ToaKraka
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ToaKraka
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1yr ago
Do you really think that if Fruck's father came out of his coma and found out that his son had kissed him on the forehead during his coma, he'd be outraged and feel that his son had violated his personal boundaries?
"Outraged" is a strong word. I would expect him to be somewhat uncomfortable with his child's touching his unconscious body, but I would also expect him to consider this violation of personal boundaries to be extremely minor and easily forgiven, given the obvious depths of the child's love and grief from which it sprang.
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1yr ago
Being broke indicates… a severe inability to exercise financial discipline and planning.
my kids
ToaKraka
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1yr ago
In the immortal words of Peter Griffin: Oh, my God, who the hell cares?
Why don't you just hit the mute button and let the ads play while you browse in another browser tab? Did your parents fail to teach to you the overwhelming importance of the TV remote's mute button when you watched traditional television with them, two or three decades ago? I don't understand why people complain so much about watching a few short seconds of advertisements in exchange for dozens of minutes of FREE video.
It's my understanding that, if you don't skip until the 30-second mark, then the ad counts as having been "watched", so the uploader still gets paid. There's at least one Chrome extension that you can set up to automatically skip ads after the 30-second mark. I don't know whether Safari has anything similar.
ToaKraka
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1yr ago
No. The juxtaposition of the two quotes concisely points out that the first quote has already addressed the second quote's concern. It's a convenient convention that I first saw on 4chan.
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1yr ago
Perhaps this couple had a higher paying job when the kids were younger but has since been laid off. Perhaps this couple used to be able to afford things but haven't gotten raises despite inflation.
"Financial discipline and planning" includes planning for uncertainty.
Perhaps the female was in her mid 30s and they decided to have kids despite not being financially stable because it was now or never. Should people who don't make enough money be effectively consigned to end their genetic line because you (or the other commenter I was responding to) "don't have much respect" for their decision to have children?
Choosing expensive children and a late retirement over cheap living and an early retirement is a valid choice, in the context of the human mind—but calling it a financially-intelligent choice seems a little too much.
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4mo ago
the author had the brilliant idea to hide the novel behind a paywall
I won't be recommending that author in the future
That's a rather harsh assessment. Removing a book from its original free location after publishing it on a paid platform is a common practice. I think it's explicitly required by Amazon's self-publishing terms.
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1yr ago
If you download the full spreadsheet and reduce the weight of incarceration rate to zero in the calculations, Texas still ends up at a pitiful #46 on personal freedom.
Gambling: #39
Marriage: #44
Education: #35
Marijuana: #50
Asset forfeiture: #42
Travel: #50
Why don't you just hit the mute button and watch the ads? I don't understand why people complain so much about watching a few short seconds of advertisements in exchange for dozens of minutes of FREE video.
It's my understanding that, if you don't skip until the 30-second mark, then the ad counts as having been "watched", so the uploader still gets paid. There's at least one Chrome extension that you can set up to automatically skip ads after the 30-second mark. I don't know whether Safari has anything similar.
The default template for all tech codes of conduct
It's the most common one out there
Github's two default choices are the Contributor Covenant and the Citizen Code of Conduct, and neither of those documents contains that passage. It's true that a quick Google search for "will not act" "reverse racism" turns up quite a few hits, but I think you need more evidence for your inflammatory claims.
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2mo ago
I think I read somewhere many years ago that "eat hot chip and lie" is a censor-avoiding version of "eat hot shit and die". Ftttg is referencing a meme that incorporates this phrase.
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3mo ago
They do not automatically see all comments. Click the "report" button and wait (at least several hours) for them to show up.
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4mo ago
Road work normally is not conducted in such a manner as to block the entire street. Rather, work will be conducted on half of the street, and traffic will be directed through the other half of the street (using alternating flow and flaggers if half of the street is too narrow for two lanes of traffic).
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4mo ago
anything that results in a closure of a section of street will cut off a lot of people
It's a loop, with one travel lane and one parking lane (which can be cleared in emergencies) in each direction. I don't see how anyone would ever be cut off.
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6mo ago
Doesn't exactly look like "fun thread" material
You are supposed to laugh at (1) the prisoner's writing two pages of "no homo" and (2) the appeals panel's being forced to defend the prisoner's right to send "repeated[] express[ions] of hatred of individuals belonging to the LGBTQ+ community" that it finds "vulgar, reprehensible, and distressing".
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9mo ago
The comment was intentionally phrased in an inflammatory manner for laughs (since this is the Friday Fun Thread). Seriously, though, as a reasonably-well-off person living in the US, I personally have little need of garages, closets, and pantries.
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I have no pantry. All my room-temperature food is in the kitchen cabinets.
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I have a closet, but I hardly use it. Rather, I keep all my regularly-used clothes in a large plastic basket or haphazardly around my bedroom. And a wardrobe can serve the purpose of a closet anyway.
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I have no garage. I can see how it might be useful for working on a car, but I personally just go to a mechanic.
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1yr ago
If only the 7500-dollar Elio had not been a scam…
a small town (∼50,000 people)
The UN's official definition of "town" (roughly aligning with the common understanding of the word) extends from 10,000 people to 49,999 people. A municipality with "∼50,000 people" is either a large town or a small city, not a small town.
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1yr ago
Animated gifs for user badges are crazy fucking distracting.
You can hide user profile pictures by adding the following line to the custom CSS in your account settings: .profile-pic-20{display:none!important;}
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2yr ago
Maybe I should differentiate more clearly between overkill and bloat. When I listen to a piece of music that has overkill, I wonder why there are so many different sounds playing at once, when it would sound less confusing/overwhelming/bad to have just three or four sounds. When I listen to a piece of music that is bloated, I wonder why there are so many different sounds playing (whether simultaneously or in sequence), when it would have been so much simpler/cheaper for the composer to use just three or four sounds.
What is a part? Is a chord on a guitar six or one parts?
I guess that's one spot where the synthesized instrument and the physical instrument can diverge significantly in bloat, even though both compositions have exactly the same position on the overkill meter. Many physical instruments, of course, can create a chord standing alone—but an electronic tracker may require one synthesized "instrument" for each note in a chord.
Is a choir one part, 4–8, or ~8–48?
Similarly, a choir would (I assume) be around four instruments in terms of overkill regardless of its physical or electronic implementation, but a physical implementation could be horribly bloated, with dozens of members beyond the minimum.
If I have an orchestra using a bunch of different instruments to produce a single chord is that one or multiple parts?
I would say that, if an entire physical orchestra is being used to generate a single chord, it's horrendous bloat, but not necessarily overkill. MIDI, of course, has the "Orchestra Hit" instrument that can be used to eliminate the bloat.
Is the guitar and bass guitar different or the same part?
I don't know much about musical composition, but if they're playing the same note then I imagine I probably wouldn't be able to tell that there were two instruments. However, if they're playing the "same" note at different octaves, then I might be able to tell, and to wonder what the point is.
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