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by tropdrop 6y ago
This is a serious question - how do we roll it back? What is our chance?
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by tropdrop 6y ago
> The lawsuit stems from a 2018 Arizona probe into Google's location tracking practices. This is the latest development from that same topic.
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by tropdrop 6y ago
The canceling of those planned freeways for environmental concerns is not problematic in itself - the failure to deliver the planned rail alternative is. [1] 1 - https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5057/5423961825_2d5af7cef4
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by tropdrop 6y ago
Probably not, except when anti-porn laws intersect with this issue: https://ncac.org/project/youth-free-expression-program/sexti... So in this case, yes, a child can be punished for posting pictures of themselves,
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by tropdrop 6y ago
Showing pictures in a personal scrapbook != sharing them with a third party (Facebook) and (depending on the privacy settings), potentially the entire world. Further, the digital nature of the photo means that any person on the internet vie
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by tropdrop 6y ago
> DoorDash uses our brand name “Saddleback BBQ” right in the advertisement. > Possibly the most maddening thing is that if a customer clicks on the link, it does NOT take them to a webpage to order from Saddleback BBQ. It takes the u
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by tropdrop 6y ago
British is spelt . US is spelled . [1] [2] 1 - https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spell 2 - https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spelt
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by tropdrop 6y ago
In light of the other comment about ample green space in Bern, and how songbirds have refuge because of it, we should consider whether cats killing songbirds is a more suburban phenomenon, and if so, why. Given that both cats and songbirds
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by tropdrop 6y ago
For some cats, this is cruel. Other cats tolerate a 100% indoor life with no complaint. I will provide my family's two cats as an example of both - both were raised by us from kittens, both raised to be indoors. They were both spayed,
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by tropdrop 7y ago
Piggybacking onto > Lastly, Discord's UI is very much tailored to their target audience, gamers We've been using Discord to talk to each other while playing board games with a group of 4. I've noticed I have a harder time
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by tropdrop 7y ago
> “My biggest concern, flat out, is the sickness is spread by people traveling point to point. It can be reduced by people sheltering in place. We are doing the opposite of that. We are taking people to a location that is vulnerable and
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by tropdrop 7y ago
I keep thinking of all of the young women on her retreats - since they're living completely in the wild for 30 days, what do they do about menstruation? I wish the article mentioned what her primitive solutions are (if any) for some of
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by tropdrop 7y ago
Thinking of voice-activation in a car in lieu of analog manual controls misses the point - perhaps you weren't advocating for it as a replacement, but the article above seems to. There are multiple points of failures for a voice-contro
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by tropdrop 7y ago
If we were discussing the theft of several million dollars from a bank, then only considering the monetary value of the theft makes sense. Here, though, it's an incomplete picture to only consider monetary value as the reason for t
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by tropdrop 7y ago
The headline should note - virologist Minal Dakhave Bhosale, Mylab's research and development chief, finished development of the kit just 1 hour before being taken to the hospital to deliver her own baby! >That same evening, just an
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by tropdrop 7y ago
While I agree that mocking people for self-learning is atrocious, I don't understand why in the same breath, you felt compelled to mock a university based education. Some people thrive in the bootcamp scene, while others enjoy the stru
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by tropdrop 7y ago
> English has all three forms: cha or char (both pronounced /ˈtʃɑː/), attested from the late 16th century; tea, from the 17th; and chai, from the 20th. I've never, ever encountered "cha" or "char" in my
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by tropdrop 7y ago
Classic "the [solution] that exists isn't good enough, therefore we can't use it at all!" A pandemic is not the time to be picky - if anything, a high false positive rate helps . Would you rather 10 people quarantined,
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by tropdrop 7y ago
It's refreshing to have a space that is welcoming of all sorts of circadian schedules instead of subtle shaming. But it's not just software engineers who decry the early risers - writers, artists, and PhD students constantly speak
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by tropdrop 7y ago
I only wish this would carry to non-California locations and to the service industry in general - when I worked as a waiter in a Rocky Mountain West state, after ending a shift we were not allowed to leave the premises until rolling exactly
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by tropdrop 7y ago
As mentioned elsewhere here, it seems (to me) a uniquely Western phenomenon (and a modern one, at that) to only present happy endings in fairy tales. Most of the Disney canon's origin tales were much more gruesome. Take, for instance,
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by tropdrop 7y ago
> When Adelene was born, and Brenda stopped working for a brief season to stay home with her, they realized that their financial footing was less secure than it had seemed. So they were grateful to accept an offer from Candido’s mom to c
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by tropdrop 7y ago
This is astounding. It seems that there is actually an incentive to keep a person claiming to be a citizen imprisoned, since if they keep them imprisoned long enough, then any financial debt owed for the injustice will magically disappear t
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by tropdrop 7y ago
No. The pathology is if the torque is in the reverse direction (as someone else mentioned in comments, the result is a stutter).
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by tropdrop 7y ago
> However, some insect species, such as houseflies and cockroaches, appear to be on the up. If this trend continues, I wonder if we will see some species previously reliant on spiders for food (birds?) switch to more cockroaches and hous
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by tropdrop 7y ago
In the article, wide open pastures with no trees were "associated with higher odds of psychological distress." Don't our distant (monkey) cousins live in and amongst trees, usually? Open pastures with no tree cover just mean
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by tropdrop 7y ago
You don't have to be a youtuber or streamer to have the leaf blower drive you nuts - in a suburban setting, you're almost guaranteed a 7am wake-up call from one of these machines on a Saturday. It just takes one punctilious neighb
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by tropdrop 7y ago
And if you don't have a job or money (a "nut", as you say), you deserve to... die?
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In all seriousness, these people seem to think their mission is noble... Imagine, for a second, that you are convinced of some "irrefutable truth," and it seems all political, government and scientific bodies are against you. Ever
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by tropdrop 7y ago
I was first raised in Europe, in an apartment block just like the one described above (loved it), then in a western state... You are lucky to have a creek, and perhaps other factors that make your community socially healthy? In general, my

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