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by netsharc 11mo ago
Yeah, the skeptics and conspiracy theorists want to roll back time and prevent any vaccination at all (or have the smugness of saying "See, we were right, there shouldn't have been any vaccination at all!"), because of a 1 in
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by netsharc 11mo ago
Holy shit, the video demonstration is just toys reading Wikipedia to my ears, ok if you're a Puritan maybe it's blasphemous that kids are exposed to anything about sexuality...
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by netsharc 11mo ago
... In Canada. The website is of a "free market think tank", which other project is a video series called "Survivors of Socialism". Yeah. I guess this is inducing a genetic fallacy, the number might be accurate anyway, b
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by netsharc 11mo ago
Zuck has shown he's more interested in money/power than the well-being of other humans (the "dumb fucks"), he's cozied up to Xi Jinping and Donald Trump. Donald Trump's co-opted the religious nuts that are anti
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by netsharc 11mo ago
Guess who wasn't around when HTML3.2 was introduced... How about to control the color of links, add the color attributes for links in body? https://www.w3.org/TR/2018/SPSD-html32-20180315/#body
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by netsharc 11mo ago
At least it's some evidence that the NSA, nor Zuck/Musk/whoever other fuckwit can provide the information...
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by netsharc 11mo ago
Well, I've called Trump a crook plenty enough times, including here, to qualify as having "Un-American thoughts", that I've excluded myself from being allowed to enter his fascist state. I'm reminded of thumbing thr
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by netsharc 11mo ago
"But only if you're a superior breed..." Epstein was ahead of his times...
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by netsharc 11mo ago
Someone said during the hype of "self-driving cars is the future!" that ICE/driver-driven cars will go the way of the horse: they'll be well-cared, kept in stables, and taken out in the weekends for recreation, on circui
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by netsharc 11mo ago
For example, interview from 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MMifQvuN08 When the Covid-truther geniuses "figured out" that "Bill Gates was behind Covid", they pulled out things like this as "p
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by netsharc 11mo ago
I think, like the Bill Gates haters who interpret him talking about reducing the rate of birth in Africa as wanting to kill Africans, you're interpreting it wrong. The graph says horse ownership per person. People probably stopped buyi
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by netsharc 11mo ago
There are hundreds of examples of crony capitalism in the world, current and past. Now you can study them and see what'll happen in the US in the next few years. "It can't happen here", said the arrogant American...
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by netsharc 11mo ago
Too many people are too obsessed in making some number in a database be as large as possible... Maybe they should just play that paperclip game.
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by netsharc 11mo ago
Adjacently, every plane contains hundreds of social media account owners (ok I'm talking about 737s and larger, not a 4-seater plane). Which makes me wonder if there's a record from every minute of a flight somewhere on social med
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by netsharc 11mo ago
Hard for Steve Jobs to have done this for the changes of the last ~14 years...
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by netsharc 11mo ago
But someone got lazy and all the "Delete" or "Add" icons are identical... There's probably a ticket somewhere to "improve the icons" being ignored..
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by netsharc 11mo ago
I imagine Steve Jobs would've asked to see whoever designed those menues, picked up their laptop and thrown it out the window...
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by netsharc 11mo ago
Maybe he's like Saddam Hussein, being gaslit by his own minions, but in this case the minions are barely functioning word regurgitators...
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by netsharc 11mo ago
There's a news story about such a company where they basically throw the bodies in a chest freezer, or stuffed many of them together in one unit, etc. Nightmare fuel... I have doubts that such a company could keep the power on for the
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by netsharc 11mo ago
I had this journaling notebook: https://www.leuchtturm1917.us/some-lines-a-day.html , but at year 5 I lost the motivation...
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by netsharc 11mo ago
What calendar system have you been using for 30 years, that's survived that long? I think I sent one of those "mails to the future" in the 90's, asking 2002 me how I am. I don't think it ever arrived, or the free em
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by netsharc 11mo ago
I guess in the era of SSDs (vs. spinning disks) and multi-GHz cores, the startup really isn't a big issue anymore? I wonder how long Teams or Slack would take to launch when it's on a 5400rpm disk on a 2000 era computer...
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by netsharc 11mo ago
Huh, with eInk prices, how do customers prove "Wait, the price on the shelf was different!", the store can just change the price as they go to double-check. As a customer you can take a picture of the price, but then it'll be
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by netsharc 11mo ago
Juice boxes are cardboard, plastic and alumunium glued together and a hassle to recylce. But heck, their inventors (Tetrapak) are billionaires!
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by netsharc 11mo ago
Reading the post about how a lot of tech breaks because of the slow internet https://brr.fyi/posts/engineering-for-slow-internet makes me think "Kids these days" (stupid kid coders who can't take into co
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by netsharc 11mo ago
Hah, Kim Dotcom is still around? In the 90s he was bragging that he's this super hacker that made millions, his website posted pics of parties, cars, girls, and yachts, and it turned out those were bought/rented using swindled inv
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by netsharc 11mo ago
A world full of humans being guided by computers would be... dystopian. Although I imagine a version where AI drives humans who mindlessly trust them to be more vegetarian or take public transport, helping save the environment (an ironic wi
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by netsharc 11mo ago
An Apple press release about how much gold they could recover from recycled iPhones pissed me off so much. And all the "journalists" just copied and pasted the number with too many significant digits... It said "Apple recover
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by netsharc 11mo ago
I thought it's because there's no copyright possible on recipes, but there is on the fluff writing... I don't know if it's to prevent mass theft of content (oh no, the thieves would have to go through the text and cut of
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by netsharc 11mo ago
The term is "cognitive offloading". https://duckduckgo.com/?q=cognitive+offloading Sheesh, I notice I also just ask an assistant quite a bit rather than putting effort to think about things. Imagine people who dri

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