kleer001

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by kleer001 5y ago
per capita in certain countries but by historical body count alone nothing comes close to those little buggers
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by kleer001 5y ago
Ok, some of those are really pretty. Still, as the number one killer of humans, ever, I'd say that hate is well earned.
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by kleer001 5y ago
> governments rarely do what's convenient for customers or what's in the long term best interest of their citizens let alone the rest of the world. Silly humans.
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by kleer001 5y ago
I would say the loudest voices and it doesn't have to be very many of them at that.
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by kleer001 5y ago
> I was under the impression Why did you have that impression? Was it written down and agreed upon by your employer? Have you talked to your supervisors? I would say to get another gig lined up if there's no movement and then renego
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by kleer001 5y ago
Focus on fixing your own world. Clean your bedroom, make it beautiful. Make peace with your parents and siblings. Read some classic literature. Eat whole foods, mostly vegetables, drink water.
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by kleer001 5y ago
MacOS, once I learned how to use its particular flavor of terminal. Man, good, damn good. Too bad it's tied to the hardware and vice-versa.
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by kleer001 5y ago
ah penny wise and pound foolish vs a penny saved is a penny earned People have been tackling this issue for a long time.
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by kleer001 5y ago
What are you asking? They're a different beast.
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by kleer001 5y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGpFcHTxjZs
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by kleer001 5y ago
Which kind of love? Eros? Philia? Storge? Pragma? Ludus? Mania? Meraki? Philautia? Agape? Platonic? Xenia?
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by kleer001 5y ago
> if Yea, that's not how people work Ever try to rally a disparate group of people across the world where the only thing they have in common is participation in a text based forum? Might as well try to wrangle every species of cat a
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by kleer001 5y ago
> I am in my mid thirties. So young! > Nothing like chronic disease or criminal stuff or drugs. or family thing? Then you're probably fine. Go clean your room. > I hate to see my life go to waste. Then stop wasting it. > I
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by kleer001 5y ago
Require government ID to play? One per account.
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by kleer001 5y ago
I'm going to have left the ecosystem 3 years ago and never look back.
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by kleer001 5y ago
a phone case wallet, I love having one less thing in my pockets back in the day it used to be 1) phone 2) small digital camera 3) keys 4) wallet Now it's just phone & keys. Lovely!
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by kleer001 5y ago
> The purest forms of evil that we know about predate the internet. Correct, but they didn't say that it was only available through that means. This is a difficult and complex topic. I've been thinking about it for years. Going
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by kleer001 5y ago
Correct on both counts. I stopped reading after that spurious claim. I've read enough click baity garbage to know when to bail.
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by kleer001 5y ago
> “It’s so gross that this is what they like to do, as a corporation, rather than help people.” It's not the corporation, it's laws, it's sanitation and accountability, it's logistics. It's far more complex than
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by kleer001 5y ago
Fees and privacy, I suppose.
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by kleer001 5y ago
I Thought Dodo was really good. Galland seems to ground Stephenson's tendency to spiral off into deep rabbit holes and leave the story behind. Fall was good, but looooooong. My trick for reading Stephenson? Audio book.
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by kleer001 5y ago
When in doubt, look to take on more responsibility.
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by kleer001 5y ago
The rare book that I've read three times. That and his Anathem, IMHO, are superlative and make up for his habit of droning on. BTW stay away from REAMDE. His action scenes are awkward and stumbling, without tension or grace.
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by kleer001 5y ago
I bet you're within an order of magnitude. Good calculations.
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by kleer001 5y ago
A critical self evaluation of your personality wouldn't hurt. Check out the Big 5 personality model. Unlike the Meyers Briggs its based on a search for answers in actual data, some call it science. There's plenty of tests out ther
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by kleer001 5y ago
> how people perceive things. ah, but which people? the most reasonable and intelligent people? the traumatized and most sensitive people? The former I'd say yet, the latter I'd say go get some therapy and keep your trauma to y
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by kleer001 5y ago
hmmm, it seems to me that plot is one of the things first communicated about a novel, at least in terms of reviews I read online. But yea, good quote.
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by kleer001 5y ago
> what are the suggestions you have to a sci-fi writer? Write, write, write, then write some more. It's said that every successful author needs to get through 1,000,000 bad words before they start turning out good ones. Doesn'
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by kleer001 5y ago
> Language is complicated. Sure, it's organic, but there's no god-of-the-gaps in there. It is knowable. A language isn't as complex as a human brain. Nor is it living, it can be decomposed at will. Linguists have been work
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by kleer001 5y ago
I'd say they took charge, weaponizing empathy and recruiting useful idiots and powerful cowards.

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