astronautjones

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by astronautjones 6y ago
because it's a grift
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by astronautjones 6y ago
this has always been the case. the underlined shortcuts in menus are a godsend in non-osx OSes. I am still astonished at the hostility of macos when it comes to Yes/No dialogs - you usually can't hit Y or N! This changed at some p
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by astronautjones 6y ago
and is absolutely encouraged by google and amazon, as delivering that bloat makes them money
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by astronautjones 6y ago
> it takes them years to turn around. or until they need something to throw out for investors. "dark mode" did not come about because of a technical breakthrough
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by astronautjones 6y ago
infinite growth forever, of course
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by astronautjones 6y ago
ironically, the post below this about unemployment fraud with "potential losses in the hundreds of millions of dollars, according to a new alert issued by the U.S. Secret Service." is full of people who don't really understan
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by astronautjones 6y ago
their study is flawed, the scientists involved went almost exclusively onto right-wing programs to hype their biased results, and they didn't disclose important financial ties - particularly the jetblue guy that wrote an op-ed for the
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by astronautjones 6y ago
no, that's what all of this is about. conservatives don't like in principle that people are receiving unemployment for their pandemic-induced lost hours (employers - and in some states workers too - pay an unemployment tax on payr
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by astronautjones 6y ago
"atlas shrugged, performatively"
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by astronautjones 6y ago
that I'd never insult her by comparing her to an electric car corporation
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by astronautjones 6y ago
> People die every day of all causes. We don't shut down the country because of car accidents, do we? if car accidents JUST started happening in january and 80,000 people died of them by may, yeah man we probably would have
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by astronautjones 6y ago
the same reason they promote slashing public programs, welfare, benefits
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by astronautjones 6y ago
Lots of people that just lost their jobs & insurance (and can't afford COBRA) are deferring medical service.
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by astronautjones 6y ago
People should be scared. This isn't over, and this idiotic preemptive celebration/busines reopening is going to render a lot of our sacrifices in vain.
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by astronautjones 6y ago
"The basic trouble, you see, is that people think that "right" and "wrong" are absolute; that everything that isn't perfectly and completely right is totally and equally wrong." always a great read. this b
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by astronautjones 6y ago
far more likely it's a grift (e.g. to the stars academy, remote viewing companies like SRI Int'l in the 60s-80s, etc)
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by astronautjones 6y ago
> It's easy to look down on people lower on the socioeconomic ladder. They're still human beings. They've been given this raw deal: For the greater good, you will now give up your job for an indefinite period of time, with
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by astronautjones 6y ago
I really hope (but doubt) that this crisis will finally annihilate this terrible line of thought we've been crippled by (it feels like especially in the last four years). It's not political to accurately describe the sheer ineptit
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by astronautjones 6y ago
leading a life insulated from the consequences of living in this economic model
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by astronautjones 7y ago
> So for this to pay off as a business over being done inhouse, does make you wonder and try to work out why that is. "inhouse" is probably still a no-bid buddy contract with a large defense corporation, so his rate probably do
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by astronautjones 7y ago
> People emigrate from places with problems, then insist the place they immigrated to should be like the place they emigrated from. the majority of the time, the problems you speak of were caused by the big western powers in the first p
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by astronautjones 7y ago
> It seems like a lot of effort to monitor screens, it makes me think there has to be a compelling reason, and not just browsing around looking for "problems". depends. it can often be chalked up to management having too much t
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by astronautjones 7y ago
You're locked in at that point
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by astronautjones 7y ago
it's also a completely hostile and unnavigable app store. the search is bad, the charts are bad, the recommendations are bad, it's obscured on purpose.
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by astronautjones 7y ago
agreed. using this phrase is the equivalent of putting your fingers in your ears and running away
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by astronautjones 7y ago
I had a similar issue and clearing the disk (clean) in DISKPART allowed me to re-format through windows. https://neosmart.net/wiki/diskpart/
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by astronautjones 7y ago
This is a terrible thing to do right now.
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by astronautjones 7y ago
it really pains me how much good content on the gawker network of sites/kinja legacy sites is still actively ruined by great hill partners
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by astronautjones 7y ago
> We should do everything we can to protect the elderly and ill, but a disease that is so mild that 85% of people over 80 still survive it, it doesn't strike me as something worth tanking the global economy over. If you're midd
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by astronautjones 7y ago
> All solvable problems. Even in a recession. With political will... I have some bad news.

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