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by fiblye 6y ago
I’ve always hated sports. No matter how much I tried, I was horrible. All my school stress stemmed from PE and sports, and with how much of a focus “coolness” in school stems from sports performance, pressure simply grew and grew until I fi
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by fiblye 6y ago
This is just my own personal theory, but one reason is that we just scoop animals up, put them in a room, and expect to try finding speech patterns. What would happen if a flock of hyperintelligent pigeons found some human babies and locked
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by fiblye 6y ago
>Man irresistibly is drawn to freedom The success of China and people in the West increasingly saying things like "But do we really need freedom of speech that some people don't like?" makes me question this claim. Count
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by fiblye 6y ago
Biggest real usage I know of, and why people I know use VPNs, is piracy. I've never had my ISP send a letter about anything, but some people I know would get warnings pretty often. Some countries even make it a criminal matter. VPNs he
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by fiblye 6y ago
I find Spaces/Expose/Mission Control (or whatever they call it these days) way more comfortable than dealing with Windows. I especially like that if I hide a window, it doesn't pop up when using Mission Control. Opening the W
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by fiblye 6y ago
And probably 19 out of 20 of those despicable purposes involve buying weed edibles and shrooms.
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by fiblye 6y ago
And now seemingly every site out there has dozens of popovers, subscribe to a mailing list (amazed those still exist and are somehow pushed more than ever), cookie permission requests, "Like and retweet us!" banners that slowly sc
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by fiblye 6y ago
One example is civil asset forfeiture. Police can and do stop people at random, see if they have “suspicious” valuables or a little too much money, and seize it. It’s virtually impossible to fight the case and it’s literally free money wi
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What's being argued here is like saying "french" and "francais" are completely unrelated words because they sound different, despite being somewhat similar in sound and having a clear shared origin and meaning. You
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Blocking javascript prevents the bottom half of the article from being hidden. Ublock origin lets you disable JS on a per-site basis, if you're using that as your adblocker.
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Stories are all over the place. How an area looks at 10 AM and how it looks at 10PM can be completely different. Some very nice and safe towns are anything but after a few hours pass.
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If the point of contention guns specifically, or people defending their homes to the point of killing someone? America has more than just a few home invasions and murders. If someone is trying to break into your home, especially at night, t
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by fiblye 6y ago
>If a ring of doctors were caught illegally selling organs, we wouldn't title an article "Doctors have been selling organs for years". If bank tellers in a specific city were taking some money off the top of deposits, we w
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by fiblye 6y ago
Is it often that China unblocks a communication platform without them fully complying with the CCP’s desire to monitor and censor everything? I can’t think of any major platforms that got banned and reinstated with zero changes. I’m treat
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by fiblye 6y ago
I liked the speed and the power of tables. It's also an incredibly simple language. I learned the ins and outs in a couple of days and was able to get right to work on making a game. Almost never did I have to reference documentation a
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At which point you need to decide whether you're going to devote years of your life learning Slovak from what's likely 0 to a professional level and then hope you get accepted into a university, or pay $ to study elsewhere. Even i
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In a hypothetical all out war between China, Russia, and America, what place is safe? There's no way to know right now. Maybe all the countries America has invaded in that past decide to ally up and thoroughly pillage the country for
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by fiblye 6y ago
God, actually shooting the guy in the head was just disgusting. Spraying him is bad enough. The final shot is nothing more than the officer saying he can do absolutely anything he wants up to and including murder (a projectile to the head l
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by fiblye 6y ago
> A 'tiao' of fish, A 'duo' of mushroom, doesn't really exist in the old Chinese I'm not sure about those words specifically, but counters/classifiers in Chinese go back centuries and beyond. Linguists
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by fiblye 6y ago
If maximum returns meant picking people based on race, they’d do it. If it doesn’t, they’ll announce that they’re picking people based on race as a good-will move. They’re probably not burning money with this decision, but they’d probably m
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by fiblye 6y ago
Intentions sound good, sure: we want to address inequality. But is the solution “we will only consider people of specific racial backgrounds. We will reject you on the sole basis of your race”? Affirmative action has been firmly grounded in
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These past few months have been endless blunders and bad news for SoftBank. They’re definitely not putting $100 million into a goodwill and equality fund. They’re putting 100 million into PR and advertising with the benefit of getting some
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If they think you're a terrorist or want to pretend that you are, $20 won't keep them out of your calls. This is just a way to justify expanding surveillance and making a few bucks off it.
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3 years probation for whacking 7 people in the head--something that could very easily result in death. A person his age knew this without a doubt. How he didn't get 7 counts of attempted murder is beyond me.
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If squirrels survived 99c, it’d be impossible to cook them. Those dudes would probably be stockpiling nuts inside volcanoes.
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Your clothes get faded in the sun. A dryer quickly wears down the fabric and makes holes.
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There are also countless people who’d gladly knowingly sign up to implement such a feature. No need to try some roundabout way when all you need to do is feel out the political leanings of a couple guys in the office then recruit them for a
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Meanwhile, living in Japan, if you tell people you prefer to machine dry your clothes, they’ll tell you outright that it’s wasteful. The assumption is that it’s only used when rain makes it impossible.
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There are loads in between the protests. Eventually the murders pile up and the evidence against the police’s actions is so strong that people collectively snap. If it were merely every other murder, there’d never be a day of peace.
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I mean, there's being a leader of a group involved in a riot and then there's a reporting crew. If one of them is standing in place with a microphone and film equipment and explaining the situation in monotone while calmly asking

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