mattbornski.bsky.social
Wine enthusiast and promoter. Diplo-groupie. Tech startup vet.
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It's why I'm still suffering through it!
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This is possibly a mostly-me problem; I have something in the neighborhood of 60gb of mail, and it took *months* for Proton to build an index to search message content. Searches of message content take more than a minute and return very sparse results. Search operators seem lacking for power users.
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I also switched from Gmail to Proton recently. I miss the speed and searchability of Gmail TBH, but I had also passed my limit on evil.
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For that matter you understood it was a laugh like two posts ago. What happened to you man, you used to be cool.
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Yeah we're all pretty sure that it wasn't intended to be a mystic curse, we're just observing that when you squint at it just right, the translation service many people use says it's a mystic curse, and we lol'ed.
I appreciate the latin-knower angle I guess? but nobody actually thought this.
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Hey my Latin is atrocious to non-existent, however as a data point, this does reproduce in my Google translate app. 🤷♂️
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Ah! Thank you. Can't really un-see it now.
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I'm sorry I have a reasonable grounding in math and pretty good Google-fu but can't for the life of me figure out what a Fibonacci star is. It looks neat though. What defines a Fibonacci star?
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"all empires fall but it's rare you see one jump"
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Not tagging because you clearly don't want the interaction but said guy is also here.
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Yeah time.gov runs a ton of NTP servers, very definitive.
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The idea that justice and adjudication are different things is hard for many people to grasp, and indeed our language and system of government seem to go out of their way to obscure those differences.
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Yes I'm aware of the irony of my default avi calling somebody else's account "almost certainly a bad faith actor"
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The pictured reply is almost certainly from a bad faith acct, but to rebut the thought: the main problem with extrajudicial violence is primarily the lack of justice, not the lack of adjudication. There are few examples of just extrajudicial violence, and many examples of unjust judicial violence.
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I looked it up, tbh a bit confused.. Medical doctors swear the Hippocratic oath to do no harm but the HIPPOcratic oath appears to be "fuck shit up", honestly not sure why they are also called doctors?
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Seriously. Who gives a check to seal-on-sheet flags in this day and age? You can do better, Illinois.
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Thanks for the education!
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This is a serious question which might seem asinine, but the seating arrangements are very different from what I am accustomed to seeing. What tradition is this?
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TBH a special license requirement would be great. There are legitimate needs for vehicles this large and larger but you'd definitely filter out a lot of macho tourists by adding a paperwork filter and might improve the behavior of those who remain!
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I always assumed it was word play, "sacrifice like lambs" is playing with verb tense a bit like "burn like cigarettes", you're set up to parse the narrator as the actor but they're actually the object and in the parsing of this you realize that #im14andthisisdeep
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Yeah was gonna say, the rare Oglaf comic that's safe to post on main. A prize, to be sure.
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Yeah that's a common pattern for satellite constellation deployment
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1) bold stance sir/ma'am/whatever
2) is that Oolong the Pancake Bunny? Long time no see for that one.
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How do I get on this person's holiday gift list, I wonder
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This is even more incredible if you misread it as "poetry tycoon" the first time through
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This mechanic, borrowing against huge pots of private or public stock that can't be reasonably sold, is one I've seen. It even makes sense from many angles! I've not seen what OP is describing and think that sounds like lunacy and fraud, probably because it's lunacy and fraud.
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Homer Simpson yet.gif, there's always next season!
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Welcome back
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Have you ever heisted a hippopotamus made of cheese or a cheese made from hippopotamus milk or are you still working up to those
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He also drops Slay The Spire narration sometimes
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In this context what is patching?
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Yeah I was coming to say that it is my understanding that local libraries actually often have local yearbooks, might be possible!
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There are dozens of us! Playing individually of course.
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I had that same experience a few years ago! They were fuzzy within three days and were liquid inside a week. I could have sworn pumpkins lasted longer as a kid.
Somebody please do a fascinating piece on the unheralded changes in commercial pumpkin genetics a la the brussel sprouts or banana pieces.
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TBH the school comes off... really well here? But also what the hell dude.
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I was about to be "jokes on you he already has!" But then I realized I was thinking of Jared Leto, not sure how I got those wires crossed. But anyway, big cult leader vibes!
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Chicagoan here. Like, yeah, actually, treating it like a casserole is a good bet. Fork and knife are not crazy choices here even for non-Euros. I am unbothered by the casserole label as long as the deliciousness is acknowledged.
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I have to ask about the pillow situation. Is this an advanced reading technique I was simply never introduced to? Better for the book? Better for the reader? Had it been one person with a book pillow I would have thought "good for them being comfortable" but it seems a bit more systematic.
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I'm sorry that seems like that is a "frustration" emoji. What are you trying to communicate with that?