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Math: "when are we ever gonna use any of this in real life!?"
Later: "why didn't they teach us how taxes work!?"
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Math: "when are we ever gonna use any of this in real life!?"
Later: "why didn't they teach us how taxes work!?"
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To name the Months
Finnish:
oak month (or central month if you don't use current meaning of the word)
pearl month
ground month
clearing the forest of trees for field month
planting seed month
summer month (or plowing month by original meaning)
hay harvesting month
grain harvesting month
autumn month
muddy month
death month
yule month
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DuckDuckGoose
Our previous CTO left by saying "I have enough money now. Peace out!"
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Russia's gas production collapses to late-stage USSR levels
Don't you just hate it when you're building a pipeline and your mouse skips a few pixels and you end up with kinks?
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"but they sting/bite/are toxic/are icky" blah blah. nature does not owe you safety
Bees are like carpenters, they carry a knife but you're not worried they might stab you for no reason.
Wasps are like meth heads.
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Chonk
literally visible from space.
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Android privacy ROM >> iOS
This is turning a generation of people tech illiterate. The young people I interact with are smart because they're all employed by a tech company and mentored by us dinosaurs, but I've heard some horror stories of the tech literacy of the average young person.
Touchscreen was a mistake.
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Cabal of 'gay furry hackers' claims over 3,000 files stolen in NATO website breach
3000 files seems like an arbitary amount. Nothing's preventing you from creating a file for each passing millisecond.
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Why don't more people use Linux? - DHH
Linux is second nature to us IT people, so it's easy to forget that the average person probably only knows basic shell scripting and how to build programs from git repos.
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New Intelligence
Ever tried Factorio on amphetamines?
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Carbon monoxide blamed in death of homeless toddler in Syracuse
might be controversial, but I think toddlers shouldn't be homeless.
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Society is strange
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Do people like jobs? Today I was thinking that being a blacksmith could be cool. But I guess I was born to deploy k8s clusters.
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K-9s will be used in random classroom screenings, Florida school district officials announce
I'm not from the US, but isn't this against the 4th?
Generally, a search or seizure is illegal under the Fourth Amendment if it happens without consent, a warrant, or probable cause to believe a crime has been committed.
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As an owner of children, I approve this message
If pets can travel in the cargo hold hopped up on benzos and ketamine, why can't babies? Or me?
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German POWs being shown footage of Nazi concentration camps
Guy in the far right is absolutely fascinated. "So that's how they did it in Dachau!"
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"We've won, but at what cost?"
I hope Mozilla put most of that Google money into index funds or something. At least it didn't go into paying the developers.
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Stolen from Mastodon
Is there anything between the Urals and Alaska that would slow down an invading army? Other than the lack of infrastructure.
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Mine invited our team to a meeting titled simply "e".
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Sorry, Deutsch people
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Japan is Japan everywhere except Japan.
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Germany approves bringing coal-fired power plants back online this winter
Shutting down the nuclear plants is probably the worst thing the Germans have done. At least it's in the top3.