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by jimt1234 1mo ago
This is exactly what I hear from my MAGA relatives: Why should I care if the ocean rises a few inches? I don't own beachfront property in Florida.
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by jimt1234 1mo ago
Whoa. This is weird. My friend's dad was an FBI agent for over 20 years. I remember him telling us a story about a case he worked in the early-90s where a Coca Cola exec was embezzling millions from the company. The exec was caught, ba
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by jimt1234 1mo ago
I helped a friend-of-a-friend around 2010 with a 'computer issue'. She ran the original version of QuickBooks on an old-ass PC, connected only to a dot-matrix printer (no internet). Everything worked fine, except the printer was t
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by jimt1234 1mo ago
Piling on. My friend worked for a Midwestern city, maintaining the water and sewer systems. Once, while in the field, 2 dudes ran across the street, one chasing the other, both in plain clothes. The chaser had a gun and was shooting indiscr
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by jimt1234 1mo ago
But cutting down is anti-American! Why do we even have the 2nd Amendment? LOL
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by jimt1234 1mo ago
My F500 employer has on-site requirements. Colleagues and I sad-laugh because we all commute into the office, and spend most of the day on Zoom meetings with colleagues from other locations - you know, exactly the same thing we would do fro
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by jimt1234 1mo ago
Is it just me or is this thing just a poor man's version of GitHub?
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by jimt1234 1mo ago
Conspiracy theory: Cops are worried about essentially being replaced by Flock cameras (if Flock cameras do, in fact, reduce crime rates, it's only a matter of time before the city council starts looking for ways to reduce the budget, a
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Flock cameras haven't improved Atlanta's crime clearance rates(atlpresscollective.com)
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by jimt1234 1mo ago
What's the point of "state of the art healthcare" if it's only for rich people? If Jeff Bezos and I get the exact same health issue - say, some form of cancer, we're going to have radically different treatments and
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by jimt1234 1mo ago
That's basically my concern, too. If we had a "Medicare for all" system, would it end up like Social Security, a system that started out with great intentions, but has since ballooned into an expensive, bureaucratic nightmare
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by jimt1234 1mo ago
My favorite part of the ACA is that the nickname, Obamacare, was created by Republicans, thinking it would fail and the nickname would make that failure stick to Obama better. Problem was, the ACA helped a lot of people, particularly people
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by jimt1234 1mo ago
Zuck pushed propaganda for Fauci during COVID, so it's okay. </maga>
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by jimt1234 1mo ago
That's what Trump told everyone during the campaign. Then, after he got elected, well, he changed his mind, I guess.
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by jimt1234 1mo ago
> Baseball has been a game of moral fiber, respectable players, and good clean fun. I've been a baseball fan for years, and I've always hated that attitude. Bob Costas and other purists always talk about the "sanctity of t
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by jimt1234 1mo ago
I fully support blaming Orange Foolius for, well, everything . But hasn't every administration since Reagan contributed to this?
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by jimt1234 1mo ago
We used to do quick tests of PC builds with GORILLA.BAS. It was later replaced by the 'Doom test'.
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by jimt1234 1mo ago
For me it was the Commodore 64 from a few years later (1982, I think?) - that's what got me into computers. Back then, to me and my nerdy friends, the C64 felt sorta like a 'rebel computer'; we weren't doing Lotus 1-2-3
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by jimt1234 1mo ago
It's been said that when Microsoft started to grow - say, in the mid-80s, Bill Gates' biggest fear was that it would turn into IBM.
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by jimt1234 2mo ago
Why should I change? He's the one who sucks.
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by jimt1234 2mo ago
LOL
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by jimt1234 2mo ago
> ... strong handshake ... Years ago I had an important job interview. Unfortunately, 2 days prior I broke a bone in my right hand during a bicycle wreck. I didn't wanna show up to the interview with a cast on my hand/arm (&q
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by jimt1234 2mo ago
President Clinton tried to improve government contracting through various legislation and executive orders. One of the first things President W Bush did when he got into office was to sign an executive order that effectively negated most of
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by jimt1234 2mo ago
That's my hunch as to what's driving this. Some suit at Mars calculated that shrinking the size of a bar will compel enough consumers to purchase an additional bar, thus selling 2 bars instead of one, essentially doubling the reve
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by jimt1234 2mo ago
Agreed. I remember those ads, and I kinda liked them. They had personality. The other PC ads were just tech specs - boring.
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by jimt1234 2mo ago
For me it's not just AI. The industry just doesn't feel the same anymore. Maybe I'm just an old curmudgeon - I've been in this industry since the 80s, but things really seemed to change, or I finally noticed it, around 2
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by jimt1234 2mo ago
IANAL but the probable cause here (traveling across state lines) seems really weak. There's a million legitimate/legal reasons for someone to travel across state lines. That's the issue that jumps out at me here.
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by jimt1234 2mo ago
Cops have used the "odor of marijuana" for years as probable cause to search vehicles. AFAIK the courts have generally supported it.
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by jimt1234 2mo ago
And useless, prolonged wars are good for business.
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by jimt1234 2mo ago
Browsers should not have access to the clipboard.

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