mikrl

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Did you name the app after the bublik, the bagel’s European predecessor, enjoyed from Kraków to Kyiv to Krasnogorsk and beyond?
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Hey! Here that’s called ‘enshittening’
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I don’t know the original source, but it is the intro to one of the tracks on The Prodigy’s 1998 mixtape ‘the dirtchamber sessions’ “Do you remember the days, When Kool Herc played, With a following of bands? If you don’t, well then you won
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Computers got seized. Intersects heavily with data security people who work on encryption, availability, digital privacy, civil rights, etc
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Based on the videos I’ve seen of the protests, Israelis are on par with the French for the… spiritedness of civil disorder.
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Who even gives out letters of marque these days?
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Back in the day there were some 4chan bait threads to the same effect (make your own crystals!) and some kid actually died (apocryphally of course)
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>are you saying that people who don't want… are behaving in an entitled manor? It’s not about entitlement, justice or any of that. This is capitalism. It is about raw power and pragmatism and what one can get away with. When the emp
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> feels differently when they turn 35 I’m actually not salty about the taxes I pay (Ontario, Canada) I’m salty that I seem to get sweet FA for them compared to similar rates in Western European countries. Seems like a problem with govern
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Ironically enough, it was never even intended to be a magnum opus or a legacy. Just some jottings, and notes to help him think things through while on campaign or holding court. Yet we read them 1800 years later and aside from the parts abo
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>That's for eternity As Marcus Aurelius frames it, everyone who cares now and will care in the future will themselves die and go to nothing in time. What is a blink of glory in this life is nothing in the grand scheme of things. Two
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It is the final frontier for a lot of the transphobic rhetoric out there. If an XY person can give birth, it makes obsolete any jibe or argument based on genetics or ‘biology’
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2 days in office to see people, do all of the simian interaction stuff and get a break from my house. 3 days at home at my tricked out workstation that no IT department would ever give me an allowance for. Low stress because I can run small
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Metaphysical fecalmorphosis.
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The paywall is too damn high!
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The worst kinds of companies - will expect you to do the thing - won’t tell you how to do it - will ignore you or get mad if you ask how to do it - will punish you for figuring it out yourself It happened to me somewhat recently (I’m out of
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Most of it exists to sell you stuff and make people money
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>If Google, YouTube and everywhere else starts asking you to pay high subscription fees for using their services, are you willing/going to pay? Based on my rudimentary knowledge of microeconomics, it depends on how much they charge.
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Hacky Doodle went to VCs “make it lean and bony” Fired 12% of staff And called them hackeronies
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What, you don’t want to spread the good word of our lord and saviour… software???
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Do Toronto next! It should involve an otherwise emotional, feeling, social and empathic creature dissociating into a cold, atomized, post-social entity with the uncanny ability to tune out the world and everything in it as it buzzes towards
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I used to poke around ruined castles (just a few walls left) in the UK and they were typically a sea of stinging nettles. Also, stinging nettles make wonderful soup.
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Best to always ask which family? Supportive, abusive, dysfunctional, a mafia with constant internal power struggles…
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Now you have Digital, in the same complex that houses a biotech research lab (the Life Sciences Centre, formerly the Centre for Life)
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It seems the liberalization approach is failing in a few places. Part of me knows that it’s because only the most surface level feel good things are being done, and we are just helping addicts stay addicts (and alive!) instead of treating t
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More reasonable would be a ban on trading, if not ownership. But then again, lawmakers would just advocate positions in favour of their static portfolio. It does seem better than the status quo of ‘extremely lucky’ returns though.
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These traits do seem to bring more success which often comes from exploiting others and being socially predatory. However, there is no free lunch, so these traits themselves must also be exploitable. What psychological profile would be most
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So you don’t think that having a shorter history of certain workers rights is also a proxy for current workers rights? That you can just wave a magic legal wand and go from zero to workers paradise in 25, 50, 100 years?
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The UK has only had a minimum wage act since 1998. So it might be better now, but taking a larger context window… not so much. However, the social benefits around leave etc are definitely better but this is perhaps because of a more homogen
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I must have randomly selected the 5 least suitable parking garages downtown then. I was happy to burn gas for another few minutes to find one that… I could actually pay for… but the consensus of my passengers was to just go home. This was a

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