ClapperHeid

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   by ClapperHeid 4y ago

   Thanks for saving me a click by confirming what I suspected, when I saw it was from "vice.com"
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   by ClapperHeid 4y ago

   Yes, it's distasteful and the person who bought the painting at a knock down price was a slimeball taking advantage of desparate people. But, knee-jerk eotions adide, in essence the situation is no different to anyone selling anything
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   by ClapperHeid 4y ago

   Why are you writing in "txt spk", like an illiterate teenager then? This is a forum for grown-ups.
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   by ClapperHeid 4y ago

   >Some ppl mentioned... What age are you?
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   by ClapperHeid 4y ago

   Oh god. Who let the SJ Warrior in? White Papers [0] are the finalised policy documents published by UK government. They follow on from Green Papers [1], which are the preceding consultation documents. For many years people have believed th
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   by ClapperHeid 4y ago

   >a number used Cyrillic writing, some Spanish or maybe Portuguese, Japanese, Dutch, French, German, some other languages I didn't immediately recognize.. It's not the languages used in signs that I had a problem with. A
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   by ClapperHeid 4y ago

   Another poodle added to the kennels.
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   by ClapperHeid 4y ago

   Quite a good idea. And good fun. Some suggestions for improvement: 1: The photos are very US centric. So difficult for the rest of us to have any context to work from [eg: Jeopardy quiz show, long distance US city street scenes, basketball
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   by ClapperHeid 4y ago

   >I don't think it's worth writing an article until you have some results... Exactly. I'm pretty sure that "using AI", I'll soon be able to turn base metal into gold.
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    by ClapperHeid 4y ago

    >And of course only the rich pay news outlets to write puff pieces about themselves... Which comes across as tempting fate, to me. "Hey, international press, I'm spending millions every year, so I can live forever!&quo
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    by ClapperHeid 4y ago

    Or yet another version... OLD MAN: Look at me, son. I don't moke. I don't drink. I don't take drugs. I don't eat fatty food. I don't chase after women. And tomorrow I celebrate my hundredth birthday! YOUNG MAN: How?
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    by ClapperHeid 4y ago

    I bought a packet of it once. Really wanted to like it, but found it disgusting. The only way I can describe it is that it left a taste in my mouth like the smell of stale ashtrays suggests they would taste like. I'm quite prepared to
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    by ClapperHeid 4y ago

    ??? --I don't understand. You can drag windows without holding down any modifier keys.
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    by ClapperHeid 4y ago

    >Why keep attention spans any longer than necessary to evoke some response?... Wait a minute. This is hardly a recent TikTok/Chinese invention. Hasn't american TV been doing this for decades, with commercial breaks ever
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    by ClapperHeid 4y ago

    The two are pretty much equal in legal terminology.
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    by ClapperHeid 4y ago

    Given that so many humans these days write like they're assembling a collection of pre-made clichés and currently trendy phrases together, rather than even trying to express themselves with anything approaching originality, I reckon t
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    by ClapperHeid 4y ago

    Article is paywalled, so I didn't read. But... I signed up for Smile a few years back but, since it required shopping via smile.amazon.co.uk rather than plain old amazon.co.uk, I hardly ever remembered to use it. There was too much mus
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    by ClapperHeid 4y ago

    >If all goes to plan, these improvements will be the default on all wikis by the end of 2021, timed with Wikipedia’s 20th birthday celebrations... And even its future is in the past. What was the point of this submission, at all?
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    by ClapperHeid 4y ago

    Not only are Firefox doing 'evil as Google intends', they're embracing this Google-inspired crap before Google has even implemented it themselves: >Announced in 2018, Manifest V3 was supposed to launch on January 2023,
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    by ClapperHeid 4y ago

    >The breakaway feature of this release is Firefox now officially supports Manifest V3 extensions ... Manifest V3 protocol is a brainchild of Google to restrict the ad-blocking and privacy-preserving extensions functionalities to gai
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    by ClapperHeid 4y ago

    This seems to directly contradict what we're being told elsewhere: * Skipping meals is bad -- but elsewhere we're told intermittent fasting is good * Less than 3 meals a day is bad -- but elsewhere we're told a couple of &#x2