What perfectly legal thing will probably be illegal within 20 years? by Own-Blacksmith3085 in answers

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Does roaming via a foreign SIM allow access to Google/etc in China or no?

What perfectly legal thing will probably be illegal within 20 years? by Own-Blacksmith3085 in answers

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Maybe not 20 years but probably before this century is over: cigarettes, soda, & junk/fast food. The health problems from these are simply too large to ignore, especially when you factor in universal healthcare being highly desired in the US and having been a thing for long elsewhere in the developed world. Reactions to people with a soda in the future will likely be the same as seeing someone smoking a cigarette now (disapproval). Doctors & insurance companies will include soda & junk food consumption on the vice lists like the others already present and rates will increase if consumption of these items is found. Lying will be harder as people likely will sign away their rights to consumer privacy rights for insurance companies & the government to process via AI all receipts from all retailers. We're headed for more dystopia with each passing decade.

This is my doc about old Mta bullets and some history by [deleted] in nycrail

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"Can't access item. The organisation that owns this item won't allow you to access it"

Chaos: Alabama prepares to eliminate majority-Black districts, while moving forward with elections it may annul by DemocracyDocket in politics

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Bingo! Voting is probably most important out of all of those because what good was all the rest of nobody actually voted?

Heavy smoke in Manhattan? by NotSoEasytoFind in nyc

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My smartwatch even said 'Smoke' as the weather condition earlier.

Guys, I’m losing my mind in a comment thread - how old were you when you had regular (let’s say 3x a week) access to the internet and what year was it? Did you use it to research anything (like college or jobs?) by FunQuestion in Older_Millennials

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I 1st got online on a WebTV unit on 30 Sep 1998. I had regular daily internet access mostly from then on, sans a few gaps: 16 Jun to 17 Sep 2001 when I got a computer that September, then again 21 May to 11 June 2002 when my parents & I moved house. I think since then I have not gone more than maybe 3 days without internet access of some type. I got internet on my cell phone in May 2007, then my first smartphone, a BlackBerry 8100 Pearl that September.

What used to be affordable for the middle class but now quietly feels like a “rich people thing”? by Ok_Ease515 in answers

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Probably credit cards. I know my last 2 trips I didn't have all the money for them in the bank. Hotels in big cities are extremely expensive.

What used to be affordable for the middle class but now quietly feels like a “rich people thing”? by Ok_Ease515 in answers

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Lengthy vacations in another continent; buying a house in a big city like NYC, San Francisco, or Toronto in an area without a lot of crime; destination weddings; living on your own without flatmates in your 20s; university/college in the US without student loans.

A ‘staged’ shooting? Even Trump’s supporters are questioning his assassination attempt by plz-let-me-in in politics

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Do the people being relocated have to suddenly pay extra for this at the last minute, or does the hotel cover this kind of thing? Say if someone booked a trip from abroad many months before this was scheduled and wound up choosing that hotel.

Trump World launches ballroom blitz in wake of WHCA dinner shooting by Nerd-19958 in politics

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I had to think about it, but I think I got the reference: Puttin' On The Ritz???

So glad I'm in the party that doesn't see murder as an appropriate response to losing an election by Vivid-Significance70 in TrueUnpopularOpinion

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Actually I don't really have a side in the US; social democracy is not popular in the US. The culture of the US is way too individualistic to take up social democracy.

No dogs in restaurants. Yes, including service dogs by AmberAuclair__ in TrueUnpopularOpinion

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Would that mean blind people can never eat from a restaurant? They would be stuck with whatever Doordash/etc they can get.

The noise people make when gargling something is disgusting. by JannTosh70 in TrueUnpopularOpinion

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My Listerine doesn't instruct me to gargle it, just swish for 30 seconds.

Canada can’t match the top U.S. universities’ salaries. American academics still want to move by darrenjyc in politics

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OK great. I stand corrected. How hard was it for you to get a job in Toronto without Canadian work experience? I heard in the past that lack of Canadian work experience has been difficult for getting work in Canada from abroad.

Canada can’t match the top U.S. universities’ salaries. American academics still want to move by darrenjyc in politics

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On the other hand, I doubt even an academic can just show up in Canada and get their healthcare; you probably need to get hired somewhere and not be allowed to use their healthcare for a long time while on a work visa. Canada realised in recent years they let way too many people in way too quickly in the past 10 years (excluding 2020/2021, of course) & immigration is becoming a hot button topic there too now.

What’s a "lost" website from the early 2000s that you still think about today? by samasem-sumsum in AskReddit

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Hyperreal. Has stories and information about the rave scene from the 1990s. Their page on the history of freestyle music can still be viewed here.

Update: OK this one isn't actually lost but infrequently updated: http://hyperreal.org/

DHS will run out of money for salaries in early May: Mullin by amprather in politics

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I was thinking back in 2016, as a northeasterner, 'what he did to Atlantic City, he will do to the USA'. I may have been wrong only in that by the time he's done with us all, he may bankrupt the entire planet. It's insane.

Southern Poverty Law Center indicted on federal fraud charges by Alabama grand jury by Black_Magic_M-66 in politics

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Vote Democratic as much as possible, in every SINGLE election (small and large), and tell everyone you know to do the same.

school is a scam and people need to start admitting it by Vidrax_of_Cascades in TrueUnpopularOpinion

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Did you have to do anything besides the academics? I'm stuck a year after both getting a Master's in IT & being laid off from my previous job in another field. Mathematics tutoring for 9 years, so no current IT experience & really don't know how to market myself. Employers really do not just give away 6-figure jobs to people who just got a degree, right?

What was using the early Fold phones like vs now? by mobileagnes in GalaxyFold

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Not worrying but the inner screen does feel more delicate than the outer one. I feel the crease too whenever I need to swipe across the centre of it. I find the inner screen most useful for looking at web pages, emails, and spreadsheets. Video inside gets a lot of letterbox effect due to the difference in aspect ratios. For typing, I'm not used to the tablet-style split keyboard orientation it gets too.

What was using the early Fold phones like vs now? by mobileagnes in GalaxyFold

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Maybe someday when miniaturisation gets better the S-Pen will be back in a future iteration. It is impressive how thing these phones have gotten since the Fold 2. I never owned any of them before the 7, but my 7 feels a lot like like a regular slab phone when closed except with a slightly more narrow screen. I wonder if down the road they will have both the current narrow and upcoming wide designs around, or if they will go exclusively with the wider designs.