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She ate a poppy seed salad just before giving birth. Then they took her baby away.
  • Even if someone has used it only once, even if they just tried it, they are ineligible for military service.

    Well that's just false. You'll get denied if you pop hot on a drug test at MEPS, but they don't tend to care if you've smoked in the past, except as a barometer for if you'll smoke in the future. And, like almost everything else in the DoD, there's a waiver form you can fill out for it too

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    ‘Who dreams this crap up?’: Kevin O'Leary slams new rule that allows employees to ignore their bosses after hours
  • This is about bugging people to work when they are off the clock.

    And that's exactly what Kevin is advocating for. He wants the benefits of an on-call team without having to pay for an on-call team.

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    Lula says Elon Musk’s wealth does not mean world must accept his ‘far-right free-for-all’
  • Ordinarily, I might agree. However, this suspension is because musk refused to appoint a legal representative for the company in Brazil, IAW Brazilian law. That's a reasonable ask for a company that's actively doing business in the country. If a billionaire* crybaby refuses to follow the law, then he gets to deal with the consequences. FA meet FO.

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    ‘Who dreams this crap up?’: Kevin O'Leary slams new rule that allows employees to ignore their bosses after hours
  • If you are in an industry where an emergency at 2 am cannot wait until 0900 (or whenever shift starts in the morning), fucking pay a swing shift to be there. Or fairly compensate your employees for calls off the clock. Either way, stop expecting free labor from your employees. And if your business can't afford to exist without fairly compensating those who work for it, then your business should not exist.

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    People warn about culture shock, but nothing prepared ne for this solid toilet paper roll in Vietnam
  • There are some commercial rolls I've seen in the US that seem to be a happy medium...the holder itself in the stall has a thin plastic rod for the TP to go on, and the rolls have a very small opening in the center (and no cardboard) to go on that rod.

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    Labour scraps £40m private helicopter service favoured by Rishi Sunak
  • A "benefit" of using RAF helos is it the flight hours. Pilots typically need a certain number of flight hours every month to maintain their certs, so they'll likely be flying anyways. Having them fly senior ministers around instead of other training flights technically is free, as the flights were going to happen anyways.

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    Joe Biden promised to be a bridge. Democrats finally made it to the other side.
  • Not only just to trap Trump, but also to coalesce everyone behind a successor candidate. Because the only thing worse than Biden staying in the race would have been him dropping out and then a dozen Democrat candidates popping up, vying for the nomination, barely 5 months before the election. Further infighting would have handed the election to the weirdos.

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    NASA says astronauts stuck in space will not return on Boeing capsule, will wait for SpaceX craft
  • As much as I detest SpaceX and the literal child in charge of the company, their craft at least has a track record of safely bringing astronauts to and from the ISS. Boeing doesn't even have that.

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    A modest proposal on how to deal with trains
  • True, however I have to assume that fuel tanks tend to be lower on the locomotives (and therefore nearer the tracks), so as long as the explosive is high enough energy to set off the fuel, it'll do a lot of the work for you. As will momentum, because all the explosive has to do is damage the tracks and jostle the engine, and the length of cars behind will keep on moving, go of the rails, and slam into the fireball.

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    Statue of late civil rights leader John Lewis replaces more than 100-year-old Confederate monument
  • There's a not-insignificant chance it was the only non-painted exhibit in the entire museum. Everything else I saw was a painting...

    On a side note, highly recommend the National Portrait Gallery if you're ever in DC.

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    Statue of late civil rights leader John Lewis replaces more than 100-year-old Confederate monument
  • Last time I went to the National Portrait Gallery in DC, the Hall of Presidents directly abutted the Civil Rights area.

    Trumps presidential portrait (a photo, not a painting, as distinguished by the medium being listed as "inkjet printer" on the plaque) was on one side of a freestanding wall on the center of the room, and maybe 30ft away was a very large portrait of John Lewis.

    The impression given was that Trump was losing a staring contest with John Lewis, which felt very apt.

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    Israel halts PA funds transfer to Norway as 'punishment'
  • So it's not actually to the Norwegian government. The trust account for the Palestinian Authority is just located in Norway. That makes a lot more sense.

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    Asked about bear carcass prank, RFK Jr. says he once had a freezer full of roadkill meat
  • Depends on the roadkill, honestly. Deer as roadkill, especially if you're the one who hit it (or saw it hit) isn't too bad, because it's already an animal normally eaten, and is reasonably fresh.

    Now a raccoon that's been on the side of the road for god knows how long...that's a different story.

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    This 3330 square feet Single Family home has 5 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms. It is located at 2144 N Cambrian Avenue, Bremerton, WA.

    There are so many gems in this one, least of which are the bathrooms.

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