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Give disabled people who are unable to work a survivable wage
  • Assume far more money is being spend on fire prevention, than what's currently lost in fire

    For anyone reading this thinking that this may sound like a good rebuttal: it's a false equivalence.

    Fire prevention is a worthwhile expenditure, because things being on fire when they shouldn't is generally very bad. The cost of fire prevention is worth it, especially when lives are at stake.

    Benefit cheat-catching is (or at least should be) purely about net savings. What happens though is the costs outweigh the savings making them pointless, as well as hurting those in who accidently get caught in the net too.

    Don't fall for specious arguments, folks! A pithy rebutally might sound convincing at first, but don't be afraid to think deeper about it. And don't be afraid to ignore the commenter if you believe they're arguing in bad faith.

  • I spent hours trying to persuade US voters to choose Harris not Trump. I know why she lost
  • The atrocities being committed by Israel in Gaza only came up six times in more than 1,000 calls.

    I guess what people have been saying about this perhaps weren't particularly true. Which leads me on to believe the misogyny line even more.

  • I am doing anything I want in there and it will be glorious
  • The stairs are part of an art installation at the Kongresshaus in Biel, Switzerland. "Beautiful steps number two" was created in 2009 for an exhibition. The artists told the website Snopes the stairs and doors are not functional, and the steps are not meant to support real people.

  • Republicans admit they plan to implement Project 2025
  • "Yes, because the reduced happiness of others elevates mine in comparison. This is because I believe in a rigid social hierarchy where happiness is zero-sum, and it's the only way I'm able to climb the ladder. Once the short-lived boost in happiness inevitably wears off due to the world not actually working in that way, I will further look to enable suffering to forever chase the high in the only way I know. I will never truly feel deep satisfaction and inner peace, and I will slowly decline into old age feeling ever more isolated and bitter.

    Get rekt, libs."

  • Russia says Donald Trump's election win "useful for us"
  • And second and secondmost, I blame the anti-Trump non-voters. The GOP only lost about 2 million from 2020, but the Democrats lost about 14 million. I know they're not all accounted for but that is a MUCH larger swathe from blue than red. Obviously some switched sides for their own reasons but basically there are maybe 10 million voters who decided that voting for the lesser of two evils wasn't on their agenda and did nothing. Disappointing.

    Edit: obviously I blame all the propaganda from the billionaires/wealthy media/foreign interference etc too (and moreso), but let's take that as read.

  • Guess who's back
  • ...my state and several other blue states have been working on a contingency plan ever since Biden looked like a certain loss, months back.

    Can you expand on this, in eli5 fashion? Curious foreigner here.

  • Muscles? Completed it mate.

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    Slushies are ice lava

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    This product will eliminate odours in your home, but only in one plane

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    What are the odds of choosing 7 or more face cards (jacks/queens/kings/aces) from 8 random playing cards?

    I get about 1/1772 but I'm not confident

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    Be change wish see

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    Google what r u doing

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    Did you know a characteristic of killer whales is that they work together?

    The orcas' trait is they orchestrate

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    Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time?

    I'm sick of random capitalisations mid sentence. I'm sick of common words being replaced by less common ones or even downright nonsense. I'm sick of it taking three attempts to successfully get the word I want. I swear it's been like this for five years or more. Can we have a better version yet, or at least the old one back?

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    "Guess the animal I'm thinking of! Clue: it's a type of bat"

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    Cardigangster

    Bonus cutesy version: —

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    m.youtube.com The biggest hand calculation in a century! [π Day 2024]

    Please note down the new value of pi: 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307816406286208998628034825342117067982148086513282306...

    The biggest hand calculation in a century! [π Day 2024]
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    A place for everything about math @lemmy.ml HonoraryMancunian @lemmy.world
    m.youtube.com The biggest hand calculation in a century! [π Day 2024]

    Please note down the new value of pi: 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307816406286208998628034825342117067982148086513282306...

    The biggest hand calculation in a century! [π Day 2024]
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    The duality of particles

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    Quack

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    Anyone play Quordle Sequence? This is the first time this has ever happened to me (spoiler/explanation in comments)

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    Bye son

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    anyone fancy a ride on my Jumbo Jet 😎 😎 😎

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    Peter Explains the Joke @lemmy.world HonoraryMancunian @lemmy.world

    Peter, explain the right hand side

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    Attacking the big problems

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    Just wait until the next invention

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