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Why do we always consider cultures as inherently better than cults? Are there no exceptions to this?
Cults tend to be defined by how they control their members. Cultures tend to form around similarities.
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Why do we always consider cultures as inherently better than cults? Are there no exceptions to this?
Cults tend to be defined by how they control their members. Cultures tend to form around similarities.
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Would a federated dating site work well? What would it look like?
You need actual moderation to keep people safe.
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Why do we always consider cultures as inherently better than cults? Are there no exceptions to this?
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It seems like you’re looking for a prescriptive definition of cult and culture that would cover every cult and every culture, and I don’t think you’re going to find one. Humans organize in complex ways that rarely align with strict definitions.
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Benefits of smoking cigarettes?
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Maybe you should take what she says seriously.
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"...is not supported in this browser", fuck you Discord
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It’s probably the AudioData API.
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The rule of growth
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Oracle is all fun and games until they lose your instance’s IP or data and don’t give it back because you’re a free tier freeloader.
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Men Overran a Job Fair for Women in Tech
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Dude, have you worked in tech? At all? It’s already horrendously overrun with men who step outside their space and make everyone’s day worse. I don’t begrudge women for being frustrated that it’s happening at the Grace Hopper conference.
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Firefox Money: Investigating the bizarre finances of Mozilla
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It absolutely matters. We need to consider that a right-wing actor is likely to exaggerate claims against an organization that is ostensibly socially-minded and represents anti-corporate interests, like Mozilla.
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Your Windows 10 PC will soon be 'junk' - users told to resist Microsoft deadline
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Yes I am
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What UI design trend do you hate the most?
I don't like the overuse and misuse of Material UI – the paper-looking thing with raised textures and shadows. It takes a bit of work to make it look good, and many sites just drop in a CSS file and call it a day.
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The rule of growth
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I do enough of this in the day job. I don’t have time to mess around with free hosting to save $20 a month.
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Omegle Was Forced to Shut Down by a Lawsuit From a Sexual Abuse Survivor
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Dude, the victim is literally a child.
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How do I modify a community created by another user?
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I’m the owner and admin of the instance, and sometimes there are tidying/housekeeping tasks I need to do with user-created communities.
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Introducing Coaxist: a single Docker container for running Plex + Debrid with automatic request fetching
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I don’t have any plans at the moment but I welcome anyone who would like to fork the project for this. Happy to try and make things easy for you.
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Top Apple analyst says MacBook demand has fallen 'significantly'
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The M1 Air is the best deal in computing.
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Paramount Plus just dropped its big Star Trek crossover episode early
HYPE
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Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x07 "Those Old Scientists"
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Another good reason not to open port 22
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Tailscale is a nice way to set up a private network between your machines. It’s perfectly fine.
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Another good reason not to open port 22
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Networking two machines is easy; networking several with good onboarding and DNS is not as easy.
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The seriouspost state of the union. (aka what do we do now?) PLEASE READ.
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Thanks for the clear and concise update. Best of luck with your future migrations.