SmokeyHamster

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by SmokeyHamster 6y ago
It's actions like that that give me reason to doubt the results of the 2020 election. People weilding the truth don't need to censor people. They let the facts speak for themselves, and they let free discussion sort things out. Yo
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by SmokeyHamster 6y ago
Unfortunately, for many of the online games that have logins, Steam forces you to create a new login, since they track commissions based on the accounts created inside Steam. For Linux users, this if you want to use Steam, you have to start
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by SmokeyHamster 6y ago
Markdown has supported tables for a very long time... https://riptutorial.com/markdown/example/1741/creating-a-tab...
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by SmokeyHamster 6y ago
Yeah, I generally agree. Technologically, it's a dumpster fire. And even ideologically, it's just become a lefty political circle-jerk where any facts that are not endorsed, in some cases literally, by MSNBC are immediately purged
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by SmokeyHamster 6y ago
Rights should be restrictions on government. Not mandates on personal and private business behavior. I'm not even sure what is driving this. The EU already has a very lax work ethic. Is there really a problem in Europe with people havi
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by SmokeyHamster 6y ago
Yeah, differences like that are why I ditched MySQL years ago in favor of PostgreSQL. I was using MySQL at the time, and did a performance comparison of how long it took each database to dump and load a snapshot of a 100GB database. MySQL t
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by SmokeyHamster 6y ago
Yeah, I'm really surprised by how dependent I've become on Amazon, a company I don't even really trust. The convenience can't be understated, especially as it's not really apparent until you start buying a lot from
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by SmokeyHamster 6y ago
Is this at all surprising to you? Censorship everywhere is on the rise, even in the US. We just elected a President and Vice President who have spoken about how more Republicans need to be censored online. During the primaries, Kamala Harri
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by SmokeyHamster 6y ago
I doubt that. As someone who uses a lot of these mostly-conservative sites, I'm not seeing a ton of infighting. If anything, it's been the opposite. I'm seeing it unite a bunch of different factions that used to fight. And to
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by SmokeyHamster 6y ago
The problem with Facebook's censorship isn't one of scale. I think they're pretty good at censoring large numbers of people, as we've seen over the last several years. The problem is with determining the standard by whic
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by SmokeyHamster 6y ago
I mostly agree. However, it'll be interesting to see how well new competitors can fair in an industry like social media where the product (i.e. us) is already near monopolized on a few large platforms. Personally, I like Parler's
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by SmokeyHamster 6y ago
Yeah, I agree. I still occassionaly read some people I follow on Twitter, but I rarely comment and never read notifications. I also entirely stopped using Reddit for the same reason. IMHO it's even more toxic than Twitter. And don&#x27
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by SmokeyHamster 6y ago
Yeah, I just realized this myself. Never really thought about it until I started seeing Google, Twitter, Facebook and other large companies, start banning people for political reasons. Imagine if you signed into some site using your Faceboo
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by SmokeyHamster 6y ago
That's the point. People deserve to be paid what they agree to be paid. The value of money relative to a product or service is subjective. If Bob agrees to mow a lawn for $10, Joe doesn't have the right to object and demand that B
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by SmokeyHamster 6y ago
What a nonsense and biased article. Biden just raised and spent $1 billion on the 2020 campaign, but you won't see The Guardian claiming Biden "bought the election". Yet if ridesharing companies spend money to advertise their
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by SmokeyHamster 6y ago
Because Russia and China are most of the world's political and economic enemies.
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by SmokeyHamster 6y ago
It's insane to vote for someone who does things you support? To someone with full blown TDS, sure, a Snowden pardon probably won't sway your opinion at all. But think of someone who leans libertarian and maybe doesn't love Tr
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by SmokeyHamster 6y ago
Agreed. There have been plenty of people labeled "leakers" inside the White House who have been celebrated by the media, like Eric Ciaramella.
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by SmokeyHamster 6y ago
Not just Google buy any company's cloud-connected product. I have a Roomba i7, and it works well, but it's 100% reliant on a web connection to control and to train it's automapping feature. If iRobot gets bored with the model
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by SmokeyHamster 6y ago
You're grossly exaggerating. Trump's also used Twitter to float potential policy changes that either weren't implemented or were considerably changed before implementation. Trump used Twitter to threaten thinly veiled war wit
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by SmokeyHamster 6y ago
Twitter was originally intended as a way to post personal statuses. Short messages that are self-contained enough to require little elaboration. Only when people started using Twitter to have long-form political and philosophical conversati
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by SmokeyHamster 6y ago
Eh, not really. According to this ( https://www.omnicoreagency.com/twitter-statistics/ ), "There are 48.35 million monthly active Twitter users in the US." That means the vast majority of Americans do not use T
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by SmokeyHamster 6y ago
Is a nuclear tweet like a regular tweet that has a half life of 20,000 years?
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by SmokeyHamster 6y ago
A white hat would not have used a real bitcoin address in the message. This was a gray hat, at best. I'm curious if anyone actually fell for the scam. Considering the millions of people who follow the collective accounts effected, even
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by SmokeyHamster 6y ago
>Society puts way too much trust in shit that is posted on twitter. So you're saying Biden's isn't going to send me back my Bitcoin doubled? Dang it.
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by SmokeyHamster 6y ago
Contrary to public opinion, Twitter is not the center of the known universe. Democrats and BLM activists routinely post things like that (death threats, "kill wheety", "republicans must burn", etc), and despite many left
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by SmokeyHamster 6y ago
>I hope they apply it more widely to things they don't necessarily ideologically agree with. You mean like Roe v Wade? Under this ruling, if precedent doesn't matter, only correcting past injustices, Roe v Wade should be overtu
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by SmokeyHamster 6y ago
>To hold otherwise would be to elevate the most brazen and longstanding injustices over the law, both rewarding wrong and failing those in the right. Interesting logic. Now do Roe v Wade. Are they going to overturn that too because it al
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by SmokeyHamster 6y ago
>So this isn't universal basic income, as it's means based, but this article keeps calling it that for some reason. Yeah, I received "relief income" from the government, i.e. my own tax dollars, even though I'm n
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by SmokeyHamster 6y ago
Slightly misleading headline. The study tested how much a lie persists in someone's mind even after they're told the truth. The study found that facts do indeed change people's minds, just not as much as we'd like, becau

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