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10d ago
ace
10d ago
Great comment.
I think one of the things that makes this place so great is lack of sorting and visibility by upvotes, which on places like reddit selects for the most easily-digested confirmation-bias-reinforcing pablum. The lack of inline images is a welcome salve to the rest of the internet for the same reason.
I also am partial to the forums in the private tracker community, where there is a pretty strong guarantee of no sock puppets and real consequences to be had from bad behavior, since bans are real and follow the person.
ace
10d ago
Buddy, this is just distorted thinking. Unless you have some known terminal illness, you're only halfway through your life. 40-50 more years is a tremendous amount of time to develop skills and reap dividends thereby.
Your attitude is more appropriate for a 70-year-old.
ace
14d ago
I don't know if this statement is true or not, but if you're going to post things this outside the mainstream thinking, you need to bring more evidence than name-calling.
ace
20d ago
Well, the best chat app or social network is the one with the people you want to communicate with. I tried to switch all my contacts to my Matrix server to mixed results. The upside is that it's a great filter on the people who really want to communicate with me. ;)
ace
21d ago
There are still ads and tracking in MacOS and iOS. The only claim is that it's less than Microsoft's and Google's. A difference of degree, not kind. To your other point, GrapheneOS and CalyxOS are options.
ace
21d ago
People making closed-source software that requires connecting to their server (rather than yours or one you choose) hate you and hold you in contempt. Minimize your contact with these parasites as much as possible because they will always eventually try to fuck you. I've gone through that same process with my Matrix/Element chat app and it works a lot better than what you're describing.
ace
2mo ago
Is it a priori plausible that IQ is so sensitive to a naturally varying element which is sometimes found in much greater concentrations?
You mean like lead? Yea, I think that's plausible.
ace
2mo ago
Out of 150 days here, you spent 10% of that waiting in DMVs? Good God man. You'd be incarcerated less time had you been caught driving without a license.
ace
2mo ago
I doubt you'd be able to find any signal like that, because inflation affects everyone similarly.
ace
2mo ago
You're overthinking it. It's the economy, stupid. Inflation was the worst ever under Biden, and when pressed, Kamala couldn't identify a single policy difference between herself and Biden. In the counter-factual where everyone feels richer than 4 years ago, we'd have president Harris.
I don't know what to take away from this other than that you like Trump, written in 10,000 different ways. (I admit I skimmed it after a while.)
ace
2mo ago
Just make the ID free!
Lord knows we pay enough in taxes to expect some very basic services to be complimentary.
ace
2mo ago
I had two jobs in the 90s that I got W-2s for and paid taxes on that don’t show up on my SSA work history. I’m currently in the process of trying to prove I worked these jobs for the SS benefits when all the paperwork has long since been shredded. Totally plausible to me that she worked there and can’t prove it.
ace
2mo ago
Not listing a job on your resume is not “lying”. It’s totally normal and acceptable to omit meanial labor jobs when applying for professional jobs.
ace
3mo ago
Acupuncture works by placebo effect. If you tell her convincingly that you believe it will work, it just might.
A) There are obese women everywhere in the US. Alaska is just a strictly worse situation. B) Eligible dudes are cycling through the obese Alaskan women, too. Ain't no underserved market. C) You would advocate hitching your life to a person with those medical issues? D) Ew
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