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by suction 5y ago
Those screenshots are empty. Still waiting for any kind of evidence that that user was "shadowbanned" as you say.
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by suction 5y ago
Let's be honest, 99% of the average American's knowledge about Spartan society is from the movie "300". But it never stops being amusing when Americans have their "wait, those Hollywood movies are not even 1% histor
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by suction 5y ago
I don't have any such settings enabled, and I saw his comment...as well as all his other comments.
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by suction 5y ago
Tesla is a joke / scam
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by suction 5y ago
I agree that using sunglasses, the brightness of the chars on some dark themes becomes much less of strain.
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by suction 5y ago
I had thought this to be true, but in certain startups with a certain culture, using a light theme will make you look like Dinosaurus who's not able to keep up with the latest tech trends. I know it's dumb, but it is reality in so
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by suction 5y ago
If one's taste is slightly off-mainstream Shazam won't find many of the tracks you aim it at, for instance older electronic music from the 80s and 90s.
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by suction 5y ago
That's in itself a very Japanese thing - making a big declaration, that you "will retire for good, no coming back, ever", but let 3-4 years pass and you're back as if you've never made the declaration. Also happens
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by suction 5y ago
Disney is for little kids. Ghibli is for older kids.
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by suction 5y ago
I think WhatsApp is especially popular in countries where SMS messaging was the number one means to communicate before smartphones. No idea why WhatsApp in particular won the messenger race, I don't like it and think it's a bad pi
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by suction 5y ago
I don't live in a big city or even in a super-internet-embracing country like for example South Korea - but even in my neck of the woods, dentists, doctors, vets, barber shops, car mechanics, contractors, etc. all have shifted to messa
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by suction 5y ago
Me too. I consider it rude to be called on my phone, actually, even by people I know.
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by suction 5y ago
But in order to pull it off, they had to ask you for a secret over the telephone at one point, which you gave them, correct?
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by suction 5y ago
The goal is to have a pleasant life with as little worry as possible. Nothing else.
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by suction 5y ago
I know someone who works in the music industry and recently got a new boss, coming over from Booking.com - and guess what since that guy started, the new priority on the agenda is to introduce dark patterns in the company's online offe
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by suction 5y ago
Tech literacy would help a great deal saving our democracies. Nobody needs to know command line, but to be able to tell if you're on a Russian disinfo website or a legit source of information is also (but not only) a matter of tech lit
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by suction 5y ago
Does this also explain why alphabetic text in Japanese apps and websites often looks so horrible? Like very wide characters with way too much space in between them?
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by suction 5y ago
I worked for small(ish) music supplier of Spotify, not a major label like Universal etc. at all - they were receiving a daily 3-4 Gb JSON file (uncompressed) of yesterday's activity. Things get big, fast, nowadays.
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by suction 5y ago
The point that "Web design" is part of pop culture is something I've had a very hard time with working as a dev at non-software companies; Everybody from every department wants to have a say about how the website looks. Web d
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by suction 5y ago
As for the "dislike an artist and I'll dislike all artists with the same name", you could theoretically compare the two by artist-ids, which you can see when sharing the artist through the Spotify client or using a browser to
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by suction 5y ago
Oh, it has everything to do with it. I don't understand how you couldn't see that, immediately, so I don't think further explanation would help you.
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by suction 5y ago
Exactly. Or not making a statement at all when you're expected to address something. That's why American visitors like the guy above you are often so lost in Japanese culture, they can't "read the air".
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by suction 5y ago
That article isn't the end-all take on communication methods in confucian societies, I'd say. "Speak out" is still the applicable term in Japan, even if over there, it might be making a certain facial gesture or position
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by suction 5y ago
Japan is long beyond its thriving years. Once you go into the countryside or smaller towns, there are many boarded-up businesses, decay, and infrastructure that is in dire need of investment.
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by suction 5y ago
Of all the dark, unaccounted, and probably dangerous-to-world-peace factors that run modern Japan, the emperor is the least problem - in fact, Hirohito and hopefully his son, have repeatedly spoken out against the prevalence of far-right na
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by suction 5y ago
Which of course is also the go-to "excuse" of the modern Japanese right-wingers to deflect any blame from the "pure" Japanese for what they did.
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by suction 5y ago
It seems the common explanation is that the US went the "reverse course" to have a bulwark against the rise of communism in East Asia. Japan was not to adopt communism at any cost. And the best way to ensure a society does not ado
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by suction 5y ago
Yes, that's why /s
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by suction 5y ago
Azure SQL-Server is extremely expensive. It might be cheap unless you actually want to use it for something heavy. Azure is really good at making itself look cheap by assuming that no one ever really needs to use its pricier performance opt
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by suction 5y ago
The idea that there are organised "gatekeepers" holding down humanity is nothing but a thinly veiled layer over "the zionists who control everything". This is just the tech-version of this evil old conspiracy theory that

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