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Bananas
For anyone wondering, this doesn't actually work, because the bananas will realize they are upside-down.
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Bananas
For anyone wondering, this doesn't actually work, because the bananas will realize they are upside-down.
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Airlines will now be required to give automatic cash refunds for canceled and delayed flights
The complete rules are here: https://www.transportation.gov/airconsumer/refundsfinalruleapril2024
The meat of it is the table on pages 9-14 and mostly comprehensible.
Worth noting:
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Why Trump’s Arlington Debacle Is So Serious | The former president violated one of America’s most sacred places.
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Humans have honored the dead since before homo sapiens. Laws can be complicated, contradictory, and confusing; respecting the dead is clear and primal.
Yeah, this probably won't change a lot of minds, but some folks will see there is something wrong about a man who would dishonor the dead to celebrate himself.
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A Pound of Hamburger Meat Would Cost $30 Without Tax Payer Subsidies
I oppose beef subsidies, but the unsubsidized price seems entirely fabricated. How can $38 billion across 80 billion pounds of meat and 25 billion gallons of milk make hamburger $25 cheaper per pound?
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why does every single flashlight have multiple settings that you have to scroll through?
Surprised not to see any posts referencing the Arbitrary List of Popular Lights or ![email protected].
One of the requirements to make it on the list is:
A user interface where a single click turns the light on in a reasonable mode, and another single click turns it off.
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xkcd #3250: Flag Design
I'm surprised there's no flag on the inner flag
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Britain Is Leaving the U.S. Gender-Medicine Debate Behind
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NHS to discontinue delivery of babies until double-blind study is done vs just leaving it in there.
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Google search boss warns employees of 'new operating reality,' urges them to move faster
Funny running across this article after reading https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/
Spoiler: the author does not have a high opinion of Raghavan.
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Roku OS home screen is getting video ads for the first time
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This seems entirely opposite to my observation. I'd say Biden and his administration are unusually focused on unfair or annoying business practices. In just the past two weeks the Biden administration:
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GOP congresswoman who used IVF wants to ban IVF
Headline is an outright lie. The article literally quotes her saying she supports IVF. The author speculates that a bill she is co-sponsoring (that does not mention IVF) may accidentally ban IVF (if it passes and Biden signs it).
Certainly you could denigrate her intelligence, performative politics, or the logical incoherence between her abortion and IVF positions. But you cannot say she wants to do something contrary to her actual explicitly stated desire.
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What you're looking at is a poorly planned city that's car dependent.
That's like 30 people in line. It takes half a block and a lane of the stroad to fit 30 people.
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for the next discussion with family
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All the more reason to be for legalizing immigration and against illegalizing immigration.
Focusing on the immigrants rather than the system puts the blame in the wrong place, and obfuscates solutions to the problem.
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Ocasio-Cortez says Biden could 'do more' to earn votes than just attack Trump to advance Democrats’ vision in 2024
What she said was "I think we can certainly do more to be advancing our vision, and I believe we have a strong vision that we can run on." She specifically calls out:
Contrary to OP's title, she actually pushes back on the false narrative that Biden is running as "not Trump".
She does say that it will be important to demonstrate "what we are willing to do with" governing power between now and November.
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As far as I can ascertain, Peter Thiel* is the 103rd richest man on the planet, with a reported net worth of $20.5 bn US. How and why does his influence reach farther than so many others?
Those "richest people" lists are based on publicly known wealth, which is almost exclusively public stocks. There is a lot of dark money out there.
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Tabloids keep swinging and missing on Mamdani
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Actually it's not limited to 1.8 billion dollars. It's a completely blank check. You can see the settlement here: https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1441201/dl
So frustrating seeing all of the "news" platforms parroting the regime's claims as if they were a trustworthy source
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North Texas man sues Cinemark claiming 24-ounce beer cups can't hold 24 ounces
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🎵 Mister every ounce of beer is precious man 🎵
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FCC Republican opposes regulation of data caps with analogy to coffee refills
If there was a government-mandated monopoly on coffee and it was sold in L/s, we probably would.
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Language Is a Tool for Communication, Not for Thought, MIT Researchers Argue
I think transforming "it's possible to think without language" into "language is not a tool for thought" is an overreach. Definitely a lot of our internal voice is post-thought, but crystalizing those thoughts into words can provide footholds for further thought. Some would argue it's not possible to think through a complex issue without writing:
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Republicans baffled by Katie Britt’s State of the Union response: ‘One of our biggest disasters’
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And through the whole thing she's using her submissive wife voice https://jesspiper.substack.com/p/the-fundie-baby-voice
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Explain yourselves, comp sci.