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- Comment on Well now I'm no longer impressed 2 weeks ago:
Actually, I’d argue the soft size is also important for this, but smaller is actually better for this as far as storage is concerned…
- Comment on North Korea and South Korea isn't working. Let's try West Korea and East Korea instead. 2 weeks ago:
Crosspost to !noncrediblediplomacy@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Keep up the good work :)
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
fake and gayhopefully) true and trans (and based af) - Comment on Anon does some online shopping 4 weeks ago:
You obviously also need an account for everything. This requirement is only communicated at checkout.
- Comment on rinse 4 weeks ago:
This however he definitely said, can confirm (I was the balls)
- Comment on rinse 5 weeks ago:
I couldn’t find that quote anywhere, and it’s very unlikely that Cicero said it, or something like that.
Iirc Tacitus said something similar, roughly: “the higher the number of laws the more corrupt an empire is”.
The statement wouldn’t have made sense from Cicero as that wasn’t really a position he would have held, or even a position he found himself in at all in his defence of the republic (because this wasn’t really a problem at the time, or at least not the biggest one)
- Comment on eggplant droplets droplets 100 crying emoji “Bruh” crying emoji crying emoji crying emoji dead emoji hashtag 2010s memes you can’t live without hashtag India teens hashtag soap dispensers in your area 2 months ago:
Factual and homosexual
- Comment on Here's the scoop 2 months ago:
What air phones are you/the reviewer talking about and how do you know you habe the same?
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
This is what allowed Temu and Alibaba and Wish and the like to happen (their business model was to send every single product as a single package worth under 800$, leading to enormous shipping times and waste etc., but they don’t have to pay import taxes).
- Comment on DOGE uncovers over 4M government credit cards responsible for 90M transactions 5 months ago:
Credit cards used for credit card transactions
More news at eleven
- Comment on For 4 Years, America Had No President | Frontpage Mag 5 months ago:
I agree Biden was not at all what the country needed, but neither is or was Trump.
Biden did not have any clear message, any hope, any drive. He just… was there. Which would be okay for being president depending on the point in time, but definetly not right now, and definetly not 4 years ago.
Trump is much, much worse than that. Under Biden the US government worked and skilled professionals who make up most of government (because running a country is not only politics) were allowed to do their jobs.
Under Trump’s first administration this was not the case, which alone should be immediately disqualifying. Entire agencies waited for weeks and months for transition teams that never came, the Trump team didn’t even know what kind or number of positions they’d have to fill– and were shockingly unprepared to do so.
There is a lot of incompetency and neglect that went on here, which goes to show that Trump fundamentally does not care for the American people. If you’re interested in what Trump did (or did not) as part of his first transition and why it was such a failure, I can recommend The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis, although there are other pieces illustrating the point just as well.
As far as I can tell Trump had not figured out how to optimally extract personal gain (mostly monetary) from being president last time and used the discontent of right wing orgs such as the Heritage foundation and the people at Project 2025 with the ineffectiveness how his last presidency to learn how to that “properly”.
- Comment on Do you think progressives understand the difference between legal and illegal immigration? 5 months ago:
Yes, though I wouldn’t necessarily say that that’s only a problem with progressives.
Immigration policy and procedures are relatively complex and the current “debate” on the topic is not very focused on enabling or supporting legal immigration (especially from conservatives).
- Comment on Anon visits a bookstore 5 months ago:
Support your local independent bookstores (if you still have any)!
I don’t know how common bookstores that are not part of large chains still are in other countries, here in Germany we have this thing called Buchpreisbindung (roughly translates to “fixed book prices”) which means bookstores actually have to compete only through presentation and their professional advice. Independent bookstores often have very knowledgeable personal that can give you great advice for free (in case of Germany) or with little extra cost compared to just ordering on Amazon/one of the corporate chains, e.g. at the bookstore around the corner the owner has been selling books for 50 years and has read basically everything ever published at this point.
She has just recommended me Gentleman overboard which is a short, although nonetheless incredibly moving book about a gentleman… well, going over board.
As for the titles/front page design/self-help books: I feel with OOP, but this seems to be what people care about/still feel they have the time to read. One actually very good (although slightly older) book from this rather modern category is The subtle art to not give a fuck.
Tldr go out, search for and support independent bookstores!
- Comment on 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂 DuckDuckGo survey 6 months ago:
The objectively correct answer is maps, of course.
- Comment on 小红书 6 months ago:
Truly a shitpost indeed
- Comment on Let people just use what they want, okay? It's their choice. 8 months ago:
Related blog post that puts it similarly well
- Comment on Personally I prefer NASA's pronunciation, which is "charon". 9 months ago:
Χάρων, of course
- Comment on Data is a plural 9 months ago:
Let me introduce you to my computer science professors…
(yes, no joke)
- Comment on Has Google Search gotten so much worse in the last couple of weeks? 10 months ago:
apart from ne not having that much money laying around a the moment I’m not a fan of people having to pay for their search engine, as I’m of the opinion that such a fundamental tool to use the web should remain free
- Comment on Has Google Search gotten so much worse in the last couple of weeks? 10 months ago:
Yeah, I’ve recently switched to SearXNG instances on some devices, definitely seem to be getting better results
- Comment on Has Google Search gotten so much worse in the last couple of weeks? 10 months ago:
it sometimes seem to, most advanced searching still works, at least on DDG
- Comment on Has Google Search gotten so much worse in the last couple of weeks? 10 months ago:
Oh my god, I feel this so much… Also, I think that recently got even worse, as I recently found myself switching between DDG/Google and finding both extremely bad for my query
- Comment on The Steam Families logo is clearly a Rorschach test, so what do you see? 10 months ago:
a person raising their hands
- Comment on Whoever wrote this headline has never encountered a passenger train before in their lives 10 months ago:
Honestly, I’d be more than happy if they just invented regular trains (even if their version would probably worse in ways not even imaginable as of now), because that would mean more money in train infrastructure.
So… yeah, you did it! You built something really cool and completely new! And don’t look over there, that’s just… copycats?
- Comment on Just Average 10 months ago:
Ohhhh, I desperately want this to happen!
- Comment on Youtube deletes and strikes Linus Tech Tips video for teaching people how to live without Google. Ft. Louis Rossman 10 months ago:
This is sooooo incredibly sad!!! I’m currently on an older iPhone and probably getting a Pixel next month; I would really have liked it if there were a bigger variety of phones where I could live truly Google-free, and I would much prefer not having to give Google money to not be reliant on Google…
- Comment on lolirl 11 months ago:
now my brain hurts
- Comment on America's Smartest Man Finds Something Interesting 11 months ago:
This is not real, right? RIGHT?
- Comment on Anon gets a good look at Steve-O 11 months ago:
I understand the downvotes as the comment seems kind of inappropriate, but - as others pointed out - pederasty was really wide spread in Ancient Greece and people thought of boys not in puberty as “good-looking” in a romantic/sexual way, as fucking creepy and weird as we think that is today, so the comment is not entirely wrong: this is the same beauty standard that thought of boys as sexually attractive.