twirlip

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by twirlip 2mo ago
What if there was a radio station that didn't have commercials or corporate sponsorship? What if there was a radio station that was entirely listener supported? What if there was a radio station that let its volunteer DJs play whatever
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by twirlip 2mo ago
So Putin's failure in Ukraine is balanced by his wild success in the US. The eye-watering corruption of Trump and the Republican Party has irreversibly damaged relations with the democratic allies of the US.
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by twirlip 6mo ago
Back in the long-ago times, I saw ordinary people fight tooth-and-nail to keep their WordPerfect on DOS instead of switching to Windows and Word, despite it requiring those overlays kept above their keyboard function keys and being non-WYSI
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by twirlip 9mo ago
If you actually read the article, it indicated epidemiological studies showing that people living or working near farmland where paraquat is used have a higher incidence of Parkinson's. Additionally, the article cites a leading neurosc
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by twirlip 10mo ago
1938 Superman didn't fly; he jumped. And he was named Kal-L. But he was also a lot more of a social justice warrior. His chest emblem was different, too. But yeah, I expect good things.
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by twirlip 11mo ago
The page is more for lesser known authors, while the late Iain M Banks is certainly a master of science fiction, he is one of the best known authors.
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by twirlip 1y ago
There's a reason why Conservapedia sucks and isn't used by anybody.
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by twirlip 1y ago
R&D and prototyping is an up-front expense. Amortization over many units spreads out the costs to long term profitability. Does SpaceX have that kind of time, though? A prospective global depression would dry up the capital for funding
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by twirlip 2y ago
... From a pool of respondents who follow this internet personality. She acknowledges that only 10% of her followers identify as women and may respond differently than their cohorts.
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by twirlip 2y ago
It's the "ingenuity of Humanity" that's causing the collapse, is it not? Our intelligence, or ingenuity, has outpaced our wisdom. Surely the advent of thermonuclear weapons, biological weapons, poisoning ourselves and ou
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by twirlip 2y ago
>> "... artists lose their ability to make art when their brain is infected by money and power." I disagree. It's largely age based. Especially for filmmakers as novelty is part of the appeal of movies. As the artist ag
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by twirlip 3y ago
Your analogy with carmaker companies doesn't communicate the illogic you believe it does as there are several instances where car companies produced inferior followups to successful models. Furthermore, the self-same manufacturers larg
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by twirlip 3y ago
Oh, you!
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by twirlip 3y ago
Remove any copyright protection for AI derived content and I have little problem with AI generated media.
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by twirlip 3y ago
I think of Lorne Michaels holds a similar place in culture as did Hugh Hefner. SNL was highly influential, but has been coasting on eroding cultural relevance since the internet became more interesting than broadcast television. Comics are
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by twirlip 3y ago
There are metrics that describe such standards. One such is the University of Würzburg's Democracy Matrix, another is the Corruption Perception Index.
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by twirlip 3y ago
You are right. Those not killed within a week's time were sent to to concentration camps. Many were forced labor (slave) and then moved to death camps.when they could no longer work. My apologies for being unclear.
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by twirlip 3y ago
In the age of ubiquitous information sharing, the news of cops raiding a newspaper office is rather not a signal the system is working, than it is a klaxon that the system is failing.
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by twirlip 3y ago
The German industrialists of the early 20th Century feared unionism, socialism, and communism. They backed Hitler and funded the Nazi party. In turn, Nazis enacted the Nacht und Nebel slave labor program, Lex Krupp , and allowed companie
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by twirlip 3y ago
I wonder if the horrific aftermath of the atomic bombs dropped on Japan prevented later usage of nuclear weapons.
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by twirlip 3y ago
Rather, it is the dilution of the meaning of open source because true and pure open source such as GPL or Apache is too powerful for some people to accept.
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by twirlip 3y ago
At least she acknowledged her bias in knowing about "the negatives". Imagine the unacknowledged biases of those who refuse to see "the negatives".
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by twirlip 3y ago
>... we’re meant to be lead [sic]. I always mistrust litcrit with obvious grammatical errors.
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by twirlip 3y ago
I daresay China and the other nations would disagree with your assessment as to where the axe should fall. Your list--and I believe all such lists--has a strong subjective bias. I have no doubt there is a user on Tencent and a user on VK w
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by twirlip 3y ago
Ah, but eusociality means that the genes you have are in kin that inherit the world you leave them. So, by all means, leave them a better world!
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by twirlip 3y ago
Or Stephen Fry.
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by twirlip 3y ago
Until other cheap lifters show up, SpaceX can dictate the floor on costs. But profit means there must be a demand for Starship, perhaps more than Starlink provides. There are businesses that may flourish in near space given cheap enough acc
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by twirlip 3y ago
>If you can't ever have your thing in the open maybe you shouldn't be having it at all? This variant of "If you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to hide" shares the same naïve worldview of those who
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by twirlip 5y ago
While true, Gravity was an incredible spectacle when viewed in IMAX 3D. I would argue seeing it in a normal theatre or at home would be such a lesser experience, it would be as if you were watching a different movie. The IMAX 3D movie con
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by twirlip 5y ago
What current phone out there has a high-impedance 3.5mm headphone jack, user-replaceable battery, and IR blaster? Asking as a V20 owner.

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