Hemingways_Shotgun

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    2 hours ago

    Depends on what you’re using it for.

    Writer, Presentation, etc… yeah. works great. No problems at all.

    Calc/Excel…sure…will work for pretty basic stuff. But as soon as you get a relatively complex spreadsheet, interoperability goes out the window.

    For example, I have a few spreadsheets that I work on at home (where I use Linux) and at work (where I use windows). I can’t work on it in one without screwing up the formatting, forumlae, and advanced filtering in the other, and vice versa. I’m forced to use OnlyOffice in order to be able to do so.







  • China can do without United States luxury imports like cars and iPhones for far longer than American consumers can do without coffee makers, microwaves, televisions, blenders, dishes, utensils, clothing, and literally every other consumer good in existence.

    Maybe pay some attention instead of just posting a meaningless number. It’s not HOW MUCH trade is done, it’s WHAT is coming to and from each of the countries.

    China doesn’t need America’s crap. America most definitely does need China’s.



  • You think the allure of being fully independent and having your own instance would be right up their alley given how they value independence, but nope.

    Because it’s not about freedom of speech for them, it’s about freedom to force people to listen. Having their own server where they can shout at each other all day doesn’t serve their purpose. Their panties get wet by forcing others to listen.


  • Even books read for pleasure shouldn’t have to dumb down their grammar and writing style. There are plenty of comic books/graphic novels with better writing than the Twilight Saga (for example). By “learning something” I don’t mean you have to read non-fiction books to learn about history and what not. But books like Twilight, which are written with no sense of story structure, word usage, or proper grammar in some places, are beyond harmful.

    She’s a shit writer whose style appeals to people who people who can’t tell the difference because they barely paid attention in English class and don’t care to.

    If you want an example of the other direction, Harry Potter is a series that appeals to young people, but are well written and actually inspire kids to read because it challenges them to get better at handling good writing.

    I’m not “gate keeping” anything. I’m saying the writer has an obligation to enrich people, regardless of whether it’s reading for fun or reading for learning.


  • Ah yes. Nothing like a little gross oversimplification to generate headlines.

    If the shuttle didn’t exist, there are still a thousand things that would have had to go in a different direction to get a viable Mars program in the 80s and 90s. Not the least of which being that without the shuttle, and before the ISS, we would have no CLUE how to actually live in space for long periods of time.

    So if we take it that we can’t go to Mars without learning how to live in space for extended durations. And we take it that in order to learn how to live in space we need to have a long duration presence there, like the ISS.

    What exactly do people think was necessary to build the ISS…

    You’re right boys and girls…it was the SPACE SHUTTLE.


  • Fucking hell, I hate having to upvote this…so much…

    Twilight is everything that is wrong with modern literature. It’s dumbing down your art in order to cater to a population whose reading levels have declined to the low grade school level over the years.

    Good books increase your literacy. You learn new things from reading them; new words, new phrases, etc… an author is supposed to add to the collective intelligence of the world, not debase themselves to write at a fourth grade level so that their books are more popular to incurious illiterates.


  • I often make things like pancakes, or fried eggs with bacon for supper/dinner. My ex wife would look at me like I was crazy.

    But I just asked her, what makes a breakfast food a “breakfast” food other than social convention? Eat whatever you want whenever you want. It’s quite literally in the who cares category of let people live their lives.








  • Yes.

    Anyone who says otherwise is (ironically) lying.

    That’s why privacy laws are so important and why the old “If you haven’t done anything wrong, you shouldn’t care about your data being collected by literally everyone” argument is bullshit. Because it’s not about breaking the law, or lying about some big secret. It’s about presenting to the world the you that you want to present to the world.

    The most basic fundamental right is to be seen as we want to be seen.

    Everyone…and I mean EVERYONE…has something that, if it were public, would change the way that others look at them. Maybe for the good, maybe for the worse. It doesn’t matter. It could be that you’re into midget porn. It could be that you anonymously donate a quarter of your paycheque to charity and you want it to remain anonymous for whatever reason. The point is, THAT IS YOUR RIGHT to keep that to yourself.

    We get to show the world who we want them to see, either good or bad. And we all do it.

    So yes, to circle back around. Anyone who says that they don’t actively have any lies is lying.






















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