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slips··on Phantom – forward-thinking concept of OS that's not Linux-derived
This is largely to taste. An apostrophe doesn't always mean it's possessive, as just demonstrated, but it is also used for plural abbreviations or for numbers (like 1960's).

Casual English is fairly fluid. People rarely talk exactly according to the rules of English class.

slips··on Omniviolence Is Coming and the World Isn’t Ready
This is a lot of words to communicate a fairly shallow fantasy.
slips··on A Vaping Illness That’s ‘Becoming an Epidemic’
This comment section is also a bunch of speculation without any evidence. Seems to be the same with every other story or conversation about this topic.
slips··on Microsoft Screws Azure Customers and Its Own Advocates Alike
If one wishes to price like that, they do it from the start. We have more than enough history to show that you don't offer customers something for one price scheme and then change it in the middle to get even more money out of them. It doesn't work and only causes problems.
slips··on NULL license plate not such a bright idea
Did you read the article? It literally says people at a private citation outfit put NULL in the license plate field when there is no number available.
slips··on Speaking to yourself in the third person makes you wiser
What would you classify as "real" science? Be cautious of dismissing research because it doesn't fit into your personal definition of reality.
slips··on Insect 'apocalypse' in U.S. driven by 50x increase in toxic pesticides: study
Like the article touched on, there are regenerative practices that do not require pesticides. Frankly, pesticides are a human convenience. Utterly unnecessary for survival. If we weren't focusing on mass producing food, largely unused to directly feed people, we wouldn't need to spray everything with poison to keep things easy and profitable.

Trying to find a "smarter" way to poison things is exactly the status quo and it will lead nowhere good.

slips··on Twitter confesses to more adtech leaks
Are you saying Americans can live without seeing the president rant on Twitter? I wonder if I can do my own research that's greater than 140 characters...
slips··on Burnout
Marketing what? Mental health? Everything isn't some shill post or /r9k/ nonsense. People do speak authentically.
slips··on The terrible truth of climate change
Accepting the fact that we're just like any other animal on this planet, merely along for the ride until the day we're done, will help curb the rage and grief felt towards the planet's reformation.

This is just what happens here. Species rise and fall, lands rise and sink, yet the Earth spins on until some other shit starts to happen on the surface. We just happened to fuck it up for ourselves faster. Humans have been good at that since day one.

slips··on Burnout
Everyone, even healthy people, should attend therapy if able. There's a lot of tricky ground to navigate as a person and you don't have to be experiencing trauma to get help.
slips··on Amazon workers launch protests on Prime Day
Perhaps call out the other person as well?
slips··on Space law is inadequate for the boom in human activity there
I love the audacity of humans setting up laws to regulate space. Hilarious levels of hubris.
slips··on Amazon workers launch protests on Prime Day
Cool. You're one tough dude. We're all jealous of you. Congratulations, it's gonna be a fun life.
slips··on Moving the World to a 4 Day Workweek – An Interview with Aidan Harper
Some people don't exist to work and want to engage with their own life. We shouldn't build a system that forces everyone into a "work-first" way of life, and then use a specific group that's fine with it as a rationalization.
slips··on How to Enable DNS-over-HTTPS in Firefox
How is it a disaster? From what I've seen, a number of gripes are due to people not actually understanding how DoH works or expecting it to do something it isn't designed to do.
slips··on Conflict at Walmart threatens its ecommerce battle with Amazon
It was a thing. I actually used it frequently to get household items and save money on bulk orders. Then it got acquired by Walmart and I stopped shopping there. Same with Bonobos.
slips··on Waymo gets green light in California to pick up passengers in self-driving cars
According to who?
slips··on NSA Improperly Collected U.S. Phone Records a Second Time
More like damned if do commit a bunch of civil violations, damned if you don't because you're still an untrustworthy agency.
slips··on California’s mountain lion faces ‘extinction vortex’
I doubt reasonable housing prices will come with more development, especially in California. That's just the tag-line to get approved so you can start bilking renters/home owners. In this case, I'm for preserving the non-human entities.
slips··on The insulin racket: why a drug made free 100 years ago is recently expensive
How is this suddenly about racism? Every race can be poor (which many in America are).
slips··on Gmail confidential mode is not secure or private
Protonmail does those thongs to try and prevent bad actors or bots from making encrypted accounts to hide their shady tracks. Not for data collection that they'll sell for a profit. Don't be so glib as to state you can't see the difference.
slips··on Gmail confidential mode is not secure or private
It's pretty common for people to throw out "citation needed" when they don't want to believe or admit something, but can't plausibly deny it. Sort of the same way people use the term "fallacy" these days.
slips··on Project Svalbard: The Future of Have I Been Pwned
That's the whole point. You can see the data that criminals are using and seeing. Don't blame the guy telling you about it.
slips··on I didn't get paid, so I open-sourced my client’s project
You likely are just going through the token system, not putting your details directly into the application. Next to nothing works like that.
slips··on Arc.io – A Crowdfunded Distributed CDN
What would our technological landscape look like currently if everyone was hostile against new companies? Old doesn't mean good.
slips··on When it comes to privacy, default settings matter
How is that a privacy concern? You can also hide the stories if you don't want to see them.
slips··on Stripe Chargeback Protection
Is that stated anywhere by Stripe or is it theoretical?
slips··on Hollywood studios say they’re quitting Netflix – the truth is more complicated
Radarr is Sonarr for movies.
slips··on Behavioral Ad Targeting Not Paying Off for Publishers, Study Suggests
It seems disingenuous to compare something abstract like advertising to the process of adding value in manufacturing. They are concepts in two different classes.