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by spurgu 2y ago
That sounds like your ideal. Mine would be when there is no authority that says which plants or substances I can put in my body. I don't want/need an authority to enforce "what's best for me".
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by spurgu 2y ago
He clearly doesn't mind police states.
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by spurgu 2y ago
That's fair, but it's only part of it. The issue of "stage fright" still exists and can't be mastered just by practicing your craft to proficiency in solitude. There are other practices, like literally going on stag
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by spurgu 2y ago
Very much agree. The vast majority of Americans have never even witnessed a gun fired in public. Which is crazy if you think like a European might: "If everybody had guns then bad people would just shoot other people all the time"
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by spurgu 2y ago
Difficult to practice with your head full of adrenaline.
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by spurgu 2y ago
It seems like there should be an organ that catches there kinds of overreaching laws immediately when proposed. Monitoring the communications of private citizens is simply wrong for various reasons. There's no way shit like this should
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by spurgu 2y ago
If there's a force, which is clearly not that of an informed populace, that keeps banging on these kinds of doors and all that it takes is that some idiot opens it once , you can see how it's a natural response to stop relying on
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by spurgu 2y ago
Just vote harder?
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by spurgu 2y ago
Thanks, I'm blocking JS by default so didn't have any problems reading the article.
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Societies with little money are among the happiest on Earth(scientificamerican.com)
4 points by spurgu 2y ago|2 comments
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by spurgu 2y ago
Ding ding ding.
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by spurgu 2y ago
Who would then make sure that laws are constitutional?
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by spurgu 2y ago
I'm sorry for your loss. Edit: I feel a bit dumb now, I hadn't actually read the article yet, went straight for the comments. Seems like I'm just reiterating what it says. When I'm in that shape I just wanna go in peac
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by spurgu 2y ago
Reminding NATO countries to adhere to the 2% of GDP spending stipulated in the terms of the alliance is "throwing NATO under the bus"? Or did he do something else I'm unaware of?
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by spurgu 2y ago
Yeah I've had laptops with various hardware layouts and don't really care, other than I prefer a Nordic layout on Macs where the Enter key is tall rather than wide. But it's a trivial adjustment.
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by spurgu 2y ago
You're thinking of ear training software. Lots of those out there. Your ear (the ability to recognize intervals, scales, chords, chord progressions, rhythms etc) is one of (if not the) your biggest asset as a musician. And it's th
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by spurgu 2y ago
I never trust e-tickets either but I save mine as photos. Quick and easy to access. Photo gallery works without an internet connection. Plus photos are synced to the cloud so this way if I have a phone emergency I would also be able access
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by spurgu 2y ago
Secrecy implies that data exposure is what's at play.
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by spurgu 2y ago
Mine too and same here, I catch up a couple of times per year spontaneously. I love solutions that are "human sized" and not dependent on a global scale civilization. Humanity would be in so much better shape if we learned to be c
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by spurgu 2y ago
Who says anything about reversal? It's not using the latest and greatest tech, but some kind of minimum required to do the job of delivering those articles to a wide audience.
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by spurgu 2y ago
Yup. Using the early internet required a moderate amount of intelligence. The current internet does not. And now when things are being optimized for the lower 50% of the bell curve it results in things looking a lot different. The early int
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by spurgu 2y ago
Wouldn't the analog counterpart be the postal system? They have no right to poke in your private communications. Edit: That said postal systems are generally owned by the government. So I suppose ultimately (if nothing else) it would b
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by spurgu 2y ago
Yup. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
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by spurgu 2y ago
That's not what he said.
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by spurgu 2y ago
Exactly the same experience here. Gave DDG a go, then ran with Brave Search for a couple of months, then discovered Kagi and never looked back.
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by spurgu 2y ago
Band practice? Edit to clarify: I cannot fathom live collaboration over the internet when even 15 ms lag is annoyingly noticeable (10 ms latency with a midi keyboard seems like the cutoff for me personally at least).
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by spurgu 2y ago
It was very usable with custom lists up until recently. Their help pages still reference the ability to browse updates from custom friend lists (at least when I checked a couple of weeks ago) but the actual feature has been dead for a while
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by spurgu 2y ago
From a user perspective Facebook's feed is spam. You used to be able to see a custom feed of a selected friend lists but since they removed that option the site has been completely unusable, unless perhaps you do something like remov
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by spurgu 2y ago
Good point. You're isolating your logged in session but not the fingerprinting.
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by spurgu 2y ago
The solution there (adding an exception for x.com) works. I already had Twitter containerized. https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1ctxa3v/twitterxit...

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