boelboel

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by boelboel 8mo ago
Collecting watches isn't a hobby, it's pure consumerism. Sure many hobbies have (recently?) gotten way more people spending top dollars for no reason but with watch collecting there's nothing else. You're not tweaking th
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by boelboel 8mo ago
This is what happens to your country when you don't really care about public services (in many cases they're looked down upon, just look at teachers, federal workers but also police). There's difficulty recruiting and retaini
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by boelboel 8mo ago
Police just aren't doing their job in the US, who even knows what they're doing at this point. Basically no country had the post-covid driver issue as much as America. Some states basically halved fines lol, make them do their job
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by boelboel 8mo ago
3D printing has a CAGR of 18-25%, not exactly 'were craze'
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by boelboel 8mo ago
Reddit has made it impossible to check the history of accounts this past week. They certainly want to make it as difficult as possible to see if someone is 'real'.
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by boelboel 8mo ago
Social security had exceptions for farmworkers as well as domestic workers (which was the majority of black people at the time of creation). GI Bill had far more benefits for white Americans as they used it to join great universities in eme
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by boelboel 8mo ago
A large part of it is originally rooted in racism if you look how the US implemented its welfare state. Many benefits were skewed towards white americans (GI Bill, right to claim land, redlining and social security). I'm sure most Amer
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by boelboel 8mo ago
Most Hollywood production has always been trash. US shows are still very popular and influential. Many countries are just richer post 2000s, subsidize their movie industry and it's way easier to distribute movies internationally compar
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by boelboel 8mo ago
You can get smartphones for 80 dollars (like the moto E15)
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by boelboel 8mo ago
I'm not sure if most of 4chan was actually so on board with the whole gamergate thing and all the things which followed. pre-/pol/ 4chan was a whole different thing. It was outsiders joining 4chan which did most of the postin
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by boelboel 8mo ago
Yes, I feel like it's far less harmful than the other sites for this reason. These bad parts of 4chan aren't the majority of the site either, a large minority maybe, but the site in general is much smaller. Users are also attracte
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by boelboel 9mo ago
SW033291 or MF-300 might be interesting to look out for with spinal function. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/01/260120000333.h...
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by boelboel 9mo ago
I find it a much more conscious choice for high paid immigrants. They can either live closely with their family, with the added bonus they basically live like a 'king' or they can move countries to live relatively wealthy lives in
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by boelboel 9mo ago
The dust will never settle because once people try to regulate they can basically move software engineering in its whole somewhere else. Something great about being active in multiple places is the fact that these companies have leverage. T
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by boelboel 9mo ago
Proper self driving is furthest away from being able to handle these cities as well, don't see these driving in Sicily before 2040. Many of these older people don't even know how to use a smartphone so even a 'perfect solutio
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by boelboel 9mo ago
It's a danger for sure, I think for many the best they can do is limiting their driving as much as possible to 'safe' roads. With elderly driving slowly it's more a problem of ruining their car when they crash than endan
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by boelboel 9mo ago
There's not many taxis in most places, I come from a town of 400 people it'd be a very uneconomical solution. I'm not saying it's great for them to drive, I just doubt there's a way to fix it in these sort of places
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by boelboel 9mo ago
I wouldn't say over 70 year olds, average 70 year old is fine. Problem gets a lot worse at 75 or 80. Most these people don't drive nearly as much as younger people anyway. My grandma is 90 and drives 5 miles to the grocery store,
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by boelboel 9mo ago
4chan doesn't use algorithms to push users to certain boards afaik, makes it better than the others in its design. I'm not arguing 4chan is great but it's not nearly as impactful as Facebook, Twitter or TikTok in creating ext
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by boelboel 9mo ago
4chan has a lot less extremism than people imagine, rspecially compared to platforms like Instagram or Facebook. It's mostly concentrated on certain boards. The reputation of being extremist did more 'in favour' of its extrem
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by boelboel 9mo ago
In elementary school and early high school I liked older teachers more than younger teachers (just on average, I had many great younger teachers as well). I think 40+ years ago teaching in an elementary school and certainly in a high school
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by boelboel 9mo ago
I've seen many people do the latter, I get quite annoyed by it. Worst of all is wondering if I'm affected by it myself, I doubt most people who've gotten an 'LLM writing style' know so themselves. Eventually no spa
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by boelboel 9mo ago
Because it's an attack on 'american culture', I'm not even sure if nerds get bullied that much in school anymore. Often "nerds" are the ones bullying, i say "nerds" because the people getting good gra
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by boelboel 9mo ago
Even a 5% chance you and your partner/kids have to uproot their life is a bigger sacrifice than a 30% wage increase, at least to some people.
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by boelboel 9mo ago
Fire h1b positions, make them leave the US and rehire them back in their home country. They can train their new co-workers. I'm not serious but I'm sure some people on H1B have had similar happen. From a business POV this would be
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by boelboel 9mo ago
Doing this would immediately cause construction to become costlier as well as serious inflation on some other things (food, hotels ...). Americans were already constantly crying about Biden inflation, they can't handle this.
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by boelboel 9mo ago
It's interesting to see how their CEO plays into the whole thing, trying to look paranoid/crazy/brutal/.... It's really just branding/marketing. It's similar to how certain politicians in the US present th
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by boelboel 9mo ago
Many Americans benefit from illegal immigration, it would kill the middle class in many places if illegal immigrants just went away all of a sudden. States like Texas can hardly survive without it, basically all politicians know this.
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by boelboel 9mo ago
Democrats are (or were) considered "right wing" on some stuff and really "left wing" on other stuff. It's really futile trying to compare the political parties with different incentives internationally and putting a
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by boelboel 9mo ago
I think a major part of the difficulty is because kids (and arguably adults even more) are practically forced to use screens for schoolwork. Can't really be without a phone when they need to meet up with friends either. Completely goin

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