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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's gonna take lots of chain falls and smooshed fingers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It really depends on your situation and on the work you’re doing. If you have a project that you honestly care about that you think is really good then you usually want to see it get done. So you might make the decision to overwork yourself even if you objectively shouldn’t. And bosses love to set that up, so they’ll give you a bunch of annoying crap that you don’t think is valuable. But they make you do it and then you end up having to work later in the evening to get done the stuff that you actually care about. Of course, that’s something that we all need to be very careful about, but in the short run it’s hard to stop.

  And another situation that’s even worse is that you might lose your job. Sometimes telling the boss no means that you will be unemployed and if you need to make that money to pay the bills then you might be f*****.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oracle fired up to 30,000 workers via email after a 95% profit surge. Tech companies are cutting almost 1,000 jobs/day⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Can you imagine if tech workers decided they might want to unionize? That would be an exciting day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When if ever did "Throw Money at The Problem:" actually work? Instead of being about 75 percent useless?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Finding employees.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you fight abandonment issues when people keep abandoning you⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not asking for details, but first you said the issues were nasty and then you said they were fixable. That’s a sharp contrast. Regardless, once one person checks out, the potential doesn’t matter any more.

  Another thing, perhaps more importantly, is that your worth is not derived from your partner. If it were, all the single people would be worthless, and we aren’t. But you might have grown up being fed that value, that you have to get married or whatever, and if you don’t then somehow you messed up, or some bullshit like that. It takes time to let that kind of bullshit value go.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is cryptocurrency good for anything?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In the distant past I used to pay for my phone bill with Bitcoin that I earned through various side jobs. That ended up being convenient because my VOIP company was based in a different country as were the side jobs. But later the transaction costs for Bitcoin rose and it didn’t make sense.

  You wrote that money is money because everyone agrees it’s valuable. But if I go to a pizza place in New York City and try to pay in Thai baht, they probably won’t take it. Therefore, it’s not money… But of course it’s money. It’s just not the right kind of money for that place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would you actually tax the ultra wealthy?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s actually more complicated than you think. Here’s the starting point of the complexity. When do you tax someone’s investment earnings? When do you tax someone’s business? When do you tax someone’s income from abroad? If they live part of their life abroad, how much of their income does your country tax? … If you think the above have simple answers, then you don’t understand the actual situations that people are living.

  It’s great to say that a flat tax is simple and it will work but in reality actually it’s not simple at all because there are always ways to gain the system and you have to find those and keep working on fixing them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Android: sideloading blocked and open source updates withheld to twice a year⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well no. They said “technically there might be a way to sideload, but only if you jump through incredible hoops like doing it all by USB on your computer or some ridiculous thing, and you definitely won’t be using F-Droid, hell no you won’t.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should this be the year we finally try voting for other candidates?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  First of all, it’s not wishful thinking. Second of all, many of us have been doing this for decades. And most importantly, if you only try to express power through your vote, then that will definitely not be good enough for real change. It’s incredibly important that you get out there and do other things at other times, however you reasonably can given your situation in life.

  There’s an old saying that everyone is equal on election day. Actually that’s not true because of gerrymandering and the Electoral College and disenfranchisement. But even if it were true, then everyone would not be equal the other 364 days of the year. Or non-election years. So don’t rely on voting to solve problems, but do it anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pam Bondi Suggests Culver City Has a Crime Problem. Culver City Has a Problem With That.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The Times is so bad. Why not … uh … Go look at the crime rate and tell is which is true? That would be real journalism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And the garbage takes itself out, marvelous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Japan cancels cherry blossom festival over complaints of tourists littering and ‘defecating’ in yards⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Look, the story is full of deceit. If crimes were committed, they would have called the cops, right? Or posted pictures and video. Of course they would have … unless the perpetrators were rich Japanese folk. This is common sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The way to do that now is to send them abroad to disappear or die. That’s the deflection. Otherwise there are dead bodies in the US and state murder charges with no statute of limitations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Basically you don’t understand. Investors sell when they think the companies will fuck shit up. That could be because they think the product is obsolete, or it could be that they think manglement is going to do dumb shit. Take your pick. Remember, it’s gambling about the future, not about what’s right or reasonable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some car lovers oppose bike infrastructure, when more bikes would mean fewer cars on the road?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s an easy fix. Just jack up annual registration or taxes, but only for large trucks and SUVs, to $10K a year. Problem solved… Or make it a scale based on engine size, or total car width/length/height, whatever. It’s so easy to regulate… And in fact the US used to regulate large vehicles more strictly, so we already know that it can be done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some car lovers oppose bike infrastructure, when more bikes would mean fewer cars on the road?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you ride in a town or city a lot, you know one big piece of the answer: jealousy.

  If there are more cyclists, you’ll see them more often riding by you at red lights and lines of cars at stop signs. Drivers hate this; it reminds them that sometimes cars are slow, and they love their cars, so they get angry.

  If there are more cyclists, drivers will have to be careful not to hit them, and being careful is annoying. Right now, depending where you live, the driver can say “almost no cyclists are out here, so I wasn’t expecting them, they need to be more careful”. And the drivers believe it, and their friends do, too. But more cyclists around would make those excuses look like the BS they actually are.

  And related to the second point is that, if cyclists increase in number, they will demand (and get) more bike lanes and protected areas to ride and park. This will absolutely come at drivers’ expenses. Drivers know this. So even though fewer cars would decrease congestion, drivers know that they would be inconvenienced in other ways, and that would again remind them that they aren’t as important as they want to be.

  Finally, in the US specifically, large SUVs and trucks are causing massive increases in dead pedestrians, children, and cyclists. The increased death rate over the last ten years is appallingly high. If cycling is normalized even more, clearly political opinion will shift, and those giant vehicles will be heavily restricted or taxed, or their insurance rates will skyrocket, or drivers will be charged more frequently with manslaughter for the death that they cause every day. People are reasonably afraid that their unreasonably large vehicles will be taken away from them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon goes to therapy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh my friend, stereotyping is kinda ridiculous. You have no idea what other people know unless you talk to them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Israelis demonised as a ‘vehicle for hatred of Jews’, says UK terror laws watchdog⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s weird to watch the news from the UK. People protest the deaths of innocent folk, including huge numbers of children in Palestine, and they’re accused of being anti-Jewish or pro-terrorist. And that’s not to say racist jerks don’t exist because they are out there in large numbers. But it’s fairly clear watching a protest what the protesters are opposing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Parents... Huh...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am curious what they meant by “emotionally scarred”. Like, reality can be harsh, and learning that leaves an impression, but that doesn’t mean that the process was messed up, although it could have been.

  Awkward is not bad, not always. It depends on the details.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can pets tell who's petting them without looking?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And their hearing is good. They know who you are by how you walk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the difference between an American liberal and a liberal outside the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It all depends who you ask. There are no fixed definitions, not globally. That’s why policies are important points for grounding.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Never attribute to capitalism that which is adequately explained by stupidity.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And the original expression was wrong, too. Ignorance is real, but so are malice, greed, jealousy, hate, etc. Sometimes someone does something shitty and our instincts said they meant it and we’re right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The first point, more than anything else, is to use the word “we” when you actually mean it. If you can’t do that, you can’t handle a complicated societal situation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why aren't tall people also wider?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There is interesting physics in this, because you can look at height and say “double it” but our bones are three dimensional. So, what exactly are we doubling? Our height and girth? But then what about our weight? Our intuition doesn’t quite tell us these things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A swing and a miss⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why isn’t "Democrats would never get away with this" seen as a problem for the left?”⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think if you look at specific examples you’ll learn more. Who is getting away with what?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We’re All So F’d | NVIDIA x Palantir, Global Surveillance, "Pre-Crime" Arrests, & AI [GNCA - GamersNexus Consumer]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We. Who is we? Most of the world is not fucked. :-)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Linux user here. I want to read dramatic complaints. Any kind, if it’s dramatic. Or write a boring one and I’ll move on. Starting a flame war for complaint style is boring. Better topics for flame wars exist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search It⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If he had received a valid court order to not delete anything on his phone, then doing so could put him in legal trouble. So what you said is not true in general. But most of the time, for almost everyone, almost all of the time, then, yes, it’s okay to wipe your phone… And because the article did not mention a court order, we can be sure that there wasn’t one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We can play that game too⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I love the “but I don’t use that so I shouldn’t pay for it” argument. Like come on, my dude, that’s what a society is about. If you don’t want to live in society, move to Siberia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can posts like this actually be real?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Doubtful. Rare situations exist, of course, but this post has no real objective, so best to assume it’s fake.