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O! had I the ability, and could I reach the nation’s ear, I would, today, pour out a fiery stream of biting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke. For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced.

This is just a distraction so that people don't talk about the spending bill. Move along.

I hate to be a downer, but...

Building,, running and maintaining a website isn't free. Building, running and maintaining a popular website is fucking expensive. Somebody's got to pay those bills.

As the saying goes, if it's free, you're not the customer, you're the product. Corollary, if it's not free, you still might be the product.

Furthermore, these days I would assume that 99.9% of profiles on a "free" dating site are scammers, or bots, or scammer bots, many of which are probably run by the people running the website.

And to double down on the downerism, subscription based dating sites/apps are financially motivated to keep you paying for as long as possible. They are not motivated to help you find a match, cancel your subscription, and live happily ever after.

In an attempt to not be a total downer jerk, my suggestion would be to find local meetup groups that interest you (even if just barely) and start going to those consistently.

That's how I met my spouse almost 14 years ago. We were both on the dating apps but not finding each other. Eventually we met through a meetup group that I ran, and after months of casually chatting occasionally at group meetings, sparks spontaneously started flying. 🤷

The research concludes that policymakers need to better explain the purposes of environmental legislation in culturally sensitive ways

I am so sick of the willfully ignorant expecting society to repeatedly bend over backwards to slowly drag them out of the dark ages without hurting their feelings. Fuck!

The community is more highly affected by poverty,

Durable reusable utensils are wayyyy cheaper in the long run than disposable. So, bullshit. Poverty has absolutely nothing to do with this.

and families are often large, making affordable disposable kitchenware useful in easing the heavy burden of housework.

Wut? With that many people you can very efficiently distribute the work load and get things done a lot faster than one person living alone can do the equivalent amount of housework. So, again, utter bullshit.

This just sounds like self-righteous laziness.

The post title is not the same as the article title and doesn't even make sense. That first comma changes the entire meaning of the sentence to nonsense. Then yanking out whole phrases just makes it worse.

The news is cool, but that image is just AI nonsense.

The democratic primary was ranked choice. The general election is still the old broken system.

Ok, nevermind. I guess we'll just do nothing. 🙄

Even fucking goldfish remember what he’s done.

And that's saying something.

He wants to flood the FPTP ballot with progressive and centrist candidates so that those votes are spread so thin, the single conservative candidate is a shoe in with a landslide 3% of the votes.

Down 3.79% today, but that might be due to a report of another month of falling sales in Europe.

I don't suppose anyone here has a link to a high(ish) resolution version of it? Asking for a friend.

I mean, yay, but...

an estimated 80% of ballots counted.

That's just the first round, right? Does he not understand how RCV works? Unless his team already knows who everyone's second and third choices are, it's not remotely over yet. What am I missing?

The judge making this determination is an idiot.

The judge hasn't ruled on the piracy question yet. The only thing that the judge has ruled on is, if you legally own a copy of a book, then you can use it for a variety of purposes, including training an AI.

"But they didn't own the books!"

Right. That's the part that's still going to trial.

Right, and that's the, "but faces trial over damages for millions of pirated works," part that's still up in the air.

On the whole, I agree. Usually wouldn't consider them.

However, a few years ago I bought a rather expensive item (several thousand dollars) and I was ready to just pay for it outright, but one of the payment options was 0% financing though one of these pay later companies with payments spread out over 4 years. So, I did that a put the money in a safe investment.

So I essentially got two discounts on the purchase. 1) the growth in the investment means I'm less out of pocket on the purchase, and 2) due to inflation, the dollars I'm using now to make payments are technically worth less than they were three years ago.

There's been a few times in my life that I've been able to take advantage of 0% financing for large purchases and I've never regretted it. But, for the strategy to work, you have to A) be willing and able to just buy the thing outright, without financing (the financing can't be a factor in your decision), and B) have the self control to not touch the invested money to make some other impulse buy.

ETA, another thing to watch out for is smoke and mirrors, where they claim 0% financing, but they've really just raised the price to cover what they would have made in interest charges, and then have a "discount for cash" type offer where you pay less if you don't finance. Usually better to not finance in those scenarios.

How long before weird or dangerous incidents start to happen?

Well...

one gaggle of Tesla influencers was dropped off directly in an intersection

I had the same question. It's buried in the next paragraph.

In this case, however, it appears the Tesla was able to drive along the tracks for a while before getting stuck.

“There is a mayoral primary coming up this week where one of the candidates does not believe the Jewish state any Palestinian has a right to exist,” said Sam Sutton, the senator from Brooklyn.

Fixed it for you, Sam.