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Sports is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 14 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I'm going to watch football in person this weekend with my friends.

Sports is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago

well it's kinda too late for baseball at this point

The state of Jimmy Carter in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago

boring ahh birthday

Why would you just SIT on two pieces of extremely expensive real estate? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 days ago (1 children)

He could, or he could do nothing. Both make him money.

Also I imagine renting to rich people is a bit more complicated than it is for you and I. A lot more real possibility of litigation than from us regular folks.

Why would you just SIT on two pieces of extremely expensive real estate? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Why sell? They're both appreciating in value. He's made more money than most of us will make in our entire lives just letting those mansions rot.

An indirect benefits of free lunches in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 days ago

Fun fact is that they did during the government response to Covid.

Kristi noem rejected 69 million in federal funding because it was from democrats in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago

Same thing happened with the ACA Medicaid expansion and Obama's HSR money for Florida and Wisconsin.

the three genders in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago

At least Alberta has some pretty mountains.

Terry's VA in response to the hatred involving Erika Ishii in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago

they*. Erika is genderfluid.

how should/could laundry work? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Laundromats suck. No argument here.

how should/could laundry work? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Some places in the US have what are called "wash and folds" where your drop off your laundry and they'll do it for you, usually charging by the pound. You pick it up folded.

Even some dry cleaners will do this.

Obviously more expensive than a laundromat, but, as always, it's a question of how much you value your time.

how should/could laundry work? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

During the colonization of the American West, who did your laundry mostly depended on your marital status. Since laundry was "women's work", bachelors wouldn't do it. But there weren't a lot of women around during the early era of colonization, so you got Chinese immigrants (largely from Hong Kong) who would establish these commercial laundries to cater to all the single men who couldn't or wouldn't do their own laundry (it was also very time-consuming and arduous work). American racism against Chinese immigrants who held these jobs led to things like the avowedly leftist Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance, which was a labor organization that fought to keep these jobs legal.

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Harm reduction candidate: kill more wolves (www.opb.org)
 

Biden reversing course to final-days-of-Trump-presidency policy making it open season on endangered keystone species gray wolves.

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Two of the biggest grocery store chains in the US are trying to merge, fun story about the last time that happened: (www.opb.org)
 

Fun anecdote from the article about a previous merger one of these companies did:

Washington seeks to avoid the situation it found itself in a decade ago, when Albertsons bought the Safeway chain. To satisfy regulators concerned about that deal's potential impact on supermarket competition and consumers, Albertsons sold 146 stores to Haggen, a small grocery chain based in Bellingham, Washington.

But Haggen struggled with the expansion. Within six months, it had closed 127 stores — including 14 in Washington — and laid off thousands of workers. Haggen sold its remaining stores to Albertsons in 2016. Now, 10 Haggen stores in Washington are on the list to be sold if the merger happens.

Look at the math on that little offer they did to make the merger more palatable. lmao

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Three Oregon residents killed in Montana plane crash en route to Trump rally (archive.is)
 

You've heard about the beautiful boaters, but have you heard about the beautiful fliers?

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If any of y'all remember Lee Carter, they've come out as not cis (twitter.com)
 

Y'all discarded them for something I don't remember, but anyway, good for them!

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Hochul's torpedoing congestion pricing in lower Manhattan (archive.is)
 

I knew it wasn't going to happen, because libs refuse to ever do anything good, but I figured it would be Adams, not Hochul.

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Ryan Gosling's character wears an IATSE shirt for about half of The Fall Guy (hexbear.net)
 

It was a cute movie. Not sure why it's bombing.

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Dems will never do what it takes to win (twitter.com)
 

Context: Trump's lawyers are in front of the Supreme Court arguing that presidents cannot be prosecuted for any crimes they commit while in office.

Who knows how the Calvinball refs will decide this one, but if they go Trump's way, Biden has literally no excuse not to assassinate his political rivals.

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Today in :let-them-fight:, Oregon Republicans/talk radio hosts fighting over who is allowing Chinese billionaires to build solar farms (www.opb.org)
 

"You're owned by China!"

"That's disinformation, like the DemocRATs use against Presinald Trunt!"

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Did y'all know they're building a monorail line under the Panama Canal? (www.railjournal.com)
 

Wild.

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I just found out about "balcony solar" which is, by and large, illegal in the US (web.archive.org)
 

Apparently this is all the rage in Germany (and China) where you can buy a kit at the supermarket for 500-600EUR and then you simply hang the solar panels over your balcony and plug them in to a wall outlet to reduce your net usage.

I was trying to do research on why we don't have this in the US and it doesn't seem like there are any particularly good reasons for it other than sclerotic response to "new" technology.

Seems like an incredibly cool idea to make apartment dwelling even more sustainable.

non-archive link: https://www.dw.com/en/mini-plug-in-solar-panels-are-they-worth-it/a-66240262

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Southwest Washington police sergeant died of on-the-job fentanyl overdose, medical examiner says (www.opb.org)
 

Not mentioned in the title: he was snorting confiscated fent.

Also this is a cop from the town all the Proud Boys who came to Portland in 2020 live in.

Anyway, happy Friday! officer-down

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