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Parent comment said: > I no longer have sympathy for DEI and other such initiatives because they will always be targeted against white people and males, no matter the state of equity/fairness in the world.
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https://www.wheels.ca/news/truck-evolved-three-decades > The lightest 2016 Chevrolet Colorado outweighs the full-size 1986 version by about 260 kilograms. > The Frontier and Tacoma never went away, but overall bu
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That would be the case if "too close" were to be defined only by establishing consistent expectations to be shared by all drivers. There are also compelling safety reasons independent of driver expectations to follow at a greater
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So... no one within range of being able to catch a bus is a serious cyclist because they have an out? No one who can call a friend for a ride can be serious about cycling? I don't think this is typically what people would mean by that
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You're not okay with recommendations ? That's 80% of why many of us use Spotify in the first place.
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The underlying value here seems to be that good communication is absolutely essential. The kind of person who goes into SEO blogging professionally is likely a very comfortable writer. It may be that one person is better able to express the
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Yes, the Fed printing money. Memes from the younger, paragraphs from the older. More rarely mentioned by the credentialed, but so ubiquitously brought up by the commentariat that I just can't buy this as "few people are talking ab
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Maps down for me. 500, specifically with a response document titled "Error 500 (Server Error)!!1"....
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Really? To me it seems to show up in every discussion about the general economy these days.
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Ehhh.. "Cultural idiocy and laziness" ignores some important systemic factors. You can be investigated for neglect for letting your kids play in a park you can see from your window. https://www.familydefensecenter.net&
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The "passive voice" is a term with a technical meaning in grammar. "Evolved" used intransitively doesn't qualify. This is the kind of thing an ordinary person mostly shouldn't need to care about, but if you&#x2
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Okay, I'm going to give you a shotgun blast of these and a good chunk of them may just be wrong. (It's my birthday, I feel crotchety, so out comes the red ink) If I were close-reading a text for an important purpose, here are the
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Is anyone else thrown by the lack of editing here? There are a couple things that read oddly but might just be regional wordings, but other sentences seem like they can't have passed under an editor's nose. Yikes.
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The comment does reflect the conclusion the article comes to. (I myself do disagree with the article and believe that there is a good function these readings perform, but the replied-to comment is certainly in line with the piece and websit
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She mentions Aleppo soap in the piece , and cites the influence of a first century AD physician as being meaningful through the medieval period - so a charitable reader might assume that she's talking about widespread use rather than
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Jekyll is old and boring as hell so the plugin ecosystem rules. I picked up eleventy in order to be able to prototype stuff on Glitch.
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My grandmother thought her computer had a bunch of viruses because of how Windows 10 showed them.
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Override the font on all YouTube text elements. You'd probably think it'd be simple, right? This being the kind of thing that Cascading Style Sheets were designed to handle elegantly and gracefully? https://maya.land&#x
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Social graph lock-in. :( I use Mastodon and love it, but all of my IRL [weak ties] are on FB and IG. [weak ties]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpersonal_ties
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Hypercore: protocol, predates the Tether/Bitfinex stuff, I'd argue neutral. The Beaker Browser work was incredibly cool IMO. Website: https://hypercore-protocol.org/ The other stuff: wary. (e.g. https:/&#x2F
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I gotta say this is a tough one just because posing with a cat is such an unnatural thing from the perspective of cat ownership. Guy sitting on sofa with cat lying on the back of the sofa is different from "Here Look At My Cat" gu
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I have the Sailor Moon sparkle noise as a Matrix notification sound and I regret nothing
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We didn't have large vehicles in the way we do now. Going back and looking at the sizes of trucks – real, functional, agricultural/construction use pickup trucks – over the decades shows dramatic size increases.
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Are you trying to say American multinationals build their European data centers with less AC than their American data centers?
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In my household we typically use the phrase "pet peeve" to refer to things that are meaningfully below the impact threshold of killing humans https://www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/large-trucks-suvs-far-m..
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Honestly? Hated the coffee in Italy, found it sort of tolerable in Austria. However, that's almost certainly because I have no appreciation for robusta, even in blends. I'm a dark roast fan, even: we all tend to talk past each oth
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> The feeling of hunger is not comparable between people. I wish this were the baseline understanding everyone shared! Even as one person, as my mental health has been differently treated over time, I've been shocked at how differ
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"just as easily" would be the contested part, I'd guess
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Fatalism is a nice omnidirectional exoneration, but I don't think complicity is that simple ("it is their fault and I am blameless even as I reward what they do, it is government's fault and I am blameless even if they'r
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It's worth thinking very carefully about your consumption habits re: how they produce waste. The real costs of our devices are often hidden in pretty horrifying externalities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron

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