lovegoblin

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by lovegoblin 6y ago
> the blocking of AskHistorians What are you referring to here?
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by lovegoblin 6y ago
> The constant stream of useless notifications of the official app is just disgusting. I cannot imagine a world where I would allow reddit to send me any push notifications ever.
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by lovegoblin 6y ago
> Strangely I don’t see it talked a lot about in the context of Diablo 2 at all but it added new levels and 2 more playable characters (barbarian, assassin) to the game and really expanded the pla When people talk about Diablo 2, they ar
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by lovegoblin 6y ago
> If you can manage the ego/personality issues Having to do so is a drag on everyone else's productivity. If it's bad enough, you'll end up also having to deal with a higher turnover - another productivity drag. Is al
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by lovegoblin 6y ago
> would they discover new things that needed providing? ...of course? These programs would (imo) make a better world, but not a perfect one. Just because you accomplish Goal #1 doesn't mean that you can't continue on to striv
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by lovegoblin 6y ago
Reality has a well-known liberal bias.
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by lovegoblin 6y ago
> People don't complain about things they have not used Whew can I get on the version of the internet you're on? Sounds nice.
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by lovegoblin 6y ago
This doesn't answer the question, though. Why?
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by lovegoblin 6y ago
> There is a big difference between "never going to an office again" and "not going in 5 days a week". Yes, but I'd argue there's an even bigger difference between "not going in 5 days a week" an
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by lovegoblin 6y ago
It's not much an aside - Biden did, too.
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by lovegoblin 6y ago
> because something like /r/canada can't easily be replaced. Yeah. As it became more and more clear that /r/canada was modded by reactionary bigots, a lot of people started moving to /r/canadapolitics a
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by lovegoblin 6y ago
> he decided to do something about it But not, apparently, therapy.
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by lovegoblin 6y ago
How lucky for you to be able to avoid these topics, since it is apparently not your life being threatened.
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by lovegoblin 6y ago
> especially since this class includes a significant proportion of soccer moms. What's the relevance here, exactly?
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by lovegoblin 6y ago
I think it's not an attempt at absolution so much as Hanlon's Razor.
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by lovegoblin 6y ago
Don't be obtuse.
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by lovegoblin 6y ago
> What tactics are ok for a company to use to combat unions if it doesn't want them? Won't somebody please think of the companies? :'(
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by lovegoblin 6y ago
> It's really disappointing to see such reactionary comments on HN. Disappointing, yes. Surprising? No.
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by lovegoblin 6y ago
> SJW Hah people still use this term unironically?
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by lovegoblin 6y ago
Being scraped isn't free, if it's at a large enough scale. Plus, it's not just benign read-only scrapers. Have you looked at the spam folder of your email recently? That's what every comment section and user bio and god
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by lovegoblin 6y ago
> CAPTCHA is the worst option, except for all the others that have been tried.
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by lovegoblin 6y ago
Eh there are whole communities of people who do stuff like this as a hobby. There's no particular reason not to believe it.
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by lovegoblin 6y ago
Yes I believe that's the joke.
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by lovegoblin 6y ago
> I'm not sure what changed with COVID, but something has been much worse in the last 9 months. The addition of the constant, unrelenting background stress of a global goddamn pandemic?
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by lovegoblin 6y ago
> Here it might be more often than the author would normally do, but I've seen things like that non-ironically. Maybe not ironically, but doing that definitely adds informality - exactly the kind of out-of-band context that GP is
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by lovegoblin 6y ago
I really strongly recommend 'Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language' by Grechen McCulloch. It's a lighthearted linguistic look at how our written communication has changed over the last couple decades since
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by lovegoblin 6y ago
As precisely as meaningful.
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by lovegoblin 6y ago
> Have you ever heard a dad half-joking about how reluctant he felt to let his daughter go out on her first date? (Or jokes fathers sometimes tell about cleaning guns when first meeting her new boyfriend, etc.) You're arguing agains
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by lovegoblin 6y ago
> getting stuck paying for kids It is telling that this is how you frame "caring for your own children."
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by lovegoblin 6y ago
"Online voting" is a solution in search of a problem. A pencil and paper does the job better, cheaper, and more securely.

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