AnOscelot

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by AnOscelot 9y ago
The modern GOP has embraced some very misogynistic politicans and policies. And they pushed Trump into the White House. If you don't want to be labeled a misogynist, don't support a misogynistic party. It's really that easy.
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by AnOscelot 9y ago
If he intended to treat people as individuals, then he wouldn't have resorted to gender stereotypes in the first place. The essay was clearly designed to tell women they don't belong at Google. Would you feel comfortable working w
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by AnOscelot 9y ago
Sure, there are differences. For men, no one ever expects those differences to limit what they can do. Men can be firefighters, loggers, hairdressers, florists, politicians, engineers, interior designers, party planners, chefs, teachers. Th
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by AnOscelot 9y ago
Sorry for the late reply. Didn't see it until today. I think you and your family would be fine in a midwestern city like Kansas City. But I also know there are risks. The Indian men who were shot by a racist, were shot in a suburb of K
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by AnOscelot 9y ago
NPR consistently plays the middle ground. They're threading a needle. Their audience is largely left-of-center college-educated middle class & upper middle. Their public funding is at the mercy of Republicans. As a result, they&#x2
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by AnOscelot 9y ago
My knowledge of what neighborhoods are currently great is a little rusty. I moved away from the area for a while, and now I'm one of those people with acreage outside of the city. But when I was in the city full time, my favorite area
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by AnOscelot 9y ago
Kansas City, and it's nearly infinite suburbs, would be incredibly comfortable at 75k. Could easily afford a nice home in one of the bustling urban neighborhoods, or a 2,000+ sq ft. in the burbs, or something with a few acres out in th
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by AnOscelot 9y ago
Twitter's one of my favorite mediums. Basically everything in my second paragraph shows up in my timeline. Feels like mainlining all the good parts of the internet in a concentrated form. I'm also old enough to remember web rings
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by AnOscelot 9y ago
No offense, but you're showing off your lack of understanding. Some people do use Twitter to tweet at their fave celebrities, but that seems to be more of a minority use case. It is useful to tweet directly at brands, especially when y
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by AnOscelot 9y ago
I kinda like your unicorn. My preferred size would be 8 to 10 inches. I think 10 inches would be a sweet spot, for me personally. Especially since I would want to use the eink screen as a reader as well as a screen for editing. You'd l
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by AnOscelot 9y ago
Deportations are happening at a rapid pace. No, the cameras may not be part of the current deportation / ICE frenzy, but working on them would put the engineer on the side of the Immigration establishment. From that point of view, it&#
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by AnOscelot 9y ago
If it's a scam, he's not scamming very well. A scammer would have taken the big payday and done little else. Whereas Hello Games has released a couple of large updates, and quite a few smaller updates / bugfixes, with more pl
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by AnOscelot 9y ago
Maybe the best strategy is to show the generic description when it's a book you haven't personally written the description for. That way you can concentrate on the books you love or find most interesting, while still providing a h
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by AnOscelot 9y ago
If you're running a Chromebook with Android support, you have the option of Termux for a local Linux shell without needing Crouton or developer mode.
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by AnOscelot 9y ago
You're correct. That's the fun part. What's especially fun is that the blind spot is often something which has already been developed, and didn't sell well in its first iteration, or is common in prototypes and SF /
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by AnOscelot 9y ago
I'm especially interested in how deeply embedded phone booths were to people who should have thought past them. A lot of SF / futurist stuff from the 60s to early 90s thought people would still be tied to fixed locations for telep
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by AnOscelot 9y ago
I think MacOS gives you an off switch for the telemetry. I know iOS does. Not only does iOS give you an easy way to turn it off, it will also show you the raw data being sent to Apple. Microsoft does neither. You can't turn it off easi
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by AnOscelot 9y ago
Here's an extensive article on the subject of the Louisiana coast, and how the usually seen map silhouette of the state needs to be fixed. https://medium.com/matter/louisiana-loses-its-boot-b55b3bd52...
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by AnOscelot 9y ago
My prized possession as a kid was the flexi from the National Geographic issue covering the first moon landing. I wish I knew where it was now. Was entirely recordings of the chatter between Houston and the Lander, including the "Eagle
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by AnOscelot 9y ago
If your government censors you, and you break the censorship in some way, you put your own personal freedom and economic status at risk. In many countries, you put your own life at risk as well. If Google takes down my video, and I publish
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by AnOscelot 9y ago
I can tell you from experience Termux works mostly very well on Chromebooks which come with the Play Store. Gives a nice option to putting the device in developer mode and installing Crouton. The one main problem involves shortcut keys. Chr
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by AnOscelot 9y ago
You're correct. The worldwide network was already assumed by 1990. The only question was whether or not it would become mainstream to muggles. I gained internet access via my midwestern college in 1991. Within a few weeks, I was a regu
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by AnOscelot 10y ago
I wish the sites with the annoying "give us your email now!" popups would be honest. Just say, in plain language: "You can support this site by giving us an email, which we will then add to a list we can sell to various entit
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by AnOscelot 10y ago
Great idea! I remember doing this 10 years ago following a tutorial which had a form to fill out, and then downloading a shareware font editor. I'll bookmark this site for my next personal font project. This might be a little morbid, b
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by AnOscelot 10y ago
If anyone has people like this in your life, the Bible gives you a little ammo for changing their mind. First of all, mankind was given stewardship over the Earth. God expects people to not trash the place. Secondly, Jesus was quite emphati
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by AnOscelot 10y ago
Wired Love: A Romance of Dots and Dashes (1879) describes a long distance romance conducted "online", from the point of view of a female telegraph operator, where neither party knew what the other looked like or even the sound of
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by AnOscelot 10y ago
I've had something stolen from TSA-inspected checked luggage. If you pack your phone, keep that possibility in mind.
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by AnOscelot 10y ago
> John C. Calhoun is a person without mention of whom any history of early 19th century America would be incomplete. No one's stripping him out of the history books. Why does he deserve the honor of having a college named for him? &
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by AnOscelot 10y ago
Three of my favorites. Found in this great Straight Dope thread on Russian / Soviet jokes: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/archive/index.php/t-3611... ------ Stalin was having a cabinet meeting and h
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by AnOscelot 10y ago
The ADL disagrees with you regarding Bannon. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2016/11... As for who wrote the executive orders: " Inside the West Wing, it is almost impossible fo

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