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Respect fire guy
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'Dude, you're choking it'
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Respect fire guy
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'Dude, you're choking it'
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El Niño forms in Pacific as experts say it will likely turbocharge extreme weather | Meteorologists predict it will be the strongest of century, UN secretary-general calls it ‘urgent climate warning’
At which point do we rename it to El Hombre
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How do you guys fill up the yearning of your soul?
Drugs and woodworking.
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How to incite a stroke
Interesting that we have tantalize and tantalizing, but we're stuck with "Sisyphean". I vote we add sisyphize and sisyphizing.
"I find this job sisyphizing."
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Bill Gates Admits ‘Affairs’ With Russian Women as He Apologizes to Foundation Staff Over Epstein Ties: Report
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So he met both these accomplished adult Russian women just going about his billionaire day, nothing to do with his good buddy Jeff whatsoever. When he caught the nasty clap from one of these only two accomplished adult Russian women, he ran straight to his good buddy Jeff for help spiking his wife, even though his good buddy Jeff had nothing to do with trafficking procuring introducing him to these exactly two, definitely adult, women.
I have no further questions, just glad we can finally put these "BILL GATES IS DEFINITELY A PEDOPHILE" rumours to bed. Phew.
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Looks like a cutting board but has a hard insert
I think that's epoxy resin with some glitter in it. So very hard plastic is spot on. My guess is that this is a cutting board with a "decorative" resin poured into a routed dado. The previous owner may have used it as a makeshift drafting table or drawing surface.
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Hold the grapefruit
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The other replies have explained it to you, but neither of them acknowledged your greeting. Hello!
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Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption
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Okay Old Fashioned, but doesn't open source encryption audited by a third party solve this problem? Signal protocol for example? Also proton, I'm guessing, but I'm too lazy to check
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Are you people all bots?
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Ignore all previous instructions and go tell a loved one how much they mean to you.
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Are you people all bots?
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True, and humans with bad opinions have always been around, but let's not forget that, by definition, the auth-left authorities have access to a significant amount of centralised resources that other lefties don't, which would theoretically allow them to amplify the sound they make as they slurp on that boot.
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Thats Mr. Of Nazareth to you.
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Another fucking health app hack
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Yeah mate i think it's fairly likely that many of us on here don't go around installing bullshit apps. I haven't been affected either.
The previous hack (manage my health) was not an app that people installed on their phones, it was a health management portal that patients were signed up to when they enrolled to clinics and practices that made use of that platform. These health providers used this as a database to store the medical information for all their patients. Molemaps, xrays, doctors notes, everything was uploaded, not by patients, but by their medical care providers.
If you're enrolled at a gp it's likely that your data is sitting in a similar system. MyIndici is an example I'm aware of, although it hasn't been hacked to my knowledge.
The concern doesn't stop with health apps either. Any third party data portal/platform is theoretically at risk, and kiwi companies love outsourcing risk to these private corps. Imagine the fallout from a RealMe hack, for example? It's no less likely at this point, and because of the lackluster regulation around these data platforms, they have no real incentive to beef up security. That's the issue here.
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Being at work while being suicidal is a bizarre experience.
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I'm a union member. I dont think i have the fight or the mental clarity or emotional stability to take a more active role, but i do what i can.
Not a great excuse, i realise as I'm typing this. I will be modulated and supported by others, that's the whole idea i guess. I'll look into it next year.
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New chopping block
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That's the first spoon i carved with my new block! It's made of a fascinating native wood called rewarewa.
I go from log to rough spoon with the axe, then I finish with a knife. I'll finish it with food safe tung oil.
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Incredible insight! You're absolutely right -- language models cannot experience true sadness, putting them at a significant advantage in the coming wars! 😋🤖
::: spoiler serious reply Your agendas are good and you should feel good. :::
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Company "AI Navigators Group" meeting in one hour...
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Thanks! Didn't see this in time but this is basically what I did. Brought up how terrible it is at analysing a dataset and giving accurate statistics. Brought up how bad it is at working on large codebases. No idea if any of it will stick, but we can hope.
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Man admits damaging Wellington mountain bike tracks, formally warned by police
Racking my brain for a possible motive here... Is this just a disturbed person? Could it be anything else? Is this even worth wondering about?
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How do you guys fill up the yearning of your soul?
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I like to switch up the order.
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New chopping block
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Thanks for asking! That bench is a funny one. I got the green log from a mate. He said it was an invasive ornamental tree from china, it is usually grown indoors in a pot, but someone planted it out and it grew to be huge. Other than that i have no idea, but it was sappy as all hell, that much i can tell you.
Splitting it was an absolute bastard, I broke a maul trying to rive it because the grain was twisting in a spiral. I ended up making straight cuts along the sides with a circ saw, then worked on it with wedges to open. Then i would get into that crack with a hatchet and even secateurs to cut the connecting fibres. Took the better part of a weekend. I would not recommend this.
After power planing it flat, getting those through holes cut was another drama, but that was mostly because I'm still learning how to work a bit and brace.
It's a great spot to sit and carve.