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by Perceval 4y ago
> homophobic, racist, sexist, emotionally and mentally stunted incels This is the counter-culture. The dominant culture opposes all of these things and makes obligatory the celebration of the opposite values. 4chan being one of the few
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by Perceval 4y ago
Dyslexia associations have recommended Comic Sans as a font that allows for easier reading comprehension. Experts say that opposition to Comic Sans is ableist: https://www.thecut.com/2020/08/the-reason-comic-sans-
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by Perceval 4y ago
Looks more like Helvetica. For example, look at the leg on the capital R.
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by Perceval 4y ago
Apple bought Cue in order to bring the "surfacing what's temporally relevant to the user" experience to Siri. I don't really see much of what Cue worked on manifesting in Siri since the acquisition, except for the Siri
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by Perceval 4y ago
The White House and DOD still use handwritten routing slips at the highest levels to track memo packages, sign-offs, comments, and orders given in response.
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by Perceval 4y ago
> bring in the US Department of Defense or US government in general This is a guaranteed route to introducing even more delays, cost overruns, schedule overruns, onerous requirements, intrusive oversight, and about a trillion meetings an
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by Perceval 4y ago
This article presupposes that Proxima Centauri is not, in fact, made of chorizo. Whereas we have long known that the moon is made of cheese. I think Klein is floating a test balloon to gauge the public's willingness to consume the &#
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by Perceval 4y ago
https://twitter.com/publicanthony/status/1542922977481728000
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by Perceval 4y ago
Really love your previous work on ocean-centered maps like the Spilhaus. Keep up the good work.
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by Perceval 4y ago
It was really just one trick, which was to immediately sticky select new posts. Those posts would garner large amounts of upvotes immediately by virtue of being stickied at the top of a subreddit where most users did not browse reddit overa
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by Perceval 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
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by Perceval 5y ago
CNWDI is DOD-only. Q and L are DOE.
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by Perceval 5y ago
You could tell that Q Anon was fake from the very first post, because they said Q was the "highest clearance," a statement that is doubly incorrect. Q is an access, not a clearance. Confidential, Secret, and Top Secret are the onl
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by Perceval 5y ago
Ocean-centered projections are some of my favorite projections to track down. Myriahedral, dymaxion, spilhaus, and one or two others make for fine ocean-centered maps. Students have a new perspective on Mahan's notion of seapower or Ma
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by Perceval 5y ago
> I'm also disturbed by the idea that all of society, all accomplishment, achievement, and maybe even all relationships are the result of power dynamics. You can thank the dominance of Foucault in the academy for that.
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by Perceval 5y ago
> a successful wargame is about as strong evidence as you can get Having direct experience with wargames, I have to disagree with this. Wargames are weak evidence that too often lead people to draw unwarranted conclusions from an n of 1.
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by Perceval 5y ago
Quinine is better as a prophylaxis rather than a treatment - i.e. for preventative or early-stage use, not once it's developed into a bad case. Low doses early (like in the tonic water of the late 1800s) could help prevent one from cat
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by Perceval 6y ago
Obama did not modernize the U.S. nuclear arsenal. He promised to modernize it in exchange for Republican support in the Senate to pass the New START arms control deal. But he let the nuclear enterprise fall into such disrepair that a majo
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by Perceval 6y ago
At least Kissinger ended a major war. Obama ended none and started U.S. involvement in more.
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by Perceval 6y ago
I had a good experience with Trazadone. Very easy to get to sleep, eliminated anxiety about going to sleep, and got restful sleep, with only a little grogginess in the morning. No withdrawal when I stopped cold turkey after 2 years. Nowa
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by Perceval 7y ago
Clinton campaigned on signing NAFTA. It wasn't just dumped on him.
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by Perceval 7y ago
https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/deciphering-the-fall...
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by Perceval 7y ago
It's against the law to encourage, aid, or abet aliens to illegally enter the United States: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1324
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by Perceval 8y ago
Indelible in the hippocampus
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by Perceval 8y ago
r/the_Donald was "quarantined" by the admins, so it cannot be discovered by users in the same way as other subreddits. That cut off a lot of the organic growth that you would normally see, and it cut off users who might norma
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by Perceval 8y ago
> Apple for that matter can't know what you're using their products for Yet, Apple imperiously employs a EULA to prevent me from using iTunes to make nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons https://www.cultofmac.com
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by Perceval 8y ago
We've got field-specific Academia.edu as our LinkedIn alternative.
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by Perceval 8y ago
Being able to send a dish back doesn't exist because waiters rely on tips. If restaurant owners and managers didn't accept it, waiters would not be permitted to do it. It's not like waiters take a plate back to the line and b
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by Perceval 8y ago
Trump has been talking about the need for tariffs and industrial policy since the 1980s. This is not some scheme he's cooked up on the spur of the moment.
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by Perceval 9y ago
I had no problems stopping Wellbutrin after 3.5 years. More or less went cold turkey when I ran out of prescription.

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