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by jimt1234 4y ago
I still don't understand the "national security concerns" from TikTok. It seems there's two: 1. The CCP has access to video-view and location data 2. The CCP can manipulate video streams to push a narrative For #1, isn&#
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by jimt1234 4y ago
I'm just curious: what happens if a home owner installs a bunch of solar panels and batteries, declares the property "off grid" (for electricity), then simply stops paying the local utility. I'm sure the local utility wi
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by jimt1234 4y ago
Unfortunately, I can confirm this. When I purchase something like a t-shirt outside of Amazon, it feels weird to pay $8 for shipping, but it feels like forever waiting 10 days to actually receive it. It's not the end of the world, bu
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by jimt1234 4y ago
My mother built her career on COBOL from the mid-70s to the late-90s. She's retired now, but still talks about what a great language it is. She tried learning Java in the late-90s, toward the end of her career, but hated it. "Wha
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by jimt1234 4y ago
This is BS. My good friend moved to California from Taiwan during high school. She struggled in all her classes (because she barely spoke english ("struggle" means she actually had to put in effort to get an "A")), but s
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by jimt1234 4y ago
Absolutely. And it reminds me of a conversation I had with my grandmother's doctor a few years before she passed: - How's grandma doing? Is she gonna be okay? - Well, let me ask you, does she complain much? - All the time! - Then
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by jimt1234 4y ago
I finally got my 75-year-old mother to add 2FA/SMS to her online banking account. She calls me (from her landline ) every time she tries to login. I have to walk her through the process. We usually have to request a new auth code be s
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by jimt1234 4y ago
This ^^^ Being surrounded by people and feeling lonely is a lot worse than simply not being around people.
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I thought the article was about Josh Bell, the baseball player: https://www.mlb.com/player/josh-bell-605137
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by jimt1234 4y ago
I've had an eBay account for over 20 years. I stopped using it a few years ago, then sometime in 2022 I decided to sell something, so I logged in and posted my item. The next day, eBay sent me an email saying that my account was suspen
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by jimt1234 4y ago
Honestly, that sounds exactly like most parents I know these days (just doing what other parents are doing).
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The "lame parent" is so much better than the "cool parent". I've got plenty of "cool parent" friends, and they all have one thing in common: their kids are assholes.
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Unfortunately none of this matters. The narrative has been firmly established. Republicans overwhelmingly believe the 2020 presidential election was rigged. Furthermore, this story won't show up in any conservative press, so Republican
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by jimt1234 4y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=176&v=dU6scly2AFU
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There was a bribery scandal at my college years ago. But, what was more shocking than professors and teaching assistants accepting bribes, was how small and seemingly insignificant the bribes were. I recall one professor elevated the grades
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by jimt1234 4y ago
This whole requirement to return to the office, when data shows that employees overwhelmingly don't want to - well, the whole story is super disingenuous. Not just from Amazon, but the entire labor market. First, before the pandemic,
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by jimt1234 4y ago
Airbnb was cool in the early days, when hosts were usually individual people just looking to make an extra buck on their vacation cabin in the mountains or something like that. Now it seems like Airbnb is dominated by companies who own&#x2F
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by jimt1234 4y ago
Someone, please make this happen. I can't believe I never thought of this.
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by jimt1234 4y ago
Same thing happened to a buddy of mine when the software company he worked for was purchased. The first thing the new owners did was move HQ from California to Texas; they told all the employees, "Move to Texas or you're losing yo
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by jimt1234 4y ago
Same. My first drum machine was a broken Roland TR-909 that I bought from a pawn shop around '88. I borrowed a bunch of my mother's old records, and was on my way to hip-hop-producer stardom! LOL
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168 bpm :)
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Totally agree. Sounds like they're just using an established, more generic narrative to deflect accountability - basically, "It's not our fault, it's the hackers and bad kids on the internet." We see this all the
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by jimt1234 4y ago
I don't need this extension. My code already looks like this. LOL
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by jimt1234 4y ago
I was on my high school wrestling team when Vision Quest was in theaters. That movie was religion to us wrestlers, mostly, obviously, because it was about high school wrestling. But the movie was much deeper, expressed by that one scene. Ka
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by jimt1234 4y ago
This ^^^ I miss Windows XP. I was one of the last holdouts, forced off because XP lost security updates and apps just wouldn't install on it anymore.
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One contributing factor to the lack of artsy movies is audience sensitivity. "Kramer v Kramer" would never be made today because it touches on many potentially offensive topics. Studios would rather put their money on safe bets, m
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by jimt1234 4y ago
Keybase (the chat app) was hot for a while. However, everyone I know switched to Signal the day after Zoom acquired it. It's basically a ghost town now. ;(
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by jimt1234 4y ago
I tested positive for TB back in my early-20s. I was fine, but I still tested positive, and so the county health officials were on me like flies on shit. I had to take a pill every day for a year. They'd give me a monthly supply of pil
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by jimt1234 4y ago
My favorite comedy has been about stereotypes in society, especially negative stereotypes. The joke isn't about the stereotype itself, or the people targeted by the stereotype, but rather the joke is on any dumb-ass who believes in tha
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by jimt1234 4y ago
The Brain Washing of My Dad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS52QdHNTh8

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