exodust

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by exodust 5y ago
> they're in place to save lives! But not all lives. The whole population does not need to get vaccinated. Not everyone's life is under threat. Not even close. Omicron spreads regardless, as is clearly observable. Australia h
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by exodust 5y ago
Dress code is nothing like a vaccine requirement. Two completely different things. The government admitted the reason his visa was cancelled was because they're worried about public perception. In a country with already 95% fully vaxxe
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by exodust 5y ago
I hope there's no patents for EQ settings. It took Sonos 3 years to finally add EQ to the play screen in the app. I'd hate for that to disappear because someone had the idea for: "group of sliders that cut a specific range o
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by exodust 5y ago
> "It doesn't matter how remote" It does matter. We don't mandate helmets for walking the streets, even with the remote chance you might stumble and hit your head. We should not disrupt society or deport/hate peo
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by exodust 5y ago
> There are other benefits to the vaccine other than reducing spread. Omicron spreads easily among the vaccinated. Any "reduced spread" is negligible. The only other benefit is reduced severity of illness. Most over 60s and v
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by exodust 5y ago
Happy to hear our government must pay Novak's court costs. The manner he was detained was clumsy and disrespectful, and makes Australia look bad. The politicians down here are about optics and spin. Political blame games are the natio
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by exodust 5y ago
I sometimes wonder whether a 14yo kid should be mining bitcoins on his home PC, leaving it on all night every night. I don't like it but his parents don't mind - they have no clue what it's about. I'm the Uncle, wonderin
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by exodust 5y ago
> you are gonna have a bad time from a security perspective You say that like it's inevitable, but there's no reason to state with certainty that bad things will happen unless you keep paying up. No doubt software companies ben
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by exodust 5y ago
They turned KITT into a blurry 3d blob, poorly lit to hide the flaws. Barely qualifying as a full 3d model. "Black car" is the appropriate name for the result, nothing more. They disabled comments on the article, and on the youtub
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by exodust 5y ago
> If you show up to a sports arena .... Poor analogy. A sports arena is one big room for sport, not messaging. If people stood on soapboxes and yelled their off-topic ideas at everyone in the arena, they would be asked to leave regardles
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by exodust 5y ago
> "disseminating a lot of FUD on right wing outlets". So when people get banned they should go home and curl up in bed when there's no more "left wing outlets" to speak at? Are you implying left wing outlets are
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by exodust 5y ago
I think it comes from the old days when using "porn" on a forum was considered an unwanted magnet for people searching the web for porn. The other version is "pr0n".
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by exodust 5y ago
Is your comment satire, sarcasm or something like that? Wouldn't "epistemically toxic" be characterized by false, unsubstantiated or misleading content? A documentary is video, as are recorded lectures, or random experts expl
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by exodust 5y ago
> I am sure that he was was not consciously doing any product placement But it reads like product placement. You said yourself that product placement is huge. From the article... > " And if there's anything you feel it can
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by exodust 5y ago
> "Anyone who doesn't want to do something which they are directed to do can build up a picture of oppression." Likewise you can dismiss anyone's protest about anything if you frame their position as merely "not
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by exodust 5y ago
> It hasn't actually solved anything. I think the idea was to vaccinate as many as possible before opening up. The vaccine rate is high, so maybe that's one thing solved. Many in Australia were happy to get the jab. Others wer
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by exodust 5y ago
Yes but people watch the whole video waiting for the thumbnail's promise that never arrives. Partial view stats won't help in that case. Link integrity has always been a thing. Fake thumbs and misleading video titles are a link in
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by exodust 5y ago
> "the number of views is also a better indicator of potential quality" Can't agree. Perhaps you've forgotten about clickbait thumbnails and video titles. "Top 10 Scariest Roller-coasters" with photo-shopped
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by exodust 5y ago
> Unvaccinated people are inherently dangerous. They are not dangerous. A person who has access to sharp knives but is currently not holding a knife, is no more dangerous than someone who does not have access to knives. But even that an
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by exodust 5y ago
> I have the choice to stop wearing clothes to my job The difference is you flipped the switch and decided to turn up to work without clothes. You decided to radically change your behavior and actions in the workplace. This will obviousl
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by exodust 5y ago
She makes claims about the vaccine's effectiveness against Omicron when the data isn't in yet about that variant. It's only been a few days. She also says "vaccines reduce an incredible amount of transmission too" a
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by exodust 5y ago
> and my gratefulness translates into feelings of loyalty towards my employer . Yes and in turn translates to better quality work. In my case, I'm consciously adding extra web dev cherries on top every chance I can. I haven't
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by exodust 5y ago
That github page links to the dodgy extension "Stylish". The better one is called Stylus. The main difference being "Any and all analytics, telemetry, and data-collection have been removed completely. We'd rather not kno
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by exodust 5y ago
It's not irrelevant. Obesity is an epidemic. "One of today’s most blatantly visible – yet most neglected – public health problems" according to the WHO. Someone above pointed out to you that the majority of COVID deaths are i
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by exodust 5y ago
> imagine if somebody invented a simple injection that reduced road deaths...how many people do you think would be interested in this? Good to see a road safety analogy that doesn't replace injections with seat belts or speeding sig
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by exodust 5y ago
> Cheeseburgers don't work that way. No, but you can't completely exclude the manipulative effects of communal eating habits. You can't exclude the multi-billion dollar tactics to promote, associate, tempt, entice and feed
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by exodust 5y ago
Also a fan of the Epson Eco-tank. No nozzle clogging, even with infrequent use. The model I have is colour, Epson ET-7700. I was at the point of swearing never to buy Epson inkjets, or any inkjet again. Then they released the eco-tank. I re
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by exodust 5y ago
> Breaking lockdown to protest lockdown kinda misses the point of a lockdown. Everyone has a line where breaking lockdown to protest lockdown becomes an option. For some that line is approximately 30 weeks in. Some family units will co
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by exodust 5y ago
> Nobody bats an eyelid....Can't go to Kmart....Riots in the streets...slight personal discomfort Hyperbole overload. Here in Victoria, we're still in the world's longest lockdown. Curfews, strict rules, masks outside, clo
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by exodust 5y ago
Just because people agreed with initial "2 week snap lockdowns", doesn't mean they still agree with never-ending lockdowns, curfews and closed borders (even for vaxxed / negative test people). Many people have family int

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