snakeyjake

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by snakeyjake 2y ago
Every person and organization should police themselves.
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
>Secondly, both major US parties serve the CEO class; Every time someone says or implies that “both parties are the same” a hungry child gets called a parasite and kicked out of a free and/or reduced price school lunch program.
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
Forget 50%, the US Navy built five rigid airships. ZR-1 through ZR-5. The only one that wasn’t destroyed by a crash that also killed most if not all of its crew was ZR-3 and its history is filled with so many near-disasters that it was pure
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
You think it is inappropriate to live in a fire prone area. Your arbitrary line of appropriateness is wrong. My arbitrary line of appropriateness is right. It is inappropriate to live anywhere where there is a fire, earthquake, blizzard, si
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
People can offer, graciously or not, you something for free. They can then change their mind. You are not entitled to it, you never had any “right” to it, and no force real or imagined in the universe will make that so. I believe that payme
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
No. Every time someone says or implies "bOtH sIdEs" a hungry child gets kicked out of a free and reduced school lunch program and called a parasite.
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
Yes. We can talk about what kinds of ads are appropriate but the right to use YouTube without paying either in money or time spent watching ads has never, will never, and does not currently exist.
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
>If you do this, most of the goods will be used by people who are not poor, Why does it seem as though some people believe there is an infinite supply of rich people? Income disparity is so great that the cost of parking is irrelevant to
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
I didn't even have to read the article to know that these are the bible humping jesus freaks out in west Texas from Amarillo down to San Angelo. In addition to their freedumb risking the lives of others, getting measles is one of the w
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
There are two types of Trump supporters. One type thinks that the data being disappeared is "trans DEI libtard lies". The other type believes that the federal government should collect no data because it is stealing a Job Creator&
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
The only thing they care about is next quarter's share price. The wouldn't kill and eat your grandmother if it was legal to make a little money, but 100% without exception they would look the other way and profess innocence if SOM
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
>There are no "artificial rules", just humans acting according to normal human behavior. There are uncountably many examples of humans, presumably normal, existing outside of the rules set by free market capitalism and not coll
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
Your memory is faulty. Let's take a trip back to 1992. In 1992, unless you were rich you had a $2,000 386SX-33 sourced from parts out of the back of Computer Shopper magazine. Here is a 386SX-33 running Windows 3.1 (1992) launching Wor
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
>You cannot simply "ignore" market forces Market forces aren't real. They are artificial arbitrary rules agreed upon by a majority of participants in a financial system. They are not natural laws like Newton's law of
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
That and the Tokyo train network slime mold experiments have always irrationally angered me. They haven't found the most efficient paths, for humans in the real world, at all. They've found short-ISH paths that are efficient for a
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
Whenever I come across a "density Density DENSITY" story I do some looking at the background of the individuals running/promoting the effort. I'll go to the "our team" and "about us" page of the org,
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
>You think the whole world is about meta comments? Sentiment in the media, all media, including social media, turns into dead bodies if the rhetoric is allowed to get extreme enough. It's been this way since the invention of public
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
Las Vegas is an insignificant mote of dust compared to Macau when it comes to Casinos and gambling.
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
>Jonathan Head >South East Asia correspondent >Reporting from Shwe Kokko, Myanmar Before the article even started.
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
>As a minority (Asian) I feel the opposite of oppressed. That's because strong acceptable use polices based on the "E" in "DEI" meant that organizations ranging in size from Meta to Hacker News deleted comments w
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
IRC is terrible the same way it was terrible when I used it 30 years ago. It's Y2K brah if you can't paste an image into chat, your chat is garbage. Chat is more than text, unless you go to meet your friend for coffee and you chat
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
>Beside i don't know what you do with chicken corpse in city, you aren't going to put it in recycling can. You do with it the same thing you do with a turkey carcass after thanksgiving: throw it in the trash. "City folk&qu
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
Everyone saying that US and Chinese companies both do this therefore it's the same probably think that a lumberjack and a serial killer who both happen to be standing in front of them wielding an axe are threats of equal merit.
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
>Thinking that the new administration will just openly refuse to pay people's salaries as part of a formal deal? The chief executive of the new administration is literally and actually widely known for doing that exact thing repeate
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
There are ~250 $1 million+ lottery winners in the US every year. There are ~750 billionaires in total. The average American has a better chance of becoming a billionaire through hard work and prudent investments if, at age 18, they decide t
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
I don't have a dog in this race because I haven't used Windows as my primary OS since the Windows 8 days, but my main "makin money" computer, a threadripper 3970X workstation is not officially supported by Windows 11. Fi
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
You can export all health and fitness data with no trouble using the Health app. 1. Open the health app 2. Tap on your face in the upper right 3. Scroll down to the bottom and tap "export all data" or whatever it says. Bam: every
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
>What's special about AI? VC firms have brainwashed people into thinking LLMs are "I" when really, they are XOR'ing GIGO machines. Because executives, everywhere it seems, are gullible enough to be tricked into believ
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
It's funnier if you don't explain the joke.
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
On the street. Go to Google Maps, zoom in on New York City, then drop a Streetview pin randomly anywhere in the city. Chances are very, VERY, good that just by panning, not moving, you'll find a trash bag dumped on the sidewalk.

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