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arken ,

Or find a thread where someone else asked the same question, and give the wrong answer/solution.

arken ,

And here is the link for anyone who didn't read it.

arken ,

I'm starting to feel like a shill because I say this so often, but Kagi is the only one I've found that actually does the job anymore. To me a search engine that works is worth the small cost each month, but unfortunately I don't see paying for search becoming mainstream anytime soon.

arken ,

How about punk rock is the only thing that is punk rock, starting now?

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Nazis are absolutely vilified in Sweden and Finland, I have no idea what you're talking about. I'd say NSBM bands is a lot more prevalent in Eastern Europe and Russia.

arken ,

This is my go-to as well. "I'm sorry, my audio dropped out, I didn't quite catch that".

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Or sometimes it's wise to filter out when some of your colleagues are filling out meeting time with nonsense. You only get brain fatigue and get nothing for it.

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Oh, everyone but themselves. Some people have next to no self-awareness, you see. And if you have no clue what I'm talking about, chances are you're one of them.

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Who said I'm the only one? I'm not.

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Of course, which is kind of my point here. But your rhetorical question only works if the situation is very specific, which is weird given that - as you point out - you have no insight into my situation at work. To summarize, you have no case.

arken ,

I’m not trying to make a “case.”

You see, sometimes people use expressions like that in an informal, half-joking manner. But I'm starting to get a feeling for why you seem to be taking this conversation so personally...let's do something else now, shall we?

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Well, I was amused at first, but not anymore. Good night.

arken ,

Wearing band logos are very different to wearing brand logos. A band logo stands for something that you love, a brand is just capitalist nihilism; completely meaningless except signaling how much your garment costs and perhaps that you are stupid enough to believe that buying a certain brand says something about you or aligns you with something. Branding is for cattle.

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It's worse; the people you thought were your friends are actually ads.

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I'll take your word for it.

arken ,

Potemkin AI https://reallifemag.com/potemkin-ai/

arken ,

Mine looks very similar, but I use Before Launcher. Which launcher is that?

arken ,

I used to work with an Apple fanboy that knew next to nothing about how computers actually work, but he knew that Apple was the best at everything. Any time someone brought up something about a device or service from any other company or with any other OS, his stock answer was always "switch to Apple". Any time someone pointed out that their device offered a feature or functionality they appreciated that Apple did not offer in a convenient way, his stock answer was always "You don't need that." Sometimes he'd add "why would you want to do that? Do X instead".

Fast forward to today, I ended up killing him and am writing this from jail.

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I use it to make my phone less appealing and thus waste less time on it.

Yes, that's what I use mine for as well. I have the apps I need to access daily as shortcuts and all other apps stuffed away from sight.

Thanks, I'll check Blank out as well.

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As far as I understand, the sole reason is "everyone else is using it". Which also seems to be the justification for using Messenger, WhatsApp, X, Instagram et al despite knowing better. It's hard to be outside of the walled garden if everybody else is inside.

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when WE hallucinate, it's because our internal predictive models are flying off the rails filling in the blanks based on assumptions rather than referencing concrete sensory information and generating results that conflict with reality.

Is it really? You make it sound like this is a proven fact.

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This has nothing to do with Linux. Do you want your printer to work? Are you buying a printer because you need to print things? It's simple.

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How did it come from the left? The "vaccines cause autism" wasn't connected to any political side as far as I'm aware. Just because you're a hippie doesn't mean you're left-wing, or politically conscious at all even.

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    arken ,

    Well, there's not much else to talk about, is there? I much prefer this comment thread to 33 comments saying "lol"

    arken ,

    It's the other way around, actually.

    In The Amazing Spider-Man (Oct. 1973), Marvel Comics editor Roy Thomas wrote in the letters column that "it saddens us to have to say that the whiplash effect she underwent when Spidey's webbing stopped her so suddenly was, in fact, what killed her. In short, it was impossible for Peter to save her. He couldn't have swung down in time; the action he did take resulted in her death; if he had done nothing, she still would certainly have perished. There was no way out." Source

    The comic () is ambiguous though. There is really no way for the reader to know whether she was dead before her neck was snapped, Green Goblin certainly seems to think so (but he is hardly a reliable source). But snapping her neck certainly would have killed her anyway.

    arken ,

    If you read my comment, I said it's ambiguous if she was already dead when her neck was snapped, not that her neck was in fact snapped.

    arken ,

    OK, now I understand what you're getting at and I don't disagree actually. I also think that the original intent was that she died of a broken neck but the ambiguity is there, whether by design or accident, which makes other theories and later retconning possible. I personally suspect they made it a bit ambiguous to give themselves a bit of a back door in case the public would react too harshly to Spidey accidentally kiling his girlfriend. One has to remember how unexpected and grim this was at the time, it was a huge risk to take for the writers (Stan Lee even said later that he was tricked into OKing it while he was packing for a trip...not sure I believe that though).

    It would have been easy to make her perhaps say something or make a sound when she's lying on the edge of the bridge, or make Peter feel her pulse to confirm she was alive before the fall. As the scene unfolds now, and the way she is drawn when lying on the edge (she looks dead), I feel its unlikely that wasn't intentional. But this is ultimately a matter of interpretation.

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    https://youtu.be/GJIJG6bEjbs?si=evDBljJbP2YTJeJZ&t=1m07s

    arken ,

    Next time perhaps tell him of the very natural mating habits of the anglerfish. We could dig up numerous examples to challenge his comic book version of nature.

    arken ,

    OK, I'm imagining it now.

    arken ,

    A reverse google image search gave me this: https://www.deviantart.com/suddenlyabird/art/Molly-Tov-Eat-The-Rich-Red-Black-617071486
    Seems to be the original, but I don't know for sure.

    arken ,

    Already on it, sir

    arken ,

    they have a page counter that bricks the printer

    They have what? Does the printer stop working after a set amount of pages printed or what does this mean?

    arken ,

    How very "eco" of them. Thanks for the explanation, I'm never going to buy anything from Epson ever again (not that I was planning to, but...)

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    On the other hand, there's a billion saunas around the city if you want hot and dry

    arken ,

    Write well, pay respect to the characters and the work. That's the only rule...I don't know why it's seemingly impossible to follow

    To do that, you need these special people called writers and you need to give them time and money, and that seems like a hassle, doesn't it? Can't we just make unpaid interns brainstorm stuff and figure out what will drive engagement on social media instead?

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    When corporations dabble in philosophy, you know they're trying to muddy the waters and skirt an ethical issue. It's not a genuine inquiry going on here; it's a "whatever argument serves the bottom line" situation.

    I guess there's no such thing as intellectual property either, when you really think about it. Hence nothing wrong with me making and selling pirated samsung phones.

    arken ,

    The Pitchfork review of Jet's album "Shine On" was just an embedded video of a chimp pissing in its own mouth and a 0.0/10 score. That was 2006.

    arken ,

    Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff and Slytherin

    arken ,

    Social media as a public utility

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    I lived like this most my life, but with kids this breaks down completely. The only time noone is bothering you - kids or coworkers - is at night.

    arken ,

    "dressed as Sauron" would also mean you would attract some attention before the ceremony, basically dressed as a giant burning vagina

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