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by jimt1234 7mo ago
> I think Detroit is well past its “bottom”. Agreed. My family's from Detroit. Like so many others, they left in the mid-70s because Detroit had become unfathomably bad - the job market was shit, crime and corruption was out of cont
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by jimt1234 7mo ago
My concern here is not that a simple transaction like purchasing a ticket to a baseball game requires a smartphone, but that the purchase now binds the customer to a personal and irreversible relationship to multiple entities (MLB, the Dodg
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by jimt1234 7mo ago
Good luck with that under the current administration.
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by jimt1234 7mo ago
Honest question; sorta related: How long until prostitution is legalized in the United States? Sounds crazy, indeed, but when I was a kid growing up in Missouri - if you told me, someday, businesses will be open on Sunday, alcohol will be l
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by jimt1234 7mo ago
Audiophile Monster Cables vs a Coat Hanger - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25326598
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How Working in America Became So Joyless(wsj.com)
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by jimt1234 7mo ago
Here's the answer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpMvS1Q1sos
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by jimt1234 7mo ago
Seems like The Ramones were way ahead of their time, whether they knew it or not. Before the digital age, most bands made the bulk of their their money from record sales. Concert tours were just promotional events for the latest album. That
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by jimt1234 7mo ago
I'm not promoting "ChatGPT Checkout", however, just because something sucks now doesn't mean it will suck forever. I'm confident they'll iterate and improve. I say this because my 14-year-old niece's entir
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by jimt1234 7mo ago
Exactly. However, I think this hints at the real problem - how disconnected from their users is the Windows team that they thought people would welcome AI in Notepad?
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by jimt1234 7mo ago
Highly recommend: https://www.youtube.com/@taxleverage
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by jimt1234 7mo ago
A childhood friend's dad was a cop for 25 years; retired in the mid-90s. He never shot his gun, and only unholstered once in his entire cop career. My friend followed his dad, also became a cop in the exact same district; he's g
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by jimt1234 7mo ago
This should be a surprise to absolutely no one. I think it sucks, but I also don't think it's anything new.
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by jimt1234 7mo ago
My Boomer mother has a mild case of shingles. Her health insurance will only pay for an expensive monthly injection. She tried it, but doesn't want it, as she says the side-effects are worse than the shingles. She prefers to apply a cr
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by jimt1234 7mo ago
> Issue #4 examines pharmacy benefit managers ... I'm curious to read that. I worked for a PBM back in the 90s/early-2000s. When I was hired, it was just a job; I had no idea what the business did to make money. After working t
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by jimt1234 7mo ago
Quarterly reporting didn't seem to hurt Amazon.
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by jimt1234 7mo ago
I witnessed this devolution with my GF. She's a medical provider in CA that, since the mid-90's, got her funding from a state agency. She met with the agency once per quarter, reviewed her funding claims, worked out any discrepanc
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by jimt1234 7mo ago
Fat shaming! ... It makes me sad whenever I hear that response to any mention of the health problems associated to obesity.
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by jimt1234 7mo ago
For me it's just nostalgia. Back when I was a teen in the 80s, we turned on MTV and just left it there, all day, letting them tell us what was cool.
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by jimt1234 7mo ago
Musk's goal was never to reduce government spending or waste. It was to get unrestrained access to government spending data to serve his own goals. It's a conspiracy theory - I don't have any real evidence to support it, but
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by jimt1234 8mo ago
I wonder why "Private education and health services" is down so much. My guess is because federal cuts to health services impacted jobs???
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by jimt1234 8mo ago
Expect to hear a lot about trans people in the upcoming months. Republicans won't wanna talk about tariffs, war, gas prices, inflation, unemployment, health care, or anything else that matters. But yeah, trans kids are playing in youth
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by jimt1234 8mo ago
But...Hunter Biden's laptop!!!
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by jimt1234 8mo ago
Isn't this essentially what MAGA argued during the fighting over the 2020 election - that the states should be able to run their elections however-the-fvck they want, and the feds have no right tell the states how to run their election
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by jimt1234 8mo ago
I've been trying to avoid the news for a little over a year now. I needed a detox. ... Is this true? That is, are there legitimate proposals to cancel or constrain the November elections in any significant way? Or, is this all speculat
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by jimt1234 8mo ago
The administration has no tolerance for anyone...who refuses to get their knees dirty.
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by jimt1234 8mo ago
So now I have to prove who I am just to use something I purchased? Am I gonna have to prove my age/identity to my new laundry machine (it runs on OS)?
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by jimt1234 8mo ago
Yes, an awesome victory. But I believe a tech solution is gonna be superior to any legal solution. Any data considered "private and sensitive" should be accessible only by the person who owns it. Full stop.
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by jimt1234 8mo ago
I grew up in the 80s, not far from Times Beach, Missouri, so I'm a huge supporter of environmental protection. Hooray for California. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Times_Beach,_Missouri https://www.epa.
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by jimt1234 8mo ago
Leave Notepad alone! ( In case you forgot: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Vw1rMkUFqyc )

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