PortiaBerries

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by PortiaBerries 1y ago
This whole mess started because we haven't been doing #1 when it comes to immigration.
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by PortiaBerries 1y ago
It never ceases to amaze me how poorly catechized the majority of cradle Catholics are. I don't intend this to be directed at you, but it's a standing joke among traditionalist Catholics that "I was raised Catholic" is t
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by PortiaBerries 2y ago
Around 1994, when I was a nerdy, homeschooled 8th grader teaching myself coding I came up with something I was inordinately proud of. I had gotten a book on PowerPC assembly so using Metrowerks CodeWarrior on my brand-new PowerMac 7100 I wr
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by PortiaBerries 2y ago
Yes! I was looking for this comment. Maybe because I didn't grow up with the metric system, but 60 feels like a much "rounder" number to me than 50.
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by PortiaBerries 2y ago
I graduated high school in 2000. I knew 2 kids in that school with pagers, and the only reason I paged them was to buy weed...
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by PortiaBerries 3y ago
Hell Yeah!!
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by PortiaBerries 3y ago
I see your extended response now. Well, I'm happy to do some ironclad moralization.
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by PortiaBerries 3y ago
Well, whether or not fatherlessness is the actual cause (and I believe there is abundant evidence that it is), it seems very likely that partially rewinding the societal changes that have led to widespread fatherlessness are going to have a
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by PortiaBerries 3y ago
"threatens neocons on their unipolar powertrip"? I haven't noticed that the primary opposition to nuclear power is from the right...
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by PortiaBerries 3y ago
Wow, you don't have very many windows.
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by PortiaBerries 3y ago
When I worked at one of the tech giants that develops a certain suite of office apps, the C++ class they used to model URLs in the cross platform layer had a flaw around escaped characters. I worked in the group that developed the iOS/
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by PortiaBerries 4y ago
Surely you need to provide some details to justify such an accusation.
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by PortiaBerries 4y ago
So if 5% of extra-legal searches result in dirt, then extra-legal searches are worth it?
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by PortiaBerries 4y ago
I agree somewhat. Also, it's not always clear who the most legitimate heirs are in these cases. For example, why the Egyptian government and not, say, the Coptic Church? I don't have a source but I seem to recall reading once that
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by PortiaBerries 4y ago
I must admit, I don't know what games are out there these days, but I want an adventure game like the original King's Quest, Space Quest, Hero's Quest, etc. but with modern graphics, of course. It is important that they be la
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by PortiaBerries 4y ago
How can it be a "crazy idea" to leave what you describe in your first 2 paragraphs? Crazy just economically?
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by PortiaBerries 4y ago
Some of those buildings remind me of The Objective Room in "That Hideous Strength." "They suggested some kind of pattern. Their peculiar ugliness consisted in the very fact that they kept on suggesting it and then frustrating
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by PortiaBerries 4y ago
The first app I opened up was ResEdit; the jack-in-the-box gave me a big wave of nostalgia... But yeah, it's hard to separate fond memories of youth from the changes in computing. Plus when I was a kid learning HyperTalk and then C on
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by PortiaBerries 4y ago
Sigh, this makes me realize how much I loved computers when I was a kid (1990s) and how much I hate them now.