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by jimt1234 3y ago
So, it's app only, no browser? LAME.
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Old: The police are gonna take my weapons! New: The police are my weapon!
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It's even worse, as the musical acts (once again, excluding Taylor Swift) that are able to survive/thrive from live shows are generally DJs or other low-overhead acts. DJs and other low-overhead acts go on the road with basically
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by jimt1234 3y ago
Amphetamine has been my go-to app for keeping my Mac alive, especially since Apple tried to remove it from the App Store because, according to [someone?], the name violated App Store rules. https://apps.apple.com/us/app
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by jimt1234 3y ago
Thanks, I never knew that about Denver. And yes, bike paths, separate from roads, are the answer, not road sharing with cars. A teenager was killed on an e-bike a few miles from my house just last week: https://www.sandiegouniont
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I was always under the impression New Jersey had this law because of some sort of mafia influence. But I probably watched too much of The Sopranos, though.
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Recently I re-discovered my old collection of mp3s. I copied them to my laptop and started listening (using VLC). It blew me away how pleasant the experience was, particularly the overall responsiveness, navigating from track-to-track, skip
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by jimt1234 3y ago
130K? Pfft. Those are rookie numbers LOL. My Tacoma recently turned over 300K, and it still runs great. I've never had any problems with it.
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When I was a kid back in the late-70s, I saw a handful of firefighters and a few other burly dudes overturn a car that was blocking a hydrant near an active fire. They got the car bouncing, then completely turned it over onto its roof. Then
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The only thing that irks me about water recycling is the seemingly discriminatory nature of the implementation. This is only from my experience in my area of Southern California where it's been talked about for years, and implemented i
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I've heard that about almonds, too (that they consume A LOT of water), and even worse: California farms pivoted to growing almonds, not because they're essential food, but because they sell a lot in China, and they're highly
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https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4053686-minneapo... Expect heads to roll at the Minneapolis PD. Just kidding. Nothing will happen. Not even a slap on the wrist.
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Is anything ever really prohibited (for US law enforcement)? Better yet, what are the real consequences for violation? All I ever hear is, "Okay, fine. We won't do this illegal thing anymore - you know, the thing we've been
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by jimt1234 3y ago
One last thing, another generally unrecognized, but highly influential producer in creating what would become the hip hop sound was the late Larry Smith. RIP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Smith_(producer)
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I'm kind of a hip hop trivia nerd, and this year is huge for guys like me: August 11th is generally regarded at the 50th anniversary of the birth of hip hop. https://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/investiga
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Early rap records were mostly rappers, backed by house-bands playing disco music. Rick noticed that these early records didn't sound like what was being played in the streets (block parties and underground clubs). This bothered Rick, s
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3 great articles about nuclear energy: https://whatisnuclear.com/reactor_history.html https://whatisnuclear.com/economics.html https://whatisnuclear.com/waste.html
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Florida man (not that one) sold $100M-plus in counterfeit network gear(theregister.com)
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One thing I've been encouraged by in the last 5-or-so years is parking lots getting covered by solar panels. All the local school parking lots in my area are covered by solar panels now. Most of the Walmarts. Most of the hospitals. And
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by jimt1234 3y ago
I hate that this shift is being driven almost entirely by profit motives, but I also wonder if this is such a bad thing. I love my doctor; she's been my doctor for 25 years. However, I sometimes wonder what real value she provides. All
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I did the exact same thing years ago, except, after about two or three daily reports I took the immature route. I started inserting lines like, "10:45am, took a shit", "11:03am, scratched my balls", "11:04am, farted
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by jimt1234 3y ago
Not an expert, but I like this as one potential solution: https://palletshelter.com/homelessness/ In my area, the city council is talking about spending up to *$400K per unit* to help provide shelter for the homeless
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> My opinion: This is a national issue and California is just the presenting problem. I think California is essentially our dumping ground for homeless people from across the nation and California can't solve it alone. THIS ^^^
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I get bothered when people dismiss gun violence as gang-related, as if it doesn't matter because the victims are in gangs. We're all human beings, and we all deserve to live. Yes, people involved with gangs, pretty much by definit
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Extrovert and agoraphobic? That must be painful for your friend. Poor guy.
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My girlfriend worked for a small-ish company (less than 100 employees) that got ONE negative review on Glassdoor. The company executives were so angry about it that they contacted Glassdoor, trying to get them to remove it. Denied. Then the
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The worst part is Joe Rogan. Nothing against him, but Shorts carpet bombs me with video clips of him. It's so annoying. I think I've watched one of his videos, the one with Elon hittin' the blunt, and now YouTube thinks I&#
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by jimt1234 3y ago
The QR-code menus lack personal interaction, which I actually enjoy in a restaurant. I realize that, functionally, 75% of servers offer nothing over a QR-code menu, but for me, the 25% makes up for it by recommending a good dish or explaini
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Exactly ^^^ Here's how it went down in my case; it's so bad. ... The dude played in a rock band in his free time. He had a show up in LA (we're in San Diego) on a "school night". The next day, Wednesday morning, he
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I started programming as a hobby around 1983, on my Commodore 64, in 6th grade. All through high school, I never even considered programming as a career. I didn't think anyone could actually get paid for programming. We were all just h

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