EPTBut it seems like a self-correcting issue
If it bothers people then donations/users will drop and they'll put it back up
If not then whatever it didn't matter
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GGTeMpLaR
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But it seems like a self-correcting issue If it bothers people then donations/users will drop and they'll put it back up If not then whatever it didn't matter | ||
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LegalLord
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TheYango
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As I don't follow NPR terribly closely or with other communities that do so, I'm not sure whether that's true or not. On August 18 2016 04:16 LegalLord wrote: Though a small percentage of a large number is still a substantial number so a percentage really isn't all that great for describing this sort of thing. I'd assume the problem with it being such a small percentage is potentially being just an echo chamber saying mostly the same things that are only representative of their own small subcommunity of active commenters. The same couple hundred people saying the same thing in every article stops being constructive very quickly. | ||
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GGTeMpLaR
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GreenHorizons
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On August 18 2016 04:40 Plansix wrote: The fact that she used in incorrectly really hits it home for me. Well, that and the fact that she is also anti science. lol I guess you guys don't get the joke? Yeah, she's anti science... Comical after Hillary just hired someone who thinks fracking doesn't cause environmental damage. | ||
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Plansix
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On August 18 2016 04:46 GreenHorizons wrote: lol I guess you guys don't get the joke? Yeah, she's anti science... Comical after Hillary just hired someone who thinks fracking doesn't cause environmental damage. Trigger warning is commonly uses for shit that triggers PTSD or other trauma. I use it in jest some times, but I am not a political candidate. And GH, me and my state have a long history with Jill and her Green Party. They have sucked for a long time. | ||
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cLutZ
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On August 18 2016 04:03 LegalLord wrote: I really did not want to use Adblock because I do understand the importance of ads to profit for websites I like to visit. Terrible ads, especially on streaming services that cut off an important part of the stream to show an ad, have changed my opinion on the matter. The problem with ads is they drain incredible amounts of resources. One time I left a NYT piece open and somehow an hour later it had loaded over 500 MB of data over the WIFI and Firefox was leaking so much memory I had to close it in the control panel. | ||
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ticklishmusic
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On August 18 2016 04:50 cLutZ wrote: The problem with ads is they drain incredible amounts of resources. One time I left a NYT piece open and somehow an hour later it had loaded over 500 MB of data over the WIFI and Firefox was leaking so much memory I had to close it in the control panel. I try to turn off ads for TL, but those obnoxious ads with sound and such are too much. On August 18 2016 04:49 TheYango wrote: I don't think Jill is anti-science, just that her party does a lot of pandering to people who are. She's a blatant self promoter and hedges on vaccines so she can keep the nutty far left hippie anti vaxxer vote. | ||
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LegalLord
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On August 18 2016 04:50 cLutZ wrote: The problem with ads is they drain incredible amounts of resources. One time I left a NYT piece open and somehow an hour later it had loaded over 500 MB of data over the WIFI and Firefox was leaking so much memory I had to close it in the control panel. Is it ads that cause that? I'm pretty sure Firefox itself has some weird memory leak problem. | ||
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GreenHorizons
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On August 18 2016 04:49 Plansix wrote: Trigger warning is commonly uses for shit that triggers PTSD or other trauma. I use it in jest some times, but I am not a political candidate. And GH, me and my state have a long history with Jill and her Green Party. They have sucked for a long time. Seriously, did she need to put a trigger warning for her use of trigger warning for ya? Her and the Greens "sucking" is not being anti-science. @Ticklish, she's not hedging as much as being consistent. She doesn't think we should trust test results from people who have a financial interest in certain results, have to say the alternative sounds a lot crazier to me. | ||
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Nevuk
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On August 18 2016 04:55 LegalLord wrote: Is it ads that cause that? I'm pretty sure Firefox itself has some weird memory leak problem. It is likely a bit of both. Firefox is a mess with lots of memory leaks, but many people have noted the nyt has some very strange ad mechanics. | ||
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Plansix
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ticklishmusic
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its also absolutely disgusting a physician would hedge on vaccines. | ||
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Nevuk
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On August 18 2016 05:07 ticklishmusic wrote: isnt lexington one of the whitest and wealthiest towns in the US? The one in KY? No. I live there. It is definitely not particularly wealthy, though there are some horse racing related things and a university, there is no particular industry aside from them. It doesn't seem super white either, though it may be for a large city. It is very gay and very religious though (weird combination). | ||
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