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jtrek

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  • Support Builds on the Right for Prosecuting Women Who Get Abortions

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  • "There must be in groups for the law to protect but not bind, and out groups to bind but not protect"

    For certain kinds of people, hierarchy is good and natural. Those people often put women as Lesser. So they feel compelled to do shit like this

  • J.D. Vance’s Dismissal of Watergate Is an Indictment of the Modern GOP

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  • One of many reasons the entire GOP should, at the very least, be barred from ever holding office or working with government again.

  • Single player games

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  • I just don't want to compete with other people. I used to play a lot of quake and team fortress, but it just feels kind of pointless now.

  • It feels like 80% of Americans are just people acting out this meme...

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  • You'll participate whether or not you desire to. Knowledge will better equip you to engage with the world, good and bad, as it is. But it's your choice. I'm not your professor.

  • trains rule

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  • Have you ever been on a train? It sucks, a bus 10000% more, buses fuckin suck so much, I’m sorry for you to hear this in the echo chamber which features ‘fuck cars’.

    Have you?

    Trains and buses, when funded, are fine. Millions of people take them every day.

    I work from home but I used to daily commute by train. Walk to station. Wait a few minutes. Get on. Arrive at destination. I read so many books and finished so many games.

  • Trailer love, trailer life

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  • I was curious so I tried to find average sizes in NYC. The Internet is full of slop and I hate it. anyway, I found

    Average apartment sizes in NYC in 2026:

     
            Studio: 400–550 sq ft (37–51 m²)
    1-bedroom: 600–800 sq ft (56–74 m²)
    2-bedroom: 850–1,100 sq ft (79–102 m²)
    3-bedroom: 1,100–1,500 sq ft (102–139 m²)

    But at least in the city you get a walkable living place with mass transit. Very few goats, however.

  • The GOP and the Corporate Dems Can’t Red-Bait Their Way Out of a Reckoning

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  • Unfortunately, most people who supported Republicans in the past won't learn any real lessons. They'll vote for the same sorts of policies again.

  • It feels like 80% of Americans are just people acting out this meme...

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  • Are you trying to say acclaimed book "Dying of Whiteness" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dying_of_Whiteness ) is invalid because of your personal experiences?

    I'm sorry but there's a large body of evidence that many people in the US are deeply racist. Not always in a "wear a hooded costume" overt way, but in more polite and dressed up to look inoffensive ways as well.

    You can also read the new Jim Crow and "the color of law".

  • trains rule

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  • Do you have the same fear about trains?

  • trains rule

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  • Get rid of privately owned cars and you might be on to something. If the state owned a fleet of self driving cars you could rent at the car library, that would probably be better than everyone having their own car they park somewhere most of the time.

    Building walkable living spaces with mass transit would be better for more people environmentally, economically, health-wise, socially...

  • This week on Windows...

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  • Many people are weirdly helpless about computers. If you've ever tried to help someone with tech, you've probably encountered the

    • "it didn't work"
    • what did it say?
    • I don't know it just didn't work
    • but what did the error message say specifically
    • I didn't read it

    Kind of user.

  • It feels like 80% of Americans are just people acting out this meme...

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  • Recently my lead hypothesis is that many people would rather personally suffer and die if it means that black people have it worse. I read "dying of whiteness" recently, and it's haunting. "It's socialism" is just a coded way of expressing that.

  • World Cup fans frustrated by 'confusing and expensive' tipping culture in US

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  • I tip generously at my local bar and in return they sometimes give me free stuff. Got a whole sandwich recently.

  • Silicon Valley thinks it will dominate global AI, as Google, Microsoft & Meta have done before. The problem? The signs increasingly are that it is not going to turn out that way.

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  • It also kind of sucks for labor, and most people labor.

    Maybe you produce more good stuff and get paid the same. Feels bad.

    More likely you produce more slop infused stuff, and you have the much less enjoyable task of fixing it. Cory doctorow wrote a whole metaphor about that with reverse centaurs.

  • LocalEmu, a free, open-source AWS emulator: run 132 AWS services locally with one pip install

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  • Interesting. We used the free localstack at a previous job and it kind of sucked. Mostly we were trying to do S3, and it made adding a lot of files kind of painful. Looks like this has better support for "I need to load a bunch of files into S3 when I start working".

    Can you map a directory and subfolders to S3 with this, or so you need to make calls to "upload" everything?

  • absolutely everything is meaningless so just do what you want

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  • I remember one time at a party, in my early 30s, some guy pops out "isn't love just a social construct?". Looked at him for a moment and said, "ok, I guess. And so?" but he didn't have anywhere to go with it.

    It was memorable because we were all like whole ass adults, but he still came off as a 13 year old the whole time.

  • Steam Summer Sale 2026 Has Begun

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  • Huh. I did not know this. It might make it a little easier to navigate! It'd still be a lot of options spread out in a weird way, but a filter could help.

  • ‘Cost Me the Election’: Data Centers Trigger Voter Backlash

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  • There's still going to be an opportunity cost. You can build massive renewable sources, but powering a data center with it is a shit use compared to other things.

  • What's the laziest thing you have done?

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  • A friend of mine at least once ordered delivery from the Mexican place that was directly below her apartment. She said the delivery guy was a little confused. She had a lot of depression at the time.