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I still like this meme

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I'd rather break things in favor of something better, and provide a way to make the old thing run, than be stuck with ancient baggage

Windows is office software first and foremost, designed to be used by people who neither know nor care what an "operating system" is. Every last one of these people is entirely incapacitated by even the most lovingly-crafted and descriptive error message. If Microsoft ever considered a policy like this, the city of Redmond would be razed to the ground inside twelve hours

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My grandpa's 68 and playing the field again

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I find that I slip into the same habit sometimes -- specifically, when I'm typing something where perfect grammar will come off as overly formal, but I'm stressing a bit over what level of informality is appropriate. It taxes the frontal lobes, which means that my thoughts are disjointed in a way that ellipses just make sense with. I think it's so widespread among older people because when they were first introduced to instant messaging, they weren't sure how they would come off, and then it became a habit. But that's just me guessing.

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it's good to look in the mirror and understand the material outcomes of voter behavior

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I agree, and I don't care. It's a distraction. These people didn't move the needle an inch, and I think it's ridiculous to worry about probably 0.5% of the electorate when there are tens of millions who actively support all this shit. Where is their accountability? Where is the accountability for the billionaires who have spent their fortunes attacking democracy? Those people are grinning ear-to-ear when they see their enemies trying to fight each other like this.

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The Democratic party refused to understand that courting the right doesn't work, and now it's cost them the election

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Stein got 0.6 million votes. Over a hundred million stayed at home. I sincerely doubt that each of those hundred million is a dyed-in-the-wool anti-electoralist, so why focus on the "Not left enough" people? They had no effect on the election one way or another, just like they kept telling you. Your problem is that the majority of people in this country are completely alienated from politics. If you continue to focus on the left to the exclusion of the Democrats' very real shortcomings, if you continue to ignore DNC's failure to offer a winning platform to everyday people, then you are damning us all to an eternity of the current moment.

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Coin-flipping game

I read the other answers in the thread, and I definitely would have gotten this wrong without that. This answer stands a chance at least

:::spoiler Independence A and C are independent, A and B are not. Since you have a chance to win on turn 4 that you do not have on turn 1, P(A|B) = 1/2 + 1/16 + 1/64... = 7/12 != P(A). Conversely, P(A|C) = 1/4 + 1/16 + 1/64... = 1/3 = P(A) :::

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Coin-flipping game

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:::spoiler response Thanks for the catch! Once I noticed that the probability of winning on the initial flip was the difference between the two, I stopped thinking about the other terms... :::

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Bluetooth issues

I cannot into computers, but draining the capacitors before rebooting has fixed this issue for me in the past. Not sure if this is even possible on your device given you're running Plasma Mobile

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