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41·1 hour agoWhen we finally perfect cloned meat, that won’t be a problem anymore…
1·3 hours agoI think the trick is the daily devotional, they’ll want to know who you are to deliver that.
Bible Gateway is great if you just want the text, multiple translations even.
2·3 hours agoA lot of people are complaining about the CGI dwarves, but it’s infinitely preferable to the original “Seven Magical Creatures” bullshit they originally planned.
They ditched this early on, so we don’t know who’s who, but guessing Sleepy, Bashful, Dopey, Doc, Grumpy, Happy and Sneezy.
There would probably be some nightmare with changing the address as well because the new unit(s) would be between the existing house and the street where the address is. Apparently your street address is determined by where your front door faces.
One more thing to figure out. LOL.
3·8 hours agoAn Italian singer did a song that’s what American rock sounds like to people who don’t speak English:
Going the other way, I imagine this is what it was like for non-English speakers discovering Elvis for the first time:
The Country
Billy CollinsI wondered about you
when you told me never to leave
a box of wooden, strike-anywhere matches
lying around the house because the micemight get into them and start a fire.
But your face was absolutely straight
when you twisted the lid down on the round tin
where the matches, you said, are always stowed.Who could sleep that night?
Who could whisk away the thought
of the one unlikely mouse
padding along a cold water pipebehind the floral wallpaper
gripping a single wooden match
between the needles of his teeth?
Who could not see him rounding a corner,the blue tip scratching against a rough-hewn beam,
the sudden flare, and the creature
for one bright, shining moment
suddenly thrust ahead of his time—now a fire-starter, now a torchbearer
in a forgotten ritual, little brown druid
illuminating some ancient night.
Who could fail to notice,lit up in the blazing insulation,
the tiny looks of wonderment on the faces
of his fellow mice, onetime inhabitants
of what once was your house in the country?
Hard to describe the impact he had, even if you didn’t care for his music. On fashion, choreography, design, the 80s were really driven by Jackson.
I can’t speak for Reddit, but on Lemmy, admins keep track of “unresolved reports” and failing to resolve reports on a community you moderate is grounds for removal.
In terms of scale, from the person at the top making xxx times the person at the bottom, they’ve likely always been around.
“Robber Baron” is the ye olde term.
Google tells me John D. Rockefeller peaked at around $1.4 billion in 1937. 1.5% of US GDP.
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=47167
The average wage in 1937 was $890 a year.
https://time.com/archive/6760420/personnel-above-average/
So Rockefeller, at his death, had amassed as much wealth as 1,573,034 average people would earn in a year.
In order to hit 1.5% of current US GDP (27.36 trillion), Bezos or Musk would have to hit 410.4 billion. That’s how wealthy Rockefeller was.
1.2 Musks. 2 Bezoses.
In my experience it’s:
Person 1: “End the problem!”
Me: “It’s not that simple, here’s how to end the problem.”
Person 1: “I’m not reading that! END THE PROBLEM!”
At that point it’s just two houses, which is also doable since it’s a double lot.
Depending on what kind, I have the room to add as many as 3, but the problem here is city restrictions limit them to BACK yards only, not front yards. :( I have no back yard, it’s ALL front yard.
You could probably get it all from Home Depot, but you’d have to bundle the kit together yourself.
Problem: Confiscating guns from an armed population.
Might take 100 years or so… Remember, the titans of retail used to be Sears, Woolworth’s, and Newberrys.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sears
Probably a tie between Tremors 1/2, Big Trouble in Little China and Buckaroo Banzai.
Borderline unwatchable with it on.
Removed, this is internal US news, not World News.