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by thunky 2y ago
I had hoped that 4 years of Trump + 4 years of Biden would be enough for people to realize that maybe the president is not as important as made out to be. But just the opposite has happened. Which is funny because half the country would vot
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by thunky 2y ago
I dream of an executive branch without a president. I don't see why we need one.
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by thunky 2y ago
> the phantom breaking is pretty crazy, but it's quite manageable once you expect it/experienced it a few times Please just drive the damned car yourself.
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by thunky 2y ago
> Had I not already invested I wouldn't buy any more And that's how they get you. Makes me wonder if the horrible setup process is intentional to emotionally lock you in. Once you get it working, you don't want that effort
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by thunky 2y ago
It's too simple because it's a point in time snapshot. From your link: If you save a reasonable percentage of your take-home pay, like 50%, and live on the remaining 50%, you’ll be Ready to Rock (aka “financially independent”) in
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by thunky 2y ago
> All that matters is the savings ratio. Everything else cancels out. I promise This is an oversimplification. It reminds me of those retirement calculators that estimate retirement based on a percentage of current salary, without cons
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by thunky 2y ago
> Today, a colleague committed ten lines of code outputted by ChatGPT, without testing it, and the systems broke Do you work at Crowdstrike? But seriously, I can only imagine how bad their code would have been without ChatGPT.
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by thunky 2y ago
I don't know what to tell you. Millions of people watch YouTube because they get something from it, ads or not. Creators put in a ton of effort to produce content for YouTube because they believe it's worth it for to them to do
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by thunky 2y ago
> Absolutely, I'm just asking why they get a pass I agree, I don't know why people criticize Google but not the creators. Personally, I'm not criticizing either. > I'd bet no, you'd probably be pissed and rig
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by thunky 2y ago
> Nebula Looks like barely any content on there compared to YouTube. Probably an steep uphill battle for them to get to the point where creators can make anything close to what they can make today on YouTube. And I can only watch one vi
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by thunky 2y ago
> You're forgetting option 4) Use an adblocker, don't watch ads, contribute in other ways. Well this thread is about how using an adblocker is becoming increasingly difficult, which is causing a lot of upset. And "contrib
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by thunky 2y ago
> Am I complaining? Yes. > I support creators directly because it’s a more fair exchange imo Ok that's nice. But what you're doing is an add-on, not a replacement for the original product being sold at the seller's ter
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by thunky 2y ago
> I'm sure there are ways for content creators to make money without us getting spied on or served malware Name one. And please make sure your solution actually exists and isn't just a fantasy of how the world should work. &gt
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by thunky 2y ago
Ok then if the creators are bad and the platform is bad then it should be pretty easy for you to stop supporting them (and stop complaining).
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by thunky 2y ago
> A much better idea would be to donate all that money to EFF or similar organizations So how do you suggest we fund content creators? Or should they all just start working for free to entertain you without exposing you to those horribl
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by thunky 2y ago
They're also ignoring the fact that content creators profit from the ads as well, which is obviously a huge incentive for them to produce good content.
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by thunky 2y ago
> the "Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance" really is literally Insurance because it's literally in the damn name and I don't know how much clearer I can make that. > If you reframe SS/OASDI as "
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by thunky 2y ago
> "It's an insurance policy! Literally! Not really. By that definition a 401k is also an insurance policy. So is a checking account. To the recipient, SS resembles an investment account more than an insurance policy.
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by thunky 2y ago
> A UBI is only an agreement that some amount of money is a fundamental right, nothing more. Conveniently, money can be used to acquire resources.
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by thunky 2y ago
If those companies fail, will it matter? NASDAQ had had a huge impact when it crashed, however.
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by thunky 2y ago
> Can you quantify it? It's on the person saying it's a bubble to quantify it.
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by thunky 2y ago
Hate to break it to you: - https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/crowdstrike-brings-xdr-to-z... - https://access.redhat.com/solutions/7068083
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by thunky 2y ago
> CrowdStrike will obviously update their virus definition deployment pre-flight check to prevent a situation like this from happening again I don't consider them capable of preventing something like this from happening again.
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by thunky 2y ago
> OTOH installing insecure/unstable “security additions” on top of windows should be consider a terrible idea So it sounds like you agree that Crowdstrike should go bankrupt. > Our essential services should be built on a more sec
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by thunky 2y ago
> Which part explicity and clearly states Trump was not involved? You know, the part that you claimed existed in your comment above. You're right I should have said that the document *shows* that he had nothing to do with it rather
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by thunky 2y ago
> Which page number was that? The first sentence of the first paragraph: This work, Mandate for Leadership 2025: The Conservative Promise, is a collective effort of hundreds of volunteers who have banded together in the spirit of advanc
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by thunky 2y ago
Did you miss the part that says that Trump had nothing to do with it?
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by thunky 2y ago
Biden beat her in the primary. If the people wanted her to be president she would have won then. The VP pick is pure politics at it's worst. Just look at McCain / Palin.
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by thunky 2y ago
> see project 2025 Did you actually read the project 2025 doc or are you just parroting back what you were told to think? https://www.politifact.com/article/2024/jul/12/project-2025-...
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by thunky 2y ago
> keep in mind that most americans did not want biden OR trump I think the point is that at least people voted to make Biden their candidate. Now those votes mean nothing and someone else will pick their candidate for them instead.

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