JauntTrooper

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by JauntTrooper 20d ago
My kids enjoyed the Minecraft movie, and it was a commercial success.
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by JauntTrooper 21d ago
Almost a year. The May 2026 rule ended it for a lot of people, but they ended in-country processing for his situation/country earlier. The new rules are complicated and constantly shifting nowadays.
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by JauntTrooper 21d ago
For now they're just waiting, separately, each living with relatives. There is zero guidance. The US consulate did not provide a reason for rejecting it other than the freeze, so there's nothing to even appeal. Moving his wife and
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by JauntTrooper 21d ago
You're right, I fixed the wording. I don't know all the details, but I do think it's a recent change. They've been married for almost ten years. His wife and child are US born. Trump ended in-country processing and now r
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by JauntTrooper 21d ago
Sadly, I think you're right.
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by JauntTrooper 21d ago
The US also has significant agriculture subsidies. Most developed countries do. In dairy, for example, if prices get "too low", the US directly buys excess supply to increase the price, makes direct payments to dairy farmers, and
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by JauntTrooper 2mo ago
My first character was a Lion Warden too. :) I always get a kick out of running into another wotmud alumni in the wild.
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by JauntTrooper 2mo ago
Wotmud is still going strong. Come join the discord!
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by JauntTrooper 2mo ago
One day they'll write a similar article about the iPhone. It's amazing how ephemeral these incredibly complex manufacturing networks are.
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by JauntTrooper 2mo ago
When I was in college, a philosophy degree was seen as excellent training for a career in Law.
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by JauntTrooper 4mo ago
The article had Don DeLillo vibes. > And this is where we wait together, regardless of our age, our carts stocked with brightly colored goods. A slowly moving line, satisfying, giving us time to glance at the tabloids in the racks. Every
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by JauntTrooper 4mo ago
Yeah... I went to an ivy league school and I've never felt remotely that way, nor did any of my friends. Sure, some of my classmates were snobs, and there was probably a higher concentration of them (snobs are drawn to prestige-grantin
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by JauntTrooper 8mo ago
The efficacy of US democracy has eroded over time, and it's clear we're going to need reforms to preserve democratic governance for future generations. Every branch of the federal government has experienced a decline in democratic
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by JauntTrooper 8mo ago
In 2011 Netflix announced it would split its DVD-by-mail and streaming businesses. The DVD business would be called "Qwikster", which was mocked. Eventually they reversed the decision. Besides the goofy name, people thought the mo
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by JauntTrooper 10mo ago
Yes. Here is the proxy statement with the proposals: https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/0000789019/0... You have to scroll down a bit to page 83 to get to the one the article is refer
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by JauntTrooper 10mo ago
Some additional details: The proposal was submitted by an individual shareholder. She requests that the Board "commission a report assessing the implications of siting Microsoft cloud datacenters in countries of significant human righ
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by JauntTrooper 10mo ago
I had trouble getting one. I thought I was prepared. I brought in my passport, my social security card, my paystubs, and stacks of utility bills to prove my residence. They told me bills needed to be physically postmarked, not printed, so w
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by JauntTrooper 10mo ago
The AirPods have been my biggest source of tech wonder in recent years. The noise cancelation features, and now the live translation function? So cool.
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by JauntTrooper 10mo ago
Uber might be the wildest cultural shift of the last 25 years. Nobody blinks twice nowadays at getting into a car with a total stranger.
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by JauntTrooper 11mo ago
The Senate is in a permanent state of gerrymandering. There were only 13 states when the Constitution was ratified. It was never envisioned to be as disproportionate as it is today, with California's two Senators representing 40 milli
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by JauntTrooper 11mo ago
Gerrymandering is at the heart of the rot.
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by JauntTrooper 1y ago
We're remodeling our kitchen, and for some reason so many stoves come with wifi and bluetooth.
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by JauntTrooper 1y ago
That is such a long latency period. I wonder if it slowly progresses over time, or if it develops opportunistically once some other bodily system that keeps it in check breaks down with age.
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by JauntTrooper 1y ago
WhatsApp has really taken on this role for me, now that mention it. I have a channel for my neighborhood, another for the parents at my children's school, another for my extended family, another for work colleagues and another for a fe
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by JauntTrooper 1y ago
Birds are more difficult to clone than mammals. I don't think we've been able to clone one yet. I hope to see a passenger pigeon one day though.
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by JauntTrooper 2y ago
The US has a lot of cheap natural gas and China does not. Natural gas is hard to transport and often needs to be liquified to travel overseas, so global prices vary widely.
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by JauntTrooper 2y ago
When I was a kid, I used to imagine if that society ever developed AI, there would be widespread pushback to the idea that computers could ever develop consciousness. I imagined the Catholic Church, for example, would be publishing missives
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by JauntTrooper 2y ago
Under the 3-factor economic growth model, there's three ways to increase economic growth: 1) Increase productivity (produce more from the same inputs) 2) Increase labor (more people working or more hours worked) 3) Increase capital (bu
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by JauntTrooper 2y ago
Wow... really? I'm in my 40s and I remember my school days vividly. I remember like ~20-30 specific lessons and events from 4th grade alone.
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by JauntTrooper 2y ago
I think Threads is disrupting Twitter fairly well... it's at 200 million+ monthly active users and growing. I switched from Twitter to Threads and have been happy with it (Bluesky was invite only at the time so I didn't bother). T

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