EEMac

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by EEMac 2y ago
I'm glad things are going better where you live. Where I live: Gas: 2020 = $2.36 a gallon 2024 = $4.69 a gallon Celery: 2020 $0.90/head 2024 $1.50/head Arby's Half Pound Roast Beef Sandwich: 2020 $5.50 2024 $8
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by EEMac 3y ago
I hope things get better for you. If it helps: https://www.7cups.com/
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by EEMac 3y ago
It's tough to call DEI "dissent" when it is broadly mandated by HR departments, university administrations, and in many cases state law.
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by EEMac 3y ago
Has Florida been banning books from universities?! "Schools" usually means K-12 schools.
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by EEMac 3y ago
SeaMonkey has a classic UI and is basically a modern Netscape Communicator. You can ignore the rest and just use the Mail part. It's a solid email program that has worked well for about a decade now. https://www.seamonkey-pr
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by EEMac 3y ago
> citations needed https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ftsa&q=college+cancels+conservativ...
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by EEMac 3y ago
Counterpoints: social bonding in sharing a physical space, lots of nonverbal communication in face-to-face meetings. Don't get me wrong, I love remote work. And Zoom meetings have made it way easier to pull together groups of people on
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by EEMac 3y ago
There was a science fiction story about this, with phone auto-message and auto-answer systems connecting with each other long after all the humans were dead.
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by EEMac 3y ago
It's called bribery or corruption and is common in third-world countries. "You actually want me to do the job I'm already paid for? Give me cash."
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by EEMac 4y ago
It's interesting how national media reports this. Whether you agree with them or not, Proud Boys are incredibly clear about protesting all-ages drag shows. "18+ gets rid of us" is common chant. "Groomer" only appl
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by EEMac 4y ago
Someone says: "I'm making a new OS/desktop environment/text editor that works for power users." I hear: "I'm making this for me ." There's absolutely nothing wrong with that. Many powerful tools
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by EEMac 4y ago
Remember when web pages were text with a few images, with browser settings (font/size/color?) that let users style things to suit their own needs? Those were good days.
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by EEMac 4y ago
You don't. But you also don't have to listen to them.That's freedom.
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by EEMac 4y ago
> What makes it worse is that there's always some hidden setting or configuration somewhere to blame, so you never really can blame Word. Yes you can.
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by EEMac 4y ago
> I've never sent or received a 'nude selfie' in my life. Time to fix that.
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by EEMac 4y ago
"Every man's life is sufficient." - Marcus Aurelius
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by EEMac 5y ago
That would be terrible. /s
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by EEMac 5y ago
The 1920s have something to say about markets that climb without reference to underlying production.
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by EEMac 5y ago
If you create a problem, people will beg you to sell them the solution.
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by EEMac 5y ago
"My search engine is Safari." - My dad
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by EEMac 5y ago
Sure. But "anti-vaxxer" has two meanings which are conveniently confused in current usage. 1. Someone against all vaccines 2. Someone against the current COVID vaccines
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by EEMac 5y ago
This term bothers me. Isn't every single human neuro-distinct? Everyone deviates from the average/the norm in some way. If you mean Asperger's/autism, that's a specific thing, and I would be happy to think there&#
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by EEMac 5y ago
Good point! Ordering pet food over the internet in 1995: crazy moonshot weirdo stuff. Ordering pet food over the internet in 2021: just another day.
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by EEMac 5y ago
The damage is done to Parler, but also to Apple. Apple has established, clearly and publicly, that you will not say anything they disapprove of with their devices. (This affects Discord also: https://www.osnews.com/story&#x2
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by EEMac 5y ago
You get bonus points for the term "math glitter"!
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by EEMac 5y ago
I loved my Mac at the time! But it was an abusive relationship. Crashes weren't constant, exactly, but they were random and pervasive. I got trained to automatically save my file at every single pause in my typing . Finish a sentence?
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by EEMac 6y ago
> 100Mbps download so that multiple people can simultaneously stream 4k video is not a sane default. Remote work has become very much A Thing since the COVID lockdown. Solid upload/download bandwidth isn't about streaming multi
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by EEMac 6y ago
Ask Parler how well that works in the new era of FAANG dominance.
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by EEMac 6y ago
This frustrates a LOT of people who want more political difference expressed than the two parties exhibit.
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by EEMac 6y ago
When "GPS Speedometer" gets $200K/month in subscriptions, Apple gets their cut of that whether the app is legitimate or not.

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