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by koolba 2y ago
Dry walling is easy. Good drywalling is moderately difficult. Best advice is to go with a slower set time so you can go at the pace you feel comfortable.
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by koolba 2y ago
The tertiary definition of "diplomatic" is " employing tact and conciliation especially in situations of stress ". That means acting calmly and rationally in the types of insane situations that you're describing. No
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by koolba 2y ago
What did the USA gain by giving billions of dollars of aid to Ukraine? My understanding is that the mineral deal is back pay. And if the development is going to be done by American firms, then of course there’s a security alignment for the
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by koolba 2y ago
I’m in that 40% and I think today was fantastic. It lets people see what these things are really like. Zelensky came to the USA to sign an already agreed-to minerals deal that would have (eventually) paid back the billions of dollars they’v
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by koolba 2y ago
> Other leaders are likely to have taken note of that: Trump isn't even pretending that you're equals. They’re not equals and to pretend otherwise is delusional. One is the leader of the most powerful country on earth. The othe
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by koolba 2y ago
> but people working average mid-life jobs at average salaries who consistently save $100/month or more can amass significant retirement wealth over 30-40 years. You’re off by at least a factor of ten. 40 years of $100/month
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by koolba 2y ago
What does “in the black” mean at a household level? Total assets minus loan balances being positive?
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by koolba 2y ago
When you know you’re beat, it’s honorable to skip the formalities.
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Is nearly a quarter of Gen Z queer – or is something else going on?(thehill.com)
9 points by koolba 2y ago|3 comments
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A.I. and Vibecoding Helped Me to Create My Own Software(nytimes.com)
7 points by koolba 2y ago|1 comments
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> “All staff and their property will undergo magnetometer and x-ray machine screening upon entry. Staff will then be escorted to their workspace, where they will be permitted to collect their personal items and given approx 15 minutes to
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Usaid employees given 15 minutes to clear out offices(thehill.com)
10 points by koolba 2y ago|5 comments
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Wall Street Gamblers Get Crushed as Leveraged ETF Losses Hit 40%(bloomberg.com)
4 points by koolba 2y ago|2 comments
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> [Public bodies] shall provide a sufficient description of the structures of all databases under the control of the public body to allow a requester to request the public body to perform specific database queries. I sure hope the impact
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by koolba 2y ago
The links into the FPDS system are very interesting. Can see myself going down quite a rabbit hole to analyze the data. For example, what's this $10M for "Psychological Safety Training Support"? https://www.fpds.go
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Department of Goverment Efficiency: Savings(doge.gov)
4 points by koolba 2y ago|5 comments
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by koolba 2y ago
> When legal and predictable processes are undermined ... Being legally undermined is hardly a bad thing. We voted for unified Republican control of both branches of the legislator and the POTUS. You might not like the outcomes, but th
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by koolba 2y ago
What about Operation Warp Speed[1] or the creation of the Space Force[2]? [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Warp_Speed [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Space_Force
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by koolba 2y ago
1% nature, 99% nurture. The luck is having parents who realize that providing that nurture is attainable.
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by koolba 2y ago
> I just searched for "best predictor of career success" and found a bunch of conflicting results. Open networks, conscientiousness, grit, intelligence, class, etc. This is actually reassuring, since if there were a known path
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by koolba 2y ago
I think you need to lookup the definition of the word hypothetical. The point of the exercise is to imagine a scenario where the players are reversed to imagine how they would react.
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by koolba 2y ago
> comparing the aggressor Russia with a country that's in a literal fight for its survival. Straight up Kremlin talking points. Not food for thought. I'm sure Russia feels the same when considering the prospect of a neighbor jo
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by koolba 2y ago
There’s plenty of record that those promises were made to the Russians during the USSR dissolution discussions: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-shifrinson-russi... > In early February 1990, U.S. lea
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by koolba 2y ago
Ukraine only exists as a post Soviet country because we agreed with Russia that they (Ukraine) would never have nukes nor be a part of NATO. They otherwise would never have allowed the formation of a separate government. The insane rhetoric
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by koolba 2y ago
Representative democracy only works when the people of the nation actually drive the formation of said government. The last 70+ years have shown that it explicitly does not work when imposed by third parties. Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, China,
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by koolba 2y ago
What’s even more asinine is the website can be updated without publishing to an app store. You always have the latest version and all these apps are just a thin veneer on some CRUD endpoints anyway.
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by koolba 2y ago
> I think the last Democrat who ran against DeSantis got caught smoking crack in a hotel room with a male hooker. Florida doesn't seem to have a lot of great choices. Pick the corrupt person, red or blue. The was from DeSantis'
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by koolba 2y ago
> But there are quite many people who have no idea how much they are spending, or sometimes even how much they are spending. Step one would be teaching people to write down the balance of all their accounts on 12/31 of each year. Ch
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Bitcoin and Ether Tumble on Potential $1.46B Hack at Bybit(coindesk.com)
8 points by koolba 2y ago|2 comments
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by koolba 2y ago
> I generally agree with what you are saying, however I'm quite surprised at the pushback about homegrown eggs tasting better than mass-produced. There have been many studies on this and in true blind tests people do not prefer one

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