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by Smoosh 3y ago
I think it’s a reference to the story about a barkeep kicking out a nazi from his bar even though the nazi wasn’t doing anything wrong because he believed that as soon as you tolerate one, you are a nazi bar.
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by Smoosh 3y ago
I used to have a Soniq brand TV. To emphasise the stupidity of the name I insisted on pronouncing it not as "sonic" but with the final q as the weird sound which begins "quack".
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by Smoosh 3y ago
Interesting. I've had several managers who could talk in a similar way.
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by Smoosh 3y ago
The Treachery of Images. "Ceci n'est pas une pipe".
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by Smoosh 3y ago
You could use one of those small usb voltage meter devices to check the port before plugging in your phone. Depending upon the model it may also nullify the data pins.
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by Smoosh 3y ago
I think that it is just as important for the oil industry to make it look like alternatives are being tried, but they just don't work out, so that the status quo seems more acceptable.
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by Smoosh 3y ago
It seems that the low efficiency when using hydrogen in an internal combustion engine, combined with it's low energy density, makes it unlikely to be viable for mainstream vehicles. https://evcentral.com.au/why-burning-
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by Smoosh 3y ago
Heck, just making the plastic insert white instead of black (now sometimes blue, occasionally orange) would have helped.
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by Smoosh 3y ago
> local cooling in Western Europe This would be bad, but now has me wondering, what would happen to all that energy if it doesn't travel up towards the north pole to be cooled? Could we have an extra hot Central Atlantic, Gulf of Me
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by Smoosh 3y ago
Liberia landed a man on the moon?
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by Smoosh 3y ago
"The pen is mightier than the sword"? -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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by Smoosh 3y ago
More like “crime is OK if it is done by my people, and when the harms are to ‘other’ people”.
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by Smoosh 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caltrop
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by Smoosh 3y ago
I also went through APANA for my primal internet access, specifically tyndale.apana.org.au. Wow, that was a long time ago.
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by Smoosh 3y ago
Presumably the user tracking component is common code.
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by Smoosh 3y ago
It is interesting that the Great Filter Theory usually concerns itself with issues such as nuclear weapons, or disease, but not the failure to overcome greed and self-interest, which, let's face it, is how the modern world is structure
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by Smoosh 3y ago
I have similar anecdata. My iPhone X still has 88% battery capacity. It still easily lasts a full day of light/intermittent use and gets charged each night on a wireless charger. The battery life is now noticeably shorter in cold weath
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by Smoosh 3y ago
It's somewhat ironic that the country which seems to have the most people fear-mongering about "one world government" is also the country with the most people who think that their government is the only one in the world.
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by Smoosh 3y ago
I'm wondering what the legal ramifications would be if parents refused to pay for the completion of a gestation in an artificial womb. Can the lab force the parents to pay the costs and have the child anyway? Can the lab terminate the
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by Smoosh 3y ago
Kingston were being anti-consumer around 10 years ago. I don’t know if they have improved their practices since then. https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/184253-ssd-shadiness-kin...
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by Smoosh 3y ago
Sometimes I despair for humanity [see advertising/social media/politics], but then I see something like this and think, we're doing pretty well for self-taught primates.
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by Smoosh 3y ago
As youtuber John Cadogan says "facts don't care about your feelings".
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by Smoosh 3y ago
I'm unsure if we want people living forever. While disease, illness, and senility are terrible things, as soon as people can live forever we will have eternal dictatorships (or people trying for it) as well as other questions of perpet
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by Smoosh 3y ago
Yes, at that point it's no longer really astrology and more like rolling a die to decide what to do today.
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by Smoosh 3y ago
I maintain mainframe systems and very often I would like to restructure code to improve it, but the requirement is to make the most minimal change that achieves the fix or change required. Mostly because the code is 30 years of patches and
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by Smoosh 3y ago
Yes, that was very much a factor for me. DVD players were still very expensive. A PS2 gave you games and DVDs for around the same price or less.
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by Smoosh 3y ago
It is easier to understand if you imagine that the observer is at the south pole looking up, instead of thinking of them on the equator going around. In reality, they are somewhere between the two extremes.
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by Smoosh 3y ago
Not one like this I hope. https://www.googlesightseeing.com/2007/09/the-swastika-build...
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by Smoosh 3y ago
There's also the "you touched me" trill. Also the "oh, hai!" trill.
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by Smoosh 3y ago
No, checking was done! "Oops, I'd better remove that comma".

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