charonn0

joined 1 year ago
[–] charonn0@startrek.website 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

A protection racket usually involves paying a potential attacker not to attack.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 15 points 1 year ago

UI elements that expand and cover up other UI elements when you mouse over them.

"Flat" color schemes where you can't even tell where one UI element ends and the other begins.

Insisting on using custom widgets (buttons, etc.) instead of the system-provided ones. It doesn't matter which platform you're on, I guarantee the system-provided widgets are better at being widgets.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So what’s the noun for someone who lives in the modern world who doesn’t even think about religion because it has no impact on the vast majority of people’s lives, is not affected in any way by religion, has never met anyone who pushed their religion on them

"Unicorn"

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago

Proof-of-work based crypto has been a disaster. It consumes huge amounts of electricity and other natural resources but produces nothing of intrinsic value. It's spawned whole new criminal enterprises committing whole new categories of crime.

Cryptocurrency in general has been an abject failure. It has not become a genuine currency. It is not a store nor a measure of value; it's value is measured in fiat currencies. It's closer to a commodity, but unlike actual commodities you can't use crypto to make anything useful.

99.99%+ of cryptocurrencies are Ponzi schemes designed to enrich the person or persons who started it. That's why everyone and their dog is setting up their own cryptocurrencies. If crypto actually lived up to its promise of being decentralized and impossible to manipulate there wouldn't be a new type of coin being invented every 5 minutes.

And NFTs? Don't get me started.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 96 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

This only leads me to assume that India really did have the guy assassinated.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Pardon me, I thought this was a legitimate discussion.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 18 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Which US laws, specifically, would you see Cheney and Bush charged under?

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

A "rump" in this context refers to a minority group within a legislature that has more effective power than the technical majority.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago

Methinks the lady doth protest too much.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Alternative interpretations necessarily ignore the museum's intent.

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