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by cookieswumchorr 5y ago
she had to stay, ok. but why keep working? Jobs can be scarce on an island but maybe you can find something that pays more than zero. Or work remote. Or just take vacation if you have some reserve
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by cookieswumchorr 5y ago
I never had the time/brains to get past the learn curve with LaTeX. Recently I started using a pipeline of markdown to html with Pandoc and then to pdf with Dompdf for project documentation. Turns out you get neatly formatted printabl
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by cookieswumchorr 5y ago
shit, looks like i started packing too early
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by cookieswumchorr 5y ago
terrorists didn't fall out of fashion, they just need a break to recover. Hence the retreat from Afghanistan. You can't fight against terrorism if you run out if terrorists
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by cookieswumchorr 5y ago
exactly, as the IT guy in the family you set up accounts for everybody all the time
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by cookieswumchorr 5y ago
and I'm over 100 years old on some sites that demand a birth date to register
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by cookieswumchorr 5y ago
who defines "normal human relationships", if we don't count various religions? IRL relationships can be just as addictive, toxic and financially perilous.
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by cookieswumchorr 5y ago
regulations and restrictions do not always work; Most of the worlds population live in places where regulations and restrictions are applied by the state on its citizens, not vice versa
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by cookieswumchorr 5y ago
not really, though its sad to see the power imbalance grow in crypto, they still have way less power than a central bank that can just make the money printer go brrr. Yes, some systems are stable, but many others are not; And most of the c
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by cookieswumchorr 5y ago
mmh, but really. You can pass laws forbidding certain stuff. But you cannot enforce that globally. Bans on certain weapons do work to some extent, but there are still people creating and using them. And these things are not only unethical,
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by cookieswumchorr 5y ago
right, now that you mention it. They also ban research on polish collaboration with the Nazis in WWII. Come on, if you occupy a country with millions of people, of course there will be some a-holes willing to collaborate, what's the b
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by cookieswumchorr 5y ago
good luck slowing it down though. It might work in one country, but the result will only be this one country falling behind and becoming an irrelevant province of the earth. so not unless we have a world government one day. Then indeed we
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by cookieswumchorr 5y ago
due to the exponential nature of progress, the span between ourselves and our kids will be greater than between us and our parents. whenever I read about how evil the boomers are, I imagine how we will be getting it one day for reasons nob
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by cookieswumchorr 5y ago
but it is mentioned, more then once. And it does increase the risk of estrangement, which you would expect. Whatever. One way ore another, once we grow old we become more dependent, physically and psychologically. Finally, we die. This last
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by cookieswumchorr 5y ago
the Poland/Hungary point relates to the recent issues with abortions and gay rights respectively. The rules in these cases may be more progressive at least in parts of the US. But if you take labor rights, these are a lot more humane
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by cookieswumchorr 5y ago
ok, that makes sense; still wouldn't want to be that guy...
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by cookieswumchorr 5y ago
why would they use an engineer for such a role anyways. Should have gotten someone with a degree in gender studies
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by cookieswumchorr 5y ago
that depends on whether the supervisor needs to be in the vehicle or can "supervise" 10 of them remotely
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by cookieswumchorr 5y ago
i mean the "getting caught out of own incompetence" part of course. a recent example was Navalny's call to his poisoner from the FSB. This was obviously NOT an intended leak
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by cookieswumchorr 5y ago
i'm going with Hanlon's razor here
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by cookieswumchorr 5y ago
poor people also tend to be accustomed to harsh environments (bad neighbourhood, bad school etc) so mindful, maybe yes, but actually stressed to the level that you leave and miss out on smth you have the right to, I don't know...
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by cookieswumchorr 5y ago
in my experience at the gym, you don't need to communicate with anyone at all. you take the free equipment, you lift, you make sure to put everything in its place, you shower and go home. wtf?
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by cookieswumchorr 5y ago
I had to google what a GED is. Turns out i'm rich )
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by cookieswumchorr 5y ago
this was meant ironically of course. What I wanted to say is: all those stars and badges are bullshit, just read what you like. I've hated books that were on various "best of all time" lists, and enjoyed unknown stuff from t
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by cookieswumchorr 5y ago
do not underestimate consumer crap. One of the reasons the Soviet Union went down was the inability to provide its citizens with consumer crap. It had LOTS of stem jobs by the way
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by cookieswumchorr 5y ago
when I went to school in Russia the great writers were those whos portraits we had on the wall in literature class. I'm sure she was not among them ))) I've tried reading her book "in memory of memories" got stuck, but n
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by cookieswumchorr 6y ago
isn't it like most countries? there's always some kind of work permit you need to have
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by cookieswumchorr 6y ago
to restrain capitalism in favour of what/whom? if you leave out democracy, the government no longer works for you, it becomes a power acting in its own interest just like the capitalists.
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by cookieswumchorr 6y ago
the difference between a government and a private institution is just the amount of power they have. There are places in the world run by unrecognized militia, who of course do censor free speech when they can. It's still censorship, a
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by cookieswumchorr 6y ago
misleading title, they dropped one charge in favor of another

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