AnneBonny

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[–] AnneBonny 10 points 2 years ago

Didn't Lincoln and the other guys have slaves themselves?

No.

I thought the slavery abolition was just a reason to get the black people fighting on their side

That is a half-truth at best. The Emancipation Proclamation didn't free any slaves outside the confederacy.

[–] AnneBonny 19 points 2 years ago (21 children)

How did sideloading get its name?

[–] AnneBonny 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The 2008 crisis was a result of predatory lending practices and mortgage backed securities that were full of subprime mortgages and other toxic assets, and a burst real estate bubble. I don't think it was a tech bubble like the dotcom bust.

Enron claimed to have some vague new means of lowering costs, acquiring revenue, and making the line go up. It would have been transformative for the power industry if it wasn’t straight-up fraud.

Well, they were gaming the rules in the California energy market. They were doing shit like causing blackouts so they could price gouge.

[–] AnneBonny 8 points 2 years ago

The Biden administration, reluctant to change course, may say the parallels between Gaza and Ukraine are far from exact, but it also seems to know it is gradually losing diplomatic support.

There are no parallels in Gaza and Ukraine. The Revolution of Dignity spooked Putin. There is no analog of that in Gaza.

Israeli attitudes towards Hamas are comparable to the Russian pretense of the "de-nazification" of Ukraine.

[–] AnneBonny 132 points 2 years ago (3 children)

someone was made fun of one too many times about having green bubbles in imessage

[–] AnneBonny 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I seem to remember a lot of people upset about GPL V3 I don't remember how that was resolved.

[–] AnneBonny 3 points 2 years ago

You're welcome.

[–] AnneBonny 10 points 2 years ago (16 children)

I remember these. Sucks that they didn't really work out commercially.

https://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-03/shock-bullet/

[–] AnneBonny 5 points 2 years ago

I wish I had a use for that.

[–] AnneBonny 94 points 2 years ago

It's the holidays and everyone is traveling. Get your clickbait headlines outta here.

[–] AnneBonny 7 points 2 years ago

well, you have to learn to employ different techniques like crop dusting

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=crop+dusting

[–] AnneBonny 9 points 2 years ago

they change the names because they suck

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