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jtrek

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  • Many people are just as stupid as him.

    Our society prioritizes trash like nft startups instead of education

  • TIL that every year, drivers in New York City spend, on average, 107 hours — or more than four days — looking for parking spaces.

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  • Critics argue that those pushing for reforms “hate people who own cars,” in the words of Vickie Paladino, a City Council member who represents a district in Queens that is home to many car owners.

    I don't hate people who own cars but I do hate cars. They pollute. They take up valuable space. They're bad for the economy. They kill people.

    In 1996, Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani moved the city’s traffic enforcement agents, the unarmed civilians who write tickets for parking and other traffic violations, from the Transportation Department to the Police Department.

    Fuck Giuliani

    The other day I saw a car double parked in Brooklyn. The owner was sitting at a sidewalk table drinking coffee from the coffee shop that's there. A cop walked up and started to write a ticket, and the lady ran up to try to get out of it.

    On the one hand, fuck the police. On the other, fuck that lady for double parking so she could just chill out for a while. One of the most walkable neighborhoods, and there's a stupid amount of free, available, parking around there.

  • TIL that every year, drivers in New York City spend, on average, 107 hours — or more than four days — looking for parking spaces.

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  • I would rather use that space for homes for people than cars.

  • Every time...

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  • Your first (only?) job is to service the emotional needs of the employer

    This is mostly true even after you get hired. Most people are just large children with poorly managed emotions. It doesn't matter if you're right. It matters if your boss feels good.

  • Every time...

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  • A lot of HR people are incompetent. Recruiters, too. And when you give incompetent people AI tools it's a big multiplier of their incompetence.

    I don't understand why so many places still have non-technical people reading technical resumes.

  • Hawaii Just Found a Way to Keep Corporations Out of Politics

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  • Moore’s argument compels these courts to grapple with the very substantial body of law that defines corporations and their powers as creations of the states. The Alitos and Thomases will doubtless find a way, however implausible, to wriggle around that, but even if the usual suspects on the federal bench proceed in customary pro-business lockstep, actions like Hawaii’s will fuel in many ways the growing populist and popular revolt against oligarchy and corporatocracy.

    We know that we have these scumbag "justices" and yet they persist

  • Epstein file says Trump "knew and funded underage sex parties" at his golf course

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  • Are you going to allow states to issue currency?

  • Gaming PC deflects bullet shot through wall by neighbour, saving owner's life — criminal negligence charges for culprit who claims 'firearm was accidentally discharged by her dog'

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  • The book "dying of whiteness" has a whole section about this. They interview a lot of people who are survivors of gun suicide and find that for political reasons they don't want gun control, even as they admit their loved ones are dead because guns made it so easy to die. One of them even privately says she agrees, but would never say so in public.

  • When you know you're not getting your security deposit back, it becomes more of a budget. [Feral Mills]

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  • Thought the last frame was going to be pouring the hot oil on the landlord. I guess this is fine, too.

  • You Can Now Get a Religious Exemption From Using AI at Work

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  • I'm out of the loop now, but when I was younger there was a weird divide between the youth/young adult stuff, and adult.

    The adult stuff was a lot of traditional "sit and listen to a talk".

    The youth was a lot more hand on, interactive. "Let's start a bonfire, write down our fears, and throw them into it". "We got people from the community to teach how to make instruments out of junk".

    I really liked it when I was younger, and met a lot of kids who were very cool.

    Maybe I should see what's on offer around here. I don't want to go to a "service" but I miss the community sometimes.

  • AI Written, AI Read [Tom Fishburne]

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  • "Please run the formatter so the checks pass on the PR" is a perfectly fine and polite statement. Some people act like they're being attacked.

  • You Can Now Get a Religious Exemption From Using AI at Work

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  • I've known some cool unitarians. The org can collect a lot of upper middle class white people, but it's also the first place I really learned about LGBT rights in the 90s (I'm getting old) and other social justice stuff.

  • Man jailed for a month despite Flock showing he was 5 miles from crime scene

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  • Police should be held individually accountable

  • ‘More harmful than helpful’: young people sour on AI

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  • That's like using a machine to lift weights at the gym for you.

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  • or they think I’m challenging them in some way

    Admittedly, there is a bit of

    Them: "It works"

    Me: "I don't believe you. Prove it"

    that people might not like. But usually the people who take the most offense are the worst coders.

  • GOP Wants Trump to Shut Up About His Design Projects - Republicans are having a hard time swallowing Trump’s vanity projects amid skyrocketing prices.

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  • Republicans can fuck themselves off a cliff. They enable this. It tickles their stupid "in group good our group had" broken brains.

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  • I don't understand why people dislike tests. They don't take that long and you need to check things anyway.

    Well, I say that, and then I think of my coworkers that don't write tests and also push up code with syntax errors. Code that they clearly never even ran themselves.

  • Linux Falls Hard on Steam After Record 5% Milestone

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  • Still happily using Linux.

    I did switch the DE to kde plasma because the cosmic desktop was giving games a lot of trouble. Opening in weird window sizes, mostly. I did some light trouble shooting but decided I didn't care that much about the desktop environment, so I installed the 2nd one.

  • Meta putting up tents across the US to house AI servers, like ‘a scene out of the movie Mad Max’ — structures take three months to build and use jet engines for power

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  • I have wondered about that. What kind of range can you get DIY? I guess if you did fire something they could try to do physics to figure out where it came from, but you'd hopefully be long gone by then.