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  • Work harder, slave, or no promotion.

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  • 1: Oh my God I'm such an idiot! All this time I've been doing my actual job when I should have ignored it in favour of doing stuff I'm not certified, qualified, or supposed to do! Right. Starting tomorrow, I'll only do stuff I'm not supposed to be doing. I'm sure to get a promotion now!

  • What are different things made from the same thing/category?

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  • Cheese isn't a mould. It is a dairy product, whereas mould is a fungus. Some cheeses use fungi in production, such as Roquefort and Stilton, but the majority do not. Cheese is made by processing raw milk using various enzymes; if there is fungus in there, it is added towards the end of the process.

    But for a real example: diamonds and graphite (pencil "lead") are both pure carbon crystals, but one is hard and the other isn't.

  • What are different things made from the same thing/category?

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  • Do you have just a few minutes to discuss our lord and saviour Richard Stallman?

  • What are some girl names named after flowers in your country?

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  • We mostly speak English in Ireland, so I'll stick to Irish.

    Róise (rowisha): Rose

    Róisín (rowsheen): Little Rose

    That's all I've got.

  • If you could erase one event from human history, what would it be and why?

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  • The unification of the Italian peninsula by Rome. Because fuck the Roman Empire and fuck imperialism. (Also most of what you think you hate about Christianity is stuff the early Christians inherited from Roman culture).

  • Hard work

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  • Here's the original

    I became Senior VP at a multi-million dollar company at age 26. My salary was $600k. This was in 2018.

    How did I do it?

    It wasn’t hustle culture. No 5:30am wakeups, cold showers, or productivity hacks.

    What got me there was a relentless focus on impact. Every project I touched, every deck I built, every presentation I gave MOVED THE NEEDLE.

    Always, I asked myself: what is the single most valuable contribution I can make to the company right now? And I did that. If people disagreed, I convinced them otherwise.

    I kept this up for three years before the CEO (my dad) finally recognized my results and promoted me to SVP.

    There are no gimmicks. There are no shortcuts.

  • Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public | TechCrunch

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  • And since they use ActivityPub, they make up one big meta-site!

  • Furious Protestor Tears AI-Generated Art Off Wall of Exhibit, Chews It Up Into Tiny Shreds Using His Teeth

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  • I can definitely understand why he was driven to do this. Fire is much faster, more thorough, and has much less risk of ingesting toxic substances, but can easily get out of control and damage real art or people's health. Teeth are the better tools here.

  • What is your country's equivalent of the last name "Smith"?

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  • Smith. Also Murphy.

  • Wouldnt the Lord of Light represented by the priestesse Melissandre in Game of Thrones be the actual real god and true religion since she proved His power was real and palpable?

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  • R'hllor is a real god.

    The Drowned God, the Old Gods, and the god worshipped by Mirri Max Duur are also shown to have power, so they are also real gods. Also, the patron deity of the Faceless Men is apparently an aspect of the Stranger, which means that at least one of the Seven Gods is also real and powerful.

    Side note, there is a fan theory (several people including me came up with it independently) that R'hllor is the Storm God, and the Drowned God is the Great Other. If this is true, it means that the Red Priests and the Ironborn each worship the other's devil.

  • Hooded Horse ban AI-generated art in their games: "all this thing has done is made our lives more difficult"

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  • Judas Priest, not Black Sabbath.

  • If you could erase the existence of 3 people, who would they be?

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  • Philip II of Makedon, Qin Shi Huangdi, and the person who invented salted caramel.

  • Clank-maker who profits from people believing in his slop thinks we should stop disparaging clankers.

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  • More recently, 3D printers. They absolutely overpromised and overhyped in the early days, but people found uses for them in day 1.

  • World's Best-selling Video Game Consoles

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  • The NES was the best selling of those, at ~60 million. The PS1 completely changed the curve.

    It's funny. People remember the PS3 as a failure because it's the worst-selling PlayStation, but it still crushed NES numbers

  • World's Video Game Companies

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  • Because Sony and Microsoft make most of their money from other sources. That isn't to says their game studios aren't big, just that they don't make 90% of revenue.

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  • Samaritans still live in Palestine, around Mount Gezirim. They consider themselves to be the faithful heirs of Moses, and that Jews are doing it wrong. Israel considers Samaritans to be spicy Jews for demographic purposes (let's them slightly inflate the number of Jews living in East Palestine), but requires a Samaritan who wishes to marry a Jew to formally convert.

    Judaea was never a name for Israel. It was the Roman name for Judah, a kingdom which stopped existing around 70AD when the Romans marched in, smashed the Second Temple, and folded Judaea into direct Roman control.

    Zionists insist on referring to the West Bank (eastern Palestine) as "Judaea and Samaria" to assert that it's a land for Jews (and Samaritans), denying the very existence of Palestine.

    But Gidley can't even get that right.

  • How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again?

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  • What the fuck kind of calendar has at least 22 months in it?

  • When Asked to Generate an Alphabet Poster for Preschoolers, the Latest Version of ChatGPT Just Flails Wildly

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  • What do other languages use for "magic" words; or names and titles in fantasy and sci-fi novels or cinema?

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  • Apparently the Hindi translations of tge Harry Potter books translate the Latin into Sanskrit, but that's more of a cultural thing, since Sanskrit has a similar cachet among South Asian Hindus and Buddhists as Latin has among European Christians.

  • Are nuns authorized to drink ethyl-alchohol?

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