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by lazystar 3y ago
The situation reminds me of the time taxi workers went on strike to protest uber. When union leaders dont understand the product their trade actually sells, the results of a strike can be disastrous.
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by lazystar 3y ago
When the mods said their blackout would be for 2 days, the silent majority rolled their eyes, but did not voice their opinions. Over the years we've all learned that folks who disagree with a mod's opinion will most likely get ba
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by lazystar 3y ago
As an example of why I lurk the majority of the time, the mods in /r/seattle have been perma-banning anyone who posts to /r/seattlewa - the mods have created a situation where each comment has a risk of tripping some unk
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by lazystar 3y ago
There's a silent majority - "lurkers" - that the mods have completely ignored over the course of their tantrum. I've commented more in the past few days than i have in the past few months, because it's obvious the
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by lazystar 3y ago
ah, so the mods plan in a nutshell, is to cut off the nose to spite the face?
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by lazystar 3y ago
that analogy only works if reddit were charging you for each comment you post on their site. A more accurate analogy would be times square selling advertisement billboards because lots of folks congregate in times square.
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by lazystar 3y ago
A lot of folks here will commiserate with reddit's position - Microsoft and Google and ChatGPT are making billions from programs that were built using data gleamed from reddit's API's, and they didnt have to provide reddit wi
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by lazystar 3y ago
brain fog, no smell, and reduced lung capacity. elevated liver enzymes in the bloodwork showed i wasnt crazy. oh, i should mention probiotics helped out too, along with the vaccine. > asking for info, not doubting anything! sure, just
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by lazystar 3y ago
getting the vaccine again, 6 months after covid, is what fixed it for me.
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by lazystar 3y ago
I had a similar mindset as you describe here - but I no longer agree after experiencing long covid. My experience with long covid was made easier because of historical lab data from bloodwork tests that were taken pre-covid when I was a he
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by lazystar 3y ago
eh. that wouldn't have helped me out. before I was put on ADHD medication, I couldn't hold down a job or a relationship for longer than 6 months; starting the process for an ADHD diagnosis was something I'd put off doing fo
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by lazystar 3y ago
companies do this to prevent a social-economic collapse. what's the point of building up a company if there's no society left to enjoy it in?
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by lazystar 3y ago
In other words, cognitive dissonance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance
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by lazystar 3y ago
off-topic, but I'm always struck by how great of a quote that is. I hope whomever came up with it at Dreamworks was given a raise and a promotion after Shrek.
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by lazystar 3y ago
> Somebody thought it was a one-time uplift and was done. That was the mindset back in the 00's - just put everything on a cd or hdd and it'll be there forever, then you can get rid of the bulky source material. Hindsight, of
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by lazystar 3y ago
If youre going to twist my words and ignore my point, why are you on hackernews? This isnt reddit, mate.
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by lazystar 3y ago
I'll defend Lucas til I die. His expanded universe is why I read so many books as a kid, and the huge number of star wars videogames in the 90s/2000s allowed game designers to tinker with different gameplay ideas with the star wa
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by lazystar 3y ago
This same music licensing issue happened to Charmed as well. The opening credits theme is gone; the guest bands that played at the end of each episode are gone. A ton of late 90s early 2000s culture, just... gone. No one who watches that
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by lazystar 4y ago
> The problem with edibles is that the digestive system's metabolism produces way more psychedelic cannabinoids. there is a multi-billion dollar market just waiting for the first person that creates a strain of weed that is resisten
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by lazystar 4y ago
> everything is clearly labelled heh. sounds like youve never been in a weed store. everything is behind the counter - its not like a supermarket beer aisle where you can pick and choose at your leisure before making your way to the che
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by lazystar 4y ago
when you buy a pack of beer, you get 12 cans each with 12 ounces of liquid containing ~5% alcohol. you open a beer, you drink it. when you buy a pack of weed, you get 1 blob of weed that the purchaser has to divvy up themselves, then has t
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by lazystar 4y ago
1000 monkeys typing on 1000 keyboards...
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by lazystar 4y ago
When folks say that marijuana's a safe drug, it's purely in reference to the fact that it wont kill you. 100 shots of tequila in an hour will cause death; 100 tokes of marijuana will not. The problem this results in is an intere
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by lazystar 4y ago
If the players used different golf balls than the fans, it'd be even more difficult
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by lazystar 4y ago
end-of-the-quarter deployments are always high-risk, high-reward. you either get promoted, or you end up front page on the NYT.
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by lazystar 4y ago
the beaurocracy problem.... created to solve a specific need of the people, but once staffed, the goal of the beaurocracy becomes ensuring that its budget increases year over year.
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by lazystar 4y ago
aye, just havin a bit of fun, mate. partly serious, though, because theyll have less input data for english sentences written in all lowercase. your example from the bot is definitely of a lower quality than other examples that ive seen.
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by lazystar 4y ago
> It's utterly antithetical to everything western civilization stands for mccarthyism, the sedition act of 1918, and the espionage act of 1917 come to mind. whatever your understanding is of what western civilization stands for - a
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by lazystar 4y ago
china certainly has influence on reddit though, even with 10%. quite a coincidence how tianenman square and Uyghur posts started getting removed after tencent came into the picture.
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by lazystar 4y ago
"provided by a foreign adversary" is quite a bit different than "provided by a citizen living in a region controlled by a foreign adversary". yes, a russian news site has a vested interest in supporting the russian govt

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