grlhgr420

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by grlhgr420 12y ago
pervasive surveillance has a toxic effect on the human mind. it's the same reason mass surveillance by the nsa is disturbing, even if you have "nothing to hide"
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by grlhgr420 12y ago
fuck you. is this really a meaningful thing for you to do? you really have nothing better to do than trace a username? even if it's all public info you're a piece of shit for tracing it for no reason besides outing because you can
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by grlhgr420 12y ago
the page specifically mentions that it's ending support in may because ms is dropping xp support, though
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by grlhgr420 12y ago
stepping away from the context for a moment, the writing is also fucking terrible and overwrought. it reads like a cross between ignatius reilly and sephiroth
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by grlhgr420 12y ago
it wasn't aimed at you but it's nearly always directly transcribable that way. i have a grudge against the term 'pc' -- i understand that it typically refers to an archetype of a ~ hyper-offensible liberal that lives in
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by grlhgr420 12y ago
'pc' is invariably shorthand for 'im gonna get self righteous about my right to be an asshole'
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by grlhgr420 12y ago
depending on what you believed he either ended up there as a result of having his passport revoked en route to ecuador (his story) or that was a ruse and he intended to stay in russia because it was the only state that could and would stand
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by grlhgr420 12y ago
generating revenue isn't the same thing as providing a valuable service and it's kind of sad that i have to point that out in the first place. there's a reason i've read metafilter every day for over a decade and reddit
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by grlhgr420 12y ago
do you really think reddit is a model of what a web community should look like? genuine question, because if that's the case then you're not exactly the intended audience
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by grlhgr420 12y ago
old and well established user-generated blog with an extremely well moderated (best on the net, imo) discussion forum in the form of comment threads, with a medium-sized user base. the pice tag is only to comment, and as you might imagine i
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by grlhgr420 12y ago
if you use imdb as a general indicator of a film's quality you're much better off entirely excluding the scores of films produced by india and turkey
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by grlhgr420 12y ago
racism requires the assumption of a power dynamic that subjugates the recipient. eg a white guy being called a cracker doesn't resonate with the kinds of cultural practices of oppression that that using racial slurs against a minority
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by grlhgr420 12y ago
https://i.imgur.com/ZI6ye2F.jpg
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by grlhgr420 12y ago
really r u sure it wasnt bc of the ivnisble hand
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by grlhgr420 12y ago
ah yes this emerging threat currently kills fewer people in a single year than an entire genocidal campaign did over the course of six. excellent point, as i'm sure deaths from previously preventable infections are sure to only drop in
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by grlhgr420 12y ago
when this was posted on metafilter last year someone posted a truly excellent comment: https://www.metafilter.com/134210/Imagining-the-Post-Antibio...
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by grlhgr420 12y ago
the dollar's 'inherent' value is linked to the long term stability of the US regime, which has a lot more utility than dental fillings