sometimesjerks

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by sometimesjerks 3y ago
Are you suggesting that an article about veganism and black creators incites the same level of hate that leads to bomb-threats being called to schools because of a pride flag in a classroom? I fail to see how any of these articles are promo
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by sometimesjerks 3y ago
Ikea just opened a new store + cafe just around the corner from the mall mentioned in the article.
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by sometimesjerks 3y ago
There's some truth to this -- it's 100% the taskbar from 10X, but there's a lot of other changes for 11 (settings, taskbar stuff like volume controller, file explorer). Secondary goal was probably to decouple/undock the
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by sometimesjerks 3y ago
I've seen a lot of misunderstanding about how NPR's funding works, and a claim that NPR/NPR affiliated stations receive $465M. First, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) receives ~$128M for "Public Radio Statio
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by sometimesjerks 4y ago
Other cities have functional trash cans, but every city is unique and the set of problems they solve will be different. In SF the biggest issue is that people are constantly getting into the trash and creating a huge mess, so the cans that
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by sometimesjerks 4y ago
I think this is a really interesting topic because there's a surprising amount of consideration that needs to go into something like this. Most people think "oh, a trashcan, how hard can it be to design one?". Here's a l
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by sometimesjerks 4y ago
Minecraft also supports 3rd party content, skins, gameplay mechanics, etc. There's a lot of things mods can do that official marketplace content can't.
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by sometimesjerks 4y ago
Most HR departments don't approve of managers having sexual relationships (or children!) with their subordinates: it quickly becomes difficult to tell if preferential treatment is happening and presents possible legal problems.
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by sometimesjerks 4y ago
Elon shouldn't be sleeping or hitting on his employees (see: exposing himself to a flight attendant). She's also on the board of one of his companies and held that position for less than a year before becoming pregnant with his ch
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by sometimesjerks 4y ago
> It’s just not practical to allow 3,000 people to customize their pronouns > That same day, he invited employees to join him in a Slack channel called “debate-pronouns” where he suggested that people use pronouns based not on thei