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Richard Head

I’m sorry, his name was what?

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“You can’t put lipstick on a pig” was popular for about a year in the US, circa 2007

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It also adds clutter and noise to a public space, making it more irritating to scroll through comments. It’s like someone having a private conversation on speaker phone while you’re waiting in line at a Starbucks or whatever.

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Good point, that’s much more apt

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the fossil fuel industry has entered the chat

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I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Stallman, is in fact, GNU/Stallman, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Stallman. Stallman is not a man unto himself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

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I think in the end it all comes down to putting power back into the hands of regulators — power that corporate America has been slowly and steadily eroding for the last 40 years.

A more powerful regulatory state could start enforcing the anti-trust laws we already have on the books by breaking up the massive tech monopolies. Once that’s done, new regulations and new legislation against anti-consumer practices are needed, but those will only work if the punishments scale high enough to work as an actual deterrent against the multi-billion dollar tech giants.

Of course, we’d also need massive, MASSIVE campaign finance and lobbying reforms so that monied interested aren’t able to sabotage the system all over again.

Or we could just bring back the guillotine… that would probably do the trick too.

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Is this why Elon is working so hard to run Tesla into the ground? 5d chess, something something…

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Elon Musk, the CEO of company, has next to nothing to do with Tesla?

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Then why is he asking shareholders to approve a $56 billion personal pay package? Seems kinda steep for a guy who isn’t really present…

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Sure, because he’s been paid in stock options. It’s not like the guy has been working for free.

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Well, you would have to be a little bit suicidal to blow the whistle on Boeing now, after seeing what happened to the last two guys…

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Medium is basically a public blogging platform — anyone can post whatever they want there with no editorial oversight.

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Traditionally we use the term “spayed” for female cats and “neutered” for males. It’s also common to say they’ve been “fixed”, which applies to either sex.

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More like “don’t fuck around but find out anyway”.

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About 50 bald eagle wingspans.

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Wow… The outside looks like a Beksinski painting.

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This comment reads like it was written by an AI.

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Notorious arcade gamer cheater

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That’s what they want. Get all the users they aren’t able to monetize off the platform to lower their costs.

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I still don’t see it…

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Seriously, does anybody wanna switch seats?

Scientists in Brazil are developing the first vaccine that could help break cocaine addiction (www.euronews.com)

Scientists in Brazil are developing the first vaccine that could help break cocaine addiction::The vaccine is designed to help produce anti-cocaine antibodies in the body of a person who is chemically dependent on the substance.

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There’s a similar therapy used sometimes with alcoholics – although in that case, the drug (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disulfiram) doesn’t just block the effects of intoxication, it makes the experience intensely miserable (sometimes even to the point of being life-threatening).

Disulfiram can be quite successful when used correctly, but the success of the treatment largely depends on the patient’s willingness to continue the therapy. I imagine the same will apply with this vaccine.

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Maybe an uncommon opinion, but as someone who’s invested hundreds of hours into both games, I actually prefer the 2d experience of ROR quite a lot more than the 3d of ROR2.

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RIP

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Hopefully Elon will buy Facebook and Instagram next.

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cough Oracle cough

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Bottom-middle looks like the unwanted love-child of Quentin Tarantino and Conan O’Brien.

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They’re basically responsible for 90% of males simply refusing to discuss important issues in politics.

Gonna need you to cite some sources on that one.

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It’ll be branded X™

Short for X Æ A-1?

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It was! Silent Hill: Shattered Memories

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Based on code in the Reddit’s Android app, Reddit appears to be working on a “contributor program” that would let users cash out gold or karma (basically, points you get for posts, comments, or giving awards) they receive into real money.

So rather than start paying the volunteer moderators that keep their site running, Reddit is going to pay the repost bots and low-effort karma farmers? Surely that will improve the quality of content on the site… /s

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It seems like they’re either rolling this out slowly, or this is just a small-scale test only affecting a small percentage of the user base.

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