EEMac · HackerTrans

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I'm glad things are going better where you live. Where I live:

Gas: 2020 = $2.36 a gallon 2024 = $4.69 a gallon

Celery: 2020 $0.90/head 2024 $1.50/head

Arby's Half Pound Roast Beef Sandwich: 2020 $5.50 2024 $8

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I hope things get better for you.

If it helps: https://www.7cups.com/

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It's tough to call DEI "dissent" when it is broadly mandated by HR departments, university administrations, and in many cases state law.

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Has Florida been banning books from universities?!

"Schools" usually means K-12 schools.

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SeaMonkey has a classic UI and is basically a modern Netscape Communicator. You can ignore the rest and just use the Mail part. It's a solid email program that has worked well for about a decade now.

https://www.seamonkey-project.org/

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> citations needed

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ftsa&q=college+cancels+conservativ...

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Counterpoints: social bonding in sharing a physical space, lots of nonverbal communication in face-to-face meetings.

Don't get me wrong, I love remote work. And Zoom meetings have made it way easier to pull together groups of people on different schedules. But there are significant benefits to being in-office too.

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There was a science fiction story about this, with phone auto-message and auto-answer systems connecting with each other long after all the humans were dead.

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It's called bribery or corruption and is common in third-world countries. "You actually want me to do the job I'm already paid for? Give me cash."

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It's interesting how national media reports this. Whether you agree with them or not, Proud Boys are incredibly clear about protesting all-ages drag shows. "18+ gets rid of us" is common chant. "Groomer" only applies to events with kids present.

Yet the media reports it as a mysterious "war on drag," as though small-government types hate performance art. That's funny.

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Someone says: "I'm making a new OS/desktop environment/text editor that works for power users."

I hear: "I'm making this for me."

There's absolutely nothing wrong with that. Many powerful tools came about because people didn't like the way the old one worked.

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Remember when web pages were text with a few images, with browser settings (font/size/color?) that let users style things to suit their own needs? Those were good days.

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You don't. But you also don't have to listen to them.That's freedom.

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> What makes it worse is that there's always some hidden setting or configuration somewhere to blame, so you never really can blame Word.

Yes you can.

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