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  • I'm just trying to buy a hoodie

  • The classic "Buy a reputable brand, cut costs and coast along on the reputation until you can sell off all your shares and move on to another company". Bonus points for using legalised embezzlement share buyback.

  • To the surprise of no one, this was a fucking lie

  • Insert that FBI stat that 3/4 of terrorist attacks in the US are far right, 1/4 Islamist and 2% far left.

  • Xi and Mao replace Jesus and Mary in Chinese churches

  • More often dictators take control of the church and use it for propaganda.

  • "People today recognise fewer than 10 plants, but over 1000 corporate logos"

  • Mandelbroccoli

  • "People today recognise fewer than 10 plants, but over 1000 corporate logos"

  • I'm skeptical about the 10 number, fruits and vegetables are plants.

  • It’s Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word

  • People talk a lot about the genericisation of brand names, but the branding of generic terms like this really annoys me.

    I'll use the example I first noticed. A few years ago, the Conservative government was under criticism for the minimum wage being well under a living wage. In response, they brought in the National Living Wage, which was an increase to the minimum wage, but still under the actual living wage. However, because of the branding, it makes criticising it for not meeting the actual living wage more difficult, as you have to explain the difference between the two, and as the saying goes, "if you're explaining, you're losing".

  • Texas reaches over 18 million registered voters, the highest it's ever been

  • R loves to make voting harder under the auspices of “fraud prevention”.

    They say, while their supporters are the ones committing all of the fraud.

  • 'Trump Bible' one of few that meet criteria for Oklahoma classrooms

  • They're against anyone else indoctrinating children.

  • Apparently removed from /r/NCD

  • Apparently removed from /r/NCD

  • The submarine dock was in Sevastopol, which is Russian-occupied Ukraine rather than Russia.

  • Guess I'll fry

  • I only ever read one, and all I remember of that was some kids being chased into a church by some demons, who then burn it down to get to them. The kids are put on trial for "forcing" the demons to burn the church, and they have to convince their lawyer not to throw the case because he'll be executed if he wins.

  • Guess I'll fry

  • Not a danger in the UK.

  • This applies to both sides...

  • The cynical “Don’t idolize your politicians” line doesn’t teach people to read the tea leaves and pick better leadership. It just teaches them to throw up your hands and assume everyone is the same.

    Saying all politicians are the same just rewards the worst politicians because it means they face no electoral penalty for their failings, and the better ones gain no electoral advantage from not stooping to those lows.

  • Trump suggests giving Vladimir Putin whatever he wants

  • "Trump, I think that dictator is an imperialist! His Siberia is colonised, his Chechnya is colonised, and I'm pretty sure that Belarus is colonised!"

    "A dictator who has lots of colonies is less likely to invade countries than a dictator whose colony supplies are low"

  • Large Majority of Americans Want to End Electoral College

  • States are fairly arbitrary divisions of land and I don't think they need representation separate from the representation their people have.

  • Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second

  • They're both problems.

  • Facial disfigurement: 'Restaurant asked me to leave over condition'

  • Never heard of it. It's difficult to know how much of the difference is the actual occurrence and how much is the reporting of it.

  • If you were never a "fuck cars" person, hang out near a school

  • And that becomes a vicious circle as more children are driven to school, making it more dangerous to walk, so more are driven...

  • New Steam Agreement gets rid of forced arbitration and waivers for class action lawsuits

  • That's more complicated than it sounds. An export strengthening the currency is a significant part of Dutch Disease.