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Always lift with a fast, twisting motion to get all those back muscles to engage.

Or download it in a bunch of other ways directly from Wikipedia.

I dont think it’s a good strategy to assume that conspiracy nutters are uneducated. My anecdotal data is that I know at least two college educated people who are big Alex Jones fans and were completely on board the pizzagate and sandy hook train. They’re by no means stupid but self-radicalized with YouTube and Fox News. It’s easy to get caught up in the propaganda machine.

I will switch to Gnome when it can handle multiple workspaces on multiple displays properly. The fact that I can’t have multiple independent workspaces for each display is a complete deal breaker for me.

Paying for an OS that phones home with incredible amounts of telemetry where you have to run adblock to get rid of the built in ads is just silly.

Microsoft was shit in the 90s and never stopped being shit.

My impression of flatpak is that it was built by someone who doesn’t like or use a terminal.

ISO 8601 is always the correct way to format dates.

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I compartmentalised a lot using several sock puppets

Cringe seem to have become popular to describe all kinds of annoying, uncomfortable, or awkward things lately. Maybe use that instead since the other two uses of gay were pretty well established when people started using it as the third definition.

Are the crazies the ones banning threads?

Another reason to avoid it is that Jack Dorsey supports known anti-vaxxer and general conspiracy kook Robert F Kennedy Jr. Not the kind of people I’d want to run my social network.

There are places where they don’t care about GDPR. It is probably relevant in the giphy case but other sites opreate outside the eu.

And when they combine traffic from you with traffic from others they can infer more info.

They make money by selling information about you.

I don’t think it’s dying. I hope it’s a paradigm shift like when it changed from wild west lawless chaos to three or four huge companies running all of it. Maybe we end up with everything replaced by different distributed services. It’s going to incredibly annoying when half the search results are dead links or links to reddit but that annoyance can drive innovation.

I’m currently nostalgia-reading Robert Rankin’s Dance Of The Voodoo Handbag but that’s more far fetched fiction than sci-fi. Silly, entertaining and lots of tall tales. I’m also reading The Quantum Magician by Derek Künsken. I was hoping for it to be the start of a good series of books to read over the summer but it’s not very good. I will probably not bother with the rest of the series.