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by trafficante 4y ago
Oh god no. I live in one of those “techbaby’s first econobox” neighborhoods where you can shake hands with your neighbors if both of you lean out the window a smidge. I have never had so much trouble with network radio interference as I d
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by trafficante 4y ago
I noticed this a couple days back at Home Depot, of all places. Was looking up the locations of stuff I needed to pick up via their website while sitting out in the parking lot and my iPhone kept switching off 5g to hop on some single bar w
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by trafficante 4y ago
Trump’s base scares the hell out of DC for very good reason. “Jan 6th but an actual insurrection with guns and political/military leaders” Or “Southwestern sheriff decides to expel illegal immigrants on his own, requests ‘MAGA patriots
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by trafficante 4y ago
Yeah it’s hard to look at something like the Rod Blagojevich saga and then look back at Trump and not immediately wonder what the hell is going on here. They very clearly have the capability to coordinate the entire media apparatus, law enf
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by trafficante 4y ago
The most interesting aspect to this indictment is that, until now, there’s been a clear reluctance to go all the way on nailing Trump for the sort of extremely common crimes that many of our wonderful politicians/wealthy engage in on a
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by trafficante 4y ago
We’re creating a new global average standard of living with disastrous consequences. The poor areas rapidly gain wealth but at great cost to the environment and the whole thing is dependent on a never-ending fire hose of capital and tech tr
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by trafficante 4y ago
Yeah, when the “site:” search hack doesn’t get me an answer and I fall back on the normal SERPs, most of the time the top several results are all: “Authoritative title that references my exact search” -> page body restates my question, g
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by trafficante 4y ago
South Korea’s mandatory military conscription policy is exacerbating the issue. Women (rightfully) complain that having a baby negatively impacts their careers. In South Korea, young men are required by law to spend nearly two years in comp
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by trafficante 4y ago
Horizon: Zero Dawn was so compelling (to me) because of the outright horrifying plausibility of a gassed up tech CEO, convinced that software safeties were infallible, unleashes the consequences for their hubris upon the whole of humanity.
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by trafficante 4y ago
I’ve been renting a house in (what amounts to) an Intel/Nike company town where quite literally 70-80% of my entire neighborhood is Chinese or Indian. Having been already aware of the abused visa program and the green card restrictions
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by trafficante 4y ago
This is really cool, thanks for sharing. Do you know the functional limit of the iPhone’s LiDAR? Ie: could I strap my Pro to my old DJI drone and create some photogrammetry of my house or whatever?
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by trafficante 4y ago
Interesting. I’ll have to look into it, thank you.
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by trafficante 4y ago
As somebody approaching 40 who has been on ADHD meds most of his adult life and for portions of his childhood: It’s not that (generic) Adderall is different so much as there seems to have been an explosion of generic manufacturers all using
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by trafficante 4y ago
> We had a significant increase in ADHD diagnosis during the pandemic, because telehealth is much more approachable for people with untreated ADHD. And, in typical fashion, the DEA responds to the problem in nearly the worst way possible
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by trafficante 4y ago
Interesting to see that fake historical quotes espousing “we will defeat those highly admirable yet lesser races through subversion” isn’t limited to anti-semites
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by trafficante 4y ago
> Perhaps I am misinformed. No, but also yes. The grandparent commenter is correct in saying 99.99% of US rail is designed entirely around moving freight. And I’d usually agree it does it well, but the system seems to be breaking down fa
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by trafficante 4y ago
Would be really nice if maybe the “conservatives” would one day advance an actual conservative solution like incentivizing the creation and stability of black families.
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by trafficante 4y ago
Are we really this easily duped? The entire EXPLICITLY STATED point of these /pol/ campaigns is to manipulate the media into acting as an engine of radicalization. “It’s okay to be white” would have died on the vine right next to
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by trafficante 4y ago
Thanks for the link, although I could only stomach a few minutes of purestrain midwittery pouring into my skull before I had to shut it off. Certainly didn’t sound like anything I’d associate with the alt-right, just the standard boomercon
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by trafficante 4y ago
“Hey, I’m sending this email from my phone” is pretty much a necessity when dealing with clients and such. I’m grateful the default Mail sig works as a graceful catch-all rather than fitting in an awkward mea culpa in the body or (worse) sl
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by trafficante 4y ago
This sort of thing has happened before within a similar genre of literature, but I suppose the body of work (The Famous Five by Enid Blyton) wasn’t popular enough to be amplified by the two opposing rage machines. It’s been kind of wild wat
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by trafficante 4y ago
Now I’m imagining a Twitter where you can purchase big red custom titles for your posting enemies.
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by trafficante 4y ago
Until I saw your comment, I interpreted the downvoting as people taking issue with the astonishing lack of self awareness and bizarrely neurotic hypothetical purity spiral at the end. IE: Describing a straight male as shrill might make pass
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by trafficante 4y ago
> Is "church support" still a thing? It's not here in Europe. Perhaps in rural USA? Not just rural or even conservative USA: my mom lives in a city that would be in the top 5 of everyone’s “Name the most liberal city in Am
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by trafficante 4y ago
If polyamorous relationships are indeed getting common enough to affect population surveys, the numbers would suggest an average gender composition far closer to fundamentalist Mormons. Eg: last week’s Pew relationship survey had the “not i
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by trafficante 4y ago
Disturbing parallel to the MGTOW crowd thinking the solution is artificial wombs and s*x bots. Something something horseshoe theory
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by trafficante 4y ago
> black women have a much higher risk of death during childbirth Found the NY Times reader. Fwiw, that article takes a somewhat flawed study [1] and decides the only possible explanation for wealthy(!!) black women dying in childbirth at
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by trafficante 4y ago
Far be it from me to cover for the Boomers’ greedy shortsightedness, but iirc we’re now at 52% of 18-29 year olds living at home and a large percentage of young married couples being DINKs (dual income, no kids). And current day Boomers pol
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by trafficante 4y ago
> I'm holding out hope for a grassroots educational campaign to tell young people that if they want families they need to have them early. Yeah it’s still not too late for this sort of thing in the West. Though the cynic in me think
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by trafficante 4y ago
> Oh and by the way, you'll be in the most vulnerable group by then too so enjoy being forgotten about in the scramble This thought keeps me up at night sometimes. I’m nearly 40 with no kids, nieces/nephews, and even my cousins

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