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xirdstl
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Comment #47241810
They don't claim that's 2.5M cancellations of paid subscriptions. It's "taken action". It's vague for a reason
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Comment #44180725
It is amazing, but it does often give false positives. That probably can't be avoided, though
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Comment #42656070
They realized that and were pleased with themselves. > The dashes do remove easy double-click copying, but we think this a fine trade off for readability. We don't want users copyi…
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Comment #41760361
Could almost call it a staple of Sierra games.
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Comment #41217217
I look forward to the next couple posts in this series: The Leaky Faucet Test and The Clogged Toilet Test.
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Comment #39646689
If you're in the US, and can afford it, I think direct primary care is the way to go.
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Comment #39214658
It doesn’t track streaks correctly. I have solved for the last 8 days. It shows 100% correct, but my current streak is 1 and longest streak 3
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Comment #38163937
Great question. Something like you suggest could help. I definitely think it's possible to do better, because some of the apps have a lot fewer fake profiles/scammers compared to s…
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Comment #38162739
If you pay to subscribe, that does nothing to help with scammers, I promise you.
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Comment #38123721
With, of course, the minters of that coin taking the majority of the claims /s
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Comment #37907534
Have you looked at the RAZ Memory Cell Phone? I've been considering that for my mom, who also has early stage dementia.
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Comment #37228445
This is the kind of thing that will be pointed to as a reason to bring employees back into the office. So much so, that it's hard to believe it's real. If you are applauding these …
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Comment #37161407
Same happened to me using Brave on desktop
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Comment #35528086
On the other hand, I have a quite positive opinion of Substack given the articles I read there, and I know I'm not alone. I don't like Twitter though, so I don't really care about …
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Comment #35514971
That only difference is an extremely important difference
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Comment #35263405
That's good to know. I'm hoping those conditions don't come back here for awhile. Getting into spring, I could see more people start looking again, with some pent-up demand not met…
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Comment #35263310
That must be specific to your market. That's not what I'm seeing in the Denver area, speaking as someone who has been casually looking for a house for over a year. As soon as inter…
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Comment #35178139
I was imagining similar things. Dating apps, in general, are already pretty poor experiences for a lot of people. This won't help. Will scammers use it to create more believable bo…
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Comment #35137569
Freshly did full meals, ready to microwave. That said, they shut down this year.
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Comment #34084925
I agree that the attitude that doing real work is "low class" is disgusting. I also think the attitude that paying someone to fix your car "is disgraceful" is disgusting.
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Comment #33873617
This is also offtopic, but I cringe when software companies use the word "delight" when describing their software.
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Comment #33826376
Which were also cringe
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Comment #33701551
I loved Grimrock. Have there been any similar games of comparable quality released since Legend of Grimrock 2 in 2014? I haven't found any that I could get into.
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Comment #33701403
Agreed, though fortunately it silences quickly upon “Alexa, shut up”