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Trainguyrom

@ Trainguyrom @reddthat.com

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  • Dear Faith I

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  • Just to muddy the waters, I worked with a guy who had "system administrator level XII" in his email signature and one of the teammates asked him about it. His response was that he just put that in to see if anyone noticed and occasionally bumps the number up when he feels like it's about time to do so.

    So you never know when someone stuck a private joke into their email signature like that. Heck when I was brought back to my role I was never given a clear job title so I just put the most accurate job title I could think of in my signature of "IT Contractor"

  • What’s your most controversial opinion?

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  • Not the person you asked, but you and everyone reading your comment know that's not a good faith argument.

    The reason incest is frowned upon and often illegal is because of the danger it poses to any potential offspring. Many genetic diseases rely on recessive traits that require both parents to carry the recessive trait in order for it to be exposed. If two biological siblings have a child, that child would therefore have a massive amount of recessive traits exposed since both parents would share a massive amount of DNA

    At a population scale, genetic diversity is critical to survival of a population, and a collapse of genetic diversity through too much inbreeding tends to lead to a very unhealthy population that can be easily wiped out through disease. This is much less of a risk with random incest today thanks to how much humans move around these days, but the flip side is that there is some risk of this from so called "super surrogates" who have genetically fathered hundreds or thousands of kids. The likelyhood of these kids meeting and reproducing can be quite high, which can therefore noticably reduce genetic diversity in a population, and ultimately reduce the health of a population

  • This brilliant campaign from Quebec shows exactly what it takes to get motorists to actually yield

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  • I'm curious how this impact snow plows. Every speed bump I've seen in the region I live in that gets a few feet of snow each winter will have little flags that should stick out over the snow to indicate to plows where they should lift up for a speed bump. I should look sometime to see how scratched to hell they are though to see if plows hit the bumps a lot

  • Decisions, decisions...

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  • Kinda how I see it, I just look at the numbers to make sure I can retire at some point and that's it. Until a better system is available, I just have to play within the system that exists or I ruin my future while making no meaningful dent in these companies' futures

  • Decisions, decisions...

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  • Developers generally rely heavily on loans for building new homes, and America is short some 8 million affordable homes currently (and the gap keeps growing)

  • Pentagon puts Scouts 'on notice' over DEI and girl-centered policies

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  • Gender mixing might cause boys to develope healthy relationships with women!

  • AI tool OpenClaw wipes the inbox of Meta's AI Alignment director despite repeated commands to stop — executive had to manually terminate the AI to stop the bot from continuing to erase data

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  • Yeah at work I had a realization recently that power automate and similar systems with AI steps are going to be really powerful. Since you have a bunch of deterministic steps you can just have the AI do the one text manipulation bit where you don't need deterministic output (handy for non-deterministic inputs for example)

  • An upcoming California law requires operating system providers to enforce basic mandatory age verification

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  • I mean, as the law is written there's zero requirement for the entered age to be verified, only to associate an age bracket with the OS user account and to provide that info to programs as they require it. Now, I do wonder if a California-compliant OS would require service accounts to have an entered date of birth and what kind of fun that could potentially lead to of you enter the date of account creation as the birthdate but the full ramifications remain to be seen

  • Ariana Grande: The Last Racebender

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  • Italians in general weren’t even considered ‘white’ untill… the 70s?

    Why does this just make me think of those tweets from when Luigi was arrested

    we're finally on the verge of learning once and for all if Italians are White

    And once he received terrorism charges

    The final answer on "what are Italians" is apparently "middle eastern"

  • Crossover hours?

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  • Yeah it could be like carnivorous plants on earth, where they can get a decent amount of nutrients from the soil and through photosynthesis but they still need to eat flies and whatnot to get fully enough nutrients.

    Although given the thousand year digestion it would make more sense if they digestion is a form of reproduction or life extension than if it's for nutrient gain

  • Incel propaganda in my music app

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  • there is no such thing as objective media of any kind anymore

    All media has bias. Always has. Literally even just in the choice of what to report on, what to investigate, how and what gets written about. Best thing anyone can do is realize this, and reject the billionaires narratives and write their own shit. Make zines and hand them out! Make political shitposts on the internet! Make radical stickers and graphiti. Reject the manufactured narrative and write your own and share it to normalize it!

  • 3D Printer Reviewers: Being honest in this industry will put you out of a job.

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  • I mean this is generally a sign of growth by the content creator, shifting from whatever "personalized" ads the ad network decides to show, to having their own relationships with advertisers and doing their own ads. Honestly its a good thing because it means that the people making the content also have full control over who they sell ad space to and how that ad space is used, and if viable platforms other than Youtube existed, they would be able to to run their videos profitably without excessive user tracking

  • A two-child household must earn $400,000 a year for childcare to be affordable, study says. ‘It’s easy to see why birth rates are falling’

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  • I mean choosing to believe things won't get any better is just pessimistic thinking, plus its counter-productive because if you don't believe in a better tomorrow how can you make today the first/next step towards a better tomorrow?

    The best time to plan a tree is 20 years ago, the second best time is now. Why not be hopeful about the future and lay the groundwork to make some small improvement to your corner of the earth?

  • American Foreign Policy

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  • Holy crap I've never seen any of this before but now I've watched the entire first season and need to watch the rest

  • A two-child household must earn $400,000 a year for childcare to be affordable, study says. ‘It’s easy to see why birth rates are falling’

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  • I’ve never quite understood this, because the birth rate is highest at the lowest income level. So, the people who are least able to afford child care have the most kids.

    The child tax credit makes a huge difference. It's something like $6k per kid per year when they're under the age of 8 I think it was? When you're only making around 40-50k per year, an extra 8-10k each tax season is a huge opportunity to improve your finances. I knew one family that had 3 or 4 kids, probably made about 40k per year, they'd stop paying their electricity bill during the winter because the utility can't legally disconnect you from your heating source in the winter then pay off the debt each tax season.

    Additionally many of our social safety net programs are based on family income, with the income threshold increasing as family size increases, so a family making 50k a year with 1 kid might not qualify for food assistance, but a family making 50k a year with 3 kids probably will. Medicaid also will cover fulltime childcare in many states, further negating the financial hurdles of having kids, and once the kids are old enough you can have the older kids babysit the younger ones further reducing costs (of course parentification is very pervasive in this way!) there's a lot of hurdles that this funding can bypass (then of course put parents in a tight spot that they have to figure out when a new technicality is added to kick them off of these benefits)

  • A two-child household must earn $400,000 a year for childcare to be affordable, study says. ‘It’s easy to see why birth rates are falling’

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  • Green estimated that food makes up just 5% to 7% of household spending, but put housing at 35% to 45%, childcare at 20% to 40%, and health care at 15% to 25%.

    Yeah that tracks. For my family we spend about $500/month on groceries, around 35% of our income on housing (call it about $1600/mo including utilities), and until our vehicle was paid off around 25% of our income went to that.

    We got lucky in that we had a family member willing to babysit for us while I went back to college then when they started getting too toxic I snagged a job making just enough for my wife to be a stay at home mom. We absolutely could not have afforded kids if it weren't for either of those factors didn't work out. We'd probably still have my wife and I working opposing shifts and both being just sleep deprived enough to be biting each other's heads off and possibly divorced by now (we had the opposing shifts thing going when we got married, and when she had a week off for her wedding, we both started getting good sleep again and stopped fighting and I had a second honeymoon phase as I was like "oh yeah I remember why I fell in love with you again!")

  • A two-child household must earn $400,000 a year for childcare to be affordable, study says. ‘It’s easy to see why birth rates are falling’

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  • The argument could be made that kids conceived right now will be the next richest generation as we have to be rapidly approaching the breaking point with the current second gilded age

  • Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses

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  • I don’t understand how any of this is legal

    Part of it comes down to how driving is legally a privilege, but it's also been made a legal requirement in many instances (such as living on a highway that disallows pedestrians) and a functional requirement in many others (have to walk past 5 miles of parking lots and take a long meandering path to get around the interstate along noisy, busy stroads just to get to any grocery store by foot for the most common example)

    Sometimes in some places there's half-assed policies in place to try to paper over the problem, such as free paratransit for disabled and elderly individuals that requires scheduling the ride days or weeks in advance, special driving permits for those who had their licenses revoked to be able to get to work, school and go shopping but restricts allowed driving hours and places to make it even more of a punishment, bus services that run only hourly on weekdays, stopping only at poorly marked stops located in built places no human would want to stand at for even a few minutes, etc

  • How come people want to work?

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  • Hey man, I'm sorry that I did put you in that position with my comments! I thought you were exaggerating about the social anxiety (I've known several people who do) and that it was like myself where the best thing to do is to push past it, be awkward and do whatever it is anyways to build the skills to be less awkward later

    I hope my comments are worth saving and coming back to later! I've had my own thoughts and ideas for running events in my community but I have my own challenges I should work on before undertaking such a project. But I did dump a basic framework for creating an event based on my experience volunteering at a few nonprofits and helping them run events so maybe there's something there?