oldpersonintx

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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
go work at Costco its money
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
and what of the massive US military presence?
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
the hilariously imbecilic "wet market hypothesis" only ever existed because liberals refused to agree with Trump on anything, even simple conclusions on Covid origins as soon as idiots started peddling the (weirdly racist) idea th
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
Guess who turned GitHub into a SPOF? We did.
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
Everything wrong with Mozilla in one title.
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
the message is America completely rejected the "establishment"
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
worth actually reading: - farmers markets are hit or miss (anyone should know this by now) - walmart came ahead of whole foods for produce quality (whoah) alas we cannot go back to 1914 so we have to make due with what is out there now or g
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
> However, Japan's cultural ethos of "Mottainai" or a sense of regret towards waste has been intrinsic to their society for centuries ...and literally the first example in the article is four oranges in a box covered in
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
Even if it was less it is still worth it because you did it your way and didn't rely on someone else to decide your fate
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
neat guy, he was not just "once lucky", he also made money with his NBA team and even in movie production iirc but, he is blasted all over the media with his political ranting and it gets a little tired...you get one vote just lik
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
they can never catch Tesla VW tried also and failed miserably Ford and GM are truck companies; just look at what they actually sell and where they are actually getting margins VW, Ford and GM operate their EV businesses now as a loss-leadin
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
I love Alan's work but he is also kind of an idiot on many issues He rails against the interactions of fans and large conglomerates but he was happy to cash checks anytime his work went up for sale Remember his big publicity stunt of d
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
it wasn't the CEO who left a broom inside the rudder assembly of a jetliner Boeing has had decades of bad management for sure, but the unions have gone along for the ride so now, Boeing products are considered inferior; how can Boeing
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
no one has ever been able to explain who will be the daily rider for SF/LA or Dallas/Houston rail I don't mean people trying it out once, or tourists...I mean people who will commit to riding it daily
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
everyone dumps on Linus but no one is willing to take his job wait, what's that? how can any old Internet Commenter just decide to replace Linus?!? fork the kernel, call it something else...now you have your own kernel and you can be t
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
happy he is enjoying retirement. I hope to join his ranks shortly but for most of the people you work with in tech, retirement will just be a fantasy it is common for my coworkers to be forever-renters now, even those in their late forties
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
TuffShed will sell you one of these for just a few thousand dollars prebuilt and delivered and then you too can enjoy working in the sweltering heat or bitter cold https://www.tuffshed.com/products/#/details/P
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
one more step to a fully-rented, all-in-the-cloud business "PC" security is easy because you aren't running anything locally, can't save anything locally, probably can't even do true copy/paste when they want t
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
whoever is good/evil aside... hezbollah got totally owned and look like fools...relying on tech they just took at face value out of the box
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
"fact checking" is a psyop first of all, the "fact checker" simply claims the mantle of objectivity with no supporting evidence. why is some nameless writer at Snopes the arbiter of truth? because they say so? and all &q
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
but it makes a nice opportunity for Democrats to buy votes later with selective debt forgiveness debt forgiveness was a hot topic exactly one month before the midterms and it is already becoming a hot topic as we head in to the general elec
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
I was early to sign up for pinboard, got the lifetime subscription at $11 I received an email from them asking me to move to a yearly subscription, although I could choose to decline I chose to decline, mostly glad about the decision, I pai
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
most of the SP500? I mean...they also signed up to get power from a private utility company they also signed up to lease their own office from a commercial realtor they also signed up to put their company intelligence into a closed-source E
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
> First, companies are switching from public hyper-clouds, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, and Google Cloud, to private clouds. who? > Michael Dell, Dell CEO, quoted Barclay's CIO Survey 2024: "83% of enterprises
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
expect more of this childless flights childless restaurants childless hotels childless theaters etc etc all driven by soulless, self-centered singles and childless couples who cannot abide anything but a world that exists only for their per
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
we have your oil, F35 production pipeline, and best access to your #1 trading partner (Mexico) remember our much-maligned "disconnected" grid when you think you are turning the lights out on us
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
reinstall with only linux, problem solved get rid of secure boot, more problems solved if you run Windows in 2024 you deserve all the misery you get
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
get the government out of the way and people will build to surplus streamline permitting knock down ridiculous fees and paperwork don't try to tax the builder out of business don't put stupid mandates about forcing builders to sel
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
if you really want to optimize for a very-low-probability event, just don't live in a school district with cellphone bans you'll trade for a near-guarantee that your kid will have some social anxiety or attention issues...but if y
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by oldpersonintx 2y ago
new parents are so easy to scam, they all want the best for their new child, and they think that means blowing $$$$ on too-deluxe baby gear they will only use for a short period of time we fell for it...plonked down $$$ for the deluxe strol

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