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EssentialCoffee

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  • IRS successfully launches their own free Direct File - some of my fellow 'murcans are eligible

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  • How have they been verifying mailed in tax forms with no pictures for decades?

    Seems like it unnecessarily disenfranchises the poor and the elderly. You have to have access to equipment that can record you and the tech savvy to be able to use it.

  • IRS successfully launches their own free Direct File - some of my fellow 'murcans are eligible

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  • I don't know any American adult who doesn't have a government issued ID. You basically can't do anything without one.

  • What really caused the sriracha shortage? 2 friends, and the epic breakup that left millions without their favorite hot sauce

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  • From the comments I saw on Reddit everytime this was posted, no, it doesn't.

  • Nitter is shutting down

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  • Not really. There's a lot I don't see and can't access without having a FB account. It's been like that for years.

  • Middle school removes bathroom mirrors to stop kids from making TikToks

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  • When I was a kid, there were pay phones so that kids could make calls for when they wanted to be picked up. And we had landline at home so that if you needed to make a call, you could.

    Those things don't really exist anymore. And now we have phones with apps that monitor medical conditions like diabetes. Let's single out those kids?

    In other situations, the front office is there. That is the function that they have served for generations. Give the office aides something to do.

    So make the office staff stay after hours so that the kids with after school activities can make a phone call? Yeah, because fuck the school staff, right?

    The horse has already left the gate. You're not going to get it back.

  • 42 Product Ideas Qualify for the Third 2023 LEGO Ideas Review

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  • Pretty sure lego reserves the right to reject anything. These sets are just the ones to get enough votes.

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  • Scripters and cheating was a pretty common complaint in both r/lol and also on inven and in Chinese forums.

  • Parole denied for 68-year-old in Alabama: ‘A life sentence for growing marijuana’

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  • I'm all for legalized marijuana, but going into another country and breaking their laws is never a good idea. There are places in the world that would be a death sentence.

  • Uber shuts down alcohol delivery service Drizly three years after its purchase

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  • Michigan's laws only very recently (during the pandemic) changed to allow this.

    I mention Michigan specifically because they mentioned Meijer and Michigan is one of the states you can find those.

  • A literal child taking orders in a fast food restaurant in the US

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  • The one near me that does fundraisers doesn't have any students working. Usually the teachers go to say hi to families that come.

  • A boomer retirement bomb is about to blow up America's economy

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  • What teachers do you know aren't retiring once they qualify for their full pension?

    Most folks in that profession are in the GTFO stage.

  • Philadelphia measles outbreak has hospitals on alert after child was sent to day care despite quarantine instructions

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  • Being at a hospital should not be a threat to ones health.

    Being in a place where sick people are is a threat to your health. Sick people go to the hospital. What do you think the hospital is for?

  • US verges on vaccination tipping point, faces thousands of needless deaths: FDA

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  • The rollout for the 2023 vaccine was awful. I wouldn't be surprised that some folks gave up because you just couldn't get an appointment and then it was out of mind.

    The third was at pharmacies only and free only if you didn't have insurance.

    I have insurance and didn't pay for any of them.

  • Workplace well-being initiatives don't boost employee mental health

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  • Those are the wellness initiatives at my work. Taking vacation and stepping away is encouraged, so is using your sick time to go to the doctor. I've never taken part in the third party therapy stuff, but it's offered and free to employees & their families

    But I realize that isn't the norm.

  • HP sued (again) for blocking third-party ink from printers, accused of monopoly

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  • According to a 90s article I linked deeper in this thread, the medical arm split off from the company in 1999.

  • HP sued (again) for blocking third-party ink from printers, accused of monopoly

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  • I'm not even finding HP listed among MRI manufacturers.

    According this NYT article from 1999, the medical arm of HP was announced to split off from the printer company 23 years ago.

  • What’s your favorite fantasy universe and why?

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  • Xanth isn't exactly the bastion of safety either.

    Oops, you went to the beach and stepped into quicksand and now you've aged so far that you've become sand.

  • What was the piece of media so emotionally overwhelming you just stopped it?

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  • It Takes Two.

    There's a point where your characters brutally murder the only nice thing thing in the entire story while it's begging for its life (your characters are pieces of shit, but the gameplay is good, so you can kind of ignore it). It happens to be the characters' daughter's favorite stuffed elephant.

    Then your characters dance gleefully in their daughter's tears and show no remorse at their daughter crying or any emotion other than woe is us, our brutal murder didn't work.

    Seriously, one of the most horrific things my husband and I have ever played through in a game. It made us feel sick. We stopped playing after that. The best thing I can do for that little girl is for her shitty ass parents to never waje up so she becomes an orphan. That's honestly a better outcome for her than having to live with her shitty abusive parents another day. I only wish it had been earlier in the game so we could have gotten refunds.

    I can't believe they market that game to play with your kids and put that scene in it.

  • Unity Software to lay off 1,800 employees as part of a corporate restructuring

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  • So punish developers that chose an engine years ago for something they had no control over? How does that help anything?