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4,416karma·3,765submissions·August 18, 2015
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I've been a PillPack customer for the past six months, since my local pharmacy closed (apparently for good) because of COVID19. It would be nice to be able to fine-grain adjust the monthly delive…
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Given the existence of trypophobia on the one hand, and ASMR on the other, the plausibility of a basilisk cannot be dismissed.
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>Out of interest. You are emperor of Angaria with obviously 20/20 hindsight. What date do you make the decision to lockdown. Pull a Madagascar if you know plague inc. Before January 1, ideally…
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> Everything related to Microwave ovens seems to have stalled - because of patents? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiS27feX8o0 …
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`/usr/libexec/trustd` exists on Mojave, too. There's a (very unhelpful) manpage. I think you were just lucky to not open non-Apple applications during the outage.
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>No one, so far as I am aware, was claiming that the election results were improperly counted in 2016 The mantra for Trump's opponents and the media in the first year or so of his presidency w…
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> Remember after Trump’s election it seemed like half of New York was reading The Hillbilly Elegy? The New York Times (yes, the Times ) pointed out after Trump's election stunned the press …
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If Touch Bar were in addition to the function keys + Escape key, everyone would praise it as yet another brilliant Apple innovation, and rivals would be copying it the way every notebook nowadays look…
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From the FAQ: >Q: Why is Slingbox being discontinued? >A: We’ve had to make room for new innovative products so that we can continue to serve our customers in the best way possible. >Q: Will …
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>In fairness, there's already clear evidence of attempts to subvert the election via manipulation of the USPS. Yet you fail to provide said clear evidence. There were a lot of nonsense allegat…
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>I suspect the reason IBM was able to reconcile with Linux and even go all-in on it was that it complemented their lucrative very high end server and mainframe businesses. Linux also gave IBM for t…
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https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/07/13/britains-extra-crispy-c... …
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danoloan knows that Orwell was there; the article mentions Homage to Catalonia . His point, which I agree with, is that he is (somewhat, but noticeably) softer on the Republican side than on the Fran…
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>No need to refer to a third source, you seem to be paraphrasing a quote from the above submission here: "One feature of the Nazi conquest of France was the astonishing defections among the in…
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>Does this mean thath the polls for this presidential election are even more wrong than they were in 2016? Yes. The final Democracy Institute poll ( https://www.express.co.uk/news&#x…
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>The effect of this was predictable (indeed I've been saying it for about two decades): MORE people become anti-immigrant. (the Sweden Democrats are probably the biggest party now, if there&#x…
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>Meanwhile a convoy of armed Trump supporters literally tried to run the Biden campaign bus off the road. Surrounding the bus, while keeping to all traffic laws. And before you say "But what a…
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For those who don't believe offshore4432: As this video ( https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1322646326807568390 ) shows, the black Trump-supporter vehicle was alrea…
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>Yet if you looked at Twitter or Facebook, you would be convinced Labour would win with complete dominance in posts upon those platforms. "Never mistake your Twitter feed for your country"…
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The final Democracy Institute poll ( https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1354506/us-election-202... ) that came out Saturday predicts a Trump victory contrary to most ot…
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Put on a "Make America Great Again" hat and walk through downtown Chicago, San Francisco, Ann Arbor, or Cambridge before or after election day 2016 (or 2020). Now, put on a "I'm Wi…
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> Yeah, the other things Asian American small-business owners are subjected to is being the butt of violent inner-city riots supported by major political parties. Indeed. Also from the 2015 Baltimo…
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It's hopeless. More than once I've seen claimed that "gerrymandering" affects the Electoral College and got Trump elected. Yet more proof that the word, like "fascism", s…
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>Frankly, I just don't see the general population willing to pay as much for news as it did in the past. The big stories will be available for free somewhere and even local news can be found o…
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>It's mostly covered in the wiki under each of their paragraphs though. You're hoping that people won't bother to read said Wiki, or get confused by the legalese. Papadopoulos: Indic…
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No American on that list got indicted of anything related to "Russiagate", but for unrelated procedural crimes discovered during the investigation. (You know the saying that everyone witting…
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>The UK legalized abortion by law. It’s 24-week limit on abortion for economic reasons is the longest in the EU. In the US, abortion was legalized by the Supreme Court. 24 weeks is a fairly typical…
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I agree that there are factors that so much of current reporting is missing. The black (and Latino) swing toward Trump, for example, is apparent in every single poll I've seen. As mentioned elsew…
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You seem to be under the impression that when an American, Japanese, or German businessman goes to India, Russia, or Africa, it's the businessman who chooses the currency. No; nine times out of t…
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>But enough major players are sick of it that it is falling apart. China, Russia, India, Brazil, most of the Middle East and a good chunk of Africa no longer see this system as providing value for …
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