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'This reeks of desperation': Internet mocks 'Donald McDonald' for fast food campaign stunt
  • There are 15,000 McDonald's in the US and turnover is pretty high. It's an old stat but I don't expect it's changed much over time.

    My husband and MIL both worked there so it tracks with my family members at least!

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    'This reeks of desperation': Internet mocks 'Donald McDonald' for fast food campaign stunt
  • One out of eight Americans have worked at McDonald's, so that's quite a lot.

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    Carb Party!
  • In their 90s? Gimme some bread and dancing then!

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    What's your least favorite thing about cycling?
  • Ugh, those reel leashes, where the human is on one side of the path looking off into the distance in thought/on their phone, the dog is on the other side of the path, and the leash is stretched across like a clothesline.

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    Seems cool to be honest
  • It's a huge, weird mess of a flop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPL7OZF1iI4

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    Brighton: Surgeon operated with penknife he uses to cut up lunch
  • Hm, well that's a bit weird, but if it was an emergency --

    The BBC has also discovered the same surgeon carried out three supposedly low-risk operations in two months where all three patients died soon after.

    ...oh.

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    Is there a name for the trope where a story is high fantasy at first glance, except for it's not fantasy and is actually set in a post-apocalypse dystopian future?
  • Yeah, though clues are few and far between; the

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    museum in Tanchico with the Mercedes hood ornament

    is the biggest clue. From Jordan's other writings, the

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    First age was our time, then humans created an AI powerful enough to genetically engineer humans to be able to do magic,

    and that led to the Age of Legends.

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    How do I know if a medical issue should be addressed by a Clinic Visit, Urgent Care, or the Emergency Room?
  • Losing consciousness for any reason = ER. A friend passed out during dinner and we weren't sure what to do, so we called the triage nurse and they were like "ER now!" (He was fine, they never figured out what happened and it's never happened again, but it's definitely stayed with me.)

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    How do I know if a medical issue should be addressed by a Clinic Visit, Urgent Care, or the Emergency Room?
  • Great criteria. Another "straight to the ER" one is loss of consciousness; people get knocked out in movies all the time so it's easy to assume it's fine, but it's not.

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    Couple tried to sell baby for a 6-pack of beer and $1,000 at campground, police say
  • To get a baby costs a moment of pleasure, but to get a horse costs money.

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    Raise Wages? No Need — McDonald’s Is Hiring Inmates Instead
  • Forced labor is still slavery even if you're paid and not whipped.

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    Destination rule
  • Final Destination 2: https://youtu.be/-YoCkWiFYH8

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    Trump rejects Harris call for second debate, saying ‘it’s too late’
  • He's surrounded by toadies who told him he'd win the first one, and he lost.

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    7,000 Microplastics Studies Show We Have One Really Big Problem
  • Plastics industry: "See?! We told you plastic decomposes and doesn't just stay in landfills forever. Happy now?"

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    US woman died after abortion ban delayed her medical care: report
  • True: they're obviously neither a woman nor a man with empathy.

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    US woman died after abortion ban delayed her medical care: report
  • You're obviously not a woman: if you were you'd know that we talk about this stuff all the time, and that it absolutely is not obvious to women in blue states how scary things are in red states.

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    Catching you up with the party of family values
  • Reverse Melisandre.

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    Where’s the Beef? Trump Demands Harris Prove She had McJob
  • One out of eight Americans have worked at McDonald's.

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  • The coalition keeps growing

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    I have a friend who likes making care packages for people; anyone know of a good outlet for that? Before Reddit got big there were a few good places on there but I'm drawing a blank now.

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    wagingnonviolence.org Columbia students are sick at heart — just as we were in ‘68

    An organizer of the 1968 Columbia University protests on why the message against war, then and now, is the same.

    Most of the leadership of the Columbia strike in 1968 was young men like myself. That no longer appears to be the case — either at Columbia or the other university protests around the country.

    In 1968 we made the mistake of answering the police violence with anger, fighting them and calling them pigs. We blurred the line between nonviolence (the occupation of buildings) and violence (our slogans and rhetoric), thereby undercutting our moral position.

    The students protesting the slaughter in Gaza, with their diverse leadership are making no such mistakes. They are thoroughly nonviolent. There may be individuals or provocateurs who defy the strategy, but at least the protesters are trying to make their intention clear. In a little-reported Instagram post last week entitled “Columbia’s Gaza Student Protest Community Values,” they wrote “At universities across the nation our movement is united in valuing every human life” and “We firmly reject any form of hate or bigotry.” Setting up tents and praying for the souls of the dead, all the dead, is not violence.

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    www.404media.co Nurses Protest 'Deeply Troubling' Use of AI in Hospitals

    National Nurses United has repeatedly warned about the use of AI in healthcare, saying it put both patients and nurses at risk. Healthcare giants are increasingly integrating it into patient care.

    > “Life-and-death decisions relating to patient acuity, treatment decisions, and staffing levels cannot be made without the assessment skills and critical thinking of registered nurses,” the union wrote in the post. “For example, tell-tale signs of a patient’s condition, such as the smell of a patient’s breath and their skin tone, affect, or demeanor, are often not detected by AI and algorithms.”

    > “Nurses are not against scientific or technological advancement, but we will not accept algorithms replacing the expertise, experience, holistic, and hands-on approach we bring to patient care,” they added.

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    blog.mollywhite.net Video: Become a Wikipedian in 30 minutes

    A written transcript of my video, 'Become a Wikipedian in 30 minutes'.

    I started editing Wikipedia more seriously over the last couple of months, and this video has a bunch of useful information and how-tos that I wish I had then, and some stuff that I still didn't know. I really like contributing to such a useful resource, and knowing that every little edit I make helps everybody who wants to learn about that topic!

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    This time Mike is out for revenge. In our last battle, Mike was winning and made a crucial mistake in the final question. This prompted the internet to crown Rich Evans as the king of all TNG trivia. Winning by a simple question doth not make one a king of trivia. Showing relentless and consistent knowledge is how to achieve that. I’m afraid to say Mike has and will continue to do that time and time again with surgeon-like precision. Evans, I hate to say it, is on his last leg mentally. Sure, Mike makes a mistake here and there, but his wit and knowledge remain strong and intact. Not much remains in Evans’ soiled soul. His meat sack body is nothing but a rotting bag of regret. Sure, he remembers some things about TNG, but did he retain anything else? Probably not. He’s seen with his own eyes Star Trek turn into a living nightmare and a joke. Star Trek was once a bastion of hope for lonely nerds in High School. If you liked Star Trek The Next Generation (or Star Trek in general) you were relentlessly mocked. Why? Because the show was thoughtful, proposed interesting ideas, and was scientifically methodical. It was the opposite of cool. It was the opposite of an exciting football game or going to a concert and pushing your friends in a mosh pit.

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    www.semafor.com NBC News demands Trump campaign take down fake clip of reporter | Semafor

    A video shared by a top Trump adviser contains audio edited to make it seem like an NBC reporter is mocking GOP presidential candidates.

    A senior Trump advisor shared a video that seems to show an NBC reporter badmouthing Republican presidential candidates. It appears AI was used to imitate the reporter's voice.

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