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Hello, I'm nobody. Are you nobody too? He/They, Sé/é

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One of the most important lessons I've learned in my life is that, if God in his all his wisdom and knowledge has not given up on me, I don't have a right to give up on me.

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Unless they're the Minnesota Democratic Farmer-Laborer Party, then they can manage to do literally anything with a 1 vote majority.

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You don't get to claim being the best option just because the bar set by the other guys is so low its in Hades.

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I think my Programing Logic professor put it best: "You should learn to use these tools effectively, but remember that computers can really only do one thing: Tell if there is electricity present in any given location. You still have to do all the thinking on its behalf."

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I'm a fan of privacy and security, don't get me wrong. But privacy rule #1: Don't say anything in a public space that you wouldn't want to be heard by the public.

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As far as I'm concerned, if he was willing to say what he said to the person, he shouldn't have any qualms with storing what he said in a digital format. Like there is nothing unethical about remembering things in internal storage, so why would it be unethical to put it on external storage?

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Ah youth, when making friends was easy and everyone didn't have like 12 layers of trauma coating you had to get through before they even decide to put you in their contacts.

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SOLD!

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Like how hard could it possibly be to raise... [mathing...] $662,791,850,220 for baking soda?

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Hear me out... We start a Facebook event and a go-fund me. It didn't work for Area 51, but it might work for this.

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Is there no way to neutralize the acid?

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My tendency to wake myself up with wraith and spite for the current state of the world may not be healthy but it works. I'm no longer sleepy, it has been replaced by fury.

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Commit Word Crimes™

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His evil has just been given a bath and put in a nice suit.

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Reminder that Joe Biden: - Threw railroad workers under the bus - Has done nothing to prevent another East Palestine - Is actively aiding a genocide in Gaza right now - Has done nothing but concede to the right on the border I don't wanna hear shit about that rat being "lesser of two evils"

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His value is not being Trump. I'm tired of people pretending this is a "Don't let perfect be the enemy of good" situation, cause Biden's not good. He's a shit leader, he's a shit orator, and he's just as evil as the rest of them. He's just not Trump. That is all, nothing more to it.

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While most people will likely still end up voting for him, many of us find no reason to support him. He's a senial old liberal who threw rail workers under the bus, is actively supporting and aiding a genocide in Gaza, and failed to accomplish many of his promises.

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I will not be entirely pleased on any social media site until I have every Zionist and Israeli apologist on my block list. I am sorry God, but I have no more patience or tolerance for such evil. From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free.

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You're allowed to shout fire in a crowded theatre when there is a fucking fire in the theatre.

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Yeah, and locally run models don't require fuck tons of water and electricity, which is a big bonus.

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There is a brilliant "lost" verse for "This land is your land" by Woody Guthrie that I loved so much that I created a comic from it as a tribute. It's really sad how few people know about it, I felt like it needed some love.

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Of all the jobs that can be automated with A.I., Creatives like writers and artists are quite literally the least replaceable. Yet CEOs could probably be 95% replaced by A.I. or a crack team of bureaucrats, offering much larger savings than laying off your art team, yet no one suggests it.

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A smartphone just doesn't provide enough fault tolerance. I feel need a device for each category of use, so that if I lose one, I'm not entirely up shitscreek without a paddle.

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Now that I've really thought more about it, My draw towards more devices that are more specialized is probably a result of the period of time when I had to go without a cell phone. The fact that one device breaking caused me to lose access to every utility probably made me desire redundancy.

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tbh, if I wanted to really think deeper about it. My issue is probably more about Smartphones as a product, rather than Multi-function devices as a concept. Smartwatches are probably my ideal for a multi-function device. Also I wish they weren't so mandatory for bloody everything now-a-days.

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I keep a laptop, a flip phone, and a smartphone that isn't actually connected to the cellular network on my person. It works out well. Though, I want to swap the smartphone for a smartwatch, cause it's a bit too big just for the sake of being a GPS & 2FA dongle.

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People should really learn the difference between "Living under capitalism" and "Being a capitalist" An artist needing to sell their work to survive isn't "being a capitalist", they are still a Working Class. A capitalist is someone who directly profits off another person's labor, not their own.

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Also related complaint, I know why people do it, from the day I started having a wallet, it has bothered me when folks try to give me both the cash and the coinage in the same hand.

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Yeah, it limits human error, and for example where I worked, the screen facing the customer didn't actually display the change due. So counting also kinda helps convey "This is how much change is due, and this is me showing my work so you know I gave you the correct change."

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I've always been a bit slow at times, especially with math. So I got into this habit back when I worked retail, and even if it takes a bit longer, you could visually see that it improved the experience for customers while also helping me make sure I got my math right.

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Not exactly the same, but my mind immediately jumped to "two-way pager"

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Also, the fact you need a mobile device for almost everything now. Makes even simple shit a pain in the ass if you ever lose your phone. For example, someone mentioned QR codes in restaurants, genuinely fuck whoever thought about that and anyone who decided to emulate them.

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Smartphones, particularly following the advent of Social Media, have done more harm to society than good. Devices for communication (Phone, Text, Email) Devices for Day-to-Day utility (GPS, eWallets, Planning) and Devices for entertainment and browsing should be distinct, different devices.

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So whether the decision is yes or no doesn't matter to him, as long as HE's the one making that decision. (am I understanding?)

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Happy Birthday, artist I've never once seen before until today! Love your style btw. It is, as the kids say, *Chef's kiss*

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Never met a real ethnic German, but I'm: Quarter Gaelic Irish, Quarter Ulster-Scot, Quarter Anglo-Irish, Quarter Et Cetera threatening vengeance against your life is how I show love, Maybe its the same?

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Dude looks like he just crawled out of a cave in Goblin Hunter.

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One can argue he is advocating for fundamental change... just backwards.

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sounds like a racket, "Hey, nice work you got there.... Give us some money and we won't steal it."

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That's cause most Abortion-Ban activists and politicians aren't pro-life, they're pro-birth. They don't give a flying fuck about your life and well-being after you're out on the table. Very important difference.

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Do you boycott Chinese goods? (Also the US Government maintains a variety of sanctions on the People's Republic of China. In fact, the US just banned imports from 26 companies that use forced labor from Xianjiang )

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Also on this point: Not just social media, Media in general. Positive or Negative, doesn't matter As long as it holds it in the public perception.

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Good point. Also people need to feel like they CAN influence change and that progress is possible. The US directly funds Israel, and we've seen cracks in that relationship over the course of the war due to public and international pressure. One will need to show that China can be pressured.

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Long story short: The public memory is shorter than a goldfish, and so it basically needs an ongoing crisis to motivate it to do something.

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