fazeirony

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by fazeirony 1y ago
absolutely. but i think there's at least some evidence that lack of appropriate fluoridation is beneficial. certainly in my anecdotal example (ofc, i didn't grow up in this town and every town in the US has wildly different fluo
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by fazeirony 1y ago
we moved to a rural area in 2005 with clean, but unfluoridated well water. had a son. brushes twice daily for 2 minutes a time like everyone else in the house. he had an excessive amount of cavities and the dentist did not use any supplemen
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by fazeirony 1y ago
i agree with this esp. when the parent linked a wiki page that, if you go beyond the single photo on the page and read it, is completely counter to the comment. i'm confused too, but ty parent for making me aware of vision zero.
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by fazeirony 1y ago
you mean the company that spent $9B to make $4B in 2024? that openai? i agree with you on this - it seems that openai hallucinates reality as much as their products do :-/
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by fazeirony 1y ago
when kids during the napster era were downloading music, the mega-corporations yelled that their bottom-lines to shareholders were being destroyed. now, when the mega-corporations do it, it is 'just the cost of doing business'. in
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by fazeirony 1y ago
this was the comment i was looking for! i remember those red pages and found them annoying on even legitimately purchased games (which is how copy protection has always been IME - makes it so legitimate purchasers of a game got annoyed and
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by fazeirony 1y ago
> but over time it became clear it didn't. are profits spiralling downward? are these businesses, overall, making less profit? because of remote workers? or is it closer to the truth to say that no amount of profit - or asserting au
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by fazeirony 1y ago
> Many organizations seem to believe they can sidestep this conflict by remaining neutral. you can't be neutral on a moving train. if you think it is bad now, and this will 'blow over,' history is there to prove you wrong.
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by fazeirony 1y ago
let's be more direct and truthful - ibm directly aided the third reich in their despicable actions. full stop.
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by fazeirony 1y ago
for sure. but if ANY of that kind of thing gets in the way of profits, well then that's not OK. in capitalism, profit is the only thing that matters. CSAM? drugs? underage use? pfft. until this country gets serious about this stuff -
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by fazeirony 1y ago
i'm an american and it is is exactly stuff like this that causes me to avoid using services like this like the plague if i can avoid them. despite living here, privacy to me is important. if i were this woman, i'd not let it go at
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by fazeirony 1y ago
> Because empathy isn't useful to society. things that lack empathy: corporations, machines, AI, psychopaths things that are problematic to society: corporations, machines, AI, psychopaths
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by fazeirony 1y ago
would WSL work? (sorry, not used windows in a hot minute...)
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by fazeirony 2y ago
this. and let's not forget that these....officers always receive the best, most top notch training to use these things safely. (/s) yet another reason to ensure footage looks like 'nothing terrible happened to these people&
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by fazeirony 2y ago
the GOP: "states' rights! states' rights!!" also the GOP: "not those rights! only the rights we want to share"
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by fazeirony 2y ago
i'm on a number of discord servers. yes, some have that 'mean girls' vibe but considering the content, i expect that. the more tech oriented ones i'm on...that's not an issue at all. to me, in general the vibe of
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by fazeirony 2y ago
i can't wait for the "there's been confusion about what we've done" message to come out. cuz its always us, right? the customer is always wrong in this era of techno-feudalism.
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by fazeirony 2y ago
not just drop the ball, but willfully kick it to the other goal
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by fazeirony 2y ago
makes perfect sense - let's remove chargers that have already been bought, paid for, and installed. smh.
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by fazeirony 2y ago
i mean, literally the very first sentence in their statement is a blatant lie that consumers are supposed to just go 'see, they care about us!': "We're always looking for ways to improve our customer service experience.&
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by fazeirony 2y ago
so trying to understand here. when metallica et. al. went after kids (well, i guess ppl my age all those years ago lol) for using napster and downloading their music...they made this very clear distinction right? i'm beyond sick and ti
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by fazeirony 2y ago
i appreciate the optimism that there will be something left to actually have this 'do-over'...
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by fazeirony 2y ago
> He does have to be a guy why?
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by fazeirony 2y ago
i too have noticed this and as such, have switched to USB out to async USB input DAC that supports that. there are plenty of good quality, low cost DACs available from folks like schiit, smsl, topping, etc. (cheap enough that as someone tha
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by fazeirony 2y ago
huh. reading the piece it seems pretty reasonable relatively (we clearly are living in an interesting moment...) speaking. what exactly are you commenting 'not like that' about? or are you (e.g.,) a federal contractor yourself?
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by fazeirony 2y ago
if anything, thanks for letting us all know that University of Washington blackmails their students in bad faith. hopefully this will save at least one other kid from being taken advantage of like you are clearly being and go to a superior
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by fazeirony 2y ago
i'm sorry but > All companies care about safety is naive at best. yes, all companies care about safety... after profits we've structured corporations that this is the main driver, full stop. as an example, earlier in my career
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by fazeirony 2y ago
i also hear official inflation numbers in the US are 'low' right now too, yet that doesn't mean prices are down or that things are affordable to the common person. my lived reality talking to actual citizens tells me a lot of
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by fazeirony 2y ago
leave it to ft.com to paint this as a feel good, happy story. meanwhile, argentinians are facing record poverty levels, inflation at extraordinary levels, and extreme wealth inequality. but hey, recession exited! austerity 1 working proles
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by fazeirony 2y ago
> direct injection of said propaganda straight into our toddlers, teens, and tweens brain by that same logic, shouldn't we then ban ig/facebook/threads/twitter/etc.? but since its our propaganda, we can classif

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