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if you're not free to become poor, homeless, and starving, are you really free?

A few corrections for my comtards;

I don't remember any fruit trees in my Хрущёвка growing up.

Alao, you could request a bigger apartment, but as my grandma was fond of saying, 'you can write 'cock' on a fence, it would still be wood' (something may have been lost in translation). The majority of families were living 3-4 generations in a one bedroom apartment with an indefinite wait to upgrade.

You sad fucks living 3-8 roomates deep with no cars and no money left over between bills are already living the communist experience, leave the rest of us out of it.

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Underground homes in Coober Pedy, Australia

It's not that fantastical, it's resembles a small town and has aboveground buildings as well. The underground dwellings are mostly rented to tourists nowadays.

Few things I remember from there around ~10 years ago:

Coober Pedy literally means 'White Man's Warrens' in Aborogeni.

You have yo register your ID to buy alcohol and are limited to 2 beers/1 spirit per day because the aborogenies keep getting tourists to buy them hooch.

The 1st part pf the Vin Disel Riddick Epic 'Pitch Black' was filmed there and the full size spaceship prop is still in place.

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Borrowers, especially the young, struggle with credit card debt in potentially bad sign for economy

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Well, there's sucking at handling credit cards at 11% interest, and there's sucking at handling credit cards at 28% interest.

Not that I feel bad about it because I reached adulthood and learned my lesson with the 2007 recession, but young people are experiencing the double whammy of being the 'number go up' generation, with their parents and education completely failing to prepare them for number go down.

Now the only numbers that go up are cost of living and interest rates.

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Teen with Incredibly Rare Genetic Condition is Cured in World First By British Doctors

This is a highly misleading headline, my disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined.

The patient had a genetic condition AND a structural defect in her liver that caused complications. The structural defect was fixed through surfery. The genetic condition wasn't cured and this treatment is of very little utility to other patients that suffer from the genetic condition but not the structural defects in their lymphatic system.

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The Peace Corps released this warning for black people volunteering in Ukraine

For just about all former soviet states, the N word is the term used to describe black people, because the word imported from Europe to describe Africans. It doesn't have the connotations or baggage that westerners attach to it. Diddo for blackface and sambo imagery, it's usually used more out of ignorance than malice.

Anyone volunteering to beak barriers in that part of the world has their work cut out for them.

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The Games Industry Needs A Stronger Games Media

No it doesn't. As a long time gamer, the games media hasn't been relevant since the early 2000s.

Players can find one or two streamers or youtube personalities in aligmnent with their taste in games and get pretty good recommendations along with 10-30 minutes pf gameplay footage to decide of a game is worth trying.

Do I need some absolute nobody working sub-poverty wages at Giant Nutaku telling me what they think of a game? The problem with sub-poverty writers is that they're reliant on game publisher advertising revenue, they will always take the industries side over that of gamers.

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DeSantis signs bill banning lab-grown meat

Lab grown meat, as it is right now has a massive scalability problem which makes it impossible to produce it in industrial quantities

That said, the fact that this was signed into law means that there were multiple people in business and politics that decided to dedicate their time towards legislating a complete non issue. great Job!