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571.
by boredumb 6y ago
Repulsive and vindictive people masquerading as socially righteous? Glad this hasn't been mainstreamed into an acceptable personality type in the last decade!
572.
by boredumb 6y ago
Large American media outlets, large swaths of vocal people and bots on social media, well known american politicians, and people playing coy on the internet.
573.
by boredumb 6y ago
"'Number concealing' phone only conceals the number you're calling from, from the 'Number concealing' phone itself"
574.
by boredumb 6y ago
Incognito is simply a poor name for this as it infers the identity is being concealed. Should be something more along the lines of 'unaccounted' or 'unrecorded' even 'off-the-record'. If I go incognito I expect
575.
by boredumb 6y ago
It's a private company in name only. It was enacted through congress with a board of directors that are actually a federal government agency. Saying it's a private company is not even technically true. It's gluing feathers to
576.
by boredumb 6y ago
I'm old enough to remember when calling private news agencies Fake News was an assault on our Freedom of the Press.
577.
by boredumb 6y ago
I may be misunderstanding, but having a city council isn't an antithesis to self organizing societies. In my understanding abandoning self organizing societies that could have more or less noise friendly communities in favor of top dow
578.
by boredumb 6y ago
Ha, It did smell like a cop-out when I was told it, but a reasonable enough cop-out that I figured it was at least one form of attention they were after in the process of getting attention from onlookers.
579.
by boredumb 6y ago
You believe we need a more authoritarian society because some people live lives that are louder than you deem appropriate and enough so that you are willing to 'respond with force' and you somehow see them as the people who are &q
580.
by boredumb 6y ago
>>ROI on some training and awareness would be far higher. Motorcycle people generally spend money to placard their cars up with "Watch out for motorcyclists!" stickers so unless you're insinuating the government should
581.
by boredumb 6y ago
I think you're right about the straight pipes being after market, but I believe the noise generally comes from the engine configuration firing at uneven intervals that make it unusually distinct.
582.
by boredumb 6y ago
Harleys stock are actually under the legal noise limit (80 decibels i think?) and are generally that loud due to straight exhaust and a specific cam shaft they use to squeeze more performance out of them. My understanding is folks prefer th
583.
by boredumb 6y ago
"Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it."
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by boredumb 6y ago
I've been learning spanish for years via videos and it has gone a long way to show me how little I can learn from them by passively ingesting the information. I moved to a spanish speaking area recently and within a few months being ab
585.
by boredumb 6y ago
The short interest is still over 100% and unless they offloaded it into another institutional investor it is simply not possible.
586.
by boredumb 6y ago
What a time to be alive where an apple repair youtuber is more trustworthy than cable networks.
587.
by boredumb 6y ago
After a few seconds of googling past the headlines blaming some kids on reddit. "Cohen’s former hedge fund, SAC Capital, came to dominate share trading on Wall Street before it pleaded guilty to insider trading charges in 2013 and paid
588.
by boredumb 6y ago
Amazing to watch the media as a whole last night attempt to blame people on reddit and 4chan for this "fiasco" and ignoring the underlying culprits who spent BILLIONs in over shorting an equity and were caught with their pants dow
589.
by boredumb 6y ago
I've been using start page for the past two years without a problem, but I do find myself dipping into google for maps and "near me" searches. That being said the biggest drawback is if my wife uses my phone to search for som
590.
by boredumb 6y ago
The double standard being set in the reaction to rioting and the death of people, police officers and federal agents in this country is going to tear a rift in the USA for decades. As federal buildings were under a siege for months, David D
591.
by boredumb 6y ago
`White Anglo-Saxon Protestants` Maliciously categorizing someone based on skin color, race, income, social status and religion in an attempt to denounce hate speech. Poetic
592.
by boredumb 6y ago
The US Political class is just that good!
593.
by boredumb 6y ago
Correct, You obviously forgot the last 8 months where multiple people were killed, federal and private buildings were lit on fire, politicians were assaulted and they setup multiple "autonomous" zones. Perhaps I missed the latest
594.
by boredumb 6y ago
Under the assumption people are remotely ingenuous I'd agree, but in recent years I think that ship has sailed. The means always justify the ends, and ideological consistency is apparently chalked up to a loser's game.
595.
by boredumb 6y ago
Just call everyone a terrorist and absolve your soul of any uneasiness you have with this. Surely this hyperbole hasn't been used in recent history to push authoritarian and unethical measures by state and private actors paving a golde
596.
by boredumb 6y ago
hypocrisy is the new honesty
597.
by boredumb 6y ago
We're actually doing a Rust application that downloads the image snopes is displaying for that particular conspiracy theory in order to feed them into a tensor flow model and predict the validity of future conspiracies.
598.
by boredumb 6y ago
Do we laugh or cry at how this cannot be immediately discerned as a joke at this point in time.
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by boredumb 6y ago
Last year ~6 million people were eligible for unemployment. The fact you are flaunting your entire family's healthcare costs and using the entire US population of adults, retirees and children to justify the theft of 36 billion dollars
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by boredumb 6y ago
A decade ago I was writing a big C# application using Ninject* DI framework and this is identical to my experience.

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