fknorangesite

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by fknorangesite 1y ago
Categorizing some of the most meaningful, most fundamental human experiences as "brainless" is no doubt part of the reason you struggle with having community. And, I'm guessing, why communities struggle with you.
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by fknorangesite 1y ago
> If the reminder was 'i see you are going in the direction of a store: we need milk if you have time to stop' that would work. Reminders basically does have this: you can set a given item to alert when you are arriving/
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by fknorangesite 1y ago
No: grow up and realize that expressing an emotion is neither childish nor shameful.
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by fknorangesite 1y ago
You are about five hundred years late to this argument.
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by fknorangesite 1y ago
This (i.e., gambling specifically) is a very common definition of the word "gaming". Certainly that predates online video games, obviously.
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by fknorangesite 1y ago
They're making the tongue-in-cheek observation that those who don't use an ORM end up reinventing one, poorly.
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by fknorangesite 1y ago
More than it's worth. Even if their fees weren't astronomical, their platform is a nightmare to work with.
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by fknorangesite 1y ago
> This is such a myth and I have no idea where it's coming from. It's advice for people new to diet-and-exercise, not a law of the universe. > it's a nice lie one can tell himself to continue eating junk and not feel gu
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by fknorangesite 1y ago
I think they're doing that because they took the GP's bait. etchalon was doing the same thing.
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by fknorangesite 1y ago
Does it have to be?
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by fknorangesite 1y ago
> We just keep hitting snooze. Hah I wish - hitting snooze would at least push it back. We're just putting our heads under the pillow to try and ignore the blaring alarm.
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by fknorangesite 1y ago
> This is written about quite a bit. Go on.
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by fknorangesite 1y ago
There wasn't anything subtle about it.
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by fknorangesite 1y ago
Surely by now we must be tired of this kind of pointless hair-splitting.
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by fknorangesite 1y ago
It's not exactly subtle. Leia says it outright: > Leia: They let us go. It was the only reason for the ease of our escape. > Han: Easy? You call that easy? > Leia: They're tracking us.
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by fknorangesite 1y ago
> It’s essentially a coup of Republicans Do not pretend otherwise.
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by fknorangesite 1y ago
Of course; no one said otherwise. The Pulp Fiction context is a [imo, poor] defense of the name from the original team - saying that's where they picked it from, as opposed to the ableist slur. It was the mid-90s at the time, after a
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by fknorangesite 1y ago
Outside of places like HN, it is barely known at all , and the name is a big reason for that.
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by fknorangesite 1y ago
> "He is under no obligation to [do nice thing | be social | act friendly]" is a very Reddit attitude It's also a very Hacker News attitude, as you are witnessing in this thread. I don't understand why people HN talk
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by fknorangesite 1y ago
You're factually wrong, as described in the linked case study and a million other similar ones - whether they're about Toys R Us specifically or otherwise. Toys R Us still exists where I live (Canada). I admit I don't go in o
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by fknorangesite 1y ago
Because they're dancing around specific complaints and this line, for example, > were I to give a factual description of the childrens and teens sections, I would get banned by dang. reeks of "I don't want LGBTQ representa
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by fknorangesite 1y ago
Why were they scolding you?
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by fknorangesite 1y ago
No one asked.
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by fknorangesite 1y ago
> Progress over the long run only goes in the right direction, there's no path to undoing broad acceptance of homosexuality just like we'll never go back to forbidding interracial marriage or women voting. This is remarkably na
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by fknorangesite 2y ago
i.e., people for whom my violin is very tiny.
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by fknorangesite 2y ago
Do you know what "rule of thumb" means? Did you think you were being helpful?
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by fknorangesite 2y ago
"Getting"? HN has always been like this. Christ this website can be so full of insufferable pedantry. I don't know why people think that such comments are a good contribution.
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by fknorangesite 2y ago
God, thank you. I really dislike the old aphorism that if you can't teach something you don't understand it. Teaching is a whole complicated skill unto itself, especially if one is teaching to beginners. Like (since we're o
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by fknorangesite 2y ago
I'm unclear; what is the point you're trying to make here if not "welp who cares"?
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by fknorangesite 2y ago
> six-month ten-year

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