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  2. Comment on Why is there guid-like parameter when requesting js or css? in ~tildes

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    We really need a save feature so we can save comments like this. This is something I'm going to refer back to quite a bit this is cool.

    We really need a save feature so we can save comments like this. This is something I'm going to refer back to quite a bit this is cool.

    4 votes

  3. Comment on The fake abortion clinics of America: Misconception in ~health

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    I saw this on Reddit and my jaw kind of dropped. It immediately made sense, and it sounded like something I knew had to be happening and felt naive for not thinking about it sooner.. But I still...

    I saw this on Reddit and my jaw kind of dropped. It immediately made sense, and it sounded like something I knew had to be happening and felt naive for not thinking about it sooner.. But I still couldn't get over the fact people were doing something this far beyond the line.

    I am fairly indifferent on this topic because I feel like a person's choice is their choice when it impacts them directly. And I feel like there are too many factors for any one on the outside to actually weigh in on for some else. Because when it comes to pregnancy, there are a lot of possible variables and it is just too messy for me to think about it beyond - their life, their heath - their choice.. Because anything beyond that is just seems messy and unempathetic.

    But this crosses the line. This is ridiculously dark... People often have to drive long distances and go way out of their way in all kinds of ways and it is this big emotional thing and they build themselves up and drive all that way and end up at one of these places... What is wrong with people.. You can't put someone through that. Especially knowing you are just eating up the clock... And they have to explain to people close to them they didn't actually get the abortion and everyone has to get all worked up again..

    This is just twisted..

    4 votes

  5. Comment on The US Navy’s terrible accident record is now hidden from public view in ~tech

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    I was in the Navy. And part of my job was to paint the size of the ship. The Navy does things in a very sketchy way. It's all about appearances. They care about how they look the outside world,...

    I was in the Navy. And part of my job was to paint the size of the ship. The Navy does things in a very sketchy way. It's all about appearances. They care about how they look the outside world, but they don't care about their people. I say that but honestly it's the command that thinks that the Navy as a whole is actually great to its people. And that's something I always say. My command was a piece of crap but the Navy was great to me.

    We had people who would just take 5 gallon cans of paint and just throw it in the water because they didn't want to paint and they wanted to say they were out of paint. And no one would bat an eye at that.

    One day I was on the Portside and they weren't supposed to be discharging waste while we were out there. And they discharged waste and shit water went into a paint tray. And it was time to clean up and end the day and I dumped that shit water into the ocean. Instead of the 5-gallon paint can. Because it would have ruined the paint. And I got all kinds of crap because people kept saying there's someone on the port side dumping paint in the water and no one cared that it was shit water or that people were siphoning shit water over the side while we were out there they just cared that it appeared like we were dumping paint when we weren't.

    When we went to dry dock I was on this team that was responsible for doing preventive maintenance on the anchor and anchor chain. So what we did was we lower the anchor down onto a barge and we laid out so many shots of chain and then we disconnected it. Then we took those barges over to an area off to the side in the shipyard where no one really win and our job was to chip the paint off and repaint the anchor and anchor chain and do repairs to the chain.

    We weren't supposed to get paint chips in the water because of the environmental reasons. So what they did was they took these metal poles and made the square frames and then they wrapped this thick plastic wrap around it making these plastic hot boxes. And the frames have wheels on them. So as we work we would just roll that box across. We had two of these.

    These things were death traps. It cost us to inhale way more paint chips because our respirators were not the greatest. They were extremely hot, you couldn't see anything going on, and you had six people crammed into it with pneumatic tools all trying to work around each other.

    3 votes

  6. Comment on The End of the F***ing World - Netflix in ~tv

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    I think she was empathetic toward James. Anyone else would have just written James off. Besides his father.

    I think she was empathetic toward James. Anyone else would have just written James off. Besides his father.

    1 vote

  7. Comment on Presidential Alert Test, thoughts? in ~talk

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    You should be able to disable the sound on it. I can disable the sound on mine. When I got the alerts they didn't make any noise at all.

    You should be able to disable the sound on it. I can disable the sound on mine. When I got the alerts they didn't make any noise at all.

    2 votes

  8. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~food

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    I always get extra pickles and no cheese. Apparently extra pickles is a really big thing down in Dallas. I was down there for a day work trip and there is a Chick-fil-A right down the street from...

    I always get extra pickles and no cheese. Apparently extra pickles is a really big thing down in Dallas. I was down there for a day work trip and there is a Chick-fil-A right down the street from our office. I asked for extra pickles and they gave me this plastic container pre-packaged with Pickles ready to go. (One of those small Solo tubs with a lid) They had a whole stack of them. I thought it was the most incredible thing. (It was the lunch rush.)

    1 vote

  9. Comment on The End of the F***ing World - Netflix in ~tv

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    Ah, that's a real shame. What didn't you like about her? Her attitude?

    Ah, that's a real shame. What didn't you like about her? Her attitude?

    3 votes

  10. Comment on White House tells FBI to interview anyone necessary for Kavanaugh inquiry in ~news

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    Oh it's definitely just a kind of formality (political pandering). They're just doing it to appease people. I'm the most curious to see how long they actually take with it. Will they just rush...

    Oh it's definitely just a kind of formality (political pandering). They're just doing it to appease people. I'm the most curious to see how long they actually take with it. Will they just rush through it to get it done, or will they draw it out a little to make it seem like they're really digging into it.

    1 vote

  11. Comment on The End of the F***ing World - Netflix in ~tv

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    They were toward each other more so. It's definitely a specific theme / style. So I understand it not being for everyone.

    They were toward each other more so. It's definitely a specific theme / style. So I understand it not being for everyone.

    4 votes

  12. The End of the F***ing World - Netflix

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    Has anyone else seen this show? It came out last October. I just saw it about a month ago, probably a little less. It has got to be one of the best thing I've seen all year. Top 3. I love the...

    Has anyone else seen this show? It came out last October. I just saw it about a month ago, probably a little less. It has got to be one of the best thing I've seen all year. Top 3.

    I love the entire theme, the atmosphere, how everything is done. The direction is incredible. And the actors are ridiculously good.

    In the show the two main characters will narrate their thoughts as they are happening in the moment. There is brilliant joke where Alyssa is narrating her thoughts and she thinks something along the lines of, "If This were a movie we would probably be American." Because the show is set in Britain and she is thinking to herself, what if this is all a movie.

    The show is a dark comedy. And it's just got this incredible motif for lack of a better word. Has anyone else seen it? What are your thoughts? I really like Alyssa's character. Just how she is so empathetic, and she thinks far enough into everything to weigh both sides in a way not a lot of people would do. She basically givea the benefit of the doubt and weighs both sides more than she should.

    15 votes

  13. Comment on What are the best practices regarding personal files and encryption? in ~tech

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    Yeah, I agree. If you want to go simple just do full disk encryption. Since you have Linux you can just encrypt your /home too. I know you didn't really ask about redundancy, but in that area it...

    Yeah, I agree. If you want to go simple just do full disk encryption. Since you have Linux you can just encrypt your /home too.

    I know you didn't really ask about redundancy, but in that area it just depends how important your stuff is to you. For my personal stuff I usually have just one step past a single point of failure. And honestly, I still have quite a few single points of failure. Anything super important I push off site onto a cloud resource. But that is very few items, and most of the time that's because I want easy access to them or I am sharing them.

    8 votes

  14. Comment on Does a trustworthy VPN provide privacy? If so, how do you know if a VPN is trustworthy? in ~tech

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    Yeah, the main reason I use one is because I don't like my ISP to see my traffic. My ISP is a very crappy company, but only high speed here and only ISP my house gets. I use IPVanish because it...

    Yeah, the main reason I use one is because I don't like my ISP to see my traffic. My ISP is a very crappy company, but only high speed here and only ISP my house gets.

    I use IPVanish because it has apps and just works. But also because you can log in and download a file that has every single cert for every server and set up openvpn with any of them and your creds. I think it's like $70 a year and this is year 3 for me.

    They also claim to not log.

    2 votes

  15. Comment on The Good Place is one of the funniest, most original shows I've seen in a long time in ~tv

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    Ted Danson. He is on the Good Place.

    Ted Danson. He is on the Good Place.

    7 votes

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  18. Comment on Hello in ~talk

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    Ha! I never knew Camus said that.

    Ha! I never knew Camus said that.

    3 votes

  19. Comment on Hello in ~talk

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    It literally makes life worth living.

    It literally makes life worth living.

    3 votes

  20. Comment on Hello in ~talk

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    I got lost in the development part of the docs. That's cool that it's laid out like that and there's the vagrant stuff ready to go.

    I got lost in the development part of the docs. That's cool that it's laid out like that and there's the vagrant stuff ready to go.

    5 votes