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by toofy 3y ago
in addition to this, in this scenario, it’s worth bearing in mind that they both should have achieved their dreams.
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by toofy 3y ago
i didn’t see the game pad as the cause, but an indicator of where they would cut corners. it’s strange on its face to use a game controller when we’ve all spilled soda or water on one and watched it become useless and they’re taking this in
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by toofy 3y ago
my guess is no. purely speculation on my part, but my suspicion is that the dangers were downplayed and the sales/marketing people paid the bare minimum attention to how close this was to a backyard project. “we wouldn’t charge you $2
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by toofy 3y ago
a murderer on the stand, “why are you looking at my case? what about all the other people who murdered someone and haven’t been prosecuted yet?”
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by toofy 3y ago
i’m not the person you responded to, and i want to be careful not to put words in their mouth, but if i’m reading them properly and from the many talks i’ve had with Anarchist friends, they would explain that as something like: we should be
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by toofy 3y ago
> Is that an issue with the individual or society at large? i think it’s likely a problem with both. no matter how many repeatedly delude themselves otherwise, both society and the individual are inextricable.
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by toofy 3y ago
There are a number of amazing channels on youtube who have been documenting the rising “Dead/Dying Mall” trend over the past couple of decades… - Dan Bell - Sal - Ace’s Adventures - Retail Archeology - Bright Sun Films … are just a few
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by toofy 3y ago
i think you’d find that in just about every significant crisis of any significant timeframe plenty of examples of clamping down on witch-hunts in these very democracies. am i advocating for this? of course not, however, we have countless ex
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by toofy 3y ago
i don’t care either way, other than HN and some Mastodon i don’t really social media much anymore. Reddit could disappear tonight and it wouldn’t bother me much, but… > A comment which was a half-joke, as the audio recording shows clearl
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by toofy 3y ago
you’re somewhat correct, a certain type of moderation was absolutely solved way back then—the owner/ops/mods would simply set down a list of rules and if someone broke them or pushed the limits, they were banned. done. very simila
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by toofy 3y ago
i’d have to go back and double check my facts here, but i seem to remember border patrol agents going after protesters in Portland during the George Floyd protests and something to do with Portland being within this 100 mile zone. again, i’
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by toofy 3y ago
i hope you don’t read this as snarky as it’s going to sound, i really don’t mean it snarky at all… but people were pushing for changes decades ago in a non-panicked way.
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by toofy 3y ago
and i’m quite literally seeing posts from people earnestly asking why they’re having a hard time finding property insurance in florida. and others earnestly asking “who could have seen this coming?”
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by toofy 3y ago
“…to some extent…” is, i think, the most important piece of your reply. sure, merit plays some kind of role, but so do many other things. what so many comments in this discussion (and every other discussion surrounding this issue over and
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by toofy 3y ago
It has become apparent over the past couple of years, what many of these people always meant by “free speech” is, “No one talks back to me.”
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by toofy 3y ago
yep. i will forever get a sick feeling at any mention of broadcom. they could cure a disease or something and i’d still be like “grumblegrumblegrumblebroadcomsucksgrumblegrumble”. i sometimes wonder if my great grandchildren will have inhe
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by toofy 3y ago
i feel like we keep running into these problems repeatedly with a lot of our “disruptive” tech. scaling problems that come with usage in the real world. they’re “disruptive” until it gets to actual scale of the thing it was disrupting and
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by toofy 3y ago
I just want to chime in not to disagree with anything you’re saying (for the record I think your post is thoughtful. I don’t know enough about the nuances to agree or disagree) and it isn’t even directed at you but to all of us and our dis
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by toofy 3y ago
i’ll echo what others have said: soma.fm
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by toofy 3y ago
Ironically, your comment and it’s snap judgement’s are a fantastic example of the subject of some of his best writings.
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by toofy 3y ago
they typically don’t. this seems to be why many of the users prefer it. i think i generally agree with them—it leads to a different style of interaction. i haven’t figured out yet how to elequently describe it, but the interactions and e
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by toofy 3y ago
you’ve been very lucky. the list of “chores” i’ve had to do at the airbnbs i’ve stayed at is unreal. even worse when i was paying absolutely ridiculous cleaning fees.
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by toofy 4y ago
Getting a set of airpod pro was easily the best money I’ve spent for doing yard stuff. I use the Noise Cancellation for mowing/trimming and the Transparency mode for other stuff. With transparency mode I dont at all feel isolated fro
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by toofy 4y ago
reddit is already heavily astroturfed and this is getting worse by the day. while this method may work, as often as i see this type of comment, i’m guessing reddit’s quality of information will be worse than even google search within months
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by toofy 4y ago
i don’t think this is true at all—-i’ve seen many many many discussions here circling the dangers of charging on unknown devices. we’ve had numerous discussions on usb condoms. we’ve known this was a thing for years… we’ve had discussion
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by toofy 4y ago
I can see how we might come to this conclusion, but we would also need look at which films were marketed the most, which films had wider distribution, which films had better casting budgets, etc… If franchise and rehashed-to-death-IP films
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by toofy 4y ago
> Who wants to see the same thing again… apparently marketing departments seem to think it’s everyone… so many of the movies, games, etc studios have been pushing over the past few years have been rehashed IP over and over again.
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by toofy 4y ago
i think this is exactly it. the internet of old was mostly hobbiests. even the early blogs were mostly hobbiests whi just wanted to share their info and didn’t care at all whether it made them money. the profit motive creeping in changes
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by toofy 4y ago
yeah, this push to remove human interaction is really strange to me. i wonder often what minimizing humans interacting with each other will cause on a grand macro scale/timeline.
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by toofy 4y ago
and many of us can’t take anyone seriously who dismisses nuance in one of the most incredibly complex topics which involve: biology, psychology, economics, etc… as you did in your original post.

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