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by 8jef 4y ago
Downshifting is nothing an upshifting immigrant like yourself should be expected to understand. Keep on keeping on dude, show them lazy basterds how it's done!
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by 8jef 4y ago
Elon Musk is dead, long live Elon Musk I'm no fanboy and don't own a Tesla or a spacex rocket, but I can recognize the characteristic putrid decaying stench emanating from that piece: the stinky Wall Street cheap shot of the short
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by 8jef 4y ago
Come on folks, this last millenium vision totally lacks ambition. How about building a full-scale Enterprise in Earth's orbit, in space? Now that we have low orbit on-demand and scheduled transportion services available, we'd get
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by 8jef 4y ago
I don't either. Arrived in the world like I've been thrown out on a bowling alley. Took me over 40 years to gain some traction in anything, while learning to deeply hate the world, before I started unlearning all that hate. To me,
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by 8jef 4y ago
Uh... Try the other way around: https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2020-03/DEA_GOV_DIR-...
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by 8jef 4y ago
I'd like to use a skin that makes keys stand out more clearly, like really big (and possibly animated) characters, using my language keyboard layout. Potentially making this the first universal keyboard ever.
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by 8jef 4y ago
Beauty, as ugliness, is only a matter of perspective, focus and point of view. Anything can be beautiful, everything can be ugly. You find something beautiful or ugly? Try to shift your focus to include its surrounding to various degrees, o
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by 8jef 4y ago
> And then the time towards the brexit disaster was like watching a car crash in slow motion, and behind the wheel there were clowns and people who insisted clowns had to be taken very seriously for a reason they can cannot describe The
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by 8jef 4y ago
It's hard to conceive that freewill only can solve chaos when seing others as packs of limping hyenas.
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by 8jef 4y ago
Was burned out at 21. Took me a few years to figure out some lingering childhood trauma was pulling me down. Came to term by accepting that some things I can't change, and figured out that control upon people should not be desired (got
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by 8jef 4y ago
Be less subtle? Serving what purposes? Getting slammed by the EU and the like? They have to be very, very subtle, and ride the fine line between effectiveness and outrage, never going too much on a side or the other. The best and most endur
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by 8jef 4y ago
While it is true that no _entire country_ has GDP increase for _sole goal_, it is often the main metric used for government driven economic and social policies, and more often than not, compared to concurrent and/or rival country GDPs,
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by 8jef 4y ago
Same difference.
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by 8jef 4y ago
I'm always right, except when I'm not.
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by 8jef 4y ago
The fluff is the stuff only those who are aware of what's happening, of what happened (not just of the scientific things), can experience. Earth, we are trashing it, not up for debate, not anymore. Probably not trashing it as much as w
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by 8jef 4y ago
Time to celebrate the Interac payment system, very low fees since 1984. For everything else, we still have cash.
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by 8jef 4y ago
If you're a mediocre to average inexperienced driver, think one in ten. Well trained and experienced drivers don't crash. Two rules for anyone reading: [1]: never, ever, be in the way of anyone - don't ever be an obstacle to
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by 8jef 4y ago
It can, until you locate people farther from fresh food markets and closer to dollar store offerings. Then you end up with somewhat educated but obese and malnourished people visiting ER regularly. And with nobody skilled enough to do plumb
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by 8jef 4y ago
Same news from NPR, from 3 years ago: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/07/11/7408208...
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by 8jef 4y ago
In an average checkered square North American city, every second street or avenue reserved to any and all personal transportation not larger than a cargo trike, not longer than a tandem bike. From there you can have one ways, two ways, fast
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by 8jef 4y ago
Yeah, right, and we know where you live, I guess.
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by 8jef 4y ago
Let's look at it from a different angle: climate change situation creates lots of massive business opportunities that are very appealing and actively being taken avantage of, as we speak. While we argue, oil and plastics people get ric
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by 8jef 4y ago
A 1000000000hp equivalent electric truck generating much tork would probably lift off and fly to the Moon, or dig itself so deep it would melt in lava. In the meantime, a cybertruck with 3 motors (or 4) may soon (2023?) challenge Ferrari.
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by 8jef 4y ago
How many pi decimal could be generated within X time using such a machine?
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by 8jef 4y ago
Like any of your great grand parents would be absolutely scared of actual you and stuff you do on a daily basis, at first.
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by 8jef 4y ago
ChromeOS has real Linux with terminal, Android with any app store you fancy, frequent updates that probably won't break your stuff, it's sandboxed all around, one can skip Chrome and use Firefox (and VLC and others) either from ap
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by 8jef 4y ago
What Putin is at present moment can only be described as cornered and/or pushed back and/or isolated from prior revenue sources. He can do much, much more damage, and is very timely and predictable in his responses, or lack of. So
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by 8jef 4y ago
_he has a history of a _bearish bias_ that he has had to work around his whole career. _I like darkness_ he said._ Well, that's the only way to win long term at playing that game. Buy very very low and sit on it. It helps if you alread
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by 8jef 4y ago
CL lost Canada to Kijiji a few years ago. Now FB is taking over. I'll probably eventually stop looking for classified ads because of that.
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by 8jef 4y ago
Is that a phone in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?

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