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by wredcoll 1y ago
Dear god, why?
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by wredcoll 1y ago
Dowry is what the bride brings to her husband. The idea here, presumably, is that higher status males demand larger payments for "taking a wife".
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by wredcoll 1y ago
The same as its always been: run your own.
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by wredcoll 1y ago
Oh boy, hashbangs are back. The first one that comes to mind was twitter...
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by wredcoll 1y ago
> Wikipedia recognizes that it has happened The main point I want to make here is the difference between what people said happened and what actually happened. > I have been observing it for over a decade, longer than it had a name
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by wredcoll 1y ago
They're not a child in this analogy because they lack the knowledge of right and wrong, but because they lack power . To relitigate this analogy, it is morally wrong for the child to kick you in the shin, but it's far more useful
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by wredcoll 1y ago
The michaels and hobby lobby near me both have a fair amount of acrylic paint for what it's worth, but have you looked for any gaming stores? Lots of them carry warhammer and thus carry model acrylic paints.
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by wredcoll 1y ago
> Its lazy and incredibly selfish to condemn others for making hard choices when you don't know how you would have acted yourself No, it's how our world improves. I, personally, do not have to be a perfect paragon of morality a
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by wredcoll 1y ago
"Aligned" is doing a lot of work here. Does some part of the Egyptian government have an interest in doing certain things entirely because of America's influence? Sure. Is that the only reason for their behaviour? Of course n
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by wredcoll 1y ago
One of the more annoying things I've noticed as I've gotten older is just how well certain false memes spread through a society. If they're ultimately harmless, then it doesn't matter that much, but I don't think th
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by wredcoll 1y ago
I think the important thing is to generalize from this one experience and apply sweeping stereotypes to massivr groups of people.
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by wredcoll 1y ago
I feel the same way about vue switching to hooks. What is the exact problem we're solving?
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by wredcoll 1y ago
> Even peak cancel culture wasn't quite so chilling. Wait. What? Are you trying to imply this was some kind of a real thing that happened? Sarcasm on the internet doesn't always travel well, I can't tell if you're jus
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by wredcoll 1y ago
It's always remarkable how people like you think egyptians are incompetent and incapable of taking actions on their own without a special western nation controlling them.
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by wredcoll 1y ago
> I have no problem with the initial invasion of Gaza to stop Hamas and get their people back. I’m not sorry for saying so, or holding that position after Hamas gave them such a clear casus belli. But it doesn’t seem to be about that any
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by wredcoll 1y ago
> Jewish people occupied the entire region long before Islam existed or Islamic Arabs took it over? And other peoples occupied the region long before judaism was an idea in some shepherd's preaching. The problem with this logic is,
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by wredcoll 1y ago
I might be an outlier here, but I really miss declaring component properties as actual object properties. Components seem extremely similar to classic OO, why can't I use the same syntax.
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by wredcoll 1y ago
I do frontend and I also feel uneasy about react. I stand by my assertion that it's trying to solve a hard problem and thus might actually require complex code, but still, the way react structures things with `useFoo` feels like they&#
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by wredcoll 1y ago
Because they provide simple appealing answers that rarely ask for much effort on behalf of the consumer.
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by wredcoll 1y ago
I would listen to ai-generated audio books. I do so to avoid paying money. If I wanted to spend money I would buy the better product.
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by wredcoll 1y ago
It would be more about lead pipes per capita, possibly as rome itself grew wealthier from conquests they added more and more piping, but it would be hard to relate this to any specific moment in time. Presumably the wealthy elites had their
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by wredcoll 1y ago
How is this separate from what a terminal normally provides?
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by wredcoll 1y ago
Older people feel exactly the same way about windows2000... or sometimes 98... or 3.1...
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by wredcoll 1y ago
Something something "russia hoax"
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by wredcoll 1y ago
Trust is important. This decreases it.
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by wredcoll 1y ago
Haha, what is this
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by wredcoll 1y ago
This is a much better point. It's not like there were more lead pipes during the decline than the rise.
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by wredcoll 1y ago
Why am I supposed to care about some doctor having a fight with a nurse over rudeness, even if it does involve "evidence tampering"?
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by wredcoll 1y ago
The "Just" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. Think about the presenting data part of it. Perhaps you have a table of data, prices of tickets or some such. You could literally just wrap each item in a <td> tag and each r
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by wredcoll 1y ago
God, is there literally anything more tedious than people crying about something as completely fake as "cancel culture"? I don't know how to explain to people that humans have been punished via shame and ostracization because

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