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It was 10 days, but, yeah, not a lot of time, especially for one guy. (That one guy was Brendan Eich, by the way.)

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Yes. I find them on Bandcamp.

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It's a website where you can buy music. I prefer having music in OGG or Opus format, and most of the time you can only get MP3. Bandcamp gives you the option to download your music in several formats, and one of them is OGG.

That's starting to change, because I can find more file-sharers who are using FLAC as storage becomes cheaper. Then I can convert FLAC to Opus. However, Bandcamp also gives you the option to stream music from their app, and it's nice to have access to so much music on my phone.

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Meanwhile, the AI will be handing out false positives to TERFs and hilarity ensues. I see no downside here.

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It's like claiming that you can identify homosexuality through facial recognition. There's no such thing as a "trans face". It's just a silly idea.

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The left believes conspiracy theories. They're just different conspiracy theories.

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Some body types are more...fashionable than others. For example, a woman who is deemed "chubby" now would've been a perfect 10 centuries ago.

Since beauty is subjective, tastes will be different from person to person, but certain types will dominate depending upon the culture at that time and place.

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I was part of a coding bootcamp, and one day the class was talking about git. Somebody mentioned that "git" is also a word used as an insult, like "That guy is a total git". When I revealed that was where the name came from, several students audibly gasped, and a couple said something like "Oh, how embarrassing!" I had the weirdest sense of culture shock, and I had no doubt those students would make very good corporate drones.

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For them, I guess. I can imagine some folks would be embarrassed to tell people that they use GIMP for the same reason.

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That's what I heard, too. He has a habit of naming his software projects after himself: Linux, git.

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Fascists can act out their power fantasies in a healthy, consensual way in the bedroom. Not in my government!

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So, do you start licking the boot from the toe or the heel?

Or are you the kind of person who just deep-throats the whole boot?

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Vaush explained the idea in one of his streams.

Yeah, I quit watching him. Dude is pretty problematic. "Genocide is bad and wrong, but still vote for Biden, because party loyalty is more important." At least he has the balls to criticize Biden, which is more than I can say for some people.

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I don't think that voting for the same two parties is going to change that. Those two parties got us into this; they aren't going to get us out.

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Voting for the Green Party is the bare minimum. Voting for Democrats or Republicans is capitulation.

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It makes no difference to the victim whether or not the fister is enjoying it. The experience is the same.

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I know it sounds ridiculous, but I've heard a lot of people use that same logic. "I want the cow to have a happy life before it's killed for my dinner". Isn't that the while logic behind "free range", "cage-free", etc.?

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It isn't even that. You can be pro Zionism and anti Netanyahu.

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While I agree with you in the main, I don't see how this is cowardice.

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This is largely a myth. While it's true that caffeine is a diuretic, the effect on hydration is very small. This is especially true for tea, which has minimal amounts of caffeine. Hospitals are not full of people who got dehydrated from drinking too much coffee or even energy drinks.

Do a web search for "caffeine dehydration myth" (no quotes). There are lots of articles on the topic.

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There's decaf tea, like there's decaf coffee, but it's still camellia sinensis.

Now, if you're talking about herbal tea, there are a bajillion different kinds: rooibos, chamomile, lavender, etc. Some herbal teas do have caffeine (such as yerba mate), but most do not.

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"I want the victims not to suffer, because that makes the meat taste better!"

Whoa, hold on there, Pollyannna.

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I always think about stuff like this whenever libertarians talk about how much more efficient corporations are than government. I'm like, "Have you ever worked for a corporation?" Organizations are just huge dumpster fires in general, because they're all run by humans.

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Are you against IRC for the same reason?

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