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by hobbitstan 4y ago
‘Plant based’ initially meant vegan, but vegan is a dirty word for some people, likely because a lot of the early vegan meat alternatives were ghastly. As a vegan, I see a lot of labels boasting ‘plant-based’ but no mention of it being vega
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by hobbitstan 4y ago
Music started to die in the mid-90s and was official dead by 99.
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by hobbitstan 4y ago
- Human beings cannot change sex. This is a scientific fact. - There is zero proof of such a thing as a male of female soul. The soul is without sex or gender. - There is zero proof of the concept of a woman trapped in a mans body, or vice
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by hobbitstan 4y ago
Bee-Free Honey is really good. Vegan Un-honey is more like a syrup than honey, but it's OK.
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by hobbitstan 4y ago
'I’m legally female. But I have facial hair. I have a penis. I have no breasts. I don’t have a feminine voice. I don’t wear makeup or dress up like a female.' Quite the interview!
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by hobbitstan 4y ago
- nondescript building - weird security - hard to get ahold of anyone to interview Yeah, I'm thinking OpenAI are going to be in the news fairly soon regarding their operations.
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by hobbitstan 4y ago
The idea of ‘human rights’ is a western construct, largely enacted after WWII by countries who invented concentration camps and dropped nuclear bombs on civilian populations. Do human beings have the ‘right’ to live by their own, often anci
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by hobbitstan 4y ago
'nonsexual nudity' Can the EFF not tell porn when they see it? Is softcore porn no longer porn?
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by hobbitstan 4y ago
OK, I’ll bite since ChatGPT posts are flooding HN: Is this legit? As in, no human interference in the responses? Something feels very off with this. Is there a building full of former Twitter employees churning out responses and pretending
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by hobbitstan 4y ago
Do artists still release radio edits of their singles? Back in the 90s, I was always a little pissed off when my fave bands did that. It was likely their record labels, but still… edited length for airplay is such bullshit. Edit: I’ll add t
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by hobbitstan 4y ago
Given the long history of IoT devices becoming compromised, it’s common sense to be cautious.
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by hobbitstan 4y ago
Yeah, don’t use ‘he’ or ‘she’ in case someone takes offense. Orwell wrote that this politispeak was used to make palatable the most disturbing actions. We see it more and more every day.
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by hobbitstan 4y ago
You really think Roomba owners know how to do any of that, or even would?
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by hobbitstan 4y ago
‘iRobot declined to let MIT Technology Review view the consent agreements and did not make any of its paid collectors or employees available to discuss their understanding of the terms.’ The reporters tried to validate and were blocked. Tha
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by hobbitstan 4y ago
There was a huge backlash to this. There was the potential for thieves to find out the layout of someone’s home and when it was unoccupied. Add cameras to that and you have a disaster waiting to happen.
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by hobbitstan 4y ago
My friends and I feverishly played Street Fighter II at the local arcade all the time and, as a huge Nintendo fan, the SNES release was a big hit. BUT it was noticeably a downgrade from the arcade version. It didn’t play nearly as well and
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by hobbitstan 4y ago
For most of vegan and animal rights activist history, the focus has been on morals: explaining and showing the horrors we inflict on animals in the name of meat and dairy. Then at some point it became, primarily, an environmental issue, clo
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by hobbitstan 4y ago
Yeah, I’m not sure I buy their explanation about special development roombas since they offered zero proof. I have an ancient Roomba that’s still going and dread having to replace it one day.
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by hobbitstan 4y ago
Caroline Ellison has been awfully quiet recently.
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by hobbitstan 4y ago
The AI-generated dubstep was spot on. Sounded just like Excision!
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by hobbitstan 4y ago
This worked for me and changed my entire outlook on life: https://krishna.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Science-of-Se...
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by hobbitstan 4y ago
He’ll claim it was bait for bots then not step aside.
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by hobbitstan 4y ago
'Reddit is a great community already.' I remember when Digg started going to hell, then Reddit was created. All the tech folk moved over there. Now Reddit has become an autistic hive mind and people come to HN.
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by hobbitstan 4y ago
The Twitter takeover was fun for a while, mainly due to the people who have spent the past few years deplatforming dissenting opinions and being real shits having major meltdowns and tasting their own medicine, but… enough is enough. It’s b
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by hobbitstan 4y ago
Many years ago I read a story, that I took as potential fiction, about a very rich man in Eastern Europe who hired warez scene kids to digitize all the movies, TV shows, and music they could. There were financial incentives involved and the
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by hobbitstan 4y ago
Well, that’s a nightmare I never knew existed…
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by hobbitstan 4y ago
I tested a few recordings of an Indian Swami giving speeches in English back in the 70's. Recording had a lot of background noise, not great. You have to listen very carefully to hear what is being said. I was hoping for good results,
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by hobbitstan 4y ago
Twitter is home to many of these conmen. Fitness geeks posing as natural bodybuilders, promoting heavy meat diets etc., pushing their own brand of supplements, but they owe their form mostly to steroid abuse. Taking fitness or nutritional a
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by hobbitstan 4y ago
That’s common. School teachers face the same problem. They don’t quality for sick leave until they’ve used up all their PTO first.
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by hobbitstan 4y ago
A great movie theater experience for me was living close to a very clean and nice theater that was a ghost town early Sunday’s. I’d go see movies and be the only one there.

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