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> entitled leftie thing ("Elon Musk should pay for my Instagram!") At least ever since Musk syphoned billions of dollars from the government, then illegally intervened in elections…

> Democracies don't handle nuance well. Failing democracies don't handle nuance well.

> I accused you You did not.

You can mock the grammar of "only colonialism when boats", but AFAIK when the Soviet Union accused some Western power of engaging in colonialism and got "well, you have your Centra…

> where it is not really a good fit due to concurrency I'm the first to admit that concurrency is and always has been a point of contention in SQLite. But, on the other hand, when …

As someone who cycled to school and back in a pancake-flat landscape, it often did feel like you were up against the wind in both ways. I swear the winds just waited for me, in the…

I'm not saying they didn't have a good or bad reason to do what they do, what I'm saying is this is akin to paying someone to paint the walls and suddenly you find out they're reco…

"HN"?

> It also feels different from say the optional (and way lower priced seat reservations in German ICE's) One has to add that most of the time when you buy a single ticket in German…

Yeah, complains about stale too-warm air on the train and complains about staff airing the train during stops. This way you can't lose an argument either way.

> allows unlimited rail travel within one participating country, excluding the holder’s country of residence One of the things that always bothered me because it's such an arbitrar…

Yeah I mean the whole "OMG I have to pre-order my vegan meals??!" thing. Back in the day we had to WALK to school and when on a trip we brought along our hard-boiled eggs and meatb…

> Adobe started silently updating my /etc/hosts file This has indeed things like "!!1! MALWARE !!!!" written all over it.

Sounds all fine and right until "China is investing in infrastructure without interfering with local politics". Bru-ha-ha. What a zinger.

regarding your objection to 'metal'—technically that wasn't a 'dialog' but a 'monolog(ue)'.

except it's not so much about do stuff and build things, it's about literally raping the planet, extorting and exploiting everyone including retirement savings, and also to "move f…

> disagreement with the founder’s politics Are you talking about the guy who did a double-down Nazi salute to celebrate Trump winning the election?

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Probably preaching to the choir here but anyways: how much is one trillion? If you were to get your dream job where they promise you a pay of 1$ per second, 24/7: * You'd have earn…

If you were right it would still be wrong to solve the bigger equation by first cancelling the good things that trickled from the US GDP in the general direction of people whose li…

Share your sentiment, but in this case the https://electrek.co article mentions Ziroth / Ryan as source of the information, and I'd guess (not seen the video though) as original re…

So what you're saying is basically we should stop implementing reasonable measures as a government because there will always be a Ronald Reagan or Maggie Thatcher who will dismantl…

Conversely, European readers flee dubious websites -------------- Etwas ist schiefgelaufen Wir haben ein unerwartetes Problem bei der Bearbeitung Ihrer Anfrage festgestellt. Bitte …

This. The first thing that came to my mind, as a 'coffee drinker plus' according to the authors' definition, is that the participants' mood must have been one of relief and mild el…

„Man muß das Geld dort nehmen, wo es zu finden ist – bei den Armen. Zwar haben sie wenig, aber sie sind zahlreich.“ ―Ettore Petrolini - https://gutezitate.com/zitat/138869