darkpuma

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by darkpuma 7y ago
'Latin' in America has a subtly different meaning, in that it includes Italians, the French, etc. It's a distinct concept from 'Latin American' which by convention refers to people from Latin America only and exclu
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by darkpuma 7y ago
I just wish they'd make them hotter. Takis are kicking their ass in the spicy snack aisle.
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> "Will we see consulting firms in the future offering "we will find your competitors' obscure GDPR violations and help you form nonprofits to report them to authorities and lobby for the prioritization of those cases&quo
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> The objective function that most human beings use is not "what animal kills rodents most efficiently", but "what animal kills rodents most efficiently and poses little harm to human beings most of the time". See,
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by darkpuma 7y ago
In my experience, grocery store delivery services are often shockingly cheap because traditionally their target market were the elderly and infirm. People that can't leave their homes easily, and don't have a lot of money eithe
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by darkpuma 7y ago
And cats leave gory corpses of small animals in front of doorways. At least, they do whenever they're actually doing their supposed job of killing rodents. In practice it's enough corpses to make a mess but not enough corpses to
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Cats are trash for rodent control. They spend too much time playing with their 'food' and not enough time actually killing it. Dogs are much better at killing rats yet we don't let dogs roam around outside willy nilly. Mos
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Numerous times in my career things have come to a boil because management refused to let me and my team spend any time on accessibility. Trying to convince middle/upper management to have compassion for the visually disabled is like
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Some problems can only be solved one generation at a time. Maybe facebook dying and the new generation coming to age is exactly what society needs.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Maybe it's an illusion, or maybe it isn't. That depends on the individual in question. If somebody's previous work experience is laying tar down on roofs, they may consider the change to an office job to be well worth the
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by darkpuma 7y ago
At least you can fake that out by pressing the wrong keys. Similar to how I enter my PIN into ATMs, I have my fingers covering all the keys at once with my hand open and my palm down. All the keys get touched, albeit with different amou
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by darkpuma 7y ago
In other words: Those who can destroy a thing, control a thing.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
I once got a stick stuck in my foot. Maybe we should ban those.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
It's because of the Mobro 4000. Corrupt mafia fuckery that got mistaken for a environmental crisis.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
It's expensive when the alternative is free. Particularly since that free alternative is WAY better. Paying youtube only stops the ads on youtube. uBlock Origin does much much more than that. I'd sooner give gorhill 12&#x2
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by darkpuma 7y ago
That's what I was raised to believe as a child in America. Time Magazine is right up there with apple pie.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Iraq did once have WMDs, namely poison gas that it used against tens of thousands of Iranian civilians... with the help of the CIA. Today, many Americans have never even heard of the Iran-Iraq War. Those that have often never heard anythi
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Could ports regulate what fuel the ship is carrying, even if it's not burning that fuel while in port? For instance, if a cruise ship is burning clean fuel because it's near port, but is carrying a great deal of dirty fuel for us
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Slightly tangential, but a good opportunity to mention the NS Savannah, probably the closest we've ever come to nuclear cruise ships: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS_Savannah
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by darkpuma 7y ago
A writer for ZDnet might be a public figure, but to call him "very public" seems like a stretch. There are probably millions of people as public or more than him.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> "Only a small portion of what they burn is for propulsion." I'm a bit skeptical of this. Looking at the numbers for the Symphony of the Seas ship (current largest), the peak power requirements from all propulsion
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by darkpuma 7y ago
That doesn't change the substance of his objection, which is that leisure activities should quite obviously be held to a greater standard than general freight shipping. For instance, it's obvious that the environmental impact of
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Before the identity theft occurred, what about the the author made him particularly "not average"? Being an early twitter adopter or something?
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> "obviously all of the CO2 is coming from the cars." Wait, how do ships eliminate their CO2 emissions? Re: > "A ship, burning 1 litre of bunker oil produces about as much CO2 as a car burning 1 litre of gasoline&quo
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by darkpuma 7y ago
They're trying to have their cake and eat it too. Most companies would probably do the same given the same circumstances. It's disappointing but predictable.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
If they earnestly believe their wellbeing is immediately threatened, then what is your theory for why they don't care to mass protest about it?
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Everybody should be writing and sharing org-mode files.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
He probably objects to language like "despicable" . To fit in around here, it helps to smoke some dope and like, mellow out. Instead of "despicable" you could say something more chill like "disappointing bruh
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by darkpuma 7y ago
If neither facebook nor the other person is disclosing to me that facebook is listening, then in two-party consent states that certainly seems to be against the spirit of the law, if not the letter.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
It seems to be proportional to class in my experience. The more privileged a student is, the more outspoken they are when criticizing what they perceive to be injustices holding them back. If we are being charitable, perhaps this is becau

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