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by ppf 6y ago
What I am about to say is not supposed to be insulting or personal, just some observartions on relative culture. I spent a while reading the author's stories from the road, and what I found most interesting was the disdain the author e
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by ppf 6y ago
Exactly what I've been saying for years. Public perception of incinerators is pretty poor though.
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by ppf 6y ago
I bought one of those mini keyboard/trackpad things for my own battery powered rpi project. It sucked.
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by ppf 6y ago
There are only colours, comrade. Whiteness is not acceptable. Sounds like you need further education.
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by ppf 6y ago
It's been obvious for a while that the US is primed for its own Cultural Revolution. It's why I ironically support the various West-Coast separatist movements, because the inevitable communist hell hole created would remind folks
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by ppf 6y ago
Detective Barbie is very problematic due to extensive transphobic and gender-normative storytelling. Here at the UCC (University of Corrected Culture), we only allow our students to watch videos of kittens.
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by ppf 6y ago
Oh god people like you are why I left. You all vote progressive lunatics into office then complain when things go to shit.
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by ppf 6y ago
>You're free to move to Portland and join. Unless I'm a bigot, or Californian, right? ;)
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by ppf 6y ago
>From our perspective, you're just some hateful outsider who has no experience living in a society. I'm glad we feel the same way about immigration ;)
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by ppf 6y ago
Of course there is, except I'm sure a lot of the people on that subreddit are also heavily involved in "protesting". There certainly is a selection bias at play in the general population of Portland, too ;) Edit: I also find
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by ppf 6y ago
If you spend any time on the Portland subreddit, you'll see plenty of stories and comments about how the city is just fine, and only Trump fans with an agenda push a "rioting and burning narrative". It's amazing watching
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by ppf 6y ago
Why would you let an online hate mob ruin your real life? They generally have little relation to reality, and there's a decent chance they themselves are just being manipulated and used by others. I do feel that I have a place in some
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by ppf 6y ago
Don't use your real name online. I don't have any complicated privacy best practices, I'm just not on social media and don't use my real name online if I can at all help it. Edit: Sounds like it's too late for you,
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by ppf 6y ago
Exactly. IMHO nuclear is the only way, if we go down this path. And if we do that, then we mostly don't need to bother with wind/solar/grid storage.
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by ppf 6y ago
Removing your energy source (fossil fuel) and replacing with energy storage doesn't fix anything - where does the energy to fill that storage come from? In some hypothetical future where renewable energy is very cheap, it will still be
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by ppf 6y ago
Fair enough, my information might be out of date.
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by ppf 6y ago
I've known for a while that Mozilla's focus is not on producing technically excellent software. However, their latest actions and messages have only accelerated my desire to move away from Firefox - they are now just another &quot
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by ppf 6y ago
As I understand it, the build process for Firefox is now so painful it might be beyond saving.
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by ppf 6y ago
>OTOH, sometimes it just seems unreasonable and absurd. Stuff like, to paraphrase, "Look at the corporate doublespeak in that press release. Fuck Mozilla, I'm switching to Chrome." Really? That's what's got you b
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by ppf 6y ago
I don't think America is anything special in this regard. I think the answer to your first question is "no".
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by ppf 6y ago
True, but can the average person deal with the typical information sources on the internet?
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by ppf 6y ago
If you want to avoid foreign "misinformation" (spin that as you will), this is the only sensible thing to do. Arguably, the citizens of the "free" world are incredibly vulnerable to misinformation campaigns run by foreig
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by ppf 6y ago
I get that for most tweets I open (not logged in - I don't have an account) in my mobile browser. I get a much better success rate if I open it in private browsing mode.
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by ppf 6y ago
>The article just tries to make something easily feasible look futile. Assuming we still need minerals for all the existing stuff we use, then we have to approximately double that just to manufacture enough EVs to replace cars in Europe,
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by ppf 6y ago
Absolutely. The "unsustainable" part of car ownership is not where the energy comes from.
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by ppf 6y ago
>Phony, sensationalisy calculations like you'd expect from a tabloid. I don't think it's so bad - it definitely gives some sense of scale. The UK is just one country - even if you spread replacement over 15 years, there&#x
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by ppf 6y ago
> I'm also now not really European It was a light-hearted comment about a country that was part of Europe and now isn't.
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by ppf 6y ago
Mandating face coverings for everyone who leaves their house is a large-scale change. No, I am not American. I'm also now not really European, so that should tell you where I am ;) Edit: I decided to clarify why I think it is a large-s
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by ppf 6y ago
It's insane to me that people want to make such large-scale changes to people's behaviour based on some anecdotes.
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by ppf 6y ago
"You list a whole pile of things that when looked at slightly differently are net negatives" Granted, but that's true of almost all of any politician's work. Kinda makes the point that it's not all bad, eh? "Am

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