richieadler

@richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one
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Joined 12 months ago

I knew my first long distance gf on ICQ. I remember also having that service in Miranda IM along Yahoo Chat, MSN, Google Chat (back when it was based on XMPP) and Jabber.

Messages from my current gf are announced with the classic ICQ "Uh-oh!".

Most people shouldn't be parents.

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It makes public spectacle of acceptable targets of bullying. People laugh at them safely at home without facing consequences.

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That's not monogamy, that's a delusion.

Monogamy is "one partner at a given time".

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I survived idiocy of managers asking for Y2K compliant padlocks. As in, physical padlocks.

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And, independently of their tax status, they shouldn't promote political candidates.

If a worldview is devoid of reason and no argument will dissuade the person, all useful dialog is impossible.

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  • Serious belief in pseudosciences
  • Conspiracy theorist
  • Right-wing ideology
  • Sex prude

I hate the number of people teaching useful things using videos instead of writing articles.

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Uphold the values of the constitution of the USA, but in the digital space.

And fuck the rest of the world?

And otherwise fuck off, govt

Anarchist nonsense. Zero government = total chaos. The strong eats the weak. Like now, but worse.

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wow. You are really thin skinned, friend. I wasn't lecturing you, that was advice, gentle.

That was pure mockery of the style of the person you're answering to.

Did you really want advice? Are you willing to accept it even if it contradicts some deeply ingrained notions you may have? Are you willing to compromise somewhat?

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I think that's mainly in the US, though. For the rest of the world the price tag is too high and the iPhone is the mark of the pretentious or the hipster. Or the iOS developer 😄

The rest of us are happy with our Android phones.

I love the limited scope of British TV series. They even managed to do only a few seasons of Law & Order, for crying out loud.

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Flip phones.

If that's your only reason, I'd encourage to try it anyway. Logical indentation is initially weird but it can be overcome very fast.

Maybe not, but the consequences of your beliefs impact people negatively and you should accept the resulting disapproval.

Parties?

You actually don't get what socially awkward means, do you?

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Cue the Max Headroom episode where the blanks (disconnected people) are chased by the censors because the blanks steal cable so their children can watch the educational shows and learn to read, and they are forced to use clandestine printing presses to teach them.

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"I'd rather not say". Repeat this single answer until they desist.

Start putting limits. "No, I'm not going until you tell me what's about." Ignore any immediately subsequent invocation. Actions speak.

Because one is ordered by their favorite imaginary character in their favorite fairy tale book.

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Vim and EMACS require tons of plugins and a brain transplant to feel confortable using them.

And the new personality tends to be somewhat evangelical about the editors 😄

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If you're from one of the countries with nukes, of course you'll see it as positive. For the victims of the nuke-wielding countries, not so much.

Finally a plausible power.

sublemmy(?)

Community, please. 😁

the little fine print on all of our relationships that reads "If you're into other people this contract is null and void?"

How do you define "being into them"? Looking and finding them attractive, or fucking them without your partner knowing?

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"Star Trek got woke"

That requires thinking, an activity most people are unwilling to engage in.

Also: hectopascals.

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Argentinian here, I find very funny that a while ago somebody decided to express frustration saying la concha del pato or la concha del mono (lit. "vagina of the male duck" or "monkey"). Yes, the absurdity of a male animal with a female organ seems to reinforce the obscenity somehow.

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Ustedes if you're less formal or you live outside Spain 😁

Not necessarily. People keep being burned by the same scams over and over.

no know- how

Nobody advocated removing the police. The meme only says that currently they’re basically organized crime. So your question seems more like sealioning or JAQing off.

I mean, cheap labor has to come from somewhere... Where do you find empoverished people to exploit if you don't force births?

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There has been anti-vaccine groups since the invention of vaccines.

Do you really not see the parallels to real life of a religiously-ruled country who has enshrined in law ways to take control of fertile women's reproductive rights? Really?

The US is becoming more and more Giléad with every passing day.

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If we're ignoring laws of physics, let's throw replicators in there.

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They'll say the helmet projects fake images.

Irrationality cannot be beaten.

This reads like incel copypasta.

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