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Larry Sanger once called me "butthurt" just before welcoming me to his e-mail "killfile". I forget the context completely, but to this day it stands as one of my proudest young Int…

You're right, it's not ambiguous. It's literally incorrect.

Yeah, no.

> But what made this summer's episode unusual was its persistence. But, but—it's not summer in the Nothern Hemisphere yet.

If it ain't broke!

More strange. Stranger. This is strange. Stranger? Who are you?

So subscribing to NYT somehow changed your stance on online privacy? Color me confused...

Ah, great! I 'took a shot in the dark' there. Glad it 'panned out'. ;)

'Bread *and butter'. The English expression requires the second part—but otherwise fits perfectly in your well-stated point, with which I wholeheartedly agree. Source: AAL.

TFA discusses at-length how APNs and FCM are necessary intermediaries regardless, effectively creating a technical duopoly on 'push'. We all agree it would've been preferable for t…

> You think there might be some sort of interaction between both facets there? With the exception of one trying to extract currency from the other, in exchange for something of dub…

But, but— convection !

Anyone not already using KeePass (or KeePassXC) has been doing it wrong for at least a decade. KeePass2Android Offline and KeePassium on mobile.

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This thread contains a significantly higher concentration of dumb than the typical front page post. Gee, I wonder why.

You know 'space' is a vacuum, right?

> Does lifting weights count as vigorous though? In my own experience, no. Strictly cardio. The number of squats you'd have to do to constitue even five minutes of vigorous activit…

Calling it 'the gym' sort of conflates its two distinct sections: the one containing cardio equipment, and the other containing strength training/bodybuilding equipment. So-called …

Consider the speed/vigor with which one does something, whatever it might be. It can be quite the range.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolic_equivalent_of_task

Can you elaborate on "basic competency issues", either in the case of Boudin's office and/or other high profile reformist prosecutors? Is that just a polite way of calling them dum…