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knolax
6y ago
There is no interview, GP pulled it out of his ass.
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I don't have any typographical basis to dislike Comic Sans. I just dislike it because it's ugly to the point of irritation for reasons I can't articulate. I suspect most people dislike it for reasons more similar to mine than
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Have you never met any immigrants before? There's a very stark cutoff age before which learning a language results in no accent and after which the accent is almost impossible to eliminate.
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Ah yes who could forget famous Christians like Aristotle and Caesar.
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Ah yes the two genders: American and Tatar.
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Gmail, YouTube, Google Docs, and other Google services hit by outage
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US police aren't even well liked in America. What makes you think they'd be welcomed in Mexico?
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Somtimes I ask for sources when I agree with someone and want to read more. Asking people to prove their statements should be the default, not something to be denigrated.
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Jesus you can have more than one word in the name of a piece of software. At least call it "Hieroglyph Reader" or something. Can't tell what it does by the name and there's a namespace conflict.
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Maybe it should've been a feat left unaccomplished. Far too often do we have software trying to carry out the impossible task of guessing what the user wants without asking. I don't want the computer to tell me what I want, I just
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And yet nobody ever brings up this objection when it's negative press.
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Have a bunch of kids. One of them's bound to be interested in the family business.
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Top Gear fakes most of the car failures in their videos.
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Wow the Smithsonian Magazine has resorted to reposting Quora answers.
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Citing the same field of study that came up with and prescribed lobotomies doesn't help your point.
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The people constantly complaining about "Russian bots" or "foreign election interference" are always the same ones demanding every other country import western media and social media with no restrictions.
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6y ago
EDIT: I did some research that contradicted my original view.
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Chess is just a convoluted version of TicTacToe. The longstanding idea that it's somehow representative of human intellect is ridiculous.
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Hurdy Gurdies seem to be a much more elegant keyboard instrument to me.
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I loved my mini laptop in middle school. I could carry it around in my pockets and get a full computer.
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I remember somebody bringing up that supposedly people paid large sums of money for low number license plates in Saudi Arabia as "proof" of their vanity. Apparently it happens here too, and probably anywhere else with low number l
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As someone who doesn't play an instrument I simply do not understand the point of a piano or why it is so common. I can kinda understand other string instruments where there's a lot of technique and nuance involved in plucking the
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Scroll down on certain Amazon listings and you'll find similar graphics from the seller. The difference here is that atleast the Japanese ones look nice.
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? It's not a search engine. Did you not even get past the second page.
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Google says it's actually six different K-12 schools crammed into one mega-complex.
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Is that why the US government had to forcibly seize the US operations of an Asian social media platform popular with American teenagers? Those American teenagers were just so enamored with TikTok and all its oriental traditions./s
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The few Japanese websites I've used have been superior to their American equivalents. Kotobank is definitely a lot more pleasing to the eyes than Webster's.
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That's irrelevant to their web design.
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Well I think it's safe to assume that the author believes marriage to exist for the purpose of creating a family (or progeny as he puts it), so he's not solely opposed to gay marriage the legal institution, but gay marriage for th
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