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merdaverse

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merdaverse··on Octopuses, crabs and lobsters recognised as sentient beings under UK law (2021)
I don't get the point of this comment. Was this stopping these issues from being pursued? Is it wrong to pursue other objectives while these (objectively difficult) problems are solved? Or is this just sterile contempt?
merdaverse··on How much can Duolingo teach us?
How would 'forcing' you actually work? Lock you out of the app until you've conversed with a native speaker?

If you are committed to learning a language you will naturally seek out the occasions to practice it outside the app. Duolingo doesn't need to 'force' you to do anything. It's not a parent, it's a helping tool. It seems that most critics of Duolingo have unrealistic expectations.

merdaverse··on Meta prohibited from using personal data for advertisement
Where is this fantasy world where the US has more appropriate medical care than the EU?
merdaverse··on Impressions from a first-time Mac user
Completely agree withe window management part. I find it easy to work on Win/Ubuntu with multiple desktops and Alt+Tab, but the overly complicated flow of Command+Tab makes this impossible on Mac.

So I just end up with most of the stuff on one desktop and using spotlight with the trackpad to switch. But props to Apple for having the smoothest spotlight implementation of the three.

merdaverse··on Zulip 5.0: Threaded open-source team chat
Apart from being open source, which is great, I don't get the main selling point of this. How are topics any different from threads in Slack? It seems to me that if people stick to using threads in Slack (which they usually do in my experience) you would have the same experience no?
merdaverse··on Write plain text files
Obsidian looks interesting, but how do you sync between devices? Their sync service seems really expensive. On desktop I guess you can use git/Dropbox plugin, but what about mobile? I take a lot of notes on my Android phone.
merdaverse··on /r/antiwork: A tragedy of sanewashing and social gentrification
I'm not sure that real names would help much. Look at LinkedIn. Lots of personal details in each person's profile, yet it is still devolving into Facebook level low quality content.
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