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by BLKNSLVR 5mo ago
This is just a thought bubble, but it makes a certain amount of sense as to why the current administration is so dead-against DEI initiatives. Whilst they say it's about merit (and we all know it's not - just look at almost all of
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by BLKNSLVR 5mo ago
I enjoy doing home-lab project work at home because I have to plan things out and concentrate on a single problem for a contiguous string of time, and at the end I feel a sense of achievement in reaching, or getting closer to, the goal. At
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by BLKNSLVR 5mo ago
Is SpaceX going to eat Tesla? As in, are a bunch of Tesla investors going to be migrating across to SpaceX since that seems to be getting more of Elon's attention these days, especially with xAI barnacled onto the side of it? The money
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by BLKNSLVR 5mo ago
Does that mean it's illegal, or that they'll just come knocking to investigate? I wonder if the "it's my money, I can withdraw it if I want" argument is good enough to send them on their way? (in addition to $1,00
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by BLKNSLVR 5mo ago
I feel like buying the book just to stick it to Meta.
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by BLKNSLVR 5mo ago
The purpose of chat bots is profit (which could well be argued to help a select few people). Alternative take: The purpose of "thing" is "what it is used for", which is a crude variation of "the purpose of a system
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by BLKNSLVR 5mo ago
heavy metal music, television, radio, Harry Potter books, females not covered in clothing head to toe, the lack of a good Christian upbringing, rap music, the banning of corporal punishment, being made aware of the existence of homosexualit
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by BLKNSLVR 5mo ago
I'm 150 pages away from the end of my current book. At which point House of Leaves shall become my current book. I'm looking forward to the experience.
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by BLKNSLVR 5mo ago
Your first sentence is 45 words and contains 9 commas. > I don't know if it was written that way to show trust in the reader's intelligence, show disregard for reaching a wide audience, show a demonstration of skill, or was art
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by BLKNSLVR 5mo ago
I'd hazard a guess that the 'former selves' is a rose-coloured-glasses, nostalgia-induced feeling. It's just that people are more aware / less trusting these days.
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by BLKNSLVR 5mo ago
Ernst & Young again proving they're leading in the race to the bottom. Why would anyone trust these large contractor companies enough to pay them the huge amounts of money to have juniors learning the ropes on their dime? "Cus
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by BLKNSLVR 5mo ago
> Even Meta I thought Meta had been leading this charge for a decade if not longer. Need a separate burner-style device for Internet browsing these days (these days meaning the last 15-odd years). What software systems allow for 'fr
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by BLKNSLVR 5mo ago
> I think the atheist and those of spiritual ascent may both agree that “universal potential” and “Godhead” may be synonymous, and find some common ground. Sounds like a recruitment pamphlet to me. "Be a decent human being" has
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by BLKNSLVR 5mo ago
Your parents accidentally did a good job!
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by BLKNSLVR 5mo ago
The whole 'agnostic' versus 'atheist' thing is interesting, and to some extent feels like a way to reduce atheism. The semantic game of 'I don't believe in god' versus 'I believe there is no god'
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by BLKNSLVR 5mo ago
I wasn't brought up in an overtly religious household, although I went to Sunday School for a short while. Christianity, and / or the stories I was told via either Sunday School or other interactions with religious folks, never ma
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by BLKNSLVR 5mo ago
It also wants all three of wifi, Bluetooth, and location on, otherwise it provides a reminder that you have them switched off - even though it works just with wifi on.
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by BLKNSLVR 5mo ago
I believe by that logic then the whole world is China.
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by BLKNSLVR 5mo ago
"A large amount of wealth is consistently and regularly extracted from Louisiana"
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by BLKNSLVR 5mo ago
And a Clorox wipes container to lean the screen (phone) up against.
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by BLKNSLVR 5mo ago
There was the Reddit Exodus of 2023 and there seems to be a fair few new accounts posting recently, which feels like an Attempted Agentic Takeover.
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by BLKNSLVR 5mo ago
My non-heavily-researched understanding is that people who make their entire, or a majority of, their annual 'earnings' from capital gains may not be all that poor. There's a whole spectrum of examples that can be used to dem
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by BLKNSLVR 5mo ago
Recently re-watched Watchmen: "A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles." - Dr. Manhattan (who almost entirely lost touch with humanity)
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by BLKNSLVR 5mo ago
My understanding is that the difference is in the Capital Gains Tax, which doesn't apply to the day-to-day running of the business or its profitability or the salaries it pays. Again, my understanding is that the (only) difference is w
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by BLKNSLVR 5mo ago
Well done, good planning, good self-discipline! I'm in a similar boat, and can relate to the on-going management and suppression of lifestyle creep in order to reach worthwhile goals. It feels like a never-ending battle, even after 20
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by BLKNSLVR 5mo ago
OK, just seems weird from my cultural experience, and the way I was reading your comment it sounded 'entitled' (likely due to the cultural difference). Describing it as "pretty good value" bothers me in a number of conte
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by BLKNSLVR 5mo ago
> And if I were ever have to have kids, you can’t hire a maid here sleeping at your apartment and you have to clean yourself which is ridiculous. Not sure if serious. If serious: This is a really weird and almost sociopathic thing to say
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by BLKNSLVR 5mo ago
You're breaking my heart. To pay $89,000 in taxes you'd have to be earning in the range of $350k. Do you think you're hard done by? I'd be rather annoyed if you were eligible for family support allowance in that earning
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by BLKNSLVR 5mo ago
My limited-research understanding is that there shouldn't be a difference between capital gains from housing versus shares, otherwise it's 'picking winners' or encouraging investment in specific directions. Having said t
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by BLKNSLVR 5mo ago
Tax changes that have been overdue for twenty-odd years to address house prices and attempt to level the playing field between labour and capital. Pity they didn't also change the gas tax.

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