metabagel

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by metabagel 16d ago
I think you're off by at least an order of magnitude.
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by metabagel 16d ago
There will always be creative superstars.
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by metabagel 16d ago
They are in the process of getting their accreditation.
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by metabagel 16d ago
It seems like authorities determined there was no threat, but she was fired anyway.
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by metabagel 16d ago
This strikes me as somewhat like the old stories about people being reported by photographic film processors to authorities for submitting negatives of their own naked or partially clothed little children. That is to say that it seems like
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by metabagel 17d ago
> I’m not sure: when I was in high school / university it was well understood that places like Florida would be under water and unlivable by now. I don't doubt that is your recollection, but nobody back then was predicting it w
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by metabagel 20d ago
I was good at mechanical drawing in college, meaning I could visualize the view of something from different sides. But, generally there was a perspective to work off of. I don’t have aphantasia, but I believe I have reduced ability to visua
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by metabagel 20d ago
I believe it, because I tend to have a hard time visualizing even the faces of people I love and know well. It takes great effort.
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by metabagel 20d ago
It's more of a mall. No loitering. No trespassing.
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by metabagel 20d ago
I am able to search and browse Reddit forums and comments without logging in. Can't do that on Twitter.
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by metabagel 21d ago
It's useable, but for me it's a sometimes frustrating experience. You're meant to compensate for the hard edges of the operating system, instead of the operating system being designed for humans.
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by metabagel 21d ago
MacOS does some pretty annoying things. The virtual desktop implementation is abysmal. It won't let you just assign applications to a virtual desktop. It insists on forcing it and also auto-switching when you switch to the application.
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by metabagel 24d ago
Alternatively, if this topic is too hot for discussion, it should be frozen but allowed to remain on the front page, because this book is newsworthy. I intend to read it.
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by metabagel 24d ago
I believe this topic was flagged for political reasons, which constitutes an abuse of the system. This is an important topic for the tech industry. Avoiding it won't make it go away.
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by metabagel 24d ago
IMO, what Thiel wrote is essentially that women and non-whites are beneficiaries of welfare and leaches on society, and that they therefore will vote to transfer wealth from the white men who create it (according to Thiel). https:/&#x
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by metabagel 24d ago
> California’s Civil Rights Department, which sued Tesla in February 2022 after a three-year investigation, documented specific language in its complaint: the n-word, “porch monkey,” “monkey toes,” “boy,” “hood rats,” “go back to Africa,
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by metabagel 24d ago
Tesla partly settles racism lawsuit as hundreds of workers press on https://electrek.co/2026/07/27/tesla-partly-settles-racism-l...
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by metabagel 24d ago
“How the roots of the ‘PayPal mafia’ extend to apartheid South Africa” https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/26/elon-musk...
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by metabagel 24d ago
> DURAN: In April 2009, Peter Thiel wrote an essay in which he said he no longer believed that freedom and democracy were compatible and suggested that women and other people getting the right to vote marked the end of freedom being a th
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by metabagel 25d ago
And... https://www.subjecttoinquiry.com/2014/04/obstruction-of-cont... ----- The defendant need not know a matter was pending or within federal jurisdiction. Instead, the “knowingly” element refers only to the obs
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by metabagel 25d ago
And... https://www.subjecttoinquiry.com/2014/04/obstruction-of-cont... And... https://www.subjecttoinquiry.com/2014/04/obstruction-of-cont... ----- The defendant need not know a matter w
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by metabagel 25d ago
> Once police open an investigation or once there is a lawsuit served, destroying evidence relevant to that lawsuit is illegal. An investigation doesn't need to have begun. All that's required is that you intended to destroy ev
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by metabagel 25d ago
> Destroying evidence is legal all day long Absolutely not the case. (edited to use a better reference) https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1519 > Whoever knowingly alters, destroys, mutilates, c
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by metabagel 25d ago
Tariffs in and of themselves might make sense, but the process has been arbitrary and illegal. There needs to be some sort of a plan to these things, and there is no apparent plan here.
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by metabagel 25d ago
Trump doesn't have the legal authority nor the mandate to enact arbitrary tariffs. His previous attempt ended with the Supreme Court declaring his tariffs illegal. This was the President of the U.S. willfully breaking the law, and he&#
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by metabagel 25d ago
You're right, but his base are also a bunch of lemmings who will believe what they are told to believe.
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by metabagel 25d ago
Absolutely, Trump is a symptom of the problem. The root of the problem is the moral rot of the Republican Party.
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by metabagel 25d ago
He's an agent of chaos. His decision-making process is rashly emotional and based on narcissistic needs.
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by metabagel 25d ago
As an American, there is a lot of disinformation in the U.S. A lot of people absorb MAGA talking points. The rest of us are in a continuous state of stunned disbelief. Trump tore down a third of the White House without permission, and someh
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by metabagel 25d ago
> I have not been following the Canada thing but generally have been learning more about trade and Trump's approach seems less chaotic and random than is talked about. Trump imposed tariffs on an island populated only by penguins.

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