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How come people are stupid nowadays? Especially on social media

Keep in mind that the algorithms will push the most engaging content to you, so you'll see stuff that pisses people off the most. It's literally upvoting troll accounts automatically.

Anyway, whenever you encounter an actual account who is posting stupid false narratives, the best way isn't to start arguing or throw links to true explanations and such.

Instead, simply ask them "why do you believe that stupid shit?" and leave them to either investigate the matter themselves, thereby hopefully teaching them something, or let them back out with the typical non-answer like "do your own research" which itself undermines whatever they just said.

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Horror story

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Yeah, those don't work well with Outlook. I get an e-mail from Microsoft telling me to login to the web version only to see that someone put a 👍 on my e-mail. It completely defies the purpose.

Microsoft really knows how to keep office workers occupied doing nothing at all.

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Probably missed calls. It'll keep showing a notification bubble in both activity and calls until you bother clicking the missed call as if that makes any difference or sense to anyone or anything but the notification counter.

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Are friends just a form of casual entertainment?

I cut out a lot of the social stuff, like going to a cafe or watching a movie with friends just for passing time. With a family I don't have time for that as much.

However a small group of us still get together when one arranges something more interesting, like hikes etc. to sort of give it a purpose other than just hanging out.

One of them is really good at it. Every time we show up at his place he always has some project going where he needs an extra hand to build something. More often than not we end up fixing his shit all day long without ever getting to the bowling alley or whatever the plan was. We enjoy doing these things together that actually matter more than just socializing for the fuck of it.

Try it maybe. You'll soon learn who you can rely on and work with.

We stopped inviting one guy. He constantly moaned about being put to work (and wasn't very good at it either). He was more interested in going out and using the group to cover for his own shenanigans.

The remaining group knows what's up. If shit ever hits the fan, these are the guys I'd invite into my doomsday fortress.

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‘The World Is Watching’: Top Economist Rips Newsom for Working to Tank Billionaire Wealth Tax

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Norway raised their wealth tax recently, despite the cries from rich people "being forced" to leave.

Some did in fact leave because of it.

But the tax revenue from the ones that remained more than made up for the lack of contributions from the ones leaving.

One news outlet described it as "turning a trickle into a stream".

Fuck the petty cash trickles from the ones who don't want to be here. Let them leave. They can go not pay their tax elsewhere. See how that works out for Texas or wherever.

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Mængden af kokain i spildevandet er fordoblet i København på ti år

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Der er 731.000 danskere mellem 15-25.

Hvis vi antager at ca. halvdelen "går i byen", og 1/4 af dem har prøvet kokain, så er de 90.000 unge som udgør 1,5% af befolkningen. Det er bare dem som har prøvet det. De faste brugere udgør så en endnu mindre del.

Selvfølgelig er det noget skidt, men det er altså ikke et hverdagsproblem for den gennemsnitlige dansker, og der er ikke junkier overalt, selvom medierne gerne vil gøre det spændende.

Jeg synes egentlig det er mere interessant hvem der ligger udenfor den gruppe og hvorfor de gør det, eller hvilke slags stoffer der ellers er i omløb.

Kokain misbrugerne udgør ikke rigtig en fare for os andre. Mit indtryk er at det var langt værre dengang i 90erne hvor det var almindeligt at bruge amfetamin, som gør dem aggressive, og man kunne risikere at blive udsat for spontan vold bare ved at gå forbi dem på den forkerte måde. Det ved jeg ikke om de også gør i dag.

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Holy shit, his age is showing. They did a rehearsed countdown 3-2-1 for him to sit down with aid from the guy next to him.

Now I'm not going to blame an old guy for needing help to sit down. But I am going to blame his voters for electing an elderly person into a position he can obviously not fulfill. What the hell. This is discraceful.

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hvepsebo i skuret

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Hvepse overvintrer ikke, så du behøver ikke bekymre dig om det gamle tomme bo. Det er faktisk bedre at beholde det, da hvepse normalt ikke bygger bo tæt på hinanden og derfor flyver videre hvis der hænger et andet bo i nærheden, selvom det er tomt.

Nogle siger at det hjælper at hænge papirsposer op. Hvepsene vil tro at det er hvepsebo og flyve videre

De kan bygge ret hurtigt. Forleden havde jeg åbnet en dør i et skur, og da jeg kom tilbage en halv time efter, så var der et hvepsebo på størrelse med en tennisbold lige i døråbningen. Det måtte selvfølgelig også fjernes, men jeg går ud fra at de fandt et andet sted samme dag for de vendte ikke tilbage og var ikke aggressive.

Jo før man gør det desto nemmere. Det kan være ret svært senere på sommeren dels pga. antallet men også fordi de bliver aggressive sidst på sæsonen.

Sidste år havde jeg et bo inde i en vindueskarm. Jeg kunne ikke fjerne det, og giften kunne ikke sprøjtes langt nok ind. I hvert virkede giften ikke. Heldigvis så jeg et tip her på Lemmy: Sæt en støvsuger ved hullet.

Det gjorde jeg så sidst på sommeren, og i løbet af to dage havde jeg fanget dem alle i en støvsuger, som så til gengæld summede lidt meget indtil jeg sprøjtede lidt gift i posen.

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It's a picture of the rapper Eminem writing the lyrics for the song "lose yourself".

The lyrics has the words "mom's spaghetti". His real name is Marshall.