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My computer freezes for 2-3 seconds when I try to open the volume panel and there are ads everywhere on Win 11. It's like Microsoft wants to wipe every good memory I've ever had wi…

Mozilla if you're listening - now's your chance; please bring it back. We actually have a reason to switch now.

All you did was offer your arbitrary opinion without any supporting argument or anecdotal evidence and suggested we should fix it with more taxes. If you're going to offer an opini…

No it's not. I'm replying to the guy that said "That used to be true", because it's obviously not true.

> That used to be true No, that used to be believed to be true. We're just seeing the curtain come down. The food pyramid, the CIA's "war on drugs" in South America, the wars with …

I'm working on what I hope to be a high-performance voxel engine from scratch in Rust in my free-time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlolXvBDmRY Cubic chunks, full lighting engin…

Tired of this copy-paste comment. It shows up on literally every lawsuit thread.

If they have good reason - they should tear down, even if it is the popular thing to do. But you do need good reason, which most people don't.

I imagine that being within the thralls of a $3T company could be very comfortable.

I love Indian food, but I still don't want to live in India.

Frustrating that you're being down-voted, because this is a very valid point.

For the thousandth time - yes objective reality exists, but this is a terrible idea because the core problem becomes; who gets to decide what objective reality is? And no, I'm not …

Correct that OP did not imply those things, but a lot of people will read it that way. There are implications behind the implications, and I think that DiffEq is referencing the la…

Decentralization - sorry about that in-house lingo.

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I think that was kind of the point? The political right in America felt that a "good reputation" was costing us too much. They seem to care about other things more than their reput…

I've been thinking about it for a while; and that's exactly the thing I've been questioning for some time. I'm not as convinced as I was that more knowledge equals a better life. I…

Even more unpopular opinion: it's highly debatable that internet access increases the quality of life for most people.

I hope AoE2 lives as long as Chess does. It really is one of the "perfect" games.

> That's a pretty cynical take Okay, so is Trump playing the tarrif game to bring manufacturing back home, or is cynicism and bad faith only okay when it's about US conservatives? …

If you're wishing hell on other people, you don't understand hell.

If they tasted like ocean, they probably weren't that fresh.

I'll yuck whatever yum I please. I'm not here for your approval. I did 10 years of Ruby. I have some authority on the matter.