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A man of peace and principle aka Raccoon Sam alt/rant account: @vervaIkon
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miksei suomi pysty samaan vitttuuuuu
In 2025, Sweden topped Steam's revenue charts with ~20% of total earnings (16% from Stockholm alone), per Alinea Analytics. This performance was driven by several major releases from Swedish studios, including Battlefield 6 from DICE, ARC Raiders from Embark Studios, Split
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@file_select I would go but only for the food
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I feel like most people still haven’t internalized that Poland now has a lower TFR than Japan
Fertility Rate of Poland by Subregion in 2024. Overall, the fertility rate was 1.10. Moreover, no region had a above replacement fertility rate.
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it's abhorrent to me that public domain is a fucking century
When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 will enter the public domain in the US, like: 💄 Dizzy Dishes, the first appearance of Betty Boop 🔍 The first 4 Nancy Drew novels 🚂 The Little Engine That Could 🤡 Animal
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Amish prohibitions on technology are confusing at first glance, but you must understand that they're not actually Luddites. Their opposition to most tech stems from and opposition to AUTONOMY. When, by way of tech, you no longer need your neighbor -- the community erodes. E.g,
@shagbark_hick Amish people also believe it’s a sin to drive a tractor but you can pull modern farm equipment with an engine slapped on it using horses and that’s a-ok.
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like —— how would anyone recover from this? And I mean *both* parties involved. Put me in either side’s shoes and you’d never hear from me again
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After reviewing the files, I owe Jeffrey Epstein an apology. I had been led to believe he trafficked young girls, yet not one can be seen in these photos. It appears he primarily trafficked middle-aged politicians and academics.
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tire dust is it's 28% of ocean microplastics and nobody talks about it six million tonnes annually. just from tires on asphalt. particles wash into waterways, accumulate in fish, enter the food chain, end up in your blood we regulate tailpipe emissions (the car industry had
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drones versus horse mounted cavalry is a tech tree anachronism that could only be dreamt up by slavs
Earlier today, Ukrainian forces repelled a Russian cavalry assault in Donetsk Oblast. Cavalry, in this case, actually using horses.
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Sama kävis muuten 100% suomessa :D
What people spent that withdrawn money on was... predictable? Given that they're cutting down retirement accounts considerably, and that the demographics of withdrawals were irresponsible, it's not surprising that the largest clear-cut spending category was... Gambling.
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>kommentit miten nää jaksaa
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The modern economics of YouTube: An advertiser might pay a $12 CPM to buy programmatic (skippable, pre or mid roll) YouTube ads. The creator of the video gets about half that as an RPM (revenue per thousand views) So, if you watch 30 videos from a creator in a year, you are
@RABtoons I’m the ceo of ridge wallet, a very active YouTube sponsors. The majority of the audience doesn’t skip. The people who skip wouldn’t buy anyway. It’s a self selection process, like ad blockers. (If you skip host read ads, that’s fine, but don’t run an ad blocker. That
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