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jtrek

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  • I Bought Friendster for $30k — Here’s What I’m Doing With It

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  • Modern social networks are pretty trash, but I don't have an iPhone so this is a non starter.

    Even so, I'd rather just... text my friends.

  • What do you actually like to do with your day?

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  • Read.

    Hang out with partner or friend. That usually means reading, watching something, playing a game. Sometimes just lounging near each other.

    Play video games.

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  • ...what? Poor joke or failure at math?

  • Microsoft drops Copilot branding in Notepad for Windows 11 for everyone, but it’s really just a rename

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  • Windows is pretty bad and their management are soulless husks.

    They could rip out all the AI garbage and I wouldn't trust that they learned anything. Fuck 'em.

    Linux is free and meet all my needs.

  • Federal Surveillance Tech Becomes Mandatory in New Cars by 2027

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  • You'd think more libertarian types would be more in favor of walkable cities, biking, and such.

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  • Half your age plus 7 is an okay rule for finding the floor. Don't aim for the floor. Plus 10 is less eyebrow raising.

  • Help Me like Penny Arcade

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  • This is the only penny arcade comic I remember, but I liked it.

    I tried to use it as a clue and prop in a tabletop RPG once, and one of the players unironically said "I'm not reading all of that". She was not a great player.

  • Where do you discover new music?

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  • Bandcamp new and notable

    Bands I like touring with other bands

    Record labels I like put out new stuff

  • We all have emails damnit!

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  • I don't know if it's like different learning styles or what but some people just need to have a whole ass call. I'm like, I'll just write you a nice message you can refer back to. Nope.

  • Online dating without the apps?

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  • yeah, clearly a random stranger on the internet knows more about my own life and my own life experiences than I do.

    You sound absolutely delusional, so, yeah maybe.

    It’s the same story in any major USA coastal city.

    I don't know what city you're in, but the median income in NYC is like $85k and there is a wide range of people here.

    I make 150K a year, own a modest condo, and I am considered ‘poor’ because the expected income for a desirable man is 300-500K a year.

    Don't try to date the kind of person who expects $400k/year? In all my years of dating I don't think I've ever met someone with that expectation, and that's probably for the best.

  • Online dating without the apps?

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  • The attractive people involved are already coupled.

    It is also extremely implausible that this is 100% true. Unless you were going to events that select for couples, you're going to find a mix of relationship states.

    physical fitness has nothing to do with attractiveness. lots of unattractive people are super fit, and lots of attractive people are unfit.

    People generally find healthiness attractive. Fitness is correlated with healthiness, and this somewhat correlated with attractiveness. Tastes differ. But generally, people are not going to find "can't run up the stairs without wheezing" more attractive than "can run"

    I live in a city full of wealthy entitled people, who think they are superior to others by birthright and what college they went to, and who won’t talk to you if you don’t work for a fortune 500 company.

    Very few cities are so homogeneous. Don't dox yourself but what do you feel comfortable sharing about what city this is? I find it extremely unlikely that the entire city is full of people who only talk to fortune 500 people. Do all the wait staff and service workers exist in silence and depart the city at dusk?

    Sounds like you're putting up barriers blocking your own success, mostly.

  • Online dating without the apps?

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  • I’ve never met an attractive woman in any meetup, sports even, hobby, or volunteering thing I have ever done.

    This sounds extremely implausible. Those activities should have a wide, fairly random, selection of attractiveness. Sports might favor people more physically fit, which is positively correlated with common ideas of attractiveness.

    Maybe you're using some non-standard or idiosyncratic standard of attractive?

    I get absolutely nothing except the occasional random weirdo woman who approaches me at a bar and starts telling me what stupid jerk I am for reading books or having a cat

    On the other hand, maybe you live in hell?

  • Online dating without the apps?

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  • I feel like if you're not going to use an app, you should focus on real life. Join meetups. Join a local sports team. Posting on a forum isn't going to be more effective than that.

  • Meta staff protest surveillance software on work PCs

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  • It's hard to make a full judgment without knowing more details but "the pay is good and it's easy" isn't really a compelling justification for "and I help evil manifest in the world".

  • Until it affects me

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  • I also commented there by accident once because I didn't read the community name. They politely asked me to refrain from doing so. I was embarrassed, and have been more careful.

    Apparently for some people this is unacceptable.

  • Meta staff protest surveillance software on work PCs

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  • I knew a guy who went to work for palantir a bunch of years ago. Was always friendly at work. I asked him "but what're you going to do if they do bad stuff, like spying on people?"

    He just shrugged. Didn't care. The money was good.

    I don't know if this alone is proof that's a bad person, but I think it precludes him from being a good one.

  • Hegseth removes flu vaccination requirement for US troops

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  • Do you think they're intentionally trying to weaken the US, or just stupid?

  • I still have more beef for that hack

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  • There are several problems.

    One. Wotc are seeking players who aren't paying attention and have no head for rules. They don't want complexity.

    Two, it's bad to make one class have a ton of complexity while others stay at "I move and attack", and they really don't seem to want to give other classes more complex options.

    DND isn't designed well. It's the Harry Potter of RPGs. Also the JavaScript.

  • Chip Roy Unveils ‘MAMDANI Act’ to Bar, Deport Migrants Over Ideology

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  • The legislation seeks to amend existing immigration law to bar entry and naturalization, as well as create new grounds for deportation for anyone linked to what it describes as “totalitarian” parties, both foreign and domestic.

    Trumpism is pretty "totalitarian". I wouldn't be that upset if all the magas got removed from power, and the irony of their own law being used to do it would be delicious.

    That humor aside, this is a terrible idea that should be grounds for Roy's immediate removal from office.