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by tclancy 11mo ago
You are an old man: kids didn’t read books back when we were kids either. I did and you probably did, but that’s doesn’t mean most people did. And it doesn’t mean that kids aren’t curious or learning.
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by tclancy 11mo ago
Yes, no one ever visited NYC before AirBnB. And you’re ignoring a boatload of negative externalities, but that’s the glory of our current economic setup, isn’t it?
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by tclancy 11mo ago
Bookmarked to read tonight, thanks for this -- the site is gorgeous.
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by tclancy 11mo ago
Popularity and vulnerability go hand in hand though. You could be pretty safe by only using packages with zero stars on GitHub, but would you be happy or productive?
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by tclancy 11mo ago
Hang on, in another comment you say you’re in Dubai where there aren’t any homeless. So how are you seeing this?
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by tclancy 11mo ago
Skin color?
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by tclancy 11mo ago
Which ones are those?
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by tclancy 11mo ago
Well, let’s post a deepfake about some left strawman and watch him find the time pronto.
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by tclancy 11mo ago
Are you under the impression there were a lot of opposition news back in the day if one was just brave enjfffff?
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by tclancy 11mo ago
Next someone invent RSS and feed readers and the circle of life can continue!
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by tclancy 11mo ago
Yeah, when I got restarted, instead of trying to spin up the entire old Django platform I had built for my business a decade before, I just exported the posts to text and found a good static publishing engine and stuck it all on GitHub Page
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by tclancy 11mo ago
Hang on, LAPD with limited oversight? Someone bring back Daryl Gates! Man the Ramparts!
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by tclancy 11mo ago
Man, just this week I had a moment like this that killed me. I had just woken my tweenager up for school and realized I’d turned into the kind of asshole who comes into your room in a good mood at 6 am. Stood in the shower and came to terms
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by tclancy 11mo ago
I felt the same about ReplayTV and integration with the PS2. The future is always unevenly distributed.
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by tclancy 11mo ago
Rethinking the problem? Engaging with the questions like a human being and not a snake oil salesman? Falling back on the Scunthorpe Problem and how easy it is for people to move chat to another platform comes across as not actually concerne
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by tclancy 11mo ago
In what and citation needed.
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by tclancy 11mo ago
Subtlety was not over-trained back then. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50721/the-vine
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by tclancy 11mo ago
I got hit as well. It was dark. I was likely to be eaten by a grue.
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by tclancy 11mo ago
Yes, it's very important to let them lie about it or else they will have to reveal the actual giant surveillance state and all the technology behind it and that would cause us to lose WWII. Oh wait, I think we just did, given what the
920.
by tclancy 11mo ago
I'd have to say that I'd debated whether to reply or to be even a little bit serious in my reply because I don't think you are-- well, it's not that I think it's "not in good faith", it's that I think
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by tclancy 11mo ago
Maybe where we disagree is the idea of it being a binary thing. I see it as a . . . oh, let's call it a "spectrum" just because, where the top end is Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, people have made their wealth (well maybe not El
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by tclancy 11mo ago
>that no one really know what a tech-bro is. If you think this is possibly true, I think we are far apart the discussion wouldn't go anywhere. Not a judgement, just trying to be better about my online engagement style.
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by tclancy 11mo ago
It was issue #9, https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Planetary_Vol_1_9 -- or did you mean elaborate on why I went through the X stages of Bill and Ted?
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by tclancy 11mo ago
Remember when the FCC had one of these for Internet independence and it got completely astroturfed? Sadly, I can’t be bothered to add a comment there because I assume the site will be overwhelmed by posts for the proposed laws by very conce
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by tclancy 11mo ago
As other kids say, two things can be true at the same time. And not lasting five minutes in a CoD lobby is going to be my new heuristic for picking friends. I don’t really need to know someone who isn’t bothered by that shit.
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by tclancy 11mo ago
Truly. My daughter and her friends play a lot on it but only a few games and I always have an ear out for which ones because it’s such a cesspool.
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by tclancy 11mo ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/ShitHNSays/ Exists for just this.
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by tclancy 11mo ago
Utter woke nonsense!
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by tclancy 11mo ago
>This guy Epstein modus operandi of cozying up and becoming wingman to powerful people confirms that he was some kind of spy Ah yes, no one else has ever tried to ingratiate themselves into the world of the rich and famous. It's spi
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by tclancy 11mo ago
Game's gone.

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