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Products getting shittier and counterfeits running rampant. Sometimes the original might as well be a counterfeit. Amazon doesn't care because it makes them money. I try to buy things from actual stores these days, but even then the quality of products is just so bad sometimes.

Like, not "oh this kitchen scale feels cheap and flimsy" but "uhh this scale doesn't weigh things right half the time"

Bruh it's a scale, how hard could it be

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This reflects a lack of understanding of the good that comes out of space research. SpaceX exists because Republicans defunded NASA. Space experiments help us solve problems on earth. Not to mention we depend on satellites for everything in our daily lives from weather predictions to communications. Not all of space is "hurr durr I'm Elon musk let's go to Mars!" In fact most of it isn't.

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What is the Israel thing going on?

It's not a good idea to lump the left into "Palestinian support". Some people on the left are still pro Israel, although probably a result of western propaganda. Those that are not pro Israel, all recognize that Israel is bad. The level of bad ranges from as little as kills women and children all the way to genocide. Some people take it as far as being anti Jew, which sucks because all of the Jews that wouldn't live in Israel/support the oppression of those that were there first don't live in Israel. The problem isn't Jews, it's western imperialism and Israel.

My take is, Israel was created 75 years ago by the US and UK as a way for the west to maintain control in the middle east when their previous efforts failed. Israel has never respected their borders, has constantly been expanding by brutal force, holds the Gaza strip hostage, and doesn't allow Palestinians within their borders to leave or get citizenship. (I don't recall the number of Palestinians within the border but 200,000 is sticking in my head?)

Israel's "right" to the land is imposed by the west after WWII, and the reality is it was the home of Palestinians.

Now, on the other side of things, Hamas has expressed the desire to eradicate Jews from the earth multiple times. If they had the backing of the west the situation would be reversed, potentially worse. But I would argue Hamas wouldn't be in power if Israel wasn't formed 75 years ago. When millions of people are oppressed and murdered on the regular for 75 years, that's a recipe for radicalization.

Oh, and I didn't even get to the religious part. Islam is an abrahamic religion, a descendant of Judaism, although they don't seem to like to talk about that. Jerusalem is the holy land of the Jews, and therefore it's also the holy land of Islam (and technically Christians too, although I don't think any of them care anywhere near as much). Both the Jews in Israel and the Palestinians believe they are gods chosen people of that land. I would say most Jews today don't feel the need to own that land, but most Jews in Israel do. Trump moved the capital of Israel to Jerusalem which was a dick move, because it was technically still shared territory at that point. But anyway, radical religious conservatives become terrorists when given the right environment.

My final take, Israel and Hamas are both terrorist organizations who desire eradication of the other ethnicity, but Israel has the backing, propaganda, and sympathy of the West.

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Yet Another Study Shows No Link At All Between Social Media And Teen Anxiety And Depression

Heavily biased article. There are just as many studies linking it as there are unlinking it. I'm not saying it does cause depression, but I am heavily disputing the claim that it doesn't. This was the most balanced article I could find on the subject: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/is-social-media-use-bad-for-young-peoples-mental-health-its-complicated/

Though I do agree with op that anecdotally the state of the world probably plays a bigger role.

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US expands probe into Ford engine failures to include two motors and nearly 709,000 vehicles

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In the United States, it's called the department of motor vehicles. It would be pretty weird if almost all motor vehicles lacked motors.

KIA may not agree with that, but they're also wrong. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/motor

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/motor

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/motor

https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/motor

Hopefully I don't need to keep linking dictionaries.