bilb

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[–] bilb@lem.monster 35 points 6 months ago (8 children)

No selection pressure after the age at which our adult teeth fail

[–] bilb@lem.monster 2 points 6 months ago

Almost 30 years and still basically useless.

[–] bilb@lem.monster 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The last time I tried that getting google play services working was a long, annoying process and did not work. I don't expect google to make any of that easy for us.

[–] bilb@lem.monster 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think you're just a stupid asshole. No need to overthink this.

[–] bilb@lem.monster 37 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'd stick with Windows in your case. No shame in using what works. I had a laptop with hybrid Nvidia graphics and never could get it working satisfactorily with Linux.

[–] bilb@lem.monster 3 points 7 months ago

It becomes a “to each according to his need” scenario where “his need” is being determined by the central committee

This happens at the health insurance company now, and they are profit driven. They need to deny coverage in order to make their investors money.

[–] bilb@lem.monster 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I honestly don't get the outage over that. I feel like I'm in the minority on that, though. I don't care if linguistic statics are gathered from my public comments. Knock yourself out.

This story is about "private" messages on a free hosted service, and I think their users are just being naive if they think this is beyond the pale. But I get the feeling of violation at least a little.

[–] bilb@lem.monster 4 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Sounds like "light" and "darkness" clichés, not references to skin pigmentation

[–] bilb@lem.monster -3 points 7 months ago

There is no practical reason to "do better." It's fine.

[–] bilb@lem.monster 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I see it as a social signifier more than anything else.

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