cool_man_bob

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by cool_man_bob 1y ago
> More like, matured into white collar crime. Honestly this is the first “advanced” mafia scheme I’ve heard of in a while. Last time I heard about a mafia crime it was a very sloppy hit that sounded more like what you hear from teenagers
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by cool_man_bob 1y ago
Unfortunately the company has a big war chest, and I have a small war chest, and was priced out of court through legal shenanigans and delays the corporations lawyers could afford. Just bring back fucking pistol deals. I have a better chanc
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by cool_man_bob 1y ago
> For the other half the country, we really don't want to Federal laws to be decided by people in other states that don't share the same values. Funny people can look at Arabs or Indians and identify “these people have a diamet
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by cool_man_bob 1y ago
They’re both obsolete?
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by cool_man_bob 1y ago
Effective at what? No one is facing any consequences anyway.
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by cool_man_bob 1y ago
I’m very confused. Rural voters can connect with a dynastic NYC real estate developer, but Vance at least has origins much closer to typical Americans. Is it just media nostalgia? Trump was on the TV shows they liked and so they trust him m
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by cool_man_bob 1y ago
Didn’t he donate to the wrong guy?
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by cool_man_bob 1y ago
> Setting themselves up to reap the whirlwind. Reap what? The second your side gets power again, your politicians will tuck their tails between their legs and let them off with a light scolding.
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by cool_man_bob 1y ago
They’re far too embedded politically to ever face consequence too. I hope someday we can get a serious anti-corruption candidate.
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by cool_man_bob 1y ago
It makes sense. I can’t speak for the AI/ML field, but a lot of the software jobs I’ve seen in scientific research areas were pretty obvious they wanted scientists who could do a little code, as opposed to developers who can do a littl
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by cool_man_bob 1y ago
This is when populism and narcissistic personality disorder crash in a head on collision.
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by cool_man_bob 1y ago
There’s another solution: a culling. Take the now useless people and get rid of them. AI will effectively usher in a new era of eugenics in which your right to live is determined by your economic value.
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by cool_man_bob 1y ago
> I think the protests over the weekend show that if the 2026 election were subverted then a lot of the population would take to the streets. Ok? They’ll be pummeled by the police and natguard again. Maybe whatever sort of “revolutionary
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by cool_man_bob 1y ago
> Perhaps its the golden handcuffs, or maybe we're being over-dramatic. I tried finding an escape from the handcuffs, but my career was also a dud, so I never had the insane salaries. Most jobs such harder, and the ones that don’t I
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by cool_man_bob 1y ago
In India
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by cool_man_bob 1y ago
Why did he not treat his brain parasites the same?
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by cool_man_bob 1y ago
lol anyone with an anime pfp can likely just be doxxed through a sex offender registry.
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by cool_man_bob 1y ago
You would be surprised how superstitious Americans are in general.
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by cool_man_bob 1y ago
Don’t worry, once you’re no longer needed you’ll get to experience that life of poverty you missed out.
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by cool_man_bob 1y ago
That’s the point lol.
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by cool_man_bob 1y ago
I don’t give a fuck how cheap you make bread and circuses. The only goods and services I give a fuck about anymore are the ones that won’t be made cheaper with automation.
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by cool_man_bob 1y ago
Does china even do much textile manufacturing these days? I thought that moved to poorer countries
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by cool_man_bob 1y ago
I do the same, but mostly because when I have bothered to work my ass pff to try and get a cool job, I never get hired anyway because they only hire established domain experts and juniors via a university pipeline.
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by cool_man_bob 1y ago
> I regret being born too late to work somewhere like Bell Labs, SGI, or Sun. I feel the same, and especially about video games. I would never work in the modern video game industry. It seems really miserable to be overworked and underpa