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funny

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This thing is broken

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All he had to do was stop writing names for a while after L very publicly announced that he was narrowing the search area. It's his own ego that pushes him to come up with elaborate ways to hide what he's doing as the number of suspects dwindles.

As soon as he learns that you can affect the time and manner of death, he could have made all the rest seem like accidents, spread out over years. Again, it's his own ego that gets in the way; he wants people to know the deaths are connected.

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Quitting Your Job

I got let go from a job once. They lost all of their contracts within a year. From personal experience, sometimes everything does depend on you. Whether your managers understand that or not is a different story.

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Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED

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Sure, but the company fronted the millions of dollars required to develop the technology. The investment needs to come from somewhere.

That doesn't have to be a private company, though. We need public funding that retains the patent rights, if not just to make the invention free from licensing costs to manufacture.

The insane thing about our current system is that we do have public funding, but private companies wind up with the patent anyway

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Wise words

Boss made a dollar
I made a dime
That was a poem
From a simpler time.

Now boss makes a thousand
And gives us a cent
While he's got employees
Who can't pay the rent.

When boss makes a million
And the workers make jack
That's when we strike
And take our lives back.

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LegalEagle Suing PayPal's Honey

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Trustpilot tries to weed out fake reviews. A huge influx of reviews all at once looks like fake reviews. And, to be fair, I imagine a chunk of those reviews are "fake" in that the reviewers never used the app. It's easier for Trustpilot to cut off new reviews for the time being than to deal with evaluating all these new reviews.

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well?

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If you take all the mass in our universe and run it through the Schwarzschild equation, you get a black hole with about the same radius as our observable universe.

Things don't need to be tightly packed to be a black hole, there just needs to be enough stuff in an area.

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Let's say we had a general strike and it was successful. What would be the resulting demands that would be made?

You need a small list of very focused demands. Occupy Wall Street and BLM failed because they started tacking on too many things.

Here are demands that will fix the core issues at the federal level:

  1. An expansion of the number of seats in the house and senate. At the federal level, each congress person represents far too many constituents. This is not unprecedented; the house has been expanded before.
  2. We must switch from first-past-the-post to proportional representation.
  3. The Senate's role in passing legislation must be reduced to a time-based veto only. Meaning: a bill passed by the House must be vetoed by the Senate within 90 days or it goes to the president's desk.
  4. An overturning of the Citizens United decision and publicly funded elections.
  5. Removal of the presidental pardon.

These five items must be implemented if our democracy is to survive. Everything else can be handled after.