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oofManBang

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    Comment #43782945

    Ahh, silly me, I should have just starved on the streets until someone recognized my value.

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    Comment #43782930

    > It continues to baffle me that Google gets harassed by the courts for being a better actor in almost every area it participates. Doesn't mean much in a duopoly. Anyway, there's n…

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    Comment #43782216

    Ships carried literal tons of fresh water. I'm not sure the details of treatment or how it was provisioned—provisioning beer was such a massive logistical task we have mountains of…

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    Comment #43782069

    Again, the claim is not against people drinking beer or water, it is against doing so out of some general fear of drinking water. Perhaps I was too strident in my criticism of your…

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    Comment #43781921

    Point of order, beer was stored in a higher alcohol percentage (which is where we get IPAs from) which does extend its shelf life significantly. The gallon was heavily watered down…

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    Comment #43781892

    I don't really care about knockoffs (hell, I would happily shop on a site that ONLY sold knockoffs for basically everything but electronics), I just want to spend as little time ac…

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    Comment #43781860

    > I have no conceptual issue with Amazon serving ads against search terms. I do. Ads have zero positive. They lower everyone's quality of life and stuff our heads full of useless c…

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    Comment #43781813

    You might enjoy a fella named marx. Labor is labor, my friend. It should be mostly devoted to things that enrich the lives of us and those around us. It is normal to want to work. …

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    Comment #43781759

    > I’m constantly witness to colleagues in the tech industry posting on LinkedIn about how great their employer Whatever happened to dignity?

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    Comment #43781477

    True. He hasn't actually built anything since the very first days.

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    Comment #43780004

    > As far as I can tell, water-drinking was not particularly common Based on what? You certainly haven't given any indication of having read what historians have to say. Granted, th…

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    Comment #43779420

    > So right now we have basically ideal headsets Meta Quest 3/3S Cmon, it has shitty hardware and shittier software. The only thing going for it is price and a game catalogue they'v…

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    Comment #43779185

    > It literally bombed in the market. Compared to what? > abject failure Applying this to apple is beyond comprehension... What do you mean by using such a term? Apple is likely the…

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    Comment #43779147

    I appreciate the insight. I definitely understand why you might prefer this, especially with the in flight example and the photo editing. The one example I came up with internally …

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    Comment #43779125

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    Comment #43779091

    Would technology that allows sealing of beer not apply even better to relatively nutrition-less water? Especially boiled water. Anything that can feed off of pottery + water or met…

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    Comment #43779040

    Googling "belttop" just shows belts. To what are you referring? Are you suggesting wiring the glasses to some battery stored elsewhere? Sure you can do that, but I thought people t…

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    Comment #43779037

    I've yet to meet someone with strong preference for screen real estate that could back it up with productivity. Sometimes people just want stimulation. Edit: i have no gripe with t…