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A friend just sent me one from Minnesota!

The problems that you listed don't affect a lot of people in a way that they themselves might find meaningful. Moreover, leather is a widely available product and a byproduct of th…

I know what you're saying and I agree, but now I really want to read a 12 paragraph story about someone's grandmother falling in love in Italy with a plastic bag.

Reality gets very grim and you lose hope in others when you see people who you thought otherwise reasonable defending this. You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs. …

LocalSend works really well across platforms in a LAN, no uploading to some server required.

Not shopping at Sam's Club because its parent company destroys small town America is a perfectly reasonable sociopolitical stance so I respect it. Bravo. But if you're still shoppi…

These days I just go to Sam's Club. Hear me out. It's right next to Costco, literally in the same mall. Products are kind of shittier but they're good enough. But good enough is be…

So if I see a drone I just drop my rifle and give it the middle finger and wait for it to go away and then resume when it's gone?

AI's killer app is "marketing". Bots are incredibly useful for selling items, services, and politics, and AI makes the bots indistinguishable from real people to most people most o…

Life expectancy in Latin America ranges from 65 in Bolivia to 80 in Chile and the cuisines, genetics, cultures, and socioeconomic circumstances vary greatly from region to region s…

I've seen what you're describing and it worries me deeply. I think it's a combination of: 1. Ragebait being so useful at generating engagement that it's become a standard form of h…

You're not being clever. You're just being argumentative.

That's literally point #5 of my comment. Didn't you read it?

At the time of writing this comment, we've got: 1 person talking about how they wish react native didn't exist 1 person asking about Capacitor 1 person complaining about Expo 1 per…

I can confirm.

All of those problems discouraged me from going to the movie theater but the issue that got me to quit going to movie theaters completely is increased volume without increased nois…

Food and medicine get in because they're exempt from the embargo and because the embargo doesn't stop Cuba from engaging in commerce with other countries. Cuba imports 80% of its f…

Humans didn't descend from apes. We are apes. Taxonomically speaking we are in the Hominidae, or great ape family. It is comprised of 8 extant species of which we are one of them.

Why?

They're STOVL airplanes. Short Take Off Vertical Landing. They can only take off vertically on exhibitions, when they're carrying no weapons and little fuel. For normal operations …

Me and a few other moderators of some medium sized subs that we manage are leaving and a few others have been demoralized into doing nothing. We're having trouble finding new mods …

I help manage a few associated medium sized reddit communities. We share a mod team. We are joining the protest. We talked to an admin who reviewed our logs and they were surprised…