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  • What's alarming about that? One of the most common troll behaviors is jaqing off, pretending not to have an agenda when you do.

    Regardless, the comment isn't even in the negatives, so for as many down voted more upvoted.

  • Senate votes to kill entire public broadcasting budget in blow to NPR and PBS
  • Yeah, they should have. Congress ended up doing the opposite, forcing him to continue funding. Democrats don't have nearly the party unity that Republicans do around immigration, I think that's why it keeps being leveraged as a wedge issue.

  • TIL The ancient Romans created an artificial sweetener called "Sugar of Lead" by corroding lead in vinegar. It has a mildly sweet taste and also causes brain damage
  • When lead combines with acid it creates lead acetate which interacts with the sugar receptors in the mouth. I'm not sure why, I think the molecules just happen to have a similar shape.

    EDIT: after looking at the molecule for lead acetate, it appears to resemble two simple carbohydrates connected by an atom of lead, so I'd imagine the receptor sees the outside and assumes it's something sweet.

  • It used to be just weird Christians, but now everyone's pretty much on board with burning Harry Potter books.
  • I don't understand how that's blame, it's a natural outcome. If I said 'carrying a nestle water bottle has the effect of promoting the brand, even if you didn't pay for it' that doesn't mean I'm blaming people for drinking water, it's just an observation about the power of branding.

  • InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)AB
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