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961.
by gadders 2y ago
I don't know how you can want to improve democracy, and be in favour of universal mail-in voting, the most open to abuse form of voting there is.
962.
by gadders 2y ago
There have always been poor people, but also wage earners managed to support a nuclear family and have a mortgage on a house with a non-working partner through working a blue collar job. This seems to be disappearing.
963.
by gadders 2y ago
So a few of them had guns then?
964.
by gadders 2y ago
The thing they were found not guilty of? https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/anthony-olienick-chri...
965.
by gadders 2y ago
Haha. I bet they must hate it when they see those videos.
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by gadders 2y ago
Interesting to hear. There is a post doing the rounds on Insta where it shows a tower like the one in the video and says something like "You change a bulb on the top of this tower every 6 months and get $20k for doing it." I guess
967.
by gadders 2y ago
Try watching this guys Insta videos: @alainrobertofficial He's a French guy famous for free-soloing skyscrapers. I don't have a particular fear of heights but I nope out of some of his videos pretty quickly.
968.
by gadders 2y ago
There is a Just Stop Oil version where you can throw a bucket of orange paint over the paintings /s
969.
by gadders 2y ago
Time to try harder to monetise fullofcr.app Maybe I could ship these to people with "Someone thinks you're full of crap." https://chocolate-shop.co.uk/products/novelty-chocolate-stin...
970.
by gadders 2y ago
I think a few years back someone examined the JS of one of those "XX people are looking at this product right now" or "ZZZ from YYY just purchased this product" and saw that it was basically randomly generated.
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by gadders 2y ago
In the early 90s, I had a job door to door selling in America. This was a 3 month holiday job post-uni, part of the BUNAC scheme. We were selling aerial photos of people's neighbourhoods/streets. (This was pre-Google Earth and pre
972.
by gadders 2y ago
I had a scan of the code examples, but one other idea that occurred to me is that you could immediately drop any numbers below 999 (probably slightly higher, but that would need calculation rather than being intuitive).
973.
by gadders 2y ago
I was getting ready to pile on, but then saw the dude boxes. Anyone who voluntarily risks getting punched in the face gets my respect. Sadly I'm not of independent means like him, so I can't really relate but good luck to him. He&
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by gadders 2y ago
"And according to Douglas Brinkley, a history professor at Rice University and the history consultant for CBS News, many observers saw the speech as "disastrous." Communist leaders were critical of the remarks, and even West
975.
by gadders 2y ago
I mean you can guess that might have happened, but I can't imagine a weak president like Carter saying "Tear down that wall" or calling USSR the evil empire.
976.
by gadders 2y ago
If you optimise for people from a lower socio-economic background, you get a broad mix of other demographics.
977.
by gadders 2y ago
"In later years, however, former Soviet officials cited SDI as a factor in the eventual collapse of their country, for it showed that the Soviet Union was politically unprepared for and economically incapable of competing in a new arms
978.
by gadders 2y ago
They admitted defeat due to SDI etc and Solidarity helped too.
979.
by gadders 2y ago
I believe there is some royalty-related reason why Spotify prefers playlists over albums.
980.
by gadders 2y ago
The only valid form of DEI is socio-economic - colour, gender and ethnicity blind. If someone grew up poor in a bad area (whether projects in NY or a trailer park in Appalachia) and got sent to a shit school, they should get extra credit fo
981.
by gadders 2y ago
This is just the result of lobbying by big business so they can import cheap labour to suppress wages.
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by gadders 2y ago
A member here mentioned his AI chatbot that does this yesterday as his (lucrative) side business: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42376682
983.
by gadders 2y ago
Or on some home DVD players, making them region free by typing a sequence of buttons on the remote control.
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by gadders 2y ago
"Here" depends on where you live. Not available in the UK.
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by gadders 2y ago
I think this was his best article yet - it lays out all the various things that have been conflated under "debanking" - some justifiable, some less so. I have no idea where Patio11 sits politically, but as someone who tends right
986.
by gadders 2y ago
>>Almost as stupid as the FBI years ago going into mosques with undercover people radicalizing some young and then arresting them. And the whole Governor Whitmer kidnap plot.
987.
by gadders 2y ago
Agreed. I forget the name of my preferred one, but they sadly went bust a few years back. It had features that the Samsung equivalent still lacks.
988.
by gadders 2y ago
Surprised you weren't offered MAID.
989.
by gadders 2y ago
Agreed that this certainly seems to be what is happening in the UK currently. But it is worth noting that whilst GDP is going up (due to immigration), GDP per capita is actually declining (due to immigration).
990.
by gadders 2y ago
That's a common saying in the UK as well, but with "b_lls" substituted for "d_ck".

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