lazystar

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by lazystar 2y ago
So if you had a chance to go back in time to 1929, you'd leave Hitler alive?
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by lazystar 2y ago
and what health insurance will they provide to those paid thugs and the thugs' extended families, hmm?
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by lazystar 2y ago
How's France looking these days? still under bourbon rule?
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by lazystar 2y ago
"deny" "defend" "depose" sure looks personal
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by lazystar 2y ago
Well personal security isn't a stopgap for healthcare execs, because the personal security staff, and/or their extended families, will be using the healthcare that they provide. the risk of an insider job is high
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by lazystar 2y ago
is that why the allergist prescribed that nasal spray... i had to wait 6 more months for the nasal surgery that turned my life around. son of a bitch....
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by lazystar 2y ago
Not OP, but I had a similar experience growing up in the '90s. StarCraft in '98 is probably the best example; the original manual is the only source with the backstory explaining how the humans in the game left earth in giant col
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by lazystar 2y ago
by having a vision of an ideal future
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by lazystar 2y ago
"there are more houses in my area, therefore there are more houses everywhere" is illogical. i wish it were true in the seattle area. also, there will always be more houses today than 50 years ago in a society with an above zero
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by lazystar 2y ago
this type of situation is not unique in human history - it happens after the invention of any device that disseminates information on a mass scale. for example, see the printing press: > The spread of mechanical movable type printing in
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by lazystar 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=42249985 huh. turns out theres another nationwide conglomerate running the sinclair playbook
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by lazystar 2y ago
hmm no one has discussed this "carpenter group", who appear to be on a spree in 2024 of snatching up smaller news orgs, and cutting 50% of the staff. seems like a pretty big gamble on AI. > Carpenter Media Group announced earli
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by lazystar 2y ago
is there any hosting site that isn't? feels like a computing law at this point; if you build a hosting site, someone will try to use it for malicious purposes.
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by lazystar 2y ago
you can easily find which of your local stations are owned by sinclair. for example, in seattle sinclair owns KOMO, which is quite annoying because that channel plays jeopardy/seahawks special segments.
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by lazystar 2y ago
> Sure, but you won't get fired, right? in my experience, they will start an email paper trail as a precursor to a PIP.
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by lazystar 2y ago
when your boss is a one-upper who doesnt understand your teams product, they will do everything possible to sabatoge your efforts and spin metrics to make you look bad. attempting to give feedback to such a person will get you this respons
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by lazystar 2y ago
bingo, and this is why I'm spending more time watching local news than national/global news or social media posts from other nations. there's a higher trust factor with stuff you can see and touch.
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by lazystar 2y ago
> Some of that information is lies, but a lot of people spread fact. And how do you know which is which, hmmm?
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by lazystar 2y ago
hah. the best press conference of all time was held by the marketing guys after they were "caught". they refused to answer questions about anything other than their hair, and i remember some witty reporter asking them what theyd
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by lazystar 2y ago
bingo. this problem is known and will soon be offered as a fully managed service - 1 click to have your own private social network.
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by lazystar 2y ago
>For the required sync meetings, make sure there is a rock solid ... What about a rock band instead?
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by lazystar 2y ago
> Whoever is making the next thing “for real” just gets acquired and shut down. why do you think amazon's trying to lay people off? they want them to create new startups that they can acquire.
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by lazystar 2y ago
ambitious? man, i can barely pay rent and i work at a FAANG.
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by lazystar 2y ago
eh. Back in 2017, Gorillaz released "Hallelujah Money" via youtube. A week later, the song was altered because it had used a clip from Spongebob at the end of the song. The physical album was released a few months later, and co
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by lazystar 2y ago
> It’s way too convenient to pay $5-10/month for unlimited access to nearly every record ever created. How do you know for certain that the classic 1960's song youre listening to on a streaming service is the exact same song t
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by lazystar 2y ago
the plot arcs don't hold up very well, but I highly recommend watching the monster of the week episodes. some of those one-off episodes, like the black hole episode, expanded my concepts of time and space in ways that I have not exper
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by lazystar 2y ago
sorry, its been a long couple of days. my apologies
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by lazystar 2y ago
youre ignoring my point to such a degree that it seems intentional. ill have to assume that you either work for a nation state, or you have a third grade education level.
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by lazystar 2y ago
yes, of course
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by lazystar 2y ago
but thats not what nation state A is doing - differing amounts of information is selectively made available to different groups of citizens in nation state B, purely to sow discord when those two groups of citizens interact.

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