SenorSourdough

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by SenorSourdough 6y ago
I do not see ads by default as an NYT subscriber but they have prompted me with a big bottom banner splash in the past to allow ads as a subscriber. I declined and haven't seen any ads that I'm aware of since. Sounds like there ar
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by SenorSourdough 6y ago
I disagree with such a compartmentalized way of thinking about these issues, where it's inappropriate to discuss gendered language when it comes up in some other context. That's often the only effective opportunity to address this
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by SenorSourdough 6y ago
Language is fluid. The thing that was "right" to say 500 years ago wasn't right 100 years ago, and what was "right" 100 years ago wouldn't be right now. There are clear arguments for why encouraging people to t
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by SenorSourdough 6y ago
You understand that there are millions of women who are victims of abuse, sidelined or disregarded by society, and constantly repressed because of sexism, right? Losing your job is a temporary problem for most people. Sexism, like the kind
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by SenorSourdough 6y ago
Sure, but the idea of "mankind" is gendered / male-centric in the first place. We just defaulted to male because we always default to male. Training yourself to default to non-gendered language like person-kind and to think a
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by SenorSourdough 7y ago
Is the problem that we have too little time to meet people? It strikes me that the problems are more related to increased isolation/individualism, increased distraction, degradation of real-world communities, and increased fear of maki
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by SenorSourdough 7y ago
Only if they are less than 55 pounds.
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by SenorSourdough 7y ago
I also lean towards the stairs (or at least not just standing on the escalator), but in my experience it's like 80/20 or "worse" between people who go for the escalator vs the stairs. Of the escalator crowd though, there
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by SenorSourdough 7y ago
It's mind boggling that there is any good way for an app that just tracks your social media usage to make money when they have to tunnel all their user's internet usage. (Assuming they actually made any money on that $500k revenue
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by SenorSourdough 7y ago
From the post, it sounds like the users receive the purchased item immediately but the app developer needs to confirm that the charge went through properly. Otherwise the funds are returned but the user keeps the purchased item. Without ac
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by SenorSourdough 7y ago
From the article, it sounds like they will be using some microgrids as well in areas where geography would hinder recovery after disasters.