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you were born in 1980 you are gen x https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X by definition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_network , he's part of it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Massie , it's just protecting self interest by deregulation. recommend reading htt…

Fucking duh... 1 it seems like every successful company is headed by self centered assholes 2 enshittification

That's the rub, numerous times you can't cancel until the x is done (for gym memberships it used to be a whole year). Or alternatively look at prime cancelling is made difficult. A…

Why shouldn't they get an explanation?

>Now, if you're on me and you gotta move when I move, how do you expect to keep a...a tech stack?

[Vinge]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernor_Vinge ) was a professor of mathematics and computer science. I'd expect him to get things right. Funny enough I don't remember that bi…

Excellent automatic metadata determination. Dead easy to run/setup

> for example, almost all of their predictions weren’t just wrong… in hindsight, given how the future played out, they were asking the wrong question Do you have an example of this…

seriously. I don't see how CS is low effort either, maybe they mean physically low effort.

You should listen to your mother. edit: lol, i assumed you were the OP. ignore me

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/07/israel-weapo... Yeah! No USA involvement there... take a second and imagine it was you and your family getting bombed and starved. s…

George Carlin also said: "'cause they own this fucking place. It's a big club, and you ain’t in it" ( https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/964648-but-there-s-a-reason... ). I think the…

This is a weird strawman and it has almost nothing to do the parent's claim. The guilded age is 1870-1890's.

>privacy/security fragmentation giant big tech data leak: https://www.yahoo.com/news/16-billion-passwords-apple-facebo... yesterday?

It is insane what they survived. For me "The Worst Journey in the World" was a better read.

I'm a huge roger waters fan, in particular the album named after this book (not to mention huxley). I was excited to finally get to read what had inspired him. I found it dated (ob…

Maybe too far fetched? Company sells/loses data, insurance companies use data to deny coverage, or deem claims as pre-existing.

In the west there have been environmental commitments since the at least 1990s. The governments just seem to mostly ignore those commitments. So it's pretty easy for westerners to …

>I would also like the ability to start from a bar of my choice and maybe even evaluate a one or two bar section at a time rather than having to play the whole piece ^ IMO this sho…

Anecdotal, but maybe it'll help I had a goal of introducing my kids to piano, and also wanted to pick it back up myself (I'd been forced to as a kid and hated it, never progressed …

Presume it's the text below, and maybe you have to have the font installed? >Take heed! This only works if your browser supports ligatures

I was attempting to use it as "denies" (even though in reply i said "prove"). You seem to me to be taking the meanings of words so seriously that you've lost the value those words …

You are saying he doesn't prove it false?

First thought was of John McWhorter's book [The Language Hoax]( https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/18579574 ), where he refutes Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. I think in that book he …