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by sh34r 3y ago
A big part of that “downtown” everyone tries to hype up is a tent city these days, so… I’m not sure how that makes you feel better spending all that money to live in a place that makes Cleveland look downright exciting in comparison. At lea
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by sh34r 3y ago
Providence and Seattle are far better examples of urbanism. I’d agree that it isn’t worse than Orlando. That’s not exactly high praise. Why spend NYC money to live somewhere that’s no better than Orlando?
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by sh34r 3y ago
Ehh. It’s grating in California, but I think the epicenter of it is in Minnesota or Denver, actually.
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by sh34r 3y ago
CHIPS/IRA was the carrot. The tariffs, sanctions, rampant IP theft, supply chain shocks, Chinese lockdown labor shortages, specter of global conflict, energy shortages, etc were the stick. I suspect the whole is greater than the sum of
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by sh34r 3y ago
The Bay Area is a car sewer that could be teleported to the middle of Florida or North Dakota, and it would fit right in. It's a place you go for a couple years to make a bunch of money and have zero life, and you get out as soon as yo
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by sh34r 3y ago
Watch the Anna Delvey documentary when you're bored sometime and tell me you don't low-key respect that hustle. Tell me you wouldn't have strongly considered nullifying that jury if you were on it. Then compare that to what E
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by sh34r 3y ago
Inflation is the epitome of the Dunning-Kruger effect. You let a young Republican into one Econ 101 class and suddenly he thinks he knows more than actual economists. All of whom will tell you no one fully understands inflation. You don&#x2
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by sh34r 3y ago
The student loan crisis is a cost of living crisis. The rent is too damn high. Room and board fees are a major portion of the total bill that everyone seems to ignore.
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by sh34r 3y ago
> It's not like people used to file bankruptcy on graduation day just to screw over the system There used to be a social contract, where your country provided you with certain guarantees, and we felt some obligations in return. This
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by sh34r 4y ago
Why bother writing code? Most of it will be discarded shortly after. Why bother having garbagemen? The garbage will just be there next Monday, like clockwork. Why bother doing any job at all? Death is all but certain after 120 years. What o
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by sh34r 4y ago
Cops don’t want to work anymore. Their fee-fees are hurt after the 2020 protests, so they’ve been doing a work slowdown. In a sane country, this would lead to mass layoffs and defunding of the police, but somehow the answer in this insane c
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by sh34r 4y ago
Stealing stuff and selling it through a fence is not a business. It’s organized crime. A racket. You could effectively argue drug dealers and bookies are running an illegal business, and I would not disagree. They sell (illegal) goods and s
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by sh34r 4y ago
The RICO Act is criminally underutilized. Use these 300 street-level knuckleheads to take down the online fences that are orchestrating this whole racket. eBay already looks like the mafia after that psychotic terrorism campaign against a b
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by sh34r 4y ago
IQ scores are pseudoscientific rubbish. They belong in the eugenicist dustbin, along with phrenology.
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by sh34r 4y ago
Let me translate the second mechanic's advice into our language: "Have you tried turning it on and off again?" How much of your clients' time (and therefore money) would you spend chasing down a bug in software with an u
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by sh34r 4y ago
Car doors are unlike any other door in your common, daily life contexts. They are not rectangular. They are heavy and float several inches above the ground. They have hydraulics and/or springs, and typically have two fixed points where
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by sh34r 4y ago
I find that everyone has these quirks, regardless of gender. Sometimes it makes the world a more interesting place. Sometimes it's utterly baffling. Like my friend who refuses to use tissues because his parents taught him to blow his n
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by sh34r 4y ago
So much of the government relies on staffers discreetly working around the kafkaesque bureaucracy, and everyone involved turning a blind eye and respecting their need for discretion.
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by sh34r 4y ago
You’re comparing two very different things there. Institutional libraries and government archives have records going back centuries, many of which can’t be found anywhere else. Even your local library might have some obscure local newspaper
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by sh34r 4y ago
I’m sorry if you took offense to it, but none was meant and after some googling, it would seem most uses of the term are not offensive. I’ve heard engineers say it many, many times and never with malicious or hateful intent. Obviously, Chin
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by sh34r 4y ago
Personally, I wish fewer companies would store passwords in plaintext!
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by sh34r 4y ago
Murder rates are also down substantially since the 1990s. The leading theories include reduced lead exposure and fewer neglected and unwanted children thanks to reproductive healthcare. In either case, the missing murderers would’ve been mo
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by sh34r 4y ago
In a better world, we’d have more companies like McMaster selling people what they need and providing a highly valued service, instead of using ads and weaponized psychology to convince them to buy some more junk they don’t need that’s goin
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by sh34r 4y ago
Never mind industrial uses. It’s nearly impossible to find the right sized bolt or screw for a basic residential task on Amazon. For example, to replace a furniture screw that was lost during a move.
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by sh34r 4y ago
It’s arguably similar to the value proposition Apple brings to a lot of their customers. Time is money, and having things just work the way they’re supposed to seems to get rarer and rarer. Or maybe I’m just getting older, I dunno. I wish w