Igelau

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by Igelau 6y ago
> choosing to more or less blacklist themselves You know, you're not allowed to say that in a lot of American offices now. Even in a technical context where it has an established meaning and multiple alternatives are now jockeying f
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by Igelau 6y ago
Side topic: anyone else finding that font hard to read? Those swooshie serifs are really disruptive for me.
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by Igelau 6y ago
2001: A Space Odyssey is visually incredible to watch, but it doesn't make a whole lot of sense at parts. The novel that Arthur C. Clarke wrote concurrently is better in that regard.
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by Igelau 6y ago
> trying to explain the problem and eventual solution and not focus on _who_ fat-fingered the command-line with incorrect config to cause the outage. Yes! It's important for the newspapers to hold Nixon accountable. The rest of us h
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by Igelau 6y ago
> Phrases in green are marked to show passive voice. That's still flagged as passive voice by this abomination of an editor. > Phrases in green use passive voice. The meaning of that is less clear than the original. The phrase
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by Igelau 6y ago
Wikimedia is probably insulated in enough of its own groupthink to get away with their list. In the cannibal crab bucket of the real world, this list is way more practical. > people want retribution, not justice This. People desperately
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by Igelau 6y ago
There will probably be a handful of users who go bananas with rage and start blindly uploading everything they can before the cutoff. I have a feeling there will be some very interesting stuff accidentally being uploaded in the coming month
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by Igelau 6y ago
It's a parable wherein the landowner is the Christian god, the work of the vineyard is the work of his will, and the denarius is salvation. It doesn't have anything to do with people getting paid fairly, it has to do with the Chri
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by Igelau 6y ago
You can also mine out some awful stuff by plucking certain passages without the right context, and we have certainly seen hatred and violence justified that way through history. This story is also missing the larger context that explains wh
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by Igelau 6y ago
> How do people share the work and the fruits of the labour? Atheist now, but formerly not. This story isn't about that. See my other comment for the broader context it is contained in.
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by Igelau 6y ago
You're painting in broad strokes and getting some flak for it, but there's definitely some truth to this. The context surrounding the story is extremely relevant. The Workers in the Vineyard is a story being told by Jesus within t
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by Igelau 6y ago
Nah, you would just fall back to the Free Tier. "Thank you for using Brakes. You have 0 free pumps available this month. Get 1 more by watching this 30 sec ad."
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by Igelau 6y ago
> I know they had a press conference at the Four Seasons in Pennsylvania, did anything come of that? Yeah, funny thing about that...
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by Igelau 6y ago
so it's "poke" without facebook
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by Igelau 6y ago
If you say so. I see our difference as being mostly semantics, but you're quite upset. > because you're wrong I'm okay with that.
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by Igelau 6y ago
Except for the fact that I never said "arousing", I don't think we disagree. You're just not mortified by the recognition of what you see.
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by Igelau 6y ago
Now that is an interesting angle. What are the figures on that?
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by Igelau 6y ago
That's not quite it. It's that there are some people crying wolf who see something as erotic material when it's not. Do you see the difference there? Getting to the heart of why they see it this way when others don't is
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by Igelau 6y ago
The Wind Fish in name only, for it is neither.
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by Igelau 6y ago
Thanks, Cthulhu_. I always knew I could count on you. Iä! Iä!
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by Igelau 6y ago
The ACTAsia report "China's fur trade" points out that China is the world's largest importer of raw furs, and also consumes 80% of finished fur goods domestically. ( https://www.actasia.org/resources/
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by Igelau 6y ago
It's a dismal reality, but the fact that they shouldn't have done this in the first place doesn't have an iota of bearing on what has to happen now. Good luck selling anyone on a rationale that asks them to risk human lives t
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by Igelau 6y ago
This must be what Danforth saw in 'At the Mountains of Madness'
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by Igelau 6y ago
When do we call it a "who"? Where is the line? Sometimes I don't go down an aisle if I see the spill monitoring robot in my local grocery store. I think it's annoying, slow, dimwitted, and I can't communicate with i
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by Igelau 6y ago
Maybe it's just in love.
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by Igelau 6y ago
Anyone using any of these email services? I'm not looking for a workplace product, I just want to be able to get myself out of Gmail reliance and gradually get my family away from it too.
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by Igelau 6y ago
> A number of journalists have decided the technology is entirely confusing and deceitful. It's not the journalists I'm worried about. It's the advertisers. > Deepfakes are just the next wave of photoshop. People don&#x
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by Igelau 6y ago
All the cool people are in Hell. Only go to Heaven for the climate.
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by Igelau 6y ago
To be fair, they had just experienced a sudden exponential surge in interest: your phone call.
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by Igelau 6y ago
> Physics are not changing, it's our understanding of physics that changes No, it's right the way it is. Physics is a science. Physics is the understanding. The universe is terrain and sciences are maps -- though some are mor

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