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by jghn 1y ago
You're largely making the point I was raising. For your specific example though, I'm not so sure. As a counterexample, I buy my eggs direct from a local farm, not in a store. Neither the ease of availability nor the price of the e
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by jghn 1y ago
That's exactly my point. In other words, the threat model people should be worrying about isn't "bare shelves due to no goods from China to stock them" but rather "bare shelves because the entities who make the good
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by jghn 1y ago
I both agree and have been worried that this is overly reductive. As far as I can tell, literally nothing that I buy regularly is directly sourced from China. Or anywhere other than the US & neighboring countries. The vast majority of m
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by jghn 2y ago
Too bad. I'll see if the mobile app works on my desktop but otherwise that's a nonstarter.
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by jghn 2y ago
Yeah. I've been doing Spanish on Duolingo for about 2.5 years, and just started Section 5. I find that I can read Spanish reasonably well, in that I can usually at least work out what the underlying meaning is for any arbitrary piece o
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by jghn 2y ago
Do they have a version that's not a mobile app? Or will it at least work on the desktop/web browser? I'm not going to use something like that on my phone.
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by jghn 2y ago
This is incredibly naive. How can you possibly know the source of every component and raw material in what you're buying? "Made in USA" *at best* translates to "assembled in the USA"
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by jghn 2y ago
I pretty much never use their algorithmic feed. I've switched to going in, selecting `feeds` and then `friends`. There's usually at most a half dozen posts per day. I also belong to some groups, but I'll go to them directly
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by jghn 2y ago
This is the right answer. You should be able to identify at least one positive lesson you learned from every situation. Talk through what you learned and how the experience made you a better employee going forward. This not only avoids the
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by jghn 2y ago
Same, except it goes back 30 years, but it sucks when that one time comes up. I'm not suggesting one becomes a wizard. I'm suggesting understanding basic commands.
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by jghn 2y ago
It is worth knowing pure vi to some extent. To the point you raise, it's pretty much guaranteed to exist on any system you're on. That's not true of anything else, even vim
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by jghn 2y ago
> if it paid 100k+ and meant owning a home someday That is not going to happen.
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by jghn 2y ago
TFA touches on this, but one thing I initially found surprising is how few people understand different domains have different best practices around authorship order. It does make sense, people are typically not as involved in other domains
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by jghn 2y ago
Also one can't ignore that the GOP managed to remarked the CHIPS act as a key source of inflation, which they also managed to pin on "Bidenomics". Which was another source of "vibes, basically"
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by jghn 2y ago
The other day I saw the results of a poll [1] where 80% of Americans thought the *country* would be better off if more Americans worked in factories. However, only 20% of Americans thought that *they* would be better off if more Americans w
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by jghn 2y ago
> which a majority of Americans do not want You may want to go look at how all the individual attributes of the ACA poll once they're phrased that way and not as in "Obamacare"
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by jghn 2y ago
That is indeed what I'm saying. I treat social media more like I treated Usenet back in the day. To me that's a superior model than the influencer model.
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by jghn 2y ago
> the content creators This is IMO the problem. I don't use these sites to follow "content creators". For the most part I'm following normal people who happen to say things I find interesting.
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by jghn 2y ago
Do you want to follow them or not? Up to you. No one is incentivized to do anything other than post what they want and follow who they want.
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by jghn 2y ago
There are a lot of people I'd love to see content from on all of the platforms who aren't where I want them to be, for a variety of reasons. That's not really a great argument.
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by jghn 2y ago
I don't understand why people struggle with either site. Follow only people you want to see. Both sites allow you to only see posts from those accounts. Problem solved.
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by jghn 2y ago
> You could do an awful lot of good with that kind of money Or given to billionaires
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by jghn 2y ago
Sure. But the point is that the people who advocate cutting the waste never propose going after the big wins first. Instead we cut all the little things that actually helps people and use arguments to the effect that the waste was adding up
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by jghn 2y ago
Yes, the scale is a huge part of it. If some program has a $1mil budget and you were to tell me that 25% of it was wasted. Well who cares? $250k in the US budget is a rounding error on a rounding error. But if you were to tell me that 25% o
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by jghn 2y ago
TSA, and to a large extent the US Military as well, is just a jobs program that avoids triggering the median American's aversion to "socialism". The others that you mentioned aren't this. And the point of "U" i
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by jghn 2y ago
And what makes you feel that inflation & job market are about to head in a better direction?
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by jghn 2y ago
Sure. But people here are talking about frequenting chains in their hometown. If national chains are the best options in your local area, it's a sign you need to move to a better area.
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by jghn 2y ago
To your point, I can't remember the last time I've eaten at a national chain outside of airports. I don't understand why people do this.
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by jghn 2y ago
You know that there's actual, indepently owned, restaurants that are way better than these thet aren't "more expensive", right? I don't even know where the nearest applebees, chilis, etc is to me. I don't need
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by jghn 2y ago
> These are just slightly glorified fast food A lot of them have started to directly compete against fast food. Applebees for instance offers a deal that's about the same price as a McDonalds meal.

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