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Atomic

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  • Bernie Sanders floats AOC as potential 2028 presidential contender: ‘Very good politician’

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  • Because it worked out so well the last two times the democrats tried to elect a female president.

    Clinton lost to Trump.

    Harris lost to Trump.

    So what chance would AOC have against a more qualified republican candidate? And I say that with the assumption than anyone who isn't a Trump is by default, a more qualified candidate.

  • 'Never felt more betrayed': MAGA rebels over Trump's 'treasonous' Qatar base in Idaho

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  • I just love, that even in this, they seem to find a way to still, blame Obama and Biden for it.

    This is what happens when you gut national-security training, scrub every mention of Islam, jihad, and Sharia from the manuals, and let Obama- and Biden-era bureaucrats turn counterterrorism into cultural sensitivity class. We’re being led by officials who no longer recognize or refuse to name the enemy they’re inviting into our own backyard.

    The cope is strong with that one.

  • Ted Cruz picks a fight with Wikipedia, accusing platform of left-wing bias

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  • I think most of the world is considered left wing compared to the US.

    Hell, even our "extreme right" would be more left leaning than the US left.

    So yeah, any website that has international contributors, will be "left wing" from the perspective of the US.

  • Cause and Effect

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  • Students. Students make them that way. It's no coincidence that most older teachers feel like they've checked out.

    I did substitute teaching for about two years. I got to see a lot of my old teachers, Some classes were wonderful, a true joy to teach. Others, not so much. I can understand why some people, as you say, mentally check out. It's a coping mechanism. They were not all the same people I remember. Maybe part of growing older. Maybe part of years of difficult students sucking out all the joy of teaching they had in them

  • Deleting Files

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  • I dare say, that 90% of all companies in Europe and US, use Windows. And lots of companies relies heavily on software built 20-30 years ago. Microsoft knows this.

    That's why they are very reluctant to "touch that piece of code from a quarter century ago" because there's probably a lot of software that would break without it. Software their target audience need.

  • Texting abbreviations at this old age

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  • Upset at the trend of spelling words correctly?

    Maybe you'd feel more at home if you moved to a ghetto. I hear they are, in general, more cavalier with their use of language.

  • Texting abbreviations at this old age

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  • First of, how little do you have going on to find time being upset at people spelling correctly?

    Second, who are these we? Sounds like a problem you have with your contacts.

    I still get communication based entirely on hieroglyphs.

  • How do people in cities have fun without spending money at every turn?

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  • 'Read' and its past tense are spelled the same. How should they be spelled?

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  • Ah, thanks for the reminder to look through some TNG again. Data is such a great character and fills the role of the outsider looking in perfectly.

  • Jesse Watters says America needs to bomb or “maybe gas” the United Nations

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  • Hear me out. "The boys" isn't a parody on the US. It's the other way around.

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  • I just love how you think I'm presuming too much, only to in the very next sentence assume I think removing plastic straws being the end of the road and final solution.

    And since I according to you, presume too much, did you want me to spend less energy on, literally, making straw-men (plural), like, scare-crows? Or did you mean that I should spend less energy on figuratively, straw-manning.

    I would assume the latter but you are, literally, formulating the former. Either way. I'm not doing either of those things.

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  • Ah yes, the good old, "It's not the #1 problem so why bother doing anything". It's that wonderful kind of attitude that simply doesn't get anything done, ever. Because there's always a bigger problem.

    The only ones focusing on one thing like plastic straws, are people like you. The rest of us moved on

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  • I'm not ignoring anything. But if you want me to cover every single issue and aspect of various types of trash management, it's gonna be a god damn university essay, I don't even think lemmy would allow so many characters in a comment.

    Peoples "unmindfulness" is responsible for every single piece of garbage you see around you. When I walk down the road and see a bag of crisps laying around. That's because a person just tossed it. And no. I'm not ignoring corporate waste or pollution, criminal or otherwise. But that isn't the topic right now.

    This specific post was making fun of the straw bans vs other single use plastics that are seemingly fine. straws vs pipets used in labs. And what I said was that pipets are not being littered around every corner of the globe. But straws are. That's why movements to ban such implements are ongoing. That's why we have movements to ban single use plastics like straws and cutlery, while a plastic shampoo bottle is still "fair game" since they're not typically just tossed in nature.

    That doesn't mean I'm just ignoring everything else. We also didn't talk about how armed robberies are bad. But I can assure you, I'm not ignoring them, they're just not the topic at hand.

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  • And observations of landfills or unrecycled stockpiles doesn't vary by location?

    The idea was to try and remove plastic waste that people tend to just throw away without thinking much of it. Lab students don't exactly take pipets with them and throw away in a ditch. But unfortunately, way too many people just throw away single use plastics like straws, cutlery, cups, "paper plates", etc.

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  • All you need to do is walk on the side of a busy road and look in the ditch to see what people just throw away.

    It's not a lot of shampoo bottles, but tons of plastic cups and accompanied straws.

  • Feral children are everywhere

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  • I think many use "beating" as a hyperbole, just like if I said my mom would kill me if I did that. I don't mean she would literally kill me.

    Before I go on, could you be more specific on what "western culture" and which "hyper individualistic western society" you are talking about?

    Now I've traveled quite a bit all over the world. I've seen parents of all cultures just straight up ignoring their child's awful behavior.

    And maybe it's just me seeing these specific tourists the most. The Chineese parents are the biggest offender that I've seen in my travels. Their children do whatever they want and they don't say anything. Just an example from the top of my head, climbing on shelves in a grocery store while the parents just watched.

  • Doctor who left patient during operation to have sex with nurse allowed to practise

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  • Damn. I don't even want to read the article. I just want to admire the headline. Doctor left patient during operation to go fuck a nurse.

  • Horsey

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  • I don't even want to begin to think about the legal complexities around the electric powered transportation.

    But I know if you're caught operating one while drunk, it's automatically way worse than if you were just biking. Because they're "self-propellent" or however you want to put it.

    Anyone under 16 is required by law to wear a helmet while biking. So they're also required by law to wear a helmet while riding an electric scooter.

    Surprisingly I have not heard of electric scooter incidents lately. But probably just a matter of time until someone drives themselves to death on them.

  • Horsey

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  • I've seen horses take a shit mid gallop out in the pasture. I don't think they care much