Biggest Lie
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    JackLSauce
    3d ago 100%

    If the other comments knew the details, the response would be terror not annoyance:

    Management types in smaller, growing businesses are shockingly susceptible to the promise of "cleaning things up" by making everything a "Microsoft shop", even when that means transferring data and control to Azure (competitors also try but MSFT almost always wins)

    They're happy, they own nothing and they don't even know it

    Note: this is largely referring to corporate accounts

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  • World military expenditure over the past decades, inflation-adjusted
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    JackLSauce
    4d ago 100%

    I agree in spirit but a CPI applied to military expenditure would be adjusting for prices of irrelevant items and could become very skewed at such large scales

    Admittedly I don't know have a better idea either so... Guess I'm hoping somebody smarter than me can chime in

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  • What's next? A new poem by Confucius?
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    JackLSauce
    6d ago 100%

    For anybody else wondering about the roughly 1500 year gap, there are conflicting statements between the museum and an article (presumably the one above) written about it but I don't see any explanation on either side's reasoning:

    https://etc.worldhistory.org/exhibitions/giglamesh-enkidu-humbaba-cedar-forest-newest-discovered-tablet-v-epic/

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  • Not everything needs to be Art
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    JackLSauce
    7d ago 100%

    We talk about freedom the same way we talk about art,” she said, to whoever was listening. “Like it is a statement of quality rather than a description. Art doesn’t mean good or bad. Art only means art. It can be terrible and still be art. Freedom can be good or bad too. There can be terrible freedom.

    Joseph Fink, Alice Isn't Dead

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    Television 2w ago
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    Is the Harley Quinn worth watching?
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    memes 2w ago
    Jump
    worlds smallest violin plays in background
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    JackLSauce
    2w ago 100%

    Sure. I can't come up with anything sensible.. Maybe some tax benefit I'm too poor to care or know about?

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    memes 2w ago
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    Hurricane Katrina vs. Hurricane Helene
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    JackLSauce
    2w ago 100%

    Not sure what the science is between 2 images with no source or timestamp and nearly 20 years of technological improvement between them is but this isn't the peak of Katrina

    Katrina ultimately reached its peak strength as a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson scale on August 28. Its maximum sustained winds reached 175 mph (280 km/h) and its pressure fell to 902 mbar (hPa; 26.63 inHg), ranking it among the strongest ever recorded in the Gulf of Mexico.

    It probably refers to its stats at landfall

    Katrina weakened to a Category 3 before making landfall along the northern Gulf Coast, first in southeast Louisiana (sustained winds: 125mph) and then made landfall once more along the Mississippi Gulf Coast (sustained winds: 120mph). Katrina finally weakened below hurricane intensity late on August 29th over east central Mississippi.

    But power doesn't equal damage for weather

    [Katrina] is the costliest hurricane to ever hit the United States, surpassing the record previously held by Hurricane Andrew from 1992. In addition, Katrina is one of the five deadliest hurricanes to ever strike the United States

    Sources:

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteorological_history_of_Hurricane_Katrina

    https://www.weather.gov/mob/katrina

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  • Least favorite book?
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    JackLSauce
    2w ago 100%

    Can't remember the name but there's a novel set in Ireland in the not-too-distant future

    Synopsis implied it had become a surveillance state but didn't gave up before confirming due to the literal writing style

    I swear every sentence was written in the passive voice (poorly remembered examples):

    "It was made known through the clothes he wore they were sent from the department of security"

    "As she walked outside the smell made Spring's arrival clear"

    Totally fine normally but do it every single sentence and it becomes a mystery novel where the mystery is what the hell you just read!

    ... Or idk, Harry Potter 5 is pretty meandering

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  • I thought this would be dead simple but trying to label a road as "bike-friendly" isn't as intuitive as one would hope (am I "adding" a road even though it's technically there or reporting "wrong info" piece by piece?)

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    Mongolians 5 Seconds after Establishing a Capital City
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    Dunder Mifflin JackLSauce 1y ago 88%
    OK but what was it? Football cream, right?
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    fuck u/spez JackLSauce 1y ago 100%
    Made this PRAW script to ensure my Reddit data is cleared before deactivating. I sure hope a bunch of people don't run it during the last few days of free API access...

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/647097 > You'll need to update the praw.Reddit() parameters and set booleans to True based on what you want to have cleared. > > This also overwrites your comments with nonsense content seeing as Reddit doesn't _really_ delete your comments if nobody forces them > > Sorry about the amateurish Python, this isn't my go-to language > > ``` > import praw > > #Update all values set to XXXXXX and set boolean values to True for whatever you'd like to clear > > reddit = praw.Reddit( > client_id="XXXXXX", > client_secret="XXXXXX", > user_agent="script running locally", #required for PRAW but not sure content matters > username="XXXXXX", > password="XXXXXX" > ) > > #booleans > delete_posts = False > delete_comments = False > delete_saved = False > clear_votes = False > unsubscribe = False > > def get_posts(): > return reddit.user.me().submissions.new(limit=100) > > def get_comments(): > return reddit.user.me().comments.new(limit=100) > > def get_subscriptions(): > return reddit.user.subreddits() > > def get_saved_items(): > return reddit.user.me().saved(limit=100) > > def get_upvoted(): > return reddit.user.me().upvoted(limit=100) > > def get_downvoted(): > return reddit.user.me().downvoted(limit=100) > > while(clear_votes): > count = 0 > upvotes = get_upvoted() > downvotes = get_downvoted() > for vote in upvotes: > try: > vote.clear_vote() > count += 1 > print('Clearing vote for: ', vote) > except Exception as e: > print('Could not clear vote due to: ', e, '(this is normal for archived posts)') > continue > for vote in downvotes: > try: > vote.clear_vote() > count += 1 > print('Clearing vote for: ', vote) > except Exception as e: > print('Could not clear vote due to: ', e, '(this is normal for archived posts)') > continue > if(count == 0): > clear_votes = False > > while(delete_saved): > count = 0 > saved_items = get_saved_items() > for item in saved_items: > item.unsave() > count += 1 > print('Unsaved item ID: ', item) > if(count == 0): > delete_saved = False > > > while(delete_posts): > count = 0 > posts = get_posts() > for post in posts: > print("Deleting submission: ", post) > post.delete() > count += 1 > if(count == 0): > delete_posts = False > > > #Replace comments with nonsense data first as Reddit only "marks comments as" deleted > while(delete_comments): > count = 0 > comments = reddit.user.me().comments.new(limit=1000) > print("Replacing comments with nonsense data") > for comment in comments: > comment.edit('So long and thanks for all the fish') > print("Deleting comments") > for comment in comments: > comment.delete() > count+=1 > if (count == 0): > delete_comments = False > > while(unsubscribe): > count = 0 > subscriptions = get_subscriptions() > for subreddit in subscriptions: > subreddit.unsubscribe() > count += 1 > print('Unsubscribed from: ', subreddit.display_name) > if (count == 0): > unsubscribe = False > > print('--finished--') > ```

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    You'll need to update the praw.Reddit() parameters and set booleans to True based on what you want to have cleared. This also overwrites your comments with nonsense content seeing as Reddit doesn't _really_ delete your comments if nobody forces them Sorry about the amateurish Python, this isn't my go-to language ``` import praw #Update all values set to XXXXXX and set boolean values to True for whatever you'd like to clear reddit = praw.Reddit( client_id="XXXXXX", client_secret="XXXXXX", user_agent="script running locally", #required for PRAW but not sure content matters username="XXXXXX", password="XXXXXX" ) #booleans delete_posts = False delete_comments = False delete_saved = False clear_votes = False unsubscribe = False def get_posts(): return reddit.user.me().submissions.new(limit=100) def get_comments(): return reddit.user.me().comments.new(limit=100) def get_subscriptions(): return reddit.user.subreddits() def get_saved_items(): return reddit.user.me().saved(limit=100) def get_upvoted(): return reddit.user.me().upvoted(limit=100) def get_downvoted(): return reddit.user.me().downvoted(limit=100) while(clear_votes): count = 0 upvotes = get_upvoted() downvotes = get_downvoted() for vote in upvotes: try: vote.clear_vote() count += 1 print('Clearing vote for: ', vote) except Exception as e: print('Could not clear vote due to: ', e, '(this is normal for archived posts)') continue for vote in downvotes: try: vote.clear_vote() count += 1 print('Clearing vote for: ', vote) except Exception as e: print('Could not clear vote due to: ', e, '(this is normal for archived posts)') continue if(count == 0): clear_votes = False while(delete_saved): count = 0 saved_items = get_saved_items() for item in saved_items: item.unsave() count += 1 print('Unsaved item ID: ', item) if(count == 0): delete_saved = False while(delete_posts): count = 0 posts = get_posts() for post in posts: print("Deleting submission: ", post) post.delete() count += 1 if(count == 0): delete_posts = False #Replace comments with nonsense data first as Reddit only "marks comments as" deleted while(delete_comments): count = 0 comments = reddit.user.me().comments.new(limit=1000) print("Replacing comments with nonsense data") for comment in comments: comment.edit('So long and thanks for all the fish') print("Deleting comments") for comment in comments: comment.delete() count+=1 if (count == 0): delete_comments = False while(unsubscribe): count = 0 subscriptions = get_subscriptions() for subreddit in subscriptions: subreddit.unsubscribe() count += 1 print('Unsubscribed from: ', subreddit.display_name) if (count == 0): unsubscribe = False print('--finished--') ```

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