I’ve had great jobs, introducing yourself at meetings that include people you don’t know is just part of it
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I have done this innumerable times at multiple jobs. Maybe it happens a lot more than you think
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News@lemmy.world•Device hurled near NYC mayor’s mansion was an IED that could have caused ‘serious injury or death,’ NYPD says | CNNEnglish
163·3 months agoAre we reading the same article? It says it was a counterprotester who threw this into the right-wing group
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World News@lemmy.world•Mojtaba Khamenei, son of ayatollah killed in U.S.-Israeli strikes, named Iran's new supreme leader, state media reportsEnglish
61·3 months agoNot necessarily, Iran wasn’t taking the threat from Israel and the US seriously when Khamenei the elder was assassinated, but they certainly are now. I think it depends on how much intel Israel is still getting from inside Iran
This is literally George W. Bush’s fault, he’s the one who pushed the DST changes several weeks earlier in the spring and later in the fall in 2005. This and Hurricane Katrina happened at the same time.
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Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Hegseth declares, 'I only speak American' to room full of foreign leadersEnglish
46·3 months agoHegseth’s father was a basketball coach for high schools across Minnesota before retiring in 2019; his mother is an executive business coach who has taught with the Minnesota Excellence in Public Service (MEPS) Series, a fellowship and leadership program for Republican and center-right women.
She’d probably say “You’ve always been a disappointment to this family. You should’ve gone to war with Iran last year.”
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World News@lemmy.world•The Most Accurately Predicted Genocide in History. No One Cares About Sudan. It Doesn't Matter How Many Sudanese Are Massacred. We Have Overwhelming Evidence.English
21·3 months agoit was never meant as a directed/individualistic comment
You should probably have said something like “my bad” and explained yourself then, rather than insult people who read your words and all took the same thing away from them. Your intentions are meaningless when your words don’t explain them
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World News@lemmy.world•The Most Accurately Predicted Genocide in History. No One Cares About Sudan. It Doesn't Matter How Many Sudanese Are Massacred. We Have Overwhelming Evidence.English
31·3 months ago“How willing have you been to go and put your life on the line to stop these atrocities?”
Literally puts life on line to help others
“Why are you so stupid that you don’t understand my rhetorical device?”
You could just say “good work” and move on rather than debase yourself like this
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World News@lemmy.world•“You cannot blockade the sun”: how to help Cuba’s green transitionEnglish
6·3 months agoThey’re not thinking that far ahead
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Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•I was told it would be a cultural experienceEnglish
651·3 months agoArch Aplin, the owner of Buc-ee’s, is a huge Republican donor who backs Trump-aligned candidates in Texas, including Abbott, Patrick, and Paxton. Buc-ee’s really lost me when they opened one in Bastrop on 71 and planted a billboard over Hruska’s, trying to drive away their business, but I would never go there regardless.
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World News@lemmy.world•“You cannot blockade the sun”: how to help Cuba’s green transitionEnglish
14·3 months agoFirst thing I thought of. I wouldn’t put it past our current leadership to think blocking out the sun is a good idea
Excrete, have sex, lay egg
Excrete, have sex, lay egg
Excrete, have sex, lay egg
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Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•I just want juice, is that so much to ask?English
2·3 months agoWhat’s not true there?
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What's going to happen to gas stations as cars electrify?English
1·3 months agoWay less than $5 per tank, more like 5¢/gallon at an average gas station. They make 70¢ off me filling my tank.
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World News@lemmy.ml•Johnson: US Must Wage War With Iran Because of Its “Misguided Religion”English
11·3 months agoWhat the fuck
How would it be unhealthy? Do you not wash your ass in the shower? Does spit and snot not come out of your body in the shower?
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Memes@lemmy.ml•First as tragedy; second as farce; third time’s the charmEnglish
21·3 months agoI mean, regardless of your opinion of the geopolitics, the first Gulf War was clearly defined and well executed
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News@lemmy.world•Louisiana mayor convicted of raping 16-year-old boy at her home while still in officeEnglish
282·3 months agoI would legitimately wonder whether both of them were sexually assaulted as children. This sort of thing doesn’t typically manifest from nothing
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News@lemmy.world•James Talarico wins Democratic primary for US Senate in TexasEnglish
3·3 months agoWhat you see on this map is the Hispanic population overwhelmingly supporting Talarico over Crockett, and vice versa for the black population. This bodes well for a general election, given Texas is 40% Hispanic.


Where does that funding come from?