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by palmotea 2y ago
> Did you forge[t] to add /s or were you actually expecting Musk to be transparent and truthful? Do you remember all his promises about full self driving Teslas? He's one of the most honest and truthful people in the world, and
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by palmotea 2y ago
>> One of the first things you can do with any of these kinds of lists is to see if they recommend Firefox over Chrome. It's an excellent shibboleth, because Firefox codes (rhetorically) profoundly more activist- and privacy- fri
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by palmotea 2y ago
> The Mount Lyell shrew (Sorex lyelli) is 9 to 10 centimeters long and weighs between 2 and 3 grams, according to the researchers' measurements. That's got to be a typo...
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by palmotea 2y ago
I wonder if that's more an issue with them than you. I subscribed to peacock for one month during the Olympics, and it was terrible. Streams frequently were stuck at something super-low 320p, or just halted to that stupid sad cat error
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by palmotea 2y ago
> How do you clean up a corrupt organization? 1) The US government isn't "corrupt." It might be inefficient, it might be bloated, but it isn't generally corrupt. 2) You definitely don 't try "clean up corru
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by palmotea 2y ago
> is your argument that protests do nothing, therefore people should stay home? Or maybe something else that isn't a protest? Not sure what that would be, but protests are traditional but seem very performative and ineffectual. Hone
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by palmotea 2y ago
> I don't agree with everything the president is doing, but the rail we are going down is just doomed. What is your proposition to stop interest from eating 100% of the federal budget. We just paid 1T of interest, do you think that
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by palmotea 2y ago
> Managed Dissatisfaction, FOMO, Abundance: And the users want it. That's what the data shows Correction: the users don't "want" it, but many of them aren't strong or wise enough to resist those features. The (
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by palmotea 2y ago
> Retention is a terrible metric for a dating app. The "perfect" dating app would have a 0% retention rate since the first person you meet would be your "ideal partner". A terrible metric for the users . For the shar
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by palmotea 2y ago
> The president is fascist because he's, checks notes... , relinquishing governmental power by shutting down agencies? You do know the president is not supposed to have that power , right? His job is to execute the law, which as c
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by palmotea 2y ago
> sure, making the government smaller is basically the same as putting the government in control of everything. Come on. A "hostile takeover and dismantling of our democracy" is completely orthogonal to the size of government
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by palmotea 4y ago
Honestly, it sounds like a good idea. You already have to show ID to buy cigarettes or alcohol, and social media is at least as harmful to kids.