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  • Is there an "Avoid Amazon" community for people who want to support smaller online retailers?

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  • I go to ebay and select "Canada Only" when trying to find a particular item. (Am Canadian)

  • Anxiety porridge

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  • Executive Dysfunction Burger King

  • How do you live knowing that there is no meaning in life?

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  • Meaning is whatever you want it to be. You have the free will to create your own meaning in your life.

    That being said, reading your post, I mean no disrespect, but please seek professional help. This goes beyond "finding your own meaning" and dives into "something is wrong".

  • What's your greatest regret? Be as cryptic as possible

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  • Choosing the easier path when it really mattered

  • What’s the best crisps flavour and why is everyone else wrong?

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  • Miss Vickie's Sea Salt and Malt Vinegar.

  • If I threw a freshly plucked, not yet baked potato on the surface of mars, is it possible that the micro organisms present in the potato would survive and eventually adapt to the new environment?

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  • end all be all of the first stepping stone

    Personally, I don't think our future lies in any planetary gravity well at all. The larger the gravity well, the more difficult and expensive it is to escape from, and there's no particular resource available there that we can't get from the asteroid belt or the other moons in the system.

    Our own moon gives us the low gravity and easy escape vectoring to get us to the asteroid belt. The asteroid blt gives us the resources to continue outwards to the Jovian and Saturnian moons and the zero gee necessary to easily construct ships/habitats of any size we want without worrying about escaping a gravity well.

    Gravity is the hard part. Why would be spend billions to escape one gravity well just to sink ourselves down into another when an orbital habitat can be much better regulated to our needs.

  • TIL that reading scores have plummeted in school districts around the U.S.

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  • "Stakeholder" is simply anyone who will be effected by "x". whether "x" is a policy change, or something as simple as choosing a new brand of peanut butter for your family.

    "Who are the people who will be effected by this?"

    In Project Management you're taught that one of the first things you do when implementing a change or starting a new project, etc... Is to Identify the stakeholders.

    I'm sure there's a more concise definition, but I just woke up.

  • Bitwarden's new CEO has a Private Equity background, removed 'Inclusion' and 'Always Free' from their website -- because of course he did

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  • Goddammit. Why can't we have nice things?

  • Pentagon considering renaming Iran war ‘Sledgehammer’ if ceasefire collapses

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  • I'll accept no criticism of Rod Torfulsen's Armada Featuring Herman Menderchuck.

  • Alex Haley’s “Roots” to be removed from Knox County Schools libraries

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  • Slippery slope is "If we let libraries carry un-educational books like fantasy novels, we'll end up having to let libraries carry porn and mein kampf."

    And that's the last I'm going to bother responding to idiot trolls.

  • Alex Haley’s “Roots” to be removed from Knox County Schools libraries

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  • Which implies there was possibly a time when those books were in school libraries

    It implies no such thing. Before that, it would have simply been the school administrators decision as to whether or not to have those in the school library. There's no evidence that any school actually did.

    The school board bans come from a blanket list they get from probably some far-right evangelical consulting firm somewhere. It's pre-emptive. And it never used to be needed because we trusted our teachers and long-suffering librarians to do their job. THEY made sure that what was in THEIR library was appropriate.

    The school board is just making smoke in order to pretend that there's a fire.

  • Alex Haley’s “Roots” to be removed from Knox County Schools libraries

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  • Stop catastrophizing. You know as well as I do that isn't what I'm referring to. I'm talking about putting fantasy books and other "non-educational" books in school libraries.

    No one is saying that libraries should have porn and mein kampf. What you're doing is the classic slippery slope fallacy and no one is dumb enough to fall for it, so shut it.

  • Alex Haley’s “Roots” to be removed from Knox County Schools libraries

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  • It's not sane at all.

    The biggest struggle is getting kids actually reading. You don't do that by forcing them to only read books that don't interest them at all.

    If the entire purpose is to encourage kids to read (it's not...not in 'murica, anyway), but you take away anything they want to read, you're defeating the purpose.

    I can't believe this is actually something people want to debate! It's ludicrous. Reading improves a kids cognition and ability to process complex thoughts. That's the entire purpose of a school library.

    How in the fuck did we go from a world where your teacher would tell you to go pick three books from the library to take home and read, to a world where your teacher tells you to not read books you like for some obscure reason?

    Getting kids reading IS the entire point. It's the foudational skill to everything else that comes along with it.

  • lmao

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  • That's true. But Blockers and Trainwreck are a part of what I'm describing. He's content to mostly stick to the same basic character; a jovial everyman, basically. I don't see him ever wanting to tackle the stage on Broadway or play Macbeth, or anything for "serious" actors. He's just happy to be doing his thing. And hey, that's fine and dandy. More power to him.

    I see Bautista as someone who (Ironically I wasn't a fan of at all in GotG) legitimately wants to climb that acting ladder. I don't think he'll succeed...let's be clear. He won't be winning any oscars any time soon. But I respect the effort to stretch himself with things like Bladerunner 2049, Dune, Knock at the Cabin, See, etc... which are all drastically different characters.

  • Cross-section of smoked Tomahawk Ribeye and Fillets for Mother's Day

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  • Perfection.

  • 'HUGE FREAKIN' MESS': Trump tries to pass the buck on his botched pool job

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  • Seems too on-the-nose, really

    Trump doesn't do subtlety. Hell, I doubt he can spell subtlety.

  • lmao

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  • None of them are "great". But Bautista puts in the most effort with trying various roles and actually "acting", and improving every time he tries a new role. So he gets the nod for actually taking the craft seriously, even if he's not particular great at it yet.

    Cena is likable enough and he plays his character well. But he doesn't stray into trying to seriously act, he just takes fun goofy roles for the most part and that's fine. But I haven't seen him challenge himself like Bautista does.

    And the Rock is....just "The Rock". He has no characters. In any movie it's just "The Rock climbing a skyscraper", "The Rock get's lost in a Jumanji game", "The Rock cosplays as Buford Pusser", etc... etc...

  • Is there an optimal angle when using a urinal?

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  • Same as always. Just going with the flow.

  • When drawing up the middle east after WW1 and 2 how come the Kurds got the shit end of the stick?

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  • The Sykes-Picot agreement basically fucked over anyone who wasn't white or Jewish.

    At the end of World War 1 it carved up the middle east into areas controlled by the allied powers (France, Russia, England. Although Russia was only there as an observer mostly). Each of those sides puppeted their zones of control with varying degrees of civility, while the original groups that still had to live there day-to-day radicalized over being controlled by outsiders.

    That was exacerbated by the Balfour Declaration in 1917, in which Britain basically said "tough titty-toenails, Arabs. We've promised to give the Jews a homeland, and we'll have to take it from you."

  • OpenStreetMap community @lemmy.ml
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    StreetComplete vs Organic Maps

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    Someday soon (if it hasn't already happened) a book will be published that was written and edited entirely on a phone/tablet with a touch keyboard.

  • KDE & Plasma users @lemmy.ml
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    Minimal Menu?

  • Science Fiction @lemmy.world
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    Say what you will about the Will Smith iRobot movie....

    gizmodo.com /researchers-develop-horrifying-face-mimicking-robot-1851398809
  • Community Promo @lemmy.ca
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    Open Creative

  • Unpopular Opinion @lemmy.world
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    As someone who worked (briefly) as a freelance writer online, the tl;dr bot is my enemy and I want it dead.

  • flightsim @lemmyfly.org
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    Three Months of Blender Practice.

  • flightsim @lemmyfly.org
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    July 22, 2023 AC500 X-Plane Build Update

    imgur.com /gallery/2O3X8xo
  • Jerboa @lemmy.ml
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    Content search?

  • Liftoff! @lemmy.world
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    Am I Blind? I can't find the option in the app to block entire communities, or the nuclear option of not showing NSFW content entirely.

  • flightsim @lemmyfly.org
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    Project for X-Plane

  • flightsim @lemmyfly.org
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    progress on 3D gauge animations

  • flightsim @lemmyfly.org
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    Finishing one 3D instrument per day, I should be finished by somewhere around 2032.

  • flightsim @lemmyfly.org
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    Current W.I.P for XPlane