Shekelphile

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by Shekelphile 3y ago
We are actually in the last 20% of time remaining for life on earth to exist. Multicellular life will likely go extinct within a few hundred million years.
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by Shekelphile 3y ago
I wonder if the people trying to kill us off like this realize how influential trans people have been on the advancement of technology and society in general. A lot of modern amenities people have simply wouldn't exist if a trans perso
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by Shekelphile 3y ago
I am surprised that only executives are suing. Nobody I know that was laid off from twitter (even the ones who took voluntary severance) has been paid yet.
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by Shekelphile 3y ago
Nobody knows the letter of the law in the real world and carveouts like this are meant to appease political opposition and get laws passed, not to be enforceable/usable. It's an effective total ban.
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by Shekelphile 3y ago
Most fleet vehicles are sold as normal vehicles to consumers as well. I don't know where to find them, just saw the normal base trim versions of those fleet cars listed on normal used car sites. There's tons of them out there: che
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by Shekelphile 3y ago
You won't find a new one. If you want a car made newer than the last 10 years you would need to look at models sold into fleets which would limit you to basically work trucks/vans and base model ford and GM sedans and subcompacts.
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by Shekelphile 3y ago
Why not? Musk has a history of direct personal attacks against people who criticize him (he just recently purged a bunch of people from twitter today, no less) as well as a history of directly pump and dumping shitcoins for him and his cron
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by Shekelphile 3y ago
Vote with your wallet has never worked. Even the most basic economic principles like supply and demand have been shown to be broken in the last few years. Countless businesses have begun rent-seeking with quarterly price increases, opaque m
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by Shekelphile 3y ago
> But why take away their freedom to do so? Minimum wage laws don't do that. You're completely within your rights to volunteer your time for no compensation at all if you wish.
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by Shekelphile 3y ago
Maybe for people who already owned assets and had a stable living situation before 2020. If you're renting and had to buy anything expensive like a car in the last few years then your costs have more than doubled.
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by Shekelphile 3y ago
$12-15 today is effectively lower than the federal minimum was 4 years ago. It's a completely disingenuous argument to make that it's acceptable to pay people that little.
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by Shekelphile 3y ago
There is a very weird lack of interest in slowing down or reversing aging in the scientific/medical community in general. To me it seems like it should be a top priority. Life is extremely short and extending our lives shouldn't b
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by Shekelphile 3y ago
> The Blueprint health protocol may end up giving people with healthy bodies but an aging brain, so they will be able to live many years with dementia (because the body is otherwise healthy). Your brain being damaged by dementia will abs
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by Shekelphile 3y ago
Wouldn't really call it dangerous, ISPs have always cut off people from service doing illegal/unethical things. The weird part is that they're putting a price on it now... implying that it's OK to use their pipe to engag
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by Shekelphile 3y ago
> Also not sure what bias you’re talking about. You explicitly said the state which has laws on the books banning teaching that chattel slavery was a bad thing is a good place to raise a child in.
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by Shekelphile 3y ago
> Like I’m not even sure what language you’re supposed to use. Economic migrant, most of the people 'fleeing' venezuela are elites, not people who were actually victims of the economy collapsing.
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by Shekelphile 3y ago
Using loaded language like refugee to refer to venezuela in itself gives away your biases.
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by Shekelphile 3y ago
You would rather raise a child in a state like Florida where the government has made it illegal not to glorify the confederacy and chattel slavery? That is a very odd choice. I get that the bay has a crime/homeless/CoL problem but
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by Shekelphile 3y ago
Because the EU banned barrel connectors.
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by Shekelphile 3y ago
We still can’t see the atmosphere of the majority of exoplanets. Can’t get around it unless we build a telescope thousands of times bigger than anything else or we make some incomprehensible breakthrough in optics. If we could we would dete
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by Shekelphile 3y ago
> It’s not fair to level these sorts of potential/speculative security concerns at Beeper Mini when iMessage’s first-party implementation has way worse problems that are actually documented. Apple has a proven track record of not ha
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by Shekelphile 3y ago
> Beeper Mini does not MITM messages - it's a reverse engineering of how iMessage works, and runs entirely on-device, without putting messages thru Beeper's servers. It talks directly to Apple and pretends to be an iPhone. It d
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by Shekelphile 3y ago
Yeah I really don't get the hype at all. I played through a fair bit of act 1 and dropped it quick. I've played other crpgs without issues but had my ass handed to me pretty quickly in bg3 with the constant ambushes and having to
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by Shekelphile 3y ago
No. Mostly Samsung lied and put oleophobic coatings on all the vulnerable points that washes away from a few weeks/months of ambient humidity. Phones like that are not waterproof in the real world, and if you want a hard example of tha
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by Shekelphile 3y ago
bitcoin has no usecase as 'digital cash' anyway. plenty of other coins fill that role better for years now.
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by Shekelphile 3y ago
Amazon only comingles inventory among FBA sellers, and gives each an option to opt-out from it if they want to. They never comingle 'sold by amazon.com' items. In cases where I've bought amazon.com items and not from FBA sell
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by Shekelphile 3y ago
Probably chinese sellers on all those sites. I've noticed a common thread with people who complain about counterfeits is that they're literally buying alphabet soup brand fakes from chinese FBA sellers instead of buying products d
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by Shekelphile 3y ago
Hynix's flash is just fine. It's the controller at fault for this.
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by Shekelphile 3y ago
Pretty much every brand uses phison controllers in at least some of their products, even wd/samsung/intel who design controllers in house use them for their cheapest offerings because phison is all about making the cheapest produc
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by Shekelphile 3y ago
2/12 is not good, especially if the drives that failed were using off the shelf phison controllers which is basically the entire market besides sandisk/samsung/intel.

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