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This HAS to be satire
Hint of misandry too, implying it's not manly to follow traffic safety laws. Dude probably has personal hygiene too and Mr. Jeremy Kauffman would point out washing one's butt is gay.
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This HAS to be satire
Hint of misandry too, implying it's not manly to follow traffic safety laws. Dude probably has personal hygiene too and Mr. Jeremy Kauffman would point out washing one's butt is gay.
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What do we think of "MacGyver"?
I never watched it, so I mostly know of the character through SNL spoof MacGruber.
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Report: Google Buys Spirit Data for $10M
information will be scrubbed from the records before they are transferred to Google.
Uh huh, sure. I believe them and have absolutely no reason to doubt either their honesty or their competency on this matter.
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What's the most entertaining "bad" movie ever made?
Twilight. If nothing more than to count the red flags and use it as a teaching tool for young teens on what not to do in romantic relationships.
Mom and Dad Save the World [1992] even as an 8 year old I understood this was a bad movie by so many standards but enjoyed it anyway. The injection. The muscly bird people. The fish people. Probably the first thing I ever saw Jon Lovitz in and I will forever see Spengo in any other character he ever plays.
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Necessities for small automotive help bag?
Compact, cig lighter charged air compressor. Once you use that tire patch kit, be able to air up their tire.
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Newsmax Host: "I'm Calling On All Christian Teachers To Go Ahead And Baptize Muslim Students"
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Most I've come across have an exception for any layperson to do the baptism if the person's life is in danger. E.g., come up to a car accident, person is near death, ask them if they accept Jesus (or not if they're unconscious), baptize them, was the classic example I heard over and over. Now the Christian extremists in this article, I could see them saying "we're in a holy war with these Muslims and their eternal lives are at risk, therefore their lay teachers can baptize". Not that I expect them to put that much logic into it.
Check out Church of LDS Baptism of the Dead ritual. The person doesn't even have to be alive or their body present to be baptized. And at least the mormons I grew up with, any "priest" or above could do a baptism, "priest" being any male church member in good standing, at least 15 or 16 years old.
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Newsmax Host: "I'm Calling On All Christian Teachers To Go Ahead And Baptize Muslim Students"
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Oh, for sure it's worse than sports fandom. I was trying to express more that they have a lot of energy they are directing towards religion that has commonalities with "my blue team good, your res team bad" mentality. Energy which might be less toxic if redirected away from religion to sports.
Then again, I have been in a public space when some dingbat randomly yelled out "Roll Tide". We weren't in Alabama.
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Newsmax Host: "I'm Calling On All Christian Teachers To Go Ahead And Baptize Muslim Students"
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I've heard similar of Catholics, that some don't consider them to be Christian. I believe along the line of whether faith alone or faith+works will save a person's soul.
Maybe these people just need to get really into a sports team. It feels like that sometimes; clinging to some minute detail or charisma of a player or coach, and therefore my blue team is far superior to your navy blue team, and don't even get me started on how terrible red team is.
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Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over
Meta displayed a chart showing that the “percent of time spent viewing content posted by ‘friends’ ” has declined in the past two years, from twenty-two per cent to seventeen per cent on Facebook, and from eleven per cent to seven per cent on Instagram.
Yeah. By their design. If they would allow user control over what shows up in their feed, mine would prioritize friends' content. I'm not the one choosing to turn my feed jnto AI slop based on my alleged interest in the topic.
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Microsoft’s AI boss thinks it’s perfectly OK to steal content if it’s on the open web
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Google Employees Internally Share Memes About How Its AI Sucks
Best part of the article, hat tip to author Emanuel for how he included the correction request:
After this story was published Google's spokesperson reached out and asked us to publish a slightly different version of that statement. The new statement no longer stated that "it's critical that we maintain humans in the loop."
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You're an AH for this unnecessary detail in particular:
she's had two babies by two different guys.
Just admit you're not friends. That's fine and doesn't make you an AH. Getting all puritanical over something that does not impact your life does.
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How much weight are the 8-10 humans at tier 2.5 carrying?
None beyond their own bodyweight.
The photograph shows an impressive feat in which dozens of acrobats stood on top of each other (relying on mounted platforms) to create a human tower in the likeness of the torch.
Emphasis mine. Most of the weight is born by platforms that the humans are obscuring the view of. Look at the postures of each tier; none are braced for any significant weight.
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What (free and open-source) applications do you use on a daily basis?
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We can't even pump fuel anymore without holding a digital billboard (Netherlands)
Shell gas stations in the US have been showing ads on the main machine for years, I've never seen them on the handle before. I hate it. I would expect them to break "accidentally" quite often.
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Fuck ads at the gas pump
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If you've ever interacted with someone who speaks a different language, what is the funniest misunderstanding you've had?
My friend tried to call me a "night owl" because we tended to talk very late at night for my time zone. She accidentally called me a "lady of the night".
EDIT: "lady of the night" is a term for prostitute
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What are some obvious or not so obvious silver linings of Trump's disastrous policies? if any
Canada was watching, pulled a 180 and didn't elect their own Trump Wannabee.
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A new report finds Boeing’s rockets are built with an unqualified work force
The report cites inexperienced workforce, exacerbated by the limited pool to hire from in New Orleans and the non-competitive wages Boeing offers compared to other aerospace companies. Mobile and Huntsville are right there. Lol, pony up, Boeing.
And the report mentions operators are given work instructions that lack detail and require the operator to go diving through multiple levels of specifications and historical records to understand what to do. This speaks to inadequate manufacturing engineers and processes, who are putting out the inadequate work instructions. So I'm assuming the non-competitive pay and retention problems apply to their engineers too, not just the hourly operators and mechanics.
Work for Boeing for bad pay and to see this shit in the news? Or hop over to Mobile, AL to work for Airbus at a better wage on a popular commercial plane with good reliability and a good reputation. Decisions, decisions.
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What’s an unspoken rule that absolutely everyone should know, but most people clearly don’t?
Don't make phone calls on speaker when in public. Not even if you hold it up to your ear.