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by corrral 4y ago
People dislike his work for various reasons but are still forced to use it thanks, in part, to his employer promoting it aggressively (it's not like he did all this for free). That's a recipe for saltiness. Kinda like Bill Gates b
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Ubuntu's adoption of it was what pushed me away from Desktop Linux, after about a decade of being mainly a Linux user. Suddenly the one thing that had actually Just Worked for almost that entire decade, became unstable, unpredictable
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How strange to see That I'm exactly the person that I want to be - Amanda Palmer, "In My Mind"
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The concern is that e.g. Facebook will use their might to push a less-privacy-respecting app store, or use the threat of that to get Apple to loosen privacy protections. Google will almost certainly promote Chrome the same way they have eve
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It's great for pirating mobile video games. My Android-using friends' only use of this feature is to turn their phone into a Gameboy Advance. Which is pretty great, to be fair, but nowhere near enough to tempt me back to putting u
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One frustrating thing about Marvel properties is they frequently almost have a point or address their own messes or even something important in the real world—but then pull back before actually saying anything. A couple of the Spider Man
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> I am just sitting here for an entire decade waiting for great, engaging movies to make a comeback. Tons exist, lots and lots of movies are made every year.
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> This is the main reason I don't like superhero films. There is no sense of danger or vulnerability. It's just people in fancy jumpsuits doing acrobats around explosions till they win the day. I prefer main characters dying &#
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> they are all hacks — by necessity To be clear, though, the "hack" I use (Spectacle) isn't even actively developed anymore, but has worked flawlessly through a decade of macOS upgrades. Zero problems, zero glitches, even
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Probably have very unequal income. That's why we don't homeschool—I'd like to, but make 3x what my spouse does, and my spouse doesn't want to, so we don't.
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Outright bad schools in the US are incredibly bad. I had no idea how bad until my spouse substitute-taught at a couple of them, a few years back. Like, fear-for-your-life-every-day bad. Like, there's a 100% chance that at least one
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- ~8 hours in school per day, often in buildings with minimal natural lighting. During the Winter, this may mean almost no sunlight all day (no recess, like in elementary school). Wanna make people depressed and give them SAD that'll s
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I've been reading about healthcare systems off and on, sometimes fairly seriously, for over 15 years, and my conclusion about the entire US system is that "the problem" is "literally everyone involved". It's wh
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The "enormous scoop" refers to their incentive to drive prices higher so their "scoop" (the 5%) is bigger in absolute terms, I believe.
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I'm convinced that junior high and high school, at least in the US, amount to mass child abuse. Like, structurally, that's just what they are , almost unavoidably without totally changing how they work. Even decent school experie
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> Whole garlic bulbs (as well as onions, potatoes etc. etc.) will last for months if stored properly, Mine have a lot of green material growing in them by like 3 weeks, max. Fridge, not fridge, doesn't matter. What am I doing wron
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Dasani's uniquely terrible. IDK what they do to it, but it's awful (to me—apparently someone likes it). I've not had another name-brand non-super-cheap bottled water that was outright bad . Every now and then I'll get
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Does this not have the side effect of also driving away employees with the best alternatives (so, probably your best ones)?
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Right, I'm sure it's worth it for someone who's really into toast, and I get the whole buy-it-for-life thing, but I try to be a little selective about what I go that hardcore with, and a toaster doesn't pass that tes
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Considering their two-slice toaster I just looked up is $300, it better have repair parts available for the next, IDK, 50 years at least, not to be a complete rip-off. I expect I'll go through a half-dozen toasters in my life, and pr
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Toaster's smaller and easier to clean. Quicker to start, if only slightly. Probably faster. Wouldn't be surprised if they're more power efficient per slice of finished toast. Toaster oven, being large and having so much funct
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For a fictional connection: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Year_of_Living_Dangerously... Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, and Linda Hunt with a stand-out and very deservedly academy award winning supporting role.
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I can't tell if these questions are sarcastic, so I guess I'll answer. Facebook? Yes, of course. The core of their business model is stalker-like spying, which they then leverage against their users (and non-users). They are irred
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Youtube shouldn't exist. Video hosting and discovery should be separate, like they (largely) are with podcasts.
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> We're looking for reasons why we feel sick all the time but the reality is beyond basic things like being too fat and too sedentary, we are healthier than ever, and many many people had wretched miserable lives of chronic pain bef
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That's awesome. Again, I wasn't trying to be a dick (I drew a downvote at one point, for some reason, so I guess I was somehow?) it just seems that every time I've listened to a popular foreign radio station from Africa or th
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IIRC from a book I read on the blues, banjos had some early traction in and were introduced by blues music because they were indeed derived from West African instruments (built around gourds, complete with one shorter string like a banjo ha
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Do they imitate it in their own music? When I go looking for American influence in foreign pop music, most of what I find is usually hip-hop. Almost never country.
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I guess you can seize foreign-flagged ships as a non-combatant state, but I expect you'll become a combatant pretty soon, if you do too much of it. Nb these countries reducing availability of (their!) shipping capacity to the US during
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I think if you made two buckets labeled "sex" and "politics" a majority of well-regarded films from all of the 20th century, right back to the beginning of film, would land in at least one of the two. Lots would qualify

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