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Silicon Valley is honestly worthless.

We have an entire industry based on innovations that are 30-50 years old.

How long until Wall street finds a new investment vehicle and San Francisco is the next Detroit?

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Fine dining is so weird.

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Whatever you want, babe. There's no wrong way to EQ.

You are not making an objective change.

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Season 7 is just as bad. Wake up 🤣

If you haven't watched GoT 1-6 in a while, go watch season 7 and tell me WTF is going on. It's a god-honest fever dream. 🫠

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Using an alphabet designed for Latin has had some dire consequences.

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My take-away, here, is that 8 years ago he could actually form a sentence.

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"Is that a barcode scanner? That can be used by the government to track my purchases!"

--Burt Gummer (Tremors 2, 1996)

The government already tracks your car with its GPS transmitter.

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Republican energy policy is to let oil barons do whatever they want, destroy whatever they want for new drilling and pay as little taxes as possible.

Democrat energy strategy is to regulate oil, preserve delicate ecosystems by banning oil/gas exploration wells and fracking in those areas and investing in expanded green energy policy.

The political problem for Dems is that ballooning prices at the gas pump are very unpopular with moderate/undecided voters (reality is that almost everyone in this country has to fill up their car tank regularly) and the oil barons can manipulate their output, control the messaging and change these people's votes (especially in an election year).

Dumping some of our strategic reserves when prices get too high is a strategy that counters this machination.

And if the world supply is in a high producing state, dumping some of these reserves can sink prices low enough we can refill those reserves for cheaper than we initially bought the reserves that we dumped.

Republicans then get on the horn and claim this is risky, helps nobody but democrat politics, etc, etc. They're not wrong, but the entire thing is political brinkmanship, so... who cares? 😄

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There is the idea that it'd be easier for the universe to spontaneously create a single consciousness that knows and experiences everything and thinks they are you rather than creating a big bang that naturally leads to beings with consciences such as you.

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CRTs were one reason, but the other was because you had to have storage for all your manuals and CDs and Floppy disks and other stuff you were constantly putting in your computer and taking out.

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they are still more effective than no mask at reducing the spread of airborne particles from the wearer.

Yes, but the wearer has it on their chin.

The theoretical effectiveness of masks used in best practice and the actual effectiveness of actual practices are often miles apart.

I'm not anti-mask at all but from a public policy perspective the overall effect was meh.

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Is that a can of Code Red (bottom right)?

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Infinity people always die. Even if you don't make a decision.

The Supreme Court Is on the Verge of Criminalizing Homelessness ( newrepublic.com )

As more people end up experiencing homelessness, they’re also facing increasingly punitive and reactionary responses from local governments and their neighbors. Such policies could become legally codified in short order, with the high court having agreed to hear arguments in Grants Pass v. Johnson....

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Ancient Levant, including ancient Israel, was obsessed with being hospitable hosts to visitors. This was an important cultural marker left over from when proto-Israelite culture was bedouin and on the fringes of society in the Levant.

This practice had become slightly more hostile during Roman occupation, but Jesus's teachings on the matter were profoundly conservative--instructing his followers to never waiver from their ancient obligations.

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My GF is a pool cleaner and once got written up for sending a customer a picture of dead pigeons that were in their yard.

The customer called the office screaming that she sent the pictures "to be mean."

Turns out these people had pest control out on their property to "remove" all the frogs because the frogs were "keeping them awake at night", and the birds took the bait instead.

Yes, these folks were filthy rich and entitled.

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We've finally found something truly worthy of staying in the British Museum.

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Imagine you get your hands covered in sticky filth. Do you wash them at a sink or just wipe them off with some paper and call it good?

Why do any different for your ass?

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