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by will_pseudonym 5d ago
At first when I read this, I was like "Why does The Onion's ClickHole site need so many servers?"
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by will_pseudonym 7mo ago
They’re not just x. They’re y.
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by will_pseudonym 8mo ago
the great bifurcation will continue apace
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by will_pseudonym 1y ago
Pig-human organ transplants make me think of The Onion series, Porkin' Across America. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwQns6vGfj4&list=PL4NL9i-Fu1...
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by will_pseudonym 1y ago
> I have a habit of selecting and highlighting text on computer screens, while reading. "There are dozens of us!"
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by will_pseudonym 1y ago
This is my exact experience as well. I wonder if I should switch to using Sonnet so that I can have more time before auto-compact gets forced on me.
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/16/venezuela...
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
> Because money talks! Could you elaborate in what ways money influenced Turkey to speak out about it, where others didn't? I'm intensely curious about this.
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
To me, participating in these markets is akin to telling people you have a hot tip on a game of musical chairs where you know when the music is going to stop. I've played those games successfully, a la GME and BTC. But I don't fee
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
My money is resoundingly on yes. I'm deeply cynical about NFT's the same way I'm cynical about Beanie Babies and Pokémon & MtG cards. It's not for me, but I get it, and they'll likely do quite well in terms of i
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
35.5% in NFT's reads very young.
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
Are we ready to talk about 9/11 yet? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alleged_Saudi_role_in_Septembe...
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
there's actually an interesting argument that i first heard Diane Fleischman pose -- that chicken is worse than beef on a calorie/animal measure and so would harm more animals because it takes more chickens to feed x people than i
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
the ingredients.
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
it's like a combination between ad-hoc live podcasting and radio call-in shows. your question "what is clubhouse exactly?" is about as straightforward to answer as "what is the internet?". it's a new medium, wi
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
Thank you for sharing this. It's absolutely hilarious.
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
FYI, your comments all show up as "dead" to me. I vouched for this one, but not sure why they're dead.
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
the site is archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20101105111623/http://www.erasma...
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
If I'm not patronizing them, who is? Why would a browser want to get into the censorship business?
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
...and doesn't care about deplatforming. "We need more than deplatforming" https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/01/08/we-need-more-than-d...
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
And who sets the formula, who lobbies for laws to be passed to require it, who runs and owns the clearing houses? Hint: It's in the thread you linked. > RH offered to open up stock market investing more broadly. They succeeded, clea
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
Hear, hear! For the people who see no issues with any of this, shall we shut off their water and electricity too while we're at it?
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
FYI your comment was dead, and I vouched for it. You might be shadowbanned? Not sure, but regardless you might look into it.
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
Anyone could join that Discord server. Discord is incredibly difficult to moderate at scale, and they had banned every bad word that they didn't want the chat to be about. People joined and posted bad words in Unicode that the bots did
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
My cousin who I have been IM'ing with from the days of AIM/ICQ/Yahoo Messenger asked me yesterday if there was a better chat app than Facebook Messenger. We're both using Signal now. https://signal.org/do
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
Can't remember where I picked this up, but this has been a good mental model for me for understanding the dimensions of this problem of picking what I should pursue in my career & life. It's a riff on "Good, Cheap, or Fas
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
It actually started due to WWII. > Once America became embroiled in World War II, there was great concern that rampant inflation would threaten America's military effort and undermine its domestic economy. The concern was valid, as
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
"This is the most important slide in the entire talk. So, if you want to leave after this slide, I will not be offended, because it is all downhill from here." https://youtu.be/oTugjssqOT0?t=1256 (Timestamped li
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
The critiques you have of Macbooks of touchbar and keyboard wouldn't apply to the Mac Mini. And they have an M1 Mac Mini. Personally, I would love an M1 Mac Mini that ran Linux well. Very exciting development.
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by will_pseudonym 6y ago
OT, but "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?" reminds me of a funny Mitchell and Webb sketch about evil villains using ambiguous phrases when ordering their henchmen to kill someone. (NSFW) https://www.youtube.

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