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- Comment on Two young action movie actors, Tom Holland and George Lazenby, both at 29 in their respective photos. Or: a 2020s man of action vs. a 1960s man of action. 1 week ago:
Teeth aren’t brown enough for filterless cigs
He must have smoked that squeaky clean filtered ones like Viceroy
(Apologies to Steve Martin)
- Comment on What year is it: Muggy Bogues jersey to be retired 2 weeks ago:
No surprise here
Charlotte loves them some Mugsy
- Comment on What was he thinking? 2 weeks ago:
Hope that was food and not pesticides
- Comment on The Onion is on Fire 3 weeks ago:
Damn. Dark and darker
But funny as hell
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to [deleted] | 9 comments
- Comment on it sucks that you can't use social media for a full month once every 2 years 4 weeks ago:
Or if you paid attention in school!!
- Comment on Choose your partner 4 weeks ago:
Sctitches
I’d do it for scritches
- Comment on With 1st world economies going to shit, would this not have a trickle down effect (reaganomics style) to 3rd world countries? Resulting in more unstable countries and regions? 5 weeks ago:
wsj.com/…/a-four-year-truce-collapses-and-ethiopi…
You’ve been given free access to this story from The Economist as a gift. You can open the link five times within seven days. After that it will expire.
Ethiopia and Eritrea are on the brink of another conflict economist.com/…/ethiopia-and-eritrea-are-on-the-b…
yahoo.com/…/south-africa-withdraws-asylum-directi…
uawire.org/turkish-owned-grain-ship-sinks-after-s…
- Comment on literally 1984 5 weeks ago:
If you need literal proof, listen to Sick of You by Lou Reed on his New York album (1989)
With the exception that we fixed the Ozone hole, everything is current
Scarily accurate
- Comment on With 1st world economies going to shit, would this not have a trickle down effect (reaganomics style) to 3rd world countries? Resulting in more unstable countries and regions? 5 weeks ago:
It will turn nasty before the economic trickle down gets there
The food insecurity is already starting
Wars and dislocation have started in Africa
You just have to look for it because it won’t make the network news
- Comment on USA police training. 5 weeks ago:
This is soooo unrealistic
Of course the cop would have asked it the guy he killed was white before saying shit happens
- Comment on If you had a tooth problem that needed a root canal and crown, how long would you expect it to take to get it resolved? 1 month ago:
This is the correct answer
- Comment on 9/11 2 months ago:
Zoboomafoo is something I had completely forgotten about
- Comment on Be prepared 2 months ago:
Probably not his name, but still solid
- Comment on Finding a job tier list: 2 months ago:
- Comment on “Tf???” 2 months ago:
As I understand it, it is primarily used to point the foot.
- Comment on Sony Implements New Customer Harassment Policy Following Backlash Toward Its Plans to Stop Making Physical Game Discs 2 months ago:
You’re doing God’s work
Keep it up
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- Comment on The sickness of infinite greed cannot be sustained on our finite planet 2 months ago:
It’s power.
Not wealth.
He’d rather kids not get healthcare than be told he is a plebe that has to follow rules like the rest of us.
- Comment on Knock knock 2 months ago:
lol
That is literally the premise of a joke we told in the 1970s - but it’s probably much older
- Comment on Somerset cider makers left with very few apples after heatwaves 2 months ago:
My favorite brand is Dixon
- Comment on Fuel for the fire. 3 months ago:
The original gas lights ran on sewer gas
That’s pretty cheap actually
- Comment on The LLM training corpus includes your sexts 3 months ago:
Yeah. Not touching that link
- Comment on Why is leadership valued so much over expertise? 4 months ago:
If you have those skills, you can apply them to yourself. You can make people value your contributions enough to pay you for them. You can convince people to give you the chance to make larger contributions to the company.
If you can get that kind of experience and are technical enough to identify an emerging idea, you can convince a banker or investor to help you start a business.
- Comment on Why is leadership valued so much over expertise? 4 months ago:
I’m retired from a technical field. I know lots of folks that hold this opinion.
I have also seen excellent technologies and fortunes wasted because technological experts thought that marketing and finance weren’t important. They thought that because their technology was better than anything else, people would want it.
People are busy. Marketing is required to give people a chance to understand what they might get if they spend their time and money on your product.
Finance and leadership are needed to build and fund the human machine that is the company producing the product.
- Comment on Why is leadership valued so much over expertise? 4 months ago:
There are a lot of
- Comment on I can't use heated seats on my BMW unless I pay a monthly subscription 4 months ago:
True for the US
According to a BMW spokesperson, seat heaters were offered in subscription form in the UK, Germany, New Zealand, South Korea, South Africa, etc.
They stopped with the seats but are still trying
- Comment on What was the internet like before Y2K happened ? 5 months ago:
This is true.
It originally came as an email attachment.
Windows was wide open and the attachment would run a script to turn your volume to full blast and disable your ability to turn it off.
That song was considered so cringy but it would blast the entire office from your cube and you couldn’t stop it.
- Comment on What was the internet like before Y2K happened ? 5 months ago:
This is a perfect example of the pre-Y2K internet.
- Submitted 5 months ago to [deleted] | 130 comments
