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a fresh peanut butter cup is a joyous thing.

people putting down peanut butter cups as if they're some garbage candy .. tf has this world come to?

don't let Nerii there drag your estimation of a pbc down.

How Popular Does Biden Need to Be to Beat Trump? Not Very. (nymag.com)

Given the current state of partisan polarization, it’s unlikely Biden can get majority job approval next year even with the most fortunate set of circumstances. But the good news for him is that he probably doesn’t have to. Job-approval ratings are crucial indicators in a normal presidential reelection cycle that is...

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Who?

The problem is sort of chicken and egg: if there were an obvious democratic alternative the party could agree on, Biden would be out. There is no such person, so we get stuck with what we have right now.

Hard to fault the party for not wanting to bruise their most likely candidate in a tough primary, either.

This sucks, but it's not the Democrats' fault: it's our first past the post voting system.

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Will you please stay in your lane?

What the fuck qualifies you to criticize a celebrity online? Do you have any expertise in holding opinions or sharing them?

You're an internet commenter, write about what you had for lunch and stop weighing in on shit you know nothing about. This isn't the place for it, either.

/s

Now do you get it?

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When they tried to skirt emissions standards, I decided never to buy another VW.

Whether they rolled out EVs or not, these fucks tried to break the law to destroy the planet. They can get fucked.

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Tell us your suggestions for how to address this.

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Do you understand the basics about the US Senate? Because it seems as if you do not.

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Please explain what actions he could take?

Unless someone stole his source or assets there is no action to be taken.

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Ban 'em all.

I say this as a non-mod: mods spend too much emotional effort trying to placate trolls. Ban them. Us normies do not care about the people who do this to communities. Let them go somewhere where people want that garbage.

Does everyone learn the same gravity in school or is it different everywhere?

So, I learned in physics class at school in the UK that the value of acceleration due to gravity is a constant called g and that it was 9.81m/s^2. I knew that this value is not a true constant as it is affected by terrain and location. However I didn’t know that it can be so significantly different as to be 9.776 m/s^2 in...

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say what now?

citation needed.

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Ah, I see. I thought we were talking about the constant.

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Hi. With the utmost courtesy and respect: please look at the vote counts and feedback here.

At the least, in anything like its current form, we fediverse people don't want this.

If people want to be on reddit, they can be. If they want their niche community on that site, they're allowed. Trying to bridge content between sites that are potentially even antagonistic toward one another is not a good plan, no matter how virtuous your intentions.

Scientists said the ozone hole was recovering. That good news was premature, one study claims (www.cnn.com)

The recovery of the ozone layer — which sits miles above the Earth and protects the planet from ultraviolet radiation — has been celebrated as one of the world’s greatest environmental achievements. But in a new study published Tuesday, some scientists claim it may not be recovering at all, and that the hole may even be...

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It's not just about the environment.

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!remindme 2 years

not because I think you're wrong, but I want to remember running across someone else feeling like this whole thing is some bullshit.

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The number of people who are just willing to walk right past all the Republicans causing the problems to then blame the Democrats for not saving these idiots is wild.

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Hey, you vote how you want. Just saying that if you're thinking about not voting for a Democrat who wouldn't rescue republicans from themselves, well, you'll end up with representation that better suits you, I guess.

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As an older programmer who has written and contributed to lots of FOSS while working at various institutions and companies, I don't understand the idea that people should be paid for FOSS work.

I'm not saying I think it's wrong, I am just curious how and why people believe that FOSS development should be funded.

I am willing to be convinced, but I can't help but think that software you get paid to write is a capitalist business, subject to all the enshittification problems that brings. Why do we want that in FOSS?

Edit/ps: title is saying FOSS is unsustainable but we are here decades later with Linux the dominant server platform (I was there when this was very much in doubt) and tons of our infrastructure continues to run on free and open software. It seems sustainable to me based on the evidence.

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This.

I kinda just fell out of it because when people would discuss one of the movies, it always seemed vaguely familiar but I could never quite remember if that was one of the ones I had seen.

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This has not been my experience as a either a public school student quite a few years back now, not as a parent of public school aged children.

Public school has its own gigantic share of problems, but the criticisms above seem exaggerated to me based on my experience.

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🔥

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By ProPublica standards, this is nothing.

3 possible problematic trades from maybe the most famous investor alive? At least one of which hurt him rather than help him?

This is snooze-worthy.

Edit: before you jump on me for defending a billionaire, I have no love for him and have serious doubts someone should be able to accumulate that much wealth. I'm just saying that as far as ProPublica exposes go, there's nothing here nearly as important or stunning as their usual reporting.

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Fuck the prime directive. Most amoral thing I ever heard of. Any officer who actually respects it is suspect.

Picard (who I love dearly) is written SO BADLY around the prime directive that episodes involving it are difficult to watch.

Fuck the prime directive.

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Any episode involving the prime directive in TNG, basically. Picard has to be convinced to do the right thing by others in violation of the prime directive.

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Elon Musk is an embarrassment to engineering.

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Agreed, but he pretends he's one.

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Barring any of the other context here, you need to back up and think about why you think it's so awful for a nude picture to exist.

Are you helping or are you pushing your own moral code onto those who may not share it?

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