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jtrek

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  • How adventurous are you with music?

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  • Mixed. I find new artists I like somewhat frequently, but genre-wise I don't often go that far.

    I don't really relate to "I listen to all kinds of music! A hundred new songs a day!". I find an album I like and spend a couple weeks with it, then find something new. I go into my backlog a lot.

    I buy music (mostly on Bandcamp) so that works for me. Cheaper than a subscription,.and now I have a library.

  • The Small Website Discoverability Crisis

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  • There was someone a while ago who was trying to get a web ring going for like nerd stuff. They said so many of their friends and people they talked to loved the idea, but no one made a site of their own.

    I posted it in a local community group, and everyone said the same thing.

  • me_irl

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  • Google also making search worse so people will use their slop machine instead

  • Toddler Forced Back Into ICE Detention After Nearly Dying

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  • This is infuriating and I don't know what to do about it.

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    Steam is basically a PC gaming monopoly, so why isn’t anyone mad?

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  • The other contenders mostly are bad.

    Drm-free still exists.

    They provide a lot of value without charging the end user very much.

    Microsoft could have done this except they're run by idiots and assholes. Nothing technical stopped them from launching a good store platform. They just didn't want to.

  • US states by total tax burden, combining income, property, and sales taxes into a single measure (2026)

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  • You probably need to also measure what you're getting for those taxes for this to be meaningful. I'd happily pay a lot of taxes for health care, education, mass transit, etc.

  • What in your opinion is the appropriate way to use emojis?

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  • I use them as reactions on platforms that support it. Someone sends a PR and I react with eye emoji for looking at it, checkmark for done, or speech bubble for comments. It takes less space than a full text response. Especially in damned Teams that doesn't have threads in chats, so you can't even group your responses.

    That's pretty much it. I don't use them as punctuation and rarely use them in an actual message

  • Yay humanity

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  • In my experience in New York City, people will generally ignore you, except (usually) when there's a real emergency.

    Someone crying? No big deal. Let them cry.

    Saw a lady trip and fall down the stairs in the subway, and a bunch of people ran over to help her and return the stuff she dropped.

  • The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't

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  • Yep. Infrastructure shouldn't be privately owned.

  • Failed Companies Are Selling Old Slack Chats and Email Archives to Train AI

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  • Yes that is the legal justification. I am not interested in the legal justification. Laws are not inherently good. They were clearly paid less than their worth if there's six figure payouts to be had here.

    This is the fundamental injustice of capitalism. The owner pays you a small amount and keeps all the profits. A child would recognize that as unfair.

  • Overtaking and going fast in urban areas is not only dangerous, but also useless: a mathematical demonstration

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  • This matches my intuition. I extremely rarely do any city driving (I don't even own a car anymore) but like... You're not going to go that much faster. You're probably not driving very far. The total amount of time can't be that big.

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  • I didn't personally find it difficult, but I have thousands of hours in video games.

  • Failed Companies Are Selling Old Slack Chats and Email Archives to Train AI

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  • This feels like theft. Maybe not technically legally but the people who did the chatting aren't getting the money. Capitalist hellscape

  • Erika Kirk event booted off high school campus after backlash from students and parents

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  • Parents raised their own alarms, with several pointing to the political division Kirk's presence would inevitably import onto campus

    Peeve: it's not the division that's the problem. It's the hate and lies.

  • fuck you bill

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  • There's also the class of comments that explain strange business decisions.

    # Product guy said to return January 1st if the user doesn't have a birthday on record

    Kind of arbitrary but someone with decision making power decreed it.

  • No‑one has been prosecuted for wage theft since it became a crime. 2 inquiries want answers

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  • I feel like the penalty for wage theft should be extra severe to make up for how rarely it's reported. Like, complete forfeit of the business to the workers, leadership banned from holding a similar position for life. Then if you only nail one, the others might learn a lesson.

  • Trump admin cancels $11M Catholic Charities contract amid feud with Pope

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  • If we could channel their cognitive dissonance to turn turbines, we'd solve the energy crisis.

  • Fuck

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  • At work, the team isn't very good at python. They're mostly SQL people. Which is fine. I'm happy to mentor and guide.

    The product lady said to me "can you write a guide on confluence about how to do python good?"

    I'm like, people write whole published books about that you gotta pay money for. I'm not going to bang out a couple paragraphs and code blocks and suddenly people are heavy weights.

    I wrote something anyway because I don't want to further irritate the product lady.

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  • Pop!_os has been fine for me. I'm not a tinkerer. It's a machine for a web browser and video games.