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by autoexec 5y ago
> Symptoms can span localized pain or swelling, fever, ulceration, abscess, cough, chest pain, high fever, headache, anorexia, respiratory distress, abdominal discomfort, joint pain, disorientation, weight loss, stomach or chest pain, mu
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by autoexec 5y ago
> In countries with massive class disparities why don’t the classes band together and revolt? A lot of factors come into play there. Protesting and political engagement require a lot of time and energy. Many of the poorest people need t
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by autoexec 5y ago
mass poisoning is psychopath territory. Take the people responsible and throw them in mental hospitals to be evaluated and hopefully treated. It's that or prison. In any case they need to be kept away from the rest of society because t
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by autoexec 5y ago
I don't think they need to be. At least not within reasonable bounds. There's certainly an interesting discussion to be had surrounding individual freedoms vs the common good in a pandemic, but I'm not sure as to what extent
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by autoexec 5y ago
> I don’t understand why people get their panties in a twist over the original music being cut out of the DVDs. I'm guessing that's because you didn't watch the show while it was airing. The music in Daria originally came
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by autoexec 5y ago
> and you can't keep sending bogus claims without repercussion has any major company ever faced meaningful consequences for this? A handful of copyright trolls have been busted, but the MPA/RIAA send false DMCA notices all th
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by autoexec 5y ago
Fiction holds people's attention in ways that non-fiction isn't always able to, and that's true more for some people than for others, but works designed specifically to entertain tend to have wider appeal than works designed
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by autoexec 5y ago
How much do non-giants really need one? Sure, they have their advantages, but are we really at the point where every website absolutely requires their use?
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by autoexec 5y ago
According to their own privacy policy the information they collect and share (read sell) includes "online identifiers", internet and network activity, device activity including cookie information, "other device identifiers&q
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by autoexec 5y ago
> Like many kids back then me and my friends spent hours trying to move that truck to get a mew, but it was impossible, it was just a rumour that spread because back then no one knew for sure if it was possible or not. I found the myth t
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by autoexec 5y ago
Why is it that alcohol be a wonderful unique inebriate but soda can't be? It used to be my preferred source of caffeine. If you don't abuse soda, it has a lot going for it too. It's basically liquid candy that also makes you
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by autoexec 5y ago
For anyone else who hadn't seen these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_works_similar_to_the_2... Somehow I'm not surprised that in addition to local artists copying the one in Utah several companies
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by autoexec 5y ago
How'd we ever know if they did? Are there independent audits or would discovery that they have been doing that depend on a whistleblower? If we know anything about corporations it's that they have zero problems with violating laws
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by autoexec 5y ago
Ah, the old "Let me track you using this cookie so that you don't have to sign in and let us track you" trick! I'm guessing between IPs, browser fingerprinting, and usage/viewing habits it's beyond trivial for
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by autoexec 5y ago
One of the issues with 5G is that you're always handing over your location using "high accuracy location" resolution and you can't disable it. Your cell phone company always had your location but it used to be accurate w
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by autoexec 5y ago
There are other ways to do that besides pulling the data off the host machine. For example, they could prompt users to choose their OS prior to downloading and track downloads. Give different (or even identical) copies of the installer vers
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by autoexec 5y ago
> If someone asked me to hand over access to a database with thousands if not millions of peoples PII, I would expect it to be "on the books", not just some fishing expedition. I would feel forced to hire lawyers just to valida
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by autoexec 5y ago
Why collect the data in the first place? When you aren't collecting IP addresses or CPU and OS details you don't need to worry about things like who is going to be responsible for maintaining, securing, removing, or providing that
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by autoexec 5y ago
> That is a non-argument. You're right, but it's still a good idea to maintain a healthy dose of skepticism when something comes out that would benefit a industry/special interest group. There's a lot of activity&#x2
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by autoexec 5y ago
Guns can be effective, but they are also very messy and plenty of people have attempted to kill themselves with a firearm and failed. The results of that are horrific and in some circumstances can leave a person unable to try again. I don&#
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by autoexec 5y ago
Actual medication and healthcare services (especially mental healthcare) are not always affordable or accessible in the US. Recreational drugs are everywhere though, so plenty of people turn to them for whatever degree of relief those drugs
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by autoexec 5y ago
For the most part, I agree with you, and people should be free to choose their own death at any time for any reason (rational or otherwise), but "all your friends leaving you" may be something that can be changed. At the very leas
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by autoexec 5y ago
> Of 515 people prevented by police from jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge between 1937 and 1971, by the end of the 70s only 6% of them had committed suicide by other means. Perhaps much of that is because they got the help they needed
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by autoexec 5y ago
Joiner's Model seems to exclude people who are candidates for assisted suicide. They often don't feel alone, don't feel like a burden, but are terminally ill, in constant pain, feel they've lived long enough, seeing sign
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by autoexec 5y ago
I was sad to see firefox drop support for Gopher too. I'm not very active in the gophersphere these days, but I guess there's a certain nostalgia in playing around with these old/depreciated/near forgotten protocols and
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by autoexec 5y ago
> Mozilla these days has very weird priorities. Their decisions should not feel so unilateral or "because Chrome does it" I agree. The attempts to be more and more like Chrome are especially confusing to me. Maybe they just wan
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by autoexec 5y ago
If I'm hard on Mozilla/Firefox it's only because I love it, think it's valuable/important, and want it to be the best it can be. When Google or MS does something shitty with their browsers I pretty much expect it fr
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by autoexec 5y ago
It's still a really good browser, you just have spend a lot of time and effort beating it into submission, removing/disabling anti-features, and installing 3rd party add-ons to get it there. Once you do however, it's the best
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by autoexec 5y ago
Pocket is worse than useless. It's ad-filled, privacy invading, garbage. For all the potential security problems with using FTP, pocket is a lot riskier since you can be certain your data will be sent to 3rd parties and you'll hav
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by autoexec 5y ago
Most of the sex workers I've known personally started as strippers and for those who came away from it traumatized, the issues were mostly from either rape or drug addition. Never being thanked never came up, but I suspect most people

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