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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Do you have a source on that? I remember Neil DeGrasse Tyson getting a bunch of heat for claiming 5:1, although that may have used different criteria.

Edit: It was 5:1 according to https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/neil-degrasse-tyson-vax-tweet/

Also no source indicated.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Part of the issue is that studios have been actively trying to screw over the theaters, for the same reason. Everyone feels entitled to all of the profits, and does everything in their power to hoard it from everyone else.

Last I checked, the studio basically gets 100% of the ticket price. This can happen directly, or indirectly (theater buys the film for a set price, based on expected sales). This typically means the entire theater operations have to survive on concession sales alone.

That's the cost of rent, marketing, administration, cleaning, maintenance, and more. All of this from your $10 popcorn and $8 coke, for 2 hours. That means a lot of corners have to be cut, making it harder to justify the cost of going in the first place.

It also means that Disney is happy to sell you the same movie on streaming, but only if they can get the same $15 apiece.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

For comparison, the total population of Canada is 40.1 million people, meaning that just over 0.5% signed this petition.

As much as I enjoy the sentiment, this petition was never going to go anywhere. As others have pointed out, revoking citizenship based on popular opinion just isn't a thing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

In the very few cases where the trump campaign showed any evidence whatsoever, they actually did very well with the court rulings. Keep in mind that these were absolutely not cases of widespread fraud, but of localized errors that are common in every election.

The fact that most suits were filed with literally no evidence whatsoever was very telling, though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Are....Are you doing math with cards? Or zodiac signs? Or human ribs?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This could've been a delightful meta joke, and I was disappointed to see that it wasn't.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Does Spanish have a super generic term like "significant other" or "partner" that doesn't convey anything useful?

Side note, the types of parents you would be concerned about are probably also the type that get super racist about teaching Spanish in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

How is that different from the Office 365 installation I have at work? Other than the fact that it can actually operate entirely offline for a significant time, unlike what the article describes?

Or did you redefine O365 to only mean the web version?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The last minute to implement a change is on Thursday. No changes on Friday, for the same reason there are no changes on Saturday.

So it should be on Thursday at 4:59.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago

He absolutely does not have the authority, nor is there anyone at the federal level to do so.

But it doesn't mean he won't try anyway, or that anyone would stop him.

(The rare occasions of a state possibly splitting have come from within the state itself)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Betteridge says no.

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