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jamiek88
4y ago
I think it was a typo for scrooging which is a common enough word for being cheap(USA) / tight (uk).
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jamiek88
4y ago
I didn’t realize Xeon had improved that much but his point still stands as threadripper has 128 lanes. AMD is better at the moment.
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jamiek88
4y ago
Didn’t you know? There are two types of actor. White male and political .
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jamiek88
4y ago
That’s the further punishment of cheating previously. if you do then pull something cool off legitimately, no one believes you.
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4y ago
Yeah back before weed was legal in enough states for me to not feel travel limited Insta was the way to find a plug in a new town. They’d often sidechat you onto kik or something like that but initial find was on insta. If I can navigate it
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jamiek88
4y ago
Weird until I read your comment I was blown away. Then I had another proper look at the first image and in many ways I had to turn off my brains amazing ‘upscaling’ ability. My brain had upscaled that human like blob to a woman spinning ar
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4y ago
It’s not about him being ugly but him being robotic. He’s had work done which doesn’t help , Botox freezing expressions, but all the shit Zuckerberg gets is that. And frankly considering how he’s undermined our democracy he’s got off light
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4y ago
Well that’s just silly.
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4y ago
Yeah I just posted a similar question, can’t think of any and can think of the converse quite easily. Even Amazon couldn’t push the Amazon phone for example. The nearest I can think of is Xbox but that came out of the gate strong with halo
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jamiek88
4y ago
I don’t think this is true, or at least i can’t think of any examples of a big company forcing a products success, I can only remember lots of counter examples.
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4y ago
AirPods used to be weird. That’s how quickly it changes. I’m an Apple fanboy and would queue up for a toaster if they released one and I had second thoughts about the AirPods cos of the look but bought them anyway and the utility was such t
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4y ago
You’d have to see it to believe it how easy and normal credit is over here in USA. Even coming from uk it surprised me. You can even buy tyres on tick. That only works because of low friction lending.
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4y ago
Undeading yourself in some societies ain’t trivial either. In others it’s nigh on impossible. India has/had a loophole that scammers use to declare someone dead and steal their property.
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jamiek88
4y ago
Sketchy apps like Waze and Starbucks? These are as mainstream as apps get.
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jamiek88
4y ago
technical solutions to political problems are always doomed. It always, always, comes down to the the rubber hose decryption.
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jamiek88
4y ago
Thank you! So I’m not completely crazy!
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jamiek88
4y ago
What a delightful slice of history!
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jamiek88
4y ago
I’m weary… You’re tired? I think you mean wary. Or leery. Not weary.
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jamiek88
4y ago
What does this even mean? Are you denying that climate change is a thing? Now? In 2022?
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jamiek88
4y ago
A lot of that is politically motivated suspension of disbelieve rather than national credulity though.
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4y ago
Do you know if there is an ebook of this anywhere? It’s out of print and used books from people I don’t know gross me out. It’s weird I know. Like a phobia almost.
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jamiek88
4y ago
Yeah if I was a device and someone called me a printer I tell you hwat!
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jamiek88
4y ago
Sexual assault is not a ‘Vice’.
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jamiek88
4y ago
This was 2010 not 1955 for fucks sake. Back then! Jesus Christ.
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jamiek88
4y ago
As a fellow ADHD person I relate to this so hard. Today I literally did nothing for about three hours. I stared at a tree. Actually not even a tree. A particular leaf.
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4y ago
Even now there are people who don’t consider photography an art form.
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jamiek88
4y ago
Yep or even better sneak off some cuttings!
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jamiek88
4y ago
Bbbbbbut benchmarking………market survey……advanced analytics……some HR goober said that we are ‘competitive’.
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jamiek88
4y ago
Good,point about aging into it. When you are younger you don’t care what the neighbors think really, your only social positions that count are amongst your friends and at school so you don’t really grok where Violet is coming from it’s all
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jamiek88
4y ago
Expert sex change! Blast from the past. Pen Island too!
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