mangaskahn

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Skype was a steaming pile for sure, but it had the ability to search for and message a distribution group and get an answer from whomever was available and I could pin it for future use. Now I have to know every name in a group and message them individually until I find someone to help or start a meeting to get everyone at once. It may just be how our Teams instance is configured, but I miss that feature. And who decided there should be a limit on how many people I can pin in Teams?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Another stupid looking crossover/small SUV with a horse on the grill does not equal sport sedan

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

They also don't understand the proper definition of theory, conflating it with hypothesis or conjecture.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

That seems unprofitable, probably against some rule of acquisition or other.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

The US is, as a matter of fact, and never has been, a democracy. It has always been a representative republic. Direct democracy as your comment envisions it is very difficult to implement and results in mob rule. If this is something you strongly believe should be stopped, get in touch with your federal senator and congressional representative to make your views known. Call, email, write paper letters, and encourage others to do the same. Make it clear that they won't be reelected if they allow this to continue. We don't have lobbying money, but it's hard to keep taking bribes if they no longer have a position with which to provide a return on that investment.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago

If something is tested and proven, it falls outside the realm of magic and just becomes normal everyday science or technology. It's like the saying about alternative medicine. Anything that is proven to work is just called medicine.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago

Sounds like a great question for a doctor.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

The Disney Vault!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Piranhas aren't even the scariest thing in there

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candiru_(fish)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

He doesn't own it. He has an exclusive license to use it in art. Surrey NanoSystems Limited owns the patent on VantaBlack. Stuart Semple was so angry that Kapoor received that license that he had a blacker black material created and licensed it to anyone but Kapoor. When Kapoor obtained a sample anyway, Semple had a still blacker material created, to spite him.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/shortcuts/2019/aug/05/black-30-anish-kapoor-and-the-art-worlds-pettiest-funniest-dispute

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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