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Prison cell in Denmark’s new maximum security prison 11 comments
roanoke · 5 years ago
Well, it’s time to go comment crime in Denmark.
Awnn the police 4 comments
roanoke · 5 years ago
Might be believable if it was in the US. But I suspect that really end with something mundane, like “locked her in a cell,” or “took her mug shot and prints.”
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Leaning building 2:electric boogaloo 11 comments
roanoke · 5 years ago
Yep. That ^
Leaning building 2:electric boogaloo 11 comments
roanoke · 5 years ago
Probably meant Alabama. They just regressed a little further with latest ban.
Matt watson 4 comments
roanoke · 5 years ago
Gremlins
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Old time! 6 comments
roanoke · 5 years ago
Do you know that having an MBA earns the same relative pay today as a BA in the 90s?
So people who went to college in the 80/90s paid a lot less for school and earned a lot more money at the jobs they got with that education.
To be clear, I went to college in the 90s and again recently. The education I got in my second degree was not 10 times the value of the one I got in the 90s. The teachers aren’t earning 10 (or even 5) times what they were 20 years ago and the pay a degree holder earns isn’t that much better either.
I’m not a kid just out of school, I have a lot of work experience and measurable results in my work history.
I’m not saying kids these days aren’t fortunate that they are protected by labor laws, but they are affected by different pressures. Just because they don’t have walk to school in the snow, uphill (both ways) like you did, doesn’t mean that they aren’t faced with challenges that you don’t understand.
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Gamers! It is time! 11 comments
roanoke · 5 years ago
Humans can contract the disease if the eat the sick animal.
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Gamers! It is time! 11 comments
roanoke · 5 years ago
They’ve been calling Chronic Wasting Disease the zombie disease lately. It’s related to mad cow (and is also a prion), but different. It has been discovered in a growing population of deer and elk in mid west and southern US. It attacks the brain and spine. It causes the animal to drool and stumble. And it can be transferred to humans. While it can cause muscle atrophy and fur loss, I don’t believe it can cause the mess in that photo.
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True af 15 comments
roanoke · 5 years ago
Sure, Walmart is intentionally disruptive. It’s not an uncommon model. In fact, I used to work for an organization that was pretty affronted when Walmart and Amazon sold the product for LESS than they purchased it for. But this tactic is so common it has a term: Loss leader. You sell an item or selection of items at a loss to get people into your marketplace where they buy other things. Keep up or fall behind. If you fall behind, you risk collapsing.
True af 15 comments
roanoke · 5 years ago
Netflix was a market condition that blockbuster didn’t respond to until it was too late. Their hubris shut them down.
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This makes me ...Uncomfy? 6 comments
roanoke · 5 years ago
But I want it.
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The real "black hole" everyone seems to be forgetting about 3 comments
roanoke · 5 years ago
Today, when searching for an object I thought I dropped into the black hole, I instead pulled out a plastic cover of some sort. I didn’t actually drop something, but an object appeared nonetheless.