Mostly kind chonky weirdo. Gentle nerd freak of the pacific north west. All nation states are vermin.
A lot of these hand axes may have had some kind of not-strictly-functional purpose during their heydey in the stone ages as well. Heaps of them show no evidence of wear or use and are noticably gorgeous - just really pleasingly shaped.
the operation is highly organised, technically savvy
Of course an operation this sophisticated targets people looking to buying luxury brands for cheap, that sounds like an ideal mark.
I personally believe that preserving a false and misleading picture of reality designed to trumpet a deranged cult that is working to make the world objectively worse for everyone including themselves is not acceptable.
I would say, “Look mum I love you more than anything in the world but preserving some of these movies crosses an ethical line for me.”
Of course I grew up in a house of atheist jewish academics, so making and justifying personal ethical stances that contravene wider group stances is expected behavior in my family. And we take document preservation fairly seriously.
“Because” often doesn’t make sense in the real world where anything that happens is the sum total of multiple factors. Especially a trend as broad as enshitification.
Being publicly traded seems like a contributing factor, but a sole owner can still enshitify through greed or incompetence.
I would guess that market consolidation and low competition are more of a factor.
I’ve never had that issue with ff+ddg
they’re constantly trying to get you to have google as your search engine
Are they? I use firefox on my laptop and have never gotten any pop ups or anything about changing my search engine to google or anything else for that matter.
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Yep, false positives are a problem for a dead man’s switch.
Two weeks without being able to get internet access or word to a friend is definitely possible but seems pretty unlikely.
You could make it more than 2 weeks out but I think that’s a good middle ground between avoiding false positives and striking while the iron is hot, you know? Imagine sending an email beginning “if you’re reading this I’m dead…” and having recipients think “Yeah, that was ages ago.”
I always thought it was just like an email set to future send in say a week or 2, then every few days or every week you go in and bump forward the date.
I always heard a Dead Man’s Switch defined as a switch which goes off once you stop pressing it. So you just set up something to go off in the future, then for as long as you’re alive you keep preventing it from going off.
Is this just on the app? I tried this on the website and it’s just giving me reviews and Q&A responses related to the product I was on.
He’s fucking himself?
Name a single language that didn’t have an aristocracy that knew how to read and write and learned formalized Grammer for the majority of that languages history.
😂 I’m going to be generous and assume you’re just trolling now and don’t seriously believe this.
Literally never went to school or learned how to read or write.
You’re describing every language for the overwhelming majority of the last 150,000+ years. English is not unique in that.
Which is why it’s one of the hardest languages to learn
It’s not. English has a lot of irregularity to remember, but not the most. How difficult you find a language depends on your native language. English lacks things like elaborate case structures or grammatical gender which can be hard unless your native language has something similar. The ‘th’ sound is rare, but there are no clicks or tones. SVO is not the most common word order, but it’s not the rarest.
there wasn’t even a noble population who were helping rules be set logically, it’s a slang language.
Huh? That’s not how having a nobility works. Or what slang is. The rich aren’t more logical, and they aren’t concerned with making language easier. If anything nobles want more arcane language that takes longer to learn to better differentiate themselves from those with less free time.
It sounds like you’re thinking of the prescriptive grammar movement where from the 1700s or so rich English speakers decided if it’s not possible in Latin then it’s uncouth in English, and started making up nonsense rules like no split infinitives or ending sentences with a preposition. They couched it in terms of being logical and correct but it was in reality a novel way of marking social class. And ~700 years after the English peasant/Norman aristocrat divide.
I think by that logic almost all words in every language predate the language they are part of. Like saying that our noses aren’t really human because noses predate humans.
a neglected toddler
What do you mean by this?
As island-based languages go English is probably the least isolated in history. It’s Germanic relatives are all nearby. Britain has had extensive links to the continent for the entire history of English and well before. It’s an international language and has been for hundreds of years.
English also isn’t that weird just because it got a large infusion of (pretty closely related) Norman words after 1066. Korean, Japanese and Vietnamese all have over half their lexical items from Chinese, an unrelated language.
It’s not a loan word, it’s the word for salmon in the oldest constructable ancestor of English.
except the mouse has effectively infinite lives.
Thats basically how rodent ecology works, already, isn't it? Being an r strategy reproducer is pretty much just speccing into unlimited respawns.
A rich right wing lunatic (but I repeat myself) in Australia had a 45m ad for his vanity political campaign. A friend of mine sent a screenshot.
you can skip the “we exist” and “look here to find us” parts of the pitch and spend time and effort on the community itself instead.
Thank you for stating that so clearly!
Plus there are plenty of subs that strongly benefit from the population size or promence of reddit - very niche interests, smaller city or town subs, etc.
And there are some subs where the archive of past material is a huge drawcard - for example AskHistorians which is almost certainly the best single reason for reddit existing and the best modded sub I know of.
Except nice to look at, yep!
Pick ups seem like a great example because they are so often a status/identify token.