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Just in time for the rugpull that became inevitable the day money stopped being free? No thank you.
A fair concern if you're building the community. But if you just want to get involved, nothing is forever, all my IRC haunts are dead too. So get involved, enjoy yourself, make friends, take the memories with you when it inevitably dies.
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Just in time for the rugpull that became inevitable the day money stopped being free? No thank you.
ZIRP rules everything around me. Ruled… and hopefully not returning too soon.
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ZIRP rules everything around me. Ruled… and hopefully not returning too soon.
Not that I don't agree, but that doesn't make it pleasant to live through a titanomachy.
Here is the option though… we ignore the titans above us, the ones that desperately need us. See some of them fall; and hopefully they shrink small enough were we aren’t craning our necks so much.
Or, we continue to pretend that everything is fine and keep praying and sacrificing (printing money) and pretend that will just keep working.
ZIRP was a mistake. Better to rip the bandaid off now.
But… for what it’s worth, I think it will lead to war. Actual war, not this proxy stuff. We’re too far in and owe China too much. There needs to be some debt reset because “paying it off” isn’t a thing.
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Not that I don't agree, but that doesn't make it pleasant to live through a titanomachy.
A pleasant wasn’t an option with ZIRP. Here is the option though… we ignore the titans above us, the ones that desperately need us. See some of them fall; and hopefully they shrink small enough were we aren’t craning our necks so much. Or, we continue to pretend that everything is fine and keep praying and sacrificing (printing money) and pretend that will just keep working. ZIRP was a mistake. Better to rip the band…
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Guy is gender neutral, like person. It is a noun, not a pronoun. “Dude” is also gender neutral, to save you a post at a later date.
It's amazing how often I ask guy if they're into dudes and get a "No" without even a follow up as to what gender the dude is.
“Dude, you wouldn’t believe what happened to me this weekend” gender ambiguous.
Context is everything.
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you can upload any file below 25mb for free unless it's malware, it's a direct link that works everywhere, and it's quick because you always have discord open. if it's something not too important why wouldn't you?
Because it could go away any day? And is "always have discord open" a reasonable general assumption?
I mean, you probably don't go and unplug your modem when you get done with a browsing session right? Or turn off your phone when you aren't actively engaged in a phone call?/writing a text message?
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No, guy is not gender neutral. https://www.dictionary.com/browse/guy https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/guy https://www.thefreedictionary.com/guy https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/11816/is-guy-gen... Note that wiktionary points out the fact that the female complement to "guy" is "gal". https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/guy
I haven’t heard the word gal used in person in a long time. “Guy” I hear frequently. “Gal” seems derisive. I would assume someone was being berated or otherwise dismissed if being called “gal”. As in, “oh I suppose there are women here that I will address differently”, hence “gal”.
Wonder if there is a regional aspect to it, or perhaps it being an older and less used word has lead to more individual variance in connotations?
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A pleasant wasn’t an option with ZIRP. Here is the option though… we ignore the titans above us, the ones that desperately need us. See some of them fall; and hopefully they shrink small enough were we aren’t craning our necks so much. Or, we continue to pretend that everything is fine and keep praying and sacrificing (printing money) and pretend that will just keep working. ZIRP was a mistake. Better to rip the band…
Good grief. Here I thought I was all doom and gloom today...
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> f you want to start using IRC as a newb today you first have to pay obeisance and perform the ritual stumbling through Nah, web-based clients like The Lounge ( https://thelounge.chat/ ) or Convos ( https://convos.chat/ ) provide a very similar user experience to Discord or Slack.
They try, but they still end up clunkier. E.g. you're never going to be able to put pictures in a message in a nice way, because even if your client supports it, other people on IRC don't.