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jtrek

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  • How do you get better at communicating your thoughts in discussions?

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  • I don't know how to grade myself on clarity of communication, but I'll share some things I think have helped.

    Avoid long sentences. Many people don't read well, and even those that do will get lost in a long block of text.

    Read back what you wrote out loud.

    Do not neglect the emotional front. Conversations and convincing are about emotions more than facts. Acknowledge their position. Make them feel heard.

    Read more. Read a variety of things. Op-eds in newspapers. Books of various genres. Old stuff. New stuff. Feed your brain more than word junk food.

    Ask questions. Sincere questions. Don't try to trick them. People are usually happy to talk about themselves and their beliefs. Use this to find common ground and shared experience.

  • Zohran Mamdani hints he will continue taking on delivery apps like Uber Eats and DoorDash

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  • It seems like their calculations always return high prices. I can't think of any service that has had the price drop significantly.

  • Why are there so many adult children out there in the world?

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  • People are social creatures. They follow peer pressure. If you want to make the world better, one of the ways is to spend the effort to be better, to work on being kind with other people.

    I had two different work friends, years ago. Both of them had low to mid grade homophobia. They'd say things. But after a couple years of me working on them, they stopped.

    Was it worth it? Maybe. It was harder than just writing them off, but I like to think as a result of my spending the time with them, they hurt people less.

  • RFK Jr tells US families to vaccinate children against measles amid outbreak

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  • He should be personally, criminally, liable for the deaths and suffering caused by his policies. So should leadership that supported him.

  • Do you think I should get a PC or a PS5 for my birthday?

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  • Pc.

    • more utility than just games. Code, write, etc.
    • a backlog of games going back like 40 years
    • will still be usable and with new content for years. A PC today will probably be able to play some hot new indie games in 15 years.
    • no subscription fee for online play, generally
    • more free games
    • many games are cheaper
    • broader range of input choices
    • emulators and the high seas, if that's your thing

    Edit, days later: and mods! Mods are huge.

  • Zohran Mamdani hints he will continue taking on delivery apps like Uber Eats and DoorDash

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  • Why would they lower costs when they can just not do that?

  • Zohran Mamdani hints he will continue taking on delivery apps like Uber Eats and DoorDash

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  • Having these self driven cars run by private profit driven companies seems like a bad idea. Infrastructure, which this is trying to be, should not be private.

  • Republicans want voters to elect Kansas Supreme Court justices and move court to the right

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  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_experiment

    The Kansas experiment was a name given to a controversial and widely noted tax-cutting policy/agenda of Kansas Governor Sam Brownback that began with Brownback signing a bill cutting state taxes (Kansas Senate Bill Substitute HB 2117), in May 2012,[1][2] and ended with the Kansas legislature's repeal of the bill in June 2017. It was one of the largest income tax cuts in

    Despite its record and the fact that "many experts regard the Kansas tax cuts as a failure", the 2017 Republican tax cuts (Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017) had some of the same elements of Brownback's policy, and "many Republicans still embrace the ideology" behind the Kansas tax cuts.[2]

    Conservatives don't learn shit.

  • Is Bluesky still worth it in 2026 or is it just as unhinged as Elon Musk's hate monger MAGA terrorist cesspool?

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  • Why would you use another privately owned platform that's likely to enshittify?

  • Linux's market share in North America has breached 10% for the first time, says StatCounter

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  • Cool. Been on Linux for a couple years. No real complaints. No tinkering. It just works and is a boring-ass plasma kde desktop environment.

  • US Nurse Alleges ICE Agents Broke Her Kneecap in $500,000 Legal Claim

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  • ICE and all of their supporters need to go.

  • It's so frustrating.

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  • There's a lot of ghost jobs. Should probably be illegal to knowingly post a ghost job, with penalties to the tune of "pay a year's salary to every applicant"

  • As Reddit stock falls, CEO questions value of Google's AI Overviews

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  • Reddit could have just continued on a place with good user generated content. Could've been profitable and popular. Instead they shitted it up. So fuck it. I hope their leadership suffers.

  • Google Earth's new AI image generation function didn't survive a day after users deepfaked disasters

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  • Google is run by assholes and fools. They should be broken apart.

  • I think that jobs are starting to pick up

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  • Went a couple months without much beyond form letter "we have decided to move forward with candidates who better align with our needs" rejections. Got one internal apply going now for the sad mega Corp I'm at (but a better team, I'm told), and one referral got a call back.

    I think referrals are still the way to go. Sadly even that only goes so far.

  • The Masculinity Scam | The manosphere’s campaign strategy

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  • Unpopular opinion: Masculinity doesn’t exist. There’s feminine things and then there’s everything else.

    This seems to be a roundabout way of coming upon the idea of, like, defaults and privilege. Like how people will say the there's "sexual orientations: straight and political"

  • TIL you can get much better online prices using a public library computer

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  • Device finger printing should be illegal.

  • Google goes cash flow negative for the first time as AI data center buildout increases capex to a staggering $44.9 billion in a single quarter — CFO warns that capex will increase in 2027 as company…

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  • It didn't just happen like the stars moving overhead. People with names and bones did it.

  • Trump Has Made Billions in Office. Will His Party Pay Politically?

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  • Most Republicans value in-group solidarity more than things like justice or truth. So no, not unless Trump somehow becomes out-group.

    Maybe if we start a conspiracy that he's actually Jewish... No, that's like trying to use The One Ring.