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- Comment on Yall guess who showed up in my dms 2 weeks ago:
Get your filthy mitts off her. That’s my future wife. As soon as my check clears, we’re getting married.
- Comment on Is someone falling for this crap? 2 weeks ago:
We’re engaged. Will be getting married as soon as my deposit check for half the expenses clears.
- Comment on What movies have you watched this week? 3 weeks ago:
- Red
- Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
- Comment on Tried to order a part before the tariffs 3 weeks ago:
#trumptarrifs
C’mon, it writes itself.
- Comment on This fucking bot is still out there messaging 3 weeks ago:
I feel so honored. Got one of these today.
- Comment on Are there any non capitalistic technology companies still around? 3 weeks ago:
Traditionally, there have been a few classes of companies in the U.S: C Corp, S Corp, LLC (Limited Liability Company) aka partnerships, and Closed. Most companies in the U.S. are organized as one of these, with their responsibility toward shareholders, who want to see their money grow.
If you wanted to work for a company that didn’t necessarily have infinite growth as its mission, the only option was to find a Non-Profit, but they may not have the kind of funding to spend on legal visas.
In the last few years, two other types of companies have emerged. They’re similar, but legally different: B-corp (…m.wikipedia.org/…/B_Corporation_(certification)), and PBC or Public Benefit Corporation (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benefit_corporation).
These can be for-profit, but have to have a stated mission in their charter to provide a benefit of some sort to the public.
The links above point at some examples, but you may want to do your own research. Those companies may have the resources to pick up your visa, and may better align with the values you’re looking for.
Ideally, and when able, your best bet would be to start your own business and set it up just the way you want.
- Comment on Google’s Sergey Brin Says Engineers Should Work 60-Hour Weeks in Office to Build AI That Could Replace Them 3 weeks ago:
Prediction: first big company to offer 32-hour work week at no loss of pay, with choice of remote or hybrid, will hoover up all the Grade-A talent.
- Comment on Claude 3.7 goes hard for programmers… | Fireship [5:48] 4 weeks ago:
Tried it in Cursor (paying for both). 3/4 of the time get an error that says 3.7 is overloaded. Toggling back to 3.5 works. Will wait till the novelty wears off.
- Comment on Egg prices at Costco be like... 4 weeks ago:
They said to get there early. Twice now, was there at opening. Lots of eggs, reasonably priced. This time, there was a limit on number per customer.
- Comment on How would he have 6 limbs otherwise? 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Send...help... 4 months ago:
413 is amateur hour.
- Comment on Why doesn't Lemmy have a system like Reddit's Karma? 4 months ago:
There’s no real value to any of it.
Attach free beer to point levels and watch this thing explode.
- Comment on Trump’s Crowds Are Dwindling as His Campaign Winds Down | The former president likes to talk about the attendance at his rallies, but empty seats and early exits have grown more common. 4 months ago:
Fair point.
- Comment on Trump’s Crowds Are Dwindling as His Campaign Winds Down | The former president likes to talk about the attendance at his rallies, but empty seats and early exits have grown more common. 4 months ago:
People who have already early voted may not care so much about going to a rally. Just speculating. Still, not sure crowd size at this stage correlates to any meaningful outcome.
- Comment on Trump’s Crowds Are Dwindling as His Campaign Winds Down | The former president likes to talk about the attendance at his rallies, but empty seats and early exits have grown more common. 4 months ago:
How is crowd size at a rally a relevant data point for anything?
- Comment on Bank of America will (stop|continue to) Accept $1 bills 4 months ago:
Losing the all-important male stripper customer base.
Obligatory: Image
- Comment on Too spicy for me but thank you 😊 4 months ago:
Old family recipe. Gently sprinkle 2 Tsp of turmeric on top. You won’t taste the rubber.
- Comment on your mom falls significantly faster than g 4 months ago:
Please stop by the office and pick up your combo Nobel Prize in Physics and Chemistry.
- Comment on your mom falls significantly faster than g 4 months ago:
Because light-blue weighs less than blue.
- Comment on your mom falls significantly faster than g 4 months ago:
Depends on the color of the feather and the ball.
There’s a simple explanation.
- Comment on What is stopping the vice president from ever murdering the president? 4 months ago:
There should be a Shakespeare play with that plot.
- Comment on How Hollywood Shot Actors with Arrows before CGI 4 months ago:
Pretty cool that he reverse-engineered it and 3D printed the fixtures. Wonder if Adam Savage has any original SFX rigs.
- Comment on I just need to keep it steady 4 months ago:
The cassette player in my old car had a cover that was also a display panel. It folded out, then you put the tape in and flipped the cover back so it locked, then you could play.
Got one of these adapters to plug in an iPod. Stuck it in, then went to close the panel. The wire got in the way so it couldn’t lock. No way to jam it without damaging the cable.
No return policy back then. It sat in the dashboard until the car died many years later.
- Comment on Why don't we just gather up all the ocean's trash and all the nonrecyclables, put them in a rocket, and launch it into the sun? 4 months ago:
And the one time the rocket goes kablooey on its way up, everyone down the flight path will get a shower of used hypodermic needles, disposable vapes, and old appliances.
- Comment on Woman admits hurling McDonald's milkshake over Nigel Farage 5 months ago:
“She states she did not regret her actions.”
- Comment on How do I get my clothes to smell like I just bought them at the store? 5 months ago:
Plastic, nitrogen (or some inert gas, if packaged), and formaldehyde.
Yum!
- Comment on This is not going anywhere! 5 months ago:
Wonder if they had to tie the knot three times to get it right?
- Comment on "Dogma" Re-Release Plans In The Works 5 months ago:
It’s amazing what CGI makeup can do nowadays.
- Comment on Deaths outstrip births in UK for first time in nearly 50 years 5 months ago:
The common benchmark ‘replacement’ ratio of birth to death is 2.1.
Once a country falls below that, they’re on a slow multi-generational train ride to extinction. There will be multiple stops along the way, where small towns get hollowed out (youngsters move to the cities), and the social safety net for the elderly goes away (not enough money coming in from fewer young, money-earning people).
Next stop is where there aren’t enough caregivers for the growing elderly population. After that, you start going down the dark alleys of Senecide, where the elderly are left out in the forest or ignored to die.
None of this is new. Japan and South Korea have been dealing with it for the past 20 years.
Only solution is immigration from high-baby to low-baby regions. But if the culture is closed and xenophobic, they’ll put barriers up to slow the flow. Second class citizen status. Sectioned-off neighborhoods. Laws to prohibit inter-racial marriage. That sort of thing. After a few years, those immigrants will trend somewhere safe and financially viable where they will get proper respect.
There will be partial stops, of course, where local nationalists will make angry noises about purity and poisoning bloods of the country, etc and win local elections (hi, USA, Germany, Italy, France, and Netherlands!)
But the hard, long-term reality is: a safe, peaceful life is expensive and the cultural norms putting women down just don’t fly any more. The kids are just not making enough babies, and taking away reproductive rights just makes people angry and less likely to reproduce.
This is true for more than 50% of the countries in the world, including US, Britain, and Canada. And the trendlines are pointing down.
I spent 1.5 years working on this stuff in my last job. There are tons of reports out there from WHO, IMF, and the UN, all backing all this using terms like ‘Demographic Time Bomb.’
tldr: We’re screwed if we don’t find a way to assimilate and encourage immigration and reduce the cost of raising kids.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
- Comment on Column | No time to read? Google’s new AI will turn anything into a podcast 5 months ago:
Guarantee someone’s going to generate a bubbly podcast of Mein Kampf or Project 2025.
