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by imgabe 2y ago
The source is called open your mailbox and look at what’s in there. There is a massive industry designing, printing, shipping around pieces of paper that just get thrown away for no purpose. Some of them are outright scams (“Important Infor
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by imgabe 2y ago
> For reference the USPS delivers over 100B, yes billion, parcels per year. What percentage of those are things people wanted or needed? The USPS is a valuable service, but it is largely funded by spam. 99% of mail goes directly into the
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by imgabe 2y ago
The people who know all about “how trade works” shipped all the industry overseas and left the US without the capacity to build anything, so we don’t need any more of your advice, thanks.
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by imgabe 2y ago
I said hundreds of thousands, if not millions. It turns out there are around 200,00. Success depends on some combination of hard work / talent / luck. You can have an extreme amount of all three and get an extreme outcome like bei
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by imgabe 2y ago
Lots of people have access to resources. Very few of them start successful businesses. Zuckerberg’s parents were dentists. They were well off, sure, but there are hundreds of thousands of dentists in the US, if not millions. Why don’t all o
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by imgabe 2y ago
We sent $350 billion including tons of military equipment. Most of it got stolen. They can’t even account for it.
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by imgabe 2y ago
Because this is what happens. You try to bribe companies and they just take the money and say “oh, yeah fuck off”. Just like all the telecom companies took billions of dollars to build high speed internet and did jack shit. Instead impose t
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by imgabe 2y ago
Seems like you should just start a successful business then. The business owner provides no value and just gets tons of money for free. Sounds like an amazing deal. Why don’t you take it?
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by imgabe 2y ago
By definition, the poor don't have money. How are you transferring wealth away from people who don't have any?
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by imgabe 2y ago
We are $36 trillion in debt and it is growing by a trillion dollars every 100 days. Continuing to send hundreds of billions to a losing war is a bigger threat to the US. The war will end. Russia will offer concessions that benefit the US. T
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by imgabe 2y ago
No, it is for once representing American interests. Not Ukrainian interests. Not Lockheed Martin’s interest. Americans don’t want to be embroiled in endless wars. What is your alternative? Keep sending billions to Ukraine? Send American so
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by imgabe 2y ago
Do you think anyone does serious business in Mexico and doesn't run into the cartels?
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by imgabe 2y ago
I will reserve my compassion for all the citizens who have to deal with a bureaucracy that thinks being expected to answer their email is a violation of their human rights.
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by imgabe 2y ago
Set up auto reply. No I have never been physically incapable of checking email for 48 hours.
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by imgabe 2y ago
On vacation: set up auto response Concerned about legality: reply that you are concerned about legality Doing classified activity: reply that your work is classified “Too engrossed”: over 48 hours of not checking email at all? I doubt any g
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by imgabe 2y ago
It’s obviously quite effective or all the people who are not checking their email would not be crying all over the Internet about how they’re going to get caught by it. Literally send any reply. Elon was even replying to tweets about people
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by imgabe 2y ago
There was a 48 hour deadline. Nobody was expected to respond outside work hours.
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by imgabe 2y ago
Yes the point is to catch people who are not checking emails. This is like the single most basic primary function of a modern office job. If you can’t check emails you should be fired. You are not useful for office work.
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by imgabe 2y ago
I’ve had some very fine jobs, but they did involve people counting on me to do work. I guess if you never did anything that mattered that can seem like a burden.
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by imgabe 2y ago
Here I responded to the post. I’m laying in bed while I do it. It is literally one of the easiest things in the world. If you can’t manage to do the easiest thing in the world to keep your job, then what are you being paid for? How are you
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by imgabe 2y ago
> I saw someone talking about their mother recovering from cancer and going urgently into the office to respond to this email. 1. You’re out of the office on extended leave and you don’t have an auto-response set up? 2. You can’t access
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by imgabe 2y ago
My only rule is that restaurants in hotels are usually mediocre to bad, which fits with your theory. If they have some built-in customer base they don’t have to work as hard at being good.
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by imgabe 2y ago
In 2004 Paul Graham was a retired millionaire who had plenty of time to do whatever he wanted.
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by imgabe 2y ago
Before this EO, what happened if a lower level official in the executive branch had an interpretation of the law that was different from the President and Attorney General? Was junior staff attorney in the Tulsa field office previously able
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by imgabe 2y ago
“Sitting pretty”, yes, that’s what I’m doing. I’ll end this here since you don’t seem to have anything else relevant to say, and instead prefer to stalk my profile. Enjoy. It’s good reading if I do say so myself.
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by imgabe 2y ago
Do you hear yourself? Name a specific thing you would like to know about DOGE that is not publicly disclosed.
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by imgabe 2y ago
“It bolsters my argument to assume this thing is true so it’s a given that it’s true”. Cool. Good job.
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by imgabe 2y ago
Oh wow you imagined something will happen and you have no doubt it will happen. Amazing. Very convincing.
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by imgabe 2y ago
If they are cloaked in secrecy how do you know what you’re even mad about? The people who are tweeting everything they do are acting in secret? If all they are doing is posting information that was already public then what exactly is your
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by imgabe 2y ago
Considerably less.

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