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  • Recent Calls List on Apple

    How Apple violates customer agency and ruins the list-item paradigm for no reason Apple has long prided itself on its user-friendly Graphical User Interface.Apple fans have long trusted Apple to make the best decisions about their GUI and therefore they have relinquished all agency when it comes to how IOS operates. When Apple makes a…

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  • Eager Submission

    I have always been a pretty outgoing person. I have also always been a sexual person. Sometimes people just naturally defer to me to take charge and this is even moreso true when it comes to sex. When I was 19, I had just moved to San Francisco to be with a man that I…

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  • Racist Sharks

    I just finished watching a video called, “What the left won’t tell you about the plight of black lives and the myth of racism.” which features a series of video snippets where black men are interviewed about their experience of racism and what they believe the “problem” is facing black citizens in the United States.…

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  • Conservative Lies About Public Healthcare, Part 1

    The following response was written to address a very talented writer’s answer to a question posted on Quora. It was shared with the “Elephant in the Room” space for Republicans It deserves to be featured for how it skillfully dismantles any hope for the future of public healthcare by making unsupported false equivalences and by…

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  • Uncalled for Incredulity

    I was recently called out by a friend of mine when I posted my opinion that Warren lost the Democratic Primaries because of the rare circumstances we face today, not because of rampant hatred of women. My claim offered a different point of view though it incorrectly claimed that misogyny is pervasive in our culture.…

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  • iPhone Sucks – Contact Management

    This series of posts will outline the reasons why the iPhone sucks. One of the reasons that I just cannot get over is the fact that Apple has the worst, most convoluted method of dealing with contacts. If you enter a phone number for someone named John, you add the contact record information (which is…

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  • Preface

    One of the important aspects of this work is that it relies heavily on your acceptance of degrees of magnification when looking at anything. While this is true for science and we accept certain degrees of magnification as acceptable for discussing things like health or injuries, the same liberty is seldom granted to any discussion…

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  • The Mint

    Towards the end of summer when the leaves were just starting to change, I got off work early. I was working for Kinko’s Palo Alto in their Desktop Publishing Center. I got on the train like always and rode the two hours back to San Francisco where I got off downtown. I could have taken…

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  • Imagine, if you will

    The scene opens in a high tech future where people are lounging about in flowing translucent clothing waiting for the Guest of Honor to enter. When he does, everyone is fulll of praise and shows him respect. Out main character is new to this group of people and she thinks it pretty creepy how people…

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