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Yes, a cartoon lesbian couple is highly inappropriate for the grandson of a drug huffing, ho banging gangster.
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What's something really good that is about to happen, and not a lot of people know about it?
Battery prices are collapsing and we are at an inflection point where electric vehicles will soon be more economical to purchase, drive and maintain for a much greater number of people. This is as inevitable as the phaseout of coal.
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Man bites woman at cherry blossom park in Japan, dies shortly after
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If it bites you and you both die, rabies
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US Supreme Court blocks student loan forgiveness plan
Now that student borrowers aren't getting a "free ride", I want PPP loan recipients to be required to pay back the full amount, plus say, 9% interest, retroactively. Why should my tax dollars pay for your free business loan?
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I'm leaving the US for good, anything I should do before I leave?
Get an FBI background check, and get it apostilled. Easy to do from your local post office in the US, difficult and expensive to do outside the us, and you will need it for many things you might want to do in other countries
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Yes, I went through this too, dumbest interview process ever but it had the positive result to make me look into how dumb a company canonical is and start using debian rather than Ubuntu. I call it a hard fought win
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Salesforce regrets firing 4000 experienced staff and replacing them with AI
More evidence that LLMs are perfectly suited to emulate the incompetence of senior executives.
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene breaks with the GOP on Obamacare, calling to avoid premium hikes
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No it isn't. This is typical for the conservative mindset, they are against rights and helping others until an issue touches them or someone close to them personally, they they agree with liberals, but just on that one thing.
If she had a niece or nephew come out as trans she'd suddenly be announcing "hey maybe we don't have this banning trans people from school sports thing right" because it's no longer someone else's problem.
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Tiny homes are just mobile homes impacted by shrinkflation
Nah mobile homes are built to poor standards with poor materials, while most tiny houses are built to the same standards as a stick-built regular house. It's more like exchanging size for quality.
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Republicans break protocol to kill Social Security benefits expansion bill
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It means you contributed to a pension directly or indirectly as well as social security and now you don't get the social security that was part of the original deal. It's a little nibble away at the edges to soften retirees up for the next nibbles
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As Trump fumes, Republicans wince at ‘public nervous breakdown’
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The golf debate was the wtf are we even doing moment for me. It turned out to be a very powerful moment that allowed a new democratic candidate to rise above two old men blathering about their golf game.
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wish i would have been a child like that
I want to know more about the school. Public? Private?
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What's an uplifting fact that might counter the doom of our current reality?
Renewable energy and battery storage are seeing an absolute collapse in prices such that it is inevitable in the near to mid term future that we will move away from fossil fuel extraction leaving much of it in the ground. This will happen no matter who is in charge politically or who tries to subsidize fossil fuels because money is king and a lot of free energy hits the earth every day.
This, combined with falling birthrates, means we will hit peak carbon emissions and begin to drop back to a new normal, a new economy built around labor rather than capital because of the shift in balance between resources and workers similar to what happened during the black death. It is my opinion that this will begin to happen in my lifetime and will fully come to pass in our children's lifetime.
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Classic cars will still need a smog test in California after lawmakers reject Jay Leno bill
I had a car caught up in this in Colorado and had to get rid of it. Specifically, I had to remove a bunch of obsolete air pump equipment and update the fueling system with a much more modern electronically controlled system. The car was measurably better than it's original standards but failed the visual check because it was missing the old, polluting, inefficient and unavailable parts.
If the car still meets the emissions of it's day, put a mileage limit on it and let it go. If there are too many on the road then implement a nontransferrable lottery system to get classic plates for them. The amount of pollution these few tens of thousands of vehicles put out being used a couple of times a month is a drop in the bucket compared to everything else that continues to get a pass.
Why not start banning camp fires? What about old boats? Stationary power units? These all seem to get a pass and probably dwarf the emissions of classic cars being used occasionally.
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Programmers of Lemmy, what are your interviewing horror stories?
I did one where I went through a few rounds of interviews, technical and otherwise. In talking with the developers, they mentioned that they were trying to integrate a certain client side framework into their backend frameworks build process, without success. Get to the final stages, and the director of engineering asks me to work on this take home project to, you guessed in, integrate the js framework into the build process of the backend framework.
I sent them a strongly worded rejection email. It was a realreal eye opening experience.
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Walmart Workers Share Photos of Price Increases
You know where you notice this? As an American buying appliances in Europe. You can buy a front loading washing machine for 300€, including VAT. A refrigerator? 400€. Three years ago I paid 1800 for a fridge in the us, and last year bought a scratch and dent special washing machine for $600
Edit: and US prices are not including Tax.
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Everything Apple iOS 18 Will Do, Android Already Does
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Windows phone 10 had most of these things in 2015
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Judge hands Lambo.com to Lamborghini after ruling owner acted in bad faith
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I present to you: http://www.slutsofinstagram.com/
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'Nicki Minaj Is Not a Good Role Model for Black Girls': Charlie Kirk's Past Comments Resurface After Rapper Appears at TPUSA's AMFest
I have the sense that she is setting herself up for a trump pardon and we just haven't heard the federal crime she's about to be indicted for
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American actor George Clooney and his family are granted French citizenship. Clooney previously said that 'his children have a better life in France than in the United States.'
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You only need savings of about 1.5x the SMIC (minimum wage) - currently 1801.80€ monthly for 12 months and you can get a year visa. If you have enough the following year, you can renew. Do that four times and you can ask for a more or less permanent multi-year residency if you speak french by that time. So as you can see, you could probably sell a house in the US for a decent profit and invest time enough to gain French residency without needing George Clooney money.