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  • I read that they closed the store for the stunt. So it was all charade. The photos of him serving food to a customer walking up to the drive thru window when the site was closed for business are even more laughable in that context.

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    Are there any Lemmy instances or similar platforms that don't allow memes?
  • Second that recommendation for Tildes. Not all posts are long but most posters tend to contribute well thought out opinions and the discussion I have seen is uniformly civil.

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    Tropical Cyclone Kirrily brings 170km/h gusts to Queensland
  • This summary sounds deranged because none of it has anything to do with the title, but that is a problem with the article itself being badly titled. It is rather about the effect of El Nino worldwide.

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    Senate votes against Sanders resolution to force human rights scrutiny over Israel aid
  • It absolutely is global news. Does the United States care about the human rights record of supported nation states? And if not, why should the rest of us?

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    Indiana man with mental disabilities, framed by police for murder, gets $11.7 million settlement
  • Quite a disparity between this outcome and the guy who got $175k compensation for spending 50 years in prison wrongly convicted. I wonder if that guy will sue for millions too.

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    Video of ceramic storage system prototype surfaces online — 10,000TB cartridges bombarded with laser rays could become mainstream by 2030, making slow hard drives and tapes obsolete
  • Yeah it wasn't so long ago that hard drive storage was more expensive than spindles of CD-Rs and that was around the time that internet and torrenting were taking off. People used to burn CDs full of movies to share and make room to download more. In that use case a unit of 700 MB on write once read many storage was useful if cheap.

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    Outliers
  • I think there's a sublety missing that yeet implies thrown with great force but without care for the direction.

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