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by phs318u 3y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20230629213854/https://www.nytim...
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by phs318u 3y ago
To be honest, the hardest thing for me to believe with this hypothesis is the possibility of a society that can not only survive for 100 million years, but maintain an interest in a subject for that long.
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by phs318u 3y ago
Without wanting to diss my fellow Australians (though I too was absolutely perplexed by the focus on toilet paper; folks - this is a respiratory virus not a gastro-intestinal one!), perhaps one reason is because we are so far from the rest
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by phs318u 3y ago
You make a lot of good points, but you fail to realise that your points make "failure" or "success" relative to the way people were using the platform. For a Twitter user that spends most of their effort posting low-qual
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by phs318u 3y ago
"Yes, we're all individuals!" "I'm not."
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What we know about the 'catastrophic implosion' of the Titan submersible(abc.net.au)
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by phs318u 3y ago
The five passengers inside the Titan submersible might not have realised it was even happening. The Titan's pressure hull was made of a combination of titanium and a composite material of carbon fibres, described as "very new&quot
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by phs318u 3y ago
There may be a survivor if that person eliminated their “oxygen competitors” early in the piece.
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by phs318u 3y ago
Without being sarcastic at all, the level of hallucinations reported as fact probably won’t change. https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/bild/
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by phs318u 3y ago
FYI from https://www.dictionary.com/e/gender-sexuality/cis/ “Cissexual was coined in the mid 1990s by a German sexologist. He used the Latin preposition cis, meaning “on this side of,” as a contrast to transs
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by phs318u 3y ago
People have forgotten how email works.
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by phs318u 3y ago
A “risk assessment” by customers is typically based on attestations to safety made by the company. If the company is hiding or misrepresenting pertinent information then the customers have been denied the opportunity to make a reasonable as
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by phs318u 3y ago
Can anyone downvoting antonvs please explain why? I think it’s a valid opinion to hold and point to make irrespective of whether you agree.
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by phs318u 3y ago
Haha. I'm so old that the first computer I was introduced to in my first job (it may have been a Data General mainframe; my memory is fuzzy) had a solid copper "ribbon" running along the bottom inside the cabinet, and I was t
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by phs318u 3y ago
Just as well we no longer cargo-cult any practices these days.
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by phs318u 3y ago
So much this. Coding to marketing dictums on the cycle of days/weeks is completely NOTHING like engineering solutions where subtle design issues can make the difference between life and death (or IRL super good thing A and IRL super ba
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by phs318u 3y ago
This exactly. There have been a few tech waves where nerd behaviour was the leading indicator by a few years. Search engine move from AltaVista to Google (yes, I'm old). Laptop move to Macbook Pro's. Ignore the nerds at your peril
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by phs318u 3y ago
Yes. Always the same warning signs, because humans always ignore their senses when they are overwhelmed by the same greed. Always.
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by phs318u 3y ago
Yes. I agree there’s more friction if you’re active in multiple communities. Lurking can sort of be achieved through judicious use of following tags.
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by phs318u 3y ago
> I've always described Reddit to new users as 'a community of communities', because that's what it is. Which is an interesting point to make because that's exactly the experience I'm finding with Mastodon,
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by phs318u 3y ago
Without any further information it sounds like you’re looking for a way to get rich quickly. A less popular option that has nevertheless worked for many people over the long term is work. What you’re describing sounds suspiciously like gamb
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by phs318u 3y ago
This exactly. Furthermore, Mastodon rewards those that want to actively participate in communities. It does not reward lurkers who want to passively (doom)scroll.
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by phs318u 3y ago
> 80 years of global peace and safe international trade Sorry but that's a rather myopic take. A significant portion of the world would claim they've experienced nothing of the sort.
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by phs318u 3y ago
"Best" depends what attribute your optimising. For me, "best" is being entirely independent of an ongoing operational cost which I can't control. I'm covering my entire roof in solar panels and buying the bigge
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by phs318u 3y ago
> Sweden has the lowest excess deaths count in the western world Is that per capita or absolute numbers? Could you provide a reference?
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by phs318u 3y ago
I feel sad for you. Your lessons are good ones but you don’t mention at all whether or not you’ve had any formal mental health care eg therapy, counselling, psychiatry. Without wanting to turn this thread into a flame war on the merits or n
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by phs318u 3y ago
I’ll be honest, as someone old enough to have lived through the animosity, I never thought I’d live to see this. I’m glad they acknowledged the history and bad blood caused by Balmer et al. Rolling their own distro makes sense in that cont
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by phs318u 3y ago
> they own the consequences No. We own the consequences. > the most fair one. The most fair, yes, probably. The fairest? No. Though I’ll admit I’m stumped (though in good company I suspect) as to how to possibly achieve the fairest ou
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Pure democracy as you describe it, even if technically feasible, would still result in tyrannies and terrible outcomes. The biggest problem isn't lack of influence on the laws, it's lack of knowledge, reason, understanding and emp
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by phs318u 3y ago
Strictly speaking you are being judgemental - assuming of course that like most people that say such things without invitation that you’re acting on a limited set of knowledge about that individual and their circumstances. It’s one thing to

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