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Even more terrifying. It means multiple people in multiple places have decided that that's a reasonable thing to sell to people wanting to buy an edible sandwich.
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No it's not. Cheese curds are springy, almost spongey.
They're not just little bits of chopped up cheese. If that's what they're selling you in Wisconsin, you're missing out on actual cheese curds. If you'd ever have any you'd notice the difference immediately, it's not subtle.
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The photo was posted to Reddit at least a year ago
You sure? On the podcast he hosts he said that he bought this "cob" on his way to a match that happened just last weekend.
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Tim Stillman lives in England and was on his way to a football match in England, so it's probably not NY Cheddar.
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In your imagination I bet people clap when you say things like that.
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In your imagination, I bet you have big muscles.
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It would be nice to believe this, but it's just not true. Unfortunately people do remember him fondly. It will take decades before the people who loved him are all dead and history gets to judge him.
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Reddit has shown they’ll replace mods when they actually need to (or want to).
But, their business model doesn't work unless those mods are working for free. So, while they may replace mods, unless people keep signing up to work for free to help a for-profit company deliver value to its shareholders, eventually it's going to collapse.
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You get to vote in socialist democracies like China, Cuba, USSR, etc
Sure you do, as long as you vote for the candidate that the state prefers. Again, look up "Wir gehen falten".
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It's easy to be a hero in your own imagination. The real world shows that most people don't actually do that.
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No, I'm saying western democracies are better because you got to vote.
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Too bad this is a no Mbappe, no Neymar, no Messi version of PSG. These Champions League games are always more interesting when the opposing team has superstars you might never otherwise see against your team.
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On news that Rodri will be out for the remainder of the season: now that's poetic justice. The guy dives at the start of the match, trying to get Havertz in trouble. Minutes later his knee gives out and he's out for the season. It almost makes you believe in vengeful gods who are Gooners.
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It's amazing to me that so many people are willing to work as unpaid moderators so that Reddit's investors can make more money.
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The first paragraph is literally the same “I can’t justify capitalism but the others are worse” argument again.
Which happens to be true. Maybe in the future there will be something better, but so far it hasn't been found.
The society we live in is an employment based, market fundamentalist society.
Sure, ok. And it's better than a feudalist society where you're tied to the land, or a slave-based economy where you're property.
Instead of lashing out and calling it a silly caricature
I'm not lashing out. I'm just describing it as a silly caricature, which it is. Capitalism is fundamentally about owners of capital competing to make more money by investing in capital and selling goods at a profit. People who don't own capital have to work in that kind of a system. Similar to how peasants were tied to land they had to work under feudalism, or slaves were required to do whatever their owners demanded in a slave state, but it's less brutal. Workers can change employers and their bodies are not owned.
Is it fair? Of course not, but no socioeconomic system that has ever existed in reality has ever been fair.
That being said, how much money would it take for you to change your mind about existence being measured in terms of money alone being a silly caricature?
No amount of money would make me change my mind. There would probably be an amount of money where I'd be willing to lie, but what does that prove? You'd lie too if you were offered enough money. That's human nature, not capitalism. If this were a feudalist system you could be bribed with land. If it were a theocracy you could be bribed by religious titles.
I don't know what you're trying to prove. Capitalism is bad, but other systems are worse. There are purely theoretical systems that would be better, but none of them has ever survived an encounter with reality. But, that doesn't mean we should stop trying. Eventually we'll find a way to improve on capitalism, just like capitalism improved on feudalism.
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I just love how the conspiracies reinforce each-other in the most convenient ways.
"Anyone who doesn't get vaxed is going to be put in a FIMA concentration camp!"
"What? That's crazy, where's the evidence of that?!"
"You can't find it because they're censoring everything on the Internet."
So now, not finding evidence of conspiracy 1 is evidence for conspiracy 2!
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"Guy" is used differently in different contexts, just like "girl".
If someone says "the girls had a sleepover" you know they're probably talking about female children. If someone's talking about a girls' night out, you know they're almost certainly talking about women.
"Would you have sex with a group of guys?” is using guy as a stand-in for man. But, if someone said "Guys, can we all just quiet down for a second so Stan can speak?" it's a synonym for "folks" or "people" or something gender-neutral.
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we have less than 20 years to take control of our economic system before we all die from climate change
Yeah... sure. "We all die".
The earth isn't going to be hit by an asteroid, it's just going to have more and more catastrophes. If the earth reaches a tipping point with the melting of the polar icecaps, it will still take centuries for them to melt. The tipping point just means that it won't be possible to stop it. Humanity will survive, because killing off humanity would be as difficult as killing off mosquitoes or cockroaches. What will happen, not suddenly in 20 years, but gradually over the next few centuries, is that life will get more and more unpleasant. There will be more famines, more disasters wiping cities off the map. More wars over resources. But, some humans will keep living, and they'll have children, and those children will grow up in a terrible world where survival is a struggle. But, humans will survive, though it might be a very brutal, primitive existence.
As for "capitalism", it's not "capitalism" that's at fault here, it's humanity. It's not like North Korea is a bastion of carbon-neutral utopian living. Humans are unable to think and act on a global scale. They're selfish, and always have been. The difference is that now there are billions of humans, and technology has enabled each selfish human to have a massive climate footprint. Human brains were evolved to exist in small groups on the savanna. The thinking that allowed humans to thrive in that environment has meant destruction now that technology has massively amplified the impact each human now has.
The solution isn't some random change to a different economic system or a different political system. It's either destroying most technology so that each human can no longer have such a massive impact, or it's fundamentally altering the human brain so that people use that technology wisely and with a tiny footprint. Neither of those is likely, so we're almost certainly doomed.
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For bonobos, a whole variety of ways and very frequently.
It's amazing to me that they can even measure a 0.01 XG shot. This comes from [James Benge's twitter account](https://twitter.com/jamesbenge/status/1835373820569420273). The XG graph is also interesting. Tottenham has a continuous stream of very low quality shots, resulting in the graph going up in tiny increments. Arsenal has a series of decent chances near minute 17, and then the one high-quality shot resulting in Gabriel's goal. ![Arsenal vs. Tottenham XG graph](https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/d4054258-3545-4a55-bf0a-227fed1f737e.png) https://understat.com/match/26640 I'm sure part of it is Arsenal defending in a low block after scoring. But, it also smacks of desperation on Tottenham's part. If you're taking a shot that has a 1% chance of going in, rather than passing and waiting for a better opportunity, you don't believe that you're going to get a better opportunity.
Note: National Bank of Canada is a commercial bank, not the Bank of Canada which is Canada's national bank. Um. Which is Canada's **central** bank. The graphs in the presentation are the key takeaway for me. But, some key words: "Canada is caught in a population trap that has historically been the preserve of emerging economies. We currently lack the infrastructure and capital stock in this country to adequately absorb current population growth and improve our standard of living." ... "To put things in perspective, Canada's population growth in 2023 was 3.2%, five times higher than the OECD average." ... "But to meet current demand and reduce shelter cost inflation, Canada would need to double its housing construction capacity to approximately 700,000 starts per year, an unattainable goal."
Earlier today, Scottish adventurers Chris and Julie Ramsey were finally able to announce their completion of the nine-month, 17,000-mile "Pole To Pole EV" expedition, the world's first drive from the 1823 Magnetic North Pole to South Pole. Other links: https://expeditionportal.com/what-the-pole-to-pole-expedition-wants-you-to-know-about-long-term-ev-travel/ https://poletopoleev.com/ https://global.nissannews.com/en/releases/north-pole-to-south-pole-with-nissan-ariya
The article was clearly AI generated. Microsoft has killed the [original article](https://www.msn.com/en-gb/lifestyle/travel/headed-to-ottawa-here-s-what-you-shouldn-t-miss/ar-AA1faajY), giving a 404, pretending it never existed. But, you can see an archived image of it [on Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/ddyp8t4.jpeg). Even ignoring the ridiculousness of including the Ottawa Food Bank as a destination. Even ignoring the callousness of the line "Consider going into it on an empty stomach", the article is just full of [spicy autocomplete](https://thecleverest.com/gpt3-is-just-spicy-autocomplete/) nonsense. * "Participate in the Winterlude, the Capital's winter festival, skate on the world's largest skating rink, or play on North America's largest snow." * "Go to an Ottawa Senators Game: Ottawa, as Canada's capital draws visitors from around the world who come to see its historic buildings and landmarks, experience its arts and culture and take in the sights and sounds. Denis Potvin are two NHL heroes from Ottawa..." * "The World's Largest Naturallyfrozen Ice Rink" * "Discover a Winter Wonderland at Omega Park" (along with a picture of the Canal)