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Not often you see cursive these days, much less in a meme.

90% chance this was posted by a Gen-Xer.

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I mean, the kid does look nice and plump… tender… juicy, even.

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I want to know why. Are they going to gun stores while traveling and saying, “holy shit! Hornady Critical Defense 9mm for $20 a box‽ I can’t pass this deal up!” That’s the only thing I can think of.

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I never put gun stuff in anything other than a range bag, and I never take range bags traveling. I don’t understand - are these people using their travel luggage as range bags? I can’t say I’ve ever seen someone at the range unloading ammo from a suitcase.

Your situation is a bit different, though. You’re actually driving across the border. I can see accidentally leaving some range gear in a vehicle, and especially ammo if you tote it separately as you might with rifle or shotgun shooting. Your diligence is commendable, and wise considering you’re crossing one of the two borders we have.

Ultimately, the only person I trust with a firearm is me. It sounds as if you’re more charitable than that, but we agree there are a lot of people who really shouldn’t have guns.

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Oh, well that’s because sometimes it falls out of the box when you’re loading. It’s especially tricky if you’re trying to load while driving, I can tell you! Ha ha.

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Really? Wow. OK.

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Thank you.

I smoked for a decade, 1-2 packs a day. Met my wife; she didn’t smoke, so I quit cold turkey. That was 20 years ago; I’ve smoked 4 cigarettes since I quit, 3 of those in one night about a decade ago.

I also drank alcohol - like, normal amounts, not day drinking - and abruptly gave that up a couple of years ago. Now, I have maybe a drink a month.

Quitting this kind of stuff has never been hard for me, but I believe that’s purely genetics, because I have 0 willpower. I am simply not prone to addiction, and thank goodness, because I’d probably already be dead by now otherwise. But I hit the genetic jackpot on that one; many (most?) people haven’t.

The moral of your story is: don’t extrapolate onto everyone else based on your own experience.

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It’s far more likely that it’s because VPNs make it much harder for Reddit to track you, and sell the data.

As proof, I offer: this behavior is the same for other companies who monotonize visitors, such as Instagram. 99% of the rest of the web does not block VPN traffic. Not Amazon. Not Bing. Not Lemmy; not Mastodon. Google has started to require CAPTCHA in an attempt to annoy people out of using VPNs, but they let you in eventually.

It’s purely profit-driven; it has nothing to do with abusive traffic.

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UK server, OK. Fine. But OP has never been to Pennsylvania in the US. Most houses over a hundred years old look like this: you can see the generations that have lived in it. First it’s stone and mortar; then there’s a wood addition ca. the early 1900s; then there’s a more modern addition ca. the 50’s or later. There’s one property that was briefly famous as it came up in Zillow that had 5 clearly distinctive styles and technologies worth of additions on it; it’s like every generation added another room with whatever was in style at the time. I can’t find a picture, but it was hideous.

I don’t know if it’s common all along the mid-Atlantic, but it is super common in Pennsylvania.

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They should get their assess back in the kitchen, and let their husbands do the voting. Uppity women.

/s, just in case

Jeff Bezos revealed his secret to Amazon’s success 25 years ago: ‘I asked everyone around here to wake up terrified every morning, their sheets drenched in sweat’ (www.cnbc.com)

Back in the 90s, Jeff Bezos went on record as hoping his employees would wake up on the wrong side of the bed—for the greater good, or for the customer at the very least....

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sigh. I literally know people who will take this to heart, who already mostly believe this is how companies should operate, and don’t need much more " proof" like this.

Yes: if you beat your slaves, they will work harder until they die, at which point you can replace them. It’s true. You can be successful this way.

It bugs me to no end that we’ve created an economic model that measures success by exactly one metric: profit. It’s such a shitty situation with a disastrous, unsustainable end; it’s just taking a long time for it to play out.

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In good faith: did you hear anyone actually say this? Biden’s a Clinton Democrat: more friendly to big business than to the working class. He was never going to be a class-leftist, and nobody promised he would be.

But he has been socially liberal, and he didn’t need any nudging. He was always socially liberal.

And those are your choices, for better or worse: an economically right-leaning, socially left-leaning old white man; or an economically hard-right, socially hard-right old white man.

The only way to fix this is to get rid of the electoral college and implement something other than first-past-the-post voting. Not voting is not going to fix it. In the meantime, you try to get the guy elected who isn’t trying to instigate a dictatorship.

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Be sufficiently tired.

Someone else told an anecdote about being in the Army, and they have it 100% on the nose. Be forced to wake up at 4am every day; start out with an hour of cardio, then spend the rest of the day being physically active; don’t be allowed to crawl into bed until some time between 8 and 10, depending on events you don’t control. Do this every day - excluding Sundays - for two months. I guarantee that, by the end, you will be able to fall asleep almost instantly the moment you are allowed to sit or lay down and know you’ve got at least 10 minutes until you have to move again.

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Yup! I wouldn’t have chosen the word “hustle;” it has connotations of a rip-off. I think most people were aware that there was a mark-up, but it felt more capitalist than simply giving someone a hand-out.

I wonder how much of a real niche this filled, though. Maybe you could buy a box of ten for a nickel, and one from a homeless person for a penny; but you only had to spend a penny, a single pencil would last you a couple of days, and you’d have enough left of your nickel for a cup of coffee. Plus, you were aware of the charitable aspect. Or maybe you really couldn’t afford to spend a whole nickel on a box of pencils. I suspect, though, it was more the charity thing.

I also now wonder what the average mark-up was.

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I wonder if all kittens do something like this. About half of our adoptions have been kittens, and it seems as if all of them has at some point had some weird (for a cat) good fixation that they grew out of by 1yo.

We had one girl who went nuts for lettuce. If she heard my wife washing lettuce she’d careen out of nowhere and climb legs to get to the sink. At first, before we caught on, she’d just fish out her own leaves.

One of our boys lamentably took a shining to orchids. Mostly he’d just murder and eat them, but one time he got one out roots and all and ran around the house with it like a dog with a stick. I was trying to chase him down because it was a paphiopadilum, not cheap, and my most prized; my wife was laughing too hard to help.

Chocolate is supposed to be toxic to cats, but we had some candy out one Christmas and one kitten would fish Hershey’s Kisses out of the bowl, carefully unwrap the foil, then eat the candy. That one, at least, I can understand; those were probably more milk than chocolate. Yes, when we figured out where the mysteriously appearing wrappers were coming from, we took the bowl away.

All of them grew out of it. Orchid-boy still tries to murder plants on occasion (palms, especially) but he doesn’t eat them. Oh! Except cantelope. Not ours, but a family member had a cat that loved cantelope, until the day he died. But I read somewhere that cantelope has something in it that makes cats think it’s meat, and it’s not uncommon for them to like it. And potato chips; all of our adult cats love chips; I used to think it was the MSG, but they like the ones without MSG just as much. That seems less weird to me; everyone loves salt.

Anyway, I wonder how common this sort of this is with kittens.

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Bronze? Heavy AF. You have to have muscles to be waving that thing around for any amount of time. So mostly ornamental? I don’t have a clear picture of which periods kings were actually active in combat. Some periods and places, it seems common; others, they were more rear field commanders.

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It’s been a couple of generations since we’ve had a world war. We’re due. With any luck, the Russian nuclear arsenal will be in as good shape as the rest of their military.

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Yeah. I want the name of the hedge fund. It’s not like it being secret will help; they’ve already given away the strategy. No name, no game; bullshit.

Probably written by some C level extrovert whose panties are in a twist because he doesn’t see “butts in seats.” It’s so sad to not be able to roam around your office space lording your position over the peons, boo hoo.

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Not at Starbucks. I mean, you can customize your order and ask them to tone it down on the additives, but if you just order off their menu, you either get a black coffee or (I like how OP said it) a milkshake.

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I’ve occasionally wondered the same thing about sexy time. Like, what if they don’t both like the same kind of sex? One likes it rough, the other sweet and soft?

I suppose the answer to that is obvious, but it leads me to questions like: how are accusations of rape handled when one twin was consenting? Again, the answer seems obvious, but aside from the biological challenges, conjoining raises a whole host of other minor dilemmas.

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Looks like an interesting documentary. One of the twins looks remarkably like Matt Damon!

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Put me down as preferring to no be bitten by anything.

That’s one unattractive fish.

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I think that’s a local thing. My grocer carries them, and they’re always in stock. I line in the Midwest. But I seem to remember eating them a lot in Oregon, too?

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Round, yellow, rough skin? Crisp like an apple, but sweet like a pear (less tangy than an apple)? If that’s what you mean, 100% agree. They’re fairly common, IME; we got them all the time in PA, and see them frequent-ish in the Midwest.

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I’ve heard rumors that, while we see two kinds of mango in the US, there are many more varietals in India, and they’re all better. I’d like to have access to some of those; mangoes rock.

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