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by subpixel 3y ago
Put more plainly: “the afflictions of other Americans is not my problem - I’m in this for myself and that’s what freedom means to me.”
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by subpixel 3y ago
Everything is more fun when it is opt-in
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by subpixel 3y ago
Home automation is a mystery to me. I have a coffee maker I can program to turn on in the morning, some ring cams for deterrence, and an automatic thermostat. I feel like everything else is overkill. Also starting and maintaining a fire in
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by subpixel 3y ago
User interface disaster indeed
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by subpixel 3y ago
While it’s true that all unhappy families are unhappy in their own way, this sort of seemingly illogical vindictiveness is exceedingly common.
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by subpixel 3y ago
That’s just saying it’s not illegal or shady - not that it isn’t material.
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by subpixel 3y ago
Reminds me of the Sopranos actor who was an Art History major and found a $10M old master that was mislabeled in a German auction house.
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by subpixel 3y ago
I actually bought a Hyundai from a dealership 3 hours away and the salesman drove down to where I live (with his dad!) to deliver it. That was nice, but the main assurance is that I know who sold me the car and there will be no passing of t
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by subpixel 3y ago
I trust Amazon up to about $500. Above that price point I want all the assurances of any industry's ancien régime.
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by subpixel 3y ago
It’s far more common for people to collaborate on purchases like this than to surprise each other: you could go so far to say that people choose diamonds for themselves.
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by subpixel 3y ago
The majority of people who understand that diamonds are a scam are not simultaneously attracted to diamonds.
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by subpixel 3y ago
My wife thinks little of diamonds. So when we got engaged I gave her a ring set with an emerald my grandfather got in Colombia in the 50s and that my grandmother and mother wore. Turns out all those warm fuzzies are generally cancelled out
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by subpixel 3y ago
There is no _one_ reason, and I don't present that particular phenomenon as a causal factor but as a symptom of the greater problem - which certainly includes poverty but is even more closely aligned to the opioid epidemic. All this is
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by subpixel 3y ago
I volunteer in my local public school in the US. The sad fact is that stable family structure, by any definition, is collapsing and that kids are suffering. The percentage of kids in grade school who have an absent, incarcerated, addicted,
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by subpixel 3y ago
Looking for the explainer on this one!
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by subpixel 3y ago
Journalism presented as some sort of CD-ROM experience was quite neat when we were all a little bit interested in what web browsers could do. Today I assume a web browser and/or the device it is on could kill me and eat my lunch given
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by subpixel 3y ago
I'd much rather read the daily news as a Bear-style blog, with the addition of categories. https://herman.bearblog.dev/blog/ One url for the whole day. Oh how I hate the scroll.
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by subpixel 3y ago
I once ordered a child-size bicycle for my adult self not because of duplicitous marketing but bc I didn’t take the time to read up on how mike measurements are made.
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by subpixel 3y ago
Hyundai Kona Electric is comparable?
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by subpixel 3y ago
My RAV4 Prime gets 50 miles to the charge and has a gas tank for everything else. FFS if it got 100 miles to the charge it would be the perfect EV for most daily driver scenarios. Also, the number of people who can’t charge in their own yar
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by subpixel 3y ago
Oh I know - my complaint is that the hardware is good to go, but I'm forced to buy new hardware. The obsolescence is built-in.
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by subpixel 3y ago
WFH is nirvana for me - married dad living exactly where I always wanted to, paying less than half my city rent on a <3% mortgage. But let's be honest - when I was in my 20s it was the people I met in the office and at work-adjacent
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by subpixel 3y ago
Other than the fact that I can’t upgrade the OS and increasingly vendors only support M-series chips there is nothing wrong with my Intel MacBook Pro.
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by subpixel 3y ago
I realize I probably never upvote posts either, thanks for the reminder.
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by subpixel 3y ago
I went to a DoDDDS middle school in Germany. Why was it so great? It’s the military, stupid. Things work as well as they do because discipline.
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by subpixel 3y ago
Colombians are Irish who can’t hold their alcohol and who take even longer to say goodbye.
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by subpixel 3y ago
When someone builds a “portal” for their customers they wind up inventing ways of making the customers go there. Maybe this is just a form of that.
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by subpixel 3y ago
I can’t think of any scenario described in the post that Venmo wouldn’t handle. One person is the admin of the collective or company bank account, and repays people as needed using Venmo. If all of that has to be free - no transaction fees,
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by subpixel 3y ago
Meetup didn’t (want to) realize its customers were running events to make money. So they ignored all the calls for features like selling tickets and let Eventbrite eat their lunch in that space. The non-commercial side of things - evergreen
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by subpixel 3y ago
I have a group of dad-friends who I like seeing individually, however the 'group hangs' we have put together are no fun for me at all. By hour two we are one-upping each other with wacky stories etc. and I'm eyeing the door.

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