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> I think you need some experience in how the hook up scene works to really understand it....

I suspect you're right. I remember the pre-disaster Love Parades if that's any indication of just how ancient and out of touch I probably am! :D

Yeah, you're probably right. I was assuming a careful, meticulous user. To everyone else my advice would be to stay away from strong painkillers altogether unless prescribed by a healthcare professional.

> one pill does nothing, the next one kills you.

Users really should crush all the pills and mix the powder thoroughly so one unit of powder always contains the same amount of active compound.

Also, doctors normally don't prescribe percocet or other strong opiates to "take the edge off" (i.e. psychiatric treatment). That's what barbiturates and anxiolytics are for.

> Now supporting Facebook, Twitter and Youtube, behemoths which represent the excess of capitalism is considered hip, cool and progressive.

Isn't that great though? If it's now hip and cool, even the dumb/vain people will do the right thing (albeit for the wrong reasons) which should ultimately strengthen the alternatives to Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

> You don’t get to just say (...)

I get to say whatever I want to say within the confines of the law and so do you. Let's keep it that way, shall we?

> What exactly is your point?

That it's still possible to get laid without a shady middleman/app

> The site recommends using DDG as a search engine. There was a time that this wasn’t a fringe idea.

Is that considered fringe now? Has it been appropriated by some radicalized group in the US?

> Big tech companies tend to not outright lie, but instead stretch the truth as far as it can go to further their ulterior motives.

Yeah, it's lying in all but name if you ask me.

I never looked into this Cult of Productivity but I wholeheartedly agree with your take on learning in general. Deep understanding of complex topics can't be rushed.

Why would anyone ever assume that Apple is telling the truth? Because they say so? (lol)

I don't know you but if you're like most people, you've probably violated other (non-drug related) clauses in your contract already. Ever watched a YouTube video during work hours? (assuming you don't work for Google/YouTube) Ever took a personal phone call during work? Ever been late? I get the feeling that it's not just a matter of avoiding a breach of contract in your case although you phrased it that way.

By gauging the situation and, where appropriate, behaving in a slightly playful, attentive and flirtatious manner towards anyone that catches your fancy (not limited to bar patrons btw.)

If more people reacted to facts like you just did, the world would be a better place!

Each to their own, I guess. I liked our dirty old ways and the fact that no Silicon Valley creep could spy on our intimate relations.

Is the average person's short-term memory and/or attention span getting worse?

> The autocratic corrupt spying apparatus gov?

I thought you were referring to the US here until I finished reading the comment.

We also got laid before the invention of the smartphone, you know...

> Lifestyle, diet or supplements have shown to be rather irrelevant to the effects of Covid.

The above statement contradicts most/all studies on the subject. A few randomly selected sources:

- https://www.gov.uk/government/news/excess-weight-can-increas...

- https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8073853/

- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33463658/

- https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/08/covid-cdc-study-finds-roughl...

It's a fact that obese people are more likely to die from a covid infection. Whether or not it's hard to lose weight is irrelevant.

Some interesting experiments in this department: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bpX8YvNg6Y

Sounds more like a nihilist than a cynic to me

> Your only moral obligation in life is to make this decision for yourself: Do you want to be right? Or do you want to be good?

"That's just, like, your opinion, man"

In all seriousness, though, no one has your moral obligations. They're yours and yours alone by definition (unless you believe in gods, fairy tales and whatnot).

> They don't want new powers, they want their old powers back

Maybe you're too young to remember a time when no one carried a GPS in their pocket, most payments were done in cash and only banks had CCTV cameras. I'd love to see states and companies take back the "powers" they had back then :)

> to the people who complain, we didn't hear you when the US kept (is still is) massively tracking you

You weren't listening then.

And Osama wins again.

A few approaches: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diehard_tests and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomness_test

Couldn't you do it with plain old symlinks?

That probably just means that they don't need these tools (because they helped develop them or have something much better/scarier already). These types of laws/export bans only exist because the security community allows it.

You sound upset ;)

(sorry, couldn't help myself. I think you're all great simply for being here and applying your intellects!)

I have no dog in this race but it sounds like you're assuming that a sentence with a negative sentiment (whatever that actually means) must have been created by a person who's upset. A bit of a stretch, no?