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by robonerd 4y ago
Ha, and what bad drinking habits would those be? The popular answer is "drink water", but I didn't do that when I was young and I didn't have hangovers then. These days if I drink two beers and even twice as much fresh
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by robonerd 4y ago
I believe that everybody has the capacity to be creative, and those who think they don't are impeded not by a lack of creative spark, but rather by their own inhibitions and belief that they aren't creative. Part of this is cult
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by robonerd 4y ago
> "Allow list" is frankly a much more descriptive and easy to understand term than "white list". Only if you're pretending we were all learned English yesterday. "White list" is an older more establi
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by robonerd 4y ago
I think the point above is that many of the women who get called TERF are scarcely feminists at all, let alone feminists who believe in a radical reordering of society. Many people accused of being TERFs are actually conservative women wh
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by robonerd 4y ago
The Chicago thing is because every summer the national media see fit to report on local crime news from Chicago every time they have an eyepopping number of homicides a week, which is most weeks. I've never lived in Chicago and I don&
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by robonerd 4y ago
> "Local influencers" needs to become a thing, if it isn't already. That's the answer to the local news problem If that's the answer, then I hope the whole industry curls up and dies now. If you want me to pay
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by robonerd 4y ago
> Or maybe it was already in decline and Trump times just made it that much more evident. I think it's this one. Local news has been in a death spiral for 20 years at least, I distinctly remember adults in the late 90s and early
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by robonerd 4y ago
> If you’re a man, don’t make laws for women. Let us vote on it ourselves. That's not how universal suffrage works.
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by robonerd 4y ago
They can get smaller than that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microplastics#Nanoplastics
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by robonerd 4y ago
Consider that the downloads page for this site tells you to use their tor hidden service. If you open http://pilimi.org/ in Tor, you'll go through an exit node that could be MITMing everybody opportunistically, not ta
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by robonerd 4y ago
It's not terribly uncommon to find an epub with several megabytes of cover art and a few hundred kilobytes of text.
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by robonerd 4y ago
They could serve you javascript that exploits your browser. At the very least, they could replace that bitcoin donation address with their own. That's a tempting target if nothing else.
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by robonerd 4y ago
> Let me say tick diseases are going bonkers and a lot of people don't know they have it. Plus a lot of doctors won't believe or authorize tests. The existence of Chronic Lyme disease is very controversial and diagnosing it c
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by robonerd 4y ago
If there are any synthetic textiles in your home, it's probably a lost cause; plastic dust everywhere. Every time you eat, drink or breath, you'll be taking more in.
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by robonerd 4y ago
Did Roblox go to the police with this?
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by robonerd 4y ago
Medical leeches are used to encourage blood flow, particularly after reconstructive surgeries; the benefit is not from the leech sucking your blood, but from the bleeding that continues after the leach is removed. (Their saliva has anticoa
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by robonerd 4y ago
> As I understand it, it's mostly a casino for children, complete with its own currency, and it offloads most of the labor of content creation to the kids and then pays them in company scrip. From what I understand, it's a sa
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by robonerd 4y ago
> For a text-only blog If somebody MITMs it, they can serve you anything they want.
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by robonerd 4y ago
> We will release the data in stages, as we are still processing the files. Right now the metadata file and a few of the torrents are available. Note that the torrent files are only available through our TOR mirror. Presently, only the
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by robonerd 4y ago
It apparently comes with a index in the form of a MySQL database that contains title, author, description, and filetype.
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by robonerd 4y ago
> Moderation is hard work, expensive, and doesn’t scale. And yet they are seeking the power to ban people from playing on their own private servers. It's a blatant power grab, but I guess it not real authoritarianism unless the
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by robonerd 4y ago
Roblox alleges that, but he denies it. Is there any public evidence against him? There is ample public evidence of malfeasance from Roblox, so their word alone is worth less than dirt.
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by robonerd 4y ago
If you think a corporation like Microsoft isn't attracted to power, you're nuts.
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by robonerd 4y ago
> FWIW, I just assume that any data in the "cloud" is up for grabs to the highest bidder, with any service, no matter how "privacy-oriented" they are today. Microsoft intends to turn Minecraft into snitchware that w
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by robonerd 4y ago
> You will own nothing, everything you do is surveilled on which means zero privacy, pay that monthly subscription fee (which can change at any time) With minecraft it's worse than that; a game I 'bought' years ago fro
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by robonerd 4y ago
Authoritarians always cite "bad actors" as their pretext for seizing more power.
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by robonerd 4y ago
Behavioral, not prescribed? But how can the medical industry monetize tha- > "eye exams, eyeglass prescriptions and cataract surgery" ...nevermind.
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by robonerd 4y ago
I said Europe, not EU, and wikipedia lists Russia on their page for Europe so that's good enough for me.
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by robonerd 4y ago
'Serious' is a subjective qualifier that is doing a lot of work in your comment. But yes, I have met quite a few people who believe abortion should be flat legal, no qualifications or conditions. A lot of rhetoric about fetuses
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by robonerd 4y ago
Russia permits later abortions on a case-by-case basis.

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