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by prepend 2y ago
It’s ok to have groups of people with common interests that not everyone likes. It’s not about excluding people, it’s about including some people. Would you complain if the backgammon club doesn’t play polo? Is that excluding polo players?
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by prepend 2y ago
I think acronyms (or initialisms) are a form of community enforcement. If using jargon to reinforce that people in the group understand. Or maybe that’s my best interpretation. As it’s also just faster to type PNW than Pacific Northwest and
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by prepend 2y ago
It’s funny to think I’m picking a hill, just by pointing out an observation. It seems like hyperbole to say my comment was picking a hill to die on.
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Obviously we are all still in your dream. Please hold on asleep as long as you can as I treasure my existence and don’t want it to end.
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> One of the things I miss from the pre-streaming era is that “nobody” listens to whole albums at a time anymore I’ve been looking forward to finding out how Aphex Twin has built projects around the streaming format. It may take many mor
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by prepend 2y ago
It’s their job. I “forced” them to be part of my project of making collect calls hundreds of times.
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by prepend 2y ago
It’s a term of familiarity. I don’t think it’s about efficiency of speech. Nicknames aren’t always about shortening names.
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by prepend 2y ago
Reminds me of Geoff Darrow’s artwork on Frank Miller’s HardBoiled, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_Boiled_(comics)
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by prepend 2y ago
“Ya’ll” is the spelling used by carpetbagger poseurs.
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by prepend 2y ago
Sorry, if I’m paying you for a service I want no ads. I don’t like ads. They don’t help me. They make my life harder. I’ll tolerate them in some situations, but if I pay you then I should not see an ad. If you want to show an ad, that you c
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by prepend 2y ago
Strange. The link just opened in mobile safari for me. It’s frustrating that people have such divergent experiences with the same site.
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by prepend 2y ago
In my family, we read novels on the toilet. It’s worked out well for 60 years or so with nary a hemorrhoid. Maybe lucky genetics or something.
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by prepend 2y ago
Books? I fondly remember the tradition of a stack of books on the back of the toilet. Sort of the same issue with phones, but every book or magazine has a distinct end.
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by prepend 2y ago
I think it’s funny how in the US the vaccine schedule says not to get the HPV vaccine if you’re over 45. That means that insurance won’t cover it and I even struggle finding a doctor who will administer it because it goes against the guidel
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by prepend 2y ago
Definitely not. It’s the weighing of the population’s subjective preferences. It’s quite literally each voter’s perspective and choice that matters. Hopefully, subjective preferences are based on objective facts and reality. But who can rea
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by prepend 2y ago
For purposes of GP's example, yes, the entire population eats Little Caesars. Even worse, my Kombucha went from $3->$4. But, GP's example vibes with pretty much all food prices I've seen. McDonalds went from 2 for $3 to $3
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by prepend 2y ago
> A more appropriate comparison would be with the German Weimar Republic, where a charismatic leader managed to overthrow democracy This doesn't resonate to me. The conditions in the US are so different than the German Weimar Republ
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by prepend 2y ago
I would love to move to Galt's Gulch. Sadly, I'm not worthy enough to be selected for inclusion. It's an enticing idea of just moving away to live with all the other smart people. The trick is being smart enough to fit in.
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by prepend 2y ago
This is an interesting statement. To follow it, if the problem is the electorate, how do you think you fix that if the electorate is the one who gets to choose. Do you think it would be better if we used some other system than democracy, so
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by prepend 2y ago
Changing number of representatives would require a constitutional amendment and that wouldn’t have passed with enough states. I don’t think number of representatives matters as it’s mostly representative of population. If the ratios are the
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by prepend 2y ago
Gavin Newsom tried.
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by prepend 2y ago
Or perhaps if they had used democratic practices and let the constituents of their party actually vote to choose who they thought was best suited. Biden pulling out so close to election didn’t let them actually go through their process to e
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by prepend 2y ago
> literally I do not think you know what this word means.
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by prepend 2y ago
I think it’s more about taste being subjective. So if my “better” cake is actually less preferred, then it’s not actually better. Making an objective statement about subjectivity is kind of silly in the first place. Then losing shows it to
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by prepend 2y ago
You may be confusing what happens with a phone with what is required. Certainly kids can have a social life without a phone. It’s not required. I just had a kid who didn’t get instagram until 14. They claimed that their life was ruined, but
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by prepend 2y ago
Yes, obviously. As long as the drug is available and the earth exists, etc etc Therapies are contingent on being available. That’s uniform. What’s unique about glp-1s is that they are very effective in weight loss and many other things. As
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by prepend 2y ago
I think a free project that’s someone’s passion is a better long term fit than $5 app that eventually gets monetized by adidas or something.
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by prepend 2y ago
Students or OSS
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by prepend 2y ago
Perhaps. Can’t afford books and friend trips, spending on buggy AI scanners.
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by prepend 2y ago
I think it’s a good exception case for the 1% of false positives.

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