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this is a meaningless tautology

This is something PayPal has offered small businesses for probably close to a decade now.

If you look over that table, its generally the cheap drugstore sunscreens pushed by 2-3 large multinational companies.

Buy a higher quality sunscreen (there are multiple reddits for this exact purpose) and you will not get poisoned by benzene and it won't be greasy and smelly.

Some sunscreen is and it's mostly the cheap drugstore junk you see in almost all retail settings.

There are plenty of sunscreens out there which are not greasy and don't stink and you won't notice once you apply it.

This will last 1 year tops lmao

The article does not contend that "Egyptians Circumnavigated Africa" it says that Egyptians hired Phoenicians to engage in an Egyptian-funded circumnavigation of Africa"

Why do you think they were stopping every couple of months to sow a whole harvest of grain before moving on?

You fire them. What's so difficult about that?

There are a lot of services (I think Amazon may even maintain a Chrome extension for this) that can take a web page and run it thru a "readability" service and then deliver it to your Amazon Kindle's email address which will add it to your library.

Its a pretty decent way to read a good chunk of the content you find online.

Doesn't seem to work in my browser (Firefox)

Take it from the rich people who have primarily hoarded all that money, and give it to poor people who are on the brink of death.

Everyone I know stopped using AIM over a decade ago and by even 5 years ago Google Chat and everything else emptied out in favor of iMessage, Whatsapp, Signal etc...

I've personally seen a couple photographs of insurrectionists with what looked like Baofeng (ironic?) style radios with police-style handsets that groups were using to coordinate at some level.

Matt Taibbi has never heard of public and nonprofit news?

Its also extremely disappointing that we don't treat the seasonal flu more seriously. People talk about this, it just took a pandemic for most people to pay attention.

Folks should be wearing masks when they are or even might be sick with ANY transmissible disease. Its actually pretty insane that pre-covid, folks would go into public and work while endangering who knows how many people (I know a lot of people don't have the option, which is a whole other bag of worms).

I find it extremely depressing that people compare this to other easily preventable deaths (I see it often online and from my own family) and say: "See we handle the seasonal flu pretty horribly, why are we trying so hard with COVID-19?"

Also many of those people who didn't die will have anywhere from mild effects to serious impairments for the rest of their lives.

A huge amount of people who survive will deal with increased depression, anxiety, etc.

Even though its easy and callous to write off the lives of millions of (easily preventable) deaths with a hand-wave, there are going to be serious and long-term effects for those who didn't die and for their families, jobs, etc...

Seems like if they only cared about clicks and ads they would've ran the article.

From my position, they exercised the bare-minimum duties of any good editor to shut down stories they don't believe meet the standards they set for themselves.

And for exercising that duty, they are leaving clicks, ad impressions, and probably a good amount of money on the table.

The only people who get "canceled" are people who allow it to happen to them.

Every single person who has claimed to have been "canceled" not only brought the entire situation upon themselves, but then immediately turned around and cry foul and try to become the victim in the situation.

Its pretty entertaining and bewildering to see these people –who almost universally bemoan "victim culture"–immediately fallback to those same "tropes" when they do something socially unacceptable.

"Race" is a fairly modern concept that bares little if any association with actual biology.

Most people would call that "lying", "unethical", and probably "stupid."

This is largely due to the wholesale destruction of the news industry by embarrassed capitalists and politicians over the last 30-40 years. Another reasons is that the same people have removed any ensemble of education which teach children to think even halfway critical about any topic.

We have journalists entering the workforce who have a good chance of having never consumed or witnessed any real journalism in their entire life.

So many of publications we used to know and love employed a sufficient amount of _professional_ copywriters, fact checkers, editors and so forth.

Editors were happy to let journalists take their time on stories that might not pay off for several years knowing it would pay to get things right.

Now-a-days, unless you work at the NYT, Guardian, or other company with mega-bucks and a robust subscription program you will probably never see a fact-checker, photographer, copywriter, and your editor will be not much more than an assembly line manager who may or may not care about the quality of the journalism you produce. If they do care, the likely have no leverage over the moneyed-interests who own the company.

A lot of people these days are not willing to pay for good journalism because they've been tricked into thinking they get "just as good" for free, which they most obviously do not.

And when they "discover" that their free news is run by rank amateurs who don't actually care about journalism and produce the kinds of things the OP rails against, it often seems to fester into a complete denunciation of the entire enterprise.

In fact, it is my belief that this is actually the goal of many unscrupulous practitioners of crappy journalism.

They know they can bankroll and support a crappy "news site" with the left hand and with the right hand use that to slowly tear down the firms putting out rigorous journalism, giving actual facts to citizens which show their ideology and politicians are nothing more than kleptocratic idiots.

Elon Musk

As was Donald Trump's in 2017 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/11/02...

Generally industrial scale cannabis is grown via cloning of feminized plants which generally do not produce seeds

sounds like you should've talked to customer service first :)

And Paypal has been doing this (Paypal Working Capital) for about 6 years at this point:

https://www.pymnts.com/news/b2b-payments/2018/paypal-uk-work...

state income tax is laughably low

Since we're using bad analogies I would argue its more like being offered a piece of delicious candy and its great and you continue to eat the candy and its fine.

Eventually you wake up one day and decide you've been gaining too much weight and you try to stop eating the candy but to your surprise, over the past several months or years your brain chemistry has been subtly changed and now your physical well-being and mental state is literally tied to you continuing to eat the candy.

You can't stop and if you do you're in horrible pain and can't go to work, if you don't go to work you lose your job and if you want to keep working and not be homeless you keep eating the candy.

read the article before posting

Can you explain the joke?