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fazeirony

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    Comment #43998237

    absolutely. but i think there's at least some evidence that lack of appropriate fluoridation is beneficial. certainly in my anecdotal example (ofc, i didn't grow up in this town an…

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    Comment #43983511

    we moved to a rural area in 2005 with clean, but unfluoridated well water. had a son. brushes twice daily for 2 minutes a time like everyone else in the house. he had an excessive …

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    Comment #43925268

    i agree with this esp. when the parent linked a wiki page that, if you go beyond the single photo on the page and read it, is completely counter to the comment. i'm confused too, b…

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    Comment #43905169

    you mean the company that spent $9B to make $4B in 2024? that openai? i agree with you on this - it seems that openai hallucinates reality as much as their products do :-/

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    Comment #43904106

    when kids during the napster era were downloading music, the mega-corporations yelled that their bottom-lines to shareholders were being destroyed. now, when the mega-corporations …

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    Comment #43821218

    this was the comment i was looking for! i remember those red pages and found them annoying on even legitimately purchased games (which is how copy protection has always been IME - …

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    Comment #43730096

    > but over time it became clear it didn't. are profits spiralling downward? are these businesses, overall, making less profit? because of remote workers? or is it closer to the tru…

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    Comment #43729196

    > Many organizations seem to believe they can sidestep this conflict by remaining neutral. you can't be neutral on a moving train. if you think it is bad now, and this will 'blow o…

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    Comment #43729076

    let's be more direct and truthful - ibm directly aided the third reich in their despicable actions. full stop.

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    Comment #43720863

    for sure. but if ANY of that kind of thing gets in the way of profits, well then that's not OK. in capitalism, profit is the only thing that matters. CSAM? drugs? underage use? pff…

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    Comment #43680410

    i'm an american and it is is exactly stuff like this that causes me to avoid using services like this like the plague if i can avoid them. despite living here, privacy to me is imp…

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    Comment #43581844

    > Because empathy isn't useful to society. things that lack empathy: corporations, machines, AI, psychopaths things that are problematic to society: corporations, machines, AI, psy…

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    Comment #43438551

    would WSL work? (sorry, not used windows in a hot minute...)

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    Comment #43387502

    this. and let's not forget that these....officers always receive the best, most top notch training to use these things safely. (/s) yet another reason to ensure footage looks like …

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    Comment #43356640

    the GOP: "states' rights! states' rights!!" also the GOP: "not those rights! only the rights we want to share"

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    Comment #43279650

    i'm on a number of discord servers. yes, some have that 'mean girls' vibe but considering the content, i expect that. the more tech oriented ones i'm on...that's not an issue at al…

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    Comment #43266111

    i can't wait for the "there's been confusion about what we've done" message to come out. cuz its always us, right? the customer is always wrong in this era of techno-feudalism.

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    Comment #43207353

    not just drop the ball, but willfully kick it to the other goal

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    Comment #43132873

    makes perfect sense - let's remove chargers that have already been bought, paid for, and installed. smh.

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    Comment #43127215

    i mean, literally the very first sentence in their statement is a blatant lie that consumers are supposed to just go 'see, they care about us!': "We're always looking for ways to i…

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    Comment #43127131

    so trying to understand here. when metallica et. al. went after kids (well, i guess ppl my age all those years ago lol) for using napster and downloading their music...they made th…

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    Comment #43119216

    i appreciate the optimism that there will be something left to actually have this 'do-over'...

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    Comment #43117187

    > He does have to be a guy why?

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    Comment #42922812

    i too have noticed this and as such, have switched to USB out to async USB input DAC that supports that. there are plenty of good quality, low cost DACs available from folks like s…

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    Comment #42845009

    huh. reading the piece it seems pretty reasonable relatively (we clearly are living in an interesting moment...) speaking. what exactly are you commenting 'not like that' about? or…