Niglodonicus

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by Niglodonicus 5y ago
You could type in a text file, plug your phone into your computer, transfer the text file onto the phone, then copy the message into an email on your phone. Yikes. In any case, there's no reason to leave this up, it's just embarra
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by Niglodonicus 5y ago
What in the actual fuck?
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by Niglodonicus 5y ago
A buddy system for curbing porn watching inevitably leads to the unfortunate and desperate scenario where you and your buddy close your eyes and swap hands.
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by Niglodonicus 5y ago
Imagine how low it would be if all internet users actually employed ad-blocking of some sort. Honestly remarkable how many people, faced with the prospect of sitting through extremely annoying video ads, or having their search results and w
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by Niglodonicus 5y ago
I'm not referring to the intentions or what it was/is trying to do, but to the reality of its userbase and how they play the game and live their life. I mean, as a whole gaming tends to be similarly 'sad', but not to as
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by Niglodonicus 5y ago
I can see how it's a bit short and simply makes a claim without going into more detail, but clearly there is enough there for people to be able to reply and disagree and why (as the few of you replying to this have). I just don't
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by Niglodonicus 5y ago
I use verizon prepaid, my plan is 5 gigs for 25 a month (which is plenty of data for me and a really decent rate rivaling walmart-type plans), and I just upgraded to the TCL 10 5G UW phone which cost me <$300. Runs like a dream, competit
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by Niglodonicus 5y ago
Serious question regarding my flagged comment in this thread since I'm new here: What's wrong with it? Is it not ok to express that I feel a phenomenon is sad? Did I need to go into more detail about how the phenomenon arose? Is c
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by Niglodonicus 5y ago
I seriously hope enough people are still grounded enough in this reality to reject AR/VR bullshit besides as a fun playground like VRchat or what have you. Integrating either or both into daily life would be fucking godawful.
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by Niglodonicus 5y ago
It's a lot bigger of an issue than merely the climate crisis. Regarding trying to prevent it (and related issues), we would not only needed to have started 50+ years ago (when it was already clear what was happening), but the incentive
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by Niglodonicus 5y ago
https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a16995
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by Niglodonicus 5y ago
I mean, there's a lot of techno-optimists on this forum diligently huffing the hopium that the eventual (perhaps even imminent) collapse of our current systems will surely be subverted by some great breakthrough. Of course they're
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by Niglodonicus 5y ago
Yeaaaaah, if our whole society could stop doing that endless unsustainable growth thing that would be great.
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by Niglodonicus 5y ago
Show me a country where democracy properly, comprehensively works to constrain the cancerous appetite of capitalists. Yes, some European countries, or Japan, or some other outliers do it much better, but not well enough for their capitalism
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by Niglodonicus 5y ago
What it does offer is a social support group for people who choose to be sober, and it does serve that role, and for that I can't fault it, and the core members are more fortunate, as you say, and use it as such. In particular this is
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by Niglodonicus 5y ago
... are you a summary bot?
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by Niglodonicus 5y ago
Yep. AA is effectively a cult, and while itself is not a profit-making venture, is pretty tightly entwined with halfway housing and rehab programs, which are a massive racket in themselves (offering little actual treatment and costing a ton
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by Niglodonicus 5y ago
It's one of the larger issues that could reasonably be amended. The more fundamental issues regarding capitalist corruption, ineffective government, and unsustainable growth, while much bigger, are an effectively unsolvable side effect
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by Niglodonicus 5y ago
You really think the way this case was handled (referring to the wrong person being arrested, repeatedly) doesn't have anything to do with racial bias? This is an absolutely classic example.
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by Niglodonicus 5y ago
Maybe, maybe because pointing out such a thing is evidence of a bigger problem (systemic discrimination & racial bias) that has been demonstrated to not be only exclusive to the realm of human investigators, but also in a lot of facial
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by Niglodonicus 5y ago
Poor article on the topic (Daily Mail, after all), but the prediction itself is probably approximately true. It's not really matter of if, but how soon. The conditions required to prevent such a collapse are not impossible, but so far
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by Niglodonicus 5y ago
Extremely based and succinct rundown of why crypto is trash and should be avoided at all costs. Yes, the original vision was noble and worthwhile, but like nearly every nice theoretical idea, it was co-opted into the capitalist ecosystem to
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by Niglodonicus 5y ago
Sorry for assuming someone who fearmongers and parrots right-wing talking points to be right-wing. Ye olde 'enlightened centrist both sides are bad' position is problematic due to false equivalence- by saying both sides are equall
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by Niglodonicus 5y ago
Except the only people worried about it are conservatives who are being manipulated by all the usual right-wing fearmongerers. Please go read some neutral articles about the realities of 'cancel culture' instead of just swallowing
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by Niglodonicus 5y ago
Company (likely using at-will employment) fires employee after he (intentionally or inadvertently, irrelevant) starts a massive PR scandal. Wow, this must be that cancel culture everyone's been talking about, better get your pitchforks
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by Niglodonicus 5y ago
In overwhelmingly most of the cases where someone has been 'cancelled', their career has not noticeably suffered even one bit. Just look at Mel Gibson, dude has been unapologetically spouting wild shit at every possible marginaliz
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by Niglodonicus 5y ago
Just because society thinks that a phenomenon is real, doesn't make it real. See: flat earthers, other types of conspiracy circles, organized religion. I'm not saying that 'cancel culture' is something else, because it i
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by Niglodonicus 5y ago
'Cancel culture' is not an actual thing. There do exist instances where someone gets shunned or shitcanned for something they said 10 years ago, which is a questionable practice and not very common, but when someone is in a public
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by Niglodonicus 5y ago
Watch out, a horde of unwavering crypto supporters who still believe that it can somehow disrupt banking and change the world are currently converging on this location.
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by Niglodonicus 5y ago
Giant corporations that are allowed monopoly over a vital utility have predatorial business practices and charge exorbitant amounts for a subpar service, more news at 11.

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