Ansil849

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by Ansil849 5y ago
> , I'm sure they still learned their lesson and would never dream of doing something like it again. That's the thing though. COVID vaccinations are _nothing like_ the Tuskegee experiment.
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I think the point was that those who can afford it can see better doctors, particularly those who are less likely to be swayed by pharmaceutical company incentives. Case in point would be, when you were poor did you go to the same doctor in
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by Ansil849 5y ago
What kind of reasoning is this? Even if the government had not lied about medicine, or any other topic before, there is equally "no reason" that they couldn't lie going forward about anything and everything. Everyone and anyo
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> Fool me once, shame on you [Tuskegee] I am so tired of seeing Tuskegee trotted out as an argument by anti vaxxers. The Tuskegee experiment specifically targeted a selected group of African Americans and was an overtly racist program. C
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> Inside government, a standard slips. They start spying on everything. There is no slippage. Wholesale surveillance has always been the aspirational standard.
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> A simple function might involve calculating how many days have passed between someone’s date of birth and date of death. What kind of days? Sidereal (stellar) days? Solar days?
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by Ansil849 5y ago
The product description does a really poor job of explaining what this is to someone who has never heard of it. It's just a wink-wink-nudge-nudge reference to some DEFCON talk. Can someone explain what this is? Is it a hardware keylogg
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by Ansil849 5y ago
It's very easy to write a post trashing someone else. Very, very easy. Much of that trashing may or may not be deserved, we don't know because we only have one party's account of it. What we do know, however, is the behavior
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by Ansil849 5y ago
Let's say you meet someone at a bar whom you proceed to tell about your plans to build a spaceship, and the stranger says 'oh yeah, I know ships, I know space, we can definitely get a prototype spaceship done'. You believe hi
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> He admittedly had started a new job in a field he was keen to get into (IoT) after a period of being unemployed and was reluctant to devote too much time to SmartShepherd. This was fair enough but by now we had missed an entire season.
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> I've found Docker Desktop to be equally awful with Windows. You'd think they'd care about giant swathes of the market like that. The fact that they don't care, and yet you (or if not you, others) still use it, succi
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> If you are watching for free, and you're that annoyed by ads, then maybe you just feel entitled. If the the content is there, I'll watch it; if it's not, I won't. I certainly don't feel entitled to it. If anyth
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> I appreciate well-made ads, so I don't mind sponsor segments. Then don't use the sponsor segment removal portion of the tool. Simple as that. Those of us who don't want "clever" advertising any more than "
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> Are the sponsor parts really so bad? Yes. Some of us don't like being assaulted with sales pitches everywhere we look.
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by Ansil849 5y ago
So does anyone know what happened to youtube-dl? Development seems to have just abruptly ceased with no explanation.
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> For a while I was earning 60k CAD and was still able to save up a good chunk of change. Also keep in mind that stateside, a giant portion of expenses you would have to take into account while unemployed are what you intend to do about
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by Ansil849 5y ago
Yes, I was using exaggeration to get the point across that this is written from a position of privilege that many of us reading cannot afford.
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> I was recently unemployed - fortunately, by choice This just comes off as the equivalent of saying: > I recently had to to fly somewhere - fortunately, by private jet The privilege and wealth requisite to be able to do either of the
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by Ansil849 5y ago
Regardless, people predicted that Onlyfans would do a full 180 on their decision shortly after, and here we are, a few days after and they have done a full 180.
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by Ansil849 5y ago
Ah, I now realize you meant 'drop' as in 'release', I misread the context and thought you meant 'drop' as in 'abandon'. My mistake!
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by Ansil849 5y ago
I think the brand-strengthening generated by the outrage from people with accounts coming to Onlyfans' defense and rallying support, far outweighs any potential negative outcome of customers looking for alternate solutions, especially
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> The BBC was just about to drop a long-researched exposé Source?
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by Ansil849 5y ago
People predicted this very transparent publicity ploy when the news first broke. There are no surprises here, other than perhaps how quickly they played their hand.
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Nothing about any sort of encryption.
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> The german carrier Telekom allows you to take posession (add it to your customer account as a "contract owner") of a phone number with just the PUK and a one-time code sent to the phone number via SMS. I guess many other carr
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by Ansil849 5y ago
My understanding is that the PUK is used to unlock a SIM that has become locked if too many incorrect SIM PINs were entered. The advantage of the attacker having a PUK is therefore that they could then physically put the SIM into their own
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> The guy at the checkout register told me that I wouldn’t like it and called for someone to put it back in the freezer. This would warrant a conversation with the manager. Service employees who claim to know what's best for me are
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by Ansil849 5y ago
I'm assuming you are then fine with Iran and other countries having a nuclear enrichment program as well, yes? As otherwise, why should "we" be able to "use it if we needed to", but not other countries?
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Saying that the fact that the deaths and mutilation of hundreds of thousands of civilians is harm is "false" is just jaw-dropping in its callousness.
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> I'm sorry, to which horrible act are you referring? I think it is exorbitantly clear from the direct context of this thread that the act I am referring to is the American nuclear bombing of Japan. I'm not sure what your post

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