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by blaser-waffle 5y ago
In the 2020s if you do not pander as hard as possible then you are a fascist
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by blaser-waffle 5y ago
Where was this diner? I bartended in high-end bars in the DC area -- some of the richest counties in America -- and pulled ~50-55k. These were VIPs with bottle serivce, etc. Big nights like New Year's Eve could see me walking out wit
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by blaser-waffle 5y ago
> vexatious litigants If it's happening only on one or two campuses, perhaps. But these aren't new trends and have popped up all over the US.
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by blaser-waffle 5y ago
I've given very long presentations to VPs about the same thing you summed up in one sentence. Well done. I may steal that for future presentations...
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by blaser-waffle 5y ago
> Russia has the #4 longest coastline of any country with access to many seas. Yeah but most of those are frozen for some / most / vast majority of the year. Russia getting warm water ports has been the source of many conflict
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by blaser-waffle 5y ago
> Be careful with thinking that deep work, expanding your mind, culture, emotional and spiritual literacy, philosophical, psychological and political understanding will make you better. After watching my friends go to Peru to trip balls
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by blaser-waffle 5y ago
The tech is fine. They want money, either by cutting corners, removing any / all risk, or data mining the hell out of anything they can.
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by blaser-waffle 5y ago
Cooking and food service is near universal in human society and is a hard job that often pays absolute garbage while working people very hard. Yet another "they're so vulnerable, let's re-order society" push that throws
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by blaser-waffle 5y ago
Great book. My friend is Thai and said he (Bagciaglupi) couldn't speak the language to save his life, but otherwise liked the book.
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by blaser-waffle 5y ago
> Chan manifestos are the only thing that might qualify. Plenty of other punk types. Train hopping crusty punk types come to mind. Moxie Marlinspike has a few great stories about hanging with that crowd.
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by blaser-waffle 5y ago
> "The Nazis are evil" is also an overused trope and is hardly radical but by reusing it it helps protect us on a civilizational level from actual nazis. Hows that working out? Cuz it doesn't look like it's doing muc
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by blaser-waffle 5y ago
Those tweets didn't give me any clarification as to "why?".
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by blaser-waffle 5y ago
> So HN, what has your experience been with depression? Have you tried the drugs? What worked or didn't? Have you been able to triumph without chemical assistance and what did that look like? Is my utter terror of these drugs warran
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by blaser-waffle 5y ago
9 mill CAD in 10 years or 6 years in prison. 6 years ain't easy, but even at F500 STEM pay I couldn't do 9 mil in 10 years. I'd just bite the bullet and do the nickle + extra.
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by blaser-waffle 5y ago
I always got the vibe that Harlan was giggling, but in a malicious, "screw you" sort of way.
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by blaser-waffle 5y ago
A decent article. I think the MIT "Missing Semester" does a good job of articulating this stuff, and is quite thorough: https://missing.csail.mit.edu/
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by blaser-waffle 5y ago
India is far too fractured and chaotic to really bat at the same level as the US or China. They will (probably)get there, but they're not at the big leagues just yet. Russia was thought to maybe be at that level, but the war is showing
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by blaser-waffle 5y ago
If they're not Americans then how are they voting?
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by blaser-waffle 5y ago
The Russians have 3 words for truth, like small lies for the sake of getting out of awkward situations, big lies for strategic reasons, and the absolute, real, actual truth. A lot of those "bless your hearts" & "thoughts
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by blaser-waffle 5y ago
One of the kickers that my ex was clinically depressed was her inability to make small talk with strangers or summon the energy to interact with anyone outside of predefined activities / roles. Small talk bullshit like that ain't
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by blaser-waffle 5y ago
> As a non-military guy, this is what I've always found really nuts about military institutions. In normal life, people do an extraordinary array of difficult and uncomfortable things, and generally learn a whole lot for specific ro
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by blaser-waffle 5y ago
But on the plus side the crayons are delicious
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by blaser-waffle 5y ago
Plenty of options. Any sort of intel field, lots of technical or mechanic fields -- some of them like fixing F-18 radars, are serious door openers; even diesel mechanics can do well as a civilian -- and plenty of less shooty roles, like de
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by blaser-waffle 5y ago
> If I could go back and do it again, I'd definitely choose Air Force Aye, I hear that. Mixed experience, overall. I did signals intelligence stuff in the USMC and if I'd have to do it again I'd go back and be blue-water
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by blaser-waffle 5y ago
> I haven't read Gibson's work specifically (though I'd like to), but I always got the sense that humanization and dehumanization were the primary themes of cyberpunk and the dystopian world created by corporations was one
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by blaser-waffle 5y ago
Tik Tok is Chinese -- and was raged against by Trump for that reason -- and would constitute picking a fight with the CCP. That's a big ole can of worms to open up while running other big-deal sanctions and playing the brinkmanship ga
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by blaser-waffle 5y ago
dnf is what replaced yum, and it's alright. yum is still aliased on most fedora / rhel systems so you can put Fedora 35 on a drive and run yum update -y and it'll kick off the associated dnf process.
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by blaser-waffle 5y ago
Aye, the open AMD graphics drivers are pretty good. Nouveau will get there, one hopes...
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by blaser-waffle 5y ago
You get what you pay for, but at the price Fiverr has always worked well
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by blaser-waffle 5y ago
What company is this? I'm job hunting and want to know who to avoid...

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