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phughes

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  • The Anti-Social Century | Americans are now spending more time alone than ever. It’s changing our personalities, our politics, and even our relationship to reality

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  • My dude. Things cost money. That's a basic fact of life. A rec league needs to rent space to play in. You need gear to play. If those facts taint the activity for you I'm not sure how you can even handle the horrific crassness of paying for a place to live. You should probably live in a hovel the woods. One that you didn't pay for.

  • The Anti-Social Century | Americans are now spending more time alone than ever. It’s changing our personalities, our politics, and even our relationship to reality

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  • I have to say that, in spite of surely well earned the reputation furries have for being nice people, that is one of the weirdest suggestions I've ever heard.

    Substitute furries for any other sexual endeavor.

    Look up BDSM groups around you. No, you don’t have to be a dom/sub to go to one.

    Look up gender transition groups around you. No, you don’t have to be trans to go to one.

    YES, YOU FUCKING DO!

  • The Anti-Social Century | Americans are now spending more time alone than ever. It’s changing our personalities, our politics, and even our relationship to reality

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  • I don’t even know if I’m being sarcastic

    Compare it to some other public space and see how ludicrous it sounds:

    You’d go to the bar to see friends? I don’t even know if I’m being sarcastic.

    You’d go to the coffee shop to see friends? I don’t even know if I’m being sarcastic.

    See? You're used to people doing those things so it sounds normal, but exercising with your friends is just as normal as drinking with your friends.

    People do all sorts of things with their friends, but the reasons they do them invariably include "I like spending time with my friends." Hell, I help my friends do home improvement projects because it's just nice to do something productive with my friends. I'm certainly not going to install a new door on a friend's house if they're going to be away at work, so clearly the real reason is that I like spending time with my friends.

  • If you're not attracted to anyone "in your league", but you cannot choose who you are attracted to, then what are you supposed to do?

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  • The problem is the inability to be attracted to “regular looking” people.

    The problem is that you're shallow. That's a personality problem. Improve your personality until you see the people around you as more than objects.

  • President Biden blocked the sale of US Steel. Why?

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  • I'm not sure what your point is. Union leaders are elected by union members to represent them as… a union. Of course press releases are written by the leaders. They're the leaders. That's part of the job. The fact that not everyone in the union agrees with the path the leaders have decided to take is neither surprising nor an invalidation of their leadership.

  • What TV shows are you watching and would recommend?

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  • I started watching Scavengers Reign recently on a suggestion from a friend. I normally don't go for animated shows, but this one is really enjoyable for me. Calm & explorative.

  • Equal under the law or something

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  • The subject then engaged with local law enforcement and is now deceased

    It makes it sound like the cops wouldn't have done anything if the guy hadn't brought the fight to them.

  • Lavrov Says Russia's 'Not Satisfied' With Proposals From Trump Team To End Ukraine War

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  • Trump: Ok, how about Ukraine declares unconditional surrender and Zelensky is hung in Red Square.Putin: No, not got good enough.

  • Novel 2-chain bike aims at rock-solid ride and rugged redundancy

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  • I rode a two speed kickback bicycle similar (operationally) to this for about a decade. It was the lowest maintenance bike I've ever owned, but the gearing was inside the rear hub and it only had a single chain. I can't imagine that the mechanism being outside improves that.

  • Do I have to build my own touchscreen thermostat?

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  • If my choices are a z-wave/zigbee thermostat that connects to my HomeAssistant instance and a Raspberry Pi that I have to maintain, I'll pick the z-wave one (and I did, 10 years ago. It's been rock solid.)

    For my smart devices I prefer devices that can't send information over the internet no matter what. I don't want to worry about my thermostat mining bitcoin for some dude in China.

  • Trump Rages at Biden for Wrecking His Plans for Executions: ‘Makes No Sense’

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  • Biden left the three people Trump wanted to pardon on the list so he could be the good guy for all the Nazis out there. It’s a Christmas gift in the spirit of bipartisanship

  • Apple might be working on a smart doorbell | TechCrunch

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  • The ones that support HomeKit do record to the cloud, but it's at least encrypted. There's failure points, so it's not a fool-proof system, but it's considerably better system than most cloud camera systems that will joyfully hand over your videos to the police without a warrant or store it in some S3 bucket that doesn't even have user level access controls.

  • Senate approves bill to expand Social Security to millions of Americans

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  • I've seen some witty remarks from him over the years. One of my favorites was when Republicans wanted to make it illegal to burn THE FLAG (gasp). Schumer was quoted something like: "I wish these people cared as much about what the symbol represents as much as the symbol itself."

  • Amazon workers in US strike days before Christmas

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  • How does a company thinking it has a rush of orders it can’t fulfill due to a strike affect how they view their bargaining position in that strike? I’d say it makes them more willing to settle.

    It’s not like they’d be thinking “we have 20% more orders than projected. Thank god for this strike.”

    Why cancel the order when they capitulate? Because. Fuck ‘em.

  • Amazon workers in US strike days before Christmas

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  • Buy shit (if you're in an area affected by the strike), cancel the order when the strike ends.