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by nullcontext 3y ago
This one time on an episode of Survivorman, Kalahari iirc, I watched Les Stroud use a hole in the dirt and a clear plastic tarp covering it to act as a solar still. The condensation from his pee in said hole ran off to a collection containe
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by nullcontext 3y ago
Also remember that time Microsoft said confidently that Windows 10 was the last version of Windows? https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/7/8568473/windows-10-last-ve... "Microsoft could opt for Windows 1
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by nullcontext 4y ago
I don't think you should be able to patent life in any form. Nature should be inviolable when it comes to man profiting from holding its reins.
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by nullcontext 4y ago
Meanwhile those of us dumb enough to wind up with TCL Roku TV's have lost (well I have lost personally): - All app sideloading. Bye Pornhub app, you died too soon. Roku uninstalled the apps sideloaded from my tv's the day this cha
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by nullcontext 4y ago
And why Friendster didn't and how FB kneecapped and murdered MySpace in a back alley and got away with it.
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by nullcontext 4y ago
Once upon a time we had Lotus Sametime in office for IM communication and we liked it. It was good. It worked and didn't have dealbeaking quirks or fails. I miss Sametime, always have. Lync was not perfect, and Skype for Business even
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by nullcontext 4y ago
Clearly because they've done a poor job of integrating and then forcing adoption of the stickers and gif inputs. They should've threatened to call forth a Skypening if the users failed to enthusiastically and relentlessly toss que
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by nullcontext 4y ago
They used to call it "Adam" when it was sold openly in Dallas, TX bars before it got emergency scheduled and banned in '85. Only had a brief year or so legally before it called down the crackhouse on its popularity then was b
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by nullcontext 4y ago
Best TIL of the day, thanks for noting that!
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by nullcontext 4y ago
As an old head, lifelong Junglist and retired long serving Minister of Raves for the Party People Party, this is thrilling to hear. Please pass the MDMA, whatever Dutch doublestacks bearing a high dose warning (yes, a real label for 250mg+
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by nullcontext 4y ago
Yeah but why haven't I been blocked yet for [b]commercial use suspected[/b]?
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by nullcontext 4y ago
No. I posit humanity has never left a glass half full. Just wait for the deepfakes to utterly destroy video as a means of common representation of reality when it crosses the threshold of too often faked to be generally believed without ind