astroid

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by astroid 2y ago
I am a Sr. Sys Admin, but I solved this with one simple trick: I requested 4 x 10 hour days, and I work about 32 actual hours. I am meeting all my targets so it's fine. Easy-peasy.
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by astroid 2y ago
"it sounds like price gouging to me. The venue is more than doubling its price and charging you $14 for a can of beer. How is this Biden's fault, of all things? Anyway, I'm relatively cheap so I always pay attention to prices
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by astroid 2y ago
Update: In an interesting twist "American Indians" showed 65% support for Trump! That kind of damages the 'muh racist' narrative too. Oh and 'Latino's are exceeding the 45% projection at least a bit, so even cl
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by astroid 2y ago
Drink = Canned Beer @ one of the countries best music venues outside a major metro area. I'm not going to be posting more details regarding my location on a public forum however. "I don't spend anywhere close to double what I
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by astroid 2y ago
Blacks: 1)Got the platinum plan which provided half a trillion dollars to black communities 2) He also was very involved in the 'first step' act, helping address 'over-incarceration'. 3) He secured funding for HBCU via t
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by astroid 2y ago
"The only real way to bring down housing prices is to drastically increase the housing supply and find a way to prevent companies like Blackrock from snapping them up and leaving them empty to keep rental prices high" This is exac
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by astroid 2y ago
Trump can absolutely reign things in, I don't think anyone thinks he can snap his fingers and 'fix' something broken this badly. But yeah, he 100% can take a different direction than the administration that printed more USD t
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by astroid 2y ago
The economy is approaching great depression levels of 'bad' - and plenty of things have inflated 100% or more, 20% is more like the general 'average'. And plenty of those things are critical items, like laundry detergen
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by astroid 2y ago
The thing is, when you "talk down" to people, chances are pretty good those people's best interested aren't being represented by the one doing the down-talking. However, if you "talk to" them, you are in a much
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by astroid 2y ago
"you tend to see people as your mental model of how they used to be" Pot? Meet Kettle. I worked in an advanced Alzheimer's ward for about 4 years when I was younger. There is a look that happens in the eyes which is a sure-
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by astroid 2y ago
This post is a wonderful microcosm of why everyone is so divided and tribal now. Here we have someone sharing a real world example of out of control inflation, which is true across all groceries no one grounded in reality would deny that. R
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by astroid 2y ago
I think a lot of people are probably not exactly thrilled about the 'extra' provisions for "first generation home buyers" (meaning the parents didn't own one). In the current political climate, with the current bord
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by astroid 2y ago
Not even 3 or 4 months ago, I would have expected the responses to this message to all be 'yassss queen slay', despite the glaring fact that the 'bi-partison' bill just enshrined the current democrat-party policy into la
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by astroid 2y ago
So, no I won't read it ;)
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by astroid 2y ago
Auto-Play warning there is some slow boring jazz music that will make anyone sane close the tab immediately.
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by astroid 2y ago
Yes - I just tested on Win10+11 because I thought "there is no way I didn't accidentally do something like this on accident... and I would have remembered seeing a new line in my file name when I made that mistake." I just op
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by astroid 2y ago
Thanks, I just found this example and I will definitely be tring this out: https://prototypr.io/post/cursor-composer-cmdi (Not my site or any affiliation, but I guy uses Curser Composer to build a DuoLingo clone prett
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by astroid 2y ago
Absolutely. Also whether or not he is a hypocrite is up in the air - the post you responded to certainly didn't make that case with any merit (despite implying it). David Gilmour's point is correct, and the other users is assumin
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by astroid 2y ago
This is the last thing I am going to say to you, after twice now I have told you I am done with this conversation. There is absolutely nothing further to discuss between us, but I want to make this point abundantly clear for anyone who is
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by astroid 2y ago
Maybe stop cyber-stalking me if you don't like what I have to say?
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by astroid 2y ago
"You say X is good or bad, my response is provd it. You say X is meaningful, I have the same response." - No I didn't. Your bias is showing again. "Are you referring to FEMA? Since there is at least one cajun navy style
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by astroid 2y ago
There is plenty of blame to go around, and Congress is certainly at the top of that list. It's a pretty long list though. Zero sum or not, the attitude you have about budget discussions is why we are about to print ourselves into a de
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by astroid 2y ago
Oh wow quite the own. You really did something there. Do you mind demonstrating how you can unpackage the device and connect straight to the internet without going through the activation hurdles? If not, this is the most irrelevant piece of
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by astroid 2y ago
Asteroid stated earlier: "At worse this is nice gesture " I mostly wanted to correct that to say at worse it is a non gesture. Somewhat helping a couple hundred people out of a million plus, is not quite the "nice" gestu
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by astroid 2y ago
"Most of this tho, really, is what we do all the time with other types of animals (minus the hitech cloning aspect)." No, it's really not. The cloning aspect is the least concerning bit. You just handwaved away everything h
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by astroid 2y ago
He very clearly conspired to actively break the most serious wildlife protection law available, in a conspiracy that spanned over 10 years, in a position which he absolutely would have known he was breaking those laws. He surreptitiously an
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by astroid 2y ago
Hard to say, given I just found out about this situation. I think it's higher than $20 for sure, but probably less than half than a billion. I think a more in depth analysis of the circumstances that led to the need to spend that mon
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by astroid 2y ago
So there isn't a magic number? Any criticism of spending at all is the same as criticizing a single dollar? Got it. So we mustn't criticize policies and spending vel0city agrees with. I'll add that to the rulebook to make s
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by astroid 2y ago
Eh, I'm being a tad facetious here. But at the end of the day it's true: When things are going bad for people in general, you will see an uptick in articles actively promoting anti-social behavior and lifestyle choices. You wil
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by astroid 2y ago
I think the people in Tennessee, North Carolina, Maui, East Palestine, and every other botched emergency the last 5+ years would have been pretty happy to quibble about a 'paltry' 640 Million. Also it's not as if this is the

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