hotmeals

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by hotmeals 1y ago
The internet isn't magic, if you send data to business X that is under jurisdiction of country Z, it's judicial system can get it by court order. This always has been like this, you are in HN, did you think E2EE was just a LARP? I
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by hotmeals 1y ago
>[Hamas] they're deterred, they're comfortable and in charge That's just being deluded, being a in open air prison is different from being a sovereign nation.
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by hotmeals 1y ago
If you don't mind me asking, did you grow up religious? And if so, which flavor?
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by hotmeals 1y ago
It's quirky at best.
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by hotmeals 1y ago
The idea is... okay, but it's way too long so the joke gets old and starts sounding kinda fucked up. When a kid does the "buy me a PS5" powerpoint on his own it's cute, this looks more like MLM training.
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by hotmeals 1y ago
Sorry, I meant that fantasy usually is in a unrelated-to-our-own fantastical world or it's in the real world (e.g urban fantasy), but the fact that magic exists and the reader "didn't know" about it must be explained (e.
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by hotmeals 1y ago
Most TV news now is talking about stuff in Twitter and I Can't Believe It's Not Twitter.
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by hotmeals 1y ago
Eh, I think there's a difference that make both terms useful. Fiction set strictly in the real world with mysterious yet mundane magical/supernatural elements, versus fiction in a fantastical world or a "real world" wher
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by hotmeals 1y ago
If it wasn't suicide and I was the big boss, I would get some nuclear subs for my irrelevant South American nation ASAP. The "rules based order" is just wet toilet paper, who's to say that in 50 years we or our neighbors
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by hotmeals 1y ago
If the Norwegians or anyone for that matter got uppity...
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by hotmeals 1y ago
Terminator Skynet rules, they just delayed it.
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by hotmeals 1y ago
>They all look, sound, and think the same. Their worldview is fundamentally conspiratorial in that they believe there is a utopian world that only they and their fellow flannel-enjoyers understand, that somehow actual urban planners, eco
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by hotmeals 1y ago
So Manhattan with less brick and more modern insulation?
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by hotmeals 1y ago
>online performative self-hate and classic elite-liberal virtue signaling The "all opinions I don't like are not held honestly, it's a trick" meme is very tiring. In respect to your original point, no this isn't
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by hotmeals 1y ago
Some of the cases you mention involve "military" police who are under the authority of the Ministry of the Interior, instead of the Ministry of Defense. Many also are not the only police force, in Chile the investigative duties fa
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by hotmeals 1y ago
Only Apple could call an Aero-esque water based design "Liquid Glass".
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by hotmeals 1y ago
"Only" 50K paying customers, in a market where all the oligopolistic incumbents have been offering the product for free for more than 20 years. Of course that's sad for the average SV-type that is thinking about hypergrowth (
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by hotmeals 1y ago
> Wood fires are free heat. In Minecraft perhaps. Wood costs money to get, process and adequately use, the well also has maintenance costs.
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by hotmeals 1y ago
Wood is free if you scavenge wood from an uncertain source, ignore fuel, equipment, time, oh and labor . Never mind it's green wood, so you need to manage stockpiling to dry it. I live in a country where for half of the population woo