jackfruitpeel

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by jackfruitpeel 6mo ago
The craziest thing here is that online gambling has been legal in the UK and Ireland for many years, and it's been such an obvious negative for those countries — and had been optimized brutally like any other tech product. When I moved
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by jackfruitpeel 4y ago
If you're an employer who has let someone go, you would have to be mentally deficient to mention anything regarding their disability in relation to their employment or firing.
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by jackfruitpeel 4y ago
Twitter was not some sort of rest and vest retirement scheme — he worked as a design director there for years. You should read his followup thread for more context. You should also be aware that you can't just fire someone because of t
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by jackfruitpeel 4y ago
Apologies. In retrospect a comment that didn't add much.
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by jackfruitpeel 4y ago
It's the concept of monarchy I have a problem with. Not the UK in particular ( though your actions in Northern Ireland remain shameful).
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by jackfruitpeel 4y ago
There were admirable things about her as a person, but the concept of monarchy is a stain on humanity. I can't respect anyone who supports the idea of superiority by virtue of bloodline.
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by jackfruitpeel 4y ago
Sad on a human level, but she spent her years as the figurehead of an inherently fascist, racist institution — royalty. "Whoever had created humanity had left in a major design flaw. It was its tendency to bend at the knees.”
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by jackfruitpeel 4y ago
We had the exact same structure in our town park, it was such a strange and amazing thing to climb around in!
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by jackfruitpeel 5y ago
We are absolute fiends for tea.
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by jackfruitpeel 5y ago
Yeah, I live in SF now after moving from Europe. The tax difference is not really that different for me (high earner), but what you get in return in really depressing. Good weather and astronomical wages make it worthwhile.
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by jackfruitpeel 5y ago
European universities are sad places? That's a broad and completely unfair brush to paint an entire continent with.
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by jackfruitpeel 5y ago
European here — that is an insane cost for college fees from my POV. I attended one of the most highly rated courses for my profession in Europe and only paid about €3K per year.
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by jackfruitpeel 5y ago
One of the fallacies around accessibility is 'just for blind people' — there are all sorts of physical and mental disabilities humans suffer from, at various levels of severity (sometimes temporarily, sometimes permanently). It&#x
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by jackfruitpeel 5y ago
I appreciate your viewpoint, but I want to push back on "this just happens in cities". The only other place I experienced this level of criminality was when I was living in South America. (And I'm certainly not saying SF is m
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by jackfruitpeel 5y ago
I'm living in one of the nicest neighborhoods in Oakland, and I would definitely not consider it "fine". The area is beautiful, but we're plagued by gunpoint robberies, burglaries, dumping, etc — people coming in and tre
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by jackfruitpeel 6y ago
The pencil has been iterated upon countless times, by a huge number of individuals and organisations. They also have a huge variety of forms for different uses and contexts: carpenters pencils, steno pencils, charcoal pencils, pencils for u
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by jackfruitpeel 7y ago
"It eased gently into democracy several hundred years ago"? It's a shame it didn't extend that courtesy to my homeland, Ireland—we were one of those countries that had to wrest democracy through violent revolution, excep
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by jackfruitpeel 7y ago
I used to have this problem—constant sweating from my armpits drove me crazy, and deodorant ruined so many shirts, despite trying multiple brands/types. Started using Dove+ antiperspirant stick this winter and the problem is gone—one a