HamSwagwich @ HamSwagwich @showeq.com

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No they can't. They can maybe, if the wind is just right and luck is with them, reach the West Coast Hawaii is questionable as well.

"will you go with me to the store?" "Ok"

My experience is that ok is used 50/50 for yes or I heard you

While your statement is true, the result is Steve Vai not having a motivation or reason to become the top apple picker. If his extreme efforts to become the best in a given field are nullified by a system that will give extra to someone who isn't as good at it so that they can be as good as Steve, why bother with putting in that effort?

So yes, Steve is harmed by stealing his motivation and (potential) recognition by making the system anti-meritocracy and more about everyone being the same.

The equation changes when we live in a post scarcity society, but we didn't live in one. Therefore we have motivational pressure to find a niche we are good at and exploit it to survive. Taking away that niche you might be talented at while others aren't as talented, harm those people who now don't have that niche to exploit.

Even in a post-scarcity world, where we have unlimited access to energy (and thus can create anything we need), the motivation for social recognition through innate talent and ability is going to drive the human race forward. Taking that away kills the human spirit and possibly the human race.

I bet you are against designer babies/gene editing to give a child a huge advantage over it's peers, right? Because that is the logical conclusion of this metaphor and "justice." Genetically engineering every baby to have equal access to abilities and talent.

That's why I finally gave up after nearly 3 decades of running my own email server. It's just stamping out fire after fire and my time became way more valuable as I got older.

Europe has historically been charged by the text message, the US not so much. So SMS became dominant in the US primarily because of that, but also because it's the lowest common denominator and everyone supports it, no matter what phone you have.

Yeah they really could be doing a lot more on that front

It is an Apple problem.

Don't confuse a client API with a cross platform protocol. They are different beasts and Apple refuses to send or receive RCS messages. That's different than a client trying to send or receive an RCS message.

Apple is vetted as an authorized entity whereas a random client is not.

No, there is nothing. Google has no API into RCS so it's a closed system, same as iMessage unfortunately

Yes, Hexbear is highly customized. Beehaw is o believe. Not sure what else

I know, right? Like... What kind of retaliation are you going to do that you aren't already doing?

You don't choose your username. Your username chooses you

We live, we die, then we live again! Ahhhhhhhhhjjjjjj

God damnit, Bob, how many times have I said no white after Labor Day?

Plenty of things. But it's not hard to look better than iOS. You just have to not look like Fisher Price had a baby with Mattel and you are automatically better than an iOS app.

What the hell to you think an overpopulation problem looks like? Jesus, talk about not understanding the problem

Why would we want to stop population decline when the world is already overpopulated?

Moon Raker and From Russia with Love are so over the top

Isn't there more sodium in it as well? May me a concern for some people

A MUD is basically text based gaming. Nothing to do with the topic here