BobAliceInATree

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by BobAliceInATree 2y ago
apropos: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/01/magazine/worthless-pennie...
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by BobAliceInATree 2y ago
It's hard to make profits when you're underwater.
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by BobAliceInATree 2y ago
I frequent a night-club that doesn't allow photography, but doesn't put stickers. People (esp. non-regulars) will occasionally take a photo because they forgot and it's such a normal thing they do in their lives. Removing a s
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by BobAliceInATree 2y ago
Same! I watched a few on youtube and got bored quickly, but I find a bunch of these a least somewhat interesting. Though having it just automatically go to the next one, and a skip button, are a big help. Maybe youtube search is just bad.
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by BobAliceInATree 2y ago
There's literally propaganda on Fox News going on right now blaming or at least connecting this to undocumented migrants. https://bsky.app/profile/justinbaragona.bsky.social/post/3lc...
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by BobAliceInATree 2y ago
For 1-gram of material, that's a lot, now that we just shattered 1.5ºC global temperate gain, especially for something pointless.
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by BobAliceInATree 2y ago
We're all left with the tab, that tab being the enormous amount of greenhouse gases it takes to lift even a gram of matter into space. Maybe there will be one day in the far future when we've reversed climate change and reached an
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by BobAliceInATree 2y ago
Government entities should post to their own Mastodon instance first , but then also syndicate to other social media sites. That way they always maintain control of their main outlet (even if not many people actually access it there) and n
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by BobAliceInATree 2y ago
Still exists, and I still use it. It isn’t always 100% up-to-date but it does get eventually updated.
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by BobAliceInATree 2y ago
If you’d rather not lick your finger, you can get one of those old-school sponge stamp/envelope moisteners.
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by BobAliceInATree 2y ago
Because no one likes to be told what to do, and it also limits the possibility of moving away in the future.
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by BobAliceInATree 2y ago
I know it won’t look great, but what if you run the studio upside down or on its side.
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by BobAliceInATree 2y ago
They switched a year earlier than mandated. There’s a very good chance it was actually already in the works.
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by BobAliceInATree 2y ago
Alcohol does not get a free pass in Singapore. Taxes for it are very high. For example the taxes for 700ml 40% liquor bottle is ~US$19
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by BobAliceInATree 2y ago
Given that it has a lithium ion battery and you’re very much not supposed to put it in a bin, i’m not surprised you ignored a low battery warning for weeks.
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by BobAliceInATree 2y ago
They also have to forge the found document, or be in cahoots with someone that can do it. And have access to surreptitiously insert it into the document collection it was found in.
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by BobAliceInATree 2y ago
The total fine is ~3x the apparent consumer loss, which seems reasonable.
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by BobAliceInATree 2y ago
There's also value in individualized dosing. I take tirzepatide, and 5mg is too intense for the first couple days, but 2.5 doesn't last long enough. Ideally I'd take 2.5 every 4 days, instead of 5.0 every 7 days, but that opt
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by BobAliceInATree 2y ago
Paper straws are fighting plastic pollution not greenhouse gases, so comparing them makes no sense. That being said, if you're reading this comment, you very likely in the top 20% of carbon emitters globally, so don't get all smug
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by BobAliceInATree 2y ago
You literally listed all things that are funded by taxes (schools, FEMA, medicare/medicaid). Sigh.
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by BobAliceInATree 2y ago
He was 93 when he died. I think he knew his time was coming soon.
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by BobAliceInATree 2y ago
I've always thought based on the number of $10+MM condos in NYC that sit unoccupied (i.e. 2nd or 3rd or more homes), that there must be an order of magnitude more billionaires out there than we know about, and this certainly gives cred
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by BobAliceInATree 2y ago
in 99 years, most of the island probably will be underwater due to climate change.
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by BobAliceInATree 2y ago
We don't have to think of elections as being just a single 'day', and then just guide our laws around that. For example, India's elections took place over 44 days this year. If we consider voting to be a period of weeks
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by BobAliceInATree 2y ago
No, you should regulate driving so those 5% stop colliding with things all the time and the gambling 5% gamble a bit less.
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by BobAliceInATree 2y ago
Many states cap ABV of spirits.
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by BobAliceInATree 2y ago
Every state is supposed to be a "laboratory" of democracy, but we really screwed the pooch with cannabis legalization. At least one state should have gone the way with absolutely zero marketing allowed (like tobacco currently is),
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by BobAliceInATree 2y ago
electricity is basically fungible (minus a distance factor). So if you're using up the cheap, renewable electricity for mining, guess what you're using for everyone else's day-to-day electricity? Yep, fossil fuels. ( https:&#
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by BobAliceInATree 2y ago
Rhodium is very expensive. It's used as a coating for white gold, but actual rhodium jewelry doesn't really exist.
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by BobAliceInATree 2y ago
You wouldn't want to remove unused holds, because in the future, someone may find a more efficient path the makes use of that hold, but ignores other ones.

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