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willis936

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  • TIL about Earl Silverman, a domestic abuse survivor who founded a shelter for men. It was denied funding from the government and he was ridiculed. The shelter went bankrupt and he died by suicide

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  • Thanks for the link. Good read so far.

    While we're throwing out Qanon dissections, Gabriel Gatehouse's The Coming Storm is a wild listen. I heard about it when he guest interviewed on Jon Stewart's The Problem. The stuff he said there was so interesting that I checked out the podcast. Gabriel's moved on from BBC now, but I'm eager for more of his reporting.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0bc3rjy

    Edit: Oh and how could I forget: HBO's Q Into the Storm is the best piece out there on this. They're there interviewing Qanon while at the height of them kicking shit up.

  • TIL about Earl Silverman, a domestic abuse survivor who founded a shelter for men. It was denied funding from the government and he was ridiculed. The shelter went bankrupt and he died by suicide

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  • It's because it doesn't make any sense on the surface. Why were people so angry? Why was the jovial jokey part of the internet being so serious and violent? It marked a shift of the internet being srs bzns to serious business.

  • TIL about Earl Silverman, a domestic abuse survivor who founded a shelter for men. It was denied funding from the government and he was ridiculed. The shelter went bankrupt and he died by suicide

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  • If you grew up on 4chan and haven't read It Came From Something Awful, I highly recommend it. It lays out how gamergate was the inflection point. It also makes the case that counter culture is now forever dead. Makes you feel pretty bad about things, actually. It feels pretty correct though.

    Also, it's an incredible anticonsumerism piece. If you ever feel like you can no longer fight the machine, this book tells you that you're not alone.

  • Despite the bad press, half of America is still considering an EV or hybrid car — they just want them to be cheaper

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  • That's great, but I'm talking about people making car buying decisions today.

  • Despite the bad press, half of America is still considering an EV or hybrid car — they just want them to be cheaper

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  • I'm saying that the prime is not twice the car of the hybrid because it has a wall plug. It's the huge motors and huge battery. There's a middle ground.

  • Despite the bad press, half of America is still considering an EV or hybrid car — they just want them to be cheaper

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  • Two cars and a house? Not for my generation.

  • Despite the bad press, half of America is still considering an EV or hybrid car — they just want them to be cheaper

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  • The primes are enticing, but not 20k more expensive enticing. The escape PHEV is near perfect (same beautiful transmission as Toyota) but is FWD only. You need to go up to the lincoln corsair grand touring to get AWD and then suddenly it's 50k. wtf? Why will no one sell a sub 50k AWD PHEV?

  • Despite the bad press, half of America is still considering an EV or hybrid car — they just want them to be cheaper

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  • Based on what? There has been no plan proposed by anyone to even start doing that. It's not economical for commercial players to add that level of infrastructure.

    Having an EV be an option is very much a privilege of having a secure SFDH.

  • Despite the bad press, half of America is still considering an EV or hybrid car — they just want them to be cheaper

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  • Rebate scope was heavily reduced in the past month and suddenly there's stories about EV and PHEV demand being lower? Horse shit. They're just more expensive now.

  • RTX 4070 Super launch day sales are rumored to be a ‘disaster’ – what’s going on with Nvidia’s new GPU?

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  • They leaned their strategy pretty hard into mining when that was on the table. They for sure chase trends and alienate their base. Any way to juice near term profits and they will. It's working out for them right now, so surely it will forever.

  • Google Search Really Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find

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  • The converse is that SEO spam has become better at the game than google, despite google's best efforts. It's a less comfortable thought because how could a bunch of unorganized distributed actors out compete the one of the world's richest company at their bread and butter game. The alternative is that one of the world's richest companies gave up playing their bread and butter game.

  • Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994

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  • see headline

    "Oh cool. What fun and inventive thing is Microsoft doing?"

    reads first line of article

    "Oh it's for AI. Gross."

  • Cox deletes ‘Active Listening’ ad pitch after boasting that it eavesdrops though our phones

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  • The economics aren't there. A cellular chip and a subscription will not pay for the private conversations of a random house.

  • EV Batteries Are Dangerous to Repair. Here’s Why Mechanics Are Doing So Anyway

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  • That's 50x smaller than an EV battery. Being able to drive once every two months doesn't seem practical.

  • I'm locked out of my 6 year old Chipotle account because they now say my email address is invalid when I login. Here is me asking for their help:

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  • Jeez and I feel like I'm tempting fate just by using a custom domain.

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    Tech workers - what did your IT Security team do that made your life hell and had no practical benefit?

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  • I am not allowed to change my wallpaper.

  • i find it's a great tool.

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  • If there were better options then they would have been adopted.

  • Elon Musk angers German government with post backing far-right party

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  • If you're asking because you don't know how truly awful and scary AfD is: AfD is truly awful and the prospect of them gaining control is very scary. One of the world's richest people can make things happen in politics.

    If you're asking because Musk supporting right wing politics is well known: yeah but see above. AfD is scary shit.

  • Opinions: What is a movie you genuinely like, that is rated below 60% on rotten tomatoes?

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  • Rat Race is 45% and I don't know why. Audience score is 64%.