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  • Instead of click Not Interested, I recommend igoring them. It might take a few days or even a week, but I they should start to disappear from your feed

    Is that conceptually asinine? Absolutely... But it's your best bet

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    To End 'Nightmare' in Gaza, Sanders Moves to Block Funding for Israeli Weapons
  • Personally I don't think we should've been supplying them in the first place for the simple fact that they're more than suitably equipped already

    I just think that if the goal is a ceasefire, neither continuing nor halting supplies would really move the needle. Want us to stop supplying them? Fine by me.

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    To End 'Nightmare' in Gaza, Sanders Moves to Block Funding for Israeli Weapons
  • Yeah, we could cut off every possible kind of funding to Israel and they'd still have sufficient military resources to level Gaza a hundred times over

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    Marijuana meets criteria for reclassification as lower-risk drug, FDA scientific review finds
  • They get money based on the resources needed to tackle illegal drug manufacturing/sales/usage

    The more widely used an illegal drug is, the more resources they need to fight it

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    YouTube now suggests new content *by colour*
  • Only engage with things you want to see more of. Downvoting and Not Interested are both forms of engagement.

    Engagement metrics allow YouTube to show advertisers that you're actually looking at the page and not just letting it run in the background

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    Marijuana meets criteria for reclassification as lower-risk drug, FDA scientific review finds
  • It's inherently problematic that the DEA is in charge of scheduling

    Rescheduling marijuana would likely lead to a lower budget for the DEA... No way is the DEA going to voluntarily lower the scheduling of such a widely used drug

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    'An economic divide that is widening': Almost one third of Americans earning $150,000 a year or more say they're living paycheck to paycheck and many rely on credit cards to close the gap
  • Oh, absolutely. If you click through to the Quicken press release they have a small section defining their methodology but don't list the specific questions

    I wish more people appreciated the lengths that Pew et al. go through to both minimize and recognize sources of bias, confusion, etc

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    'An economic divide that is widening': Almost one third of Americans earning $150,000 a year or more say they're living paycheck to paycheck and many rely on credit cards to close the gap
  • Speaking anecdotally, I've always heard "living paycheck-to-paycheck" to mean having insufficient savings to cover a missed paycheck

    I.e. if you don't get an expected paycheck then you cannot pay your monthly debts/utilities/rent and still have enough money to feed.yourself and your dependents

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    'An economic divide that is widening': Almost one third of Americans earning $150,000 a year or more say they're living paycheck to paycheck and many rely on credit cards to close the gap
  • A few additional things to consider:

    • Accrued debt
    • Areas with highest cost of living tend to also be areas with relatively high population density (San Francisco is usually the go-to example for this)
    • Inflexibility of living in austerity
    • Intuit benefits from scaring people in the lower and middle economic classes
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    After Sidney Powell pleads guilty in Georgia case, Trump claims she was 'never' his attorney, despite their past ties | CNN Politics
  • Because his legal defense wasn't based on claiming attorney-client; it was based on the idea that he was just asking legal hypotheticals to / legal advice from legal experts

    Now two of these lawyers have taken plea deals to (presumably) testify against Trump. Also, by virtue of the guilty plea in this case where Trump is a codefendant, that privilege would likely be voided anyway

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    Pence says he'll 'comply with the law' if called to testify in Trump 2020 election trial
  • he’ll give mostly equivocations, pleas to the 5th, non-remembrances, and non-answer answers that mostly cover his own ass and deflect blame from the GOP th

    That's certainly what he's done in the media, but I'm not so sure that's how he'll respond when 1) he's answering narrow questions crafted by an experienced attorney and 2) he's answering questions after having sworn to God that he would tell the truth

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    'Mystery company' buys $800M worth of land near Travis AFB, raising concerns about national security
  • Yeah a 400ft tall silo overlooking Minot AFB is concerning. It also has nothing to do with OPs article about Travis AFB

    China does enough shady shit that we don't need baseless accusations being thrown around

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    'Mystery company' buys $800M worth of land near Travis AFB, raising concerns about national security
  • The 400ft tall silo was near Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota and was known to be owned by a company from China

    None of that has any tie to the company that bought land near Travis AFB

    Land purchased by a Chinese company near one US AFB doesn't logically imply that any purchased land near a US AFB is a Chinese spy operation

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    Third Teen Worker Killed In Industrial Accident As States Try To Loosen Child Labor Laws
  • It seems strange to me that the framing of this is all about child labor laws--no one should have died working at any of these jobs, regardless of age--and OSHA is investigating all three incidents

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    i'm out (edit: I can’t)
  • You explicitly invited content that would be difficult to discern from illegal, underage nsfw content

    And that was a problem--Yeah, no shit

    To borrow from a comment about kbin: "Making that work requires more mods than a Bethesda game"

    I genuinely appreciate that you wanted and attempted to run an instance that would be largely nonjudgmental on content, but, damn, you really shouldn't be surprised that inviting "loli" content would be (at the very least) an enormous challenge for moderation

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