the noises he was making, all the way to the next stop, and then President Obama got on the train at the next stop and gave him the Medal of Freedom for his bravery and letting the woman sit down.

    Seriously did this motherfucker just move to the city, that he thinks anyone will believe that bullshit?

  • En Pissant or smth idk I don't play chess

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  • Piss ant. You know what a piss ant is--

    Leon, you know what a piss ant is? A piss ant is an insect that has no value, but it smells like piss.

    You know, at least a cocksucker can do something. Suck cock. But a piss ant just sits there in the door jamb, smelling like piss.

    • Uncle Pete, Horace and Pete s1e01

  • Truth is an absolute defense :)

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  • I dunno, his rampant and virulent racism was pretty upsetting. Not that the current crop are any better in that regard, but it's still a big point against the guy.

  • "I don't agree with who you call 'Nazi'", he said to me.

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  • You have no idea of the context for this conversation (because I didn't give any, deliberately, so as not to give away any hints as to my identity), and you're making a false binary out of it. As I said in another reply, this is verbatim from a conversation I had with a real person. I have embellished nothing. If you don't believe it happened, that actually makes me feel better, because confirmation of their pants-on-head insanity is helping me cope with blocking and deleting them.

    This guy also said that RFK Jr isn't an anti-vaxxer; that the VA would do a better job with less money; that "good guys with guns" firing back in a darkened movie theatre shooting would not mean more bodies in the ground even in concept; that he'll stand up for cops being attacked (but I'll let you guess his reaction to January 6th); and that "the buck stops with me" means you're responsible for your subordinates in the sense that you fire them if they fuck up, not that you're responsible for the actions they took on your watch.

    Please, tell me again you don't think this is real. It really does help.

  • "I don't agree with who you call 'Nazi'", he said to me.

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  • I know, right? This verbatim from a conversation I had not two hours prior. You can see why I needed to get it off my chest.

    Edit: this guy also said that RFK isn't an anti-vaxxer because "he said he's not", so.

  • same shit every day, on god

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  • Oh, absolutely. It's very cool technology! Molten salt is corrosive as fuck, but that just kinda makes molten salt solar towers even more awesome.

  • same shit every day, on god

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  • And some of it is boiling salt!

    Which then boils water, of course.

    But some of it is electrons from photonic impact, no water involved! In the process of energy generation anyway. Statistically and perhaps somewhat ironically, the electrons from that photonic impact may well be used to boil water regardless... Humans just fucking love boiling water.

  • "I don't agree with who you call 'Nazi'", he said to me.

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  • Steve Irwin is interested in subscribing to Tiger Facts.

  • "I don't agree with who you call 'Nazi'", he said to me.

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  • Exhibit A, a neo-Nazi:

    Exhibit B, two neo-Nazis:

    To sane and sensible people, anyway. To a Nazi sympathiser (apparently), I guess not so much.

  • "I don't agree with who you call 'Nazi'", he said to me.

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  • Yes, I did.

  • Off My Chest @lemmy.world
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    "I don't agree with who you call 'Nazi'", he said to me.

  • Israel releases 16-year old US-Palestinian teen after nine month imprisonment

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  • How pathetically weak does a leader have to be, to fail to free one of their citizens from illegal detention and torture by an ally? And conversely with allies that will abduct and torture your citizenry, who needs enemies?

  • Is Russia's Push for Terms it doesn't deserve a sign of desperation?

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  • I sincerely hope that Zelenskyy and Ukraine can stand their ground, and that Europe stands beside them. Ukraine has put up a hell of a fight and frankly if Europe lets them fall Russia will start taking bites off the EU after just a few years of recovery.

  • Anime @lemmy.ml
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    Jigoku Shoujo (Hell Girl) - subtitles?

  • The Eternal Playlist @crazypeople.online
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    Eric Calderone (331Erock) - Gerudo Valley Meets Metal

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    It's always the ones you least suspect

  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
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    Warhammer can be truly ludicrous at times

  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
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    Louder, for the American Idiots in the back

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    My body and I have an adversarial relationship

  • Risa @startrek.website
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    Gul Brannigan - The Perfect Crime