thoroughburro

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by thoroughburro 2y ago
Is everyone who claims the Internet cannot work without advertising only 20 years old? Why try to gaslight so many people who remember the Internet without advertising just fine. It was just a few decades ago!
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by thoroughburro 2y ago
> it’s important and can save battery over regular ublock origin on Firefox That sounds like a reason for Mozilla to simmer down and compromise, not gorhill.
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by thoroughburro 2y ago
Is it such an impoverished legal system that it has no provision for abandonment?
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by thoroughburro 2y ago
That assumption is based on cinema more than reality. Prison is just a microcosm of humanity, only slightly biased. Personal experience.
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by thoroughburro 2y ago
This is the often given answer, but is wrong. The company, the mountain, and many other things are named after a Hindu god of food and nourishment. Don’t just mimic the first search result (check its etymology section, instead).
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by thoroughburro 2y ago
> Have you tried farming or even just growing something to eat in a pot? Yes, and it’s extremely gratifying work. Much more so than sitting in front of a screen. And you can hold the result of your labor, see it, feed it to your family.
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by thoroughburro 2y ago
> The mountain is named after Annapurna, the Hindu goddess of food and nourishment, who is said to reside there.
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by thoroughburro 2y ago
Annapurna is a god of food and nourishment in Hinduism; a manifestation of Parvati.
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by thoroughburro 2y ago
On average, those who enter a field using money are less accomplished than those who enter a field using experience. Obviously.
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by thoroughburro 2y ago
> Corpses are generally fairly cooperative and theoretically they'll even go away by themselves if left alone. This is dangerously incorrect, as India is continuing to discover. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I
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by thoroughburro 2y ago
> you have a recipe for modern era mummies Except mummies were respectfully cared for throughout the embalming process. Don’t tar ancient civilizations with our own inhuman neglect of both living and dead.
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by thoroughburro 2y ago
Because advertisers will voluntarily give up their other tracking tools? Does that sound likely?
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by thoroughburro 2y ago
It doesn’t make “one” wonder that, no. You, I guess, weirdly struggle to understand fellow humans.
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by thoroughburro 2y ago
> That said, it's not addressed here whether her husband actually did something unethical Is there some reason you want to bring his ethics into it? I don’t want Amazon to jail people for what they take to be ethics.
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by thoroughburro 2y ago
You contend that something illegal took place? Or just that you don’t like it?
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by thoroughburro 2y ago
Spoiler alert: the common knowledge “cartel” actually made a rational choice which balanced longevity, light quality, efficiency, and cost. The longer lasting lightbulbs were worse at everything except lasting longer. This was not malicious
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by thoroughburro 2y ago
A random tip for the thread: when looking for glass or other small objects, shine a bright flashlight parallel to the floor: all detritus is made visible by casting longer, harder shadows.
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by thoroughburro 2y ago
> Ya’ll are clumsy. So are you, in the future… if you’re lucky enough to stick around. ;)
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by thoroughburro 2y ago
Dream bigger.
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by thoroughburro 2y ago
Older folks might remember that there were a lot of people willing to make content free, just out of personal enthusiasm, and that this content was actually a lot higher quality than that pumped out by capitalist motivation. So, actually, u
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by thoroughburro 2y ago
> That’s just Mozilla getting money from Google. “That’s just politicians getting money from financial criminals.” “That’s just police getting money from organized violence.” “This is fine.”
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by thoroughburro 2y ago
Not real apologies, like from people — just corporate apologies, like from paid-for stooges. Society will not collapse if we start holding these monsters to account; the opposite.
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by thoroughburro 2y ago
“Advertisers are responsible for the 90% of the web which is inhuman, outraged, clickbait garbage” isn’t the endorsement you think.
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by thoroughburro 2y ago
I use a MicroOS + wayland + sway and friends setup, since I don’t like big DEs. I completely agree with you about needing a firewall, but it was an easy fix to continue taking advantage of all the good parts: sudo transactional-update