aaronbaugher

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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
Immigration and guest worker programs aren't the only reason, but they're a big reason. It's been happening since the 90s, when the neo-conservative Bush Republicans and the Clinton "It's the economy, stupid" D
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
There's a town near me that has a population of 1100 and a nice small library. And there's state-wide interlibrary loan, so small-town libraries can get you anything the bigger ones have.
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
I've found that they struggle with understanding time and dates, and are sometimes weird about numbers. I asked Grok to guess the likelihood of something happening, and it gave me percentages for that day, the next day, the next week,
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
I'll bet kitchen tools are big on this. How many people buy a specialized appliance like a bread maker and then use it once or never at all? If you don't use something regularly, it's easy for it to end up tucked away in a ca
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
It's funny how many people still think sloppy, mistake-filled writing is a sign of AI, as if their writing is at the same level as the image generators giving people six fingers, when the truth is the current LLMs use better English gr
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
Yeah, it's not a significant amount of land. But it does seem like these companies prefer to take quality farmland instead of unused land. There's something similar happening near my town, where a company wants to put a big solar
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
In my Midwestern US town, there are still lots of third spaces. The mall, bars, bowling alleys, an arcade, and even some new things like a trampoline place. People just aren't using them nearly as much, to the point that the mall is a
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
It kind of surprises me that they never confuse "it's" and "its" and common mistakes like that, when it seems like most human writers today swap them randomly. I suppose that's thanks to a lot of the text in th
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
Legacy media's audience is shrinking so fast they're reduced to clickbait farming at this point. They're going to get even more shrill and bombastic as they fight for enough attention to keep getting paid.
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Yeah, the idea that you have to buy anything from Amazon is puzzling to me. I sometimes look things up on Amazon to see the reviews, but then I buy from Ebay, if I'm not able to shop for it locally. But I know people who act like the
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
A convenience store might like having the customers hanging around for 10 minutes instead of 5, but not for the 30+ minutes that the Internet tells me it takes even at a Level 3 charging station. That would probably mean spending a bunch of
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
Acidic foods went in glass containers. I have old books on food preservation, and they talk about which foods can't be stored in metal cans, which must be pickled (or later pressure canned) to prevent botulism, and so on. There used to
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
That's exactly what my climatist friends tell me when the weather is nice, and they're correct. Climate change, as described by the scientists, is not about day-to-day, or even year-to-year, weather patterns. But when the weather
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
On forums where women talk about attractive male actors, there's a heavy emphasis on shoulders and arms. It's definitely a thing. That's not to say they don't care about the face or other features, but those don't g
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
I remember discovering Beavis and Butthead in the 90s and showing it to my parents, and their being more confused than offended by the short (for the time) and scattered 15-minute episodes. I'm pretty sure if you went back 50 years and
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
In my working class rural area, if you see a man on a bike, and he's not dressed like Lance Armstrong, it means he lost his license to a DUI.
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
History, especially the industrial age, says that attitude leads to a race to the bottom. There's always someone who's willing to work for a little less, in a little shittier conditions, to pack a few more family members into a sh
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
Meh. I'll agree that chatbots shouldn't be allowed to claim they have credentials, like anyone else. But a lot of therapists do nothing except sit there and listen to you, tell you what you want to hear, give some standard advice
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
It also has a lot more competition in the Evil Big Tech Co space than it used to.
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
That's exactly how it is for me. If I can visualize the whole task from start to finish, it's generally easy to go ahead and knock it out. If there's a part I'm unsure of, I can put it off forever. That's also true
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
Yeah, the labor cost of food has been a blip for a long time. The claims that grocery bills would triple if we paid Americans enough to work the fields are just agitprop from Big Ag processors. In reality the bump would range from something
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
No, most people have never found themselves staring at a pile of unpaid bills and collection notices, while knowing there's work they should be doing that would pay those bills...and feeling physically and mentally incapable of startin
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
I'm going to try that too. An ongoing todo list just starts to slip from my mind. I have a whiteboard in my kitchen, where I figured I'd write tasks I needed to do and erase them off when I finished them, so it'd be a continu
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
That's the funny thing, I'm not out of the loop. When friends bring up current issues that matter, I'm generally better informed than they are, but I'm clueless if they bring up the latest controversial TV show or whatev
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
I remember thinking it couldn't be true when the local schools first put in soda machines. Yes, banning the sale of soda and junk food in taxpayer-funded schools is an obvious, easy way to improve health. It would get major pushback fr
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
My girlfriend says she doesn't trust the media, but she has to follow it to know what they're lying to us about. I've pointed out that the problem goes deeper than just whether they tell truth or lies. They don't just te
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
My first comments may have sounded pessimistic, but I do think you've found a couple interesting ideas that I haven't seen before, in making individual notes for your daily habits and throwing the crumpled notes in a jar. I have a
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Yep. Right now I'm trying to start an instructional video series. I know that I need to break it down into tasks and sub-tasks, and I've done that. So I could go pick a sub-task off the list, like "design a thumbnail image,&q
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
Nothing helps me procrastinate like trying out a new trick, a new tool, a new list-making method, etc. I've killed time on dozens of different solutions, and some of them were pretty good at getting me to focus and work hard on impleme
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by aaronbaugher 1y ago
The dodge is that the real experts always admitted the shots wouldn't prevent transmission; it was just the talking heads and media who said it would, and that's where most people get their information. So now, years later when pe

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