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Semi_Hemi_Demigod

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I’m just this guy, you know. Except on Lemmy.

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No, I'm dad and you're hungry

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Name a more iconic duo than American politicians and taking protest songs out of context.

So is Blinken the "kindler, gentler machine gun hand?"

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I only miss it because Facebook Marketplace has killed Craigslist and I have some crap I need to sell

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Let's be honest: They're not even going to upgrade the grid if it fails and burns down half the state

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Nature is healing

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Your civics teacher drinks because of you

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The fact that it's even close is an indictment of the American people.

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People always complain about Altimas because they're unpredictable, but the absolute worst offenders I see are Honda CRV drivers specifically because they're trying to be polite on the road. I'd take some busted Altima weaving through traffic over a CRV who decides to be nice and stop at the end of the onramp so they don't cut anyone off.

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On top of the other two replies: Mine has a setting to make yogurt. You just add milk and about a tablespoon of active culture yogurt

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I guess if our populace has become this damn stupid, then democracy can’t work here anymore.

Majority rule don't work in mental institutions

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Sometimes you gotta make the airplane noise to get the kids to eat their vegetables

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The fact that it's even close is an indictment of the American people.

Semi_Hemi_Demigod ,
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directly drinking high levels of the avian influenza virus will give them immunity to the deadly pathogen

It's like homeopathy but even stupider

Corporate real estate is on a 'cliff edge' as firms race to rethink communal spaces ( www.bbc.com )

As more employees work from home in the hybrid-work era, many companies are finding they need smaller offices. Compared to pre-pandemic floorplans designed to house as many workers as possible, more businesses are looking towards more compact but higher-quality spaces for the future....

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I would love to see some hard data on this, but I wonder how much of the increase in corporate purchases of homes is driven by the need to prop up their flagging real estate investments.

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I honestly don't think it would change anyone's mind at this point.

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Anyone who still supports him after all of the shit he's said and done is complicit. It was clear from the beginning he was an asshole.

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More evidence that I'm not an American, because I don't want a bigger vehicle

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I just got off the freeway jockeying for position with trucks whose hoods are the height of my entire car, so I am acutely aware that it's happening. It's just yet another way that I feel like an alien in my birth country.

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Not just lab rats for the experiment, but examples to show the Russians what could happen if they decided to try something in Europe.

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"Thank you for calling 911. We care about your emergency and will respond as soon as we vote on who will answer the phone. Our next election will take place in three days. Please hold."

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trolley named atrocity

The sequel to "Streetcar Named Desire"

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You're complicit in the genocide just by living in the place where the switch is. Your tax dollars paid for that trolley.

Americans are choking on surging fast-food prices. "I can't justify the expense," one customer says ( www.cbsnews.com )

Kevin Roberts remembers when he could get a bacon cheeseburger, fries and a drink from Five Guys for $10. But that was years ago. When the Virginia high school teacher recently visited the fast-food chain, the food alone without a beverage cost double that amount....

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We won't end corn subsidies because Iowa gets first pick in presidential elections.

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I was a gifted kid who realized that when I applied myself all I got was more and harder work that I also didn't want to do. Being successful academically felt like a punishment.

So I don't mind at all that I'm filling out Jira tickets. It's easy work and I have other things to enjoy.

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I'm old enough to have learned that housing should be 1/4 of your take home pay

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Every time we elect a Republican president we have to start rolling the ball all the way back up the hill again. Every goddamn time.

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I don't blame people for giving up on a Sisyphean task

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I've been swimming sideways to get out of the riptide for 24 years now. When do I get to start swimming back to shore?

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Yep. Just vote and don't expect to get to the top. We're never getting there. We just vote and vote and vote and then eventually we die, pushing the same boulder the entire time.

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And because that doesn't happen, I just have to assume that Americans aren't nearly as progressive as everybody on the Internet thinks they are.

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Does swimming parallel to the shore have a chance of ever getting me back?

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So everybody has to vote for someone they hate otherwise the other guy they hate will be in power.

Great democracy everybody. Glad the wrong lizard didn't win.

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Which makes sense because I'm definitely hopeless

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That's the neat part: It always gets worse.

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You're right. It's important to keep negative feelings to yourself. Cram them right down in the pit of your stomach and then smile and say "Yeah, this is exactly the sort of government I want and if you have a problem with it then you're a bad person."

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Making people hopeful only to have their hopes crushed in the next election is a great way to get them to give up on voting

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Which is exactly what I've been saying this entire time: Vote, but don't expect it to help.

The strategy of telling voters that they can vote for change is what's caused Millennials and Gen Z to check out. Don't tell people our government is responsive or effective, because it isn't and then they'll get the wrong idea about how government actually works. Don't tell them they can vote for Hope & Change, because those aren't things our government provides.

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I'm actually 42. This is my sixth presidential election. I'm old enough to know this post is writing a check our government can't cash. It's too broken.

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Calm your tits. I've been voting D like a good little neoliberal since 2000.

I don't need to give them more power. They've already elected two presidents without the popular vote, hold most of the Senate because it gives land more power than people, and the House because we haven't fixed representation in a century. Not to mention the fuckery in every single one of the states they can pull off.

The fact that Republicans are able to do that sort of shit is how it's broken. They're not the problem, they're a symptom of people winning game with broken mechanics. Like the end of Monopoly when one asshole has all the money.

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If fascists are attempting a takeover of our government then it would be irresponsible for Biden to accept the results if he loses the election.

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I'm sorry I forgot we're just supposed to let them win

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I go through this at the beginning of every school year. All it really takes is about two weeks of being forced to wake up at 6am.

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And if you don't like the notion of voting for either "Bad" or "Worse" then you should move because that's how elections work here.

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You know what terrifies me? Even if I vote for "Bad" it just takes a few thousand people in some other state to completely negate me doing the right thing and we get "Worse." And then we're just supposed to accept the results. Because them's the rules. Oh well...

It's a stupid system of government and I don't blame people for checking out. I wish I could just ignore it, too.

My point isn't that people shouldn't vote - because clearly Worse is worse than Bad - but that we don't get to vote for Better. For that we need to protest and agitate and get our skulls cracked in by thugs and possibly killed. Our history proves that nothing improves in America without violence.

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I don't need to build pessimism. I've been aware of politics since the late 80s, and voting since 2000. I'm plenty pessimistic already.

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The last time this happened it was Japanese cars, and the US auto industry failed and got bailed out. I expect that to happen again with Chinese EVs.

The ability to make cars involves a lot of skills that can have military applications. There's a reason car factories were converted to build basically everything in WWII, and the US won't give up that ability for national security reasons. So our auto industry can't fail, and will be propped up by the government.

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This makes me wonder just how awful it would be if we didn't have these dumb classes and obvious test emails.

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So the system isn't broken and needs fixed, it's working as designed and needs destroyed. Got it.

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