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The growing intensity of straw manning over the past decade has hurt us all so much.

Don't try to characterize what "they" would do, then get mad at your hypothetical. We need to talk to each other instead of about each other.

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what are "narrow groups"?

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Amen. We are always like "but how will we find room for new rail?!"

Well, those highway lanes are looking fucking good and we know adding them didn't help traffic, so why not just take them back?

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I know: I will take this stupid idea and make money making fun of it.

This kinda content is garbage, just like the content it's making fun of.

I should stop whining and just unsub. These videos are lame.

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My brother in business, I see you.

Once had to ask why the only woman our team was making significantly less. Got a shrug back from the HR director, a woman. I couldn't believe that I had to fight her to bring compensation in line.

It's not JUST the billionaires that are the problem. It's really all the people that need to feel they're somehow above others.

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Hello, I am now confused. Can someone link me the song being discussed because I think I only know the US opening?

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You're right, my fault. Thanks!

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We keep lowering taxes on the wealthiest and then wondering why we can't afford our budgets. How stupid are we? The national debt will get solved the moment we start making corporations and people earning 7 figures (US$) a year pay their fair share instead of spending it on megaprojects and megayachts.

After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year (www.billboard.com)

When Bloomberg reported that Spotify would be upping the cost of its premium subscription from $9.99 to $10.99, and including 15 hours of audiobooks per month in the U.S., the change sounded like a win for songwriters and publishers. Higher subscription prices typically equate to a bump in U.S. mechanical royalties — but not...

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I use Tidal. It may not be much better than Spotify, but it's better than Spotify.

Transgender activists flood Utah tip line with hoax reports to block bathroom law enforcement (apnews.com)

Transgender activists have flooded a Utah tip line created to alert state officials to possible violations of a new bathroom law with thousands of hoax reports in an effort to shield trans residents and their allies from any legitimate complaints that could lead to an investigation....

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When the complaint system is intended to repress, launching a DDoS against it is activism, yes.

Make sense?

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Are you saying legislators are unwilling to investigate their own even if they're violating the law?

[Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism?

Seen a lot of posts on Lemmy with vegan-adjacent sentiments but the comments are typically very critical of vegan ideas, even when they don’t come from vegans themselves. Why is this topic in particular so polarising on the internet? Especially since unlike politics for example, it seems like people don’t really get upset by...

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Can you explain what's wrong with this argument? As a relatively disinterested observer it seems reasonable to me.

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I'll say that this reaction does nothing to make me think you are approaching this with any objectivity.

The argument, to me, seems to be that it's impossible in the modern world as things stand to actually totally avoid animal products. That would seem like an issue that Veganism should be concerned with.

I see your point, I think, about it being an individual choice. But though I have heard of things like vegan shoes, I can see how saying those are vegan when you may not control all the inputs seems problematic.

Regardless, your response was so unpleasant that I don't think I'm much interested in continuing.

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Sweet summer child, replace "dubstep" with "techno" or "techno" with "disco" or ....

andyburke,
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Personally I feel your view is too constrained to your own timeline and experiences and is discounting the spread of technology in music for at least a century.

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Look, I agree, but:

https://youtu.be/n6QsusDS_8A?si=BbLriyh73saY-XbT

Someone just like you would have written the same comment back then.

It is always this way.

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How is this not a caching issue on the linked server? Serving the same info up over and over from memory should be incredibly fast.

Are their pages dynamic and filled with ads and stuff or something that makes this a problem?

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what?

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We need to trust such a country to be judicious in their use of force, to not engage in any unnecessary conflict that puts both they and their allies at risk, and we want that country to be stable and share our values.

Israel is not demonstrating these qualities, at least not now.

Given that, why should we continue our support?

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tell me more

andyburke,
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That is called "life in prison without the chance for parole," at least in the US.

andyburke,
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just a little light treason... 🤣

andyburke,
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he's got bees! no bees! <takedown>

... they don't allow you to have bees in here.

Columbia University threatens to expel student protesters who occupied administration building (apnews.com)

Dozens of protesters took over a building at Columbia University in New York early Tuesday, barricading entrances and unfurling a Palestinian flag from a window in the latest escalation of demonstrations against the Israel-Hamas war on college campuses nationwide. The school promised they would face expulsion....

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Being expelled from Columbia starting to look like a badge of honor.

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I am not here arguing for or against sanctions. I am saying that there is a specific historical incident which is the current justification for the status quo.

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