Betteridge’s law of headlines is an adage that states: “Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.”
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schnapsman@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•The tragic change a single year has made in America
2·4 months agoDon’t worry, there are signs everything will be fine… for instance people came together to get some comedian back on tv.
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politics @lemmy.world•Treasury Department Has Plans To Mint Dollar Coin Featuring Donald Trump's Likeness
9·4 months agoThe sleaze is spreading
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Luigi Mangione@lemmy.world•OceanGate Implosion sound, static removed
9·6 months ago“the file has been requested to many times”. Nice.
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Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•The situation in Alberta, Canada 🇨🇦 is out of control. A driver killed a one-year-old girl in Calgary. A few hours later, another driver killed a nine-year-old girl near Edmonton. English
9·6 months ago“9-year-old… hit by truck.” Someone should go have a talk with these trucks.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•WTF is a rural town in the USA?
1·9 months agoIn geography academia, “small town” usually means a place that has a name and between 5000 and 50000 inhabitants. Though I suspect that a large part of the confusion here is that a lot of US towns are very low density and don’t have anything like a center. So those towns are themselves rural in look and feel, regardless of total population.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's the scariest experience you've ever had?
4·10 months agoHoly crap what country do you live in? /s
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Technology@lemmy.world•EU considers tariffs on digital services Big TechEnglish
3·10 months agoCan use a website like idealo to search multiple stores at once. I just wish they had a filter to block amazon results.
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World News@lemmy.world•Multiple Teslas set on fire in GermanyEnglish
6·11 months agoI saw this the other day, in north Germany
Since they apparently have the same volume, could one of you be a hero and steal one of each and weigh them?
schnapsman@lemmy.worldto
You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK: Use ‘a’ when the word starts with a _consonant sound_, and ‘an’ when it starts with a _vowel sound_
3·1 year agoSame with Arabic when Alexander became Skender and Alzheimer’s became zheimers.
schnapsman@lemmy.worldtoUnited States | News & Politics@midwest.social•UnitedHealthcare CEO murder suspect no longer believed to be in NYC, NYPD says
3·1 year ago“Cops search for hero to give him cash reward”
“Anonymous karma donor refuses to reveal himself”
“Colossal POS whacked, nobody sad, cash reward less than what the guy wiped his ass with, America united”
In a hyper-individuelistic society where everyone is constantly being compared and judged, the feeling that you’re better than everyone else brings incredible relief. Of course the concept of being better than others is deeply flawed but you never learned to question these things. So how do you achieve the feeling? Study hard, lift others around you, save your money. Sure, but that takes years, and it’s hard work. So what if you’re inherently better than others-- that solves it. Race, language, gender, nationaliry… All things that cost you no effort. There’s another shortcut to these feelings. All you have to do to in order to become better than most of the population and get into to heaven is say that you believe the Bible. That’s it. Just gotta say you believe it and you’re in the club. Zero effort, all the dopamine. Supporting some sports team. Buying a particular car. Using what you buy to signal to others something about you. Bumper stickers, adding a ribbon to your profile picture, posting some cringe on LinkedIn, attention seeking on your birthday… All attempts to showcase how excellent you are with minimal effort.
So if your entire sense of self worth is based on attributes about you which you were either born with or cost you no effort, you’ll want to support anyone who places importance on those things. Nationality, consumerism, race, gender, religion, etc.
That’s where you find the bisexual she/theys in hetero relationships.
This is correct. Everyone in the US calls a kcal a calorie. I learned to distinguish them with big “C” and little “c”, but I’ve just looked it up and this is apparently not so common. I guess ppl who are aware of these things just go with the SI unit of kJ.
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politics @lemmy.world•'Propaganda': MAGA melts down as Fox News reports 'over 200' GOP staffers endorse Harris
412·1 year agoI don’t think conservatives endorsing the “left” candidate is the good news you think it is.
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Football (migrated to football@sopuli.xyz) @lemmy.world•EURO2024 - Group E ScenariosEnglish
3·2 years agoSure thing! Thanks for saying.
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THE POLICE PROBLEM@lemmy.world•License to kill: US police killed over 1,200 people in 2023English
9·2 years agoWhat are the police trying to prevent that’s worse than someone getting killed?
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World News@lemmy.world•US Pedestrian deaths rose a troubling 77% between 2010 and 2021.English
915·2 years agoDo you think it’s more cuz of drivers on their phones, pedestrians on their phone or equal parts both?





I’m willing to bet that people aren’t playing those songs in southern hemisphere winter.