ydat

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by ydat 21d ago
> Their wealth is more contingent on our consumption than employment status. Is it? Or is it dependent on the consumption of someone much greater than you. For example: I was reading something the other day about dining experiences in L
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by ydat 26d ago
Meanwhile as a young man the financial aid system told me I was a dependent solely because I was under 24 (I paid my own bills, rent, worked and filed my taxes, and relied not at all on my parents, but hey) and that any aid would be calcula
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by ydat 26d ago
> You’re going to have to figure out new things to care about, but you can do it, because you found it the first time! I have found many interesting things to care about. The problem is they all lack a single quality that allowed me to
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by ydat 26d ago
One negative thing I’ve heard about Boise and some other smaller western cities is that they have awful air quality due to the geography settling all the exhausts and particles in a sort of bowl. Not sure how bad this is in practice though.
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by ydat 26d ago
Massie is kinda interesting. Because he’s a sort of libertarian who ran as a republican when the right was a bit more united But it was a strange election. The “establishment” candidate was a no name who refused to do any debates. Rarely ev
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by ydat 26d ago
> I would write to my congress person rather than commit a crime and destroy someone's property. Your congressman is having a nice steak dinner with representatives of the company while some poor staffer pastes the generic response
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by ydat 26d ago
I’ve never been hit by a stoner because they were high I’ve never been abandoned by a stoner because being high was more important than their children I’ve never had a stoner so high and out their mind they reach for the most vile, demeanin
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by ydat 26d ago
> From my bubble (we’re all in bubbles), it seems that the populist right are in bed with the technocrat authoritarians, e.g. the Vance-Thiel connection. Interesting, in my bubble “populist” right refers more younger more paleo conservat
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by ydat 27d ago
They have the warchest. They’ll buy the politicians. Look how the populist right has failed its primaries so hard.
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by ydat 27d ago
> Presumably miners get a high wage to offset the negatives of the job and attract people. A common thread I see when these types of topics come up too is that the high pay in many of these jobs (trades, policing, nursing, etc.) is depen
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by ydat 27d ago
> In hindsight, I realized it was b/c I hadn't found subjects in high school that really resonated with me My most frustrating experience was barely lazing my way through calculus I could not care about only to be working on a
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by ydat 27d ago
Wouldn’t be the first time the US government grossly abused its own citizens and violated their rights
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by ydat 27d ago
Frankly, Shakespeare is one of the few things I enjoyed reading in school. It was classic American novels I couldn’t stand. I couldn’t tell you why, but getting through something even as simple as Tom Sawyer was such a chore for me.
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by ydat 27d ago
> Anthropic started out as the "safe", "ethical" and "computer science elite" type personality facade but after that stopped working (i.e., they were booted out of the US gov), they went full enshittificatio
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by ydat 27d ago
> College really isn't that hard or complex. All that's required is you attend classes, study, and pass tests. Sure that’s all that’s required. And simple people such as yourself may be content with that and see it as the end-a
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by ydat 27d ago
Cool now give me classic job search back.
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by ydat 27d ago
> what exactly would have to change in this relationship for you to not infantilize the consumer and put them on equal moral weighting as the merchant? Lmao lolbertarians now steeping to blank slatism to defend their degeneracy.
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by ydat 27d ago
> What stops the rest of humanity from turning data centers into a pile of ash? A mix of other people who will defend them because it’s a way better and more stable economic deal than joining the starving masses and probably autonomous w
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by ydat 27d ago
Of course not, but consider the size of the field if the “webdev” stuff goes away. Competition for the remaining positions in other domains become more competitive and you may find the floor rising faster than you can? Or you’ll find that w
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by ydat 27d ago
> I think this is part of the tragedy of our parents generation pushing college at all costs. I can’t blame em, they seem to have lucked out and been around just at the right time. I currently live in a smaller blown out rust belt shitho
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by ydat 27d ago
> it would at least have enabled you to own a home one day. Maybe have kids. Shit. ding ding ding. This is the real kicker. This is why it’s a waste of time to pursue. Want a PhD? A home? A family? Pick one or two. With the amount of tim
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by ydat 27d ago
One thing I always hated about university education is how it’s entirely designed nowadays as a sort of “coming of age experience” for teenagers coming out of high school. I don’t have any higher education. I was stupid and arrogant and tho
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by ydat 27d ago
Why do we need artists anymore? I can just ChatGPT to draw me pretty pictures if I want.
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by ydat 27d ago
> The insurgent left cares more about its own factional agenda than the president’s threats to democracy. Is the insurgent left those dementia patients that screamed “blue no matter who” during the last presidential election where there
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by ydat 28d ago
> Sanctions, black-listing and potentially more for anyone trying to play cute and do anything that "disadvantages the US". The rest of the world is forced to comply in enforcing it all, because nobody has backing power to stan
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by ydat 28d ago
Hah, made sense after I read family court. People turn into genuine lunatics in that place.
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by ydat 1mo ago
> No saying you're wrong but how is it making their lives worse? I’m not sure I was go quite as far. But there are certainly Makes my life better: LLM chat subscription Makes my life worse: “AI” features that don’t work replacing pe
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by ydat 1mo ago
> But yeah, I get it, Afghanistan and Sudan won't sway elections in the west ... Not sure if you’ve been in the coma for the last two decades, but we tried that whole quagmire in Afghanistan for years in vain.