Yet lobbyists exist. Every single government official is sponsored by companies via super PACs
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My wife and I both quit cold turkey, independently of one another before we met. It was like we discontinued a hobby our ADHD brains got bored with.
Love that book!
Get a cure for syphilis first
PanoptiDon@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Are things just shittier or are we more aware of shittiness?1·1 year agoAwareness. Things used to be much worse. Lack of medical knowledge, sanitation, food safety, early warning of natural disasters, and rights.
PanoptiDon@lemmy.worldto Linux@lemmy.ml•Linus Torvalds Injects Tabs To Thwart Kconfig Parsers Not Correctly Handling Them611·1 year agoReminds me of Beethoven writing Für Elise for sometime he loved, and when he was rejected, the music was finished in such a way that she could not play it.
PanoptiDon@lemmy.worldto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Hypersensitive tankie modEnglish26·1 year agoDoes this break the rules of the fediverse?
PanoptiDon@lemmy.worldto Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml•KB, MB, GB, and TB are all part of the metric system. What empirical measurements should we Free™️ Americans use for computer memory?9·1 year agoIn America, you need a monthly subscription to use that system
PanoptiDon@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.ml•American intelligence withheld information on Moscow terror attacks out of fear of exposing intelligence sources or methods247·1 year agoThis is why most classified information is withheld and Russia isn’t exactly an ally right now.
To put them in perspective, I think of being on an airplane. The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it beside my seat. “Can I interest you in the chicken?” she asks. "Or would you prefer the platter of shit with bits of broken glass in it? To be undecided in this election is to pause for a moment and then ask how the chicken is cooked.
David Sedaris
I didn’t know about 7z, but I had been using WinRAR for years and I was in a position to contribute.
PanoptiDon@lemmy.worldto Programming@programming.dev•So You Think You Know Git? - FOSDEM 20242·1 year agoSame same
PanoptiDon@lemmy.worldto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Why do companies love chrome so much?English72·1 year agoChromebooks are frequently used in US schools, this has to screw the statistics.
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