@tinkel they're park rangers, they're likely better informed on climate change than 99% of Americans. Their job involves being outside in one of the hottest places on earth; if they want to enjoy themselves doing it who are any of us to look down on them for it?
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Some outstanding conceptual judo in the opening paragraph of this proposal. “Often depend … may assume … certain aspects of”… therefore we would like to propose killing non-chrome user agents in general ad blockers in particular.
https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/blob/main/explainer.md
bigpEE
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The failure of the Internet to deliver its promise is particularly noticeable when you hunt for repair manuals for a product from the 90s. Used to be, the information would either be there or not there, finable or unfindable.
Now, there are hundreds of algorithmically generated sites claiming to have it just because it appeared in their search logs, generating potemkin village content traps with endless paging, broken-thumbnail named-like-the-file-you-want but actually-just-ebay-photos bullshit
bigpEE
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me waiting in line for the New Republic of America to purge me for being an academic: This line is sillymoded. Honestly this is very applestorecoded. Hey you have to listen to me, I can't post this stuff, they threw my phone in the thought incinerator. The thought incinerator is honestly sillycoded
@Deglassco both inspiring men. I figure we can use John Brown's example as a case that direct action works
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