FatherOfCurses

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by FatherOfCurses 16d ago
The Barenaked Ladies have a song that mentions power lines in a somewhat romantic way: https://genius.com/6365258 In the neighborhood where I grew up, there were transmission towers that went through about 200 meters away f
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by FatherOfCurses 16d ago
One of these games involves assembling the perfect office layout for a RTO. A friend of mine works for a major corporation that recently enacted a 100% RTO mandate. I used to work there too, and knowing what I know about their operations, I
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by FatherOfCurses 19d ago
I can't believe we've normalized taking insulin as a society. There are better ways than drugs to fix your Type 2 diabetes.
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by FatherOfCurses 19d ago
I am as critical of Big Pharma as anyone else, but you can't seriously imply that our society places a certain amount of social stigma on people who take medication for mental illness. Some US insurance companies make it more difficult
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by FatherOfCurses 19d ago
"Happy pills?" Are you kidding me? Are you anti-vax as well?
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by FatherOfCurses 19d ago
Is there a similar diagnostic that can be run on a Playstation 5? I generally have good download speeds on my network but it seems to take forever to install games on my PS5.
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by FatherOfCurses 19d ago
I don't have a link but I recall that someone did a study that revealed that there was no safety improvement from loud exhaust and the only way to improve motorcycle safety was increasing visibility with high-visibility vests. In my st
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by FatherOfCurses 19d ago
UHaul is the only app I've ever encountered that is less efficient than talking to a human being behind a counter. I have tried multiple times to pick up a reservation via the app and it has taken so long or failed at some point that I
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by FatherOfCurses 19d ago
People are against progress when they don't see a clear benefit to themselves. Medical progress, for example, is often widely embraced. The thing about data centers is that some are being built in this gold rush manner and people can&#
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by FatherOfCurses 21d ago
The PBS Nova episode about Stoll was the literal starting point of my discovery of the internet. Because of the show, my next year in university I signed up for an elective CompSci course (I was an English Literature major) about threat ass
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by FatherOfCurses 23d ago
In other words, companies who rely on H1B visas are not donating enough to Trump 2028 or the Republican party.
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by FatherOfCurses 1mo ago
Re: Callahagn's in Mobile, AL starting as a "members only" club. To quote Gene Hackman in "Mississippi Burning" - "Member of what?"
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by FatherOfCurses 1mo ago
In moderation, yes. But the article is describing a three-day diet of only sardines and black coffee or tea. I like the occasional sardine (Thank you Alton Brown) but three days of nothing else is a little out there.
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by FatherOfCurses 1mo ago
Amazing the number of people on HN who will simp for Jeff Bezos.
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by FatherOfCurses 1mo ago
Equating Amazon with a general home construction contractor is quite a stretch.
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by FatherOfCurses 1mo ago
Are you saying that there is a lack of easily accessible information about how Amazon drivers are overworked compared to UPS/Fedex drivers?
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by FatherOfCurses 1mo ago
You are severely misinformed if you think that data center opposition is on the same level as NIMBYism.
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by FatherOfCurses 2mo ago
In a jury system, the judge provides instructions to the jury about how they are supposed to weigh the evidence presented against the requirements of the law. They don't need to be technical experts. The theoretical idea of "a jur
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by FatherOfCurses 2mo ago
I'm sorry that you have had a bad experience. I have been running Jellyfin in a container on a Linux server for three years now. I am streaming video to Infuse on three Apple TV boxes and music to a Kodi installation on a Raspberry Pi
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by FatherOfCurses 2mo ago
They can't park for shit either, so you lose spots in a parking lot and have to wait forever while they block the aisle backing out.
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by FatherOfCurses 2mo ago
So much of American car/motorcycle culture seems to be about that nowadays. And it's not limited to the Japanese mod scene, either. Loud exhausts everywhere - pickups, domestic V6/V8's, motorcycles. Super-bright headligh
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by FatherOfCurses 2mo ago
What about the water consumption?
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by FatherOfCurses 2mo ago
Amazing that the constituents are forced to choose between a talentless novelty candidate and Count Binface.
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by FatherOfCurses 2mo ago
Every other business has figured out a way to operate on a single transaction model where I give them money and they give me a product and that is the end of our relationship until I need something else that they make. Somehow we have manag
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by FatherOfCurses 2mo ago
And yet so much of the spending goes to big ticket items benefitting defense contractors while things that actually benefit the soldiers (better armor, better VA hospitals) go by the wayside.
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by FatherOfCurses 2mo ago
$3 is still too much and I would rather it go towards paying the debt down.
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by FatherOfCurses 2mo ago
Everyone should be as angry as him, then companies wouldn't keep screwing us over.
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by FatherOfCurses 2mo ago
I wouldn't be concerned about damage to the aircraft, I would be worried about whether it messed with the avionics.
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by FatherOfCurses 2mo ago
IDK what has been going on but people in my area seem to be getting their hands on professional-level fireworks that sound like bombs going off. It used to be the roman candles and the fountains and a gentle background noise around the neig
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by FatherOfCurses 2mo ago
Yeah first 4th of July as a dog owner. He did relatively OK inside but we had a hell of a time taking him out for a walk. Every time we thought everyone was done blowing their loads someone else refueled and things started over again.

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