mikrl

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by mikrl 4y ago
I remember vine from my undergrad and cannot see how tiktok is different, yet… I know a bunch of tiktok users and vine went the way of the Harlem shake, side parted hair and tribal print on everything.
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Technical and security issues aside, I wonder how the users are going to take it. My generation (1992) didn’t have a major cultural phenomenon being attacked in this way, though there was still the moral panic around things like social medi
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Here lies SBF Magnate of coins Hooverer of phet Legend of League Pinner of weasels
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I’ll take baffling as a compliment. The opioid thing is relevant because lots of people I grew up with in my home city fucked up their lives, and I’d have done the same had I stayed because social networks, living in poverty, decay and hope
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> But yeah. As an LA native, I don’t have much reason to leave. Are houses cheap in LA? Aren’t a bunch of people leaving California for cheaper property inland?
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Not everyone has the resources or means to stay where they are. The Great Recession flung people far and wide. I am not disagreeing with you though, just two sides of the issue re resources.
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In my experience, moving is related to aspiration. If I stayed where I grew up I’d honestly likely be an opioid statistic and definitely not doing anything worthwhile with my life. I still keep in touch with a few people from youth who didn
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> we are highly developed animals first, then rational minds second I feel this. People I interact with all day everyday remotely I have trouble relating to. Where I’ve made new friends recently we have gone out maybe once or twice, shar
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I agree with you 100% and am not afraid of vocalizing similar things to a hyper capitalist audience. However, I don’t see the way out unless the social safety net is strengthened (not gonna happen) or we just ban rich people from starting c
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Last time I played DF I would just compulsively keep going until 1-3 AM despite having to go to work the next day. I had had a normal sleep schedule before that bout, and was otherwise a functional and responsible adult. I’ve been waiting f
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I bet their petitioning elected official licenses were expired.
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Something like group/ring theory needs to be abstract. In fact, many practical applications of those things are themselves in applied math and physics. Something like differential equations or the calculus of variations is fun for exam
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I constantly get told off by my boss for trying to be too clean and extensible at the expense of timely delivery (ie yesterday) but I am also the socially connected engineer who knows who’s good at what, and how to butter them up. In my min
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> The charismatic guy who plays office politics and tries to make everybody their pal might score highly here, but the smart engineer who just sits down quietly and churns out good features might be forgotten. Well it is a software engin
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>women naturally flow to careers more in line with their strengths Explain what you mean by this, without making a hacked butcher job of it. I’ve got a fresh drink and plate of snacks, I’m actually giddily excited to see how you do (and
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6. Spiralling ;)
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> You can disagree with Nietzsche: do so in the realm of philosophy, not in that of biography What you’re implying is that considering the circumstances of life is ad hominem, which I do not agree with. I’d argue that you cannot truly un
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>ultimately, confusing the author personal life with his ideas, or reaching conclusions between the two, this is mainly garbage Hard disagree. You cannot truly understand a person’s thought without understanding the person’s life. Even a
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They were all from Oxbridge and the weirdness specifically satirized British culture of the 60s and 70s. It just so happened to be universal enough for an American audience to appreciate “a bunch of dudes in dresses being weird for weird’s
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I watched it in my teens and had high expectations for student life. My first place (2012) wasn’t a disappointment, I lived with a hardcore feminist arch-hipster, effervescent gay couple and an overworked everyman grad student. This was in
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> Developing an understanding of your sensations and emotions is important There are pleasant social side effects from doing this but sometimes being so in tune can affect you in weird ways too.
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> It just seemed to me like, “Well some people don’t like other people.” I didn’t even realize it was against the Jews. This is one of the most fascinating parts of the Nazi rise to power to me. The sheer mundanity of it all. So many que
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It’s never an album I like to listen to on repeat (compare with flavour of the day hyperpop album) but I come back to it every year or so and it blows me away. Last time was recently, on a long transit ride through Toronto and it set the sc
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Would you say the GoF are more descriptive than prescriptive? That is, not “do these to write good code” but “well written code looks like this”
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> Debunk if it need be Fascists are very good at subverting this process so I wouldn’t count on it. I do believe visibility is good though re: the Streisand effect, and, of course, making them more visible to anti-fascists is good praxis
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Every IM I send has an immense emotional toll for some reason. Everyone is overworked and you’re another distraction, you feel like a giant asshole and then project that they’re a giant asshole too until you enter the emotional doom spiral.
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In the spirit of coming up with solutions when you criticize… what are you doing? You’re not in the news to my knowledge…
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Ahh, been a while since I’ve been able to use the British English term ‘swot’ - she’s such a swot - I need to swot up on this - don’t be so swotty - look at that swot with his books
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I’m sure there is at least one 4channer or serious cybercriminal reading this page and learning something they didn’t know before. Then again, am I the crazy one for shredding my mail? Maybe I should scan it and put it all on my GitHub.
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The republicans in the WW1 era were the more liberal of the two parties, no? The democrats at that time were reactionary populists AFAIK and “the left” would probably have been smaller socdem, demsoc and communist parties, as well as labour

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