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> Rarbg was a margin note in torrent community It was the 4th largest according to TorrentFreak: https://torrentfreak.com/top-torrent-sites/
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Does anyone have a impartial summary about what this is about? I always hate when I'm late to drama and I have no idea what anyone is talking about.
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> They/them already exists and have centuries of use for that use-case. This is just gaslighting. People use "they" when they talk in the abstract. No one said sentences like "This is Tom. They is happy." until
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It's the government's fault for allowing criminals to run loose. It's their job to deal with criminals regardless of how capable the victims are to protect themselves. When you see an Asian granny being beaten up you don&#x27
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Well, I don't want to sound too cynical, but the whole internet works poorly on mobile. Users have less control over their OS and browser so the experience is much shittier even if you ignore styling which isn't sized for mobile.
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Sorry, but what is the difference? "To utilize" is literally defined as "to use".
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Okay, I guess I'm not getting it either, but how is it federated/decentralized if they all redirect to the original server which throws a 429?
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> Google doesn't have a way to MITM that Google controls the software so it can MITM.
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> it’s because they want to look out for children The issue is that it's _their_ job to look out for their children. We don't force all beds to have "walls", and give adults the keys to lower them if they show proof o
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But God forbid you try to buy a kitchen knife! It used to be that you had to show ID at delivery, but now Amazon requires adding ID before the purchase.
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Going from mobile phone numbers to smartphones is not an improvement. It's just going more expensive and more monopolized. The only improvement is that you don't have to link your account to government photo ID (which is mandatory
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Same for "Married... with Children". They replaced the iconic "Love and Marriage" theme song with elevator music.
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For reference, this is what it generates: As a concerned observer of US foreign policy, I must say that I have serious reservations about the direction it has taken in recent years. Despite the many resources and capabilities that the
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> Everyone downvoting this should be completely ashamed of themselves. > we strive for a higher level of discourse here I am not ashamed. TexanFeller's comment is not contributing to the discussion, he fearmongers with nukes to a
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Because Russia has stated when they started this phase of the war that they want NATO to return to its borders before the fall of communism. This means reoccupying all the eastern European countries that are part of NATO. Assuming you belie
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> It's dangerous to make a man with the nuke codes desperate toward the end of his life. You always talk about the nukes because it's all you have left. Western leaders will never bow to the nuclear threat because doing so mean
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> It makes no difference to our lives who governs Ukraine. The occupation of Ukraine signals Russia's intention to do the same with other countries they occupied in the past (Poland, Romania, the Baltic countries, &c) which are
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> prohibit official use of minority languages on the eastern part of the country No, they did the same for all languages. Romanians have lived in Northern Bucovina for centuries, yet you don't see us invading Ukraine. But what you&#
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> The war is going for a particular land with particular significance As Putin himself said, Russia has no borders, so the orcs' goal is to subjugate everyone. What history does Russia have in Romania (it still occupies Transnistria
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> Russia didn't lose in Chechnya Yes it did, you're arguing against basic facts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Chechen_War
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> the simple idea of targets That works very well for compiling C. But make is often abused for things that don't match that pattern at all, like a Python project when there are no intermediate targets and they are all .PHONY.
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Personally I use this pattern to make subcommands: main() { if [[ $1 ]]; then cmd_"$@" return fi cmd_all "$@" } cmd_all() { cmd_something
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And yet I've never head of a hiring process that is only in writing. I agree that it's more subjective, but with verbal communication (where you can have back and forth), it's easier to AVOID miscommunication. Both oral and w
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I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. Many companies ignore open source licenses because and it's difficult to prove they aren't following them.
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> tectonic changes in the way our society operates AI and/or climate change. It may fuck up the planet but at least I'm going to enjoy the housed suffering too.
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> Another one that irks me is shallow depth of field. This is even more annoying in YouTube videos. People are so obsessed with shallow depth of field that even in product reviews they focus on the face and leave the product blurry. I ca
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There could have been a UN intervention. Instead, NATO intervened, forever tarnishing it's reputation as a defensive alliance. It could have stopped there, but instead they set up a system that allowed the destruction of Christianity i
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Yeah, so instead the Serbs became refugees and dead and most of the Christian history of Kosovo was wiped out under the watch of the Americans[1][2]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_unrest_in_Kosovo [2]: https
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Seems random. This file has both 2 and 4: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/main/trust_and...
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> They already stopped using chats as training material for everyone anyway, so if that's the basis for the ban then it's already wrong. Your Honor, I only murdered people in the past. I'm not murdering anyone at the momen

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