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Is this true?
I like a game world that's just fun to be in even when I'm not advancing the story. Taking a break to explore is awesome, and much easier in an open world.
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Is this true?
I like a game world that's just fun to be in even when I'm not advancing the story. Taking a break to explore is awesome, and much easier in an open world.
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"It's optional," Microsoft on Windows 11 tool forcing Bing in Chrome, Firefox, and Brave.
I searched for, downloaded, and installed the Poison My Well app, and the thing forced itself into my well!
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MRW I reach SGU on my chronological rewatch loop
I was in college and just getting started in life during the SG-1 and Atlantis runs, so I missed out on basically all their original airings being busy with life.
SGU was my first experience with the franchise since seeing the movie years earlier. It will always have a special place for me.
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agriculture in the middle east - artificial watering systems?
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Same in Washington.
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TIL that in 2025, Americans spent roughly $166 billion on gambling. That’s more than the entire U.S. movie, music, book, and museum industries combined.
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Handle is gross throughput, not consumer expenditure: over 90% of what is wagered gets returned to bettors in the form of winnings. That $1,000 in bets translates to roughly $100 in average losses per adult.
The market is big, but less than the more clickbaity headline would suggest.
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TIL that in 2025, Americans spent roughly $166 billion on gambling. That’s more than the entire U.S. movie, music, book, and museum industries combined.
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Losses were deductible until a few years ago. Now most people just pay on the winnings. Once the standard deduction was raised, that deduction went away. Losses maybe deductable if you itemize (?), but it's a pretty high bar.
Winnings over a certain amount are reported to the IRS. W-2 G
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B2C magic services
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For the low introductory cost of just 100 septims per annum.
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Google Chrome now targets ads based on your browser history, here's how to turn that off
Instructions for a better browsing experience can be found at https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browsers/
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Trump says US being 'invaded by filthy air' as he threatens Canada with tariffs over wildfires
Is he saying the atmosphere is a shared resource that no nation should be filling with pollution?
It's fascinating how close he is to getting it, while the world knows he never, never will.
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‘Reddit can survive without search’: company reportedly threatens to block Google
LMAO. The only time I visit Reddit any more is when it dominates the first page of search results. Spez has failed upwards for so long, he thinks he can fly.
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U.S. House Speaker calls Portland naked bike ride [protest] ‘most threatening thing I’ve seen yet’
He saw it on TV instead of through his porn accountability app. It was terrifying for him to not share his viewing with his son.
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I hate how everything requires you to download a shitty proprietary data harvesting app nowadays when everything can be done just fine without an app.
A person's music taste seems to crystalize at some point in their teenage years. The bands you loved at 15-17 are probably the bands that you'll love forever.
Likewise, I'm finding that my relationship with information services as a whole probably crystalized a while ago, and the new era of "apps for every individual thing" is just wholly unappealing. Give me a web browser to interface with your information. If I can't get it done with that, I'm more likely to move on to some even older tech and skip your product altogether.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm late to bingo. And get off my lawn.
Me: "seems to" "at some point" "probably" while making a minor, secondary point. Others: Severely Triggered
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That Tencent investment money is coming home to roost.
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Neighbour deliberately blocking OP
If it's a persistent problem, and a tow truck isn't an option...
Get a set of cheap car dollies, then you can move it out of the way. THEN you can place it perpendicular to the parking spots with the bumper at that support beam and he'll be stuck until the blue car leaves.
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Seriously, what the f*** is keeping Donald Trump in this presidential race?
If the race were between The Literal Devil (R) and Jesus Christ (D), the vote total would be 45%-55% just based on the letter they choose to run after their name.
Policy doesn't matter when people base their entire personality on their political party identification.
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Whoa! Windows 7's market share surged, tripling in users last month
But that doesn't make a good headline.
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Trump says US to start blockading the Strait of Hormuz immediately
In about two days, there will be reports of massive volume of shorts on oil company stocks that occurred in the minutes before the announcement, then another day after that, nobody will talk about it again.
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Calls to reform UN Security Council after US vetoes Gaza ceasefire
Nothing changed on the UNSC when Russia vetoed the resolution to leave Ukraine.
I'm not educated enough to say which is a "worse" violation of the principles the UN stands for, but I'll go out on a limb and say nothing will change this time, either.
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Anon travels overseas
It helps when everywhere in that mile radius (and more) is considered walking distance in much of Europe, but Americans would rather drive.
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How the fuck is Mitch McConnell actually alive?
Weird how unlimited time away from work and good, unlimited healthcare can extend a person's life.
I wonder if there's a lesson to be learned there....