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sharkteethsandwich@lemmy.dbzer0.comto
rpg@ttrpg.network•Sinister reasons for beer price inflation?
0·1 month agoHere’s a boring mundane reason that could be fun. Ancient Egyptian pyramid builders were given beer as payment.
You could have the local evil person have an army of builders building some evil building, supplementing their pay with beer. Such a massive work force would require a lot of beer siphoning off most of the local supply. As the beer supply dwindles, the price increases.
We know that Brawndo™ employs like half the workforce and on their whim all irrigation switched from water to Brawndo™.
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Flippanarchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com•if the entire population just acted in a way they’ve never acted before...
26·6 months agoI’ve talked to a lot of different people about this. People in different states, ages, professions, etc. Pretty much the main thing that keeps people from voting is that no one feels represented by either party. And for some people, they haven’t felt represented their whole lives.
Also the whole voting is patriotic thing is kind of bullshit at this point. No one that I know personally thinks of voting as a super important thing that everyone should be proud of. That’s just a media thing.
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News@lemmy.world•Some restaurant chains are sounding the alarm about consumers
10·7 months agohttps://www.restaurantdepot.com/
I don’t know if this is a regional only thing but there are brick and mortar restaurant supply stores. You usually need a membership to buy from them but you can bulk buy the same food and supplies that restaurants buy.
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News@lemmy.world•Air traffic controllers receive $0 paychecks as government shutdown stretches
13·7 months agoInteresting those numbers have largely not changed in 40 years. Honestly I was guessing that we needed way more ATCs since the strike because air traffic has increased so much since then. Do you happen to know why the need for ATCs hasn’t really changed?
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News@lemmy.world•Air traffic controllers receive $0 paychecks as government shutdown stretches
32·7 months agoI think when Reagan fired all the ATCs, they were temporarily replaced with military trained ones until they could hire and train replacements. But that was a time when there was significantly less air travel and less ATCs than we have and need now.
So maybe they might have the military take over some positions? There’s no way they could fill every single airport and I doubt that they even have the same training and skill set as commercial ATCs.
But having a military take over of airports is the kind of dictator move that probably makes someone like trump salivate.
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Tech@programming.dev•New WiFi tech can accurately identify individuals without devices
1·7 months agoI think the surprise here is that WiFi routers were not built with surveillance hardware in mind. At least at first.
If there was an option to buy a router with surveillance sonar vs a router without sonar, I’m sure most people would buy the one without the surveillance hardware. But unfortunately it doesn’t seem like anyone has that option if they want to use WiFi.
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Comic Strips@lemmy.world•8 men own same wealth as half the world
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Environment@beehaw.org•If We Want Bigger Wind Turbines, We’re Gonna Need Bigger Airplanes
0·8 months agoI wonder if it wouldn’t be easier to use helicopters to transport them? Or create a series of drones specifically designed to carry them?
If you look at the data, it tells you about 1/3 of those who are illiterate comes from foreigners so that is not surprising. But the largest demographic of illiterates in the US is white people lol
Also they are functionally illiterate. It’s a wide encompassing term that ranges from people who can’t read English because they just moved here to people who can only read basic words like stop and go or words they encounter often in life but not much more than that.
I would imagine many people who are functionally illiterate just go to work, watch tv, and sleep.
Unfortunately this is accurate. Half of adults in the US are unable to read past a sixth grade level. 20% are functionally illiterate.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/us-literacy-rates-by-state

The benefit is that the politicians get richer.
Oh wait did you mean what’s in it for the regular everyday people? Nothing, as always.