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Eliot

7 months

@debarghya_das “I stole things from a variety of people who worked incredibly hard on them, did not pay them, and created an incomprehensible piece of garbage out of them.” Everyone will not be filmmakers.

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3 months

@Kazanjy You got ratio’d on every reply and I just hope you’re the sort of person who can learn from it. Employees output should be based on results, not their use of time. This is America. Land of liberty and capitalism. If you’re both making money and no one is harmed, leave em be.

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@eliotpszw

5 months

@neighborrunner If we let population size be the sole determinant of legislative power, cities would be making policy decisions about farming. The wealthy and elite city areas would end up with all the authority. This was a safeguard against those exact situations. It’s obvious it is needed.

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6 months

@Wario64 "We are only going to make Madden, FIFA, and Need for Speed going forward because we are a bunch of MBA's and haven't had a single creative thought in our life."

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@themaxburns I do this as a late millennial adult. Who has the time to give undivided attention for a phone call? Gotta schedule that shit with me.

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5 months

@raywongy @olorinhenderson Everyone has a million things going on if they’re successful. Is your market people with nothing to do? Because thats the only people who will take the time to learn whatever this interface is. On a gadget thats already fading away.

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@PTBwrites @mattyglesias @JerusalemDemsas He doesn’t want to hear data! Just VIBES. Office good, remote bad, everything sucks and its remotes fault!

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@DaveOshry I feel like so much of the problem of the game is just that its too easy. Theres no depth to any systems and it shows in how easy it is to “compete” in every system the game introduces.

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@MJ54 @raywongy @olorinhenderson Yeah learning useful things that better you in life. Not a bespoke interface to a gimmick product.

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@jasonschreier “Final Stretch”. It’ll end up being a year or more. I understand crunch, maybe a month or two of it to get it out of the door, but this will end up being abuse. 7 days a week. They will get no cut of the extremely profitable pie from it either.

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7 months

@ikristoph @a_musingcat Is it though? Does information handed to you stick? For most people getting information isn’t hard. The hard part is retaining and using accurate information. AI is removing the “stickiness” that the process of attaining knowledge provides. Well, that and it lies constantly.

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@eliotpszw

2 months

@LibertyLockPod Jack Black is an American treasure. Anybody insulting the man is not worthy of calling themselves an American.

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@deedydas Just another piece of proof that when they get the porn angle sorted out AI girlfriends and boyfriends are going to be the number one use of AI.

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7 months

@McFrosty86 Nobody wants to tune in to a hundred games per team per season. The NFL got it right. High stakes per game. Make every game count. Easier to understand the stories, the arcs, the emotional tides. If they can’t do that, they’ll die to a new generations harder won attention.

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@eliotpszw

8 months

@BethesdaStudios @StarfieldGame Is there some contingent of players I am unaware of asking for all these endless graphical tweaks? I think everyone just wants bases to work and for added high level content?

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5 months

@LinkofSunshine This will get a community note shortly for being blatantly false. Besides the fact that your number is wrong, it omits increasing costs elsewhere. That, and a shrinking middle class.

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@UdahoDuncan @neighborrunner Yes, two states famous for screwing up their agricultural policies because they are distracted by city and federal policies.

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5 months

@Palworld_EN Really impressive. Better and more meaningful update than many AAA studios and in better time. Solves a lot of my gripes and had a few great surprises. Dedicated servers on XBox (with cross play!) would be the final nice touch.

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4 months

@AlecStapp A little disingenuous to not credit Matt Levine and Money Stuff. If this sort of stuff interests you, give it a listen y’all. It fucking slaps.

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@eliotpszw

4 months

@PaulSkallas Christopher Hitchens is a legendary writer and thinker. His ideas had a profound impact on my and many other peoples lives.

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4 months

@AmericanFietser The F-150 is irresistible. Europeans will fall for its charm and your small streets will magically widen to welcome it.

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7 months

@picotop *If 100% of tax returns are fraudulent. I’m fairly sure that 0.2% is a lot of lazy fraud that gets caught by automated systems.

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@eliotpszw

6 months

@inerati She was a professor there. She spent a lot of her life building that institution up. Now she wants to ensure it continues on. Its a totally commendable use of money. Ideally the school accepts more applicants who otherwise couldn’t be considered now.

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5 months

@RealSharpClaw @UdahoDuncan @neighborrunner Its a good thing to learn. Its why I like twitter. I don’t have some agenda. Just enjoy the dialogue, find a lot of viewpoints I hadn’t considered, etc etc.

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@nyc_prophet Please don’t get them distracted from releasing Elder Scrolls in the next 5 years 🙏🙏🙏

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@GuyTalksFinance Aren’t you living in a rental struggling to afford a house?

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@eliotpszw

6 months

@fchollet Either you are so similarly minded to your peers that you don’t notice the politics, or you aren’t paying attention to others at work. Sure, high TC folk pretend to be more libertarian as they watch the money drain out of their pockets, but Google is painful with its politics.

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4 months

@_Eduphile Alcohol also makes you fun and entertaining. Something you sorely need.

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@eliotpszw

5 months

@HelldiversAlert Your “Known Issues” removed being unable to accept a friend invite. I think that is the vast majority of users issue. I see all the “related” known issues, but somehow that went missing and it is certainly not fixed.

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@eliotpszw

5 months

@Teslaconomics This looks like half the roads in Vermont. Theres a 20 year old Subaru ripping 60 MPH down a worse dirt road than this somewhere in VT right now.

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@eliotpszw

5 years

@aspencer418 @TPERGO @CSmoove_NBAHoop @TalbertSwan @rolandsmartin @browardsheriff Yeah, of course its easy to second guess them... We all just watched a 20 second video of a cop assaulting a minor. There could have been 500 people - it doesnt matter. Part of a cops duty is to be level headed in tough situations. If they cant, dont be a cop.

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@eliotpszw

6 months

@RedTailTabby @wife_geist ChatGPT, well known for lying and creating fiction from the prompts its given, seemed like a useful source here?

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@eliotpszw

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@parrmenidies @AuthorOnTheSide @Rainmaker1973 ChatGPT making errors. > So, if 1 pound is the potato stuff, and that's now 2 pounds out of the whole bag, the whole bag must weigh 50 pounds now. Its not 2 pounds of the whole bag, its now 2/100ths or 2% of the bag. So that means 1 pound went from being 1% to 2%.

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@RepBeccaB @dawnstaley I’m all for liberty, and trans people can do whatever they want with their own bodies. That can’t come at the cost of women’s sports being taken over by biological males. Sports are gendered to create fair competition. Why would we stop that for one class of people?

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@RealSharpClaw @UdahoDuncan @neighborrunner Honestly just started getting too many responses to keep responding! I could totally believe thats the case, but its not exactly like any sources are being shown… its just as believable as the alternative though. I’m not stuck in my views, sometimes you’re wrong. Thats life.

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@UdahoDuncan @neighborrunner Doesn’t California have some of the most depleted aquifers in the world?

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@TorgalXIII @DaveOshry Skyrim also has the benefit of ~15 years of mods that enable you to make it (mostly) whatever you want. Starfield is six months after release without a formal modding platform available for “creation engine 2”.

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@eliotpszw

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@BethesdaStudios @StarfieldGame @AMD Terrible use of resources. Finish Creation Kit. Release content. Allow customizing ship interiors. Fix the entire base system. Make planets have life. In the months you’ve wasted on graphic card specific features, BG3 ate your lunch and shipped three major updates.

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@SpaceborneMedic @braxton_mccoy > All I see is decades of government intervention and central planning disrupting what could be a fluid market. I understand each of these words but I don’t have a clue what you’re trying to blame… Are you frustrated with interest rates? The fed backs mortgage, which is why

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@BasedBeffJezos Its not a good response. It answers none of Elons more critical points. 1. It should be open source. 2. They are incredibly disingenuous. 3. They’ve guaranteed corporate interests the most say. 4. Zero answer to existential questions of their safety controls.

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5 months

@boobsncat @MJ54 @raywongy @olorinhenderson This is just peak basic internet response. Guy on twitter responding four responses deep saying “twitter bad”. It’s where I converse politically about niche things in my state, learn new things, hear opposing viewpoints… It’s as educational as you make it.

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@TorgalXIII @DaveOshry And that is what has enabled Skyrim to be and continue to be one of the most enjoyable games ever made. Unclear if Starfield can ever get to that level. Skyrim did have deep systems on release (enchanting, magic schools, secret final dragon mask).

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@jalangson2292 @2Bogalooo9 @Hellenica7 @realAngryViking @mjinko_ie @sleepy_devo @franklinsideout This is maybe the most disgusting thing I’ve ever read on twitter. You should be ashamed of yourself.

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@alcibiades5410 @neighborrunner I would disagree that they have the same wants. City people want cheap tasty food and don’t care how it gets there. The people producing it want to be paid well and not work like slaves. How are those not at conflict?

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@sabreflier @SpaceborneMedic @braxton_mccoy Capitalism and libertarianism are not the same. Capitalism isn’t some totally unregulated market. Wall Street would quickly own all housing in the country and everyone would be perpetual rent slaves if so.

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@EliotShorrParks “Impossible”

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@LightYTOffical I think New Vegas is the best fallout entry and never once noticed this… attitude (?) in all my thousands of hours playing until the show. The shows fantastic. They needed some creative liberty and look what they did with it! Created a wonderful thing. These “fans” need to calm

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8 months

@sophiebits @nomadtechie @JSPartyFM When 95% of the work going into React is RSC based, and the vast majority of consumers don’t care for RSC, something is amiss. I want to stick with React, but the sheer investment from core contributors into Next (a mostly vercel driven, for-profit shtick) is concerning. Also,

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@captive_ia @themaxburns Its not like rich, important, and busy people have paid secretaries who act as a do not disturb filter because they too value their time. Famously not smug as well.

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@foxyjewishmama “Possible” !== preferred. I think its doable. I just prefer having space and feeling like I have solitude when I want it.

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@AlexVonBronx @jasonschreier This is barely veiled code for crunch. Rockstar has an infamous reputation for this.

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@brndxix Is it “the left”? This felt like Incels and Influencers versus Everyone Else.

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@GuyTalksFinance Can you back up that number with something that isn’t easily refutable? I bought a 4 bed, 2400 sq ft house in 2020 at 2.8% that is now worth 800k according to a government assessment last month that I pay a fixed ~$2300 on a month. Even assuming $20k in extras a year (thats a

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@mwfowlie @Aella_Girl Amphetamines were/are widely used in war, and are used in sports today for this purpose. When I grew up, any frustrating student in public schools was told they had ADHD and prescribed meds. There is no verifiable blood test for ADHD. Amphetamines just work on anyone.

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@PMBY89 @alcibiades5410 @neighborrunner I said what they want. Not what they get.

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7 months

@GordonOfSeattle Is this really a ‘24 talking point? We’re going to start discussing speed limiting cars? A: I’d bet good money a very high percentage of vehicular fatalities are more related to driver fault than car speed. B: This is another example of the sort of single issue policy that will

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@JessicaTetreau @elonmusk Ameritrade accounts are now Schwab accounts and she needed to set up a new account. They messaged this well. Atleast ten emails over six months and insanely in your face notifications in app.

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@JeanLucBBX @DeepDishEnjoyer You’re out of your mind if you think you’re going to 6x in 1.33 yrs.

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@neighborrunner In what world do I want Texas making decisions for New England? New England where each state has a storied history on their own, each longer than Texas’s. I think the solution is probably less federal power and more state power, though there are a lot of asterisks around that.

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@ShaiRinku @neighborrunner Its superceded by federal policy.

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@Wasps_n_Moths @neighborrunner I mean 94% of Californians are urban. 80% of America is urban according to the census in 2020, and I imagine that trend continued.

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@ChazakielDoremi Given the pay of game devs versus other software engineers and the fairly high cost of games versus other software, to me this just means there are far too many middlemen in between the producers and the consumers. Gaming has higher consumption and consumer spend then ever before

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@SwannMarcus89 That bump is just him being pro-zyn. The roadmap to political success.

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@vtdigger I’m no Republican, but this has been frustrating to watch. It feels like the legislature is so incredibly out of touch with actual Vermonters needs. More housing, lower taxes. Its simple. VT democrats need to start representing their constituents or they will be voted out.

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@vtdigger Looking at these numbers: ~7.5k vs ~7k votes respectively between progressive and democrat candidates is fascinating. There are 12k students at UVM. If even half of them vote, they essentially pick the winner. These are temporary residents of the city. Likely leaving at 22

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@Lifter_Fren There are many women that like men as much as men like women. There are many that like beer. Dating is still as easy as it always was; make yourself attractive and don’t shout weird incel takes on twitter.

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@pooplius @marknorm More than half of Earth was drunk 24/7 in the 19th century and earlier.

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@ikristoph @a_musingcat I think this is a health(ier) use of AI than how statistics and my anecdotal experience has seen. I teach at a bootcamp as a moonlighting gig, and I have a much younger college aged brother; young adults use it as a replacement of research and blindly trust the results.

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@sam_clark1701 @foxyjewishmama Yeah, I miss delivery food. I do like having “true” silence. No noise at all except maybe the wind and birds. To each their own!

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@timheidecker I actually heard he ate some peanut butter ice cream today, which is a fairly drastic change in status. He went from hospice to in hospice with a peanut flavored brain freeze.

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@3MegistusHermes @HelldiversAlert I don’t know man, I chuck Eagle 500’s at my feet for democracy every day.

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@getifyX This is the most pessimistic I’ve seen your tweets. I recommended v1 of your book to my students for a long time. Theres lots of high quality intentional JS still written. Theres always been a market for “get it done”. That markets just expanding. Keep your head up.

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@th0ughtvect0r @AlecStapp Yes chef!

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@TheJackForge I dont think Gen AI is a real replacement for search. Its a useful but different tool that solves a different problem (answer questions) versus traditional search (find resources). I’ve been using @KagiHQ and am mostly happy with it. It has Gen AI features and search.

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@gunsnrosesgirl3 This is painful. How would you remove these things? Also, without heads upwards force will just yank that off? Sooo much effort for a fucking awful solution.

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@LifeSciKES @GovPhilScott He’s the most popular governor in the United States. He’s not the one out of touch. Burlington and its views do not represent Vermont. The legislature did a terrible job this session. We needed housing and lower business costs. They did the opposite. Of course he’s vetoing.

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@RaychFeldman They have a right to free speech. This is America. I’d feel equally unsafe if I saw people waving Israeli flags around. At one point in this conflict Israel had most of the world mourning for them. 30,000 dead Palestinian civilians later, they have lost that goodwill.

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@foxyjewishmama Im no suburb-stan but its a bit disingenuous to say suburbs are an hour from fun. In my decade living in NYC before leaving, many of the things me and my friends loved doing required going out to the burbs or further. Also, some subway rides in the city close in on an hour! You

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@iamjohnoliver Love your show - but cmon. Im not voting Trump either, but time to step up and cover both sides. Hillary deserves an episode.

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@sammarelich @sweatystartup This is the most incel post I’ve read on twitter.

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@vtdigger We have both a housing crisis and a labor crisis. We need to be convincing young adults to move here or stay here after college. We need to be incentivizing businesses and people to come and stay here with low or no taxes. Not scaring them away.

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I think this is very much in line with my views. I find myself using 98% stuff that has been around since almost the beginning. The occasional need and “coolness” of a reusable hook/Suspense or whatever is… nice… but unneeded. I really think the React group needs to be brought

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You inspired me, @cassidoo . Since hooks and the early conception of the suspense API, I have personally felt that React has been obsessed with just a handful of concepts. While technically impressive and undoubtedly pushing the limits and boundaries of what a single-threaded UI

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@RichardHanania Buy a home in a rural area and get good at a trade. You can make six figures and have a 3 bed 2 bath home as an electrician in 60+% of the land area of the country right now. But most want to be in a major city, overeducated, and with low disposable income. Why?

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@ChazakielDoremi Overpaid execs, outsized marketing budgets, far too much time spent floundering around in endless pivots… Game devs need to be paid MORE and less people need to get a chunk of flesh between the devs and players.

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@PoliticsOnX @CollinRugg @nbcsnl I mean, it was funny. 20 years is a long-ass time. Theres been funnier even in the category of “made for conservatives” comedy on SNL. Like the Please Dont Destroy John Mulaney “Good Covid” bit.

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@DeveloperHarris You've clearly never worked a retail job. Some zyn'd out 16 year old cashier can stock that entire thing in about 15 seconds flat.

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@vtdigger We have one of the highest tax burdens of any state, yet receive very little for it. Vermonters are yelling that taxes are too high! Then, bewilderingly, the state legislature goes and increases them more. We need to decrease taxes and change how we pay for schools. We pay a

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@WarrenInTheBuff Hell yeah brother. I used to give advice similar to this to engineers looking for a new place, but it has become a bit harder to find the small, hardcore, and focused shops.

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@immanencer Sometimes you just gotta know that oil temp. When do you need the back of your hand anyway?

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@nikitabier It doesn't actually. Airchat will fade, like every other temporal nothingburger that rides on a wave of insincere uniqueness. "Oh, I use my voice, how neat" "Oh censorship in my behavior" "This is inconvenient, I can't do this at dinner" In a month no one will give a shit.

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@cppoa1969 This is absurd. Apologize and stop with the excuses. Theres no use of the word “purge” thats not condoning violence in the context you used it. Entirely inappropriate, threatening, and lacking empathy.

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@APKramar @sgodofsk You need to touch some grass buddy

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@robpalmer2 @peetklecha @TechAtBloomberg @TC39 Very cool and eminently useful! I’ll be using this in place of some custom stuff I have at work ASAP.

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@antranapp The difference between what everyone is saying and your quoted response is negligible. The value proposition is that people want to record a subsection of a screen and there are built-in and third party ways (Gifox) to do it already.

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@AlignmentGuts I don’t think discord is nearly as profound as this seems to suggest. Since the earliest days of the internet there have been communities hidden from easily searchable means.

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@Swizec @TkDodo I was wondering why there was such a defense to such a preposterous claim and finally went and just realized its because he’s selling a course on how to use react-query 😂 I guess if I sold the alternative I’d tell people to never use “useEffect” too.

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@pitdesi *5 years later* Narrator: It wasn’t fucking awesome.

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@GuyTalksFinance Renters don’t universally save $1000 a month. I assume you are either spitting some very rounded average you heard or you live in the suburb of some big city?

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@foxyjewishmama What better excuse to own a thing than it being what you need in your big moments. Holidays, emergencies, groceries, family events, favors. American cities cannot operate without them.

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@vtdigger The governor is the most liked governor in the US. The dems tried to run both Dean and Weinberg and both don’t want to. Thats because Vermont has decided we need Phil to be there to reign in your failing policies and plans. Burlington has too much influence.

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