cookie_monsta

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by cookie_monsta 2y ago
Nothing changes a fact. That's what makes them facts. If you are still undecided about whether Jobs was a POS in his personal life after everything we already know, your lack of objectivity makes your opinion weigh very little in the d
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by cookie_monsta 2y ago
Haha. I see what you did there
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by cookie_monsta 2y ago
What does yahoo-esque mean in this context?
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by cookie_monsta 2y ago
> As we all know, authors can only write things they themselves believe wholeheartedly, and veterans have uncomplicated relationships with war. In general, people only hold simple, consistent positions that are legible to others. This is
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by cookie_monsta 2y ago
> It has been shown that they are good at doing a lot of things that might not have been immediately obvious Could you point me to some of the places/articles where this is being shown? I'm definitely amongst those who have bo
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by cookie_monsta 2y ago
I'm finding that the most stridently-held views on parenting tend to come from non-parents Everybody else seems to accept that it's an endless series of tweaks, adjustments and highly context-specific compromises
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by cookie_monsta 2y ago
> Pagers and phones are MY devices, and I get to decide how I will respond to them. Oh, so you've never had the "why didn't you pick up/ call back/ answer my text/ etc" conversation with your partner? L
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by cookie_monsta 2y ago
Remember how excited we were at the start of the pandemic? "Now we get to find out which of those meetings could have been an email" the joke went. But now it turns out that almost every email exchange degrades into "let&#x27
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by cookie_monsta 2y ago
Same. Then I email, IM and work in the cloud on my company laptop for the rest of the day...
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by cookie_monsta 2y ago
Yes, we're distributed with 5 locations across town. I had to go to a one hour meeting across town once which chewed up 3 hours of my day after driving and parking and whatnot was factored in. Videoconferencing makes 100% sense for our
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by cookie_monsta 2y ago
My boss (middle management) is very staunchly opposed to more than 1 day per week of WFH. She spends about 90% of her time on video calls, so I was always confused by that until she was telling me that when she does WFH she's always d
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by cookie_monsta 2y ago
It's hard to pick the line of where these listings start and end. Selfie isn't in there but gyatt is...
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by cookie_monsta 3y ago
It's amazing that much of this has to be said, but here's a related piece of advice: don't use the same term for different things, especially if they're related. I got a document the other day that described a category w
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by cookie_monsta 3y ago
> The public library system is quite possibly the best thing this country has ever invented. If you are writing from Egypt I think you have a strong case
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by cookie_monsta 3y ago
Hmm, cute but I think all this talk of wage slavery kind of downplays the horror of the original. I mean I don't like getting up in the morning either, but really?
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by cookie_monsta 3y ago
> "Modern slavery system" is hilarious Admittedly, their modern system is a huge improvement over v1
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by cookie_monsta 3y ago
I have honestly never felt the need for this and had to click on a menu that I am ashamed to say I never thought of clicking on but yes, there it is. Scheduled send for SMS. You can even edit the time/ content right there in the UI. Th
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by cookie_monsta 3y ago
I don't question any career change (done it 4 times myself) but I do find it interesting when someone moves from working with their passion (and you have to be passionate to get world-class at anything) to what is almost certainly just
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by cookie_monsta 3y ago
Hmm.. where I live (urban Australia) shopping malls have gone through much the same process as hardware stores - the big ones have muscled out the small ones. But those big ones are heaving every time I go, even mid week during the day. As
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by cookie_monsta 3y ago
I don't know if it's so much a genre of music as a status designation. "Garage band" to me says an outfit so far from being successful that they can't afford rehearsal space, transport to get to one, etc
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by cookie_monsta 3y ago
> having a garage is to be in a privileged position, not exactly rags. It means you can afford a car I have lived in plenty of houses with garages or garage-like structures and I have never parked a car in there Why waste all that beauti
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by cookie_monsta 3y ago
Lol, and you're still going...
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by cookie_monsta 3y ago
I'm not disagreeing with your point, but this is a really bad example. Google does pretty well with that exact question, including this at #8 (for me at least): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC322
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by cookie_monsta 3y ago
> Cordon off that part of the world and leave them to their devices. Lol. If the US couldn't even boycott little old Cuba into regime change, what chance do they have with China?
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by cookie_monsta 3y ago
I have used firefox for I guess 15 years now and only have a dim awareness of what pocket is. I definitely see the hostility towards it but I don't really understand the depth of it. If you don't like a feature you could just igno
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by cookie_monsta 3y ago
I can't tell if this is envy or scorn
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by cookie_monsta 3y ago
So Joe Rogan minus 11 studies?
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by cookie_monsta 3y ago
Where will the blue bubblism end?
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by cookie_monsta 3y ago
oh, haha - I thought that was your abbreviation agreed. that's pretty "lazy"
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by cookie_monsta 3y ago
Fwiw, as an Australian I have never heard that one but, yeah - there's enough context there to figure it out. Now if you'll excuse me, I have some spiders to wine and dine

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