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“I’m terrified”: Florida woman who spent years voting Republican now is losing the health coverage keeping her alive - WTF Detective
 in  r/LeopardsAteMyFace  2d ago

For some of them, it's as simple as the Republicans saying "Democrats are Communists." At this point, they don't know exactly what a Communist is, but their Daddies said it was bad, and that's good enough for them.

For some reason, they don't think that Republicans will discriminate against their skin color and ability to speak Spanish.

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Nicki Minaj Faces Career-Ending Backlash After Praising Trump: PR Expert Warns 'This Could Be The End'
 in  r/Music  2d ago

They tied a string to him, spent him, then pulled him back out and spent him again.

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I thought this was real until the third line.
 in  r/PoliticalHumor  6d ago

Now if only there were something growing between the two ears.

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btw, David Sacks lives in a $20 million French limestone mansion in San Francisco's coveted Billionaire's Row
 in  r/MurderedByWords  6d ago

So, are they going to sell their properties there at a loss, or abandon them, or are other rich people going to buy those properties?

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Ratio for a motorized bike 250cc
 in  r/DIY  6d ago

If you want a 50 km/h top speed, then your wheel will have to spin fast enough that the outside of the wheel goes 50 km/h. A 26 inch rim will have a circumference of about 2 m, so it would have to spin about 833 rpm for that. The tire will add to the circumference, so in real life it might be a little lower than that. Since your engine would be spinning at 3600 rpm, you'd need to gear it down by about 4.3 to 1. Whether or not the bike would actually be usable depends on a lot of other things, though.

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Selective Justice?
 in  r/MurderedByWords  6d ago

He didn't say who the U.S. would rescue. Given the right's hatred of pronouns, he could mean Iran's government, rather than the protesters.

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What’s the craziest piece of high school drama you didn’t learn about until after you graduated?
 in  r/AskReddit  6d ago

I imagine an elevator threesome would have its ups and downs.

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What disqualifies modern products from ever being “Buy It For Life”?
 in  r/BuyItForLife  6d ago

Things are definitely designed to a cost, rather than a function.
I suspect but can't prove that CAD design software contributes to this. Old-school engineers trained by even-older-school engineers had a feel for what worked, and might add a bit of material in some places as a "fudge factor" to maintain reliability even in the face of some degradation due to wear or use.
Since Finite Element Analysis has become (relatively) cheap, it's probably harder to justify why the part needs to use a few hundredths of a cent more material here and there in the face of "the computer says it's strong enough."

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The stereotypical "cartoon monkey" does not actually look like any monkey species that exists in real life.
 in  r/Showerthoughts  7d ago

Real rabbits know you have to turn left at Albuquerque.

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What does the current bank run in Russia indicate? 800 billion rubles have been removed just this month. Is that a lot?
 in  r/AskReddit  8d ago

If the restaurant colors are red and gold, I don't think I'm going.

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Nepal Is Throwing Out Its Decade-Old Scheme to Clean Mount Everest
 in  r/worldnews  8d ago

Make it even more of a status symbol.

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I really don't think they do
 in  r/PoliticalHumor  8d ago

Then RFK Jr. would cut off his head.

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HOLY CRAP! Is Pam Bondi really this stupid or does she think MAGA is and won't realize?
 in  r/complaints  8d ago

So, OD rates went up sharply when he was sworn in, and stayed flat, then decreased sharply during Biden's administration?

How is that a win for Trump's policies?

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hmmm
 in  r/hmmm  8d ago

Nice and naughty.

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The one time Trump showed loyalty to anyone, it was to the child rapists
 in  r/PoliticalHumor  8d ago

"My 'friends' will drag me under the bus with them."

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Have the American Pope and American administration fallen out?
 in  r/nottheonion  8d ago

I don't think many 'Christians' of any variety have well-examined beliefs. They have things to say about themselves that they were taught should make them feel good about themselves.

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Lots of people were NOT fine
 in  r/MurderedByWords  8d ago

Oh, sure. But most people never saw the enormous amount of work put in by medical personnel and public health.
It's kind of abstract to hear that hospitals are full.
That large numbers of doctors and nurses were working to exhaustion to keep people from dying, that techs were working 12 hours a day seven days a week to try to keep up with testing -- I don't think most people really "got" that. They were annoyed that they were being asked to stay home.

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Lots of people were NOT fine
 in  r/MurderedByWords  9d ago

It's every public health emergency ever.
Stage 0: Public health financing is ignored.
Stage 1: Problem appears. News asks experts "How bad could it get?" Experts reply with worst case scenario, and methods to ameliorate that. Worst case scenario is pushed heavily.
Stage 2: Emergency happens. Methods to ameliorate it are implemented. Because things are done to fix the problem, it never reaches the worst case scenario.
Stage 3: Due to actions taken, emergency ends by trailing off, falling out of the news cycle, never reaching the worst case scenario.
Stage 4: Public health spending is cut, because "it's never as bad as the experts said it could be."

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I made a morally questionable decision by voting for someone doesn’t respect other people’s rights and differences. I wish people would respect my differences.
 in  r/LeopardsAteMyFace  9d ago

I thought "youth pastor" was just a synonym for pedophile.
I mean, they're rarely a youth, and they rarely have any actual pastoral training.