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The card game, which asks players to match words and phrases to create what is often crude humor, is promising to pay up to $100 to reluctant Democratic-leaning voters if they publicly mock the former president and make a plan to vote.

The company said it started issuing payments on Tuesday, after it had created a vulgarity-laced website to recruit potential voters who sat out the 2020 election.

 

This is one of many reasons I don't intentionally feed raccoons.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

It appears possible to scroll the window where you don't have accept/cookie settings buttons fully visible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

This is a gift articles community; there's already no paywall on the main link. You may need to turn on Javascript or turn off a browser extension which removes the access token from the URL.

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

Against the government is a pretty tough lift in terms of how US law works. Against specific bad actors, there are a lot of lawsuits already.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks ago

You've got at least a billion dollars less than the people he cares about being liked by.

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

A lot of schools were built decades ago, and never had it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They have darker skin than Vance, so he sees them as inherently criminal, irrespective of whether they've actually committed a crime.

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

They're also symptoms of overheating, dehydration, and consuming water without salts in order to try and handle dehydration.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Because the old folks who own stuff grew up during a period of ever-rising crime rates as cases of mild lead poisoning from gasoline caused a huge increase in violent crime. They don't get that it's somewhere around as safe as it was during the 1950s.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

It means that the economic benefits of being the world's low-cost producer go to people in China instead of the US.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

It's fairly expensive to generate electricity by burning stuff, even biomass. A decent wind, solar, and storage rollout will displace most of it quite cheaply.

The corn ethanol thing is likely to continue in the US as long as we're still burning gasoline in cars.

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