oofManBang

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by oofManBang 1y ago
Ahh, silly me, I should have just starved on the streets until someone recognized my value.
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by oofManBang 1y ago
> It continues to baffle me that Google gets harassed by the courts for being a better actor in almost every area it participates. Doesn't mean much in a duopoly. Anyway, there's no real alternative to using google services whi
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by oofManBang 1y ago
Ships carried literal tons of fresh water. I'm not sure the details of treatment or how it was provisioned—provisioning beer was such a massive logistical task we have mountains of records, but we have a paucity of corresponding record
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by oofManBang 1y ago
Again, the claim is not against people drinking beer or water, it is against doing so out of some general fear of drinking water. Perhaps I was too strident in my criticism of your substantial comments; I apologize. However, I am still unco
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by oofManBang 1y ago
Point of order, beer was stored in a higher alcohol percentage (which is where we get IPAs from) which does extend its shelf life significantly. The gallon was heavily watered down to serve. Which is basically identical to lite beer we drin
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by oofManBang 1y ago
I don't really care about knockoffs (hell, I would happily shop on a site that ONLY sold knockoffs for basically everything but electronics), I just want to spend as little time actually looking through products as possible. Google is
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by oofManBang 1y ago
> I have no conceptual issue with Amazon serving ads against search terms. I do. Ads have zero positive. They lower everyone's quality of life and stuff our heads full of useless crap like brand awareness. Truly a cancer on society
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by oofManBang 1y ago
You might enjoy a fella named marx. Labor is labor, my friend. It should be mostly devoted to things that enrich the lives of us and those around us. It is normal to want to work. It is the alienating nature of selling our labor for a pitta
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by oofManBang 1y ago
> I’m constantly witness to colleagues in the tech industry posting on LinkedIn about how great their employer Whatever happened to dignity?
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by oofManBang 1y ago
dril
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by oofManBang 1y ago
True. He hasn't actually built anything since the very first days.
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by oofManBang 1y ago
> As far as I can tell, water-drinking was not particularly common Based on what? You certainly haven't given any indication of having read what historians have to say. Granted, that subreddit could be a cabal of people colluding to
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by oofManBang 1y ago
> So right now we have basically ideal headsets Meta Quest 3/3S Cmon, it has shitty hardware and shittier software. The only thing going for it is price and a game catalogue they've basically purchased. Which is admittedly a f
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by oofManBang 1y ago
> It literally bombed in the market. Compared to what? > abject failure Applying this to apple is beyond comprehension... What do you mean by using such a term? Apple is likely the richest single entity to have every existed, outside
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by oofManBang 1y ago
I appreciate the insight. I definitely understand why you might prefer this, especially with the in flight example and the photo editing. The one example I came up with internally was video editing/viewing, which seems to align quite w
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by oofManBang 1y ago
Would technology that allows sealing of beer not apply even better to relatively nutrition-less water? Especially boiled water. Anything that can feed off of pottery + water or metal + water or glass + water is gonna take a lot longer to gr
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by oofManBang 1y ago
Googling "belttop" just shows belts. To what are you referring? Are you suggesting wiring the glasses to some battery stored elsewhere? Sure you can do that, but I thought people these days hated wires (in spite of an objectively
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by oofManBang 1y ago
I've yet to meet someone with strong preference for screen real estate that could back it up with productivity. Sometimes people just want stimulation. Edit: i have no gripe with these people, I just simply don't buy that they&#x2
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by oofManBang 1y ago
How do you distinguish from "you aren't gonna read it"? The acronym is poorly designed.
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by oofManBang 1y ago
I don't really get your point. Water isn't necessarily safe now, either. Just like now, you boil water if you are aware of risk. Just like now, people communicated about when to boil, where to gather water, skinning people alive f
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by oofManBang 1y ago
I get that part entirely! It's the conflation of "good" and "successful" that I find confusing.
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by oofManBang 1y ago
The boil does kill the bacteria, but it's not preserved after the boil. At best it's as sterile as water; at worse it spoils faster due to the abundance of nutrients.
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by oofManBang 1y ago
I would say cost is the hardest part to swallow—hence why I think it's ludicrous to even vaguely suggest it's aimed at general consumers. But i suppose it's difficult to tease these things apart.
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by oofManBang 1y ago
Anyone downvoting this comment is not understanding how common this myth is, or not bothering to google to verify their own understanding. It's by far the most asked-about myth on /r/askhistorians. Someone asked this under 24
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by oofManBang 1y ago
> Just enough to keep it without bacteria. Bacteria (and certainly viruses) can survive 80 proof liquor. 1% alcohol is going to have very little sterilization effect.
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by oofManBang 1y ago
Man, I don't even bother using the ultra-wide monitor on my desk . The screen on my laptop can already display orders of magnitude far more information than I can easily process at one time. Even with contexts where I'm comfortab
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by oofManBang 1y ago
> While the Apple Vision Pro itself is not a good ... product I must admit I'm baffled by this reaction to the first model: * It's clearly far more impressive technologically than any competitor. * The price point clearly indic
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by oofManBang 1y ago
Perhaps "compliance" is the wrong term, but surely such a tiny fine will do little to convince them to comply.