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by jimt1234 1y ago
The Democratic Party is a complete disaster. When they pushed out David Hogg, rather than embracing him, it was over for me.
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We must work at the same company. LOL
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I really hate to say it, but I had a different experience. Woz came to the fintech company where I work for a lecture and Q&A. I was super excited to see him, like a Little Leaguer meeting his favorite baseball player. However, Woz came
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by jimt1234 1y ago
Thank God for VLC, the greatest app ever created! https://www.videolan.org/vlc/
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Apparently crime only happens in big cities. It's weird, because where I grew up in rural Missouri, every-other dipshit was a meth junkie, robbing houses to support their addiction. But, well, maybe I just invented all that with my cra
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As I recall, there was some, but not a lot of FUD around spellcheckers, mostly because personal computers were still relatively new. Most GenX parents (Boomers) didn't even know what personal computers were yet, so they didn't kno
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Can confirm. The first time I saw an automatic spellchecker was probably with WordStar around 1989, and it blew me away. How can the computer know all the words? That's insane! Sounds lame, but it's true. It was a different worl
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I'd hate to be a cop in DC. We all saw people get pardoned by Trump who admitted to assaulting law enforcement officers on Jan 6th.
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Evidence? These days, who needs evidence? Windmills cause cancer, redistricting mid-decade is totally necessary, and the president is 6'3", 215-pounds.
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> Just remember you don’t need to talk to them or let them into your home. Unfortunately, not in California: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40381801
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Also, my friend told me that CPS (in California) is required to investigate every call they receive, regardless of how lame it is. In fact, she said the most common calls they received are from disgruntled exes, weaponizing CPS to launch ob
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CPS is a joke: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40381801
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China enters the chat.
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> Food in America is very cheap. And that's a whole different problem. Cheap != inexpensive.
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My ex's brother's situation was in the early-90s, when civil forfeiture was - well, I don't think the legal concept was new , but the cops sure acted like it was. They kept telling his attorney that there was no process to c
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by jimt1234 1y ago
I'm old. For me, tipping has always been a cash-only transaction because I felt the money going directly into the server's or other staff's pockets. The owner of the business never touched the cash tips, and the tips were rar
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Seems I have to periodically re-post this old comment because civil forfeiture is still a thing, and it still sucks. Re-reading it gets my blood boiling. My ex's brother was a good guy; his life was destroyed because the Modesto Police
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I think tipping culture has changed a lot in the last 5 years or so, driven mainly by the point-of-sale machines that request tips for seemingly adding no value. I think people have reached the point of tipping fatigue.
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I had a girlfriend years ago that was an extreme optimist. She was a very intelligent person, very outgoing and very successful. She believed everyone was good, and no one ever did anything bad. We got into an argument once over this exact
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One of my favorite Ozzy moments had nothing to do with his music, but was equally awesome. He was on the Howard Stern radio show shortly after 9/11: Howard: Ozzy, what are your thoughts around 9/11? Ozzy: It was terrible; one of t
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This service is extremely valuable to me. I monitor my elderly mother's mail (she lives on her own, but several hours away), checking for anything important as well as obvious junk. Then, when I talk to her on the phone, we go through
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by jimt1234 1y ago
I worked at a small hotel during college. A couple of girls wanted to rent a room, but they didn't have a credit card. We didn't rent rooms without credit cards, but I made an exception. They paid for the room in cash and provided
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by jimt1234 1y ago
IMHO, it's already too late for the midterms. In fact, it's probably too late for the 2028 presidential election, too. Democrats need to connect, and that connection isn't from showing up, out of nowhere, three months before
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The trend you described has been going on since Reagan, and the "rural poor" haven't budged. I have no expectation that attitudes will change in Rural America, not matter how bad things get.
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For starters, anything .
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Reminds me of reading about Karl Marx in college. As I recall he basically made a name for himself talking shit about capitalism. Then, people said, "Bro, if capitalism sucks so much, why don't you come up with something better?&
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And I think their argument is that the detainees (the "illegal aliens") are not US citizens (according to them), therefore US laws and courts are not applicable.
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Honest question: What is the plan for all these "illegals" once they're rounded up and sent to "Alligator Alcatraz" or whatever detention facility? Are they just gonna be held indefinitely? Is there gonna be some so
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Illegally detaining a single US citizen is one too many.
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The FBI was also controversial in its early days. But at least their agents wore nice suits and were held to a standard of conduct. ICE agents wear masks over their faces and urinate in public.

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