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  1. Comment on These American birds and dozens more will be renamed, to remove human monikers in ~enviro

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    I love this! Nature deserves the best names that reflect and represent itself. I hope this continues to names of plants - in Texas, most of our scientific names are one guy who put his name into...

    I love this! Nature deserves the best names that reflect and represent itself. I hope this continues to names of plants - in Texas, most of our scientific names are one guy who put his name into everything (see on of my favorite plant guys: https://youtu.be/8uDkba7OVpI?si=Zzq2nvtFPg_jAzN3)

    2 votes

  2. Comment on What service are you using for domain names? in ~comp

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    A few businesses I worked with used GoDaddy - the UI and customer service worked and they were very reliable. The only concern was that they were at times 2x the price of other registrars and they...

    A few businesses I worked with used GoDaddy - the UI and customer service worked and they were very reliable. The only concern was that they were at times 2x the price of other registrars and they were pushing add ons. For core DNS, they worked fine.

    2 votes

  3. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~sports.football

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    What an amazing shoot-out! Goalie on goalie action to end an epic league cups final

    What an amazing shoot-out! Goalie on goalie action to end an epic league cups final

    3 votes

  4. Comment on Weekly thread for casual chat and photos of pets in ~life.pets

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    This one is Benita (blessed one in Spanish). She's feisty, a love bug, and it's full of confidence! https://ibb.co/Lrh9ZTN

    This one is Benita (blessed one in Spanish). She's feisty, a love bug, and it's full of confidence!

    https://ibb.co/Lrh9ZTN

    7 votes

  5. Comment on Where is everyone hosting their email these days? in ~tech

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    The masked email and infinite aliases are great for taking control and figuring out who leaked my email. I've noticed that spam is way down and when I get a company misbehaving, I just turn the...

    The masked email and infinite aliases are great for taking control and figuring out who leaked my email. I've noticed that spam is way down and when I get a company misbehaving, I just turn the alias back off. So happy that I missed you FastMail from Gmail.

    1 vote

  6. Comment on Christopher Nolan forgot to credit over 80% of VFX crew on ‘Oppenheimer’ in ~movies

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    There is a great documentary about what happened with Rhythm & Hues Studios (VFX studio) as they were winning oscars for their work in Life of Pi. The model for VFX projects has been largely...

    There is a great documentary about what happened with Rhythm & Hues Studios (VFX studio) as they were winning oscars for their work in Life of Pi. The model for VFX projects has been largely unchanged for years and is fixed bid but allows the studios to make an infinite amount of changes for an indefinite period of time.