despideme

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by despideme 6mo ago
Assault, presumably. Pretty soon we may find ourselves introducing autocorrect errors like that on porpoise, to try to show we're not AI.
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by despideme 2y ago
There’s interesting ambiguity in this comment. I interpret the comment as saying, “I could be tricked by a deepfake of a stranger due to a lack of experience with their ‘true’ behaviors, but would not be tricked so easily when it’s someone
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by despideme 3y ago
Anecdata to follow. Does this not look suspicious? https://www.threads.net/@quiverquantitative/post/CzcB_jyA_pD The politician in question is a 69 year old former football coach who bought stock in a cloud-based
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by despideme 3y ago
The point is not if the politicians did better than they would have with another investing approach. It's a standard conflict of interest: the appearance of insider trading is corrosive because others see it and figure it's "
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by despideme 3y ago
This is exactly what Transformers were in the 1980s: pre-existing Japanese toys whose existence had nothing to do with the retconned “Autobots vs. Decepticons” cartoon plot. That was invented to drive the toys into the American market.
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by despideme 3y ago
Walmart is based in Bentonville. e.g.: https://corporate.walmart.com/news/2020/09/14/walmart-and-zi...
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by despideme 3y ago
I wonder — is the name a reference to the mass confusion about “Shazam” starring Sinbad and “Kazam” starring Shaquille O’Neal? Or an example of it?
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by despideme 3y ago
The price difference is a way to pass along credit card fees that otherwise would have to be paid by the station operator. It used to be against the credit card networks’ merchant agreements to have separate cash and credit prices — but a g
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by despideme 3y ago
If the "Map of Reddit" project is any indicator the total NSFW subs are about one-third to one-fourth the size of the total non-NSFW subs. That's a non-trivial amount of use to gamble with, but the legal and regulatory headac
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by despideme 3y ago
I hate that I have to use this -- but I do and it's a lifesaver in the right situation: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/url-quick-keyboard/id644777071...
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by despideme 4y ago
Yep. On a new machine I always go to the menu in System Preferences and choose "View" → "Organize Alphabetically"
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by despideme 13y ago
Given that this is Comedy Central (owned by Viacom), I'd imagine the idea was run past Starbucks' legal department before it was greenlit. I'd also wager there's a legal agreement governing what CC can and can't do,
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by despideme 13y ago
I can only see the Spanish-language page for some reason. Safari on OS X 10.9. Changing the user agent doesn't fix it.