TheOneCurly

I was on the younger side so it was mostly flash game and animation sites. Homestar runner, albinoblacksheep, miniclip, addicting games, runescape.

It claims to reflect radiating heat from the sun and blacktop in a way bare skin doesn’t. The same principal as wearing white, billowy clothing in deserts rather than just being naked.

Yes this is a meme community, not a textbook

I believe the effect is entirely topical, it just doesn’t hurt to ingest a little too. The fluoride ions trigger re-hardening of the tooth enamel and can take the place of missing calcium in the outer enamel structure, but those only happen when they hit the outer enamel in your mouth, you don’t regrow enamel on fully formed teeth

I can only really speak to reddit, but I think this applies to all of the user generated content websites. The original premise, that everyone agreed to, was the site provides a space and some tools and users provide content to fill it. As information gets added, it becomes a valuable resource for everyone. Ads and other revenue streams become a necessary evil in all this, but overall directly support the core use case.

Now that content is being packaged into large language models to be either put behind a paywall or packed into other non-freely available services. Since they no longer seem interested in supporting the model we all agreed on, I see no reason to continue adding value and since they provided tools to remove content I may as well use them.

The idea comes up a lot, especially in response to the US right wing party circling the wagons around some new thing. I think conceptually some people wish the left could achieve the same kind of unity, but that’s not what progressive politics look like. The constant pressure to reevaluate stances is the core feature, not a side effect of angry, online lefties. It should be a constant effort to look at the systems we have created and evaluate if they are promoting the common good. When they’re not, and some people continue to promote them, that’s an impasse.

People say this a lot, but all I ever see in real life is someone being a huge asshole or spouting off some dog-whistle talking points while pretending to be “civil”. They get shut down hard and go whining and complaining that the left was mean to them.

If only there was some way to do 2factor without sending plaintext codes over sms.

So if I buy a load of stolen apples and bake them into pies I’m in the clear?

Looking at all/scaled right now for me. Only 1 out of 9 posts is political, plus this post which I’m going to call meta and not explicitly politics. The posts that get popular with high engagement are primarily political but I think other stuff is out there if you’re willing to comment and vote on new posts.

Then my choice is I pay taxes that pay for roads or I pay the same amount to 20 different road companies in tolls. If it’s all the same then I may as well have a single point of annoyance.

I have yet to see a compelling libertarian policy that wasn’t just bad for most people and good for the wealthy. It’s not “freedom”, it’s moving from government rules to corporate rules. At least a government has a semblance of accountability to me, a corporation has none.

Agreed, this is sensible moderation.

If you’ve ever used an air conditioner you’ve used a heat pump. ACs are just one way heat pumps that take heat from inside and dump it outside. You can add a “reversing valve” to allow it to move heat in either direction, making a general purpose “heat pump”. They can be nearly 400% efficient, which is better than any other heat source.