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o0banky0o··on Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy
A useful distinction is that upload is piracy and download is not.
o0banky0o··on A larger family worsens kids' cognitive development, suggests 30-year study
I bet if we were to reiterate the definition of work, the math would show us we are actually less productive with a small handful doing the real work and carrying the country.
o0banky0o··on A few words about Blameless culture
You need to have trustworthy people for this to work. I feel like its hard to steer an established culture for this reason, the problem is lack of faith and trust in the first place
o0banky0o··on The Stroad
Cities are where cars are a problem. Out in the country they are fundamental tools, our modern horse.
o0banky0o··on How can you define a 'drug'? Nobody knows
Any things status as that thing is fleeting, and is dependent on your needs and goals. this is why we call broken electronics "bricks".

Any thing could be a drug if it acts like a drug when used as a drug.

o0banky0o··on Walking has plummeted across America
She was inadvertently healthy, lmao
o0banky0o··on Gen Z wants less sex in TV and movies
I can't lie, I love sex scenes in movies, they're usually pleasant.
o0banky0o··on Cops Are Suing a Teen for Invasion of Privacy After False Arrest Vid Goes Viral
should doctors not perform surgery ever again because some people die as a side effect? No, I am not suggesting we stop talking.
o0banky0o··on Cops Are Suing a Teen for Invasion of Privacy After False Arrest Vid Goes Viral
I wonder about a possible iatrogenic explanation for police being tyrants. I bet there's a case to be made that simply being educated on how tyrannical behavior works could help to cause it to happen in the first place. In fact, it almost seems like you'd HAVE to go through that in order to get a grip on the problem in the first place. This is pure armchair psychology, Can someone straighten me out? Is there something to this?
o0banky0o··on Fructose is the main culprit of the obesity epidemic: study
What will we do without our candies and toys?
o0banky0o··on Using Goatse to Stop App Theft
The secret 3rd option
o0banky0o··on Science is bringing historic Apple varieties back to life
Never heard of the bloody ploughman, but its neat. from wiki: "The story is that a gamekeeper shot dead a ploughman caught stealing apples from the Megginch Estate. When his body was returned to his wife, she found stolen apples in his pockets and threw them onto a rubbish heap. One of the resulting seedlings bore apples of a deep, blood red. This tree gave rise to the cultivar that was named after the unfortunate ploughman."
o0banky0o··on Post-truth society is near
That's not what post-truth means. Post-truth would mean something like "the world after the realization of the lack of coherence of the concept of truth".
o0banky0o··on Movie piracy is strongly linked to box office revenue
Torrentfreak's twitter account is still being squatted on by some POS, since august. It seems like they ran out of steam trying to get it back
o0banky0o··on Extreme parkour with legged robots
It walks into your room, discovers you, and moves in to make the kill, but for some reason the gun trained at an odd angle. You see it take two shots that veer across to the corner of the room before it hilariously enters some self-correcting routine, seems to rediscover you, and finally blows your head off.

You get a chuckle before you die

o0banky0o··on 2023 Nobel Prize in economics awarded to Claudia Goldin
Point still stands, data is very welcome
o0banky0o··on Eight or Nine Wise Words about Letter-Writing by Lewis Carroll
Thems were a bunch o words
o0banky0o··on Desalination system could produce fresh water that is cheaper than tap water
I don't think they are boiling it. It read to me like they're just evaporating the water in some efficient way, rather than boiling.

What would the math look like if they aren't necessarily going to boil?

o0banky0o··on Valve is a wonderful upstream contributor to Linux and the open-source community
And the fact that they aren't stopping the use of scene cracks in distribution is cool too, that is awesome.
o0banky0o··on ‘Less than half’ fresh produce sold globally makes any profit
It sounds like tech folks want to do like your grandpa wanted, even though they're paying to sustain it
o0banky0o··on Warner Bros. CFO Thinks You Deadbeats Have Been on a Free Ride for Way Too Long
Using streaming services the way it is today feels trashy, awkward, and plastic. It's vaguely contemptible but I can't put my finger on why.
o0banky0o··on Warner Bros. CFO Thinks You Deadbeats Have Been on a Free Ride for Way Too Long
Only in so far as the way you say it contributes to the content you're framing. What you mean is the message, however badly the map is drawn.
o0banky0o··on Wayland Isn't Going to Save the Linux Desktop (2022)
Reading this produces the same lump in the throat as the arch forums. The phallosophers want the user to disappear and finally let the computers display their beautiful art.
o0banky0o··on Internet-connected cars fail privacy and security tests conducted by Mozilla
lol, we've always bitched about automatics in the US too
o0banky0o··on Poverty is linked to poorer brain development but reading can help counteract it
The point is not to compare people to each other, comparing people is purely secondary to the task, the point is to enable people as best they can be enabled. Even if you are low iq, you should still learn to read if you can.
o0banky0o··on Rockstar is selling cracked game copies on Steam
razor1911 never started owning it when they made the crack, so, fair.
o0banky0o··on Someone stole torrentfreak's twitter handle
Sure enough, if you scroll through old posts you start seeing torrentfreak articles.

https://nitter.net/EthereumFDN/with_replies

o0banky0o··on Illusory Superiority
That is equality of outcome. Equality of opportunity is what we want. We want an equal shot at the target, the varying values of the regions of the target should still be your reward. Not perfect, but functionally infinitely better than EOO
o0banky0o··on So where are we all supposed to go now?
In my view it is a criterion for "useful", but you're right, it's not as relevant to the idea of socializing itself.
o0banky0o··on So where are we all supposed to go now?
Facebook instagram and tiktok, as you say, do not have the same searchable level of useful information in super niche subjects, which turns out to be the crucial difference afaic, the rest is noise.
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