NinjaSaves

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by NinjaSaves 3y ago
You either think mandatory car-free cities are a terrifyingly dystopian idea, or you've never experienced human culture outside of dense urban areas.
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by NinjaSaves 3y ago
Exactly. If you're skeptical of gun ownership, go to England and start voicing controversial opinions, or to Australia during a viral pandemic, and see how quickly you realize that "any old fool could be armed" is unbelievabl
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by NinjaSaves 3y ago
A new government comes in and limits your ability to use it. What now? Car-free cities seem nice until they're used as leverage. No cars means massive power for a tiny number of people. Not everyone is a troll when they disagree with y
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by NinjaSaves 3y ago
My biggest point on car free cities is that it is supported fervently by the people who would gain massive amounts of power over others if nobody had a car. If you're dependent on public transport, it can be taken away from you as leve
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by NinjaSaves 6y ago
Facebook practically invented the dark triad of addictive UI elements that are currently partially responsible for driving us all constantly insane (violence for the last 4 years, the attack on DC, etc. ad infinitum): 1.) Animated or colorf
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by NinjaSaves 6y ago
I think what Facebook is very good at is developing features and app elements that Increase User Engagement(TM). Which is some thin PR language on top of the truth: Facebook develops their apps to maximize user addiction and subsequently en
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by NinjaSaves 6y ago
It is precisely this that mass-produces the sort of angry young white man that attacked DC. People thought I was being too dramatic when I had been saying this for the past four angry years (for everyone): Stop frivolously accusing young wh
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by NinjaSaves 6y ago
This is unbelievably concerning because Facebook is pre-installed on many phones now, and Facebook's apps send your out-of-app SMS messages to Facebook. This is part of the reason I quit the app; Literally gathering up my texts and kee
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by NinjaSaves 6y ago
You may have noticed that The Squad & Co. has been exhorting violence for 4 years. The violent idiots on the 6th probably just assumed that's how things go now: you lose, you get to be violent now, and the news will quietly sweep i
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by NinjaSaves 6y ago
"Achieving reparations" is difficult language for me to accept. It is "thinking past the sale" that does not treat the subject with the necessary fair-minded big picture consideration. It's not clear that reparation
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by NinjaSaves 13y ago
In my experience, Google is only mostly magic. This is probably the fault of the Linux community. Too often the process for how to fix something in Linux is listed on a website as a few cryptic commands, then "and you've got it fr
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by NinjaSaves 13y ago
"PHP rant [1]" makes it seem as though there is an array of PHP rants, possibly containing the frequent complaints devs have about PHP and its occasionally poor implementation.