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by dendriti 4y ago
It is deeply amusing to see a NATO state and occupier of Afghanistan wax poetically about the rule of law and territorial integrity. The Greek MFA makes some good points about the threat of Turkish incursions, but I wish they'd be less
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by dendriti 4y ago
As someone with mobility impairment, putting a CD in a player and pressing buttons to play was never pleasant. In fact I was often stuck with whatever five CDs were left in the player. CDs actually haven't gone away, and you can stil
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by dendriti 4y ago
How does this work for you then: Spotify allows the vast majority of music listeners far more access to far more music than ever in history.
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by dendriti 4y ago
Single-use gadgets can be blessings for the disabled and differently abled. The author of this article is sneering at the disabled for having different tool needs than herself. My 80-something grandmother uses a garlic press and several siz
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by dendriti 4y ago
A US Senator from Texas literally said yesterday that we should station "good guys with guns" (armed security guards) to prevent school shootings.
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by dendriti 4y ago
Literally 100% of the documents I process are sent to other people. So collaboration and sending documents are core functionality.
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by dendriti 4y ago
Why does it matter if decriminalization and regulation are floated as "magic bullets" or not? The Nirvana fallacy so often shows up in discussions of drug policy. It literally does not matter if decriminalization is "only 5%
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by dendriti 4y ago
Are you going to take your bucket out to the Great Plains and capture some of that water?
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by dendriti 4y ago
Some Amazon Kindle books DO have "real" page numbers. It's an additional feature that must be supported. The problem of page numbers on reflowable text is much more difficult than it may appear.
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by dendriti 4y ago
"Free speech doesn't exist in this country: [several hot takes follow] FREE SPEECH IS OVER!" Do you not understand how silly you look? American culture warriors desperately want to be oppressed.
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by dendriti 4y ago
Individual rights are, by their very nature, political rights. There's no hard separation between the two concepts.
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by dendriti 4y ago
Do you really think that the subject of a Wikipedia article should decide whether they are notable or not? Seems a bit hypocritical given your deletionist stance.
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by dendriti 4y ago
A compendium of knowledge can't be a compendium of knowledge if it has too much knowledge in it?
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by dendriti 4y ago
There are tools such as VIA which handle firmware for you, so you can just change a key in the GUI.
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by dendriti 4y ago
I feel sorry for you.
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by dendriti 4y ago
You get infuriated that talented modders and hackers perform research and entertain you for free?
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by dendriti 5y ago
>When you think about having the taskbar on the right or the left, all of a sudden the reflow and the work that all of the apps have to do to be able to understand the environment is just huge. I have literally been running Windows 11 wi
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by dendriti 5y ago
The people who are buying Chinese knockoff pirated flash carts, are not the same people pulling out their credit cards for paid support. Also, retro gamers are a notoriously difficult and time-consuming market to support.
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by dendriti 5y ago
You are really complaining about people "making presumptions" downthread, and then claiming to speak for literally all Americans in this one?
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by dendriti 5y ago
If you eliminated qualified immunity, only fools would become government officials.
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by dendriti 5y ago
Taxes and import duties on electronics wiped out this difference for me. Seriously the highest prices I've ever paid for electronics.
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by dendriti 5y ago
Those are pretty bad examples. Mario Kart and Smash are literally some of the top selling games of all time. If their "wacky ways" are played and enjoyed by 10% of players, that's still millions of sales.
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by dendriti 5y ago
You're assuming an objective reality. Events may not truly occur without an observer.
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by dendriti 5y ago
It is definitely cheaper to eat at a hawker center than to cook for a single person, but one must be choosy. At least in Malaysia, many similar venues don't even offer ANY healthy options.
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by dendriti 5y ago
People opposed to affirmative action like to use verbal tricks. For example, here OP has described affirmative action as "racial discrimination", which is perhaps technically true, but not as most people understand the term.
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by dendriti 5y ago
Just because you don't spy on your neighboors means that Mozilla can and should spy on their users? What?
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by dendriti 5y ago
This question assumes a lot... and that isn't what happened.
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by dendriti 5y ago
If I trust Microsoft enough with my privacy to control my operating system, then I trust Microsoft enough to have my phone number. So this issue has not arisen for me.
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by dendriti 5y ago
Surely the cited 0.10 USD per package delivered, plus fuel expenses, must be a typo?
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by dendriti 5y ago
Orbán literally is a staunch revanchist. Not sure how you can say Hungary is not revanchist when its powerful and noisy dictator constantly talks about Greater Hungary. Also not sure why Slovakia banning an anthem makes Hungarian revanch

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