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   by floren 4y ago

   I think this is great! I'm curious, though; how much time does she spend on `see octonauts`? I've seen the way kids get absolutely glued to the current crop of CGI kid shows (ye gods the pacing is frenetic) and I guess I'd ex
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   by floren 4y ago

   I didn't read Grapes of Wrath until I was an adult, but I certainly found it worthwhile. Same for Canticle. I did read Brave New World in high school, but it didn't do anything for me until I re-read it a couple years ago.
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   by floren 4y ago

   After the last few years, when I hear "newsletter" my brain translates it to "poorly-proofread overlong blog post with lots of pleas to subscribe to a Patreon"
4. 784.▲
   by floren 4y ago

   Read what I wrote again carefully, paying extra attention to the word "unlike"
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   by floren 4y ago

   Dangerous to poke around inside when plugged in, but quite safe unplugged (unlike say an old TV).
6. 786.▲
   by floren 4y ago

   > Ever hear of the Sam Vimes Boot Theory? Generally at least once a week on this very website. And on reddit. And on something awful.
7. 787.▲
   by floren 4y ago

   > For GPS my watch (Garmin) has GPS. Your watch can do navigation? Without being tethered to a phone? I'm interested, which model?
8. 788.▲
   by floren 4y ago

   Oh, absolutely. When I was a teen, you'd be called some sort of homophobic slur for refusing to go along with the current zeitgeist. Now, it's more effective to force conformity by calling people classist/racist/etc., an
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   by floren 4y ago

   Here's the main reason: > The utility-backed concept suggests poorer Californians are paying higher utility rates to pay for lost profits that utilities endure in order to pay solar owner for delivering clean energy to the grid. If
10. 790.▲
    by floren 4y ago

    You can buy 4G flip phones these days. Poke around the corners of the displays at an AT&T store or a Best Buy, there's usually one or two hiding somewhere.
11. 791.▲
    by floren 4y ago

    These guys have neatly circumvented the concern about unsubscribing by having a broken unsubscribe page!
12. 792.▲
    by floren 4y ago

    I admire the hell out of these kids. If I had a little more strength in my own convictions, a little more willpower, I would probably go flip-phone only too. Yes, they're kind of posturing and pretentious, but in ways that remind me of
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    How to piss off your customer in 13 emails (and counting)(jfloren.net)

    2 points by floren 4y ago|3 comments
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    by floren 4y ago

    How big was the bounty for "leaking" the bounty board?
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    by floren 4y ago

    I posted this link elsewhere in the thread, but basically "herbal viagra" products are consistently found to include actual drugs (usually the active ingredient of the real thing): https://www.fda.gov/drugs/me
16. 796.▲
    by floren 4y ago

    Or you import "herbal supplements" from China; when the FDA figures out that your particular supplement also has amphetamines and/or viagra in it, you start importing one with a different name. Here's a bunch of notifica
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    by floren 4y ago

    There were also parts of the country that saw "the last electric train"... transitioned to diesel! By 1920, the Milwaukee Road was running 645 miles of electrified railroad between Montana and Tacoma, WA (there was a 216 mile stre
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    by floren 4y ago

    I decided to give KDE a shot again after over a decade running minimal window managers, and while I really like the interface, it occasionally just freezes the entire system for multiple seconds at a time. Screen stops updating, mouse and k
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    by floren 4y ago

    just plain "person on Zoom call" would be good: wear a dress shirt w/ tie and a pair of sweatpants, and keep doing exaggerated nods and smiles with eyes extra wide open.
20. 800.▲
    by floren 4y ago

    Why is it that the word "liminal" only gets used in the most pretentious of contexts?
21. 801.▲
    by floren 4y ago

    Do you know of any that don't have a liner of some sort? I'd be interested in trying one but wouldn't know where to get one.
22. 802.▲
    by floren 4y ago

    We're just happy it's our turn to say "have fun staying poor"
23. 803.▲
    by floren 4y ago

    The Feelings Monster looks like it should be selling me cheap cell phone service ( https://d2z1w4aiblvrwu.cloudfront.net/ad/7EZD/cricket-wirele... )
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    by floren 4y ago

    Unfortunately Mastodon is doomed to failure because 50% of people will spell it "Mastadon" no matter how many times they see it written correctly.
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    by floren 4y ago

    Ah, simple, I just remember that typing "droid48" will take me to the only calculator app I'll ever need :)
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    by floren 4y ago

    It's been "fun" to see tankie twitter rush to point out that Foxconn is a Taiwanese company (not a Chinese one), after years of denying that Taiwan is separate from China: https://i.ibb.co/TqdYf4y/image.p
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    by floren 4y ago

    I was pleasantly surprised to see KUNM on the list!
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    by floren 4y ago

    How about WITR? https://witr.rit.edu/
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    by floren 4y ago

    It's pretty easy to set up your own INN2 servers and have them exchange their own hierarchy. However it also feels like there's just a ton of features and options in there which mostly make it very challenging to set up the simple
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    by floren 4y ago

    I'm glad somebody is looking out for those poor Stripe founders!