magissima

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by magissima 7y ago
I've been using Firefox Preview for a while and I like it, especially the bottom navigation bar, but one thing that I hope survives from the old app is the tab queue, which sends links opened from other apps to Firefox in the backgroun
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by magissima 7y ago
More often than never!
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by magissima 7y ago
"From Middle English -ish, -isch, from Old English -isċ (“-ish”, suffix), from Proto-Germanic -iskaz (“-ish”), from Proto-Indo-European -iskos." https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-ish
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by magissima 7y ago
Considering it's a national park, hunting antelope is probably also considered poaching.
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by magissima 7y ago
DO's cofounder seems to have intervened. https://twitter.com/moiseyuretsky/status/1134547532149854208
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by magissima 7y ago
"Those connected to and victims of criminal acts" are supposed to be excluded, so Ted Bundy should probably be removed from Burlington and Salt Lake City. edit: and while I'm looking at Lake Champlain, Eric Harris and Dylan K
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by magissima 7y ago
And people complain that ranked-choice voting is too complicated for the average voter...
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by magissima 7y ago
She was still parking illegally, the court just threw out the method they used to catch her.
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by magissima 7y ago
I recently made a similar upgrade (old ones from 2010-ish) and I was also impressed by how much better the new ones were. The old pair's performance may have degraded over time, but the way the new ones blew them out of the water I dou
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by magissima 7y ago
Agreed on both counts. Wearing hearing aids for essentially my whole life I've been made fun of for it maybe once or twice, and that did suck, but there's so much more stigma in an oticon pamphlet than I've ever experienced i
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by magissima 7y ago
And yet I've barely heard a peep about Alex Jones since he was deplatformed. It seems to have worked pretty well there.
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by magissima 7y ago
Definitely, I'm not normally one to criticize headlines but this one is missing some pretty important context.
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by magissima 7y ago
I thought "transit planner" would be a hint that I was referring to the first part of the parent's comment, that "somebody was pushing a transit agenda hard".
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by magissima 7y ago
Here's transit planner Jarrett Walker making the exact opposite argument: https://humantransit.org/2019/03/notes-on-simcity-at-30.html
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by magissima 8y ago
So "abolish the NLRB" then.
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by magissima 8y ago
In European countries where this is the model there are often several competing unions with different political affiliations.
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by magissima 8y ago
Inherited wealth, disparities in access to education, racism, and a weak labor movement are a few of the many forces that impede upward social mobility.
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by magissima 8y ago
They're probably mostly referring to Bernie Sanders, who ran a campaign very focused on wealth inequality. The union link is that when people become more aware of inequality and by extension class, they become more likely to participat
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by magissima 8y ago
At least you have a vote in the union, unlike when your employer decides to use the products of your labor to lobby for policies or support parties you find abhorrent.
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by magissima 8y ago
Try changing your terminal's width and running it again ;)
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by magissima 8y ago
A lot of the issues mentioned there stem from platform differences though. The packaging hurdles and out-of-place UI style wouldn't be an issue on a convergent platform, though the difficulty and slight ugliness of QML/Kirigami wo
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by magissima 8y ago
One of the "nice" things about being hard of hearing is that I can't hear any difference between flac and mp3s down to around 96 or lower for most music, so hypothetically I don't have to worry about this stuff. Of cours
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by magissima 8y ago
Well surely she didn't get any higher than that at least, right? /s
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by magissima 8y ago
Indeed, the author even wrote another article explicitly refuting the anti-union argument. https://pedestrianobservations.com/2019/01/08/meme-weeding-u...
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by magissima 8y ago
Is it not also a democracy?
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by magissima 8y ago
Good analogy. A wolf majority results in sheep being eaten with or without democracy because the wolves are more powerful. A sheep majority can save the sheep from the wolves only in a democratic system where the wolves respect majority rul
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by magissima 8y ago
If you don't like the majority deciding on taxes, you don't like democracy.
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by magissima 8y ago
I'm guessing `synchronized.srt` is just the name of the output file.
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by magissima 8y ago
I just finished reading this and loved it! As someone without much preexisting knowledge about the course of the revolution or anyone involved other than the Tsar and the main Bolsheviks, I found it to be very accessible and engaging. You r
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by magissima 8y ago
A real life shonen manga protagonist.

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