alienthrowaway

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by alienthrowaway 3y ago
> Probably something to do with the inherently competitive nature of driving. (eg, many people see being "behind" as losing and being in "front" as winning) There might be something American about this specific drivi
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by alienthrowaway 3y ago
> Perhaps a less abstract question gets to the point better: do you believe that male-sexed people have the right to undress and shower in a communal changing room with teenage girls? Should older lesbians have the right to do the same w
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by alienthrowaway 3y ago
I noticed an immediate degradation in surface quality on the interstate when I crossed into Alabama. Aren't the states responsible for upkeep using federal dollars? Some states are better than others at this.
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by alienthrowaway 3y ago
If only California was as protective of its values against the many transplants who try and change its culture, the paradox of tolerance, I suppose. Sigh
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by alienthrowaway 3y ago
I found a stash of porn in C:\Windows\System22 - it caught my attention because I figured it had to be some malware.
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by alienthrowaway 3y ago
Your comment adds nothing to the discussion, and is a digression. I noticed you casually implied people familiar African countries wouldn't dare down vote your comment. Take this exotic downvote[1], it is straight out of Africa. 1. f
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by alienthrowaway 3y ago
It's pretty smart if you're a spammer / phisher. Legitimate use-cases for this setup seem to be few and far between. I wonder how it handles (or skirts) the STIR/SHAKEN requirements in the US.
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by alienthrowaway 3y ago
> I’m very closely connected to one of the foremost Western experts on the Himba and have spent time with them myself This is such a strange sentence that makes it sound like they're some exotic, uncontacted people. Give it a couple
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by alienthrowaway 3y ago
Edit: this comment is descriptive, not prescriptive If you have ever moderated a subreddit you'd understand why mods wind up with heavy handed approaches. Even moderately sized subreddits are a lot of work, especially of a post gets to
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by alienthrowaway 3y ago
I remember Garmin and TomTom share price dropping when Google announced it was adding turn by turn navigation to Google Maps. It was an amazing time.
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by alienthrowaway 3y ago
What? They are already selling energy to neighbours - it contributes 30% to GDP. Are you suggesting they cannot sell more of it?
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by alienthrowaway 3y ago
> It pushed some local artist to get creative and come out with some electronic traditional music, which frakly, sucked You gotta start somewhere. I lived through a similar transition in a different country, I hated the law at the time f
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by alienthrowaway 3y ago
He genteified * his street. He owns her home - at least on paper.
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by alienthrowaway 3y ago
> Having a liberal-leaning thesis isn't "woke" "Woke" has become a fuzzy culture-war term with no clear meaning when used perjoratively. Racial diversity? "Woke". Non-heteronormative relationships? Also
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by alienthrowaway 3y ago
> The elephant in the room here is the obsession western TV now has with being woke. The biggest Korean series on Netflix is absurdly "woke" : I don't know how one could watch Squid Game and miss how critical it is of cap
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by alienthrowaway 4y ago
There's nothing quite like shipping (or breaking!) something that impacts billions (with a 'b') of people . It was unexpectedly exhilarating for me the first time I shipped.
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by alienthrowaway 4y ago
People never believe me when I tell them I used to be lactose intolerant until I was 5 or 6. My favourite dish as a child was milk-based and I'd get all the symptoms, which gradually all went away completely.
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by alienthrowaway 4y ago
> For example it is uncontroversial that people with ancestry from Nigeria are better at sprinting, and people with ancestry from Kenya are better at long distance running. World class sprinters have an over-representation of individuals
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by alienthrowaway 4y ago
Agreed. My only regret is that I too, fell for the Sealion, which is glaringly obvious in retrospect. You live and you learn.
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by alienthrowaway 4y ago
Ah, I thought I'd caught a whiff of Sealion, but I wasn't certain. I'll be more vigilant next time
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by alienthrowaway 4y ago
> As a South African those early years of the ANC government still have a rosy tint as I still genuinely believe the ANC of that era I'll argue that Mandela and Mbeki gathered up all that goodwill and did exactly nothing with it. Zu
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by alienthrowaway 4y ago
> Why? Because the current government didn't hit a Soviet-style reset button? Ironic that Mandela was so loved because he chose not hit the Soviet-style button. IMO he should have used all the political capital he had gathered to
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by alienthrowaway 4y ago
> One of the challenges in writing is realising that no matter how hard you try, you will not be able to please every one. I spent a lot of time on this post, and it went through several revisions. Yours was one of the better takes, and
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by alienthrowaway 4y ago
> Unless most of the population takes these exams you have only identified generally, it’s not going to reflect the average person Is the sample size of "all final-year high-schoolers in a country" big enough for you? > So t
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by alienthrowaway 4y ago
> You ask for a good faith discussion but immediately start out with taking it personal. In quite a low effort way, as surely I don't have to explain what a "median" is, and how this has nothing to do with you as an indivi
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by alienthrowaway 4y ago
Hitchen's razor applies here: a claim without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. GP should show their work first before I waste my energy shadow boxing quasi-science Since you sound geniunely curious: a number of former coloni
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by alienthrowaway 4y ago
> You're probably downvoted because the assertion is controversial, but it shouldn't be. Fascinating. Would you mind showing me your sources for this assertion you claim shouldn't be controversial. I'm sub-saharan Afr
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by alienthrowaway 4y ago
> The DA is historically a white party but mostly has black leadership now. It's _mostly_ unaffiliated with the National Party (ruling party during Apartheid) but still has the stigma among most of the population as being the "
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by alienthrowaway 4y ago
The ANC is something of a Labour-based party - so it has a blue-collar bent to it and gets the endorsements of many unions. I'll assume the 2 people you met were not blue-collar, so chances are they are not ANC supporters. There really
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by alienthrowaway 4y ago
Take it from this insider - gp is correct. Author is super tone-deaf and completely underselling Apartheid. The is a reason why Apartheid stood apart from garden-variety colonization; and that's because it was way, way worse, and in

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