mainstreemm

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by mainstreemm 6y ago
Under the new Administration Twitter will assuredly ban anyone who doesn't appropriately mouth the narrative. The bans are already picking up steam, and have been since the election. Trump: gone. Khamenei? Still tweeting about how Amer
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by mainstreemm 6y ago
I had a bad time with this a little over a year ago and stopped using Signal over it. If my phone was off and I used Signal Desktop in the meantime, when I turned my phone back on the sync would often take as long as half an hour, with my p
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by mainstreemm 6y ago
It's OK, once Google gets a union then you'll lose your 600k TC job and get moved back down to the 250k job because you haven't been at the company long enough and promotions and pay ranges can be based on tenure because that
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by mainstreemm 6y ago
I'm too young to have used it, but I bet Borland C++ was nice, too. And I bet it was more work to configure Emacs to write C++ in the 90s than it was to just use Borland. But which one is still around? I wonder if it's more time w
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by mainstreemm 6y ago
Congress needs to pass a law so this stops being a political football under control of the Executive. You'll know if all the fuss about Net Neutrality was empty rhetoric if the Democrats don't propose any legislation in the next s
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by mainstreemm 6y ago
Abortion is not optional to the baby. I was a late-life child. High risk for Down's. My mother didn't get the test, which could've introduced more problems. She believed I was already alive, because I was, and I was therefore
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by mainstreemm 6y ago
Could you please provide a citation for this claim? It's fascinating if true, but I wonder which societies did this and what documentation there is for this practice. My understanding was that prior to the 20th century child mortality
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by mainstreemm 6y ago
The Midwest has that too. But it also has unions. :)