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  • On average, at least 1 car crashes into a 7-Eleven every day, $91M settlement reveals

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  • Roughly 12,600 7/11's in the US, so a 0.01% chance of any individual 7/11 getting a car on a given day, or a 1 in a thousand chance.

    According to this https://slate.com/business/2022/06/car-crash-buildings-how-many.html about a 100 cars crash into buildings each day, so 7/11 makes up 1% of building crashes, but that tracks since a lot of people go to there for quick needs with distracted minds.

    I don't have much of a point, but the statistics don't paint a some scary point that I think the lawyers are trying to make.

  • American cheese

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  • It also makes a really good grilled cheese

  • Sub.club is here to help the fediverse make money

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  • That's not what I am saying.

    In my opinion the forum is a altruistic area. Is the value I provide tailoring the posts by up voting and down voting not valuable? Is the value I provide by summarizing and or giving interpretations of the articles posted here not valuable? Or engaging in thoughtful honest discussion not valuable?

    I believe they are.

    Do I feel entitled to some profit because of my input on this forum? No I do not.

    I give this work because I provide my value to this site voluntarily, honestly, many hours of my day, altruisticly, to build a better community and discussion. I don't demand money because I receive a community in return.

    What I am saying is that this kind of stuff will segment our community, by creating a profitable segment of the community and an unprofitable segment of community, implicitly creating a "correct" and "incorrect" way. Beyond that it will introduce people to our community who care less about furthering this forum, and more about making profit.

    Remember YouTube before the partner program and video responses and how much more engaged and equal that community was? And what it is now with most every prominent channel being sponsored on top of ad breaks and product placement?

    Obviously, if a person wants to dedicate their full time to some art and wants money for it, they should, and I'm excited for what they produce, but this is not where to do it.

    But you don't have vibrant thoughtful debates about world events in target, you don't purchase microwaves at the library. You go to stores to buy stuff, you go to forums to discuss stuff.

    Content creators can create their own site, their own patreon, or whatever - they can freely submit their work to our forum for feedback and an audience, and they can even link someone the link to their store if they ask - but introducing the profit angle directly to our forum and integrating it in will be the beginning of the end for this community as it is. The first crack of enshitification.

  • Sub.club is here to help the fediverse make money

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  • Fuck the commodification of culture.

    Fuck full time content creators.

    I don't want people working full time on social networks. I don't want to read your ad, your secret knowledge, your product placement, or sponsorship, or your oh so subtle pitch for VC funding. I'm certainly not going to give money.

    I want people who do their own thing in the real world, and as a hobby and show-and-tell, submit their work freely to the Internet to hone and expand their craft and field, and gain organic enrichment altruisticly.

    If you want to sell stuff and make money, make your own website and store. Not on our forum.

    Don't pollute our forum. I want to be inspired, be in awe, be entertained, be informed, and to give back in my own way that continues this cycle and fuels the forum.

    We've fled so many greedy sites - fleeing this capitalistic parasite in hopes of finding honest discussion untainted by greed. I'm tired of fleeing.

  • Swift? more like Supersonic

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  • COVID-19 was the surprise guest at Democratic National Convention as attendees test positive for virus

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  • Yup, it's no longer a pandemic, it is now endemic.

    Humanity lost the war. Collectively, we were not good enough. Now covid is here to stay forever like the common cold and flu are.

    But covid may have yet to be understood long term impacts. Some are interpreting the data like that of HIV before we understood it could progress into AIDS because the disease has not been around long enough.

    Ref: https://youtu.be/2HGi81LsXtA (55m, but worth the watch)

  • After cybersecurity lab wouldn’t use AV software, US accuses Georgia Tech of fraud

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  • It's a well written article worth reading in full

    In the government's telling, the school routinely missed compliance obligations in large part because the researchers found dealing with security protocols "burdensome." And when the researchers complained, admins gave in.

    This is a good motivator, security is important, and there will always be a spectrum between convenience and security, and it's easy to drift too far down to the dangerously convenient side of the spectrum.

    This Georgia Tech lab got dangerously convenient security policies, lied about it, got ratted out, and now is the government's displayed example.

    Now it's either getting pwned or getting sued, instead of just risking the former. Hopefully this will motivate more people to take security more seriously, especially when hosting sensitive data, and especially when accepting federal government money.

  • Spotify quietly limits Release Radar playlist to 30 tracks from 200, tries to convince users that's how it always was

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  • I thought my release radar was lighter than usual, I wonder how many of my artists are getting artificially ignored from this

  • Harris' campaign is transforming big crowds into volunteers on the ground in key swing states

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  • Bullshit. She's great, with a long track record to back that up.

    Not only is she not old and not in mental decline, but she's also charismatic, engaging, and she is progressive. Congress and the courts will limit her policies of course, but that's by design, the government is not just the president.

    Beyond that, with picking Walz and other strategic picks in her campaign, she's shown that she knows how to form a good team and avoid landmines.

    I'm looking forward to the Harris presidency and voting For her, not just against Trump.

  • Dishwashing

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  • Technically... yes

  • Cori Bush, ‘Squad’ Member and Vocal Critic of Israel, Loses Her Primary

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  • Check out Jen Perelman in South Florida

    She's going against Debbie Wasserman Schultz and is explicitly anti AIPAC and progressive

    https://www.jen2024.org/

  • Kamala Harris has told allies that he she has chosen Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz

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  • Backrooms Rule

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  • Harris narrows VP picks to two and will announce her selection Tuesday morning

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  • God I hope it's Walz, it's a dream ticket for progressives

  • J.D. Vance in Serious Trouble After Damning Project 2025 Book Foreword | Donald Trump’s running mate can’t claim he knew nothing about the extremist Project 2025 after this.

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  • If Kelly gets the VP, the democratic governor of Arizona gets to pick his replacement, it's not a special election or a tossup!

  • J.D. Vance in Serious Trouble After Damning Project 2025 Book Foreword | Donald Trump’s running mate can’t claim he knew nothing about the extremist Project 2025 after this.

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  • Mark Kelly seems like the right pick to me, he's got the overview effect and has unique experiences and leadership, already has experience in the Senate which is their main job, can probably take his swing state blue, and his seat can be easily replaced.

    Shapiro is too pro-Netanyahu IMO, I'm neutral on Beshear, but his seat isn't as easily replaceable, and losing a democratic governor would suck, and he might not take the state blue.

  • Removed

    I've been vaping weed more and more, and earlier and earlier in the day. It's completely counteracting the benefits of my Adderral

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  • I eventually quit, I finally cold Turkey'd it, I combined it with quiting nicotine.

    I've tried to quit many times in the past, but this time has been the longest at 5 months or so

    The advice I have: Don't plan to quit, at some point you'll have the impulse to quit after it weighs on your head for a while, that's when you just lean into it - in the spur of the moment, toss your stuff or put it away someplace that's annoying to get it back out of. Be as fast about this as possible as to not give time to the little voice that says "one more": catch your brain off guard.

    Then importantly, ensure to not substitute your habit with something else, like binge snacking or another drug - just accept that you're gonna be uncomfortable - and embrace the discomfort - potentially make use of a fidget toy - but I found success in just destroying the habit rather than replacing/redirecting it. It took a couple weeks before it no longer was on my mind.

    Finally: don't beat yourself up if it takes a couple attempts to break the habit, each time I quit I got better at quiting.

    It took a few weeks before I felt like it was all out of my system, and I started feeling healthier and better and more productive and more myself, and now I actually decline weed when offered because I like my sobriety. Mama Ganja taught me a lot, and she's taught me all she can, and no I have moved on.

  • Ike Perlmutter Has Sold His Entire Disney Stake

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  • I was wondering what all that downward pressure was on the stocks

  • Who might Kamala Harris pick for VP? Three favorites emerge

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  • #HarriButt2024