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by oxide 10y ago
once it hits the mainstream it isn't cool anymore, take Facebook for example. kids hate it now, because grandma, mom, dad and aunt marie all use it. when it comes to social media of any type, if your grandma is using it, you don't
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by oxide 10y ago
The free market in the United States is celebrated by the mouth of those who pass the laws, but often gets beaten by the hand. I don't think my ISP choice is a result of free market capitalism. It seems an awful lot like collusion agai
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by oxide 10y ago
At least it isn't sawdust.
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by oxide 10y ago
You cannot be serious. Suggesting this is somehow equivalent is way off the mark, at best it is grasping for straws. Trump not sitting down with MSNBC to discuss immigration would be equivalent. Barring media outlets is completely unprecede
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by oxide 10y ago
I thought your comment was a joke at first glance, because I often make jokes in this format. It's an actual transcript. I'm a little flabbergasted.
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by oxide 10y ago
No, it isn't a good message at all. In fact, I'd say it's downright ominous. FCC is in the middle of legalizing regional monopolies, DEA is busy banning Kratom in the middle of the worst opiate crisis in decades, and the Whit
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by oxide 10y ago
Oxycontin was suddenly a dollar per milligram when that happened. It seems obvious in hindsight what the result would be. That's 80 dollars for one 80 milligram pill, which is about 6 hours worth of a high for someone crushing and sno
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by oxide 10y ago
If you can believe it, both are true. It sounds like a contradiction, but it isn't as cut and dry as our brains might like it to be, or like a writer might like it to be. They are both over and under-prescribed. Pain is both over and u
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by oxide 10y ago
Personally I am fascinated by marathon cheats. Every time I see a story about someone cheating in a marathon I can't help but wonder what was going through the person's head before, during, and after. I also wonder how often they
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by oxide 10y ago
It's satire. About as perfect as satire gets, IMO. >The Moon does not exist! >This is no lie. Until recently, I, too, believed in the traditional, establishment view of the moon. But any thinking person, untainted by the biases i
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by oxide 10y ago
This is an excellent read, if you're skipping to the comments for a recap, I suggest reconsidering checking out the article. It's a wonderful story of making things up, the reach of early mass media, and the effects of that reach
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by oxide 10y ago
alright, that's a pretty good concept, I'll give you that. Of course not everything there was terrible, but the signal to noise ratio was unreasonable IMO, similar to how Greenlight has flooded Steam's new releases with mobil
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by oxide 10y ago
I didn't mean to shit on them with such a wide log of shit, so to speak. I love indie games, but I think services like Greenlight have been long since abandoned by anyone who cares and have been overrun by pay-for-vote services, shovel
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by oxide 10y ago
Thank you! Sorry, I do confuse the two often. I couldn't remember the name for the life of me, I knew there were two different stores though.
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by oxide 10y ago
I know what 2FA is, but what is U2F? Sorry for the stupid question.
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by oxide 10y ago
Xbox Live Arcade was absolutely terrible on the 360, akin to Steam Greenlight. There were one joke games for a dollar, just like Steam has now. There were overpriced games, bad games, shit games. Stuff that should be shamefully hidden on a
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by oxide 10y ago
Thank you for clarifying some of the mysticism behind all of this. I had no idea QI even existed.
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by oxide 10y ago
I didn't mean to paint with a wide brush, so to speak. I know police as a whole are not evil. I've been let off the hook by police quite a few times, had an officer give me a ride home when I was stranded after walking several mil
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by oxide 10y ago
Wow. That's pretty bad. I have a similar story of inept police and injustice: I have an uncle who is a real piece of work. A druggie who my great-grandparents adopted, raised and supported until they both died. One night he was at my g
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by oxide 10y ago
Will this deter police from retaliating against someone recording them with a cell phone? I can't imagine it will. Police have a lot of options for retaliation, after all. Sure, it won't hold up in court if they take you to jail,
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by oxide 10y ago
I've always assumed my Facebook Messenger (and other private messages) were being monitored or otherwise datamined. Corporate surveillance, with the intention of advertising to me no doubt, or selling what they can learn about me to ad
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by oxide 10y ago
notifications for new drivers are nice, but I'll get around to updating them anyway without notifications. Geforce Experience is terrible. The more invasive it gets, the less I want it installed.
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by oxide 10y ago
IMO you underestimate cartels. It's been back and forth since the start of the drug war. Sure, people walk it over occasionally. They have submersibles, tunnels dug waiting to be completed North Korean style, functional tunnels, etc. I
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by oxide 10y ago
However, it's delicious, comes in stick form, doesn't separate or spoil when I leave it out in a dish at room temperature, and can keep that way long enough for it to be used entirely. No mediocre substitute holds up to real butte
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by oxide 10y ago
The guy looks happy now, though. His kids tracked each other down, he spends his time dead-dropping cookies for later. I wonder what might have become of him had he become a chemist. Nothing remarkable, maybe. Might have been even more mund
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by oxide 10y ago
There will always be abusers. You hear this same thing about food stamps in the US, to the point that Republican lawmakers start calling for big-government style drug testing (at the taxpayers expense) of welfare recipients. Wasteful spendi
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by oxide 10y ago
I've switched back and forth over the years. I'll never switch again. I prefer noscript to scriptsafe, I refuse to browse without a whitelister. I like the fact that the mobile version supports the extensions I see as vital. Chrom
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by oxide 10y ago
I'd love to. oh, maybe we can use one of those automated lawyers! Do they support 'government sold you out' suits yet or is that a couple years off still?
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by oxide 10y ago
Why is this flagged? The flagging feature is not a "hide" button. Try the "hide" feature to make posts disappear.
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by oxide 10y ago
you still get psychosis after not sleeping for a few days, just like with amphetamine IIRC. the brain needs sleep, we aren't sure why, but stimulant psychosis does a pretty good job of proving that you start to break down after deprivi

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