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Don't blame me for that
That fee is there to remind us that the terrorists won.
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Don't blame me for that
That fee is there to remind us that the terrorists won.
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Is "If A then B" equal to "B if and only if A"?
No. It is equal to "if not B, then not A." You're welcome for doing your logic 101 homework for you.
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Once a bloodline has no more children, its history is lost to the wind—extinct and likely forgotten.
Bloodline doesn't have to end for that to happen. Even if you have kids, in three generations no one will remember your name or your life. Do you know the names and history of your great great grandparents? No one will remember us and it will not be important whether they do or don't.
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Why would someone desire a pension instead of a 401k?
Immune to market fluctuations. Based on years working and salary so if you worked a long time then retired and lived for a long time you may get more money than if you had a bag of cash in the market. It lasts until you die and your spouse can inherit it so it provides stability for you and your partner for the rest of your lives instead of having to guess how many more years you're going to live and dividing your savings by number of years left. Removes that stress of outliving your guess and running out of cash.
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People who post in other languages than English, do you also get mass downvotes ?
It's because native English speakers are seeing it in their All feed. If it's appearing in the All feed and the user has their feed set to English language only, then the poster failed to set what language their post was in. So they are downvoting the post for not setting the language.
I personally don't agree with this, I'm annoyed when I see a post in All in a language I don't know, but I simply block the user and move on. But maybe the persistent downvotes would call attention to the issue and encourage the poster to use the language settings in the future. As is happening right here.
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I washed my black underwear and now one of my black socks looks brownish on one side. How do I return the sock to its original black?
Use warm water to wash your clothes? Don't poop in your underpants?? Rinse the poop off before you put it in the machine???
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A Paradigm Shift in Social Policy: How Finland Conquered Homelessness
Spoiler alert, it's providing housing and health care.
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Man gets boat painted on fence meant to hide boat.
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Retired neighbors with nothing better to do.
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ABC News: DOJ releases proposed rule to reclassify marijuana
What the hell is "X"?
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Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce
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If you use the words woke agenda unironically, you are not welcome in this instance of Lemmy.
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We each have a Nazi in us. We need to understand the psychological roots of authoritarianism
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I think it's a question of language. If you're a publisher printing an English language book in Canada, you can expect to sell it to English readers in the US and Canada, so it is efficient to print the price for both on the same printing run. You would probably expect not to be selling books in English in countries where the primary language is not English. In other words, probably for the same reason that English language books don't have the price for Spain or China.
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What are some personally spiteful things you want to do against society because of how much you don't like it's direction?
What an insanely stupid reason to vote for someone.
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should I sue my former employer for unlawful termination?
You need to provide about 95% more detail if you want anything resembling a useful answer.
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What do companies get out of rewards programs
They get even more detailed information about your buying and spending habits. They can use this information to better manage their stock and sales to maximize profit, and probably more importantly, they can sell your contact information and buying habits to other companies who are in the very lucrative business of aggregating consumer data and monetizing it.
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I've heard some schools are reintroducing it now, but that doesn't help those that never learned.
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Shakespeare is modern English with some old words. This is Old English.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43521/beowulf-old-english-version
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the Pixel 8 Carveit case is beautiful, but...
This feels more like a phone case review than a thing that is mildly interesting.
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When sovcit from the other day who filed a notice of mistake went to court.
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This is good judging. There is a general directive for judges to interpret the arguments and filings of non-lawyers with very generous interpretation of what they are trying to argue. This judge did their best and also shored up their case against an appeal. Not that this lunatic would be cogent enough to ever appeal a ruling.
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Texas Supreme Court halts execution of man in shaken baby case after lawmakers' last-minute appeal
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Tell me you didn't read the article without telling me you didn't read the article. Shaken baby syndrome was fabricated by a handful of iffy doctors and has never been substantiated. Child abuse prosecutors have clung to it and propped it up because it makes for (inaccurate) open and shut convictions. Very few symptoms in the medical field are as cut and dry as what SBS claims is true.
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These Are the Rules of the CNN Presidential Debate
If only Clinton could have had muted mics against Captain Gibberish.