Beltalowda

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by Beltalowda 4y ago
Never even been to the US; just Europe. Desks are typically very shallow in depth, not adjustable in height, and have a crappy chair. They're basically useless for getting any serious work done unless you're maybe 160cm; they most
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
Usually hotels have no kitchen you can cook something at, no desk I can work at, no sofa I can comfortably sit in, and often I can't even open the bloody window or control the temperature. I think this is an important reason AirBnB too
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
A lot of these claims are contested though; that's the point; it's been discussed a million times already, but if you look at the actual thread on KF (which is now hard to do, it seems) there really wasn't all that much going
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
> MindGeek responded to increased pressure from Visa and other companies by immediately deleting 80 percent of its hosted content, approximately 10 million unverified videos. According to a California court, much of that was likely child
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
In principle, I don't entirely disagree with that, however , humans are part of the environment . We need "the environment" to survive, such as a sustainable marine ecosystem. I mean, if there are no more fish to catch due
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
"First nations" is the common term in Canada to refer to the people living in the area now known as Canada before Europeans arrived, similar to "Native American" in the US.
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
"Captain does time" and "company closed", all "done even before police starts asking questions" doesn't sound like "due process" to me.
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
> other than one comment were a user pointedly included someone's personal details I must've missed that, sorry. I was a tad annoyed and maybe I got a bit carried away. At any rate, at least some people, IMHO, misused the [fl
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
According to the second tweet that was factored in; didn't look at the details, but the analysis is not just about emissions. The best way to use plastic bags is as bin liners by the way; you're going to need those anyway. Not pos
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
Can't divide 16 by 3 though; the nice thing about 12 is that you get nice natural numbers for many common divisors: >>> 12/2, 12/3, 12/4, 12/5, 12/6, 12/7, 12/8 (6.0, 4.0, 3.0, 2.4, 2.0
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
I agree base-12 would be better (having 12 months is nice) in principle, but in practice I found it rarely to be an issue and I've paid special attention to it since I first heard this argument a few years ago because it sounded convin
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
It's slightly wider (6mm) but shorter (18mm), not really "bigger". In terms of surface area it's a bit smaller.
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
My point was just that the pattern (subsequent films had significantly lower box offices) was the same. Comparing box offices from several decades ago is hard not so much due to inflation but because there are so many alternatives to watch
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
I vouched for quite a number of comments yesterday that I felt were constructive and respectful, but were nonetheless flagged. I didn't keep track of the comments and don't know if they got flagged again; I don't know if you
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
I don't think Twitter makes much of an effort; some of my reports on clear-cut cases like "shame if his face would be smashed in with a brick wink-emoji wink-emoji " have been rejected as they are, apparently, not promotin
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
Many people who have looked into the matter have disagreed with that take. It's fine to disagree, but slamming anyone down as ignorant is not constructive. Furthermore, RationalWiki is hardly a neutral site, especially on matters like
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
> Pastoral lands are pastoral, and not arable, usually because they are not suitable for arable cropping. There is plenty of livestock raised on arable land though. The exact number of "arable land used to raise livestock" will
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
I don't quite understand the dilemma in this specific situation in the first place. "I'm lactose intolerant, do you happen to have anything without (or with less) milk?" "Oh, these kosher ones are, want that one?&qu
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
$1 billion in box office is still huge; I wouldn't call it "peanuts". And the box office of the original three films was $776 million, $538 million, and $475 million, so that was quite similar.
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
Yes, but the point is that people are faking that paperwork. So what do you do then as a platform? Do you need to do anything? Is the platform even responsible for this? And if so, to what degree?
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
> in the call he claimed to be from KF and said his username Assuming this is how it happened – you'll have to excuse me for not trusting MTG on her word considering she has demonstrated to have only a passing familiarity with reali
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
As the famous Albert Einstein quote goes: "there are many dubious diagnoses of van Gogh on the internet".
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
Ah right, that makes sense.
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
I would expect the police to step in if the power was used for a marijuana farm (assuming it's illegal in your jurisdiction of course, skipping the discussion whether it should be illegal). A corporation deciding to cut off my power
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
> with the addendum "and I'm bad, therefore, not protecting KiwiFarms is hypocritical." That is not how I read it at all; I didn't read a strong conclusion in the article one way or the other, but if anything I would
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
> I once saw an old YouTube video that claimed that some hanzi are super obscure and even native Chinese have to look them up sometimes when wanting to use them, and gave the example of "sneeze". Isn't that also the case i
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
People are using fake passports; how far should OnlyFans go to verify someone's real-life identity? My sister could sign up, and I could appear on the videos. This is going to be hard to prevent, especially in cases of 17year olds like
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
There is very little direct source material to speak of; The Hobbit and the LotR books take place much later, and the The Silmarillion and some other works take place much earlier. There are some notes and references here and there, but it&
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
I can't even remember the last time I had to look at an xorg configuration file. I think it must have been a decade; maybe longer. Back in the XFree86 and early Xorg days it could be a pain though, but that was a long time ago. "X
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
There are cross-platform package managers: pkgsrc and nix for example, and I believe HomeBrew runs on Linux too. It's not that simple though as certain choices are fundamentally incompatible. In Debian packagers are expected to take &q

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