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Some Guy Called Nick

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I don't know, I'm just here because twitter sucks now. Lives in Kingston, Ontario. Spends a lot of time in NYC. Calls Nova Scotia home. Would probably rather be in California. Has many more takeoffs in planes than landings.

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that's pretty cool ! a couple of skydive places I know get lots of $2 bills before events, and ask people to spend them in the area just to show the impact that they have on the local economy.

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Congratulations!

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The GOP has *never* "loved the troops"

And the troops they love least are veterans.

We are expensive (because service is hard) and many of us vocally disagree with them; visibly, for being hypocritical shitheads.

www.rawstory.com/project-2025...

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The best postscripts to an invitation I've ever seen. [via Scott Ruplin]

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So after a visit to Hamley's when I was in London a couple of weeks ago, I bought myself a magic kit because, well, it's fun stuff. And I'm mildly annoyed to discover that it's somehow missing things it needs to have to do some of the tricks... which is bizarre.

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I just came back from the old country and even inside Heathrow at Boots it was still reasonable, I think £4.95... And yes, it's the right snack especially.

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You need to experience the magic of the British sandwich deal, ideally from Marks and Spencer, but really anywhere... Though a chip butty can be magic in the right time and place.

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Wait, Hudson's Bay Company is buying more stuff, while their stores are failing?

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That's what he's evoking, but doubt he actually is a major consumer of them, he's ultra rich and in no way a common man in the street.

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The British sandwich lunch deal is sort of this bizarre, beautiful cultural touchstone and to some degree equalizer. Basically, a sandwich, a drink, and a snack for a cheap combo price, as low as $5 equivalent, you get from any grocery store, or even Boots (drugstore) or convenience stores.

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Pastrami on rye, half sour pickle, black cherry soda?

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That's not horrible, that's just the reality of the economy, and gets you stuff you need at better prices.

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I've been an aeropress evangelist for many many many years but I have never gotten that detailed about it.

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Outlet malls have just become a market segment. I can remember when most of what they sold were things like factory seconds with generally unnoticeable flaws. Now they just sell a lower quality product they'll still put the brand on.

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Do they really need convincing? I buy kitchen stuff from them all the time when I need something, no one cares what I'm using it for.

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This thread is pretty good. I have blamed being identified as gifted for a lot of things in my life - or rather, I've just wished I never was, because it did nothing good for me at all, and set me up for a lot of hardship that lasted decades until I got a diagnosis that helped make it make sense.

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I didn't find out I had ADHD until I was in my 40s, but I got waved through almost everything in school because I was supposedly gifted. Was great until having no study, time management, or organization skills whatsoever started to really bite.

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It's true. It's not even a matter of willingness to pay, the shit just isn't available, and a lot of the people who used to know how to make and repair a lot of stuff will soon literally just be gone, without any replacement.

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This is why a big selling point for a state-level program in NY that will combine an electrification mandate with heavy subsidies would be universal a/c. Every home. Every apartment. I know ppl in 50s coop buildings who can have one window AC per unit bc their grid interconnection is old & frail.

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It's insane over there, and reporting things that are very cleary, very explicitly against their own rules doesn't do anything.

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Whenever I am in DC, I am reminded why most cities don't have diagonal streets.

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If you receive an accursed item that you cannot get rid of that gradually makes your family and community hate you more, normally that’s a Twilight Zone episode

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In November 2019 I was at the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia, which had a special exhibit about that pandemic, which particularly ravaged Philadelphia because of hubris. I remember saying to my friend, we wouldn't be so stupid now if there was another pandemic. Turns out I was totally wrong.

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Is that what they called what the Tea Party kooks called "Second Amendment solutions"?

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Reminder that Epoch Times is run by a totally unhinged far right wing cult.

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Correct. Wartime censorship kept it hushed up. Spain had no such imperative.

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I sort of regret selling the condo I used to own, but less than I regret buying it. My only real worry is that renting means I'll need more income when I retire, but I'm also somewhat fortunate that I will likely have an inheritance to help. Late Gen X is a trip, I tell you.

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VIA Rail does the train service between them, and sells discounted tickets on Tuesdays, so you can check that out.

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It's at least a couple of hours each way to get there, but it is a really cool place, very unlike really anything in North America. So, definitely worth considering even it's its just a day.

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Without Haber-Bosch most of us wouldn't exist at all. Ironic considering the other major thing Fritz Haber is famous for.

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One of my few disagreements with bsky moderation is that they need to prejudicially nuke all impersonation accounts instead of labeling them. Letting them stay up on the site is a vector for what is otherwise easily avoidable network abuse

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They add absolutely no value to anything.

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americans kill people for pulling in to their driveway to turn around and want to open carry in walmart and jerk off at the thought of killing someone under castle doctrine and still want us to believe they would live meekly and peacefully in an apartheid settler colony for generations

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conservative americans are some of the most gun-brained, violent people on earth and they get online and say "genocide is bad but Palestine shouldn't have tried to defend themselves" and then go on nextdoor and threaten to kill strangers they caught on their ring doorbell walking on their grass

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Maryland Air National Guard

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Which is hilarious because Russians aren't religious, church attendance is almost non-existent there. The ones who are religious are probably non-Russian ethnic minorities, mostly Muslims.

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I laughed when Putin and Xi met and claimed their relationship contributed to stability in the world, when they are the leading exporters of chaos in the world.

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They don't know, I have my doubts they could find Ukraine on an unmarked map.

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Those ethnic Russians voted for Ukrainian independence and have never supported separatism or Putin's bullshit in any way. If they wanted to live in Russia, nothing stopped them from going there, either.

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So, you don't know what a proxy war is?

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Precisely. Part of the problem is we treat Russians as though they are Europeans. They're not. Culturally they're just not. They are Eurasians, and applying European cultural lenses to non-Europeans and expecting them to act like Europeans is also folly. Putin must lose, catastrophically.

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It's the last imperial delusion in (or rather adjacent to) Europe, the European empires were all completely destroyed. The same thing now needs to happen to Putin's Russia. We don't need to fear the collapse of Putin's Russia, we need to make it happen faster.

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