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by coolso 5y ago
FWIW I would not bank any major decision - one way or the other - based on anything Wirecutter says. I’ve been screwed over listening to them far too many times to count. Other review sites aren’t much better. Sometimes it’s better to just
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> This is patently false But, it’s actually not. It’s a well known established fact. > “In 2015, one report estimated that 522 million Indians defecated in the open and in fields.” [0] [0]: https://newrepublic.com/arti
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https://m.timesofindia.com/india/why-millions-of-indians-don...
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Pretty sure the government tried paying people to install toilets in their homes but most refused and all continue to go in the streets as well - the occasional concerned citizen has even been assaulted for requesting that people not do it.
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I tip my fedora to you good sir.
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This argument is always brought up - "it was used centuries ago, so it's still valid now!" Except: all normal human beings trip up on it; those who believe in the they/them BS trip up on it; and almost no one who uses th
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by coolso 5y ago
> Which era of English would you like to certify as being the one and only correct English? US English? British English? 20th century, 17th century, or 14th century English? How about the one that I personally use, not the one you insist
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by coolso 5y ago
Oh I’m very much supportive of living your life as you see fit. But it’s the pronouners who insist on you using they/them (grammatically silly) or who insist on sharing their pronouns when it’s obvious what they are, then attempting to
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I canceled these guys last year, zero regrets, I'm not sure there's much of a good reason to still be subscribed to them in 2022. It has very few good movies, very few good shows, and quite frankly I'm not a fan of their poli
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Life honestly becomes so much more pleasant when you avoid interacting with the pronouners as much as possible.
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Was the order of the wording of the title deliberately chosen to make people think FedEx wants heat seeking missiles on their planes?
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by coolso 5y ago
This sounds personal, and reads like you read headlines every day from 2016-2020 and got very angry at “someone” (there is a common term for this) and now you are happy that the shoe is on the other foot, despite it being a false equivalenc
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At least when Brainfuck’s fans proselytize and mention the language as much as they possibly can, they’re being ironic and have a sense of humor about it. Humility and humor seems to be expressly forbidden in the Rust CoC, right next to not
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It’s this pervasive mentality that continues to hold the open source community back, even still in 2022.
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Community College still absolutely offers a social experience even if it’s just being in the same classroom as other people. And Zoom interactions are still terribly inferior to real life in-person ones regardless of what kind of college yo
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by coolso 5y ago
Your post is a false equivalence, you can believe in science while not parroting a particular establishment/authoritarian narrative of science (which also includes misinformation/ignoring other science) to further a particular nar
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by coolso 5y ago
Given that the vast majority of mainstream article posts are from a place of opposite bias, I think it's a breath of fresh air to have a different bias at the forefront every once in a while.
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by coolso 5y ago
> Targeting Facebook and not Google When the last guy won, Google literally had a leadership meeting in which the participants were crying and angry. Facebook literally helped the last guy win. Is it truly any wonder one is being targete
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> You need to start somewhere. Correct, and you may have noticed media and political sentiment turning hard against Facebook coincidentally overnight after it was discovered that the guy who won used it in a more “clever” manner than did
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by coolso 5y ago
NASCAR and hockey are about a whole lot more than the things you mentioned, as any fan of either will tell you.
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Speaking of which, what can we do to bring up the mean IQ of Twitter to the level of school playgrounds?
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by coolso 5y ago
> I'm amazed at the amount of rhetorical gymnastics going on in DC (and media) We just suffered through 4 years of everything as little as a cute firefly in your backyard dying being the President’s fault. I guess last January they
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by coolso 5y ago
I mean, there are plenty of outlandish stories of people from the other side. Doxxing, finding out where you work and getting you fired, burning and looting small businesses, setting up your own “autonomous zone”, getting incredibly worked
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by coolso 5y ago
There is a significant portion of the population that enjoys telling others what to do. Nobody can argue this. Therefore, given the fact that COVID restrictions is the hottest-button issue of the past several years, and dealing with it inv
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“We only want to let them live here”, they said.
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DuckDuckGo is awesome, I advocate for DDG as much as I can, and I switched completely a few months ago both on my phone and my PC, but I'm genuinely curious about how you were able to completely switch. Unless you also use the !g comma
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There is no better way to scare away customers than to provide them with even less control over what is theirs, especially with something as personal as over who rents out their homes. It takes gall and hopefully this encourages more compet
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And here are some links for people who prefer to avoid CNN: https://apnews.com/article/snow-storm-weather-195-virginia-6... https://www.nbc12.com/2022/01/04/vdot-continues-clear-i-95-h...
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Yet apparently, facilitating the burning down, rioting, and violence in cities across the country in the name of (allegedly) a convicted felon who died of a heart attack while restrained by police after attempting to drive on public streets
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Your joke was a good one and I think more people appreciated it than you’d think. I considered it to bring up the discourse. I don’t think it’s right for others to attempt to guilt trip and bully you into removing it.

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