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I thought I was a "customize everything" Nova launcher kind of guy, but when I heard the original developer had quit the company that bought it I switched to Niagara. I thought I'd just try it out for a few days, immediately got hooked. Just a few things to set up then your done and getting to everything is so much faster and easier, one handed.

Not just anyone, but it's not too hard. They expect to be able to get you into shape. There are also waivers available for disabilities, if you score high in the ASVAB you're more likely to get one. OP didn't mention any disability so it shouldn't be a problem.

And different branches have different requirements. A buddy from high school with a horrible home life and no prospects was too heavy for the Marines but the army took him. Got a specialty with transferable skills in the real world and has a great life now. In and out before 9/11 though.

20-30 years ago they were awesome. Used to be around the speed and price of five guys but way better. They've been on a steady decline for a long time now. All of them near me have been shut down for a while, I'm kind of surprised they're still around in any significant numbers.

Say you lost your driver's licence/ID and need your birth certificate and SS card to get a new one, a new passport is easy enough if you have those basic documents.

I'm going to get burned like crazy for saying this but if leaving right this second, like NOW, really means homelessness for you; go join the air force. Sign the papers, pack up what they let you bring and forget about everything else. If your family gets wise to what is going on and tries to stop you, they will come looking for you and your family will be in deep shit. Maybe even mention to your recruiter that if you don't show up at the appointed time, you're probably being held against your will, might speed things up.

There's another catch if you're not using a card with rewards. (As I understand it this is mostly a U.S. thing, other countries don't do this.)

Every year when I take my big vacation my wife and I get 1-1.5 of our international business class tickets paid for by rewards on one card and about half of our hotel suites (about 10-11 nights) paid for by rewards on another card. If you're paying cash or using a card without rewards, you're paying for my vacation.

Places with different prices for cash and cards are vanishingly rare. Mostly because card processing companies try to penalize places that do this. So everyone pays higher prices to pay for the higher processing fees for reward cards. If you aren't getting something back you're just paying for people that are.

I just scrolled past three depressing posts because I didn't want to deal with it this early and clicked a comic instead, only to have it be this comic.

That's funny, I had the opposite experience.

I used to count on my front page of Lemmy to give me links to stories about Gaza that I wasn't getting from the major news outlets. Every page had multiple posts about Gaza with stories and context I sure wasn't getting from Reuters.

After the election they quickly became few and far in between. With most of them things I have heard about elsewhere, the Lemmy post only being good for discussion.

The problem with GMOs isn't the GMOs themselves, it's why they've been GM'd. If they've been modified to be "roundup resistant" so they can dump a truckload of glyphosate on them, or something similar to that, that might be a problem.

If I'm buying fresh produce it's not a problem, I can can make double sure to wash it properly. But if it's processed food, I definitely do not trust food manufacturers to get all that shit off the vegetables.

Looking for GMO free canned fruit/vegetables, frozen fruit/vegetables, or anything with fruit/vegetables in it is, in my opinion, a good idea. But a fresh cucumber? Just wash it.

I'm disappointed those links aren't real.

And I think the gold and silver parts are usually just plastic.

Fucking paywall

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Is your definition of boomers "members of the baby boomer generation born between 1946 and 1964", or is it "everyone more than 5 years older than me"?

Or do you not live somewhere in the anglosphere?

I'm not saying everyone born and raised in the anglosphere between '47 and '64 know who John Lennon and Yoko Ono are, but almost all of them do.

The Beatles and the events surrounding them are among the foremost cultural touchstones of that generation.