Mordisquitos

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by Mordisquitos 6y ago
That's the oft-forgotten other half of the premise of the film Idiocracy. Everybody talks about the (inaccurate and unrealistic) premise of natural selection favouring unintelligence, but overlook how the future society is supported by
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by Mordisquitos 6y ago
> [...] it's already clear to me that in the US wearing face masks is more like a religion or a political statement [...] What about wearing masks in countries where there are mask mandates with different levels of strictness and re
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by Mordisquitos 6y ago
Being somewhat aware of current affairs in Spain and having dealt with Spanish administrations' digital services and platforms in multiple different contexts, I would be honestly very surprised if they were able to unilaterally agree a
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by Mordisquitos 6y ago
>(Also: what distinction is being made between "oriented" and "orientated", and why?) My guess is that he's just explicitly acknowledging the Commonwealth English preference for using the verb "to orientate&
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by Mordisquitos 6y ago
It's not exactly that the back button doesn't work. It's because for some reason they seem to be redirecting in some weird non-HTTP way from their `.co.uk` domain to their `.com`, even though you already got a complete `200`
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by Mordisquitos 6y ago
This reminds me that a few years ago (almost two decades?) there was a lot of concern online, almost "moral panic", about the potential of digital steganography to hide information in public image files. Even if this method is not
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by Mordisquitos 7y ago
Where that analogy falls short is that if a given company pays for cheap and/or inferior real estate, you will still find that company if you explicitly go to their physical location – you don't have to walk past four competitors
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by Mordisquitos 7y ago
>I think many of us fail to appreciate that older people and women often feel unsafe — or at least uncomfortable — on public transit. Increased law enforcement presence and enforcement of decent behavior would do a lot to make people lov
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by Mordisquitos 7y ago
That reasoning is problematic, as it amounts to reviving the concept of "original sin" to apply it to anyone who happens to live in a developed economy. By throwing blanket statements such as that, it is discouraging even the smal
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by Mordisquitos 7y ago
This agrees with my experience. I grew up in the centre of Madrid and I would always estimate around 30 minutes to get to any other part of the city by public transport.
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by Mordisquitos 7y ago
Personally I believe that they are better than emoji precisely due to their crudeness. I can use ":-)" to punctuate a joke, lower the tension in a critical message, or react to a cute picture. In each of these contexts, the smiley
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by Mordisquitos 7y ago
>Free public transports just mean that you pay it through another way, and most likely mean that you remove the "use tax", thus increasing the contribution from people who don't actually use public transports. Absolutely,
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by Mordisquitos 7y ago
If there's any heightened danger due to the voltage, I'm pretty sure that it is offset by the safer design of the plugs themselves. European plugs fit much more snugly into their sockets and require noticeable force to insert and
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by Mordisquitos 7y ago
Not likely. Why would the groups subject to this effect be defined at the relatively artificial level of the nation state, and not at any other subnational (states or provinces) or supranational (EU or cultural sphere) level? Furthermore, w
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by Mordisquitos 7y ago
It often results in the opposite, with business travel indirectly subsidising personal travel. Charging inflated prices for business travel (whether it's for travelling in a higher class or booking with short notice) makes it easier fo
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by Mordisquitos 7y ago
>Interestingly the standard procedure in The Netherlands for medical emergencies (the ones where you find someone on the ground) changed to actually calling yourself over asking a random bystander. Aside from calling you should also put
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by Mordisquitos 7y ago
> Vitamin A is actually worse because it is fat soluble, not water soluble like Vitamin C. If you consume too much Vitamin A, you don't pee it out, it gets stored in your fat cells. And because it stays in your system it can build u
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by Mordisquitos 7y ago
>Or are you saying they will literally think B is 'buh'? But then any one of those examples will disabuse them of that idea? Unfortunately, the fact that English has any number of vowel sounds depending on accent, dialect and e
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by Mordisquitos 7y ago
> Firstly, using influencers to present a product is fundamentally stronger than classic advertising. Secondly, it's cheaper for the advertiser, while the influencer just needs a few thousands/month to quit their job. Assuming
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by Mordisquitos 7y ago
Also, higher-performing workers may have a stronger hand to negotiate remote working into their contracts than average ones.
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by Mordisquitos 7y ago
The only time I heard the word "lox" was when I was a kid and had the James Bond film You Only Live Twice on VHS. This is the one where Blofeld is launching rockets from Japan to destroy Soviet and American spacecraft, with the ho
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by Mordisquitos 7y ago
Even if ADHD were part of the natural variation of different personality types, or if it were only manifested as a disorder in modern society, that would not be mutually exclusive with it being a genuine neurodevelopmental (not mental) diso