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by glonq 3y ago
They are, but unlike Amazon they don't pretend to NOT be.
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by glonq 3y ago
I bought some headphones on Amazon that came with a note offering a $10 refund if I left a 5-star review. I didn't. But several months later when I decided to leave a real review, I found that the product was no longer listed. But a
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by glonq 3y ago
Once upon a time you could choose to buy good products from good brands on Amazon, or import cheap crap from China via Aliexpress or whatnot. But now that nearly every category on Amazon is dominated by cheap crap from dodgy brands in China
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by glonq 3y ago
At least 5%. Even though the laundering has "supposedly" (cough cough) stopped here in Vancouver, the momentum it created likely still carries on.
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by glonq 3y ago
Ditto! I don't think I've played that mod in 20+ years. Back in the late 1990's I received a massive collection of MODs from a guy in the Netherlands, and those kept me entertained for years until MP3's took over.
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by glonq 3y ago
My friend's grandfather ran a marine business, so had many engines and accessories in stock. After he died they left his shop untouched for a couple decades. At that point, they had grown a sentimental attachment to those things even
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by glonq 3y ago
Whenever I create a filename that is long or has spaces, I still pause and worry "okay, what might break if I do this", even though such concerns probably died a couple decades ago. Actually scripts breaking if files or paths hav
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by glonq 3y ago
I'm old[school], so if I'm at the windows command prompt and need to bust out a quick batch file or script I will do "copy con foo.bat" instead of using notepad or vscode. Old habits die hard!
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by glonq 3y ago
To be fair though, one of my hoardy friends just dropped by last week and returned a first edition AD&D dungeon masters guide book that he borrowed 30 years ago and I completely forgot about. I move a lot so tend to donate/sell&
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by glonq 3y ago
Oh, boats and hoarders are a bad combination. My buddy's dad moved his boat from the water to his driveway to do a bit of work on it. Over the course of a decade, it went from "we can probably sell this for $15k" to "we
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by glonq 3y ago
I'm not sure if they are innately manipulative or abusive, or if it's more like a "cornered animal" thing where the claws only come out when they are backed into a corner. I've seen some genuinely nice people who on
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by glonq 3y ago
My two best friends are both sons of hoarders. One of the dads is a full "the city is gonna condemn your place for being uninhabitable" hoarder that could have easily qualified to be on the Hoarders TV show; the other is more lik
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by glonq 3y ago
Donate them as-is to charity or a thrift shop and reap the sweet sweet karma you've earned by putting like-new shoes into the hands (feet?) of people who need them.
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by glonq 3y ago
"Woman receives dozens of pairs of free shoes" does not sound like a problem. It sounds like an opportunity. Finders keepers.
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by glonq 3y ago
IDK. Nothing is forever, but I fear that we will be in a "post-facts" era for the forseeable future.
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by glonq 3y ago
I don't visit fringe news sites or echo chambers. I mostly just eyeball the headlines of various news orgs and then try to deduce "what really happened if you strip away the clickbait, sensationalism, and fearmongering". apne
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by glonq 3y ago
What accounts for Hurd's underwhelming progress? Consider how many years and how many developer-hours have probably been spent on Hurd compared to projects like SerenityOS and Haiku. Hell, even TempleOS seems to have accomplished more.
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by glonq 3y ago
It literally has "An Experiment" written on it. So yeah, regard it as an interesting plaything; certainly not something that you should get too emotionally or intellectually invested in. Especially given Google's penchant fo
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by glonq 3y ago
In 2016 (for likely obvious reasons) I broke the habit of watching the evening news, and I'm much happier for it. And I'm still well-informed. I peek at TV news occasionally, and glimpse at online news too. But I avoid editorial
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by glonq 3y ago
Oh, there's still hope. Just a tough battle and a coin-toss chance of making it. I feel that I'm in good hands. If I was rich, I'd maybe get better care from some more expensive hands but there's no guarantee.
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by glonq 3y ago
Your ideas are intriguing to me, and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
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by glonq 3y ago
"The great firewall of china blocks me and I lose 10 social credit points"
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by glonq 3y ago
I just got a cancer diagnosis with an ugly prognosis. Wish I could fast-forward a few years to when this treatment might be proven and available!
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by glonq 3y ago
I fully support decriminalization of all drugs, as long as it's far away from me and from anybody else who is just trying to live their best life. Let's go build a 10-acre island that is full of free housing and free drugs for any
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by glonq 3y ago
Vancouver BC says hello, where the same experiment is also failing. On a related note, anybody got a quick turn-around on a Hyundai Veloster rear window? Ours was just smashed out for the fourth time , because local fentanyl zombies someh
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by glonq 3y ago
I do know several people who develop temporary or permanent paranoia from weed, so maybe that's where the pointy fingers are coming from...
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by glonq 3y ago
LSD used incorrectly is an effective way to create insanity ;)
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by glonq 3y ago
This was written to be surprisingly accessible to somebody who hasn't touched a college math textbook in two or three decades. Well done!
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by glonq 3y ago
Vancouver Canada has a reputation as no-fun city and also a place where it's tough to make friends. Which is weird when you consider that it's a gem of a city with abundant natural and man-made attractions. Can I suggest that fe
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by glonq 3y ago
To make the 80's TV more authentic, is there an option to change channels via a pair of vice-grips that are permanently attached to the stub where the missing/broken channel knob should be? Because that's how I experienced i

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