rufus_foreman

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by rufus_foreman 10mo ago
Oh fuck. The assholes that thought Windows was perfectly acceptable until late 2025 are flocking to Linux. Maybe get a Macbook? Do you even know how bad Linux is? The video drivers don't work, bluetooth doesn't work, your laptop w
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by rufus_foreman 10mo ago
"Free" health care paid for by whom? "Free" health care paid for by people richer than me? There aren't enough of them to pay for all us slackers. "Free" health care pair for by people poorer than me? That
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by rufus_foreman 10mo ago
I forgot I had this installed, thanks for the reminder!
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R. Crumb: Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they're not out to get you(laist.com)
5 points by rufus_foreman 10mo ago|2 comments
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by rufus_foreman 10mo ago
I'm planning for retirement. One rule of thumb is that you can spend 4% of your investable net worth a year, there are people that say that is too high and 3% would be a safer number. Now you want to take 1% a year in wealth taxes on t
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by rufus_foreman 10mo ago
That wasn't the only time Lou Reed did performance art for the Australian press, the other one is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx-mH9ZjnuM . "Are you happier as a brunette?" "Uh...are you happier as
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by rufus_foreman 10mo ago
>> You are eating in the same place were the cooking happens, without going outside replacing your gloves, putting of your hairnet, apron and mask, and without washing your hands? I'm not now, that was decades ago. We didn't
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by rufus_foreman 10mo ago
When I worked in fast food, they gave you a meal allowance, but it didn't really matter because I would grab a hamburger patty right off the grill and chow down. God damn, now I'm getting hungry. Supposedly you would get fired for
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by rufus_foreman 10mo ago
Two weeks to flatten the curve. Institutions can only lose their credibility once. That was one of the worst things that Covid did.
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by rufus_foreman 10mo ago
>> they mispronounced a lot of words that they had only ever seen in books but never heard out loud I did that as a kid. Still do. I read more than I talk. Nothing wrong with that. The flip side would be people who misspell words or g
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by rufus_foreman 10mo ago
Automatic transmissions for cars. I'll be sticking with manual. New-fangled music formats like 8-tracks, cassettes and compact discs. Vinyl records work just fine. Any payment technology that didn't exist by the year 1000.
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How Printing Presses Ignited the First Information Revolution(reason.com)
2 points by rufus_foreman 10mo ago|0 comments
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by rufus_foreman 10mo ago
>> I have never in my life heard or read anyone, of any social standing, political affiliation, education or station of life discuss the abolition of police entirely "Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police" -- New York Ti
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by rufus_foreman 10mo ago
>> Many (possibly all) of the boats in question were not capable of making it to the U.S. Now none of them are.
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by rufus_foreman 10mo ago
>> Having 500k in stocks is different than 500k in your primary residence. Same net worth but if you need to tap into 500k of stock, you can do that tomorrow. Liquidating your primary residence takes a few weeks (or months) and you’re
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by rufus_foreman 10mo ago
Absolutely. And it's not just cat's. Look at the number of deer that get hit by cars every year. And like I said in another post, I saw two dead raccoons by the side of the road yesterday in the space of a few miles. Cats, dogs, d
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by rufus_foreman 10mo ago
Saw two of them dead on the side of the road this morning in the stretch of a couple miles, that will drive some evolution.
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by rufus_foreman 10mo ago
Not anymore they're not.
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by rufus_foreman 10mo ago
The people who are fleeing the country aren't just fleeing a specific rate of taxation. They are fleeing the idea that their wealth was, as you put it, simply given to them. They are fleeing from people like you. I blame the rich peopl
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by rufus_foreman 10mo ago
Where I live, it's common for them to not answer when you call 911. They were out trying to steal my neighbor's car, and my girlfriend called 911, and no one would answer. She went and banged on the neighbor's door and told t
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by rufus_foreman 10mo ago
>> SCOTUS hasn't been liberal since Nixon got Rehnquist as chief justice The Rehnquist court made rulings that allowed burning the US flag, that made abortion even easier to get than under Roe, that upheld affirmative action, tha
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by rufus_foreman 10mo ago
For further reference, a 55 year old early retiree who wants to spend $400,000 during the year might sell $400,000 of stock with a cost basis of $200,000 and pay a little over $60k capital gains tax. The question here is should we continue
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by rufus_foreman 10mo ago
I played around with some of the easier problems, my favorite was a couple times when starting with the obvious brute force solution in code and then refactoring and simplifying it iteratively ended up getting me the paper solution.
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by rufus_foreman 10mo ago
If someone is buying a banana for resale, or buying with WIC or SNAP benefits (among other things), they would not owe sales tax. So if the price included sales tax, the sticker price would not be the final price. You do not know the final
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by rufus_foreman 10mo ago
Except for gross misconduct, COBRA. Yes, you will need to pay for the coverage that the employer was paying for, but that's not "eliminate your healthcare coverage at the drop of a hat with no remorse".
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by rufus_foreman 10mo ago
>> I feel that demographic collapse is the single biggest crisis facing the developed world now This is similar in some ways to the situation when I was young where population growth was the single biggest crisis facing the developed
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by rufus_foreman 10mo ago
>> Watson is the only person in my entire life I've seen say racist things about Irish people Oh my goodness, that's terrible. What racist things did Watson say about the Fighting Irish?
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by rufus_foreman 10mo ago
>> given that we all have to die at some point, if you could choose what natural cause to die of, wouldn't you pick heart disease? Monty Python, "The Meaning of Life", Part VII.
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by rufus_foreman 10mo ago
It could start in New Jersey.
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by rufus_foreman 10mo ago
>> what is the actual solution? Let's have a war.

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