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  • Lets celebrate

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  • Dumb question but what’s the difference? As someone who grew up on the orange stuff from a box, and learned to make the one on the right in recent years, what am I looking for? Is the left just baked? I’ve done that. Is it a topping or spice that encourages browning?

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    Voters reject effort to hike Oklahoma’s minimum wage

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  • Many states have higher minimum wage. Here it’s $15/hr. That’s probably not enough for a high cost of living area but my teen just got a summer job for $18/hr, so employers are paying more

  • Ohio will continue to allow child marriage after push to end practice fails in legislature. Advocates were baffled that the bill didn’t pass, given that it had no public opposition

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  • Am I the only one who thinks this is not such a big deal? The article says child marriage is already prohibited except a “Romeo and Juliet” provision

    Senate Bill 341 would have ended a loophole letting 17-year-olds marry legal adults up to four years older than them with court approval

    Someone of any age can marry an 18 year old, but if you want to marry a 17 year old you better be close in age and get a court to approve? That already prohibits child marriage while being flexible in limited circumstances. The bill would have only removed the flexibility.

    You could certainly argue it’s not limited enough or I don’t know if courts are too quick to approve, but it’s not like child marriage is wide open

  • Trump admin abandons fight against wind energy as clean energy output surges

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  • But you’re missing externalities. A huge reason we need better regulation is the tendency of corporations to externalize their costs to all of our detriment.

    Climate and pollutions issues are a prime example. In a free market A corporations saves money by evading cleanup costs, polluting, and the rest of us pay. A justly regulated market minimizes those externalities so the corporations covers all its costs

  • Trump admin abandons fight against wind energy as clean energy output surges

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  • In case your attempt to start arguments is sparked from actual ignorance ….

    federal permitting and leasing for wind projects

    • many wind farms are not on owned property. In particular for offshore wind farms there is no land that can be owned. Many projects are in locations leased from the government
    • if turbines are above above a certain height, it affects airspace used for flying, you don’t own
    • even renewables can be bad for the environment. The trope about killing birds has some truth to it, and environmental review keeps it from happening
    • yes, renewables can affect your neighbors and they deserve some consideration
    • yes, it’s conceivable that a wind farm offshore or near a base or a border can have national security implications

    In a nation of laws, things like this are worth considering. However that is different than using them as cover for personal beliefs

  • Trump admin abandons fight against wind energy as clean energy output surges

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  • Easy to say, but look what happens when some oversized oompa loompa ignores them all And just acts for personal gain

    Unfortunately we’re likely to get stuck with more laws, more red tape, more paperwork, trying to prevent the current disaster from happening again

  • Trump admin abandons fight against wind energy as clean energy output surges

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  • The government paid like $1B for wind farm developers to abandon projects.

    Most of the time government slows things down, but the current administration actively fights against progress or shatter people want. wtf does he care about wind farms in New England enough to shut them down

    I mean the alternatives are not all wine and roses. We pay among the highest electricity prices in the country and a big part of that is depending on wind farms that are already like a decade behind. Previous governments slowed them down, letting everyone be heard, but they didn’t actively oppose

  • Who is/was the biggest jerk in your life?

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  • For sure, thanks. No one should have to go through a place like that

  • Who is/was the biggest jerk in your life?

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  • My manager, several jobs back. He put me on the layoff list so he could take my job (which he was completely unqualified for)

    Or maybe the VP above him. Agree to lay me off because I was fine with being first in or last out, but drew the line at being both first in and last to leave (in a startup where everyone was working insane hours so I seriously considered working overnight as the shorter workday)

    Or maybe the CFO because he let me spend money buying my options on the way out in case they succeeded (it was like $200), then immediately issued new options to zero out the ones we got

    You know, that was just a really toxic startup

  • President Trump Lost This War

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  • Isn’t that true of pretty much everything he’s tried? He fails, declare “WINNING”, and the rest of us get the consequences

  • Trillionaire Elon Musk's Destruction of USAID Takes Food Aid From Millions Facing Deadly Hunger

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  • The tighter we try to hold that petrodollar, the faster it’s squeezing out of our grasp. I have no doubt that’s what Trump was attempting but he’s just speeding up the end. Maybe that’s also good from his perspective because he only cares about himself and the next administration is likely to feel the pain

  • Trillionaire Elon Musk's Destruction of USAID Takes Food Aid From Millions Facing Deadly Hunger

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  • String ‘m up!

  • Tesla on Autopilot Smashes Straight Through Garage Door, Driver Says

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  • The current FSD subscription price is much better than the purchase price used to be and they are much closer to being able to deliver.

    I’m getting tempted. I’ll probably let a million cyberCab users do a more complete validation but it’s definitely getting close

  • Trillionaire Elon Musk's Destruction of USAID Takes Food Aid From Millions Facing Deadly Hunger

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  • It’s important to distinguish debt from deficit

    As of 2026, the U.S. federal deficit is projected to be approximately 6.4% of GDP.

    This year we spend 6.4% of GDP more than the federal government takes in. That’s excessive and out of control but we’re not spending more than GDP.

    Our accumulated debt on the other hand is that and rising. Countries get a lot of leeway on debt and us being reserve currency means we get even more leeway. But already interest on the debt is becoming our largest expense, making us be able to afford less and less.

    And at some point we’ll hit a wall. Not knowing where the wall is doesn’t mean it’s not there, it just means we can’t predict it until we smash our heads against it. And some idiot thinks it’s ok to monkey with the US dollar being the world’s reserve currency? If that idiot succeeds, that invisible wall of insolvency suddenly jumps closer

  • Trillionaire Elon Musk's Destruction of USAID Takes Food Aid From Millions Facing Deadly Hunger

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  • Feeding both all our poor and the world’s starving would barely show up in that graph. Absolutely dwarfed into oblivion by massive tax cuts for the wealthy

  • Trillionaire Elon Musk's Destruction of USAID Takes Food Aid From Millions Facing Deadly Hunger

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  • Well now we’re doing less of both. Less feeding our own and less helping starving people elsewhere…… and going into more debt doing so since it can’t offset the massive tax cuts for the wealthy

  • Trillionaire Elon Musk's Destruction of USAID Takes Food Aid From Millions Facing Deadly Hunger

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  • His actions were some kind of crimes against humanity

    But we need a better term for being a war criminal without a war

  • JD Vance Confirms Iran Will Get Jaw-Dropping Sum Under Trump Deal

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  • Even then the price will go up, now that they have a strong bargaining position and understand exactly where to put their leverage. Be ready for them to “renegotiate” in a year

  • JD Vance Confirms Iran Will Get Jaw-Dropping Sum Under Trump Deal

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  • Yeah, I think we just helped Iran figure out their foreign policy and foreign income for the next 20 years