@KyleBazgo @collblick @jessesingal You think someone dying in their 80s, presumably of natural causes, is just as tragic as someone being shot and killed in their early 30s?
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JRP
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Generally try to ignore DJT's posts (except the funny ones) but this one really does highlight the fraudulence of the whole... thing. MAGA was *gleefully* trying to ruin randos' lives for making tasteless Kirk deaths. For months! This movement has no genuine kernel of anything.
Jon Favreau@jonfavs
One day, Donald Trump will die, and his supporters will try to punish the people who say things like this.
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China will watch every failure of the U.S. and learn from it as the U.S. bleeds debt, allies, material, and control of the gulf fighting Israel’s war. The schizo neocon take from weeks ago that this war was actually about containing China is one of the worst takes of the year.
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Question: I'm a waiter at a local restaurant in Queens, a full time college student who sleeps an average of four hours a night and is still thousands in debt. How is a war in a country half the world away funded by the taxes pulled from my check, helping me in any way?
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@hknightsf Your own article quotes a witness saying “She hit the gas when she thought she was hitting the brake.”
You want an 80 year old woman with zero criminal record punished harder for a mistake that anyone could make?
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Nobody disputes that Mary Lau was driving 75 miles per hour on San Francisco streets when she struck and killed an entire family. On Friday, a judge is expected to give her probation. After that, she could get her license back.
The case raises the question, what is justice?
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@JRPSD @avidseries @W10insider1 For a person with such a strong opinions on the looks of new neighborhood, this is embarrassing lack of knowledge about where such neighborhoods are constructed. There aren't forest of nicely spaced trees waiting for someone to come and build houses around them.
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Look, there appear to be houses attached to those garages!
The archetypical post-1980s subdivision home of middle class America is relentlessly soul-crushing: Its front presentation dominated by a two-car garage and wide concrete driveway, it is largely defined by the sun-scorched absence of shade and trees from its lawn and the windowless expanses on two of its sides — at a distance, these neighborhoods are a sprawl of two-story synthetic commodities positioned in suffocating proximity to each other, designed and built by people who don't give a damn.
City Aesthetics ⛩@cityaestheticss
Houses are turning into decorated car storage boxes
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@avidseries Garages were where my band practiced. Driveways our private bball courts. Cul de sacs our wiffle ball stadiums. Newly paved roads were the salt flats for skateboards and bikes. Proximity to neighbors friends and pools made summers truly memorable.
Not everyone is miserable.
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@avidseries @W10insider1 You really took that guys post to heart? Most new tract developments don’t even have mature trees to remove.
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@W10insider1 It takes 20 to 60 years for trees to mature. Developers unnecessarily clear-cut all the trees to make a presumed small increase in their profit.
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@metsin032000 @VicLombardi Then they shouldn’t be allowed to host it, like what are we doing here?
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@VicLombardi No this is smart .pittsburg will be a logistjcs nightmare those days
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When does sports become too important?
When do you cross that line?
Is this the line?
Adam Schefter@AdamSchefter
Pittsburgh Public Schools will operate remotely from April 22–24 as the city prepares to host the 2026 NFL Draft. With road closures, heightened security, parking restrictions, and heavy traffic expected, the city believes remote learning is the best option during that time.
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@JesseJamesATL @VicLombardi If a city can’t host the draft while still *keeping public schools open* they have no business being considered.
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@VicLombardi Cities need the revenue and honestly, the benefits of remote learning are becoming more apparent.
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"A mature tree increases a home's value by 7 to 19 percent."
How much money do builders save on costs by removing all the trees from a lot prior to construction? "Roughly $5,000 per lot."
Vast swaths of residential America are bleak because of the selfishness, shortsightedness and greed of builders and developers.
Personally, I can't live in a house in which there are no visual points of interest outside it that can be enjoyed through its windows. Views of trees, hills and mountains, maybe a skyline or compelling urban panorama — any of these will greatly increase the enjoyment of a home and improve the mental health of its occupants.
Aakash Gupta@aakashgupta
Let me explain exactly why every new subdivision in America looks like the top photo, because the math is wild. A mature tree increases a home's value by 7 to 19 percent. On a $400,000 house, that's $28,000 to $76,000. A single shade tree produces the cooling equivalent of ten room-size air conditioners running 20 hours a day. One tree on the west side of a house cuts energy bills by 12 percent within 15 years. The bottom photo is worth more, costs less to live in, and sells faster. This has been documented by the University of Washington, Clemson, Michigan State, and the USDA. The data is not in dispute. Removing those trees saves the builder roughly $5,000 per lot. Concrete trucks need twice the dripline radius of every standing tree. Utility trenches need flat ground. A bulldozer flattens 200 lots in an afternoon. Preserving trees adds weeks and thousands per home. So the developer pockets $5,000 in savings and the buyer eats $50,000 in lost value for the next two decades. The person making the decision and the person paying for it have never been in the same room. The Woodlands, Texas is the proof of what happens when they are. George Mitchell bought 28,000 acres of Houston timberland in 1974 and preserved 28% as permanent green space. He forced McDonald's to build behind the tree canopy. That McDonald's became one of the highest-volume locations in Texas. The first office building, designed to reflect the surrounding forest so you couldn't see it from the street, leased completely. The Woodlands median home price today: $615,000. Katy, a comparable Houston suburb that clear-cut: $375,000. Named #1 community to live in America two years running. Fifty years of data. The trees are worth more than removing them saves. Developers clear-cut anyway because they sell the house once and leave. You live in it for 30 years.
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@skipday_io @ProbablyVoid65 @reddit_lies Worry about figuring out how to have potable water pour out of your faucets before you do victory laps on potentially damaging a 5th Gen fighter
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well, you need to see this from a non-american perspective to understand it.
look at the japanese pm. she performs submission to the us, because the terror of hiroshima and nagasaki still haunts them. that's how scary the us looks from the outside.
but then you have iran. defying all logic. sanctioned for over 40 years, isolated, and yet they can go toe to toe with both the US and israel. think about that. a country living under total isolation, matching a country at the peak of its economic power.
when was the last time the us faced a serious economic crisis caused by another country? never. no one dares to sanction them. and yet iran, under all that weight, still does this kind of damage. imagine iran without sanctions. say bye to the US.
and iran is just the tip of the iceberg. beneath it, you have china and russia.
i'd say goodbye to the american empire.
you can't hold hegemony through bullying forever.
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American war machines are so mystically powerful that when the sand people merely damage one aircraft it is heralded as their crowning achievement.
Gandalv@Microinteracti1
The F-35 was supposed to be unkillable. That was the whole point. Lockheed Martin spent thirty years and four hundred billion dollars, the most expensive weapons programme in human history, building an aircraft that the enemy simply could not see. Not on radar. Not on infrared. Not on anything. The F-35 was not just a fighter jet. It was a theological statement. America’s way of saying: we have moved beyond the reach of your missiles, your sensors, and your prayers. Iran apparently didn’t get the memo. Somewhere over Iranian airspace on March 19, 2026, an IRST system, infrared search and track, the kind of sensor your grandmother could probably explain, looked up, found the F-35, and locked on. Not because Iranian engineers are geniuses. Because the F-35, it turns out, is extremely hot. All that engine. All that thrust. All that carefully sculpted stealth geometry, and the bloody thing glows like a kettle. The heat signature data Iran now holds is not just embarrassing. It is a gift that keeps giving. To Moscow. To Beijing. To every procurement ministry on the planet that has been quietly wondering whether to spend the money on systems designed to kill this aircraft. The answer, as of this week, is yes. And here is the bit that should really worry the Pentagon. You can patch software. You can redesign coatings. You cannot reprogramme a pilot’s brain. Every F-35 driver who takes off from here on knows, actually knows, that someone down there might be able to see them. That changes everything about how they fly. Caution replaces aggression. Hesitation replaces instinct. Four hundred billion dollars. And in the end, it was done in by a heat sensor. Tremendous. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1
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@Tintie4 @garymasonglobe Get off the internet you dorks.
Terminally online Canadians are something that needs to be studied.
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@garymasonglobe Desperately so. Denying reality at this point.
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if you are entrusted with teaching children and you betray their privacy like this you should go to fucking prison
sami@hellosami
I started teaching 4th graders graphic design at an afterschool program, and this one kid does not engage with any of the material, but he comes into class and furiously googles the Titanic for an hour every week
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@Hopelesserain screenshotting his search history and posting it publicly is wrong and kinda creepy
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@Hopelesserain Everyone complaining about “posting the search history” is insane just so you know.
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The biggest game of the first round is on Friday, when Long Island battles Arizona for iced tea supremacy
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@OnDisasters That’s him standing on the right with my great uncle standing on the left. England 1944.
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🫡Excerpt of a Robin Olds documentary, the legendary US "triple ace", with a combined total of 16 victories in World War II and the Vietnam War (as seen here)
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@LeighWolf How much is a one way ticket on this thing even going to cost? Has anyone proposed a figure? Are people going to pay $150+ for a trip from Bako to Merced? What do they do when they get there? How do they even get to Bakersfield?
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The number of libs who don’t know the CA high speed rail was supposed to be completed in 2020 for $33 billion is staggering.
Alan Fisher@alanthefisher
there are so many astroturfed conservatives against CAHSR because the second that there is a working train between 2 cities in the US that can hit 200mph it is fundamentally over for the argument of "that doesn't work here" The oil lobby will do everything possible to stop that
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Apple selling cheap laptops means it’s giving up on being an aspirational brand. Means it’s run out of ideas - which has been obvious for a while with the goggles and the thicker phones and iPads.
It’s like if Mercedes entered the compact truck market.
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