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oprah··on Yahoo is making a return to search
There is a link in the comment that explains just that to be honest. But here is a better source: https://robkhenderson.substack.com/p/status-symbols-and-the-...
oprah··on The FBI was the primary link between the intelligence community and Twitter
"most people" cannot disagree with them about the story's importance, because "most people" haven't heard about the it thanks to the suppression campaign. That's the whole issue you are trying to downplay.
oprah··on The FBI was the primary link between the intelligence community and Twitter
Exactly. What does anti-democratic mean? A brief reminder that North Korea's full name is Democratic People's Republic of Korea and East Germany was German Democratic Republic.

The reason we would usually go for the fullest amount of protection for speech was precisely because most of those issues are not simply a matter of "these people are democratic and those aren't".

oprah··on Security keys are now supported for SSH Git operations
One obvious thing would be keyloggers?
oprah··on 72% of Americans say social media companies have too much political influence
> Filter bubbles are seen as critical enablers of Brexit, Trump, Bolsonaro, and other populist political phenomena, and search and social media companies have been criticised for failing to prevent their development. Yet, there is scant empirical evidence for their existence, or for the related concept of ‘echo chambers’: indeed, search and social media users generally appear to encounter a highly centrist media diet that is, if anything, more diverse than that of non-users.

https://www.doi.org/10.14763/2019.4.1426

oprah··on A Guide to Function Composition in Ruby
That is a really great write up! I'm not sure I'm sold on using the proposed syntax, the * character or a . would IMO work much better here.
oprah··on A technique for alleviating pain may help disable nerves that spread cancer
Do I understand it correctly? If you can block the nerves then the tumour losses one of its ways to interact with the host's organism. It does intuitively make sense.