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Yet another refugee who washed up on the shore after the great Reddit disaster of 2023

  • Is there a good way to buy chrome lettering in the same font as the brand's original lettering on the back of the car?

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  • No expert, but it seems unlikely. My understanding is that big brands generally use custom fonts, so you're unlikely to find generic lettering that matches. But maybe you can find something close enough?

  • The salary you need to be considered middle class in every U.S. state

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  • Not sure about your political persuasions, but sadly the inexpensive areas of California tend to be deep red as well.

  • The salary you need to be considered middle class in every U.S. state

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  • Yeah, there's kind of a big flaw in this. I'm in California, too. It's a huge state, and there re giant swaths of it that don't have especially high cost of living, but the population centers like LA and San Francisco are very, very expensive. Taking the median isn't going to give you a realistic answer for most of us.

  • Elon Musk’s daughter says father’s rally gesture was ‘definitely a Nazi salute’

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  • And you think that's required for recognizing a Nazi salute? That's whack.

  • Elon Musk’s daughter says father’s rally gesture was ‘definitely a Nazi salute’

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  • Are you suggesting that a kid doesn't have any insight into their parent's behavior and that "experts" do?

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  • It is absolutely an active coup on our democracy, and basically the whole party is complicit.

  • Chekov's Gum

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  • I'm case you're wondering:

    Chekhov's gun (or Chekhov's rifle; Russian: Чеховское ружьё) is a narrative principle that states that every element in a story must be necessary and irrelevant elements should be removed. For example, if a writer features a gun in a story, there must be a reason for it, such as it being fired some time later in the plot. All elements must eventually come into play at some point in the story. Some authors, such as Hemingway, do not agree with this principle.

  • Chekov's Gum

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  • I knew what that was going to be before I clicked it. Good job.

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  • That part is so frustrating. The other branches are the "checks and balances" we've always been taught to trust in, but the Republicans have become a cult that's infiltrated all of the branches, nullifying those checks and balances. It's horrifying.

  • Long Island man is first in New York history to be cured of sickle cell anemia

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  • I know someone with sickle cell, and it's really horrific. It would be amazing if a cure was widely available. I'm the current atmosphere, it's hard to imagine that happening, at least in the US, since it's POC who suffer.

  • Multiple Tesla vehicles were set on fire in Las Vegas and Kansas City

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  • Not sure why some people are disagreeing - it for sure fits the definition. I'm not exactly sad about it - Musk is helping to rip apart the country and I have a hard time blaming people who feel that helping to rip apart one of his companies is about all they can do - but committing arson to further an ideology is terrorism.

  • Elon Musk finally admits Social Security is on the chopping block

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  • Me too! I've voted consistently liberal, including for every minimum wage hike on the ballot. Also, I'm on the very trailing edge of the boomer generation, and much of the era you're talking about was before my time. I did reasonably well because I was a computer science grad when that was an earlier thing, but still, I had it easier than my kids (who we've tried to help a much a we can).

  • Elon Musk finally admits Social Security is on the chopping block

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  • I just retired after 40 years at over company, plus some college jobs. I'm 62, and social security was one of the things in my plan that made me decide I could retire My company was laying people off; I was secure, but my leaving allowed one more person to keep their job.

    Now Trump is tanking my 401k and Elon is taking about cutting SS. I've never been more stressed about money.

  • How did you get your job?

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  • No, a NASA and DOD contractor. Worked on some neat stuff over the years, including the electrical power system for the space station. I ended up managing the software engineering group, and really liked that - very smart people.

  • What, if any, cybernetic augmentation would you want for regular life?

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  • Probably so

  • TIL the Scottish term for counter-clockwise is widdershins

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  • Funny, that word was used in a book I was reading over the weekend and I looked it up.

  • How did you get your job?

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  • Old guy checking in. I was a computer science major, graduating in 1985. My goal at the time was to go into computer animation (note that Toy story, the first full length computer animated movie, wasn't released until ten years later). But there was a big computer animated project that was canceled or tabled just before my last semester, so the market was flooded with out of work animators and I decided I'd better do something different. I was getting married, and I needed a job.

    I had good grades, but I didn't think there was much that made my resume stand out from my classmates, each of whom was making 100+ copies of theirs and applying to every software job they could find. So instead, I asked everyone I knew if they knew anyone who worked at a place that hired software people, and asked if they could get me a name of a hiring manager. I got seven or eight of those, and I sent each of them a letter with my resume, mentioning who pointed me their direction. Out of that I got three interviews and two job offers. My first job ended up being writing control software for the space shuttle main engines, and I stayed at the company almost 40 years. I just retired in January.

  • The billionaires and politicians did it

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  • As I understand it, it's the effect of a number of policy decisions intended in the surface to stabilize the economy. They stopped approving minimum wage hikes, they accepted a higher rate of unemployment due to factory automation, etc. Also, the difference between worker and executive compensation has grown tremendously.

  • The billionaires and politicians did it

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  • That's why the right aligned with evangelicals all those years ago. Prior to that, Republicans were actually for abortion rights as a personal freedoms thing. But then they started with the family values stuff, casting Democrats as literally against God. "You need to vote for us because we'll protect marriage, keep you safe from the sin of homosexuality, and most importantly will protect the babies from being murdered." Once in office, they could pass all of the tax cuts for the wealthy and reduce corporate oversight, which was the actual goal.