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by jimt1234 2y ago
100% ... In my life, I accepted a while back that I don't have to solve world hunger or cure cancer in order to be a good person - just be as courteous to others as I can; focus on the little things. For example, I always park my car i
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by jimt1234 2y ago
This whole article just feels like analysis paralysis. Maybe it's me, but I don't think being a good person really requires that much thought.
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by jimt1234 2y ago
> there is currently an oversupply of assholes. My grandpa used to say, "There are more horses' asses than there are horses." Looks like there's a history around that quote: https://quoteinvestigator.com&
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by jimt1234 2y ago
This is basically how the federal government works. Employee-A is a "rock star", she is extremely productive, does great work, inspires others to do great work - the rest of the team basically depends on her, but she has to drive
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by jimt1234 2y ago
A friend of mine has done logistics for years, getting raw materials (sheet metal) into Mexico, manufacturing the products there (mostly kitchen appliances), and shipping to the US. According to her, it's nearly impossible to make any
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by jimt1234 2y ago
My interpretation is that weight is an overrated measure of health.
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Google Search has been corrupted by...Google.
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by jimt1234 2y ago
This is misleading. Wooden-handled, six-shooter pistols and pump-action rifles were easy to get back then - true, but high capacity, semi-automatics were definitely not easy to obtain. I grew up in the Midwest back then, probably the most g
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by jimt1234 2y ago
Honestly, I think the conversation needs to be more around identity/AuthN systems that can balance trust and privacy. It's not an easy problem to solve, even in "meat space", but I think problems like access to porn go a
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George Carlin, "A War on Homelessness": https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=201&v=lncLOEqc9Rw
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by jimt1234 2y ago
Off topic: the Biden administration also made a commitment to passenger rail, including high-speed rail, something the rest of the world has had for years. Unfortunately, the incoming administration will most likely kill all this. https:&#
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by jimt1234 2y ago
Back in the day, during the original Browser Wars, when the US Department Of Justice was trying to force Microsoft to detach Internet Explorer from Windows, Microsoft argued that it was impossible for Windows to operate without IE baked in.
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I came to California, in part, because my family in the Midwest is a bunch of Jesus freaks - not the "love thy neighbor" kind, more like the "God hates fags" kind. So when a girlfriend (in California) invited me to her c
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by jimt1234 2y ago
I'm surprised Texas schools weren't already using the American Bible, where Jesus is white, loves guns and money, and is obsessed with gay people.
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by jimt1234 2y ago
My Boomer Dad was a Teamster. I remember there was a several-weeks-long (might have even been months-long?) strike when I was a kid, probably around the late-70s. Shit was real. One day I saw him loading baseball bats and clubs into the tru
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by jimt1234 2y ago
It's not just TVs. I upgraded the appliances in my kitchen last year. Every "high-end" refrigerator required internet connectivity just to use the product. Most of the dishwashers and ovens had this same requirement.
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by jimt1234 2y ago
Political ads/calls are exempt?! Seriously?! Shit! I didn't know that. And that explains why I get two-dozen calls per day prior to a major election. So annoying.
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by jimt1234 2y ago
Maybe not the _only_ reason he got caught, but a major reason is exactly what OP mentioned: the victim was a member of the 1%. Waaay back in the late-80s, I was at an underground dance party. Some dude shot and killed another dude in the pa
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by jimt1234 2y ago
Social media influencers have replaced Google search for the youngs. If there's something you want to know, an influencer will tell you. Not saying this is good or bad, but it's what I've noticed.
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For the last 40 years, cars sold in the US have really been a way to profit from high-margin auto loans.
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It's also because the used car market in the US is strong.
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by jimt1234 2y ago
Correct. If it was possible for me to not do business with TicketMaster, I would, but it's just not possible. Pretty much any concert or sporting event I'm interested in requires me to use TicketMaster.
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by jimt1234 2y ago
> If you get a moving violation on your bicycle and show a driver's license to the police, it seems you get points in your license ... Can confirm. A friend got a DUI while riding his bicycle. He was guilty as hell, just didn't
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by jimt1234 2y ago
Et tu, Notepad? Seriously, no one writes with Notepad. It's just for quick copy-paste text manipulation. That's it. No need for gen-AI. I used Notepad to make simple HTML pages back in 1995 - maybe, two dozen lines of "&l
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by jimt1234 2y ago
I've never worked in a data center that did cooling and power correctly. Everyone thinks they're doing it right, and then street power gets cut - there's significant impact, ops teams scramble to contain, and finally there&#x
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by jimt1234 2y ago
well-said ^^^
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I applaud the Innocence Project for taking this case, but honestly, Missouri? What did they expect? This is the same governor that tried to prosecute a newspaper reporter after they uncovered social security numbers in the HTML code from a
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by jimt1234 2y ago
My friend's wife attended a timeshare presentation and, unfortunately, she ended up signing. She thought she got a great deal - "We can go to Hawaii twice-per-year, and pay far less than staying at a hotel!" Well, almost im
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by jimt1234 2y ago
> ... Tesla is providing battery storage. This supports my theory that Elon has become a right wing warrior in order to gain credibility and political capital in right wing states, allowing him to obtain massive contracts for electricity
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by jimt1234 2y ago
Or, why have a registry at all? Can't the chip itself hold a few bytes of data for a phone number? I don't know anything about these "chips", but I have to imagine that's possible.

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