budman1

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by budman1 7d ago
For the record, the honorable governer of texas, a mr. abbott, pledges his undivided love for the Donald. And he has publicly denounced Flock cameras and data center development in the past month. Amazing what polling does to a politician.
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by budman1 7d ago
All of the US protests in the last 10 years have been mild. Sure a couple of Waymos get burned up, but they are easy to capture :) Get all those folks marching, you aren't going to get good decisions out of everyone. But the expressio
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by budman1 7d ago
some of it. most is vandalism.
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by budman1 7d ago
my first time in Zurich. ton's of graffiti seen while leaving the airport. if they have it, everyone does.
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by budman1 11d ago
of course he got paid. that is the deal for an employee, you put in the hours, you get a check. today, this individual is CTO- Vibecoding at Uber.
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by budman1 11d ago
2040. The demand for real programming skills will become infinite (again). someone who can actually read, understand, and debug code. when the clankers get stuck. unfortunately, there will be only be a dozen people.
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by budman1 11d ago
a while back we had an army private as the secretary of defense. end of the day, his experience as a private meant nothing towards the job. perhaps he was slightly more able to relate to the needs of the troops. now we have a reserve capta
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by budman1 11d ago
plus, he could hold his liquor. and does not take no for an answer.
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by budman1 11d ago
I don't know any former slaves. I don't know anyone that has spoken to a former slave. And most people of color in the US's ancestors were not slaves in the US south. They came as immigrants from other countries. The issue i
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by budman1 11d ago
look what they did for Russia. Mortal enemy of the US to closest friend in 2 weeks.
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by budman1 11d ago
and those folks at the rally eat it up. true believers.
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by budman1 11d ago
The threshold is 5%. About 5% needs to be stolen to keep the system operating.
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by budman1 11d ago
I hate my congressman. Why, he won't listen to me. No public meetings, no interviews with real press. Only 1 way phone calls, where you can submit questions via e-mail a day before the event. No private meetings either. I have repe
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by budman1 11d ago
The stories hit reddit every day. "ICE deported my wife. She was legal and was following the rules. I still love my Donald and will vote for him again"
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by budman1 11d ago
It's Zucks fault. Social media destroyed local media and turned to making money instead of informing the populace. Let's have another lawsuit about Facebook killing our democracy.
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by budman1 11d ago
There is no local media in the US. A wide swath of the electorate gets 100% of their news from Fox news. In Texas, it is widely known that the Trump family are experts in crypto finance, and worthy of the gains they have made. (also that sh
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by budman1 11d ago
You can dislike Cheney's actions while in office, but I don't remember any scandals where he put money in his pocket.
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by budman1 11d ago
Iran-Contra was a crime. The executive branch deliberately ignoring a law passed by congress. But Reagan did not put any money in his pocket. Other than a set of snow tires, Lt.Col Oliver North did not take any money for himself. It makes
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by budman1 11d ago
as they say, the donald is 'stealing with both hands' and 'not leaving anything for others to eat'. in the past politicians would steal a little, and there was enough to go around. a couple of hundred grand on a land dea
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by budman1 11d ago
donate $10 to your local non republican congressional candidate. heck, make it $100
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by budman1 15d ago
I was rather loose with my terms. The military can piss away millions of dollars, and hundreds of thousands of hours, and it is not an existential situation. Oh, we bought an airplane that is broken 1/2 of the time vs. the 10% of the
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by budman1 15d ago
All of the current conflicts (russia / ukraine, us / iran) would consider drones as a nuisance if: #1. For russia / ukraine neither side has air superiority. If one side had it, they could be obliterating the other side wit
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by budman1 15d ago
It was shameful handing over the gold to the orange one. Hopefully in 2 years every company that 'bended the knee' will excise the leadership that thought it was a good idea. Shows a lack of good judgement and understanding of th
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by budman1 15d ago
Exactly what are they doing. Uber has been around for at least a decade. Isn't the product close to being finished? Maybe the money could be better spent on paying the drivers more. Or a stock buyback.
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by budman1 16d ago
But it might.
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by budman1 16d ago
The US military does a lot of things right. But not every concept matches over to the world of business. A tremendous amount of time / money is spent on developing talent. There are way too many officers just for supervision; they ar
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by budman1 17d ago
LORAN can be jammed.
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by budman1 18d ago
If I kill you over a $2K catalytic converter, my sanity is gone. I could never sleep at night without thinking about what I have done.' A life is worth a lot more than $2k for my sanity.
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by budman1 18d ago
It ain't murder. (other words apply)
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by budman1 18d ago
"this stuff should've been automated years ago in frameworks and in libs, or through sane programming langs that dealt with memory and logic flow better." 70 years of working on the 'how do I reuse code?'. And the

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