KPGv2

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by KPGv2 2mo ago
For people who are already addicted to sugar, yes, coffee tastes more aggressive than the drinks full of insane amounts of sugar or artificial sweeteners. Meanwhile in Asia beans are considered sweet bc their food isn't overloaded with
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
I feel that way about the endless studies showing fiber is important for health, too. Because there's no way studies re-confirm findings because they're revealing truth. It's definitely Big Leaf at work.
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
> it didn't deserve the media scrutiny and pile-on How bad was it? I didn't notice anything of the sort, and I'm curious if maybe your algorithm feeds you a fire hydrant of crap most people never see. I ask because there w
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
I love how great this "takedown" is, but also how it'll only be apparent to people over 35 or so.
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
This is how I write my novels. It works incredibly.
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
If you did that in the USA, you would lose your appointment and possibly be billed for a no-show.
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
Clothes shopping with Mom. I remember how torturous it was. How my brain felt like it was on fire with boredom, and how all-consuming the pain of it all was.
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
The way I write my novels is by reviewing a chapter I'm stuck on and its context, then going on a long run, and 20 minutes out, shutting my music off. I have, at that point, at least 20 minutes, if not 60+, where I'm easily th
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
> Alerts are nifty - but cumbersome for replies. IME this is the best use case. My wife uses her Apple Watch for this throughout the evening while she's cooking dinner or feeding our 1yo. For a couple years now, she's been doin
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
Because the physical impossibility of a department doing that 24/7 every square inch of a city creates an expectation of privacy.
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
Problem is that Flock CEO still has dirtbag access. Didn't he spy on someone at a conference in public view as part of a presentation of the technology?
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
If the sports and clubs are stressful, your kid should find other activities. I did everything you mentioned in the nineties and aughts (my sport was year round and coach expected us to travel on our own dime to tournaments that lasted the
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
"Oh those don't count as newspapers. Newspapers are professional . Those are just zines ." It's why I hate people looking down on fanfiction, too. Aliens was Alien fanfiction. The New Testament is OT fanfiction. Hell,
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
If the timeline of things as you present them is taken as accurate, then I would say the www being killed was good, with FB opening up to everyone being the inflection point toward bad. Webrings are nostalgic, but the old web sucked, and th
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
Yes, and it seems the tool called here was the thermostat, to set the mode literally the opposite of what was requested. "Make it warmer" tool that cools room called
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
> as someone who wants to see AGI happen FASTER I think you'll find very few people here sympathetic to misanthropic (ba dum tss) goals like yours. It's evident at this point that AGI will destroy economies, democracy, and upwa
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
> they've done enough good well minus driving teenagers to suicide by helping advertisers target girls with poor body image issues, helping launch psyops campaigns to destroy democracy, helping fascist regimes murder their citizens
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
The blood pressure-lowering medications was a kick in the crotch. I've had primary hypertension (i.e., doctors have no explanation for why) since I was a teenager playing fifteen hours of tennis a week with a low body fat percentage an
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
Also stay out of the sun. Better yet, just do a treadmill inside. No skin cancer that way.
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
The construction of GP and your post in sequence implies you think walking is not enjoyable. GP: Go walking. You: Instead, find a balance and enjoy life. Walking is very enjoyable. Try it! Bonus, you'll come up with some of your best i
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
Technically you've made some bigoted assumptions about my proclivities. :D
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
> You exclude economics and computer science from your list of "certain topics" but you don't say what topics are allowed or on what basis this assessment of admissibility is to be made Oh, so you're not at all engagi
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
You're basically pointing at RFK Jr's speeches and saying, "See? Biology is bullshit." I trust you are smart enough to immediately extrapolate more than I would be able to type in the same amount of time. That being said
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
I thought it might be Greek, a language all Americans butcher constantly. I think Gen Z will know the word bc one of the emotions in Pixar's Inside Out 2 was named Ennui and walked around with a French accent doing pretty much nothing
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
Too many things to do is what we call "hard" in English. (And then I look up and see "bottleneck" is literally in the topic we're discussing.)
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
Are you...ignorant of how many of the refugee crises are because of climate change? Like literally right now ? In 2024 alone, about 40M people were displaced due to climate change, and that's a doubling from ten years ago.
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
> it has no criterion for separating the wheat from the chaff This comment does nothing but make you look ignorant.
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
I think it's ironically telling about your opinion on philosophy that your argument is illogical and boils down to: 1. people who aren't philosophers said some bullshit 2. don't you dare point out people who don't do phi
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
It's a problem to the economic model, too, but of course no one cares about more than a couple fiscal quarters in the future. The looming ecological disasters will irreversibly destroy the global economy in some of our lifetimes if not
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by KPGv2 2mo ago
Each marginal person does not produce more environmental benefits than they consume. It's dramatically the opposite. My butt is not a carbon capture device.

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