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  • What would a world look like if recycling reached 100%?

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    We would all be plagued by a a giant beetle called the chewnifax that would drag children into the acid lake at night at random. The beetle would be so enormous and its armor so sturdy that any and all attempts to kill it fail, and it would remake the world, creating canyons and deep rivers and lakes as it made its way around the world, with the previously mentioned acid like increasing in size as it played with the bones of our children in its depth. We would live in giant mushrooms and communicate with tin cans on strings, and the world would no long be spherical but instead it would be a perfect cube.
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  • Agreed on the waste factor.

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  • Why do iphone users still see their phones as a status symbol

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    Ya, the carplay Android systems are pretty awesome. I watch YouTube music and have a full android experience.
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    The only time I know YouTube view counts are accurate and not being fuzzed, is when I upload a video, instantly make it private, and never click on it. Zero views. Confirmed. ‍️
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  • What's your guilty pleasure?

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    The movie White Chicks - Personally can't get enough of how offensive it is to literally everyone
  • If he's so pro life, why is he dead?

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    If he was anti-vax why did get a shot?
  • [GER/EU] Buying custom die cut templates

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    I've made plenty by printing the design onto Hydroprint 'paper' and cutting by hand. Just doing text is extra easy, just take your pick from the Stencil section at dafont.com.
  • Brave and contrary.

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  • What gives you hope?

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    Nothing even close to this happened to me. I had a friend who was literally a neo-nazi (I didn't know), I was an anarchist at the time (and still).
  • What's the best paid search engine?

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    I do some dev and linux stuff and I still found it a bit hard to justify the cost. Like it's not a bad deal, however i did find myself going through days not really using it properly and just doing simple searches like "product x documentation" or just "site:" searches that i can do with simply DDG or Ecosia (Google). I think it's cuz a lot of the internet is converging into larger sites rather than being scattered all over and i do find myself relying a lot more on LLM's. If you actually test out their search results you will get something like 97% there if you do a Google search and a Bing search to follow up or just use searx. What has helped me completely stop using them is finding sites with valuable information for my use case and creating a manual "lens" something similar to what Kagi offers. It's really simple and works better than theirs. I have this pasted into my obsidian note for linux (example): site:archlinux.org OR site:endeavouros.com OR site:reddit.com/r/arch OR site:reddit.com/r/archlinux OR site:reddit.com/r/endeavouros OR site:manjaro.org OR site:reddit.com/r/hyprland OR site:hypr.land Everytime i search for anything arch linux related so i paste this in and enter the search phrase at the start. I use t3.chat for my LLM needs (you get way more for the price that you pay, including premium models) so I don't need their LLM's. I havent found LLM web search to work well for my use case so don't need that. I use DDG as my daily driver and then switch to Ecosia (google wrapper) if i cant find stuff. DDG is a nice search engine overall, fills in that "gap" left by Kagi. I use zen browser and have created search engine keywords like @ecosia, @ddg, @wolfram so i can CTRL + T and "@ecosia search term" easily. Overall, I feel like they're not offering anything groundbreaking but their whole package is nice, i see the appeal especially if you browse on mobile. Whether you find them useful or not will depend on your use case. For those 10$ + tax I personally don't. The Russia support is disgusting though.
  • Sticky Notes Alternative

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    Yeah $1.99/month or $39.99 Lifetime You could try. A few months and test it before offering the $40 for a once off fee. I feel that it is a very fair price all considering
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    Flexing.
  • Should you chew Icebreakers?

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    Hard candy? 🤨 I'm gonna have to look this up. I only know of the gum. Edit: Ah ok. Yeah, these look like their competitor to Altoids. I wouldn't chew the mint ones, but they also have sour/fruit flavors. I wouldn't be using those as breath mints and would just munch them lol
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  • Just a little ket as a treat

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  • What are your coping mechanisms?

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    Walking. I take a long walk around the neighborhood and let my mind drift and eventually I find calm. I see some of the same people again and again and even though we’ve never spoken a word before, there’s a nod of recognition and I’m glad to see them. I get the impression they’re glad to see me too, which is a weird but fun kind of human relationship.
  • What is your favourite metal song?

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    Pure White Poison (Masshiro na Doku) - Utsu-P