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dukeofdummies

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  • What are the modern design trends you hate most?

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  • I'm currently sitting in a modern car dealership and ever single chair SUCKS. Modern chairs are hard, low backed, have funky angles, and if they are high backed, it's to give this half assed sense of privacy that just isn't there.

    Man old chairs are so much better. You just sunk and could almost take a nap.

  • The convention season is starting up again

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  • I can't imagine the wildfires in the state helped either.

    Minnesota still has a thriving con scene, the very first con we had after covid was nearly bursting at the seams. Matter of fact akeome con started up because of covid. It started as an online con and when it ended they decided to do it for real.

  • The convention season is starting up again

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  • Which cons did you go to?

    I always find it interesting hearing the stories and events from other states and countries.

  • What's the worst "corporate speak/buzzwords" that you absolutely hate?

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  • I heard "rightsizing" for the first time last year.

    I have no idea what knucklehead PR dumbass came up with that but it made the following layoffs even more unpalatable.

  • I avoid approaching women in public because I believe it's inappropriate. My parents say that it's a necessary skill. Who is right?

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  • I gave up because I was typing on my phone.

  • I avoid approaching women in public because I believe it's inappropriate. My parents say that it's a necessary skill. Who is right?

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  • I think you have a point, but also you've cranked that point to 11. Possibly 12.

    Like yes, women can be really infuriated by how often they get hit on. I know the main reason my wife wanted a stereotypical wedding ring with a single diamond was that "it'll keep the flies away"

    But also... people interact with you in public. It's like... a property of public spaces. Indeed talking to my wife in a public space is how we met.

    The way you make it sound from your description would be that asking some woman directions would be a social fopah. Hell, where does just "having a conversation" land for you then? If you leave without asking for a number, is it different?

    There's a difference between idle chit chat and approaching like Johnny Bravo.

  • Why does it seem like so many (young) men these days flock over to types like Andrew Tate?

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  • One thing that I really wonder is if things have at all improved amongst men. It's gone downhill with any Andrew Tate fans but like, if a group of 18 year olds watched Animal House or Revenge of the Nerds today, how many would be outright appalled?

    They were popular in the day. Specifically among men. I just feel like it would be a fascinating experiment that could demonstrate some progress is being made. Perhaps people can breathe a bit easier.

  • "This is a mistake": House Democrats fume at David Hogg's plan to oust lawmakers

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  • Why this is not brought up every other day whenever Schumer or Pelosi think they are out of touch, I will never know.

  • SHOCK POLL: AOC a Close Second Place Behind Kamala Harris in 2028 Democratic Primary

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  • I'm not,

    I'm genuinely skeptical that most polls are an accurate sampling of the population. Most people I know would never sit through a phone poll. Most polls reek of phishing. One of the very first phone polls said that Dewy would beat Truman in a landslide. It was completely wrong because it was predominantly rich people who had the phones to even answer the polls.

    Who has the time for polls? Who drops by the candidate booths at the state fair? It's a type for sure.

    The only poll I have been a part of all last year was a phone poll entirely about optometrists and eye appointments and how they should be handled in the healthcare system. I couldn't even finish it because the entire things was just... painful to go through.

  • Is "AI" A Buzzword?

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  • It totally is in my experience. I have literally sat in meetings pushing AI... but absolutely NO steering or discussion on what we ought to do with it. They will relabel related things that have existed for years as AI.

    It's like instead of having a bunch of nails and needing a way to pound them in, we've been given a nail gun and a requirement to use it.

    "But we sell balloons"

    "Dont worry, the nail gun will make everything better"

  • Linux or Landfill? End of Windows 10 Leaves PC Charities with Tough Choice

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  • ... that's a really compelling reason for linux.

    I mean the next few years are going to be rough. Being able to recycle these things for basic use is going to be huge. Windows, mac, people need the internet more than anything else. It's a sad way to gain adoption but it could be insanely impactful...

  • I want to branch out from PLA. Should I try ABS or TPU?

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  • Depends on the hardness of the tpu. You don't have to dive into full flexibility

  • Republicans enabling Trump's reign of terror will be remembered for nothing but their silence

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  • This is why I'm of the opinion that we should refer to everyone in the legislative branch by state. Names should only be necessary for campaigning for the primary and the general. Sure, put their name in the title bar at the bottom of the screen as they speak, but the media should just refer to all politicians by their state of origin.

    hear me out

    We have almost 600 people in power in the legislative branch. 100 in the senate and 435 in the house. My home state has 10 Politicians in this branch, Georgia has 16, California has 54 . Most people struggle with 10 names at a party lasting 4 hours. Good luck trying to keep track of all of them on, unless you are a political science major, a purely casual basis. We will only be able to keep track of 3 to 5 politicians that just... truly suck. A few that we really like, and the rest... let's just be real here, do god knows what.

    You can do a lot of damage being hidden and convoluted, and I don't think it's unfair to simplify it by grouping politicians by state. If a Georgia politician does not want to be grouped with Marjorie Taylor Greene then they need to provide ammunition to get them ousted in the next election cycle. If they don't then they're part of the problem. This also drags all of the state into things. If I don't like Tom Emmer, I sigh and move on about my day. If I find Minnesota did something dumb, then I get cranky. Oh wow, this is the guy in my district, or my neighbor's district? I had no idea. I want this guy out!

    What's more, it incentivizes cooperation and competition at a state level, and begins to break up the more monolithic federal level of the parties. Federally, it's easier to pace the unpopular positions to be pushed by people with 4 years left in office, and hope the heat cools down three years later. If the entire state gets dragged into unpopular positions, it makes them much harder to push.

  • Why should someone join the Fediverse?

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  • It's constantly evolving. New communities are getting constantly added, and new servers spun up for different reasons and ethos' are being spun up every day.

  • ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners

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  • I for one cheer and root for my flip phone friends.

    I'd never do it, but we have one at work and he's singlehandedly causing so much grief at work. Because none of the engineers wanna use a security app for login. They want a fob.

    IT refuses to pay for fobs and wants us to use an app, but they also don't want to pay for a phone for anyone in engineering just to use the security app because it opens a floodgate of people with company phones.

    It's just wonderful to watch this fight from the sidelines sipping tea.

  • To hand power 'back to the people,' House Dems propose amendment to reverse Citizens United

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  • I mean, they had 14 years didn't they?

    Have they ever tried to pass an ammendment for this?

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  • Is there even a point to which one you pick? I just picked .kbin because I liked the UI, and when that fell apart I moved to .world mostly at random.

    Is there really a large difference between them?

  • Anyone actually seeing AI to do the jobs of tech workers?

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  • Had a new hire try to do all his automation programming in python with an AI. It was horrifying.

    Lists and lists and lists of if else statements they caught if a button errored but never caught if it did the right thing. 90% of their bug reports were directly due to their own code. Trivially provable.

    Work keeps trying to tell us to use more AI but refuses to mention whether the training data is using company emails. If it is then a buttload of unlabeled non public data is getting fed into it. So only a matter of time until a "fun fact" from the AI turns into a nightmare.

    Most of our stuff is in an obscure field with outdated code, so any coding assistance is not really that impressive.

  • If money was not an issue, is there a movie, series, or a video game you would fund as a passion project with no intention on making a profit on it?

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  • Yeah, the performance pushed me away as well. I haven't had a graphics card struggle in a long time. It was very painful to see it happen to me in VR. Like damn near nauseating.