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Nearly 500 smartphone brands have left the market since 2017
Were they real or just shit novelty, scams, or rebadges and sister brands of those multi brand companies like BBK?
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Nearly 500 smartphone brands have left the market since 2017
Were they real or just shit novelty, scams, or rebadges and sister brands of those multi brand companies like BBK?
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Meta Threads engagement has dropped 50% in a week
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What new personal information did meta get from Instagram users enabling threads?
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein's daughter has power of attorney over her
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Typically PoA is instated before someone has a mental decline.
But at 90, that's probably already begun.
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Dutch government starts own Mastodon instance as reaction to the instability of Twitter
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Eh, lots of companies use gmail it's just masked by being their own domain and part of g suite.
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ICE detains leader of farmworker union in northwest Washington state
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
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Unions are like condoms
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The counter statement is that a union is insurance for when good management goes bad.
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Will we eventually run out of graveyards?
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There are places in the world with a standard practice of forever plots.
For example, I don't think it's common in NZ for plots to be a time period before disinterment.
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research
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Flip the toilet roll around.
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I would have expected Meta to have learned by Elons mistakes but I was just asked if I want to subscribe for a blue tick to verify my account to make my followers feelnsafer
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Calling it verified is the only problem for a paid service. Name it Premium, +, anything else that implies a value added experience. But pay for verification is stupid.
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Any hyper focused group, especially one that has an excluded "other", will form a totem idea of that other and unreasonably become extremely against that totem. So hate spirals out of control. This occurs on either ends of the political spectrum. It can happen with sports teams vs their rivals.
CGP Grey made a video a number of years ago explaining such things better. https://youtu.be/rE3j_RHkqJc.
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Why don't schools simulate a typical 9 to 5 work week for students and remove homework entirely?
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Cynicism: also primes for the need to bring work home and be available off the clock.
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Does Harry Potter only know fifth grade math?
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Divination with maths is statistics.
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Why is the caret made, and why does it blink?
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Nothing will top the r/nostupidquestions favourite of [Is Stephen pronounced like Stephen?](https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/3bmo28/is_stephen_pronounced_the_same_as_stephen/]
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Dutch government starts own Mastodon instance as reaction to the instability of Twitter
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It's still Google's mail server. The mail client is irrelevant.
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Ukraine is now the most mined country. It will take decades to make safe
Bring on the robot mine sweepers.
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Same but 2 weeks instead of a year.
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You're at a good age to do backpacking travel. Go explore the world.
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Greens promise free dental for all, paid for by 'fair and simple' tax changes
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Their tax policy was already announced regarding their wealth tax and income tax adjustments.
Iirc very terse summary: 1.5% tax on net wealth > $4M; income tax reduction for <$125k pa incomes, tax increase for >$125k pa incomes.
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My Opinion: NewPipe, Piped, Invidious, etc's days are numbered.
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And yet it's still ripped and on torrent sites. Not sure how they do it.