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by grapeskin 4y ago
It was the same for me. Every single day, morning to night endlessly looping in the back of my head. But one day it simply stopped. I’d boarded a plane and moved to another country, and the moment I touched down, I realized this is where I
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by grapeskin 4y ago
I think calling for someone to kill someone in a serious tone or from a position of power generally meets the requirements. Eg, a politician saying citizens need to take to the streets and kill someone, or an average citizen saying quite st
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by grapeskin 4y ago
Did you respond to the wrong post?
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by grapeskin 4y ago
Cars don’t get a free pass. But literally any time someone says X is a big source of pollution, someone always screams that Y is worse so let’s stop focusing on X. Then when people talk about Y, forget it, here’s Z and it’s the real problem
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by grapeskin 4y ago
Having a complete mental map of your work environment is the key. Nothing changes without your approval and you have some idea of when and where every change was made along with what it does. Most of dev work is making sure other people can
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by grapeskin 4y ago
I search things in English daily. The results are translated word by word into similar sounding words in Japanese written in Katakana with zero English on the page. I’m sorry, but what you’re saying simply is not true. It’s immensely frustr
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by grapeskin 4y ago
Only 1% of computer users do programming. Command lines, compilers, and any method of editing code should be ruthlessly killed off otherwise we risk having a collection of features. Just give me a phone with a bunch of pictures and mandator
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by grapeskin 4y ago
I feel like tech giants just absolutely never admit mistakes. Instead of reverting something and admitting it was a bad decision, they’ll at best completely relaunch a half-assed complete rehaul of it and pretend it’s a brand new feature. I
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by grapeskin 4y ago
I think a lot of people are frogs in a pot with regards to their city deteriorating, while some definitely exaggerate because we also do just get cranky as we get old. But the 1950s standard of dirty and the 2020s standard of dirty are very
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by grapeskin 4y ago
The wild is a very different environment from a train ridden by a dude with years of acclimation to it. A comfortable train seat or train bed is definitely a place where a tired person can and will ass out. I’ve slept through a plane takeof
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by grapeskin 4y ago
I think one of the main purposes of sleep is that your mind shuts down and you have no clue what happens during that time. Anything else and it wouldn’t be sleep.
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by grapeskin 4y ago
Bureaucrats picked by the executive branch, elected every 4 years. If anything Americans have a better chance of getting things they want by picking a president who will implement their policies than they will hoping the legislative branch
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by grapeskin 4y ago
> Overturning it will mean that the Legislature and Governor make the laws, not the agencies. In a country where Congress has been deadlocked for decades and a large number of states are racing to push the absolute limits of what they ca
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by grapeskin 4y ago
There are a lot of places that have a really nice major city that gets foreign investment and stays under the watchful eye of the government. Other places, particularly rural, fall to the wayside. The US has a lot of interest in catering to
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by grapeskin 4y ago
Some countries have been completely dominated and leveled to the ground by foreign forces more recently than that but perform better economically. Some had straight up genocides.
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by grapeskin 4y ago
> Lots of Dresdeners were supporters of faschism before the war and after the war. Loads of Afghans support the Taliban. Doesn't mean firebombing any city there is the proper answer to anything there. And loads of people support the
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by grapeskin 4y ago
Destruction of the food source is one of major causes of the population drop, as mentioned in the linked article. It also mentions storms being able to wipe out millions. Even if there’s 100x as much milkweed next year as there is this year
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by grapeskin 4y ago
> The western population is at greatest risk of extinction, having declined by an estimated 99.9%, from as many as 10 million to 1,914 butterflies between the 1980s and 2021. Insane. I wonder if recovery is even possible without devoted
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by grapeskin 4y ago
As much as I think LSD helps, I don't think it's ever been found naturally. It's synthesized.
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by grapeskin 4y ago
France is full of refugees as well. Loads of countries are. Not sure what the point is.
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by grapeskin 4y ago
Maybe France is a good place to work because workers actively stand up for their rights.
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by grapeskin 4y ago
The meat quality disparity is definitely true. I can tell when I'm eating American beef because it stinks. As in there's literally a hint of feces in the smell and flavor. Pork also has an indescribably foul taste. I was born and
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by grapeskin 4y ago
Literally nobody is saying "we should only have wind", though. The point is to have an array of energy sources. If there's no wind, solar can compensate. If there's no sun, nuclear can compensate. If nuclear goes down, t
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by grapeskin 4y ago
I like my steaks borderline completely raw, but I’ll admit it’s because I’ve been around steak snobs and a voice in the back of my mind won’t allow it any other way. But I’ll also admit that heavily browned beef has a distinctive flavor and
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by grapeskin 4y ago
Hiroshima and Nagasaki are far smaller than what happened to Vietnam. I live not far from there. Seen the range of the damage first hand. The extent of the damage in SE asia is far larger and people are still de-mining the area. And civilia
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by grapeskin 4y ago
They burned the entirety of the country to the ground. Vietnam's neighbors were absolutely destroyed by the US. Laos is the most bombed country in world history due to the US trying to stop Vietnam. What would be considered "all o
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by grapeskin 4y ago
> They are now in an energy checkmate situation with a hostile country with an economy the size of Italy. I think looking at national threats by their GDP is kind of weird. Afghanistan led to the downfall of the USSR but had basically no
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by grapeskin 4y ago
Damn, are rents in Berlin over 5000 euros/5000 dollars? Must be nuts.
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by grapeskin 4y ago
Imagine this. You buy a fan for $20. It works. It has a low, medium, and high setting. One of the most influential fan makers decides they want to make a new product. It’s fan 2.0. It’s $21 dollars and has a $1 a month fee to unlock high sp
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by grapeskin 4y ago
I really wish I weren't years into a major Unity project, because I'd love to make the leap. Every single time I see Unity in the news these days, I simply think "oh god, not again."

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