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Jeff Bezos-Backed Real Estate Company Is Launching A New Fund To Acquire More Single-Family Homes Across The U.S.

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    • Walmart, Costco and other companies rethink self-checkout, some stores removing them

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  • Back when I was doing a weekly shopping trip on my bike with panniers, I tried self-checkout once when the cashiers were busy. Never again. The tall bags just screwed with the sensors too much. Now I'm maybe a bit more inclined to use it because I moved to a house just a quick walk to the store. It can make sense to just dump all of the items on the weighing platform and put them in my backpack and reusable bags later.

    • ‘If you don’t leave, we’ll kill you’: Hundreds flee Israeli settler violence

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  • I get that, but I have had the opportunity to talk to several people from Israel. They've grown up surrounded by this conflict. Inflicting collective punishment on them doesn't sit well with me. This is a more multi-dimensional situation than the apartheid of South Africa or the invasion by Russia. This is as much a string of failures of leadership in Israel and Palestine as anything else.

    • What is something small you can do almost (if not everyday) to improve on yourself?

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  • Interesting. I'm not going to stop doing it, but still, interesting.

    • ‘If you don’t leave, we’ll kill you’: Hundreds flee Israeli settler violence

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  • Definitely avoid companies that are profiting from activity in the West Bank, but not all of Israel. Israel includes many ethnic minorities that would be harmed all the same.

    • What is something small you can do almost (if not everyday) to improve on yourself?

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  • Make your bed each morning. Your bedroom will look more organized and you will have a nice bed to lie down in at night.

    • Human Rights Watch says rocket misfire likely cause of deadly Gaza hospital blast

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  • Kind of like no independent journalists can investigate in Gaza about Israeli-built tunnels under a hospital under IDF control, right?

    Okay, so explain this: why would Israel lie about the tunnels? It makes perfect sense that Hamas would operate largely in tunnels including under vital infrastructure, tunnels are used for smuggling in other places around the world, and bringing the IDF into hospitals is a huge headache in terms of PR. So what's in it for Israel?

    • Human Rights Watch says rocket misfire likely cause of deadly Gaza hospital blast

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  • My understanding is this lie was used by Hamas to isolate Israel from Arab nations where much of the public was frankly horrified by the brutal violence Hamas had aimed specifically at civilians. So no, it wasn't just "the one relatively inconsequential thing," it is a lie that has had serious consequences.

    • The Feds' Vehicle 'Kill Switch' Mandate Is a Gross (and Dangerous) Violation of Privacy | Jon Miltimore

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  • Especially anyone who believes that individuals are less free now than they were historically in the United States. Only the ignorant or biased make that claim.

    • The Feds' Vehicle 'Kill Switch' Mandate Is a Gross (and Dangerous) Violation of Privacy | Jon Miltimore

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  • I don't see any problem with a system to detect drunk driving and bring the car to a stop. There is no right to drive a car while drunk or otherwise impaired. Inventing one by calling upon privacy also ignores that the cops can pull you over and give you a sobriety test if they have reason to anyway. In 2021, over 13,000 people in the US died from drunk drivers. They deserve protection.

    • Microplastic overdose

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    • The futuristic cheese grater era

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  • Listening to how that video was made was awesome. It's so simple and obvious when it's explained to you, even if it's not particularly obvious on its face.

    • my girl, posing majestically, after rolling in a wild fox's diarrhea

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  • Always a pheasant ride home after that.

    FTFY

    • Hamas terrorists fire anti-tank missile at IDF troops from Gaza hospital entrance

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  • So much this. The Palestinian side has been more or less in stasis politically for what, a decade? Meanwhile Israel moves further and further to the right, constantly indulging their worst right flank including continued land theft. The Republicans in the US indulge Israel without question, while the Democrats question Israel without teeth.

    Hamas and Netanyahu need to go as the baseline outcome of this debacle. I'm not sure how Hamas gets removed, or more importantly what takes its place.

    • Johnson Needs Democrats to Avoid a Shutdown, Just Like McCarthy

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  • The problem with doing that is that people then get more hesitant about putting money into a country. Would you invest in a country if there's a good chance its leadership is just going to do an about face and tax your wealth into nothing? Take your possessions? It's part of the reason why many countries struggle to get foreign investment. Their past has caused businesses to have little faith that investments won't just get nationalized by the government.

    • Johnson Needs Democrats to Avoid a Shutdown, Just Like McCarthy

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  • Yeah, 200k and DINK. I want to have my taxes raised, just as long as others like me also have have their taxes raised.

    • Johnson Needs Democrats to Avoid a Shutdown, Just Like McCarthy

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  • That's going to have to be part of it, but it can't be all of it. There isn't enough money in the upper class to take care of all of the debt, and at a certain level of taxation they will just move. I will speak in favor of increasing taxes on around pretty much every individual making over 100k or couple making over 200k. For a single person working 40 hours a week in the US, that is the 77th percentile. My husband and I are in this position and I think starting the additional tax burden with us would be fair.

    I don't see raising taxes much below us as being very productive, and those "flat tax" people can fuck right off. That group is already paying money into entitlements so the oft repeated statement that half of households pay no income tax is misleading. They're really struggling right now, so I just don't see an increase in taxes as productive.

    • Do you prefer digital or physical books?

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  • For reading, digital. I can have access to a functionally unlimited number of books. They also tend to be less expensive. That makes a difference for media like manga where it racks up pretty quickly. And I can make adjustments to the text and lighting that help with readability.

    I still like having some books around as decoration. They bring a room together nicely.

    • Hamas terrorists fire anti-tank missile at IDF troops from Gaza hospital entrance

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  • I just said I think IDF violence against kids throwing rocks is unjustifiable. DID I STUTTER?

    • Johnson Needs Democrats to Avoid a Shutdown, Just Like McCarthy

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  • I wonder if this will still be true for Democrats when the shoe is on the other foot. They were held together by Pelosi's skilled hand for twelve years. I think the fundamentals are strong for the Democrats. They care a lot about good governance principles. Ultimately, I think that will keep everyone on the same page. I don't see any part of the party willing to rock the boat.

    Where I am starting to get worried is with the national debt. The US, China, and many other governments are going to run into both debt issues and an aging population. That will force a reckoning at some point on entitlement spending, which is very popular.