mecha_ghidorah

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by mecha_ghidorah 3y ago
Probably not, if your neighbors have their lights on decent chance you get hit when they miss your neighbors
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by mecha_ghidorah 3y ago
> but Twitter/X's user base will almost certainly increase Genuine question but what are you basing that on? I feel like most big social media platforms that have been around for years Twitter/X is probably at or very near
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by mecha_ghidorah 3y ago
Agreed, if I were to make a "good" Twitter (as in, one that isn't a hellish place) I'd make it so you couldn't comment on any tweets. People could post a tweet, people following that account could view that tweet in
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by mecha_ghidorah 3y ago
> Maybe it would work better if the local government runs the app (contracted out obvs) and bans all the others. I like the idea of that but the issue is software that people have to use with no alternative end up having no real motiva
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by mecha_ghidorah 3y ago
So one of the main features of a Mary/Marty Sue is that everyone seems to really like them and be invested in them immediately. Rey has that (Finn latches on to her quickly, Han starts treating her as a surrogate child very quickly, Le
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by mecha_ghidorah 3y ago
> If Theranos had a little more time they could’ve finished the product and significantly reduced the costs for medical providers, which would almost certainly have meant many lives saved and a boost to the economy. So firstly - that&#x2
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by mecha_ghidorah 3y ago
> As you noted, we're both in Australia, so there's no language or cultural differences here, so I know you're incorrect. The "not okay" in that phrase is the version of "not okay" in "I just got a
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by mecha_ghidorah 3y ago
> Those campaigns exist because domestic violence against women exists with a social and cultural support structure that normalises that violence, and the theory behind the campaigns is that intercepting the support structure earlier mig
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by mecha_ghidorah 3y ago
> It's an expression that someone needs to check in on them, not that they're bad Trust me, in context it was an implication they are bad. I understand that it isn't always used that way, but in this case it definitely was
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by mecha_ghidorah 3y ago
> I would consider myself well-equipped to judge whether these "kill all men" people were "secretly serious" like those neo-Nazis are. Genuinely, they really weren't. I know you have said you don't agree wit
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by mecha_ghidorah 3y ago
> You should not be allowed to register your marque for a class in which you are not already trading. Apple doesn't trade in apples, so their registration application fails (or their lawsuit falls at the first hurdle). Or at least i
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by mecha_ghidorah 3y ago
> if we as society I think right here is where the issue is going to come in. Currently society at large won't be getting that money, it's mostly accreting in the pockets of an small set of increasingly ultra wealthy people
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by mecha_ghidorah 3y ago
I believe they meant "minimum wage always, then with any tips they get added to it", not "minimum wage if tips aren't enough to get them there"
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by mecha_ghidorah 3y ago
I am actually increasingly concerned about the potential for price discrimination to become endemic, widespread, and very impactful. I actually am beginning to think we should be looking into legislating against it.
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by mecha_ghidorah 3y ago
> and used Surely using it is a repetition of it, essentially? I always figured spaced repetition was a tool or help with knowledge you didn't have opportunity to apply otherwise
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by mecha_ghidorah 3y ago
You can, but that's a paper trail. It's harder to push people into doing something criminal over email and slack without being self incriminating
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by mecha_ghidorah 3y ago
You know what? I am positive I am more productive from home but I would still push for working from home even if I wasn't. At this point if you want me at all you have to be willing to let me work from home most of the time. Fuck this
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by mecha_ghidorah 3y ago
That screwed me over, because I rented it and the store had put it in one of their standardized store cases
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by mecha_ghidorah 3y ago
> only if they start immediately Maybe this is a cultural thing, but here it's pretty well understood that people have notice periods built into their contracts. Absolutely no employer would be hiring any staff with any expectation
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by mecha_ghidorah 3y ago
That's silly though because even if they won the lottery they'd probably at least have an exit period while they sorted out their winnings, and you could potentially pay them to work a reduced schedule or something, especially if
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by mecha_ghidorah 3y ago
Maybe page content and location, or at least location in a broad sense (down to a city or state level) to allow for small niche businesses to buy relevant advertising. I.e. The local model train shop buying ad space for users of a model t
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by mecha_ghidorah 3y ago
I am also Australian but I doubt it. Our governments have been pretty harsh on smoking for a while, hell a few years ago Tasmania wanted to ban it for anyone born after the year 2000 (I dunno if that actually passed/is still being look
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by mecha_ghidorah 3y ago
I think for me at least it's the "Force" part of the agency name. It sounds very militarized and American to me where something like "Border Control Agency" wouldn't sound as ridiculous
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by mecha_ghidorah 3y ago
Cadbury's has always been the sort of standard cheap block in Australia for my whole life (I'm in my 30s). Nobody ever considered it especially good (though having tasted Hershey's chocolate it is better than that), but havin
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by mecha_ghidorah 3y ago
Wow the word "Jewish" being present makes it way clearer that those valuables were looted.
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by mecha_ghidorah 3y ago
> So killing, cannibalism and pederasty are obviously imomral. Actually cannibalism is just eating of people, there is no requirement that said people get butchered for it. Someone might ritualistically eat an elder in their community to
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by mecha_ghidorah 3y ago
> see the current wave of anti-racism, anti-slavery, and anti-misogyny as just a silly fad So... I certainly hope that being genuinely anti those things doesn't turn out to be a fad, those things are all bad things and should be opp
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by mecha_ghidorah 3y ago
> You can become a Christian right now. You say this like step 3 is something you can choose to do. I couldn't make myself believe in the resurrection even if I wanted to, in the same way I can't make myself believe in any sort
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by mecha_ghidorah 4y ago
Nah the reason I want twitter to die is I hate twitter and I think it has been a blight upon mankind. It is a bad platform for everything expect announcements/being a pseudo RSS feed yet people insist on using it for discourse and it&#
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by mecha_ghidorah 4y ago
> It’s only up to you to miss 80% of the game in the sense that you absolutely will miss 80% of the game unless you look it up on a wiki. And then when you do them it has basically no impact on anything. ....What? I mean you might miss t

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