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by brnt 1y ago
Small hint: if you aren't a WASP, you know paranoia and violence was directed inwards from the get go.
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by brnt 1y ago
And you absolutely missed the point :)
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by brnt 1y ago
These apps are great. They do exactly what it says on the tin. Pity to hear this, now people will have an even harder time getting nonshit bloatware from the Play store.
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by brnt 1y ago
Remember, dictators are never wrong. They can only ever double down. It's why they are so destructive.
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by brnt 1y ago
You must be a WASP.
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by brnt 1y ago
Oh boy. That one. And Battle for Middle Earth 2. Nobody wants my money, so to the bay we go.
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by brnt 1y ago
> I can't wrap my head around this. That is because you seem to have you view of reality be ultraprocessed for you. Stop letting (others misuse) a tiny minority represent a large proportion of the population. I'm not acting as
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by brnt 1y ago
So, this kind of integrity is not available on normal lvs?
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by brnt 1y ago
There's actually an excellent Dutch piece of software for this (Windows only though, but works fine in Wine on other platforms): Overhoor [1]. I used it under Windows 3.11 as a child, and kept using it for French and German into my lat
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by brnt 1y ago
omg how have I missed this. thanks!
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by brnt 1y ago
It isn't for me either. A permissive license means it's a matter of time before somebody forks and keeps it from me and other users/developers. Copyleft ensures as many users/developers as possible have access to the cod
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by brnt 1y ago
How come Soviets electrified all rail? It wasn't because they're swimming in money...
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by brnt 1y ago
Fine particulates don't 'bother' you until you have that lung cancer diagnosis.
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by brnt 1y ago
Lyon. Its not hard to find out where they are, Michelin is quite proud of them.
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by brnt 1y ago
Buses on dedicated lanes are OK indeed. However, buses are simply not as comfortable as trams: roads unless in tiptop shape are not as smooth as rail, and bus drivers always take corners too fast. Having to hold on to something discards it
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by brnt 1y ago
Problem with rubber wheels in metros is absolutely atrocious air quality. I avoid them like the plague.
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by brnt 1y ago
If anything more than plain X is fancy to you...
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by brnt 1y ago
I did not find packaging up an AppImage that is actually compatible across distro's and version all that straightforward, and we were not even using Qt or GTK/libadwaita. How is this easy, in your experience?
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by brnt 1y ago
And over here in NL we're going to be _charged_ when returning power to the grid in 1.5 yr... I'll be running my airco to burn off those kWh's :P
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by brnt 1y ago
Another way to view the US constitution is that parts were amended away in roundabout ways (e.g. through state legislation) and precisely because it is so set in stone that we now have the problems that we see.
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by brnt 1y ago
Constitutions are amended all the time. The French even have a proces for reboots of the Republic. These are goods things.
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by brnt 1y ago
Flat Earth is a fact in Texas schools, isnt it?
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by brnt 1y ago
Wait till you discover how capitalists manipulate markets...
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by brnt 1y ago
“It is a well known fact that reality has liberal bias.”
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by brnt 1y ago
You should turn that around: if getting people off the road is something you really care about then make it pay.
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by brnt 1y ago
In addition to sibling: the bike is, for many people, already, 'too cheap to meter', so the tax advantage goes to the train subscription. And quite some employers either give you a train subscription, or let you deduct kilometers
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by brnt 1y ago
People don't realize is that public transport works if it's a network. The denser the network, both in time and space, the better the options is. Here in the Netherlands there's actually fewer routes than a 100 years ago (cou
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by brnt 1y ago
In the US, the government is using everything you ever said on any social medial to deny you access to your job, the country, or benefits. Just a tiny example.
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by brnt 1y ago
Wow wow wow, look at mr bestseller over here!
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by brnt 1y ago
The single problem with social media is that they are not public, but are heavily thought of (and propagandized) as such. Any marketplace that is privately owned, is not a free market place. And, the elephant in the room, these social media

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