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After the migration can we have dicks on Tumblr again
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This is cool! But, the language list contains “Chinese,” which is not an accurate name for a spoken language. I assume this is Mandarin. I would like Cantonese.
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Unfortunately I haven’t found a Kobo with an even backlight. They also went backwards with their screens for the smaller sizes, opting for indented instead of flush on all but the Elipsa.
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Direct wire transmission is still possible.
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Eh. Kindle still has the best rendering and best hardware, and they go on sale very often. There’s also a jailbreak for every firmware that was just released. My interest in e-readers is reduction of distractions so I can get into a flow st
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Goodereader is trash tier and aleays has been.
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The article includes a description of the feature that was copied wholesale from this HN comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41897425#41897573
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> Audio record every interaction you have with insurance and tell 'em you're on a recorded line. I’ve tried this. They just hang up. So I record and then have a transcript generated, and I save my call logs.
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All but 2 are literal children.
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It wasn’t pretty, and for their crimes some of them were sentenced to positions as top scientists for the US government after the war.
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Labor costs and a manufacturing industry that isn’t hyperfinancialized by the government
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The authority over U.S. coinage is established in the Constitution (Article I, Section 8), which gives Congress the power "to coin Money, regulate the Value thereof." Any major changes to U.S. currency, including eliminating a den
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For iPhone 13 Mini: September 2030 For iPhone SE3: Assuming they stop selling it tomorrow, February 2032. That’s when they become officially obsolete. 2 years prior, repairs only if they have the parts.
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This is 1/6th of the normal attrition rate for the year
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Damore’s letter was extremely balanced and had all the appropriate caveats about being applied to individuals. But what we’re seeing as the countervailing force to “woke” and “DEI” is unfortunately not like this. It’s as reactionary as the
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I am amazed that people still post on social media under their real name. The risk v reward seems very skewed towards risk, even if you’re only posting about non-controversial topics.
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Could also just be an increase in symptoms the person already had but in minor form. We tend to think of people as being either schizophrenic or... "not," but it seems far more likely that it exists, like everything in humans, on
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> they are fundamentally unconcerned with goodness or morality, and any appearance that they are is purely a marketing exercise This is flatly untrue. Corporations are made up of humans who make decisions. They are indeed concerned with
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by 42772827 2y ago
Except if you’re on Google Fi, right? https://isgooglefircsyet.com/
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Luma and Gemini have very similar logos, it’s kind of off putting
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It’s not an app I have any use for personally, but it looks cool. Thankfully they did not push it to my iPhone during an update like they did Image Playground.
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A majority of people are not systems thinkers.
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Trust in “Big tech” reaches back into the early 20th century with Bell Labs. If this topic interests you, I highly recommend “The Master Switch” by Tim Wu: https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/books/176/
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Is deepseek r-1 as fashioned here censored?
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In ten years China’s population decline will go from “moderate” to “accelerating,” and we will be a decade into the collapse of globalization. It’s doubtful they will have the expertise or even raw materials to float a navy capable of even
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Patrolling shipping lanes is a power projection, one that US allies and non-allies alike enjoyed or tolerated due to the demonstration of the US’s impartiality and commitment to free trade. China projecting such power will not be seen as im
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They don’t have the navy for it. They’re also bordered by the First Island Chain, a string of countries they have been pissing off for a thousand years.
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1.x Billion people + hyperfinancialization + strategic currency devaluation + American patrol of shipping lanes.
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Except it refuses to talk about the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre[0]. Are we really praising a model that is so blatantly censored by an authoritarian government? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tian
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Building a subway system after the city is so dense that it will be ridden by “enough” people is exactly the wrong way to create livable urban spaces. Building a subway is the solution to inducing density, not responding to it.

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