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mynameishere
·2 वर्ष पहले·discuss
Israel used letter bombs for a long time to assassinate and terrorize. People didn't stop using the mail because of that, but upgraded their opsec.
mynameishere
·2 वर्ष पहले·discuss
So much trash and they ban this trash because China controls it. I honestly can't think of one thing China has done to harm me. The people who control the US media, however...
mynameishere
·3 वर्ष पहले·discuss
When a company's existing debt is at 3 percent and they have to roll it over at 6 percent (they are rarely going to pay it off) their costs go up without anything else changing. They will have to cut expenses somewhere else. For forty years, the US (and much of the world) had the opposite phenomenon: 12 percent debt rolled into 11, rolled into 10, and more and more money was seemingly made through no extra effort.
mynameishere
·3 वर्ष पहले·discuss
You have that exactly backwards. All the money is in coffee, which is so cheap it might as well be free. It's just like a restaurant which makes all its money on diluted caramel-colored sugar syrup. Or 12 dollar mixed drinks.

(Of course, the real money is in laundering.)
mynameishere
·3 वर्ष पहले·discuss
Two dollar an hour censors. I miss the days when the pope would personally review scientists' correspondence.
mynameishere
·4 वर्ष पहले·discuss
No mystery whatsoever. It is just what I said. She was a fall guy. It couldn't have been more obvious.
mynameishere
·4 वर्ष पहले·discuss
An obvious fall guy. Rather shameful maneuver.
mynameishere
·4 वर्ष पहले·discuss
If the probability of success was zero, perhaps. But then the probability of success was zero after Pearl Harbor so perhaps not.
mynameishere
·5 वर्ष पहले·discuss
https://www.metafilter.com/10034/Plane-crashes-in-to-the-wor...

Just to save people time and Metafilter's servers possible wear-and-tear.
mynameishere
·5 वर्ष पहले·discuss
I like the image of Biden being given a "super downvote" button on reddit, that like...counts as ten normal downvotes.
mynameishere
·7 वर्ष पहले·discuss
Painfully, painfully stupid comments here. If someone says X, and then goes on a rampage, that does not discredit X. Yes, the media wants you to believe that, unless it's Unabomber-style ramblings involved.

Is it that hard to understand?
mynameishere
·7 वर्ष पहले·discuss
compress the link display

To save people from checking, this seems to turn off the preview images and the link scores. Not sure what 2- vs 3-line is referring to.
mynameishere
·8 वर्ष पहले·discuss
Grammar and style are both ultimately dictated by usage, so if someone insists on plugging in XYZ as a new ultra-PC pronoun I can't really prove that it is incorrect, no matter how ridiculous.

So, that said: The whole point of using "they" is when you don't know the gender of a person and don't want to presume by saying "he" or "she" or muddying up the text by saying "he or she". When you know the gender of a person, using the correct pronoun is better--it's both succinct and corresponds more closely with reality.

It's a touchy subject [I mean, some idiot flagged my comment--come on!] but people tend to over-correct in grammar quite a bit, and over-correcting with "they" happens like this.
mynameishere
·8 वर्ष पहले·discuss
You are rather elaborately saying that you want people who do what they're told and don't make waves. Got it--every manager wants that 100 percent. No kidding.

Style tip: When talking about a particular person, don't refer to him or her as "they".
mynameishere
·11 वर्ष पहले·discuss
Github is basically Microsoft Word for programmers

That makes no sense at all. It's like the "track changes" feature in Word, maybe. You know--one little feature on a much, much larger tool.