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Klaus Kinski posted:A nazi dollar bill I figured it was something like that but couldn't figure out what era or anything specific. Thanks!
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Its Coke posted:I've been getting itchy insect bites on my right foot even though I wear socks 24/7 and shoes whenever I go outside. Oftentimes I don't discover them until they're already small and red (and I'm guessing old). Anyone have any ideas what's going on? How itchy? I thought I had extremely itchy bites on my feet that turned out to be contact dermatitis from some leukotape I was wearing (but the bumps didn't show up until a few days after I'd worn it.) But if you're sure it's bugs then possibly chiggers--they love to get into tight places like under socks.
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Bioshuffle posted:I don't want Facebook to have my phone number (on account of privacy), but they're forcing me to put a mobile number "for security purposes"
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Aug 23, 2019 16:37
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Gobbeldygook posted:Facebook already knows your phone number thanks to your friends uploading their contacts, just give them what they want. I was about to post this. Just assume every huge rear end company already knows everything about you worth knowing. The world is hosed, and unless you're an actually important person like politician or CEO or whatever who gives a poo poo? They'll just use it to fractionally better personalize the ads they'll shove down your throat anyway.
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Aug 23, 2019 17:01
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Solution: don't have a Facebook account. Unless you've been using it as a personal photo album for the last ten years, there's little value there these days. There are a plethora of other ways to keep in touch with people from high school you no longer talk to that don't involve selling all your personal information to the Nefarious Zuck Empire.
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Aug 23, 2019 18:20
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kedo posted:Solution: don't have a Facebook account. Unless you've been using it as a personal photo album for the last ten years, there's little value there these days. This isn't really remotely correct. There's a lot of places where Facebook Messenger is the preferred form of communication, Facebook is the only event calendar used by pretty much everyone organising stuff, there's a lot of subjects where discussion is almost exclusively available on Facebook, and for selling/buying/renting things it's often the prime option
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Aug 23, 2019 18:35
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If the OP is concerned enough about privacy that they don't want to give their phone number to Facebook, the only real option is "don't use Facebook." I won't dispute that lots of people use the platform, but just because it's a preferred form of communication/event scheduling doesn't mean it's the only one. There are hundreds of other platforms out there that do the same things Facebook does, often better. There may be fewer people on them, but that's not always a bad thing. I'm going to go out on a limb and say there's literally nothing that's absolutely critical to your life on Facebook that does not exist elsewhere in some equivalent form.
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Aug 23, 2019 20:07
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Sure but that's not what you said.
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kedo posted:just because it's a preferred form of communication/event scheduling doesn't mean it's the only one. this is entirely a different thing from there being "little value" there. no one's saying its the only platform, but its very useful specifically because of how many people are there and what they use it for. if you are using it to keep in touch with a particular group of people or follow certain things that are only on that platform then you are getting a pretty specific value out of it regardless of the features of other platforms that said if privacy is a major concern its true the solutions are either dont use it or just get some bullshit phone number you dont care about and make sure your information is fake
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Aug 23, 2019 20:18
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Fair enough. I guess if anything I should rephrase my original statement that there's "little of value there that can't be found elsewhere." I'm perhaps subconsciously responding in part to the people in my life who throw up their hands, saying, "I hate Facebook, but what can I do? Where else will I find people selling [niche thing on marketplace], or talking about [niche topic], or posting cool events in my area?" and I'm like, have you even looked at the rest of the internet? People are doing all this stuff all over the place, it might just take an extra 20 seconds to find it. Aaaaaanywayyysss.
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Aug 23, 2019 20:26
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kedo posted:Solution: don't have a Facebook account.
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Aug 23, 2019 20:27
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The real solution is not to have friends or interests
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Aug 23, 2019 23:19
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Man with Hat posted:I figured it was something like that but couldn't figure out what era or anything specific. Thanks! You know, given today's political climate I'm sure you can make some crazy cash off that from some concerned citizen who wants to protect free speech.
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Aug 23, 2019 23:40
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greazeball posted:The real solution is not to have friends or interests Agreed, and I also only use burner phones that I replace every month
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Aug 23, 2019 23:45
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Can someone decipher this caption on a cartoon by Dalí? 
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Aug 24, 2019 00:15
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El mestre : ques una salamandra l'alumnus : una sala de estudir I'm sure it's some stupid pun, but I don't speak Spanish.
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Aug 24, 2019 00:34
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:Facebook never forgets. Facebook has profiles for people who have never even created accounts. Name, vitals, likes, dislikes. It's horrifying.
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Aug 24, 2019 12:03
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vitals?
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Earwicker posted:vitals? Address, phone number, e-mail. That sort of thing.
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Flipperwaldt posted:El mestre : ques una salamandra It's Catalan.
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Aug 24, 2019 20:01
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The teacher: what is a salamander? the student: a study room Yeah has to be a pun or like something idiom-dependent.
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Earwicker posted:vitals? blood volume, heart rate, realtime gps coordinates of brainstem, etc
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Hipster_Doofus posted:The teacher: what is a salamander? A quick google told me that "mandra" is Catalan for "laziness", but I'm not sure if that's a good joke
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Ras Het posted:A quick google told me that "mandra" is Catalan for "laziness", but I'm not sure if that's a good joke I'm assuming an English pun on the same lines would be Master: "what is Lèse-majesté" Student: "business as usual"
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Aug 24, 2019 21:41
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Ras Het posted:A quick google told me that "mandra" is Catalan for "laziness", but I'm not sure if that's a good joke Sal a mandre, room of laziness, studyroom. It's not a great joke, but it works.
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Aug 24, 2019 22:11
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Taeke posted:Sal a mandre, room of laziness, studyroom. Compared to the plethora of cheesy, inane and vapid single-panel comic strips we have today, it's practically profound.
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Aug 24, 2019 22:57
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Is there a recommended list of steps one should follow to become less of an addicted consumer? I have noticed that part of my happiness comes from material possessions (even if they are not expensive).
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Aug 25, 2019 01:54
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I have an eviction question. My gf has been living with me for the past year. I broke up with her a few nights ago. I'm not throwing her out but its clear I want to be alone. She hasn't been here the past couple days or nights since. Am I going to get in legal trouble?
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theHUNGERian posted:Is there a recommended list of steps one should follow to become less of an addicted consumer? I have noticed that part of my happiness comes from material possessions (even if they are not expensive). This is not necessarily a huge problem, depending on what you're doing with yourself. Wanting to free yourself from consumerism shows a healthy self-awareness, and if you're already striving to improve your criteria for happiness, eh, maybe don't sweat it overly much. A little material pleasure never hurt anyone along their way of fulfillment. Money can't buy happiness, but it can rent it while you figure out how to get it for free.
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Endymion FRS MK1 posted:I have an eviction question. My gf has been living with me for the past year. I broke up with her a few nights ago. I'm not throwing her out but its clear I want to be alone. She hasn't been here the past couple days or nights since. Am I going to get in legal trouble? I'm not a lawyer but if you both agreed to not be near each other and she left on her own choice for a few days then probably not. It varies by jurisdiction but eviction usually refers to something very specific and is a specific legal proceeding.
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Aug 25, 2019 05:13
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trying to find a machine learning proof of concept thing that was passed around a bit back, it was like a pool of faces constantly changing (non existent people iirc) but I can't seem to find it based on the keywords I google. so uh question is "do you know what I'm talking about?"
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Alan Smithee posted:trying to find a machine learning proof of concept thing that was passed around a bit back, it was like a pool of faces constantly changing (non existent people iirc) but I can't seem to find it based on the keywords I google. is it this website: https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/
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Aug 25, 2019 14:47
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on reddit, when you're looking at the comments on a post it automatically sorts by 'best' and then you can manually change it to sort by the other comment style options like 'Q&A' - is there any way to make it so that's the default style and not have to change it manually every single time?
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So we're way past the point of any chance of even theoretically being able to stop climate change, right?
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Methanar posted:So we're way past the point of any chance of even theoretically being able to stop climate change, right? Probably, but the difference between a 2c and a 4c increase might be the different between lovely and literally dystopic, so all work we can do remains crucial
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Hipster_Doofus posted:This is not necessarily a huge problem, depending on what you're doing with yourself. Wanting to free yourself from consumerism shows a healthy self-awareness, and if you're already striving to improve your criteria for happiness, eh, maybe don't sweat it overly much. A little material pleasure never hurt anyone along their way of fulfillment. Money can't buy happiness, but it can rent it while you figure out how to get it for free. Alright, I'll set a budget, try to scale back anyway, and try not to sweat it. Ras Het posted:Probably, but the difference between a 2c and a 4c increase might be the different between lovely and literally dystopic, so all work we can do remains crucial Is it true that most of the impact is from a handful of companies? If so, can consumer behavior have any impact on those companies? What kinds of (non-research, non-politics) jobs are out there that are actively trying to solve this issue?
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Ras Het posted:Probably, but the difference between a 2c and a 4c increase might be the different between lovely and literally dystopic, so all work we can do remains crucial  lol https://globalnews.ca/news/2934513/empty-skies-after-911-set-the-stage-for-an-unlikely-climate-change-experiment/ lol forever that temperatures within the US are artifically 2 degrees lower because of airplanes. Methanar fucked around with this message at 18:28 on Aug 25, 2019 |
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theHUNGERian posted:
It's true* but it doesn't help you much. *Those companies include entities like the coal conglomerates of China that are state-owned, the Saudi state oil monopoly, etc. And of course the normal multinational oil, natural gas, and coal companies. You have to go quite far down til you get to things like international shipping companies. theHUNGERian posted:If so, can consumer behavior have any impact on those companies? What kinds of (non-research, non-politics) jobs are out there that are actively trying to solve this issue? There's not really anything you could possibly do besides convince people to use less coal, gas, and oil. While there's plenty of ways you might campaign to move other companies off of polluting in ways besides greenhouse gases, there's little to do with a coal or petroleum company and their greenhouse emissions responsibility, besides organizing a mass movement to use less of them and instead an alternative.
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if im understanding the above article correctly, if we had a 9/11 once a week or so that would help a bit sounds like destroying all the international shipping companies as well as the chinese and saudi state coal companies would be a good move as well Earwicker fucked around with this message at 19:40 on Aug 25, 2019 |
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All that plane chat has me wondering this, I think China is trying to build a large rail network over to other continents, will shipping chinese products by train rather than on actual ships reduce pollution?
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