bungeonsBaggins

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by bungeonsBaggins 2y ago
> You seem legitimately offended that this guy has preferences and opinions No, I am not offended that anyone has preferences or opinions. What I am responding to is this language: > Neither a Vision Pro owner nor much of a hog cranke
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by bungeonsBaggins 2y ago
What a boner of a comment. We get it, George, you don't watch pornography. Well done on managing your personal brand I guess? FYI there's nothing inherently wrong about porn or sex work! It's great! A lot of people like it, y
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by bungeonsBaggins 2y ago
I think this is a pro-Amazon piece disguised as an anti-Amazon piece. Like, the author comes across as so inept and unlikable, and Amazon so reasonable, that I strongly suspect that this is an Amazon-sponsored piece? If that makes sense? Is
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by bungeonsBaggins 2y ago
I don't mean to blow your mind, but humans are a part of nature. One advantage we have over other species is that we can spot patterns and work collectively to fix undesirable situations or circumstances. And if our fix causes further
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by bungeonsBaggins 2y ago
So you think that if you wanted to start a business to compete with Apple in any of the spaces talked about in this lawsuit (hardware, web browsing, messaging etc) your greatest challenge to competing in that market would be regulation? Not
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by bungeonsBaggins 2y ago
> On the other side we see politicians - bureaucrats that never built anything in their lives. Parasites living off our work. Greedier and greedier every year they forcefully confiscate more and more of our sweat and blood while "gi
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by bungeonsBaggins 2y ago
> Buybacks are a favorite boogeyman, but they are just tax efficient dividends. "Tax-efficient" is weasel language. If the money was spent as dividends it would be taxed and then would benefit someone besides the executive suit
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by bungeonsBaggins 3y ago
For context, it looks like this user has deleted a comment where they claim they "have a screenshot" of this, but they "don't want to share it" because they "don't want it to make international news"
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by bungeonsBaggins 3y ago
Considering that several people have tried and failed to reproduce this, and there's a warning at the top of the shared conversations about the creator's Custom Instructions, and that as others have pointed out this is pretty obvi
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by bungeonsBaggins 3y ago
> I don't want to feel like a fool for sticking with and supporting this woman from 40-70, when she was giving it up easily at 18-30 jesus
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by bungeonsBaggins 3y ago
Yes, this is such a fool's errand. When GPT-4 was first released I started using it as a creative writing aid, and had a wonderful couple of months with it. Yesterday I finally cancelled my paid subscription because it's AWFUL now
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by bungeonsBaggins 3y ago
4chan isn't a village, though, not in the way the author describes. Important characteristics of a "village" as defined in this piece are that you can develop systems of trust through reputation (by interacting with the same
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by bungeonsBaggins 3y ago
The Fed is not a single guy. Do you think it's a single guy? Are you just parroting something you heard somewhere else without understanding it?
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by bungeonsBaggins 3y ago
I've read some of CS Lewis' writings on religion. I'm an atheist married to a person of faith, so I'm interested in what the people I love find so compelling about their faith. He's a very charismatic writer, but sn
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by bungeonsBaggins 3y ago
In my experience of layoffs, it's more akin to just digging up a tenth of the garden at random because you don't know what a weed looks like.
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by bungeonsBaggins 4y ago
It was very reasonable to imagine that if the API ever stopped being free, that the logical next step would be "paid access" rather than "no access". And that if Twitter was going away, we'd have some warning in adv
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by bungeonsBaggins 4y ago
It sounds like you haven't really watched the show. Which is fine, but your criticisms assume too much and miss the mark. For example, this: > And then they try to paint Don as this cool customer who is the pinnacle of suave, when i
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by bungeonsBaggins 4y ago
He's also been exposed as having sent sexually explicit DMs to minors, which started to come to light after the lawsuit was filed. It was probably that, more than/in addition to the lawsuit, that led to Adult Swim dropping him. I
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by bungeonsBaggins 4y ago
Your statement upthread, which I replied to: > Most poor people are children under 18. I guess technically, you can work at 16, so some of them probably dropped out and work full-time, but it's definitely not the norm. > Most poo
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by bungeonsBaggins 4y ago
Hi! I worked for a nonprofit poverty advocacy center in Chicago. This is totally wrong, but it's stated so confidently. Why do you say this? What's the source you got this opinion from? Do you even know? This is an opportunity for
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by bungeonsBaggins 4y ago
How does this work in practice, though? I don't know how this would be possible at all. I have loaned money to family members in the past, and been paid back when they were back on their feet. But if a friend or family member borrowed
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by bungeonsBaggins 4y ago
This is so true to my own experience that it made me tear up a little.