GuinansEyebrows

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by GuinansEyebrows 5mo ago
unironically, yes. go get good at tetris if you need a high score for personal validation.
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by GuinansEyebrows 5mo ago
a non-trivial portion of the guitar-amp world is still very much set on tubes, even as amp simulators get closer to "the real thing". a cool recent development i've been following is the Octal by Verellen Devices (created by
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by GuinansEyebrows 5mo ago
my condolences :) just kidding. hope you found oneness with cup rubber.
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by GuinansEyebrows 5mo ago
i'm like this at home for sure, until i want to play along to something in tune. i'm also the one at rehearsal literally throwing TU-3s at my bandmates who don't have tuners on their boards for some reason. you have to have
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by GuinansEyebrows 5mo ago
thanks for linking to my page and reminding me how badly i need to do a round of updates -_-
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by GuinansEyebrows 5mo ago
> Instead you would have an equally powerful company with no moral compass whatsoever. given the information we have, this describes the current state .
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by GuinansEyebrows 5mo ago
> there would be no hope of the company ever improving. if they can't do anything about it now, what makes you think that situation will change in the future? if remedial action would be punished by those higher on the ladder, it ce
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by GuinansEyebrows 5mo ago
here's why i don't think that holds water: i no longer believe a company of alphabet's size cannot weather a "controversy" around surreptitious data collection. too many people accept this possibility as a matter of
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by GuinansEyebrows 5mo ago
> I absolutely trust Google the most. why?
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by GuinansEyebrows 5mo ago
truly not trying to be snarky here but i don't understand why you would place this level of trust in an Alphabet Inc brand.
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by GuinansEyebrows 5mo ago
there is a third option: don't make one at all if you feel your only recompense involves selling this data. that's what creeps do.
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by GuinansEyebrows 5mo ago
there is so much more subversive marketing out there than any of us can really fathom. i try not to be too paranoid but it's getting a lot harder every day. i know someone who worked in what we might call the 'astroturfing' s
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by GuinansEyebrows 6mo ago
> It will be painful you are choosing the pain of the masses over the pain of the wealthy.
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by GuinansEyebrows 6mo ago
maybe. i think the types of environments that foster the culture of bullshit jobs are bereft of conscience (ymmv as far as how you react to that in your own job). additionally, many people within those environments feel that scrutiny or lac
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by GuinansEyebrows 6mo ago
> They're not wrong about their experiences. But they're also not talking about the technology. They're talking about the corporate users of that technology. i think that's the point they're trying to make: the
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by GuinansEyebrows 6mo ago
unfortunately, it's never amusing to read the thinly-veiled self-narratives of the condescending when comments like this get posted.
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by GuinansEyebrows 6mo ago
how's your 401k doin' bruh?
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by GuinansEyebrows 6mo ago
if you're truly interested, please check out the podcast 'Knowledge Fight' which covers alex jones and infowars in stunningly minute detail, including the defamation cases in texas and connecticut. the main host was even call
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by GuinansEyebrows 6mo ago
we can learn new things about people that change the way we feel about them and the work they produce. nothing is truly static.
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by GuinansEyebrows 6mo ago
a lot of that happened before his views were more widely known. much like jk rowling. a lot of people have written both best-selling authors off as bigots; this is just a matter of fact. they may be financially comfortable but their standin
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by GuinansEyebrows 6mo ago
> Does his opposition of homosexuality some how make his point about writing critiques less interesting? i'll bite: yes. it belies a lack of compassion, imagination, openness and curiosity required to create compelling fiction or wr
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by GuinansEyebrows 6mo ago
are you asking me, a numbskull with an associate's degree, to propose public policy*? i think we're allowed to want qualified people to do better in the positions we've elected them to :) * if so, my policy is that all guns b
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by GuinansEyebrows 6mo ago
this is a really weird comparison to make given that the US has basically made no material progress on policy that could prevent mass shootings. they're both really really bad things. they both deserve as much attention as we can affor
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by GuinansEyebrows 6mo ago
i dont know. plenty of folks are happy to build the prison thinking they'll end up on the right side of the wall because they're paid well enough to think they're part of the capital class.
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by GuinansEyebrows 6mo ago
> it would be an enormous social good as the resources saved could go somewhere else they can, will and are going directly into like 9 sociopath's pockets at your peril.
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by GuinansEyebrows 6mo ago
trust goes both ways. you can be cynical about people who take things without paying, i guess. i prefer to be cynical about the corporations who run and stock these grocery stores with substandard products at artificially inflated prices th
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by GuinansEyebrows 6mo ago
if a store does not want to hire capable staff to perform an essential function, they should not expect laypeople to perform that action for free (or at higher cost, as we've seen with grocery prices in the US as human cashiers are red
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by GuinansEyebrows 6mo ago
> Natural consequence of socialized medicine. improved health outcomes?
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by GuinansEyebrows 6mo ago
this rhetoric is not compelling to me.
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by GuinansEyebrows 6mo ago
i manage to do so using money i make elsewhere. the information i put on the internet is either of benefit to people or a matter of vanity. i don't afford special concern to people who want to use the internet for profit.

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