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3 years
I guess you can say, I was involved in a $CAR crash😢
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@yacineMTB Wym you don’t want to be invited to apply for a $200k MBA?
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@pojitos_ @paindesuxd Yea… I’d prefer LinkedIn but it’s also not like a personal number is sacred. I think it’s weirder to freak out over it, tbh.
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@Bulkington__ Smoke smells awful, I think it’s almost objective even, in the way a skunk smells bad. The only reason ppl can stand it or feel otherwise is due to nicotine.
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@ItsBizabizow I swear I’m being gaslit when people say it’s always been that expensive. I think there’s just more pieces/detail but the size is still roughly the same… for some ppl that’s great but man it’s expensive.
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@DrewSav Most ppl don’t realize how juiced everyone in Hollywood is too. I blame a lot of the actors that talk about a “6 month training routine” 🙃
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@ElleryKlein The library isn’t a daycare… librarians are awesome but they’re not personal nanny’s. Policy probably came about because of someone treating them as such.
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@JeremiahDJohns Are they just running around at 1hp all the time?
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@westofmain_ Going after ppl's livelihood is low, imho. Another problem is that people have been saying "cancel culture doesn't exist" for the past half decade.
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@levie strikes again
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@MichaelStahlke Crazy how non-experts are given any sort of legitimacy because thousands of other people “like” a post of their ideas.
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@TechEmails I don't blame him😂 He's prob still on edge after being hacked by an entire country.
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@BernoulliDefect At this point Americans should be worried about jobs being outsourced to Europe instead of India.
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@jus_tamon @pojitos_ @paindesuxd Idk, depends on the effort involved, IMO. Finding a number on LinkedIn takes only a few seconds (if it's on there). Driving to and hanging around a coffee shop is a lot of effort.
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@benhylak That’s unfortunately the vibe I’ve always got from Google. There are some crazy talented people there… but also the most unserious people I’ve ever seen.
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@StatisticUrban Crazy how that thread starts with 'the US is "obsessed" with Ireland because we dye the Chicago river green.' They don't even see the irony in commenting about American celebrations on an American app. Maybe its projection, lol.
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@mpopv When offered a plate of nuclear warheads, 180 countries said "nah, I'm good."
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@Lauramaywendel Some dude in the 4th or 5th century had to have spoken up and said something along the lines of "guys, think of the consequences we'll have with CSS" and was quickly shot down.
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@arithmoquine 15 miles is a lot, tbh. That's the "length" of Manhattan. Really cool but I wouldn't worry about doxxing.
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@LucyXIV When people say 7 figures it means $1,000,00.03, give or take.
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@reddit_lies Ah yes, the $100k+ minimum wage.
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@reddit_lies The solution is to read more. The reward is being able to experience books with a stronger vocabulary. You aren’t born with a strong vocabulary.
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@unusual_whales Being rich doesn’t make overrated coffee suddenly reasonable.
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@Fafferdaffy @reddit_lies Which is a travesty, tbh. Not saying everyone needs to be reading constantly… but I wish more people took it seriously.
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@reddit_lies This guy will end up spending dozens of hours, countless days working on this, for only like 300 people to see those comments lol.
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@DE_Gifford The nearest grocery store from the star in your image is 6 minutes away😂 (with traffic)
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@jxmnop This always sucks, tbh. A bit of a paradox. Spend so much time working, you can't really get recognition. Spend too much time putting yourself out there, can't get much work done.
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@thechosenberg Why do these people even get married. I swear half of these I see it’s as if they’ve entered a contractual partnership for the sake of it.
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@growing_daniel Dumb question from a non-public-transit-taking person... but why isn't there an authority figure that just sits on every train and prevents stuff like this?
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@AmericanRanger4 This is one of the oddest copes I’ve ever seen. Sending a crew to the moon and bringing them back is decidedly more impressive than all of those combined (not to diminish the work of scientists though!) Even so, the soviets could have kept going 🤷‍♂️ if they disagreed.
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@girlziplocked People that can afford big houses will buy big houses. If GenZ can afford them, they’ll buy them. Also, what location are you referring to?
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@reddit_lies Bet you can’t have these encounters while driving
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@realJordanSayre @petergyang Yep. I’ve “written” essays with Open AI and just having it create the paragraphs, I could easily see only spending 5-10 minutes gluing it all together without having to think about the source material at all.
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@SwannMarcus89 There was once a thread someone posted on Reddit talking about how they’re broke and blaming capitalism. Their post history included showing how they turned their spare bedroom into an arcade room with several thousand dollar machines lol.
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@ID_AA_Carmack Same sentiments exactly. The problem is that for the past decade, many on the left have cemented the claim that "cancel culture doesn't exist." How can someone be a victim of something that doesn't exist?
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@reddit_lies That’s just… sharing a happy moment.
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@yashar I feel like I’ve been making 10x more typos, that normally autocorrect would save 😅
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@liz_love_lace @Timothy77236895 Sure… but in a lot of cases (with this analogy) it’s like having to hold the users hand through installing an MP3 playing software. I try my best with my projects but usually they depend on certain tools and can’t be distributed easily as a single binary.
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@Nexuist It looks dumb but seems very functional... I don't understand why they didn't just go with a "bus-like" design though. Hardly anything in the front at that point lol
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@InternetHippo Where is lunch $20?
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@Atlanticesque I'll never forget when I asked an anarchist how they would handle crime. The answer was something along the lines of "there wouldn't be crime and if there was, we would figure it out"
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@ArmandDoma I just scrolled past that and that is 100% what happened. Insane. “X never happens!” “Well, X happens, here’s proof” “😠 why are you evil”
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@unusual_whales This is comically on brand.
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@buzzfeedjenny @ringolos1111 I totally agree every job is worth respect. In the same vein, you, me and everyone here will not be as efficient at being a sanitation worker as someone that has done that for years. Even switching projects internally and within one’s profession is costly.
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@JohnLogoff @DrewSav Sure, but no amount of routine will result in the transformations we see in Hollywood. Esp. in that short of a time.
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@NateSilver538 I honestly see it as self-inflicted depression. It is crazy how much better I instantly started feeling when I stopped paying attention to the news.
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@alanthefisher I truly think it’s just less snacks or junk to dip into during vacation. Ppl underestimate their intake while home.
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@marcelemoran Wasteful? It saved me hundreds of hours of sitting on a bus. I'm forever grateful to my parents for doing it everyday. I knew of some kids that got home a whole hour after school got out.
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@sudobunni JIRA is just clunky as hell and enables focusing on things that aren’t the core product. It’s a high maintenance tool… which makes it a sucky tool lol
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@based_coded Generally agree but Docs and Gmail are about the only good Google products, IMO. Just the "Google UI/UX" is enough to turn me away. Everything seems to be designed in a way that makes you feel like you should be using an iPad and not a desktop.
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@Very__Regular Drives me crazy when ppl romanticize hard labor jobs. The idea of it is nice, but only the idea...
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@MattZeitlin I've found the writing even worse than the reading. I've seen writing that feels like it would have gotten a C+ in high school, printed in the university newspaper.
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@BigGayFurryGuy @liz_love_lace @Timothy77236895 Ahah sure. IMO, the idea that releasing an "exe" is easy or quick is just incorrect, in most cases and that's where the analogy breaks down. I'd argue its actually _harder_ to release a midi or .txt image file vs an .mp3 or .png.
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@TheCryptoDog I got liquidated just reading this.
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@micsolana Assuming this feature works, why would ANYONE ever want to turn it on. It’s an invitation for despair.
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@DanielW_Kiwi Yea. LLMs are great as an assistant but I would never trust it to build something mostly on its own. Let alone something where I don’t have domain knowledge lol
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@madiator Well, this could actually increase the quality of questions/conversations. I imagine a lot of traffic was from very basic questions. It's even a meme that 50% of the job is copying and pasting from stackoverflow.
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@besttrousers Honestly, same. When I read historical text, I’ve noticed the writer gives great importance to some events that turned out to be of little significance. An example is how many saw dirigibles as the next big thing and the future of air travel.
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@minimaxir Insane level of unprofessionalism, even without he "use of AI allegations" lol
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@typedfemale @micsolana Well, depends if the context is him having the knowledge he has now. If so, I could see it. If not, yea that’s a weird “brag” lol
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@Duderichy I always suspected this was a factor. So many “oldest person” records seem to be suspicious at best, outright lies at worst.
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@paulg I don't understand why google can't stop taking L's. Every time I see them in the news or out in the wild its because of something ridiculous.
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@jus_tamon @pojitos_ @paindesuxd Yeeea. I mean if someone was waiting outside a coffee shop all hours of the day, that's too much. If they knew someone that could help them get a job went there in the AM and they tried to time it so they "just happened to run into them" I don't see it as a crime🤷‍♂️
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@micsolana Crazy how Europe just keeps fumbling the ball. AI was something that could have happened in Europe but just didn't b/c of existing regulation. Risk takers aren't rewarded. Prominence and importance of Europe has been on a steady decline and its unfortunate to see.
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@tina__nigro If someone were looking to get into VR, the Quest 3 is the better option hands down. AVP does a lot of things good and a lot of things better… but imo none of the things that make VR fun or interesting.
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@noinfonoinfo @Bulkington__ There were hundreds of years where ppl didn’t bathe often, also probably didn’t smell great. Just cause ppl in the past did something, doesn’t mean it’s inherently good or normal.
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@zerohedge I think an empty theme park is the only time it’s enjoyable 😂 Idk how people go for 5-6 hours and 63% of that is waiting in lines for a 2-3 min ride. Worst ROI in my life.
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@josh_avraham @0interestrates The amount of work "history reasons" is doing in that comment could power a small European country for a year.
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@ArmandDoma Not sure what comic we're talking about but I honestly think comics (and most mediums) should use as few words as possible to convey ideas. "On the nose" comics are not funny and boring, IMO.
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@LowCountry_GC Honestly doesn't seem like a big deal. A garage is mostly for function, not form.
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@_pjrt I loved it as a kid. You played outside in the front or backyard with the other kids/neighbors. You would visit each other's houses or go biking/exploring.
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@zacharynado I have faith in the tech but not the business. Hard to take Google seriously after the parody-levels of responses Gemini gave. Google also seems to love killing good projects.
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@esjesjesj @Eti_Dumas So basically you could drive around with a fake plate and be immune to the laws b/c you just run as soon as it looks like the police will get you?
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@luke_metro That's some wild connections there lol
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@rhcm123 Having food delivered was always an expensive luxury. Seems like people have just somehow forgot, or reasoned that it’s not?
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@jus_tamon @pojitos_ @paindesuxd For sure, a bit odd at first. I'm never thrilled about random numbers or knocks on my door but as long as ppl are respectful, I think its fine after the initial awkwardness.
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@Dankestshwem1 @ItsBizabizow The one with the inside? That thing was massive _and_ detailed. This is just a tree and a few minifigures.
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@skooookum I’ll say it every time NoVa is mentioned… awful place 😅😂 Traffic and expensive shack-sized houses were inescapable. DC salaries aren’t spectacular and everything seemed at least 5 years behind.
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@orthogonal_mj @DE_Gifford Where did I say it was better. This guy is talking about 45 minute drives and uses an example where the store is 5 minutes away. That’s what is funny.
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@PR0GRAMMERHUM0R It’s wild to me that the best “fix” for this is begging for a refund, lol. Otherwise, it’s good to be paranoid about setting alerts.
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@crotchner2 Probably. I have nothing against Taylor Swift but I think she could soon be in the same category as the Kardashians. People generally don't like being told to care about a celebrity.
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@Alice_comfy @OrdinaryGamers If you read left to right, you math left to right!
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@MostlyMonkey This is honestly the reason I could never live in a city or why I will never rent an apartment again. Besides the terrible smell, I get an allergic reason that blocks my nose and guarantees a sore throat in the morning and horrible sleep.
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@RoxCodes This is why I hate estimating. 99% of the work can get done on time and that 1% tiny little integration or tool can take all day lol
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@DE_Gifford its also 0.3 miles from a nice park... and the houses look like this. Seems like a great place, actually.
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@thecaptain_nemo IMO, its never worth it. _Maybe_ if you're a professional body builder but you hear some of these dudes huffing while idle like they just climbed a flight of stairs, which is terrifying 😅
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@xenocryptsite If you’ve ever posted an opinion on a STEM forum or chat, you’ll know about every fallacy by the end of the day 😂😅
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@unusual_whales $3.5k paperweights, unfortunately. The software and apps just aren't enough to justify it yet. Especially so if you're not hooked into the Apple ecosystem.
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@realEstateTrent You can replace “walk” with “drive” - move to any Midwest town and not have to pay $5k a month for a shed sized apartment, lol. Plus, it won’t smell like a mix of urine/garbage in the summer months 😅😂
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@growing_daniel What I always find interesting is how China doesn't produce "exceptional" results. I fully believe they produce students that are, on average, smarter and stronger... but they chip away any individualism along the way.
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@jesawyer I hate Bluetooth so much. 50% of the time, it works 25% of the time.
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@metakuna I have to agree, that doesn't sound like a great on-boarding process... I would frame the criticism a bit lighter. It does look like a great product though. Less friction the better.
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@Thy_ROT @ramzpaul It’s cheaper upfront but usually results in costly events later on.
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@ParisPhl Is there a market for this? We make the 8 hour drive from DC to Boston sometimes. We would fly, but the benefit is having the car when you get there. Otherwise, you end up having to rent one which is expensive.
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@PEWilliams_ It is actually wild how much trash is just chilling in NYC 😂
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@NortonMpls I feel like a lot of people don't know how to create their own fun/entertainment anymore. Tons of people I know that live in "exciting" places end up staying in all the time anyways 😅
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@0xAsync The only valid "just use x" is "just use venv" -- given that its part of the standard library and can be setup/used in one line of code.
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@VividVoid_ Need to purge engagement farmers, like yesterday.
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@orthogonal_mj @DE_Gifford What is _your_ point? OP saw an image and made up a scenario in his head to get angry at. That is funny.
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@MargrietHoogvli @Altimor That’s actually worse in a lot of ways. Makes renovation, repairs/additions very costly. A reason why a lot of the homes they’re practically giving away in Italy aren’t even worth the $1. The cost to renovate is substantial.
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@ctjlewis I foresee this ending about as well as outsourcing did… in other words, it might work sometimes… but otherwise it will create a market to fix spaghetti software.
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