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2y ago
All the examples you used are from about a human lifespan before our time. Not really anything people alive now have any connection or conscious appreciation of.
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2y ago
When I heard about this, I couldn't help but think of the taste of a 9-volt battery on the tongue, but from what I understood/guessed from TFA, this does something more like pulling dissolved sodium ions to the outer surface of th
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2y ago
Finland is cold. People without adequate housing will freeze to death. Not finding bodies in the spring thaw is probably actually important to them.
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2y ago
I would never expect powder when I said MDMA, I would expect crystals or pills. Ecstasy is often said to be cut with other substances, but almost never is, because most other drugs are more expensive and less potent than MDMA. There are o
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2y ago
I really have no problem at all with site owners or operators deciding what content they do and don't want on their site when accepting third-party contributions, it's when the (US) government is involved in directing or influenci
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2y ago
What in the world would a $1 coin be better than a bill for? Making a blackjack to ease the handover of $1 bills?
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2y ago
moji moji moji who still bangin this in 2022? moji moji
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2y ago
I use C because I use BSDs and Linux and it's often the shortest route when needing to do something that can't be done trivially with a shell script. The documentation is all in man pages, the headers are available in /includ
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2y ago
I've had a Mastodon account for years, but never used it. Newer twitter-clones also fail to interest me, simply because user-driven social media just isn't all that engaging for me. Topic-driven or article-driven like old-school f
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2y ago
Most? I find that very hard to believe. Only the latest generation of consoles and a few late models of the last generation have no disc drives. Plenty of people will still have PS* and Xbox-n with disc drives, not to mention a lot of peopl
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2y ago
That's a pretty one-way relationship though. Australia and China are literally thousands of miles away from each other, but China is still important to Australia because all the continental landmasses are far from Australia.
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2y ago
When I can't remember something, I look in the documentation or at the implementation. For functions I use often, I remember what arguments they take and what they return, for others I just look them up as needed.
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2y ago
> During the 20th century, people generally knew that drugs meant illegal substances, purchased clandestinely with cash and clearly distinguished from medications, which might also be psychoactive, but required a doctor’s prescription. I
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2y ago
Excessive positivity in art/game/movie/book/music reviews is an issue even with non-compromised actual-customer reviews. If giving a quantifiable rating (rather than binary), very few people are willing to give a score t
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2y ago
I'd never heard of the "sophomore slump" before this article, but it does resonate somewhat with my own experience. I've been reorganizing and trimming the fat from my bloated music library (~30k songs), mostly by listen
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2y ago
That was the case long before Musk took over. Twitter has always been an observer-hostile site, that's the whole reason why nitter and co exist.
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2y ago
Yes, they will be much more able to deal with the consequences of that trauma than someone who gets a pittance to do the same thing. A low-wage peon won't even be able to afford therapy if they need it.
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2y ago
It's not a fault of the language, it's the culture. "Average" and "mediocre" both have negative connotations in vernacular use as well, even though they're normal and should be expected. If we expect excel
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2y ago
> It’s more expensive and has the opposite effect. Nonsense, fentanyl is waaay cheaper than coke or heroin or any other street drug, like nearly an order of magnitude more per dollar when buying dealer-level quantities. The depressant&
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2y ago
It's just so convenient to be able to use the same charger for every device, and to use the same port for either charging or connecting peripherals. Is it ideal from a security standpoint? Not at all. Does that matter? Not in 99+% of c
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2y ago
Possibly from https://www.dicionarioinformal.com.br/mengar/ ? Just an aside, it's really bizarre that it's transliterated as Mengzi in the article. IMO, it would be much better to use the translation (Master
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2y ago
Artifacts show that humans in the Americas having been trekking and trading over very long distances for a long time, but the spread of human groups to colonizing different areas was likely much slower and driven by the availability of food
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2y ago
As others said, smoking and drying are likely, but they could have also buried food the way many canines do. In colder climates, it can be left outside in winter and the colder parts of fall and spring.
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2y ago
And I was saying that the dollar is no longer backed by gold, or tied to any other limited resource, so why would we assume that the same scarcity-driven dynamics are still in play?
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2y ago
> When the economy collapses and the government lacks gold backed dollars to do counter cyclical spending because there's not enough gold reserves it doesn't go well. Probably shouldn't be using this logic when the dollar
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2y ago
Wasn't a new government elected but never allowed to take power due to Macron refusing to confirm them just a few months ago? Will that change now?
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Russia having better relationships with NK should have been expected by everyone since the start of sanctions rather than treated like a horrific surprise that nobody could have ever imagined. "The enemy of my enemy is my friend"
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2y ago
No, they didn't. Facebook was just a less trashy, more exclusive version of myspace when it came out. Geocities, livejournal, blogger etc. were earlier iterations on the same concept - personal websites for non-techies. The only thing
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You can find classical orchestras everywhere too, but the earshare of classical music isn't much in the non-musician population (and even that is probably artificially propped up by forced exposure in schools).
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2y ago
Just guessing, but Wikipedia has three David Mayers: A historian, most well known for being confused with a terrorist who used David Mayer as an alias and placed on a US watchlist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ma
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