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  • The Big Beautiful Bill needs its own thread.

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    AxtremusA
    A new absurdity in the bill: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/upshot/republicans-food-aid-alaska.html It goes like this: the intent was originally was to make the states that have higher error rates when it comes to administering the food stamp programs pay more -- supposedly this is to encourage states to "have skin in the game" to lower error rates when administering the food stamp programs. But to get Murkowski's vote, with Murkowski representing the state with the highest food stamp administration error rate, the Senate bill ended up adding a provision that exempts states whose food stamp error rates exceeding certain threshold from having to pay anything at all (at least for a while). so if the Senate bill ended comes to pass, the states with high error rates will be exempt from paying for the food stamps (at least for a while), while states with low-enough food error rates will have to pay something. in effect, this may end up incentivizing states to jack up their food stamp administration error rates (at least for a while) to avoid having to pay anything towards the their food stamp programs. The modern GOP really sucks at governing.
  • So....

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    taiwan_girlT
    So, An old relative of mine told people at least three times that the Titanic was going to sink on its first voyage. Then, security came and took him from the movie theater.
  • It’s the NY Post so..

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    MikM
    I’ve rented cars hundreds of times and never got charged for a ding or anything else. Plus, if you want me to pay for something, you find it before I walk away.
  • Nature is Metal

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    MikM
    [image: 1751508696555-img_5073.jpeg] Scientists have observed octopuses punching fish, and sometimes it seems to happen for no clear reason other than what might be interpreted as spite. According to Science Alert, in a fascinating study published in Ecology (2020), scientists observed octopuses teaming up with fish to hunt in coral reefs. These unlikely alliances are usually cooperative: the octopus flushes prey from crevices, while the fish chase down anything that escapes. But every so often, the octopus does something unexpected, it punches its fish partner. With a swift jab of an arm, the octopus will strike a fish mid-hunt. Sometimes it’s strategic, maybe the fish was getting too close to the prize or disrupting the hunt. But in other cases, as marine biologist Eduardo Sampaio and his team noted, the punch seemed to serve no clear purpose. No food was at stake. No interference was happening. The octopus just punched. Researchers call this “active displacement,” a way for the octopus to assert control or perhaps vent frustration.
  • Gave blood

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    MikM
    “Vampires gotta eat, same as worms”
  • Funny Pics

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    [image: 1751508446800-9b76e7d1-289c-4db3-a956-734aa80cf983-image.png]
  • Pretty sure I couldn’t do this.

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    RenaudaR
    @jon-nyc Pretty sure my 18 year old could do that.
  • Watching Lia Thomas win

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    @89th said in Watching Lia Thomas win: @Horace said in Watching Lia Thomas win: @jon-nyc said in Watching Lia Thomas win: Kuran developed that concept when you were in high school. I’m sure the ideas have been around for a lot longer than those particular labels for them have been. The social dynamics have been manifest and obvious forever. I mean you were in high school for like 9 years, so there’s a good chance for Kuran Still smarter than Taylor Swift's boyfriend. https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/travis-kelce-hardest-part-hosting-snl-cant-really-read-1236445700/
  • Feeling old yet?

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    RenaudaR
    @Horace said in Feeling old yet?: The more time you spend on the treadmill, the longer the day feels. I feel that way about our elliptical in our basement.
  • Fuck coding

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    AxtremusA
    @89th said in Fuck coding: I just saw some window washers, their jobs are safe for now. Link to video
  • AI doing job interviews ...

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    KlausK
    https://m. Link to video
  • World’s first autonomous car delivery

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    RichR
    I tried....We live a couple doors over on the opposite side of a one lane tunnel. Most of the time, it just a car or two, but occasionally gets backed up so it's a couple minute wait each way. Plus, I'm a fucking cheapskate fiscally responsible enough to just drive over myself.
  • Mamdani

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    jon-nycJ
    Gary Kasparov, no friend of socialism, had this to say: An NYC mayor who doesn’t believe in capitalism is like a Secretary of Health who doesn’t believe in vaccines. Sorry, bad example!
  • The state of math education in America

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    89th8
    They've done studies you know... [image: 1751481856801-47e9631f-f152-430b-9b6d-302d2fa4c3e3-image.png]
  • The America Party?

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    @jon-nyc said in The America Party?: Maybe. Since 2016 I’ve thought we don’t need a third party since with social media anyone sufficiently popular can commandeer one of the existing ones. That’s probably true now of the Democratic Party too though it held out a little longer. I think you're right about this, Jon. But I don't think anyone has really pushed this. A lot of a party's power comes from funding, which goes to traditional media, which goes to getting a message to the mainstream. As Mamdani recently demonstrated, you can be a nobody if you can make effective viral videos. I think the parties have much less power right now than is recognized.
  • July 4th PSA

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    Doctor PhibesD
    Fucking Germans
  • It takes 10 seconds

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    Tom-KT
    89th, frightening story. 99% of these kinds of stories turn out just fine. And that's the issue.
  • Huge frigging turtle

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    89th8
    Yeah that's a big boy. Probably 30+ years old, too. The creek I used to take my daughter to daily in 2020 (when she was turning 2) had a swampy area that this fella lived in. We'd see him each day, always looked like a small muddy dinosaur to me. [image: 1751466790092-4e43b6fe-8685-47b6-b091-c670fd77c1a4-image.png]
  • Switched from an AWD to a FWD

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    taiwan_girlT
    Definitely you have gotten the usage from that car! To the moon (and on your way back!!!)
  • Crop maps

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    It’s surprising that so many key crops are grown in relatively few places.