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jtrek

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  • Self sacrifice is honorable

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  • You could probably make it look like an accident. "I guess the LLM was having trouble reaching my account after I was deleted, so it posted everything to pastebin so I could see it there"

    Still risky and a funnier fantasy than good idea.

  • The U.S. campaigned to host the World Cup. Now soccer fans will trade their countries' train system for the U.S.'s 'D' rated infrastructure | Fortune

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  • What I cannot understand is how so many of my fellow Americans actually like it this way.

    Racism.

    Many Americans would rather die than have black people have nice things. If you build a good bus system, black people will use it. They won't suffer for being "lesser" like they "deserve".

    That's it. Conservatism demands out groups to punch down at.

  • Storied New York food co-op votes to boycott Israeli products after contentious campaign

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  • I know someone who's a member there and some of the pro-israel people are ... A lot.

    I'm glad they're boycotting.

  • Clues by Sam 2026-05-27

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  • Made the mistake of counting someone as their own neighbor :(

    Nine minutes, too. Not my fastest!

  • Pull those bootstraps a little harder.

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  • If they are using the "unvested" assets for something, like getting a loan with them as collateral, then we should treat it as if they realized the gain.

    If you use stock as collateral to get s $1mm loan, that should be treated as income.

    If they then sell the stock and get taxed again.... I don't think I really care.

  • Removed

    Can I become a writer when this is the quality of my writing? Please be honest.

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  • Read more books. Read different kinds of books. Not slop on the Internet.

    This prose you've posted feels a bit purple and forced. I personally find all the comma separated clauses excessive, but some styles do that.

    Are you still in school? Take creative writing courses. They're fun and you get feedback from peers and the (hopefully) professional teacher.

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  • I work from home. The systemic incompetence of this multinational fortune 500 company means I can do a lot of reading and no one seems to notice.

    Of course, management is planning to fire a lot of people, including me, to pivot to AI.

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  • Zitron's point that management are stupid is really important. They don't know what they're talking about. They don't do any work!

    You laugh, but this is genuinely how the majority of managers and executives think and act, and now they have a special chatbot that can fart out functional-enough prototypes to convince a Business Idiot they can do anything, because executives and managers do not regularly do much work. As a result, they have little idea what work looks like other than when they look over your shoulder, which is why they wanted you back in the office, and their distance from production is why the same people who were anti-remote work are now aggressively trying to shove AI down your throat.

    We are ruled by the worst fucking people.

  • The Boring Internet | Terry Godier

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  • Feels like most people here will agree with it, but the average person vegging out on instatok is harder to reach.

  • How Phoenix’s ‘Invisible’ Parking Lots Are Making Its Heat Problems Worse

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  • “They haven’t yet taken that step to say, we’ve been wrong for the last century,” King told me. “Which I think is a critical thing that the cities have to do.”

    Key point. This is a problem decades in the making and won't be fixed overnight. The transition will be uncomfortable.

    “There’s a lot of people who don’t like to accept the truth when it implicates them in the system,” King told me. “If parking is the problem, then I have to drive less. Maybe I’m the bad guy.”

    This pattern affects much of humanity's problems. People don't want to admit they're imperfect. Easier to deny the outside world than feel uncomfortable.

  • New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani has collected $9m (£6.6m) in unpaid fines from Amazon, which has been violating clean air regulations by leaving engines running on its parked vehicles

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  • Good. Fuck amazon. Fine them harder.

  • Let's get ready to rumble!

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  • I don't pay them shit, but I see your point.

  • "People want MMOs, and the sales of New World proved it" – Cryptic Studios head Jack Emmert on why MMOs are ripe for reinvention

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  • Guild Wars 2 is the only MMO that doesn't aggravate me.

    • Feels like a real video game. You can dodge and stuff.
    • Other players can only help. No "kill stealing"
    • Other players are frictionless. They show up, do whatever, leave. No need to make a formal party
    • Level cap doesn't go up. No need to chase stats forever.

    You do have to buy the expansions, but the core game is free now.

  • Medford, Oregon is ripping out a protected bike lane to make room for 40 parking spaces. Because who cares about the safety of bike riders when the convenience of drivers is at stake?

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  • Many people only learn when something bad happens to them. Poor empathy and primitive moral reasoning.

  • ICE agents pepper spray protesters, N.J. senator in clash outside Delaney Hall in Newark

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  • “I tried to find a way through this that was going to be able to have this happen non-violently,” Kim told NJ.com.

    I don't think ICE is going to go away without violence.

  • The circle of life

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  • We should unionize and eat the useless managers.

  • The rich convinced us that taxing them is too complicated but everyday people can be taxed pretty easily

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  • It depends on the details of the implementation. There are many possible solutions.

    If we change it so the rule is like "if you use stock as collateral to get a loan, that is income and taxed as such" then no. You might just default on your loan, but that's kind of on you and the bank for using a volatile asset as collateral.

  • I’m driving less. I don’t want to see the world through a driver’s eyes any more

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  • Walking is great. There's so much stuff to see and interact with. It's better for businesses, too. Jacobs had this figured out in like the 1960s.

    Good article.

  • 61% of Americans Said They Had to Cut Back on Groceries

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  • I used to buy a lot more. The combination of getting laid off and only finding a shit job that pays shit (thanks AI) and inflation are the big factors.

    Capitalists can go fuck themselves. If they want people to buy they need to pay us.