johnea

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by johnea 11d ago
Damn, makes me want to jump on a plane to SFO tomorrow morning...
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by johnea 13d ago
A friend is in China right now. I spent some time on the phone with him the other day, as he wandered around the city where he's working. It was Sunday there, most people's day off, and he was amazed at how many people were out in
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by johnea 1mo ago
99.9% of "startups" are completely unnecessary 8-/ It's basically just greed unleashed. You're pushing this product for your own sake, not the user's. Maybe consider getting a job at a deli, and learning how to
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by johnea 1mo ago
I'll always remember him for the prophetic quote from Rocky Horror Picture Show. It was only years later that I understood this to be a statement about all the corpse forward products produced by over-aggregated companies. Whenever it
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by johnea 1mo ago
Oh, I thought it said "Github Outrage Tracker". I was ready to click...
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'A Bible-sized blind spot': alarm on rising Christian nationalism(theguardian.com)
11 points by johnea 1mo ago|3 comments
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by johnea 1mo ago
Another significant form of regression seen after the brief period of progress in the 1960s and 70s...
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by johnea 2mo ago
I can relate to the bit actor's feeling of relating to this story 8-/ I also really feel a kinship to The Life Aquatic. I love sailing and being on the ocean, and I'm also past my prime and down on my luck in comparison to th
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by johnea 2mo ago
Thank You! Thank you very much... This has much less to do with taking a shit, than it does with sitting and quietly thinking to yourself. This idea that you need to be constantly receiving some external input, and that just sitting and thi
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by johnea 2mo ago
Spoken like a true patriot! Obviously, us american's need to wear and use everything made from oil, because it's so safe...
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by johnea 2mo ago
Leave to the idiot cheato to be #1! Nobody else ever spent this much money to NOT have cheap power 8-/
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by johnea 2mo ago
duh, the richest people have the money...
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by johnea 2mo ago
One more step towards the apocalypse 8-/
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by johnea 2mo ago
> Look What They've Become Another shit hole of insider trading...
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by johnea 2mo ago
International shipping is the #1 spreader of marine invasive species. 1/2 of all shipping, is shipping oil 8-/ Spreading invasive species is just one more way that oil is destroying our natural environment.
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by johnea 2mo ago
> And how exactly do we maintain equal application of the rule of law? Transparency and constant monitoring. To understand how to run an organization without trust, think like a capitalist. Does a bank function because of honesty? No, ev
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by johnea 2mo ago
One person's petulant complaint is another person's rebuttal. I think what you're really saying is you don't agree with OP's perspective...
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by johnea 2mo ago
Flock had credibility?
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by johnea 2mo ago
I'm hesitant to say...
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by johnea 2mo ago
> All democracies run on the honor system That's total bullshit. Democracy runs on the equal application of the rule of law. Of course, no democracy is perfect. The degree of imperfection can be measured in how much they run on the
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by johnea 2mo ago
I'm pretty sure they just did...
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by johnea 2mo ago
Is this riffing on Strunk and Whites: The Elements of Style? Often referred to as "The Little Book".
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by johnea 2mo ago
So much of the terse, utilitarian, DJB Way was overpowered by bloated corporate crap 8-/ One still functional example exists in voidlinux's init system. There was never any need for systemd 8-/ Except leveraging RedHat/I
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by johnea 2mo ago
My expectation is that it will be worse than this analysis implies. The world energy mafia, primarily petroleum, but also nuclear and coal, will not give up their revenue streams. Carbon concentrations will continue to rise, and quite likel
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by johnea 2mo ago
One has to wonder: > offering gravity-defying, compliant, and tactile embodiments for indoor cohabitation The summary is so full of fluffy nonsense, I wondered if this was some April 1st joke 8-/ Maybe first, they need to invent ant
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by johnea 2mo ago
It's not fully modded until it's electric 8-/ Having been through 3 midlife crisis, I can speak with some authority on this...
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by johnea 2mo ago
Abject Idiocy does seem to be crossing a threshold from neurosis into psychosis...
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by johnea 3mo ago
I agree (and upvoted you btw) That's why I think this nit-picking, "no doom-scrolling" regulation is worthless. A) It doesn't strike at the root of the problem, and therefore won't solve ti. B) Orgs like these, that
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by johnea 3mo ago
#1 This sucks #2 This is the personal version of what europe is going through now, with the realization that those cloudy cloudy services may be convenient, but don't bet your life on one. Keep a local backup!!! In fact, local backup f
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by johnea 3mo ago
As a leftist, I'd be really happy to see most CA legislators banned. Let's start with Gavin, and his pro-utility, anti-consumer CPUC. Now that that problems solved, let's just ban meta, the twit-verse, and twerk-tik completel

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