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by yterdy 3y ago
The small, square gadgets not made by Apple were often underrated. The Twist looks like a better version of the Blackjack II I had as my last non-touchscreen phone. I'd like to have tried it! This is actually one of the things that mak
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by yterdy 3y ago
>I unfortunately ditched my Sansa Fuse mp3 player after I got my first smartphone Stepped on mine. I don't leave anything with a screen on the floor anymore. I still have it, hoping I can extract some old files from it someday.
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by yterdy 3y ago
I've been through many a music machine since my first true mp3 player (after a year of fumbling with a half-broken Sony MD player), but if I could shove a 512GB MicroSD card, new battery, and new screen into my old DAH-1500i MobiBLU Cu
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by yterdy 3y ago
> What's important is the existence or appearance of a conflict of interest, particularly if you're not disclosing your connection. Having a friend who works for Google who might be upset at criticism counts. Being a former emp
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>But by removing the financial incentive from the definition of astroturfing I didn't. I pointed out the less obvious ways a financial incentive might exist. Excuse me for being skeptical of someone who uses a cutesy nickname for fo
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by yterdy 3y ago
Can a stand-alone complex be an astroturf? I think so, if the social conditions that create the behavior stem from a single entity that stands to benefit. The point of astroturfing (in comparison to the term it derives from, grassroots) is
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The case he described is different in that, apparently, the vehicles in question lock all of their wheels and can't be accessed, even by law enforcement. A special tow has to be called in. It's a design decision made to protect th
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Thank you. Contrary to other replies, you do not have to be employed directly by [Institution] expressly for the purposes of covertly pushing an agenda to be guilty of astroturfing. What's important is the existence or appearance of a
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by yterdy 3y ago
Please direct your attention to any instance of the vast amount of media concerning the inability of people who grew up poor to shake not only their habits but how that background makes them feel about the world. One was up for several Acad
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I disagree. The difficulty of replacing tech changes one's relationship to one's devices. Things that I see people throw away as "e-waste" are really, "Things someone couldn't be assed to repair or repurpose.&q
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by yterdy 3y ago
A fun trip in this vein is the speedrun of Control that its developers react to. Speedrunners, of course, scamper through the immaterial areas between levels. However, Control famously features a Brutalist-styled SCP-like office complex who
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by yterdy 3y ago
Nobody with money cares about e-waste. Those of us on a tight budget value our devices and lament the difficulty of repair. My phone is 6 years old, and I'm hoping to be able to pay someone to replace the screen and battery at some poi
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by yterdy 3y ago
There are several contentious aspects to this characterization: 1) California is a noted outlier. The tax base/road budget ratio does not scale well to the rest of the country. 2) The wealth of affluent suburbs is driven by the cities
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Can't afford it. And that's what I use (the ointment; the drops are worse than useless). They say 2 weeks or whatever, but you need months without a recurrence.
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Suburbs aren't defined by having personal space. That can be achieved in cities and small towns with in-fill development of high square-footage apartments, n-plexes, and townhouses, or collective workspaces. The suburbs that people com
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by yterdy 3y ago
They're also not held accountable in any meaningful way by regulators (again, because they're highly conflicted). Bernie Madoff was the exception; most don't even get the Martha Stewart treatment, even after causing orders of
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by yterdy 3y ago
I just bought a new bottle of Miracle Ointment™ (3.5 grams , $30) because, after 4 months of peace, my cornea decided to rip itself open again last night. Sigh. This is after 6 months of diligent application before bed every night, in order
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FWIW, insiders regularly get away with dumping regulated securities just before bad news becomes public.
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That's certainly romantic. The real question is how much money - how much of your personal peace - you're going to give up to make space for that culture. Even if it's just putting yourself in conflict with rich people to con
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Rules that prescribe particular materials or levels or methods of upkeep that are significantly more expensive to implement or maintain than others, or that clash with one's culturally-based desires. A common one is a prohibition again
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Yes. They're often used as a form of legal economic and cultural discrimination, instead of simply to uphold quality of life in the neighborhood.
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Loos is very interesting in the current context, as he associated ornamentation with savagery, while many contemporary "civilizationists" (take this label with a massive grain of salt) associate modernism with the International st
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Older workers are supposed to pass along this knowledge to younger workers in an expedited fashion. Acquisition of the understanding of increasingly complex systems must be optimized to operational needs. One of the many, many gripes Millen
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I don't disagree with most of this. The answer is definitely not simply, "Lower the budget," least of all because, as you say, they have other sources of funding. The loss of LEOs on corners probably wouldn't do much for
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by yterdy 3y ago
Because people have been saying, "Reform the police," for decades, and what generally happens when a "reform the police" candidate gets in office is that the police get more money for "training." So, it's
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Something that occurs to me: it's not surprising that an anime film from 1993 is the most accurate portrayal of aerial combat. It's not only a matter of differing attitudes towards what to expect from cinema, both Japan vs US and
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>May I assume you don't live in the US midwest Bible belt? You can assume they're not white. (Or that they've experienced economic insecurity.)
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>Iron Blood Orphans is probably the most 'realistic' in the genre. Save Barbatos' waist circumference. /s Joking aside, while it still succumbs to a lot of genre and franchise cliches, I have to agree that it did a
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by yterdy 3y ago
Gundam: Hathaway is interesting; maybe not quite as disciplined as an Oshii outing, but it happily surfs the intricately constructed wave of UC worldbuilding. Not an anime, but I recently watched a playthrough of the Project Wingman DLC, Fr
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And, for the record, this embodies what most people meant when they said, "Defund the police." Not, "Get rid of the institution of law enforcement." Instead, "Lower funding so that the remainder is forced to be put

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