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oatscoop 1 point 12 hours ago

Mexico's "go kart" has a top speed of 31 mph and a range "up to" 62 miles ... at 31 mph. It's an electric UTV with a nicer passenger compartment.

They're not really comparable.

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oatscoop 8 points a day ago

I promise you there are conveniences you pay for that other people would call "a waste of money".

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oatscoop 3 points a day ago

Or sick, or busy as hell at home and unable to leave.

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oatscoop 3 points 3 days ago

CO2 is also denser than air, which means it stays in the "pit" the animals get lowered into.

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oatscoop 7 points 6 days ago path: 0 24294573, hotness: undefined, score: 7, children: 0
oatscoop 4 points 7 days ago

It's by design.

Calc will do nearly everything Exel will: but MS wants to lock people into their ecosystem. Hence why VBA is the way it is.

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oatscoop 119 points 3 years ago

The test isn't if someone dislikes the movie, it's why if they disliked the movie.

It's fine if someone thinks it was boring, poorly written, etc. It's a red flag if they go off on some misogynistic rant.

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oatscoop 105 points 3 years ago

If this is how you act around other people ... I don't think the problem is other people.

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oatscoop 92 points 4 months ago

So we took a bunch of people in their late teens to mid twenties and put them somewhere new and exciting. We're treating them like rock stars. They're all in peak physical form, good looking, and under constant physical and mental stress.

And you're telling me during their time off they're going to be fucking each other? Who could have predicted this !?

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oatscoop 80 points 2 years ago

I'm fairly certain these people are trolling.

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oatscoop 77 points 3 years ago

I'd call it emotionally immature.

A surprising number of the people I grew up or work with act like they're still in high school when it comes to social/interpersonal skills -- these people are all well over 30 years old.

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oatscoop 76 points 3 years ago

I've taken to de-DRMing any e-books I bought from Amazon for that reason.

Also, the "You can only view this book on 3 devices" -- yeah .... fuck off.

Calibre + DeDRM plugin + KFX plugin. Perfectly legal too, as long as you aren't distributing them.

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oatscoop 74 points 3 years ago

Because his company was (and continues to be) a powerful force acting against consumer rights.

He was also a self absorbed asshole that's still idolized for some reason.

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oatscoop 71 points 3 years ago

Alright, so I watched the video so you guys don't have to. Here's a synopsis:

Youtube's ad blocking is going to backfire because:

  • It caused people to stop using crappy ad blockers that didn't even work with youtube to switch to effective ones that do.
  • Drawing attention to "good" browsers and ad blockers, increasing adoption -- including people that weren't using or aware of the existence of them in the first place
  • Increased support of the people making/maintaining ad blockers. Spite driven increase in donations, subscriptions to paid ad blockers, bug reports, etc.
  • Cites the Streisand effect.
  • Analogy of how prohibition led to stronger drugs, stronger booze, etc. If you tell people they can't do something, they're more likely to do it and get better at doing it.
  • Cites how Youtube's attempts to block ad blockers is breaking older embedded apps in smart TVs, chromecast, etc. Older or non-tech people are just more likely to stop using those rather than try to fix them -- and thus cut back on watching youtube.
  • Believes Youtube's actions are an indication the internet's "free with ads" model is dying -- they're getting desperate to maintain profitability.
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oatscoop 66 points 2 years ago
  1. Forrest had a serious intellectual disability, and she almost certainly felt like she was taking advantage of him.
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oatscoop 61 points 3 years ago

Red flags come in all sizes. A potentially small one is: "I'm not willing to sit through a dumb but harmless movie even though my partner wants to see it."

A bigger red flag would be "I refuse to see The Barbie Movie because it's woke!!!!!"

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oatscoop 61 points 2 years ago

People are drawn to and fascinated by taboo topics, and one's experiences and upbringing determine the relationship with those taboos a person has.

Women have personal experiences with creepy/dangerous men, it's a "known danger" they hear about from a young age, and serial killers represent the extreme example of this -- it's not really surprising "true crime" type media is popular with women.

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oatscoop 57 points 3 years ago

mirror.co.uk

Ah yes, the highly respected Daily Mirror. I am 100% convinced this is a real thing that happened.

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oatscoop 56 points 3 years ago

We should absolutely have safe housing for homeless people with UBI and transitional programs. We should also offer mental health and substance abuse treatment -- and in extreme cases humane involuntary treatment for people that are a danger to themselves and others.

And none of this should take place in shared, public spaces for the safety and dignity of everyone involved. This is a failure of society and needs to be treated as such. Placing the burden on individuals isn't the solution. Expecting public spaces designed for other uses to pick the slack of a broken societal safety net is insane.

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oatscoop 51 points 6 months ago

My favorite of all time and winner of the 2010 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest.

For the first month of Ricardo and Felicity’s affair, they greeted one another at every stolen rendezvous with a kiss—a lengthy, ravenous kiss, Ricardo lapping and sucking at Felicity’s mouth as if she were a giant cage-mounted water bottle and he were the world’s thirstiest gerbil.

-- Molly Ringle, Seattle WA

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