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by pell 4y ago
Where do you see signs of their decline at the moment?
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by pell 4y ago
What about it makes you cringe?
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by pell 4y ago
The website's design reminds me of Windows Vista in a very positive way.
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by pell 4y ago
>For some strange reason the US nowadays is comparable in the percentage of prisoners in USSR in worst Gulag years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_United_States_in ... I don't have an explanation he
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by pell 4y ago
>I personally wouldn't consider Gab far right but I certainly respect your opinion there. A story about how Republican Ron Johnson is a liability because he acknowledges that Joe Biden won the last US election is currently in the to
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by pell 4y ago
Your attitude about people’s serious questions about life work balance.
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by pell 4y ago
It’s not difficult to name shady, unlawful, unjust - you name it - behavior by the US government. It’s not difficult because to find any of it I can simply go to Google and in less than a second I’ll have a list of it all. Try that on Yande
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by pell 4y ago
Yes.
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by pell 4y ago
Which big US tech company is partly owned by the United States government with such powerful decision making capabilities?
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by pell 4y ago
STEM degrees != rational politics
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by pell 4y ago
Comments like these make it appear as if colonialism was just “forced” into an article where it shouldn’t belong. However, reading the actual segment, it seems that it’s not really that out of place at all. It’s talking about how locations
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by pell 4y ago
The Western equivalent is probably braces. They’re not medically necessary in the vast majority of cases and usually more invasive and painful than either nose or eyelid surgery. Yet most people don’t seem to consider them in the same categ
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by pell 4y ago
I think if you address the coward blockage from the get go you’ll keep the upper hand.
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by pell 4y ago
Maybe it’s worth creating a throwaway account and posting the message that way to make sure your point has been made.
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by pell 4y ago
The runtime was definitely a consistent security problem. But the games, animations, etc. people made with Flash did really enrich the internet, I’d say. And Adobe Flash was a powerful tool with a relatively easy entry point for beginners a
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by pell 5y ago
While that is true, Germany is the economical powerhouse of the EU (and the fourth largest economy in the world). I think, these countries' GDPs combined are probably still smaller than Germany's. This gives Germany a special posi
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by pell 5y ago
>It was not nearly as obvious 15 years ago, as it is today, but all the signs were there. We (I include myself here) were just not listening closely enough to the countries that knew Russia the best: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, U
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by pell 5y ago
> You have to... wait for it... have more debt to show that you're good at managaging debt. It is quite a strange system to me from a non-American perspective. A US acquaintance of mine told me their parents signed them up for a cre
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by pell 5y ago
Firefox has fixed a lot of issues in their Quantum release. It removed a lot of what you called bloat as well. In tests it uses a lot less memory on average compared to Chrome. The privacy settings have been extended even further in recent
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by pell 5y ago
According to the theory, gender and biological sex are not inherently tied to each other. You might enjoy reading this essay if you are interested in learning more about this: https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/02/18&
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by pell 5y ago
>The way I see him, he is cheerful, enthusiastic and tries to find joy and fun in technology and computing. I've been following Lunduke since the Linux Action Show days, read his blog regularly, used Illumination Software Creator an
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by pell 5y ago
A few years ago Lunduke kept sharing some views that I would place in the more “reactionary“ spectrum. I’m not sure he ever distanced himself from that. He did interview Danielle a few years back however.(1) So maybe it simply was a careles
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by pell 5y ago
Do you read/consume any news at all anymore?
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by pell 5y ago
>If Putin fails this, it is over for him. Does not have to be the case. If the loyalists around him don't topple him he can sell this one way or another to the Russian public. I think a lot of people outside of Russia think it'
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by pell 5y ago
Strana is a pro-Russian website.
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by pell 5y ago
I think NVC is a dangerous tool in the wrong hands (or mouth if you will). Or to put it a bit more fairly: I think, it’s easy to miss some of the nuance when reading the book and applying its principles without proper nuance. One of its cor
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by pell 5y ago
>but I‘m terribly unorganized I really should call XY is such a common thought that fades away a second later. Even if it's someone I am really fond of. If they're not in my immediate circle, it's going to be additional wo
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by pell 5y ago
> and miss out on a ton of fun and opportunities. This is the actual sentence you are referring to and it seems omitting the "ton of fun" part is a bit disingenuous as it clearly stands against this perceived technocratic and o
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by pell 5y ago
> One can not forget about friends, one can only stop caring. You seem to use forgetting in a sense that is akin to erasing a person from your past, as if they never existed. That’s very drastic. People do forget to reach out not necessa
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by pell 5y ago
I didn’t read this as asset management at all, nor as someone managing their actual friends in a list. It seems more like these are various people who they’ve crossed paths with at some point but who aren’t overly close anymore. It’s a syst

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