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by vlark 3y ago
Linux Mint on my old Dell E6350 (workhorse home machine that never leaves the desk). Pop!_OS on my regular grab-and-go laptop.
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by vlark 3y ago
UPS stores charge a fee for notary service. It's around $20 where I am in the Midwest.
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by vlark 3y ago
The entire section "General Interference with Organisations and Production" is a perfect description of how academia works.
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by vlark 3y ago
"The politics of the university are so intense because the stakes are so low." -- Wallace S. Sayre
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by vlark 3y ago
7+ years is not unusual in the humanities. The sciences need to ease the hell up.
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by vlark 3y ago
I'm not saying it's space whales . . . but it's space whales.
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by vlark 3y ago
And so it begins.
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by vlark 3y ago
I wonder if the fact that school is out for summer break in most of America has had an effect on user numbers. Most schools let out in early to mid-May.
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by vlark 3y ago
Media Bias Chart to the rescue: https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-chart
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by vlark 3y ago
How do state laws such as this not contradict federal interstate commerce laws?
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by vlark 3y ago
Looks to me like a failure to plan properly. It's not like the companies didn't know this could happen. If you put your faith in Congress, be prepared to be disappointed by Congress. CFO heads should roll over this. It's thei
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by vlark 4y ago
This will end well.
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by vlark 4y ago
The thing is, I just want to sleep on the sofa; I don't want to buy it.
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by vlark 4y ago
Grifter gonna grift.
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by vlark 4y ago
The Animaniacs owe so much to Tom.
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by vlark 4y ago
Scammers gonna scam, grifters gonna grift.
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by vlark 4y ago
Horrible advice. Most people don't talk well; they ramble, they stumble, they beat around the bush. Do not write in "simple language." Instead, write in plain language: https://www.plainlanguage.gov/media&#x2F
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by vlark 4y ago
Get ready to switch, because Signal is dropping SMS support on Android: https://signal.org/blog/sms-removal-android/
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by vlark 4y ago
Remember when Second Life was the next big thing? Pepperidge Farms remembers.
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by vlark 4y ago
He should have tested the statement requirement policy before resigning. All he had to do was provide a statement that his research does not advance SPSP's equity, inclusion, and anti-racism goals but that it is important to the field
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by vlark 4y ago
Because of course they did.
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by vlark 4y ago
Be sure to have an ad blocker for Boing Boing. My god, the irony of a site that rails against the bad practices of web commercialism embracing all the bad practices of web commercialism.
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by vlark 4y ago
Yes, but do you know about the Mongrel Banquet Club? The secret cabal of OSRians and their behind-the-scenes machinations? Google it my friend, google it. Many of the weird folk you allude to were members, I hear.
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by vlark 4y ago
Pretty easy to search for titles and find that the publisher is/was Flat World Knowledge, as many of books are now in newer editions.
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by vlark 4y ago
Free File Fillable Forms is owned by On-Line Taxes, Inc. of St. Joseph, Missouri, not Intuit. https://freefilefillableforms.com/home/privacy_security.php https://www.olt.com/main/home/leadersh
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by vlark 4y ago
Because we're surrounded by idiots, that's why./s
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by vlark 4y ago
Ads will eventually make TikTok shit to use, too.
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by vlark 4y ago
Gravitational. Pull. Of. Pepsi.
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by vlark 4y ago
Wow. They sure do a lot of work trying to justify a shitty logo. And it worked. Let that be a lesson for us all.
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by vlark 4y ago
It seems what this device is especially good at is separating fools from their money.

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