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by trgn 1y ago
looks like a videogame
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by trgn 1y ago
recently prosperity gospel in evangelical churches too
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by trgn 1y ago
She was a nimby in a era where there should've been more of them. I live in a city that didn't have a jane jacobs, and we're the poorer for it.
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by trgn 1y ago
Gould joked the purpose of the human organism is for shit to make more shit.
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by trgn 2y ago
Early Iraq years were the same. It's alright, just nod and smile through all the reductive and offensive things you'll be hearing
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by trgn 2y ago
aestheticism is a feature of fascism. the late night phone call, the strong words in the oval office, boarding air force one with retinue in tow, hurry hurry... it's less about what is being achieved, and more about the pageantry that
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by trgn 2y ago
trump's base is seniors counting down to social security, the rich, malcontents, and feds (his staff in other words) have gov pension plan. none of those care about the 401k people.
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by trgn 2y ago
why do they need to _look_ human though? two legs, torso, head, two arms, does a robot need that. Why not just a giant arm (or five whatever) that can roll around?
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by trgn 2y ago
You know it when you see it.
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by trgn 2y ago
Can cut both ways. If you're on the Fed board, you sell all your stocks before taking office and then crash the market by hiking rates. What about owning any asset class? real estate? is that allowed? Metals?
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by trgn 2y ago
only the 401k people (i think bessent called them that). young malcontents voting antiwoke, rich people with more than enough, seniors counting down to social security, feds who are vested in gov pension plans, genuine have nots. none of th
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by trgn 2y ago
I see the drug problem in my midwest city too, it's literally on my doorstep on occasion. The country is also not struggling with high unemployment or stagnant wage growth. Multiple things can be true at once. Tariffs are a solution to
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by trgn 2y ago
absolutely. page performance is the result of a hairball of initial asset loads, AJAX calls, ad-hoc roundtrips, telemetry bloat, ... It's so convoluted, and very app specific. Core web vitals provide the right framework to think about
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by trgn 2y ago
the intuition behind boring company was that traffic could go faster in dedicated pipes. it's actually the right company for the wrong reasons. there are more important reasons traffic should go underground. car roads are sewers; noisy
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by trgn 2y ago
Also the story of midcap saas going public around 2020.
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by trgn 2y ago
I'm not in disagreement, robot cars would be awesome, but why do we need scifi technology here in the usa to solve something that is already a solved problem the world over. It really is a mental problem more than anything else. The in
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by trgn 2y ago
how quickly things change. the aspirational tech ethos today is one of a will to dominion, of incessant action over introspection, of gut over mind.
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by trgn 2y ago
> Having 'greek columns' anywhere apart where they were built 2000 years ago is tasteless to me so all the revivals are tacky? e.g. all buildings of importance before 1920 in american and european cities are tacky?
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by trgn 2y ago
I meant that pension payouts are a legal claim, and somewhar untethered from what the actual amounts an individual puts into it. You're guaranteed a benefit, until death. in practice thwt benefit is met by new younger contributors, hig
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by trgn 2y ago
Thx, but we really do remember the Obama years differently haha. Good economy, low simmer. Ows faded, but how was that Obamas fault. He didn't run on left platform. There was international strife, but it was localized and didn't
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by trgn 2y ago
ok, yes and no. why does trump need augurs (like scop) to divine a cogent narrative. trump obviously can't and none in his administration can. the simple explanation; trump is spiteful (e.g. all the references to obama, biden), vance a
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by trgn 2y ago
agreed 100% > Mad Max with some Social Security scraps haha! sadly
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by trgn 2y ago
> Through the 401k attempt, we have shown this policy to be a failure. 401ks are a terrible on their own. It has thrown everybody for the wolves and tied people's financial wellbeing to the vagaries of the market. But there's s
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by trgn 2y ago
pensions are defined benefits. if they truly worked for that pension, it'd be defined contribution.
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by trgn 2y ago
I certainly did complain! And I'm sure I'll do it again if the new features aimed to supplant the old ones are worse. If you search anything about React now, 90% of the docs are hook-based. Beginners of React in 2025 will be guide
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by trgn 2y ago
had to have hooks though. And vanilla-OO had to go in favor of trapping state in closures, which is cooler because it has functions and not methods.
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by trgn 2y ago
First the mercator projection, now they're coming after the zip codes.
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by trgn 2y ago
another determined enough me here. it started out of necessity, but at this point, i trudge through berms and through parking lots out of spite.
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by trgn 2y ago
I can't stand usa can only achieve the effortless luxury of walkability in the vacation communities for its doctors and lawyers, but cannot make its own city centers adopt the same qualities.
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by trgn 2y ago
Highly recommend to go see these sorts of paintings in a city palace like https://www.snijdersrockoxhuis.be/en/ , subject matter and setting complement each other so beautifully.

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