inkywatcher

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by inkywatcher 1y ago
The dashes thing is really only a tell for high schoolers and obvious illiterates –writers can and do use them. Next we need to teach GPT about interrobangs.
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by inkywatcher 2y ago
I would very sincerely ask what places and what quality?
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by inkywatcher 2y ago
Nor quality, unfortunately.
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by inkywatcher 3y ago
Reddit also occupies the space that otherwise might permit a more useful, benevolent internet platform. From a certain perspective, Reddit is standing in the way of an internet that better facilitates the enjoyment you describe.
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by inkywatcher 3y ago
Broken on purpose in this case, I am sure, for the same reason Spotify doesn't deal with FLAC.
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by inkywatcher 3y ago
BBEdit is invaluable to me and I will use it forever. That said, it has some persistent window focus bugs that spill over into finder that I dearly I wish that they would iron out. Otherwise, it is one of the most stable, reliable, and usef
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by inkywatcher 3y ago
Ah, so the American worker analogy remains accurate.
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by inkywatcher 3y ago
Respectfully, I disagree. Google and Bing both deliberately pollute their own search results based on advertising and SEO. This is a user-hostile practice that they can get away with because of inertia and oligopoly. At some point, they wil
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by inkywatcher 3y ago
You say "socialization" but I think the real word is "conformity".
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by inkywatcher 3y ago
While I am very ready to be critical of Reddit, including its creators, community, interface, and aesthetic, I am not personally offended that a couple jabronis posted a bunch of stuff to build up some initial momentum.
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by inkywatcher 3y ago
When you put it like that, I really prefer some of the precursors.
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by inkywatcher 3y ago
Those are interesting examples, in that they are both commercially successful despite conventionally poor writing. In literary circles, King is often regarded as somebody who could write well but chooses not to because it would be less lucr
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by inkywatcher 4y ago
Please demonstrate that it "never" works.
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by inkywatcher 4y ago
In the case of Apex Legends, I think the experientially high incidence of cheaters and persistently active cheat manufacturers (as well as almost-cheats like using mouse and keyboard on consoles for superior aim assist) are both a complimen
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by inkywatcher 4y ago
Ask a gay person in Orban's Hungary what respecting the will of the voters is like.
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by inkywatcher 4y ago
I find it interesting that your way of proving anti-Zionist sentiment is to demonstrate that there are quantifiably more leftist editors on Wikipedia. That does not demonstrate your thesis of anti-Israeli bias. Plenty of people who at least
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by inkywatcher 4y ago
> surely Would you mind substantiating this?
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by inkywatcher 4y ago
The premise that reading someone else's thought would be horrifying to the point where you would stop loving or respecting them dates at least to Young Goodman Brown, by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Not very long / worth a read.
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by inkywatcher 5y ago
First, density is obviously cheaper, and many people already begrudge homeless people sleeping outside even though that doesn't cost anything. Second, even if a person is addicted to drugs, they still need a place to live. So evicting
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by inkywatcher 5y ago
No amount of living parsimoniously or adopting neoprimitivism will address the pollution caused by others who are not doing the same. Individual actors do not move this dial. No amount of me eschewing jet travel will reduce carbon emission
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by inkywatcher 5y ago
I think the lack of uniformity is a big part of many peoples' climate skepticism. Certainly it is a talking point. It seems like many people have too little imagination to comprehend climate science, much less the appetite to learn som
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by inkywatcher 5y ago
You are confused why people do not want to discuss pulling levers attached to arguably the most complex system of which we are aware? Especially if it is going to be the same caliber of person pulling those levers as allowed it to happen in
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by inkywatcher 5y ago
What do you suppose will happen when hundreds of millions of people find that their local geography no longer supports human habitation? They will be welcomed into neighboring regions with open arms?
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by inkywatcher 5y ago
Not every historical system has privatized profits with socialized costs. With regards to climate change, it is a vitally important blind spot.
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by inkywatcher 5y ago
It is absolutely taken as a given, especially in discussions involving people who might make money from such projects.
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by inkywatcher 5y ago
Agreed. It's more like 90%.