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by aphextim 7y ago
>One former contractor the WSJ spoke with described down-voting any search results that read like a "how-to manual" for queries relating to suicide until the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline came up as the top result. Accor
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by aphextim 7y ago
As my father phrased it when I moved out at 18, "Make sure you have food on the table and a roof over your head, the rest is just details."
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by aphextim 7y ago
When I worked at a call center for a quick temp job we would do 'polls' where before we called the person the address, political affiliation and name would appear on our screen before we would call. Sometimes the names didn't
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by aphextim 7y ago
>id argue one cannot change the composition of congress. I hope that if term limits ever become a thing, it would only take a few elections of well informed voters to start making the change. I think that congress is supposed to be a flu
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by aphextim 7y ago
This entire article summed up in one image. https://files.catbox.moe/ipv8a9.png
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by aphextim 7y ago
>I doubt previous conviction records would've deterred her from doing it. I personally do not believe that line of thinking. Personally I think that if a few kids ended up being charged as an adult for lying, wasting police resource
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by aphextim 7y ago
Until people get punished for the crime they faked with an equal punishment as if they were committing the crime, these fake crimes for attention will never cease. The reward of temporary internet fame and whatever may come from the fallout
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by aphextim 7y ago
My reasoning stems from this person's presentation, which after he gave was let go from Harvard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCuy163srRc
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by aphextim 7y ago
>I wonder if any of our current practices will be viewed as barbaric. Circumcision aka male genital mutilation is the first thing that comes to mind.
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Fun fact, before it was re-branded to voat it was called whoaverse and wasn't a giant trove of nationalist and racist posts. It actually had decent discussions. Over time as more and more of the people were banned from posting on Reddi
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by aphextim 7y ago
Thank you I had no idea how the numbers were chosen until now!
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by aphextim 7y ago
I think this could also be applied to education and not just working in due time. Obviously for labs and hands on experience you will still want to go physically to your university, however I envision a future where all you need to do to go
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by aphextim 7y ago
From the article: >The first option is to buy the Windows 10 upgrade. The second option is to purchase an Office 365 subscription, which comes with a Windows 10 upgrade included. I am not sure if this still works so I would not use this
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by aphextim 7y ago
>I think it's just a result of HN becoming popular enough that it's attracting a larger audience. This could be true, however for me and what I think may be a larger issue is that people are getting tired of using Reddit and ot
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by aphextim 7y ago
From the article: >The TV spot, which depicts a woman showing a video diary to her male partner of a year spent on the Peloton he gave her, struck some viewers as sexist. How? I don't understand. If my partner purchased a bow-flex f
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by aphextim 7y ago
One of my favorite things to break the ice with a younger gamer and the Quadratic Formula. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewAHYVzMobw Super Mario Quadratics.
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by aphextim 7y ago
Hopefully it isn't a suicide with 2 gunshot wounds to the back of the head....
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by aphextim 7y ago
I read a book a while back, and it is even more relavaent today. The Culture of Fear - Barry Glassner https://www.amazon.com/Culture-Fear-Americans-Minorities-Mic...
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by aphextim 7y ago
I think it's more likely due to the echo chamber of the media/pollsters and big cities who didn't count of all the 'fly over' areas actually coming together. I remember working a temp job at a polling call center an
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>Plenty of violence happens in the world, both in response to speech and not, without being 'fascism'. Politically motivated violence is not synonymous with fascism Correct we call that terrorism when it is to further your own
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Antifa used physical violence to confront any idea they did not like. Silencing an opposing political opinion through violence is a definition of fascism.
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by aphextim 7y ago
>You can't develop PTSD from VR because VR isn't real. Even if you get scared it's not the same kind of fear as being in a situation where you can actually get hurt, or die, or you actually kill another human being. Weird,
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by aphextim 7y ago
This made me think of this story from a while back. https://mashable.com/2016/05/12/china-bottled-air-demand/ Curious I googled the company to see if they still existed. Vitality Air appears to be doing
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by aphextim 7y ago
When I started working for a small company as their sole IT department, it started out easy until they kept piling more and more tasks on me. Some were easy, like install this new printer on everyone's computers etc, some took longer t
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by aphextim 7y ago
archive.is Copy/paste url Doesn't work 100% of the time but usually does.
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Add to that network the ability to order physical printed copies of photos for cheap automatically sent to your house you could have a goldmine with people who still make photo albums/scrapbook. You would have to only allow those in yo
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Original title that they changed which my original comment was based off of was, 'Hospitals pledge to fight Trump admin price transparency plan in court' Removing the word Trump (trigger word) is what dang was referring to.
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by aphextim 7y ago
Lbry.io Think torrenting + youtube + blockchain had a baby. https://lbry.com/faq
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by aphextim 7y ago
I don't think anyone who has had to pay hospital bills would agree with the hospital lobby's decision to fight this. The article's title makes it give the impression this is okay because, orange man bad, however regardless of
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by aphextim 7y ago
I enjoy the "Epstein didn't kill himself" meme as it encompasses both ideas. Popular, he was murdered to be silenced from his handlers. Unpopular, he is still alive and living somewhere in secret. However if the meme was chan

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