@miamibrando I thought this person must be from NYC but their from Toronto like man cmon
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Sam
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Why is everyone so angry all the time
indrid@motormoder
No one is subletting your apartment for the summer pay your fucking rent while you go see mommy and daddy in whatever bumfuck shitty town you come from
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why did he suddenly age 20 years? this feels like a bad sign
Shay Boloor@StockSavvyShay
Jeff Bezos said the bottom half of Americans should pay zero federal income tax. He cited a nurse in Queens making ~$75K and paying ~$12K in taxes saying “we shouldn’t be asking this nurse in Queens to send money to Washington.”
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@likeIyangel I also took two GE's my senior year of college that I put off and hoo boy the freshmen (pandemic during early-mid high school) were so badly behaved
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Can we stop purposely missing his point. When i was a senior in uni and took an intro class full of freshmen as an elective there was a gap so large in not only assignment quality but in-class behavior that it was obviously the result of the pandemic
liz@normalfunnygirl
Guy who is 16 years older than his average classmate: “Why is everyone here so stupid”
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@Xenoimpulse kinda sorta not the same thing but I was just talking to a friend about how everyone who ever tries to shoot the president does it in the dumbest way possible
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@PrintedLeander @puppycelebrity It’s Forza Horizon, please get a grip lmao
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@puppycelebrity The term is used in Automotive speak. I feel like the use of this word can weed out "tourist" car guys pretty easily. Those that know it and get a chuckle, or those that don't and willing to learn the word for its actual definition.
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if you ever feel stupid, just know that there’s a guy out there who’s genuinely confused why he can’t use mean words in an e-rated online game
SirD 🇺🇸@Sir_Dammed
Enjoy your DEI corporate "no-fun allowed because people like Anita Sarkeesian might get mad and call us problematic" slop. Microsoft/Xbox is a dead company.
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@Nemtastic1 @devahaz Incredible. You answered all your own questions. That is exactly how things like that work lol.
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@devahaz Okay. How does that work exactly? Does the money stay in a separate fund? When a family on EBT is admitted to the aquarium, is $295 subtracted from it? When it runs out do they stop the admissions?
Or is that just a PR/fundraising tactic?
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Terrible people love bringing this up as if they are paying for it. A private nonprofit decides to give free tickets to poor people, students, etc and this makes you angry why exactly? It hurts you how?
MatrixMysteries@MatrixMysteries
The Monterey Bay Aquarium charges $295 for a family membership or $125 for a single adult. With an EBT card, entry is free — and up to four guests get in free every visit. There is a ZERO incentive for these people to ever get off Food Stamps.
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@kylepullman @devahaz But in this case, the taxpayer literally *isn’t* paying. EBT does not fund the admission, and federal grants to the aquarium are earmarked for research
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@devahaz I’m making the argument that that taxpayer is paying. I’m not asserting the institutions, private or otherwise aren’t receiving funding, most aren’t turning around and going their product away for free subsidized that are by the taxpayer.
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@DeepDishEnjoyer @tracewoodgrains What’s your beef with Nic other than grad student stolen valor? I’m not his biggest fan but man you seem really upset about it today. I like P4 and Jack both. Why is this so heated
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@tracewoodgrains >his resume... is a strong positive signal
see nicholas isn't the problem, it's you people
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man, this is such a scummy post.
I have serious substantive disagreements with Nicholas, but his resume, and his willingness to put it in public, is a strong positive signal. do stuff. think in public. be willing to be embarrassed. let the peanut gallery mock.
peepeepoopoo@DeepDishEnjoyer
one succinct observation is that nicholas decker thinks his experience is worthy of a two-page resume
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@tracewoodgrains We can argue about the letter of the law of course but I think the jury will be very rough on this guy
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@tracewoodgrains People on here think there are more Americans who agree with the whole “saying the word to get a reaction to prove a point” gambit than the there really are. I’d bet $20 >50% of people would look at the altercation+the tweet and say “sounds like chud deserved it”.
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how not to succeed in a self-defense claim when you shoot a black man for punching you after you call him the N-word: exhibit A
this guy's defense attorney is going to have quite the job
Andrew Fleischman@ASFleischman
Even if he had a viable self defense claim, people sometimes forget that a jury can convict you out of sheer dislike and there's no way to reverse on that basis.
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@pourfairelevide @Schotusderigine I just finished 2666 and I don’t think I remember roosters being a motif anywhere in the book? Unless I’m misremembering. I bought the first English edition with the big red vertical title and it’s great
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@DanFriedman81 @eastonfreeze I mean, I know they obviously are profitable or else they wouldn’t exist , but it seems like a risky business.
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@DanFriedman81 @eastonfreeze I’m really curious about the overall profitability of these companies. At least in my imagination, the type of person taking out a loan at 275% is ALSO the type of person who is barely going to pay back the principal, let alone 2.75x
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I’m sorry a *what* interest rate?
ProPublica@propublica
The Flex Loan, a new type of payday loan pioneered by Advance Financial in Tennessee, allows residents to borrow up to $4,000 at a 279.5% interest rate. It has burdened low-income borrowers while generating huge profits for lenders. propublica.org/article/flex-l…
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@thamosdeaf If you’re a The Passenger fan you don’t have to suffer as much
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I gotta say it doesn’t do Cormac McCarthy many favors to have the lamest lit twitter dipshits as his cheering section on this app.
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@The_Camel_Pope @theramblingfool Are you gonna address my point or just reuse that image one more time? In real life you need to adapt your decision making to account for the choices of the people you care about. That’s not emotional manipulation it’s just living with other humans.
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Pro-red responses I've seen, when confronted with the possibility someone they care about might press blue:
(1) No one I care about would ever press blue (really?)
(2) [insert problematic group] aren't included in the hypo (wrong)
(3) Those loved ones have to die (psychopathic)
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@The_Camel_Pope @theramblingfool Confronting your own emotions around how people in your life that you care about are likely to vote is not “emotional manipulation.” That’s life! People are gonna behave a certain way and you have to modify your decisions accordingly.
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@theramblingfool I would pray they were smart, and vote red.
I won't be emotionally manipulated.
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every day i come on here lately i am forced to hear about blue people in some form or another
𝔏𝔲𝔪𝔦𝔫𝔢𝔯𝔳𝔞@LumLotus
New concerning thing with blue people... I've been called a conspiracy theorist for noticing a discrepancy/ issue with polling. None of them are listening even when shown directly the evidence. ...
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@PaulBunyan1976 @kane You think you’re landing a gotcha but they made the Chevy Volt for years: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet…
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An electric vehicle charged by an ICE generator is more efficient than an ICE vehicle bc a generator always operates in its power band close to max thermodynamic efficiency.
Even w transmission loss, this gives significantly higher miles per gallon than an ICE car.
Spencer@scotsrule08
Found the @Waymo depot in Dallas where they clean and recondition their fleet. How are they charging them? Propane generators. Electric autonomous vehicles charged by propane. 😂
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@pourfairelevide following because I literally just finished this and want to hear what others think. Final pages really left me reeling
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read like 600 pages of 2666 in 3 days, feeling really bad inside
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