Stern

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[–] Stern@lemmy.world 37 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Jack Dorsey, who owns dozens of patents, conveniently does not opt to lead the charge by cancelling them all.

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 27 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Considering Vince McMahon didn't know what a burrito was, I'm not particularly surprised.

Madigan told PWTorch editor Wade Keller: "It's one of these stories that always repeats itself. I think the idea was they were trying to work an angle with Big Show and - like Andre (the Giant), here's a guy who is so physically big and physically imposing - what can you do to get over on Big Show? And how are you going to do it?

"I think they were going to poison Big Show and give him a spiked burrito. The whole concept was: 'We're going to spike his food, spike the burrito, you cut to a vignette before that showing him eating it, and then he passes out in the ring.' So, Vince goes, 'Burrito?! Who the hell knows what a burrito is?' It was such a far concept. And everyone in the room goes, 'Well, we know what a burrito is.' And Vince goes, 'Well, where the hell have I been?'

"But, the funny thing is, Wade, every day at noon, Vince's secretary would walk into the office - the writing room - with a burrito. It was a steak-wrap cut in half. And he would put ketchup on it. Every day, he was eating a burrito and not knowing what it was. But, that's the idea - when you're in a bubble and in a business where you're ostracized from society, it's you and them, that's it. Everyone else is an outsider, so things like that do make sense in the confines of the wrestling world."

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 79 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (24 children)

If you never actually own a Ubisoft game that logically pirating them isn't theft right? Right?

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In a situation where you're using lethal force (e.g. a gun.) you aren't doing the minimum or doing disabling shots or sharpshooting the knife out of their hand, you are stopping the threat. This means center mass (torso) shots to minimize the chance that you miss and hit someone behind or near them (Like the two people were near the kid.), and you shoot until they stop being a threat. Adrenaline is a hell of a drug (and whatever other potential drugs folks can be on.) and can let folks shrug off a bullet if it isn't instantly killing them, hence the training on lethal force is shoot until they stop being a threat.

That said: Given that he hadn't even cleared the fence they had time to back up. IMO this was a preventable shooting and they likely could have had one officer pepper spray or tase him (Both have about 15 foot range.) while the others kept guns on him.

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Conservatives will shit their pants if it means liberals are grossed out by the smell.

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Got permabanned. I was one of the last protestors from the API stuff standing.

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Man if only he could like vote to get rid of them or something. too bad he's literally powerless and can't do a thing to stop this. /s

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 78 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

You can view this one of two ways, possibly both:

  1. Krasnov
  2. Trump apparently was doing these tariffs based on trade deficits (Which is stupid on its own, if your dentist doesn't buy the widgets you sell, that's not a tariff.), if Russia wasn't running one, then there you go.

To rebuke 2 I present the following- https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/europe-middle-east/russia-and-eurasia/russia

U.S. total goods trade with Russia were an estimated $3.5 billion in 2024. U.S. goods exports to Russia in 2024 were $526.1 million, down 12.3 percent ($73.5 million) from 2023. U.S. goods imports from Russia totaled $3.0 billion in 2024, down 34.2 percent ($1.6 billion) from 2023. The U.S. goods trade deficit with Russia was $2.5 billion in 2024, a 37.5 percent decrease ($1.5 billion) over 2023.

Based on that math, with the CNN article I linked for the formula (the country’s trade deficit divided by its exports to the United States times 1/2) we get - (2,500,000,000 / 3,000,000,000) * 1/2 = 0.416666...

So Russia should have a 42% tariff based on their purported 83% tariff on us.

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 43 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Case study in money not buying happiness. Richest man in the world by a wide margin. CONSTANTLY whining and crying about something.

If I had even a billion dollars y'all would never catch my ass on social media on in the public eye at all.

 

The spaghetti tree hoax is a famous 3-minute hoax report broadcast on April Fools' Day 1957 by the BBC current affairs programme Panorama. It told a tale of a family in southern Switzerland harvesting spaghetti from the fictitious spaghetti tree, broadcast at a time when this Italian dish was not widely eaten in the UK and some Britons were unaware that spaghetti is a pasta made from wheat flour and water. Hundreds of viewers phoned into the BBC, either to say the story was not true, or wondering about it, with some even asking how to grow their own spaghetti trees. Decades later CNN called this broadcast "the biggest hoax that any reputable news establishment ever pulled."

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

https://www.yahoo.com/news/breaking-down-rumors-musk-penis-230000612.html

seems iffy at best though i 100% believe the hair implant stuff no one comes back from the balding he had.

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Monkey Dust. BBC show from the late 00''s that went ~3 seasons. Animated sketch comedy that was ostensibly British but wasn't SO British that Americans wouldn't get it. Example sketch-

https://youtu.be/RAgsubC0zaE

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

!neat@lemmy.world I made it to post random stuff I couldn’t elsewhere. On rare occasions others post. Satisfied with that tbh since its not like I have a karma score or whatev

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