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> Most ‘oh its simple – why don’t they just…’ overlook (or are not aware) of the many, many good reasons why greater minds than yours or mine haven’t already implemented it. The fo…

I cancelled my years long nytimes subscription a few years ago once someone told me that they had to call in and suffer through customer service retention reps in order to cancel t…

> * People also stopped taking care of themselves during the pandemic, at the same time everyone started working from home. I'm healthier than ever. I bought an exercise bike, have…

It does feel like there have been 48 months this year

The more people that adopt Signal, the better. I've been using it for years due to privacy concerns and usually ask everyone that I regularly communicate with to adopt it. I don't …

M&A often involve conservative brand strategies, at least in part to promote a veneer of competition and diversity, while the insidious effects of consolidation are left unsaid and…

You're conflating ecofascism with activists who know that neoliberal tinkering with carbon taxes is a recipe for failure.

Cool, it doesn't matter, carbon doesn't care about your rhetorical exercises. We're heading towards an extinction event and once this realization reaches critical mass, it's going …

Stepping stones would have worked 40 years ago. We are at the precipice now and must take radical action if we are to mitigate the damage that is baked into the current climate mod…

I was experiencing hip pain after too much sitting and not moving enough. Went for some consultations and ended up with a surgeon that wanted to operate because I was told I had a …

Anyone else get creeped out and realize just deep and tangled our mindsets are when reading these articles lauding consumer products? The biggest and best companies are all laser f…

Truth, I remember reddit cratering the active user base there ten years ago, but I've found myself going back again over the past few years again, craving the type of community the…

I don't think designers want them. The data probably shows that it increases conversions or whatever metric, so the product owners and business pushes the designers to jam in the d…

You're posting Whataboutisms. It's not all or nothing.

The second-system effect is definitely real and is a trap most developers will fall into. I think gold plating introduces liability and it would be better to ship early. I am, howe…

Not all developers are gold platers. That seems to be a more common behavior among inexperienced developers.

If you don't wear makeup, you will often not notice others wearing makeup if they use just enough to enhance their natural appearance and hide blemishes.

I don't think introversion or extroversion has any correlation to programming skill. And that is coming from an introvert. When it comes down to it, after many years in industry, I…

I'm sorry that you experienced such an inhumane ordeal. Were you incarcerated at a publicly or privately operated facility?

This isn't true. Poorer people have fewer assets. You can live in a smaller space and still be wealthy in terms of assets.

The only supplement vegans and vegetarians need to take is B-12. The rest comes from having a varied and balanced plant based diet. Something interesting to note is that many peopl…