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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Back then adding a word to a search query also made it more specific. You could easily narrow a search down to just a few results, or no result at all if that specific combination of words had never been written. Now adding another search term just makes the search less specific.

You can try to approximate the old behavior by wrapping every single word in quote marks but it's not the same.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's the combination of FPTP voting and the presidential government structure.

In a parliamentary system third parties are more viable because they can act as "king maker" to one of the two larger parties.

Of course a proportional voting system like STV is even better for party diversity.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They've done that periodically for years.

I don't dual boot anymore but when I did I kept each installation on a separate hard drive for that reason.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

My condolences.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

The sculptor must've looked at all those statues that have cloth draped over bodies and said "I can do you one better".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Where do I sign up for my "doesn't believe Kamala Harris can control the path of hurricanes with a weather machine" award?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

Imagine existing.

Couldn't be me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Interesting to note that although HAARP was originally a joint project between the US Air Force, US Navy, DARPA, and the University of Alaska Fairbanks, since 2015 control was transferred exclusively to the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

https://xkcd.com/963/

Fortunately I haven't had to open it in a very long time.

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

This story and the Triangle Shirtwaist fire should be a reminder that almost every large business owner would kill you if it meant they could make slightly more money.

How much extra value do you think they generated in a couple of hours of making plastic pipes? That's what their lives were worth to the factory owners.

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