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by anoncake 6y ago
Our species has evolved to deal with deaths. Social isolation goes against human nature, it's a lot more harmful than any pandemic.
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by anoncake 6y ago
Smallpox. Except for some samples in secure laboratories.
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by anoncake 6y ago
That, or "Covid behaves like viruses usually do", describes plenty of headlines of the past 15 months . Remember how everyone was worried that antibody levels drop after an infection? Judging by the media coverage, you'd thi
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by anoncake 6y ago
The revolution in the GDR was definitely a good thing. Reunification is a different question.
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by anoncake 6y ago
FWIW Austrians don't like being called Germans.
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by anoncake 6y ago
> The HRE was seen as an entirely german political entity and had almost no non-german kings in its entire history. What about northern Italy? And Bohemia – it was part of the HRE until the end and its king was an elector.
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by anoncake 6y ago
> You don't think lady in 'mail-lady' refers to woman? It can either refer to their sex or their gender. > Rude. I never would. But if I did it would be redundant after calling her a woman. What do you mean? If we refer
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by anoncake 6y ago
Same on Windows and Linux.
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by anoncake 6y ago
> Well why are you still around cars when your lifestyle is so superior? Tragedy of the commons. > Justifying being annoying is a great way to make you popular i've heard. Seems to work for you.
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by anoncake 6y ago
The BSD licenses (that are in use today) are considered free software licenses and always have been. The FSF doesn't prefer them because they aren't copyleft.
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by anoncake 6y ago
Why, yes. I pollute less and I'm drastically less likely to kill someone. I don't drive people mad with noise. My lifestyle is superior. Deal with it. > Cars and bikes do not belong on the same road without seperation That is
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by anoncake 6y ago
And what's the danger here? If having to drive slowly makes you so angry you can't drive safely, you shouldn't be driving at all.
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by anoncake 6y ago
Every cyclist is inherently more well-behaved than anyone driving a dangerous, noisy and polluting machine driving through a populated area.
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by anoncake 6y ago
Firefox uses PDF.js, Chrome's reader is based on Foxit.
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by anoncake 6y ago
Monitoring public spaces is.
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by anoncake 6y ago
Bicycles are vehicles. Vehicles belong on the road. Where else?
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by anoncake 6y ago
So? Then people have to get phones they can afford.
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by anoncake 6y ago
Turning startup sounds off is definitely the sensible default for laptops.
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by anoncake 6y ago
Put that billboard up – promoted, probably.
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by anoncake 6y ago
No, not actively. But they took the decision to pilot tons of metal through a populated area. If you could have avoided that at all, e.g. by taking public transport or cycling yourself, and hit someone, you fully deserve the blame.
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by anoncake 6y ago
What software is open source but not free? The difference is a philosophical one, not one of definitions.
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by anoncake 6y ago
The people have decided that "open source" means OSI open source. Therefore that is its effective definition. Which means > If you want to be specific about the meaning of open source, just say "OSI open source" or so
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by anoncake 6y ago
> Also, it's sex not gender people are referring to. I don't think so. "The mail carrier follows female gender roles" is bad enough, but why would you describe someone as "the mail carrier with a vagina"?
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by anoncake 6y ago
If "don't end your sentences with a preposition" was an actual grammar rule, no one would ever talk about it because every native speaker would intuitively follow it anyway.
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by anoncake 6y ago
It does, but PCs don't fit in my pocket.
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by anoncake 6y ago
> We could be living in a world where no open web ever existed, where everything would be filtered through app stores and closed environments like Facebook (AOL). We could be living in a world where the App Store never existed, where eve
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by anoncake 6y ago
That page is useless, it doesn't mention how frequent the effects are.
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by anoncake 6y ago
It's the best cure when it works. But what to do when it doesn't?
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by anoncake 6y ago
> might have said the same thing if my mail carrier were a woman (which she is). Probably. Most people who look like women are. But some are actually closeted non-binary people or trans men. In which case calling them a lady isn't o
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by anoncake 6y ago
Why do you have a problem with this "alternative" reality?

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