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by dorkwood 6y ago
My Twitter feed is mostly people sharing art and personal projects. I can see where people get this idea, though. Twitter is trying really hard to make it impossible to curate your feed. They started jamming "follow topic" suggest
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As someone not familiar with what those routes are -- what are they? Is email sent through Gmail protected, or is that also a private platform?
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I think when you manufacture plastic bottles at the sort of volume Coca-Cola does and distribute them across the globe indiscriminately, you would have to know that some percentage of your product would not be disposed of responsibly (human
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He also worked as a plumber. > Throughout this period, Glass supported himself as a New York cabbie and as a plumber, occupations that often led to unusual encounters. “I had gone to install a dishwasher in a loft in SoHo,” he says. “Whi
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by dorkwood 6y ago
I see a lot of talk about "virtue signalling" when it comes to mask wearing. The implication is that those who wear a mask outside do so to broadcast their left-leaning world view to others, and those who don't wear a mask ou
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I'm still surprised these things have become so ubiquitous. I remember thinking "these things will never catch on", but they caught on massively in spite of their flaws. I guess the ability to do an action without requiring h
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I think the answer lies in the sentence "people who don’t have much control over their daytime life refuse to sleep early in order to regain some sense of freedom during late-night hours". Now, obviously, very few people have comp
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To me, what he seems to enjoy most isn't the act of making money itself, but the act of getting better at making money. The great thing about having "making money" as your hobby is that the feedback for performing competently
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This is similar to my "drink when you're thirsty" method for remaining hydrated. There's a whole industry built on the premise that we're unable to regulate our own water intake without the help of apps and special
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It sounds like it might have been involved in a process such as this one: https://mobile.twitter.com/AaronCovrett/status/1125409161808...
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Was his plan to do the same few gigs a month for the rest of his life? Into his 70s and 80s? What if something happened to his hands, and he could no longer play? I'd actually love to quit my job now and only do enough work on the side
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One thing I can remember causing me quite a bit of anxiety as a kid was the clothes I had to wear. I was terrified of school events where it wasn't necessary to wear a uniform, because I knew the other kids would find out that I didn&#
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> Even when she goes to the park with friends, she spends half the time making TikToks. > Some days I get sad thinking about what happened to the little kid who used to corner visitors and make them go page-by-page through her art boo
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I think a lot of this comes down to how you phrase the question. From the same survey, the phrase "recommendations based on purchase/browsing history" (which is arguably the same as "tracking online activity to tailor ad
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I think it depends what you're doing on the screen. Unfortunately, people no longer seem to distinguish between activities such as 'endlessly scrolling through Twitter' and 'making music in Ableton'. It's all j
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The saddest thing about YouTube disappearing would be losing the vast trove of educational content that has amassed over the years. We live in a unique time in history when you can go online and learn how to do absolutely anything you want
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by dorkwood 6y ago
There's a famous optical illusion with a spinning silhouette of a dancer. When you look at it, you'll swear it's spinning in one direction -- say, counter-clockwise. In fact, you'll be so sure it's spinning counter-
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by dorkwood 6y ago
What you're saying is that any result with a non-zero chance of happening should be unsurprising to us, because it was still in the realm of possibility? If that's the case, what use are polls? What makes an election forecast base
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by dorkwood 6y ago
Small correction, but the video in the main post was indeed created by a production studio of deep fake artists. From the NY Times article: > The “Sassy Justice” creators said they had spent “millions” of dollars to make the video, inclu
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by dorkwood 6y ago
When in person, I rarely interrupt. But on Zoom calls, I'm accidentally interrupting all the time. I think it's the slight delay that's the problem. I end up mis-judging when my time to speak is. Interruptions on video calls
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It's funny that I'm less tired and have more energy as an adult than I did as a child (isn't it supposed to be the other way around?) It's pretty rare that I show up to work in a tired state, but it was a daily occurrenc
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> Most of the women found the men holding cats to be less dateable. This result surprised us, since previous studies had shown that women found men with pets to have higher potential as partners. Is it really that surprising? Pictures th
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I agree. I find it interesting how many people are saying something to the tune of "I'd rather spend my time adding value to the company's product than learning office politics". Firstly, I don't think they're
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> Not only are common practices like lectures, cramming, and re-reading boring, science has shown they don't even work well. But what if I said there's a way to learn that's evidence-based and fun? What if I said there&#x2
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This just makes me want to learn it even more.
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> Do you feel like they are succeeding at that? Their record-breaking profits for the last few years in a row tell me 'yes'.
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> It's ironic that for a company that caters to designers, artists and product folks, all their products have such poor UI. That's not really who they're catering to anymore, though. Not primarily, anyway. If you pay atten
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I wonder if tinnitus itself also generates metabolites.
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I think people incorrectly assume that a child will type in a childish manner and be easy to spot. I used to post online when I was 12. I wanted to be part of the conversation and feel like an adult. What usually happened is that people wou
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I used to think that a narcissist was just a person who enjoyed being in the spotlight until I encountered one at my last job. Being terrorized by a narcissist for six months because you inadvertently made them look bad is a terrifying thin

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