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> This is a crazy thing to notice after having been alive so many years — that your existence itself is so much to bear. Alternative interpretation: my existence is not about sitti…

Because we have a limited amount of time and energy and other things might be more valuable to us. tbh, even this list kind of leans toward improving other measures as a means of i…

I found paxys' comment fun, so you're right!

Building a small cloud service that I've been thinking of for a while, to take the articles I don't have time to read but find interesting in principle, and convert them to audio v…

There is arguing, and then there is arguing. The whole post discusses whether to argue or not, without touching on the fairly important (imho) topic of how to argue and how not to …

They'd have you know they actually cared a bit too much about said compliance itself.

Quite enlightening, I propose one of us writes a novel about it, about how Napoleon just precipitated what was already there, enabled of course by those around him. It should show …

I mostly stopped daydreaming at some point in my 20s too, after a fairly intense daydreaming life until then. Oh, and no kids yet :) so it could just be "life"

An ambiguous metric that's been (ab)used quite a lot by human fundamentalists to try to draw a line between what we can do and what machines can do, in order to feel better about t…

I took the "because of course" to be about having a word for everything - a stereotypical idea about the German language.

Let me rephrase that for you: red is for people who live in this world and accept it, blue is for people with white knight syndrome. OR. Red is for people who understand statistics…

Yes, I'm sure milk is all people steal. And I'm sure it's better for it to be stolen than given to food banks and charities. F off

> plus, if you see somebody stealing food, no, you didn't Don't tell me, in your view the cost of shoplifting is begrudgingly covered by those evil rich people who own everything, …

> I just don't find these arguments convincing after watching my friend spend cumulative hours upon hours jumping between pirate streaming services trying to find a stable feed for…

> Now that you can just pay 10-20 euro for a streaming service Now that you can just pay 10-20 euros for each of 124293507239841524352 services, one of which _might_ show what you …

> It's just a box of numbers, really cool numbers, with really cool math, that can do really cool things, but still just numbers. https://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/…

Neither, they're worried about bad rep.

> The fact is Europe hasn't offered America much of anything other than a vacation spot over the last 100 years. And there's the cookie banners too. https://youtu.be/QEJ9HrZq7Ro?si…

I mean, his name is Les Earnest, they should expect it.

Well in this case this is what you would've needed. Either you ignored that when you replied, or you didn't care.