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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Desperation is often the cause of stupidity. Walking into an invading army while unarmed is never a wise survival strategy. Show me one single time in History where this went well for most of the people involved.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago (9 children)

Buy DRM free music instead of streaming it.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 5 months ago (6 children)

This is why they will not release the 90s shows on 4k BluRay. They don't want anyone to actually own copies.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Nowhere did OP say anything about a desktop. I thought they meant "what's the current laptop equivalent to a Thinkpad back in the day?" If they meant a desktop, they should have used the word desktop. "PC" is not exactly specific.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

"You can cross the veil at will" makes me think about Medium.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I have a loved one with permanent nerve damage from chemo. We're very happy the chemo was successful, but imagine a combo of numbness and constant pain for the rest of your life in all your fingers, which becomes dramatically more severe with exposure to cold. It makes make simple daily life tasks from driving, to cooking, etc. far more difficult. They do not tell patients in advance they are going to continue the treatments until the point where permanent damage happens. You only realize after going through it that this was the plan all along. It makes medical talk about informed consent feel ridiculous. The severity fluctuates, but it has already been like 7 years, and this is never going away. It is not for "a while".

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Gotta say that it boosts my confidence in the Hugo Awards to see Babel NOT get nominated. This has zero to do with the author's nationality and ethnicity and everything to do with Babel being a poorly written novel (with the ending obvious a long way off) and horrific character development. It would be shameful to award a novel where all characters are stand in caricatures of their cultures of origin instead of actual individuals. It just comes across as racist in itself, promoting stereotypes, instead of merely showing the reader that racism existed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

In the USA, you can't even use a landline or a office voip phone. Must use an active cell phone number.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

One of the first things I do on a new Samsung phone is disable Chrome and install Firefox. You've just saved me from ever buying a Redmi.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Lucky you, to live where there is a passenger train.

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