HeinzStuckeIt

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by HeinzStuckeIt 10mo ago
The safety I have heard demanded directly from women to me as a partner – or from female friends about the man they seek – is the safety of being a provider, giving them a feeling of security that they can’t manage to achieve on their own.
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by HeinzStuckeIt 10mo ago
Perhaps one of the problems with modern dating is that women expect a man to provide safety, but many men don’t want to be viewed as a source of safety? Me, I am only interested in relationship for companionship, someone with whom I can sha
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by HeinzStuckeIt 10mo ago
For most people, git is that you work with pull requests, and already early on some bristled at the term “patches” which implied an obsolete way of working.
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by HeinzStuckeIt 10mo ago
I think the claim that modernity is different is easily defendable. No society during the rest of history had such effective birth control, nor welfare states that removed pressure to produce offspring or even interact so much with family o
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by HeinzStuckeIt 10mo ago
Reminiscent of the shooting of Tarkovsky’s Stalker , where there was a toxic-waste-producing facility right nearby (and you can supposedly see toxic waste on camera) and some of the cast and crew got ill or died from horrible cancers.[0] [
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by HeinzStuckeIt 10mo ago
If you read journalism about why women are frustrated with dating today, one of the number-one complaints is that the men they are meeting are “flaky”, women can’t trust that the man will be there for her. Your depiction that “women don’t r
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by HeinzStuckeIt 10mo ago
The parent post is getting flack, but it’s hard to see why it is controversial. I have heard “women want a man who will provide and protect” from every single woman I have ever dated or been married to, from every female friend with whom I
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
Funny how fast Git became entrenched as the way of doing things, though. Around 2010 I said in passing, in a forum discussion about how a FOSS project was getting along, “…you’d think someone could send in a patch…”, and I immediately got
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
Your post above wrote “the location of the proto-Germanic speakers”. Terminology matters; Proto-Germanic is something strictly defined as to what it was, with a longstanding consensus about where and when it was. If you wanted to talk about
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
By the time the actors I mentioned were written about as having dementia, many film fans had already assumed they were dealing with dementia precisely because they were no longer being written about or seen in the media much. Such speculati
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
Yes, I’m afraid that you are still misunderstanding the research. Your linked article speaks about gene flow associated with the movement of pre-Proto-Germanic speakers to Scandinavia, but later Proto-Germanic formed in southern Scandinavia
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
Sad as it is, when stars from classic Hollywood stop being visible but are still known to be alive at a highly advanced age, dementia is often the case. Gene Hackman, Gene Wilder, and Jack Nicholson are notable cases, and I just assumed Bea
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
> there's a recent theory putting the location of the proto-Germanic speakers in Finland. There is no credible theory to that effect. Either you have stumbled on something that is not taken seriously, or you are misunderstanding the
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
The South China Morning Post itself recently wrote on speculation that Beijing could try to challenge Tokyo’s control of Okinawa, given its history and proximity to Taiwan.[0] [0] https://www.scmp.com/news/china/
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
Wow, TIL. I had assumed that Warren Beatty was suffering from dementia due to his great age and his retirement from cinema. I had no idea he was still making media appearances.
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
This has long been pretty obvious to anyone using Nitter on desktop. There, you can ctrl-click on usernames to open a new tab, and it is readily obvious from the account’s post history that the people behind so many “authentic American” acc
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
Reminiscent of a finding reported at a neurology conference in the 1960s that served as the epigraph to J.H. Prynne’s collection of poems Wound Response : “Of particular interest in the present context are the observations made on patients
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
During the 2016 election, it was big in the news that a whole ring of fake-news social media accounts and news websites was run out of North Macedonia.[0] And not out of nefarious meddling in American internal affairs, but because the men i
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
This has long been pretty obvious to anyone using Nitter on desktop. There, you can ctrl-click on usernames to open a new tab, and it is readily obvious from the account’s post history that the people behind so many “authentic American” acc
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
Two ordinary paragraphs like one would find in any serious publication, are now enough to make an “impenetrable wall of text”? You also overlook the fact that many Reddit posts are not links to content. For example, they could be text-post
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
Social media might be getting less attractive for that, though. Compare Reddit now to ten years ago, and you can see that even on more serious subreddits, everyone’s comments have become very short, often little more than a single line. If
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
I have seen it said in hacker circles that people in their teens and twenties now are not just more reluctant to share stuff for free like FOSS, but they are even outright suspicious of such endeavors. To a generation who grew up on platfor
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
> Maybe that's a new thing, because I've never heard of it. You mentioned in another post attending a lecture from Feynman. I think you might be a few decades behind modern academia.
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
> At my university, I was taught by professors and grad students, none of whom had a teaching degree. Professors and grad students may well have done a course on how to lecture. It is obligatory and/or an easy way to pick up credits
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
I wonder how much of that mercenary approach to blogging today resulted ultimately from the 2008 crisis. It feels like there was less pressure to make ends meet, and consequently no pressure to hustle, before that. And maybe it is also the
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
Gibson was writing about California specifically, and the Bay Area specifically. That state and that part of it had already had, since the 1960s at least, a reputation for attracting homeless people from across the country thanks to its cle
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
The very active ecosystem of blogs I followed in the first decade of the new millennium, on arts themes (literature, cinema, non-popular music) and religious-denomination news, were mainly people above 30 blogging, sometimes much older. Wor
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
> Every blog is a niche blog because blogging is a niche. It never was and never will be mainstream. Content creation is indeed something a minority of society practices, but that can still be mainstream. In the first decade of the new m
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
If you mean creating a blogroll to show other blogs you recommend, that is no longer so effective now that mobile phones are most of the world’s default interface to the internet. Themes for common blogging platforms like Wordpress generall
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
Strangely, The Far Side is even known here and there on the European continent in translation, even though so many of the jokes depend on English puns that the translators don’t even attempt to work with. The result is weird and inexplica

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