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by 8jef 4y ago
The ideal OS should be centered around the Owner of a machine, be it a pc, a phone, a tablet, a smart-anything, or else. As the Owner would own many machines, these could be pooled together, or not. A machine would be equipped with a 3 laye
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Apple never invented anything. They always took something that already was nichely popular (Nokia's smartphones, Creative's MP3 players, PCs), then improved upon those things just enough to make them palatable to the masses, logo
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Most people here comment on past experiences involving 1970's mobile homes in trailer parks, people living in cars, and large RVs. Modern mobile housing, as per the article, is different. It's about large vans or tiny homes built
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This article is great at putting important factors in relative perspective, with gems like: _There have been about 100 billion humans born during the 200,000 years we’ve existed_ As for most of the article, not one thing in that statement a
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I'll buy twelve.
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Are you flapping your meat as you write this?
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There's no masculine equivalent to that, like, literally treating people like cattle.
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No security update will ever compensate for the average person's lack of digital hygiene. It's mostly smokescreen and fear management. Send your _old_ Pixels my way. I'll put LineageOS on and enjoy them a few more years.
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That's a great thing happening. No one knows how to teach anyway anyhow. It's a lost art, a forgotten knowledge, which have given way to formatting, somewhere in the last Century. Preparing young souls for Life: _teaching_ is very
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What applies to music, which I consider heavenly, do not apply to every field in life. Taking loads of music without limits may be harmless, even good, but some other things, nah! You gotta Love, really Love what you do, to speed up like th
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Yes we are, potentially, until we decide we are not. The brute force way we now know is suboptimal and rightly failing, and no matter what you think about OP, the femcel trend she's writing about is happening. In response to that, a ne
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Probably derived from an amalgam between general social progress and individual economical progress, both supposedly traveling together, but don't.
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Is it true that there isn't any mechanical / manual way of opening doors from the inside in a Tesla?
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Odin isn't happy right now.
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Oh my. Why would I believe anything wealthy bossy people have to say? Best scenario, they are biased. Worst, they are delusional.
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Thinking can be sterile, unless it leads to making real life choices. Then, when choosing, so-called second-order thinking can only be fruitful if all ramifications are explored, level by level, which is almost impossible, as other forces o
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> ... universities should also adopt institutional neutrality, scrap all ideological training for staff or students, institute secret voting at all decision-making levels and offer free-speech induction for incoming students, essentially
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It's interesting to know _busy_ Sun periods can transition to _quiet_ ones. I wonder how these cycles can affect life on Earth, climate wise, in the long run... like, what has been leading to the _short ice age_ we had in the middle ag
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What an absolute failure of imagination from management, totally on par with most unsavory and unremarkable products they usually peddle. So glad my kids finally grew out of all that superheroes crapfest.
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They lease from entities that will have to pay taxes if they operate as lease businesses in Canada. The tax is not directly aimed at wealthy people, but at any person or corporation buying a high-priced vehicle, before using it or leasing i
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The scientists behind climate research are no peddlers, far from it. Politicians arguing about climate research (either side) are. Stop listening to your representatives (and/or corporate powers behind them) and start listening to clim
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> People are allowed to have opinions. Yes, they are. And making one's opinion very public makes possible for others to express some opinion of their own about one's opinion. While aiming for a homerun, one has to accept gettin
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Another funny bit from the same source: https://web.mit.edu/kolya/misc/txt/cow-govt
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Being paranoid and acting on it will always be enough to make you a very shiny bright glittering target. Perhaps being really paranoid is all about being discovered and exposed, which would make sense.
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or Absolute World towers in Mississauga, near Toronto. Sexy.
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Hard to refute the comparison, being curly and brown, that building is reminiscent of the smiling turd. Then it's different, and missing the eyes and smile, and frankly, a bit bizarre. Like lot's of newish places in many cities. L
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Try to limit it and tax people who buy monstrous passenger vehicles, they will turn to utility vehicles. Tax all large rides and give tax breaks to businesses to compensate, people will grow businesses just for the kick of a giant ride, or
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Defensive action is for the most part formidable and magnificent. The stuff that builds and creates heroism, myths and legends. Never miserable or soulless, unless it goes beyond its original purpose. Every reality has at least two versions
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War is a way for mindless and aggressive men to do whatever they really crave (which is escaping from a state of victimhood), without much justification and little immediate consequences to themselves, mostly under cover of patriotism. To k
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> There are dozens of wonderful counter examples: Minecraft ... Younger boy of mine spent years fighting and smashing and destroying other avatars /players in Minecraft, not so interested in _building_ anything. One's experienc

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