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  • ‘I’m over the moon’: New York’s small business owners rejoice as Mamdani cuts red tape

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  • I should ask the local pizza shop owner about this. He was pretty anti zohran. He said it's because he grew up in a post Soviet country, and believed socialism would turn into poverty for all.

  • The crystal ball

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  • I remember my child mind being blown when some clothing store my mom took me to had two giant mirrors facing each other. I guess it was so you could see how you looked with their outfits, but I was amazed by the infinite hall of me.

  • AOC says Mitch McConnell should resign if he cannot provide health update

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  • Conservatives tend to believe in different rules for different people. They don't really believe in equality

  • Google burning through cash with spiralling AI costs

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  • Maybe they should instead build technology that people want and that solves their needs.

  • How often do you admit you were wrong?

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  • I read an article once about how people change their minds. It cited a long term study that found people who changed their stance on big issues (eg: abortion) often didn't remember they had ever held the opposite opinion. Not only do people not like to admit changing their minds, sometimes they can't even consciously realize.

  • How often do you admit you were wrong?

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  • The only time I wont willingly admit it is if the other guy is a prick and it won’t do to give them an inch.

    At the risk of being seen as a prick myself, I feel like I hear the siren song of that behavior, but man is it unhealthy.

  • How often do you admit you were wrong?

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  • It’s more common if people arguing against me are inflammatory: “LOL, you absolute moron! Take a look at this: (well-researched study)”

    I try to remember that "The worst person you know just made an excellent point" onion post for times like that.

  • How often do you admit you were wrong?

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  • I really don’t want to be like my mother at all

    I think this is a big motivator for me. I've seen how aggravating it is when someone refuses to admit fault, continuously reaches for excuses and justifications and lies, rather than just shrug and say "Oh. Seems like you were right." Hell, you don't even have to explicitly say "I was wrong" most of the time.

  • House passes SAVE America Act anti-voting measures in budget reconciliation, stock trading bills

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  • The reason many conservatives don't like socialism is because the wrong sort of people will get nice things. That's it. If white people benefit then it's cool.

    They are bad people by any reasonable metric.

  • FCC changes rules so Internet Service Providers no longer need to disclose all the fees they charge

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  • I think something is just wrong with some people's brains where they go with in-group solidarity no matter what. Overrides almost any amount of logic and reason

  • The list of homes owned by Texas’ Ken Paxton grows, adding to his political problems | James Talarico accused his Republican rival of owning 11 homes. As it turns out, he was understating matters

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  • Maybe he's a magical pinata and if we hit him money will come out.

  • DOJ’s Reflecting Pool “Vandalism” Case Falls Apart With Pool Draining

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  • That's pretty typical of the US justice system. You can be falsely accused of something, spend a bunch of time with lawyers and bad press, and then they can just drop it. You don't get compensated.

  • Beyond CAPTCHAs: How do we keep human‑pretending bots out of the fediverse?

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  • I would recommend the invite tracking. Keep track of who invites bad actors, even higher order. If your friend's friends suck, that should reflect a little on you. If no one has vouched for you, then you're less trusted.

  • Forging a Democracy that Works for All: Institute for Policy Studies Launches Blueprint to Counter Power of Billionaires, Corporations, and the Pentagon ahead of Symposium

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  • One recurring problem is there are a lot of people who don't really want democracy. They want hierarchy. Many of them don't need to be at the top, so long as there are people below them.

    It's conservatives. Conservatives are the problem.

  • AI Didn’t Make Programming Easier. It Just Made It Differently Difficult

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  • but take any increased productivity for themselves

    Many people seem confused and this.

    Worker makes charts and reports. Owner sells for profit. Worker suddenly is making double the charts. Owner makes double the profit. Worker... ???

    Just like... What do they expect to happen.

  • It was a draft PR too

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  • I leave my PR in draft until the checks pass. I don't want anyone reviewing it when it's broken.

  • 2026 Corporate Training

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  • My job had the entire engineering team spend 12 hours in "training" with Microsoft for AI. All they did was show us like some basic GitHub functionality.

    Utter waste. Management are a bunch of fucking idiots.

  • How often do you admit you were wrong?

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  • Unfortunately, no. I think it was a semi-obscure but not terribly so word like "esoteric". We were all native speakers from the same region. From what else I remember from the conversation, her general practice was to avoid looking things up. If she couldn't figure it out from context, it wasn't worth doing more.

  • How often do you admit you were wrong?

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  • Unfortunately most people use very flawed arguments like trying to appeal to emotions or strawmaning my point (or one of the many fallacious things we all have to deal online). And that will not convince me, in fact it only proves you have absolutely no argument

    One thing I struggle to remember sometimes is someone can make a bad argument, but what they're arguing for can still be true.

    I used to work with a guy that would argue with me, and sometimes at the end he'd be like "I actually agree with your point, but I wanted you to be right for solid reasons"

    Of course, it's also very common for people to be making bad arguments because they're just feeling stuff, and they're pulling together whatever words come close to capturing that right now.