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siliconpotato

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    Comment #49256355

    baseball cap and sunglasses will do just fine.

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    Comment #49236927

    They have a store selling caps, t-shirts and keyboards. That's one way to donate while getting cool stuff

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    Comment #48432808

    Joseph smith claims to have had a new revelation and the book of Mormon is "another gospel". It's fan fiction for Americans and claims that the church became corrupted and are rest…

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    Comment #48207595

    "i haven't noticed my soul shrivelling to the size of a pea"

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    Comment #48203649

    In my dreams, this is the moment Mozilla brings a search engine out of stealth mode, and says "sorry for looking like idiots for twenty years, we were secretly working on building …

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    Comment #48189997

    There's a certain writing style, very short paragraphs, fair amount of repetition that just feels like you've read this post before. And you have, just on different topics but it's…

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    Comment #48135140

    Find it surprising that there are people still under the delusion that they have an audience of humans on twitter worth speaking to

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    Comment #48134738

    it was all engagement bait to auction off some NFT nonsense.

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    Comment #48005599

    People in glass houses..The same argument can be levelled at the troublesome activities engaged in by the USA.

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    Comment #47935063

    > The bottleneck in the AI era is not production. It is discernment. there's quite a few variants on the "its not X its Y" in this article that make me wonder how much of this waff…

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    Comment #47874299

    > I have nothing against Greggs. I do. This man is benefitting from your custom: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-39443585

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    Comment #47872994

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-65794363 The author John Green who was top of a recent list said that the Bible was number 6 on the list. As other comments have pointed …

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    Comment #47845293

    Maybe they were carrying out exodus 20:4... It's ironic that netanyahu says that Christians are thriving in Israel and more than any other middle Eastern country. Only 2% of Israel…

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    Comment #47839037

    However I'm inclined to ignore anyone who pushes their argument as "I'm doing X and you should too". Tell the good and bad things but don't tell me what to do

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    Comment #47830662

    I replaced the battery in mine. Unlike big tech, I believe in repairing old devices. Something Amazon have not considered is how many of these old devices are used as companion dev…

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    Comment #47638829

    this looks like a recipe for eye strain and poor posture. waiting for the follow up post in a month.

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    Comment #47624170

    They didn't say high speed rail projects that get cancelled and downgraded after doing all the hard bits

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    Comment #47624004

    1) nobody's landing on the moon this time 2) the article was an awful piece of hype, that felt like it was sponsored by the Whitehouse. 3) it's hard to see beyond the US imperialis…

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    Comment #47517186

    what if you need 300 web pages open?

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    Comment #47322508

    ugh. i came to see why this site failed completely to work as expected. turns out that a human has barely been anywhere near it and thinks that delivering non-working slop is fine.…

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    Comment #47309835

    i'm in the UK and most people i know drop cursive for non-joined up handwriting as soon as they get the opportunity.

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    Comment #47148249

    In a corporate environment most emails are TLDR. Quite often a big boss will forward a mail to the whole department "please read". It's 5 pages of waffle. Is it useful or not? Eith…

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    Comment #47119235

    Imagine what it will be like for the generation who are currently using chatgpt to do their homework only for the teacher to use AI to mark it

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    Comment #46925368

    I'm in the UK. Normal conversation: what did you do on Sunday? I was in church. "Oh are you a Christian" "yes". Now, if the first person is not a Christian , that's often the end o…

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    Comment #46924796

    Well it's a common question I've asked of people during my life, and only catholics ever make that distinction, almost a correction. And there's a reason why - because they think i…