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the_gorilla

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    I can accept the other issues, but archivebox needs be private and secure by default. Sending everything to archive.org is bad default value and it erodes a certain level of trust …

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    I don't know how anyone manages to use archivebox. I've tried it twice in the last 3 years and its site compatibility is bad, it quietly leaks everything you archive to archive.org…

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    Gyms are notorious shysters who made it difficult to cancel your membership, even when you have the right. Don't blame the consumers for this bullshit. Do as many chargebacks as yo…

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    The statement is still wrong. Awnings and local architects are both extinct so clearly the architects didn't kill the awnings.

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    This was written in a very confident way, but I can say with at least as much confidence that my house was mass produced in a factory and assembled locally in the middle of nowhere…

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    > If shaming did work, then it would have been implemented widely and obesity is solved. But it's not. We don't have anything that works as well as ozempic. What kind of reasoning …

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    Why not both? Nobody wanted seatbelts until they were forced to use them, maybe we could try forcing people to eat safer food.

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    Comment #41851250

    If it does turn out that the government has been poisoning Americans for decades, I'd like to see some heads roll.

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    Comment #41845370

    Unfortunately being good at chess doesn't make you smart. It just makes you good at chess.

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    Comment #41838856

    Apparently discovering new islands isn't what it used to be.

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    Comment #41833174

    It's true. Smart people tend to have a lot of novel ideas, most of which are going to be retarded. Most people just have no ideas.

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    > pathetic patches of land It's always funny seeing people pretend they live in a world where small issues like land or food don't affect them, even though they only have that priv…

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    Comment #41832538

    Are you against subsidies in general? Or just against someone you don't like getting them to actually develop new technology?

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    Comment #41824567

    It's pretty accurate. Most videos exist just to be passively consumed, like the person you're responding to who listens to it while doing chores.

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    I'm going to find out a way to automatically hide comments referencing "musk". You can't even read about a 3Blue1Brown video without people somehow making it about him. Every threa…