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Why don't they just go make their own app store? Who do they think they are that they believe they have some right to someone else's hard drive. They're private companies brO!

This is a bad take. What if the "coup" was successful? You wouldn't want to have guns on your side? The second amendment works both ways.

It would've been the right thing for her to tell you. But unfortunately, if she tells the wrong person she could get called out for fatshaming on social media and probably lose her career nowadays. It's the rational choice to not offend anyone's feelings, when those feelings can be used to crush you and your livelihood.

The problem isn't that there are tall people in the NBA. The problem is that regular height people cannot compete if they are forced to play against those tall people. Many people by default give up on the idea of playing basketball because they aren't tall enough, even though they may very well be able to excel at the game against people of their own height. So the solution would be more like creating different leagues for different heights or something to that effect, so that anyone can go up against people who are in their height class without suffering a disadvantage they will never be able to make up for due to being born how they are. Since pro basketball has selected for tall people, we are seeing all these tall people playing each other. But at their height, being that tall doesn't really give them much advantage over the other players, who are also all tall. Most people are not NBA tall as it is. Maybe they will find it more fun to watch or participate in basketball where the people aren't genetic outliers and the outcomes will depend entirely on their skills and effort? I don't think it's guaranteed that a "Tall Basketball League" would be successful, even if it contains more stars, than a basketball league where height is not a barrier to entry. Manlets outnumber the lanklets in the end.

I recommend getting a keyboard with hot-swappable switches, since you may want to change it up some day and instead of buying a whole new keyboard, you can just get different switches. You'll have to do some thinking about what is the ideal switch for you. Some people like super clicky switches that make it sound like you're firing a machine gun when typing. Others want something more quiet.

I wonder if it's something related to it being 3 days before Jan 20th. Anyone have any ideas?

Who is actually surprised by this? They(as in Big Tech) just deplatformed the US President. Even the official POTUS twitter account was not safe from having its tweets deleted. You think you're safe? You thought they couldn't use this power against anyone else? So many people have shown themselves to be bootlickers in the last few years and they will get what's coming to them.

It contributed to their deaths in the same way covid contributes to the death of someone with underlying conditions. Or what, will you say that it was the underlying conditions that killed them, and not covid? ;)

23 people died. These are the very people we were trying to save, why we shut everything down, right? But I guess we don't feel as strongly about their deaths because it was our vaccine that did it.

Looking forward to 2021

My philosophy is that basic income will be ultimately a good in the long run, even if there are some amount of people who take advantage of it and ultimately do nothing productive for the rest of their lives. Because I don't want people like that in the workforce anyway. I believe only people who are actually motivated to work, and enjoy their jobs or duties should be there. I really do not want some sadsack of a person who hates their job serving me at a restaurant, who will mess with my food if he feels slighted by me. He should go rot away in a small apartment and leave that position for someone who actually cares. Society should gladly pay these people to keep them away. It's sad that someone who is happy to work, must compete with hundreds of people who dont give a shit, for the same job. I hope that basic income would get rid of much of the competition for jobs like this, which would also mean business owners can no longer take advantage of a big labor pool to pay poor wages.

>but the other 11 months all seem to have the same rail thin models that have dominated since the '80s

People used to see those and aspire to be like them and improve themselves. Something changed over the last decade or more, and now no one wants to do any better than they currently are. They are despairing in content with themselves.

X-Ray app using neural network to produce realistic fake x-rays in real time

Yes, I am almost totally apathetic after being forced to sacrifice myself to protect the very same class/group of people who when they were younger, voted for and made the policies that got us into the messes we are in today (climate change, unaffordable homes/land, wars, etc.) for their own benefit. I'm glad Boomer Joe and Mary got to live their last few years together, but also a bit miffed that I and many of my generation have no future to speak of.

Do you think that we should stop people from speculating or entertaining these possibilities/scenarios? I wonder why we are so quick to silence and shut down people. It might not even be very long until we're the ones who are designated as crazies discussing similar things and end up being silenced as well even when we might be very justified (think of Hitler being in power. It would be morally righteous to be discussing such things and then planning to bring him and his people down). Thought crime should never be a thing. If people discussing something amongst themsleves leads to some people being radicalized and they do something bad, all we can do is be prepared for it. And trust me when I say that people like Soros and Pelosi have plenty of the means to defend themselves.