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by speeder 5y ago
What saddens me about that business, is that the criticism against certain voting machine companies in the US is considered "anti-democratic conspiracy theories" while the same criticism against the very same companies in other co
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by speeder 5y ago
Here in Brazil it works this way and unfortunately we found out it is kind of bad idea. We had a couple corrupt parties convince inexperienced people that were wildly popular to run for them, these people (for example one guy is a circus
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by speeder 5y ago
You are correct. Most of the deforestation issue could be fixed with better law enforcement, mind you not just "harsher" enforcement, part of the problem is some previous governments went overboard with it, bothering people that w
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by speeder 5y ago
Apple made not just a "promise", they made an offer, the judge then asked if Epic wanted it, Epic said no. Now Epic is changing their mind now that the judge ruled they did breach the contract, what they were expecting?
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by speeder 5y ago
Most of Brazillian beef came from natural grassland area, "Serrado" Also Pantanal (a kind of swampland of sorts) create some awesome natural pastures, although raising cattle there is harder because of the floods. Amazon Rainfores
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Germany Wants to Force Gab to Censor, It’s Not Happening(news.gab.com)
13 points by speeder 5y ago|5 comments
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by speeder 5y ago
This article made me remember some Sumo shenanigans. Basically Sumo everyone is very heavy because there is no weight class system, when a guy became Yokozuna while NOT being fat, others complained, and the organization had to point out to
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by speeder 5y ago
If I remember there was also the fact they didn't bothered with the usual emergency meetings regarding the atomic bombs because the damage was less than other things USA did to Japan (like firebombing of Tokyo), but they started to hav
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by speeder 5y ago
I never had a blackberry and miss it anyway. I loathe touch screens, you can't call anyone if it is raining, they are fragile, touch keyboard is super fiddly and I hate typing on it and so on. I got myself a Kaios phone but unfortunate
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by speeder 5y ago
Explaining that one: 1. Spartans were proud of their men. 2. Sparta despite being very extreme compared to other Greek cities in a lot of things, was an exception regarding women role in politics, in the sense in Sparta was acceptable to h
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by speeder 5y ago
I wonder why when they found it in 1946 they decided to not use it.
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by speeder 5y ago
Because it IS already an issue. For example when CIA/NSA tools leaked, one of them had precisely this purpose.
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by speeder 5y ago
I had a bizarre issue with that, where I wanted to get married, and to get the marriage license I needed a permanent address that was mine, not my parents. But to rent a place, several of them required me to have a family income that was on
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by speeder 5y ago
I am from Brazil, and Nokia was smashing it, they had a growing market share, the more smartphones got popular, the more Symbian got popular, not iPhone, not Android. Fans even somehow ported Valve's Counter-Strike to Symbian, along wi
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by speeder 5y ago
My personal workstation is still Win7 (+ Garuda Linux). When it becomes impossible to use it with Win7 I still just stick with Linux, Windows 10 is really, really disappointing, and Win 11 is somehow, worse. Thing is, even MS is aware of th
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by speeder 5y ago
Can they do that without sending any telemetry without you having to resort to firewalls, domain control or other stuff not available to the average user?
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by speeder 5y ago
Today also I've been trying to figure out how to disable the "enable iCloud" notification that keeps popping up on MacOS too.
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by speeder 5y ago
Where I live we don't have any tracks. Bikes are impractical, terrain is stupidly hilly, some places even cars struggle. As for buses... they are not useful for me because often the reason why I am taking out the car in first place (us
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by speeder 5y ago
I live in a city with low-ish speed limits and recently they added radars everywhere. It is just a nightmare, because the country is big and hilly, cars tend to have gear ratios optimized to 100km/h, my car is a Peugeot 206 and it stal
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by speeder 5y ago
Actually this is a dupe, it is exace same link
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by speeder 5y ago
Reading those specs... I don't see any reason to buy it. It is worse than my current 1 TB WD Blacks (spinning disk, not SSD). And much more expensive too! I feel disappointed now... I was hoping SSDs would have been improved by now en
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by speeder 5y ago
Is this number correct? SSD with cache full can drop to speeds slower than spinning disk drives?
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by speeder 5y ago
I am abandonware collector of sorts, and one thing I liked is how all major abandonware site happily link to GOG.com when the game is up there.
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by speeder 5y ago
I am from Brazil, living in Brazil, have accounts in Brazil, and so on. And got stuck for a while in a similar loop when I decided to get married. The marriage office wanted me to prove my residence, and it had to be MY residence, not partn
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by speeder 5y ago
For cars stuff is even harder now. EU for example has regulations that make mandatory for all new cars to come with tracking devices and logging of what you do with the car. EDIT: just remembered the name of one of such things. It is "
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by speeder 5y ago
Well... Jesus is also old testament God. People popularly think he is more forgiving than he is, in new testament (he isn't, for example he explicitly says he "brings the sword", he more than once displays he is at least anno
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They thought they were going to rehab but ended up in chicken plants (2017)(revealnews.org)
339 points by speeder 5y ago|264 comments
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by speeder 5y ago
I am currently trying to get used to NOT play on cellphones myself, I don't have children yet but I want to have them soon, and I don't want them to interact with cellphones at all until a certain age. I created a company, named &
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by speeder 5y ago
I get extra annoyed at this because I am not an English speaker and never remember what former and latter means.
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by speeder 5y ago
I will use myself as an example: I have Hashimoto disease, and even treated my metabolism can get so slow that I need to eat so little that I start to have nutrient deficits, for example one of the past dieting attempts resulted in hair los

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