GendingMachine

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by GendingMachine 2y ago
By what metric are you evaluating corruption here, other than selected news anecdotes that support your ideological intuition. We watched videos of the horrors of the American healthcare system for the same reason as we watched videos and w
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by GendingMachine 2y ago
Christ, reading Americans declare that the issue with American healthcare is "too much government" always completely floors me. The system did not work well before the ACA, the system does not work now. The only countries in the w
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by GendingMachine 2y ago
Not having cars doesn't mean not having motorized transport, it just means restructuring our priorities around much more efficient forms of mass transportation, ranging from increased walkability and cycling infrastructure on a local s
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by GendingMachine 2y ago
As a programmer with likely less experience than most of these commenters, the main question that always feels under addressed in these kinds of posts is that of code deduplication. Most specifically, often when encountering a situation in
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by GendingMachine 2y ago
Safety has 100% been a factor in many of my tool purchases, mistakes happen, especially to amateurs, and most people would rather not lose fingers to a hobby.
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by GendingMachine 4y ago
What exactly would the opposition have to have done for you to not say they made no effort to explain?
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by GendingMachine 4y ago
This is an inane and deliberately obtuse response to this policy. There is a vast difference between terms used by marginalised groups to refer to dominant ones, and terms used by dominant groups to refer to marginalised ones. Whether or no
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by GendingMachine 4y ago
"Don't get so hung up on precise numbers", uh, 90% isn't just imprecise, it's so catastrophically wrong that it undermines your entire argument
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by GendingMachine 4y ago
This doesn't really make any sense, just because you still need to put in the effort doesn't mean it isn't highly affective at making it much easier for an individual to direct that effort positively.
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by GendingMachine 4y ago
Well, if the reason Heroin doesn't help depression is because the body quickly adjusts to it and then you end up needing to use it just to maintain your previous baseline. If it didn't cause chemical dependence and retained its in
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by GendingMachine 5y ago
I'm stealing this idea.
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by GendingMachine 5y ago
Honestly the main reason I ended up abandoning DDG is because you can't see the publish date on search results. I know it's a fairly minor feature and one manipulated often by some websites, but I've still found it massively
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by GendingMachine 5y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if it had something to do with trying to trick speed tests into reading higher speeds before it slows down.
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by GendingMachine 5y ago
I mean you could easily weight it to ensure Pokémon and Big Data come up the same amount even with 800 Pokémon