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1,244karma·643submissions·October 21, 2024
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>If you been to Japan, access to unhealthy food is extraordinarily easy. But so is healthy food. Imagine saying "I ate nothing but 7/11 food for two days and I feel the best I have in yea…
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I was applying for a job and they refused to let me enter the # as how to call me, then the mintsim acted up so I ended up using a relative's landline, which is not even a landline anymore becaus…
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Dear lord, I certainly wouldn't want to be some kind of shadowy open source egregore making people unsafe offline ... I don't think there's some kind of squad of Stallman level open so…
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>I would have rented or sold it to the highest bidder. Do you also steal from the library? Mozilla isn't some big bad corporation. Personally, I'd be a little wary of pissing off the hack…
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What'll really grind your gears is if you have a cheap MVNO like Mintsim and that too is blocked as a "prepaid" and have no landline or office phone.
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I actually briefly worked as a "paranormal investigator" when I was hard up for money --- someone came to me with some satellite photos they felt had evidence of UFOs. I found a scientist wh…
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Does using your laptop to feed a signal to a monitor meet your needs? You can find large monitors that are indistinguishable in terms of screen quality from a modern television. It can be annoying, bu…
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I am fairly knowledgeable about drug abuse but was not aware of that, maybe your coworker was slightly telling on themselves? (Sadly mostly through dealing with others navigating it, in case anyone is…
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I hope the Brothers Chaps do something similar to resurrect Homestar Runner.
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https://www.newgrounds.com/tubby/netfreedom.html This is the page I was referring to. Looks like the nonprofit involved might not still be around?…
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>These are actual hackers [clicks] >The certificate for hakmem.org expired on 5/8/2021.
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single use vapes should be outlawed imho -- it's so wasteful to include both the cart and the "pen" (power delivery) in one package to be thrown away.
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You could use a psudonym. That's what I'm doing. Occasionally I shed a username and start a new one. The admins here seem not to mind as long as I'm not voting more than once or ban eva…
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What specifically about your personality even came out during the interview? Like, did they ask where you like to walk your dog and you said you have a cat? Give us some details. I've had the opp…
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>This seems totally unrelated to whether cannabis should be recreational. Basically, they only pretend it's "medical" in order to gatekeep and rentseek care. Since they are intereste…
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As one might guess from my username, I run Firefox. I love it -- I have it customized just the way I like it. I think if they focused on memory issues rather than wizbang new features, paired with get…
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More evidence cannabis needs to be recreational. We can let people use their FSA money for it and/or give a steep discount to people who "really" need it, like cancer patients... but I …
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Also in general Google satellite offices often house the engineers of acquired startups who don't want to move to the mothership. It's not their primary purpose but it's one of the thin…
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MySpace's glitz was partly due to poor input sensitization. They tried to weed out things like <script> tags while leaving folks the ability to rewrite the HTML on their pages.
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This simply states "This file is hosted on Newgrounds.com"
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>You can find Teletubby Fun Land here: < https://www.newgrounds.com/tubby >. If you want to read more about the BBC situation, then click on the middle finger that’s on that pa…
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There was absolutely a brief legal threat paired with a comedic "fuck you we have fair use" page up on their site at one point. I don't think they'd be talking about fair use if th…
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Ah ok. Weird way to cite a book title.
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>One alternative is to create a website that outs the company that is harming you in a way that is non-libelous and just tells your story Ironically this HN post will probably be higher in search r…
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>This is not unlike the surprise in underground.txt I thought that was originally a book? I distinctly remember reading it during an in school suspension in the 2000s. I tried to go back to my town…
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Newgrounds taught me about the "fair use" defense when parodying wayyyyy back when their "Teletubby fun land" got them the ire of the BBC's lawyers. I can't find anything…
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>There's also lots of possibilities outside of software. High end rates for online English lessons are around $40/hour though that's if you go independent, self promotion, etc - whic…
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