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by frabbit 3y ago
Heartily agree. The idea of loaded unicycle touring as being practical would be easy to dismiss were it not for Ed Pratt.
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by frabbit 3y ago
And we get to collect data on the customer! There's just no end to the wins!
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by frabbit 3y ago
I'm glad to see someone standing up for hardworking folks like me on this elitist site. My family has found that converting one of these allows us to do the weekly shop of not just the milk, but also the charcoal for the barbeque and t
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by frabbit 3y ago
Of course roads are needed. But there are at least two problems with such a deceptively simple statement: 1) Road construction is constantly expanding. They create their own demand by diverting resources away from many things including aff
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by frabbit 3y ago
That was one of the things I actually liked about Covid lockdowns: the absence of the constant, distant noise of cars and trucks.
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by frabbit 3y ago
I suspect it is a bit misleading to claim: And the desire for recreation. The explosion of cars isn't necessarily that cars are so useful. Certainly they did have utility. But really they were kind of liberating. In the late 19th cent
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by frabbit 3y ago
As an aside: can anyone recommend books/tutorials for getting started with DAWs on Linux? I was thinking of starting with Ardour¹ to get the handle on basic concepts before looking at anything else. Basic use case is being able to take
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by frabbit 3y ago
As usual no love for Canada from Google. Apparently we can't even have music: Unfortunately instrument playground is not available in your country. Click close to return to the homepage.
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by frabbit 3y ago
I'm surprised that someone as interested in this as you has not followed up to try and see whether Taibbi's worrying thesis has any merit. He, and Shellenberger and the other writers at "Public" are slowly revealing the
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by frabbit 3y ago
Suggest to her that she voices an anti-Israeli genocide position and see how she reacts to the trucks driving around with her face on them after she's doxxed. That'll make her feel better about your fear of the left.
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by frabbit 3y ago
Failing that it is probably worth listening-to/reading Matt Taibbi: https://twitterfiles.substack.com/p/the-censorship-industria... https://public.substack.com/p/censorship-leaders-accuse-us-o
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by frabbit 3y ago
You know there's a whole army of them in there now?
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by frabbit 3y ago
https://curl.se/windows/microsoft.html The curl tool comes installed in addition to the dreaded curl alias that plagues Powershell users since it is an alias that runs the invoke-webrequest command and therefore isn&#
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by frabbit 3y ago
You have all been trolled. BikeSnobNYC strikes again.
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by frabbit 3y ago
Saw this after I posted my comment. I first came across Magura on German commuter bicycles. A good, reliable brand.
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by frabbit 3y ago
Magura have been making hydraulic rim brakes for German bike assemblers for at least a decade.
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by frabbit 3y ago
It helps to keep in mind that a person’s written or spoken English is correct if other English speakers -- some, not all -- correctly interpret the words as having the communicator’s intended meaning. I invite you to show any evidence th
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by frabbit 3y ago
Actually I was not complaining. I was trying to help: both you and anyone else reading that might believe your assertion that "sopping to" has the meaning you believe.
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by frabbit 3y ago
"Sopping to" still does not have any common accepted meaning though. So, if you want to communicate with other users of English it might be a good idea not to use that phrase. You want both your listeners and you to agree on wha
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by frabbit 3y ago
I don't think you are correct. Google ngram viewer supports the idea that any occurrence of the phrase 'sopping to' is so rare as to be probably an error. You can usually "sop up" == "soak up" something w
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by frabbit 3y ago
This WSJ article is paywalled. Even if I can resort to hoping that the Internet Archive continues to be allowed to make such content available it is probably not a great idea to promote such walled-garden links. There is a very good SciAm a
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by frabbit 3y ago
I think you are demeaning any valid position you may hold by your contortions over Churchill's well-known and repeatedly documented racism and imperialism. But maybe that's the fashion nowadays among sophisticated thinkers?: &quo
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by frabbit 3y ago
Intelligence services are good at stopping and intimidating journalists who are reporting on their activities: activities like nurturing Islamic terrorist groups in order to destabilize states perceived as an obstacle. For examples see th
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Neoliberal Censorship [video](youtube.com)
2 points by frabbit 3y ago|1 comments
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by frabbit 3y ago
Useful Idiots explores the current functioning of censorship with interviews of two recently "de-monetized" journalists.
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by frabbit 3y ago
I think it's because Putin is not exactly a fan of them either. He's more on the state-suppression of citizen journalism side: a bit like the majoritarian anti-democracy mob in the USA. Don't forget: Putin was the hand enf
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by frabbit 3y ago
It is not just ISPs. It is crowdfunding and payment processing companies. See for example this apparent seizure of funding to independent journalists happening right now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37314499 If
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by frabbit 3y ago
To quote Jacobin/DSA journalist Marketic: Don't particularly care about your personal opinion about Grayzone - this is an outrageous attack on press freedom and should be condemned. The reason @gofundme is targeting it & simi
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GoFundMe Freezes Grayzone Funds(thegrayzone.com)
15 points by frabbit 3y ago|4 comments
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by frabbit 3y ago
The Grayzone is an indepedent media outlet highly critical of the neocon thrust of US foreign policy over the last 25 years. Their recent fundraiser to support 3 journalists to cover BRICS has had over US$90,000 frozen by GoFundMe with no e

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