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by morkalork 3mo ago
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2026/07/16/these-dop...
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by morkalork 3mo ago
Looks like a riff of the fake online shopping site. Kinda funny that the premise could be legit: All the novelty seeking and exploration behaviour and none of financial burden (or in this case, calories)
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by morkalork 3mo ago
Multiple layers is a favourable way to say quid pro quo
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by morkalork 3mo ago
Steel on its own is inert and useless, you need to retain the entire downstream manufacturing ecosystem that consumes it. Like cars for example, producing steel but letting all your vehicle manufacturers sell off to foreign owners just so y
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by morkalork 3mo ago
Look, all I did was kidnap the man down the street, lock him in my basement and made his family pay me tithes. Ok, I also cut the gas lines into his neighbours house too and threatened to move in. Ok, ok, ok, I also threatened some of the o
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by morkalork 3mo ago
And if it gets popular enough it can become proper!
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by morkalork 3mo ago
Just going to leave this here as an example use-case: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/she-got-abortion-so-te...
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by morkalork 3mo ago
Are you sure? Most people live in urban centers the last few generations and see few if any stars in the night sky
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by morkalork 4mo ago
I've never seen a glacier before, have you?
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by morkalork 4mo ago
I don't understand because I'm not American but how does New York the city have such powers? At least where I am, cities aren't really "real" in that they are constructs the provincial government creates (and can un
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by morkalork 4mo ago
Money is real. DAU that don't pay subscriptions, or don't lead to paid conversions on hosted ads, are worthless.
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by morkalork 4mo ago
What a difference having proper 5th generation planes makes
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by morkalork 4mo ago
America is leading the way on that one: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/07/two-teens-learn-the-har...
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by morkalork 4mo ago
Just give them some exercise bikes to pedal to keep them physically occupied
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by morkalork 4mo ago
Now that justice by official channels is closed, one wonders if a grieving parent will seek it out by unofficial means
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by morkalork 4mo ago
I believe we're at the point where living in modern society and dodging these abusive EULAs is nigh impossible. Your credit card company, every merchant you interact with, even your employer's payroll processor all sell your data.
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by morkalork 4mo ago
Instacart users should be upset about their data being packaged up and sold. Or maybe there should be half-decent privacy laws that protect them. Otherwise you just get this corporate-orwellianism. Anyways, I wonder if instacart can predict
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by morkalork 4mo ago
What, you don't run through the checkout process on each of 100 different Airbnb listings and compile a spreadsheet of results to ascertain the true prices after fees and charges? That's gotta be the best part of vacation planning
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by morkalork 4mo ago
Did they really think they could record all their employees screens for a couple months and one-shot the agent thing? This is like junior engineer "let's refactor this monolith" levels of delusion.
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by morkalork 4mo ago
I'm still waiting for this theory to demonstrate itself in countries that already have labour surplesses
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by morkalork 4mo ago
Discord and IRC feel like this
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by morkalork 4mo ago
Because the implementation is a shit show?
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by morkalork 4mo ago
Curiously, also taking place in Virginia, I just a local newspaper was bought out and fired their few journalists after they did an investigative piece on a google datacenters being built in the community. February: https://www.r
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by morkalork 4mo ago
In a 6-3 Supreme Court decision..
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by morkalork 4mo ago
The same Ford whose bean counters caused them decades of reputational damage over skimping on rust protection? Seems like they haven't learned any lessons at all.
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by morkalork 4mo ago
Maybe ask Claude how to keep the site up before doing a redesign of the UI...
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by morkalork 4mo ago
You're talking about the EPA yes? Such ridiculousness
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by morkalork 4mo ago
https://xcancel.com/MPSRegentsPark/status/974645778558980096
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by morkalork 4mo ago
I don't doubt that governments also learned from the same incident.
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by morkalork 4mo ago
Well don't worry, it probably wouldn't be us or our progeny going on that adventure

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