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Buy another one!
Don't you worry, the baby will grow in a few years and the cat overlord will have once again what was its to begin with
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Buy another one!
Don't you worry, the baby will grow in a few years and the cat overlord will have once again what was its to begin with
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AMD's New Threadripper Chips Have a Hidden Fuse That Blows When Overclocking Is Enabled
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Yet Apple throws those phones out of warranty regardless of what caused the fault
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Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing"
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Don't forget adjusting for inflation and real money being given back not some shitty gift card
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Black Texas student given additional suspension for loc hairstyle
The code states that “male students’ hair will not extend, at any time, below the eyebrows or below the ear lobes,”
Does this mean you can't have hair on the back of your head too? /s
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Dear server admins, please defederate threads.net. Dear users, ask your server admin to defederate threads.net.
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Basic EEE strategy (embrace, extend, extinguish). For example, take XMPP. It was a wonderful federated chat protocol. Google joined it with its Google Talk application. All was well. Until it wasn't. You see, Google added some "new features" that could be used only with the Google talk app and account. So people flocked to it. All is still well. But then google decides to close the gates - Google Talk is its own thing now and you can't talk to people on other servers or with other apps. Take what hapoened wit XMPP. Google embraces XMPP with Giogle Talk. Google add some shiny "new features" that are exclusive to Google Talk (extend). Google cuts off XMPP access to other domains other than the Google Talk domain, thus finishing the extinguish phase.
Just replace Google with Meta/Facebook/Zuckerberg, Google Talk with Threads and XMPP with ActivityPub/Mastodon/Lemmy and you can see how it could happen. The XMPP Wikipedia page has it covered very well, and there's a dedicated Embrace, extend, extinguish page on Wikipedia if you want to read more.
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US Geography
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There's also a New Zeland, so that's nice
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Google Researchers’ Attack Prompts ChatGPT to Reveal Its Training Data
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But if it knows everything, it knows nothing. You cannot discern a lie from the truth. It'll spit something out and it may seem true, but is it really?
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Drivers Tend To Kill Pedestrians At Night. Thermal Imaging May Help.
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Bonus points if they are jaywalking because they have the right of way.
What does this even mean?
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EGDF: Unity’s Install Fees Are a Sign of Looming Game Engine Market Failure
I can't see how Unity increasing prices is anti-competitive. If anything, them going brainfuck with fees can only serve to open the market to new players. Also, I doubt they'll be able to make the fees retroactive, at least for games that won't get updated.
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xkcd #2827: Brassica
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Not to mention 99% of sites being ad-ridden bullshit while serious responses on forums tend to be short, sweet and more educational than searching
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Anyone remember anything about 2021
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Wait, bidets cure COVID?
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Names
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And yet they shit on Halloween
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He did though.
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Imagine Nestle executives finding a time machine and going to all of history's most famous persons' mothers and telling them how they can't breastfeed their kids.
Someone should definitely write a book about that
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A Jury Will Decide If Google's App Store Is an Unjust Monopoly
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Can you elaborate? Don't want to sound like an apologist, just genuinely curious
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E-books are fast becoming tools of corporate surveillance
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Mind giving a rundown of how you do it? I tried it many, many times and never accomplished much
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Tire Dust Makes Up the Majority of Ocean Microplastics
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I guess it might be possible since there isn't something like a catalytic converter for tires (or brakes) and they could also be including EVs or bikes etc. which would inflate the figure
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Names
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Isn't preaching (i.e. telling people how to think) the basis of all religion, especially christianity and especially catholicism?
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Great! I like getting tracked by 766 third parties! thanks Outlook
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No, just make it a permanent cookie to reject so if the cookies get deleted (as they usually do) you're back to being tracked
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1.1 History
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He was just obsessed with cutting things in half
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A Jury Will Decide If Google's App Store Is an Unjust Monopoly
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Makes sense