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by Tao3300 4y ago
There's also a story of Genghis Khan trying to impress the strength of unity on his sons by showing them how a single arrow can be snapped, but that a bundle of them is strong. I don't think it worked, but that's a sort of fa
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by Tao3300 4y ago
> Why is this the only hate symbol you love so much? Who said I loved it? I'm only asking questions to examine your position. > Should we start flying confederate flags now everywhere What prior meaning does the "stars an
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by Tao3300 4y ago
Presumably < 100,000 https://time.com/4392413/elie-wiesel-holocaust-survivors-rem... That was 2016.
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by Tao3300 4y ago
Do you boycott Unicode because they deemed 卐 and 卍 to be worth including?
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by Tao3300 4y ago
I feel like the article started off about one thing and turned into something else. "Marital family" seems like an unusual way to describe the arrangement, predicting a degree of distance that has nothing to do with TV under the s
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by Tao3300 4y ago
Surge pricing on arms fire. Obviously it couldn't work, but I can think of worse ideas. A conflict diffused because the combatants are about to become insolvent on the next shot!
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by Tao3300 4y ago
In 2014 I considered myself a little-l libertarian and thought this was hilarious when it came out. The sponsored parts kill me every time. > “Home Depot™ Presents the Police!®" > “Subway™ Eat Fresh and Freeze, Scumbag!®” >
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by Tao3300 4y ago
> I don't know about Java. It's very solvable in Java, as we see here: https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...
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by Tao3300 4y ago
Yet it's still deeply engrossing. I remember buying the triangular version from Cracker Barrel and bringing on a beach vacation. Everyone played the heck out of it. Growing up we had one in the same cross configuration we see here. My
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by Tao3300 4y ago
Pointing out that a comment doesn't contribute to discussion doesn't contribute to discussion either. I'm definitely not contributing much by saying this.
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by Tao3300 4y ago
Bundle these together as C That Will Get Your Ass Kicked
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by Tao3300 4y ago
I think you just reinvented the village.
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by Tao3300 4y ago
I think it used to be the opposite until we ate too many of them. Supply/Demand.
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by Tao3300 4y ago
Salad greens aren't cooked, so of course it's problematic.
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by Tao3300 4y ago
> Some will compare the difference between the natural flavor of truffles and the artificial truffle flavor with the difference between sex and sniffing dirty panties. [insert two quotes from celebs who aren't saying that] I don&#x2
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by Tao3300 4y ago
Too important to be controlled by few . The guidance of teams with expertise in human rights, accessibility, AI ethics and curation (though I'm iffy on that one) is better than the whim of a rich egomaniac.
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by Tao3300 4y ago
> twitter solve a very practical problem. I like to read stuff from everywhere, from substacks to YouTube channel to regular old mainstream media. But not everything they produce is of interest to me so I need a way to filter and get to
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by Tao3300 4y ago
There's a lot of outrage in those niches too.
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by Tao3300 4y ago
I deactivated and deleted Twitter last week and added it to my filter list in ublock. Most of the accounts I was following already have a Mastodon presence, though YMMV depending on your personal interests.
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by Tao3300 4y ago
Of course: if you're seeing double, you went too far!
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by Tao3300 4y ago
I feel like the next question is, "the tortoise lies there, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs, trying to turn itself over, but it cannot do so without your help. You are not helping. Why?"
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by Tao3300 4y ago
Yeah, me too! When I got to the part > Can you remember the names of the children of all your friends? Can you remember the wedding anniversary of your brother? Can you tell the last time you called your grand mother and what you talked
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by Tao3300 4y ago
> all the internet did was email and ftp In retrospect, that would have been a nice stopping point...
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by Tao3300 4y ago
I'll bet you use the word "fiat" a lot.
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by Tao3300 4y ago
Canada is not the US
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by Tao3300 4y ago
Canada, so IANAB
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by Tao3300 4y ago
Okay, it's back to basics, I guess... How would you feel if someone did this to you? 1. :-) 2. :-| 3. :-( How do you think someone else would feel if you did this to them? 1. :-) 2. :-| 3. :-(
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by Tao3300 4y ago
There are way more options than the two you listed. The trouble is that you're using bureaucratic thinking about how to handle all the cases instead of getting down to the human, personal level of how you handle each specific case.
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by Tao3300 4y ago
> Although this individual story is awful, at the scale of 12,000 layoffs unfortunately there will inevitably be instances where the circumstances are poor. Basically 1 layoff is a tragedy, 12K is a statistic.
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by Tao3300 4y ago
I don't know about you, but that's pretty much how/why my ancestors got here.

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