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jersully72

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jersully72··on Startup is selling tech to make call center workers sound like white Americans
It's the accent you hear on TV when you think the speaker has no accent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_accent

jersully72··on Show HN: Yack – Community Browser for Hacker News, Reddit, YouTube and More
FWIW, "talk" is what came to my mind.

But it's social media though, so the other yakking will be involved...

jersully72··on Puffer – Stream live TV in the browser
I love the simplicity of it and would LOVE to have this on Roku.
jersully72··on Nintendo Switch Lite: a smaller, cheaper Switch built for handheld play
I can live with that. Sacrifices were made for the Switch Lite, too.
jersully72··on The 3dfx Voodoo1
I have a box of 3dfx Voodoo 2 cards in storage. No SLI cables but you can make them out of floppy ribbon cables.

What should I do with them?

jersully72··on How F5Bot Slurps All of Reddit
I think what they're describing are propaganda bots. If so, what you're asking is how does propaganda work, and is it not legitimate?
jersully72··on Timeline of the far future
How does this near extinction compare to previous ones?
jersully72··on How much is time wrong around the world? (2014)
I suspect it's their preference for daylight in the winter. Which currently in Buenos Aires is about 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM.

Worth noting that the provinces have the option of following DST but choose not to.

jersully72··on Has wine gone bad?
> What source would you reccomend for trying to trace back flavors to the metabolic processes in the yeast?

A homebrew forum.

jersully72··on Florida Pedestrian Bridge Constructed 5 Days Ago Collapses, Multiple Casualties
And Mother Nature.
jersully72··on Linus Torvalds Rants
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jerk

Definition of jerk

1 a : an annoyingly stupid or foolish person

  was acting like a jerk
b : an unlikable person; especially : one who is cruel, rude, or small-minded

   a selfish jerk
jersully72··on Amazon Wants to Extend Its Dominance in Audiobooks
< when I get full on credits I can just cancel my sub

But you lose the credits when you do this.