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Email is nice.

>But I don't want so many mails in my inbox

Then write mail rules. It's really easy and personally I couldn't survive at work without them. That's a big part of why it's nice: You can choose how it works unlike practically everything else these days.


That ties the app to be usable only with network access (which is fine for, e.g., Youtube, but not for all apps!), and also includes a highly variable lag.


If you pay enough attention to metapolitics it will ruin most media going back as far as the 70s even.

Asimov himself was a communist and it shows in a lot of his work. I try to just ignore it.


I am more of Zelazny or Sheckley guy. Asimov is brutally overrated. His only semi decent book is the "prelude to the foundation"


As someone with a sailboat who sails just about every week (since I live on it and have to keep moving) I'm also having a pretty hard time understanding this one.

In high winds removing the mast should make it less prone to capsizing just like reefing would.

EDIT: Oh I see they're thinking it's the waves not the wind.


I can't imagine having bought one recently enough to have it still working. Those things are such garbage.


My main complaint is that on Firefox on Linux anyway they actually steal the mouse position along with keyboard focus. So if you're using something like instagram's IM it's really hard to type while getting replies.


Good riddance. As someone who still had third and even fourth places now I can focus on those.


Given some of the other scheme-like features GNUC has it's surprising they're lagging on this one.


I don't think you're interpreting those statistics correctly.

Most Americans can agree climate scientists think the climate change is man made while still thinking we don't have an effect on it.


I don't think I'm misinterpreting those statistics at all.

> Most Americans can agree climate scientists think the climate change is man made

The statistic I cited (verbatim) shows that Americans grossly underestimate the level of consensus.

Even though only 1 out of 100 climate scientists - or even one in 1000 - disagree that humans are causing global heating, 7 out of every 8 Americans falsely believe that there's >10-100x more dissent.

Only 1 in 8 Americans put the consensus at over 90%, when in fact it's more like 99.9%.

That's because our media and political (and banking, and military, and legal) institutions are selling out the entire planet. Have been for decades.

> while still thinking we don't have an effect on it.

Most Americans actally do know we're fucking up the planet. "Over half of Americans (58%) understand that global warming is mostly human caused" - from the same link as above. That 58% ought to be far higher, all the same.

We are not being represented in policy or media, and the scientific consensus is being systematically misrepresented (for cash) by the people we employ to make good decisions for the future.


Jailing old ladies for voicing criticisms online isn't a symptom of good government.


It's very clear the future of the US looks like something between Mexico and South Africa if we don't outright have a civil war.

I'd live too if I had somewhere to go.


Can you elaborate a little on this US future you believe in? I'm not sure I understand what you're getting at.


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