dublet

@dublet@lemmy.world
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Lone star state: it's not the nickname, it's the rating.

Władysław? Baby, don't hurt me Don't hurt me, no more

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He has a clear financial interest due the Tesla factories in China and the amount of cars sold there.

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Good news everyone! Lifetimes will automatically be adjusted to ensure these events will remain "once in a lifetime".

Wait, that's not good news at all

Yes, it's pseudoephedrine that you want. Somewhat ironic that Sudafed got its brandname from it, but you can't easily get the original version anymore.

Edited: corrected for availibility of the Sudafed - thanks Blue and Cubby.

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It's worth bearing in mind this war could be over in a single second, if the Russian army and its various mercenaries hoisted the white flag and proceeded to leave Ukraine and went back to Russia.

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Takei - Oh my

Washing cleans genitalia, not surgery.

Ah but the bipedal mech suits could crawl along to floor, given a really low profile. Tank can't do that. Checkmate.

/s

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A heartbreaking story is currently unfolding that’s sure to have devastating ramifications for years to come. Just moments ago, without any warning, the worst person you know just made a great point.

https://clickhole.com/heartbreaking-the-worst-person-you-know-just-made-a-gr-1825121606/

The flip side of this is the Samurai Pizza Cats, where they completely rewrote the dialogue to make the English version way more entertaining.

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You can buy the coins for as little as £0.75 each (~$1) https://www.recovery12.co.uk/newcomer-aa-medallions-67-c.asp Then go to a bar and get a drink for almost nothing.

😀

Post dunes

Is this what you want? Sorry, I'm dyslexic

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"My grandad was responsible for 28 downed German planes in WW2.

Still to this day holds the record as the worst mechanic the Luftwaffe ever had."

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Worth noting that "con man" is short for "confidence man". Inflated egos help with the confidence needed to trick people out of money.

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The negative option is that it’s a “no quarter” flag.

Oh, yikes. https://www.biscaynetimes.com/viewpoint/the-%E2%80%98no-quarter%E2%80%99-flag-and-its-threat-to-america/

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The linked article didn't show a picture of the "proof"...

Aliens

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The company was incorporated as Tesla Motors, Inc. on July 1, 2003, by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning.[13][14] Eberhard and Tarpenning served as CEO and CFO, respectively.[15] Eberhard said he wanted to build "a car manufacturer that is also a technology company", with its core technologies as "the battery, the computer software, and the proprietary motor".[16]

Ian Wright was Tesla's third employee, joining a few months later.[13] In February 2004, the company raised US$7.5 million (equivalent to $12 million in 2022) in series A funding, including $6.5 million (equivalent to $10 million in 2022) from Elon Musk, who had received $100 million from the sale of his interest in PayPal two years earlier. Musk became the chairman of the board of directors and the largest shareholder of Tesla.[17][18][15] J. B. Straubel joined Tesla in May 2004 as chief technical officer.[19]

A lawsuit settlement agreed to by Eberhard and Tesla in September 2009 allows all five – Eberhard, Tarpenning, Wright, Musk, and Straubel – to call themselves co-founders

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla,_Inc.#Founding_(2003%E2%80%932004)

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I brought game xyz to enjoy it, not to keep it forever.

If you can't keep it forever, you didn't buy it - as in take ownership of it - you just rented it.

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“Johnson found it difficult to sustain his rationality in dealing with war critics. During a private conversation with some reporters who pressed him to explain why we were in Vietnam, Johnson lost his patience. According to Arthur Goldberg, LBJ unzipped his fly, drew out his substantial organ and declared, ‘This is why!’”

https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/lyndon-b-johnson-penis

I thought this was America meme

Similar gag but actually from Top Gear

Larsen's Biscuits and Peniston Oil

According to this Tesla's sales breaks down like this in 2022:

  • 50% USA
  • 25% China
  • 25% Other countries combined

That's a significant chunk of its business.

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This may or may not help you, I don't have a Windows 11 install to try: https://www.elevenforum.com/t/change-country-or-region-geographic-location-geoid-in-windows-11.4034/

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Maybe smart phones are bad for our mental health, but I think reducing our entire experience with the world into mental health is the worst thing for our mental health.

In much the same way as individual people are blamed for CO^2^ emissions and make you worry about your carbon footprint as a cynical ploy, it's a type of shifting the blame from where it belongs.

The thought process behind this is: "your personal mental health being bad must be a personal failing rather than external factors, or else the system would need to be changed. And that simply would hurt profits."

David Baddiel's book Jews Don't Count makes some excellent points. One is that many people - including Jews - do not consider Jews as a race but rather as a cultural identity. On the flip side, racists very much see it as a race. The essence of his argument therein is that do you think that the Nazis would have checked whether you believe or not before putting you on a train?

Achievement unlocked

Excellent point.

burying the lead

It's "burying the lede" though.

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I’m not seeing any. Maybe it’s a glitch with your app?

The only person liable here is the shooter.

On the very specific point of liability, while the shooter is the specific person that pulled the trigger, is there no liability for those that radicalised the person into turning into a shooter? If I was selling foodstuffs that poisoned people I'd be held to account by various regulatory bodies, yet pushing out material to poison people's minds goes for the most part unpunished. If a preacher at a local religious centre was advocating terrorism, they'd face charges.

The UK government has a whole ream of context about this: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/97976/prevent-strategy-review.pdf

Google's "common carrier" type of defence takes you only so far, as it's not a purely neutral party in terms, as it "recommends", not merely "delivers results", as @joe points out. That recommendation should come with some editorial responsibility.

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"He managed to escape in the company car, a Mercedes-Benz 770"

The Fairphone is faster - although perhaps not by a huge amount, has better battery life and a better camera. The official spare parts shop has parts for the Fairphone 3 onwards, earlier models' parts are sold out. The Fairphone 2 was released in 2015 and has stopped receiving software updates this year, the 3 came out in 2019. 8 years of support and replacement parts seems to me to be much better than what Samsung or Google would offer you.

Specs differences: https://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?&idPhone1=12540&idPhone2=9536#diff-,,*

Chipset comparison: https://versus.com/en/qualcomm-qcm6490-vs-samsung-exynos-9820

Spare parts shop: https://shop.fairphone.com/shop/category/spare-parts-4?ref=header

Not another one

For those unaware further reading on this is the Southern Strategy.

Unless you're the vessel's chef, then you're killing thyme.

There used to be a Soviet saying about "China's Final Warning".

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duNes stoP

You want a Dune post?

Dune 2

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But it's a hole in the market that needs to be filled.

Typically, the upper congressional chamber fast-tracks and confirms military nominations all together at once with bipartisan support, via a process known as unanimous consent.

But a single senator can prevent it, and Mr Tuberville has done so for eight months in objection to a US Defence Department abortion policy. [..] On Wednesday, the Democratic leader of the Senate, Chuck Schumer, moved to confirm General Charles Brown as the new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, replacing outgoing General Mark Milley.

The Senate approved the nomination by 83-11, with Mr Tuberville and a handful of Republican colleagues voting no. [..] While Mr Schumer could theoretically confirm nominees on an individual basis, the non-partisan Congressional Research Service (CRS) concluded that doing so would eat up nearly 700 hours of floor time in the Senate.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-66873107

TL;DR: switch from "quickly grant unanimous approval for groups" to "slowly approve one by one"

If a fine can be absorbed by the company, it's just the cost of doing business.