Somebody at Amazon who needs to be reeducated seems to think scamming the customer by promising 1 day shipping that you never intended to fulfill is perfectly acceptable as long as you refund the shipping fee.
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Sam Hughes
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Sam Hughes
@samuhyu
reformed Perl programmer, RethinkDB quasi-maintainer, rentoid
San Diego Katılım Mayıs 2014
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Teaching cursive is good because it's actually useful, it's something the dumb kids can learn and get good at, and it's less fake than other uses of school time.
Governor Josh Shapiro@GovernorShapiro
Letting our kids be kids also means getting back to the basics. That’s why, earlier this year, I signed into law a bipartisan bill that requires cursive handwriting to be taught in Pennsylvania schools. It may seem strange, but cursive handwriting is a fundamental skill that all of our kids should learn. They may not get why now, but that’s how they’ll sign their very first check — or maybe even someday, a bill that gets to the Governor’s desk (trust me, you’ll want good penmanship for that). And it means they spend more time with a pen — not a tablet — in their hands at school.
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Japan is a foreign country.
Law in Japan@Colin_P_A_Jones
There was never any clear policy
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If the Pope really thinks this, the Vatican should build its own space fleet, air force, and navy. Seriously.
Christopher Hale@ChristopherHale
NEW: Pope Leo XIV just called for the permanent abolition of aerial bombing — a first for any pope. “Airplanes should always be vehicles of peace, never war. No one should have to fear that threats of death and destruction might come from the sky.” The demand came as Trump’s war against Iran entered week four. thelettersfromleo.com/p/pope-leo-xiv…
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we don't talk enough about color books as a cultural phenomenon
Mao's Little Red Book
the Kelley Blue Book, not to be confused with a blank exam booklet or a US Air Force study of UFOs
The Negro Motorist Green Book, not to be confused with the IRA's Green Book or Gaddafi's Green Book
the Fed's Beige Book
the Black Book, not to be confused with a little black book
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@_its_not_real_ lol @ South African nuclear power outlasting Taiwan's
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@Jack_Raines > The forced sports betting
Except its not forced. No one is forcing anyone. You can just scroll past it.
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Moved my retirement accounts to Robinhood last year bc of their asset match (like 3% match on all assets or something like that?)
But it’s incredibly annoying that you have to scroll past prediction markets (read: sports betting) to see portfolio positions.
The forced sports betting is gross.
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I know this is a joke but YC should really be held liable for constantly incubating fraudulent firms that get pumped with hundreds of millions of dollars from outside investment.
YC is lending legitimacy to Ponzi schemes.
Benn Eifert 🥷🏴☠️@bennpeifert
new rule: jail time for Garry Tan every time a YC startup is convicted of fraud
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I don't need a graphite block right now, but I better get a few just in case.
Joe@JoePostingg
If you get deep enough into TikTok your feed becomes mostly Chinese commodity wholesalers
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Harvard sophomores Brian Seeve and Michael Tucker have covered their dormroom walls and ceiling with the words “All your Base are Belong to US,” a phrase from a Japanese video game that was made into an internet music video that is sweeping the country as a “meme.”
Youth not only at Harvard, but at high schools and colleges across the United States, are shouting and posting “All your Base are Belong to US.”
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If we can't find any decorated war veterans let's ask some retired Democrat to rename himself Cesar Chavez and we'll just say all the roads are named after him.
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This year's lesson is that when a widower remarries his reputation needs to get reset back to the origin.
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@upzonenj Fracking is what happened, making the country a net exporter of petroleum.
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I've been flabbergasted for the past 20 years why there hasn't been universal consensus we need to get off petroleum as fast as possible. What other conclusion was possible after the 2000s? Conservative Rs should be arguing this loudest of all.
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