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Eleopteryx

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    Comment #26640478

    Strange comment. I have to imagine that the part you find "good" is the lowered viewership? Or what is the "good" part to which you're referring?

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    Comment #24509884

    Feeling somewhat validated in my choice to upgrade to a discounted phone from 2019 rather than spring for a newer phone with 5G support. I just had a feeling 5G was going to be som…

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    Comment #24037317

    Your reading of the situation seems predicated on a conveniently pedantic definition of "automatic" from my perspective. I watched the entirety proceedings as they transpired and d…

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    Comment #24037190

    "Numerous examples" is fantastic but what he said was a generalization and as a generalization it holds up. What % of congressional Republicans would you estimate "did not automati…

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    Comment #24037182

    It actually doesn't depend on when it was said. It was wrong. But, for the record, he said it in October 2016.

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    Comment #24037003

    His argument that Donald Trump would be a better choice for President than Hillary Clinton because the former would be easier to remove from office than the latter, arguing specifi…

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    Comment #23545258

    I've tried a strategy like that in various contexts. e.g. not uploading a photo of myself on a Slack workspace. How differently might people read what I'm saying if they assume tha…

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    Comment #22345017

    I'm almost certain that's what op meant to get across.

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    Comment #22272664

    Funny how quickly this Bloomberg article manages to segue into "Bernie Sanders doesn't want poor people to have electricity"

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    Comment #21822908

    >My DNA is not just mine, but it's really shared property. But you didn't get a cut of the $300m.

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    Comment #21444703

    >Yes, they're incompetent. So you feel confident in asserting that, at the time that the person made that tweet, the quality of the Python code that they shipped was poor, or it to…

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    Comment #21443893

    >It sounds like the poster has been rejected from a job interview for missing a semicolon or writing “length” instead of “len”. These kinds of anecdotes make me often wonder if can…

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    Comment #21278459

    >Twitter isn’t a phone call, but it also isn’t a message board. Well, Twitter is Twitter. But Twitter is probably closer to a message board than it is to a phone call.

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    Comment #21149002

    It seems like the reason why the publisher dropped the book is to cover their ass in terms of legal repercussions. This actually presents a compelling question: "does Britain have …

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    Comment #21116297

    To me it seems like there are features of the site or certain subs that essentially shitlist you until your account is of a certain age or upvote quota. You're not wrong that posts…

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    Comment #21116272

    >yes hello site's creator here I like your way of greeting

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    Comment #21045582

    I've witnessed unconscious prejudices in myself e.g. toward female coworkers. I remember being livid because a female coworker corrected me in the presence of others. If she had do…

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    Comment #20742006

    I wish the real world generally valued employees as people instead of numbers on a spreadsheet. These individuals can get jobs with dementia but I can't seem to get a job with ADHD…

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    Comment #20721422

    It doesn't guarantee a job at google, but I don't think that was the point. If he feels that the reasons for his disqualification are absurd, how should he voice that frustration w…

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    Comment #20191105

    You've repeated the same argument except this time with examples.

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    Comment #20188117

    But the nature of 8chan's user base isn't being dictated by its design. It's still an overwhelmingly right-wing site that gained its prominence from the Gamergate controversy. As a…

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    Comment #20064674

    >Just maybe the democratization of film I've been thinking about this for a while. The "despecialized" versions of the Star Wars films prove that audiences can dictate the nature o…

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    Comment #20054491

    Can Safari play webm files in the browser? Never works for me.

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    Comment #19975084

    That begs the question, what distinguishes actual technical debt from short-lived assets?