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by ragequittah 3y ago
In a decade of that income one could own a house (or 3) in a different town or state, fly in once a week to live in a typical apartment rental someone making 50k-70k might rent, and still have money left over for a boat or whatever else. Ab
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by ragequittah 3y ago
Conspiracy theory? I was under the impression it's very well documented. Might not be everything, but you can see how a few million posts from troll farms/bots would sway the narrative to more extreme, and even the real people dis
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by ragequittah 3y ago
This take is wild to me. The USA is currently in the midst of discourse about: Banning abortion, making it criminal/murder to drop IVF eggs, burning/banning books in election ads, making it an offense to even mention your sexualit
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by ragequittah 3y ago
I feel like I might have perspective here, as I went through this decision. I died, was brought back to life (despite 99.99% chance of that never happening), and strangely have most of my faculties still available. I have a rare condition w
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by ragequittah 3y ago
Well the 'mainstream media' (I now hate this term) is being pretty fair, but you have offshoot "media" companies that aren't doing any real journalism, just riling up their fanbases to get more clicks/views. Th
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by ragequittah 3y ago
Fully agreed, but the conspiracies are now manufactured at a rate that would've been unfathomable 20 years ago. I have a friend who knows exactly 0 transgender people in life who, when talking politics, it's the first issue that c
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by ragequittah 3y ago
>I mean, most of FAANG has been US values being globalized. Well given that we know Russia, China, and North Korea all have massive campaigns to misinform everyone on these platforms, I think I disagree with the premise. It's spread
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by ragequittah 3y ago
It really does astonish me when people point to 'negative media coverage' when the media is being pretty fair about it. I listen to takes on all sides, and they all point to major problems. On the left it's genocide / mi
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by ragequittah 3y ago
John Oliver, Amnesty International [1], Reuters Investigations[2], The US District Court[3]. Just can't trust anyone to not be delusional these days. [1] https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09
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by ragequittah 3y ago
>Slowing down OpenAI will hurt the company if assumption is wrong and won't help if it is true. Personally as I watched the nukes be lobbed I'd rather not be the person who helped lob them. And hope to god others look at the sa
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by ragequittah 3y ago
I've had great success with an old Dell Optiplex computer running xcp-ng with PCI passthrough of the NIC to pfSense. I was considering a protectli box, but for $300 on ebay + an old NIC I had laying around I got something much more pow
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by ragequittah 3y ago
Which is a disaster far beyond kids missing some school in my opinion. Kid gets in a car accident, or falls of their bike in a bad way, they're then (preventably) missing school forever.
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by ragequittah 3y ago
The lockdown were to slow the curve, not prevent people getting covid. No health official in their right mind ever thought you could stop this thing after a certain threshold, we generally had lockdowns when our hospitals were extremely clo
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by ragequittah 3y ago
I'd ask the same question to you. What's your angle? Why minimize when there's so much evidence of various harms? Why attack someone trying to point out that people underreacting/comparing it to less problematic viruses
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by ragequittah 3y ago
As someone who would've never done this age 10-40, experienced extremely severe trauma at age 40, then started having uncontrollable rage fits age 40-43 (it's mostly subsided now, but I still do get more irritated than I used to)
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by ragequittah 3y ago
I feel like this idea of emotional intelligence is impossible to achieve without first having a partner to develop it along side . And given the surprising amount of men who never have a partner these days, to expect them to come factory in
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by ragequittah 3y ago
Sitting over here playing flight sim, aoe 4 (and 2 every now and then cuz that remaster was fantastic), Forza horizon, looking forward to starfall after the epic gameplay trailer, and wondering someone can have such a drastically different