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  • YSK Your smoke detectors should be replaced every 7-10 years

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  • Differentiating between European countries is hardly as important as piling onto the “Europe shits on America” bandwagon that this entire site has rapidly become. Literally any issue will turn into Europeans talking down to America. Nuances between EU countries? Who cares!

  • YSK Your smoke detectors should be replaced every 7-10 years

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  • I’m asking as an european

    Do you literally not have fires there?

  • Phoebe Gates wants her $185 million AI startup to succeed with 'no ties to my privilege or my last name': 'I have a chip on my shoulder' | Fortune

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  • Yes I think when an industry is new is about the only time that existing power structures don’t dominate, albeit briefly. I saw this up close with the advent of the WWW. In the early days, coding HTML was like working magic, and there were no established players who had a lock on how to do it better than what any enterprising young person could teach themselves through tinkering.

  • Active duty members of the United States, How are you feeling in regards of being under the service of the Amerinazis?

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  • Active duty members of the United States, How are you feeling in regards of being under the service of the Amerinazis?

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  • True. Think about this though. I could probably come up with a question like this one for the professions of 90% of people here.

    “Waiters of Reddit: how do you feel about working in an industry with its own special slave wage exception, an industry where the bosses expect you to dance for cruel patrons who have control over your compensation?”

    “Medical researchers of Reddit; how do you feel about working for an industry that puts profits before people, whose CEOs are being gunned down in the streets because people die so they can make a number?”

    “Software engineers of Reddit, how do you feel about working for the evil tech bros who have sold the self esteem and mental health of a whole generation to make a buck?”

    The answer to all of these is that while they have some truth, the people who work there believe they are also doing some good with their work, and earning a living, and not just selling their soul to enrich the demon at the top of the corporation.

    You say that if we can see it from far away, they must be able to see it from close up. But I’m not sure it works that way. Maybe there’s just a lot we can’t see from far away. And maybe being close to it is TOO close to see it as we do.

  • Looks

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  • Codpiece with abs: priceless

  • Phoebe Gates wants her $185 million AI startup to succeed with 'no ties to my privilege or my last name': 'I have a chip on my shoulder' | Fortune

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  • In addition to the multiple throws, and in addition to the direct nepotistic help, there is also just the osmosis effect. How many people would give their right arm to get basic mentoring from Bill Gates? Just knowing someone who’s succeeded at something gives you a massive cultural window into that thing and how to nail it. This kid is delusional. If she wants to do something totally on her own she should be a movie director or race car driver or flower arranger. What’s that? Starting up a tech company? Ohh… how original.

  • 'I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb': OpenClaw AI chose to 'speedrun' deleting Meta AI safety director's inbox due to a 'rookie error'

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  • Phoebe Gates wants her $185 million AI startup to succeed with 'no ties to my privilege or my last name': 'I have a chip on my shoulder' | Fortune

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  • I mean nepotism is hardly a new problem :)

  • Fratboy Bureau of Intoxication

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  • I have AN explanation of it. When you’re a minority in America, people see your minority status first, and then you. You’re an Indian man and THEN you’re whoever you are. Some people resent this association so much that they come to hate it and actively work to disappoint expectations of them. You’re expected as a minority to vote Democratic but some people are like fuck that, look at me, I’m down with Trump baby. I’m an individual! I’m a maverick! And of course once someone makes this leap, MAGA embraces them like mad because “see it proves we’re not racists.” That person then enjoys a kind of celebrity status and is generally slapped on the back all around by MAGA, which to some is preferable to being yet another faceless vote in the minority block, doing what’s expected of them. It’s a pretty common trope for a fascist, dominant group to accept a member of the “out group” as a kind of mascot as long as that person sends the right signals that they accept the hegemony and bow to it.

    I don’t ascribe this self-hating shit to every minority Trump voter. Of course Trump appeals to assholes everywhere and there are just assholes of every stripe. I’ve actually come across quite a number of Indian men who are super type-A, headstrong and as full of themselves as any white man ever. In temperament, these guys do have more in common with Trump than, say, Kamala Harris.

  • Acceptable loss.

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  • And many young people watching the show resented those characters for being the kid who got to live Star Trek, which was of course their own fantasy.

  • Acceptable loss.

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  • The internet hating on Wil Wheaton / Wesley Crusher is such an old bit that it has its own momentum and is no longer rooted in anything. Picard yelling “shut up Wesley” is such a meme that people shout this at Mr. Wheaton in public. He’s written about it a lot.

    But it is also true that his character was an odd fit: very on-again / off-again as a member of the cast, poorly costumed, and deliberately written as a kind of whiny genius-boy who gets in trouble but always saves the day. Some people found this one of the less enjoyable parts of the show.

  • YSK Your smoke detectors should be replaced every 7-10 years

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  • And please check them to see if they are safe to throw in the trash before you do. Some of them contain small amounts of really nasty stuff. Even the hazardous waste dropoff on my county was reluctant to take a batch from me. They said “you’re really supposed to send those back to the manufacturer.” But they did eventually take them.

  • Phoebe Gates wants her $185 million AI startup to succeed with 'no ties to my privilege or my last name': 'I have a chip on my shoulder' | Fortune

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  • A coworker of mine left to start his own startup. He claimed that the IPO of an old employer gave him a little bit of cushion to work with, and he was going to take his shot. I wished him well. It was a crazy dumb app idea. But you never know.

    I do remember thinking “gee and he just had a baby too, what a time to take a risk.” I later learned that he had married old money. The second he had a kid with her, he couldn’t lose.

  • If this is true, then RIP

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  • There’s a bit more than a nuance between “ I declare war on you!” and “You are making war on me!”

  • Phoebe Gates wants her $185 million AI startup to succeed with 'no ties to my privilege or my last name': 'I have a chip on my shoulder' | Fortune

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  • I guess it could be interpreted ways other than I intended, but since I know how it was intended, it’s kind of hard for my brain to successfully see how.

  • If this is true, then RIP

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  • They said they are “in a war” with those countries, but it sounded like more of a description of fact than a proclamation.

  • Phoebe Gates wants her $185 million AI startup to succeed with 'no ties to my privilege or my last name': 'I have a chip on my shoulder' | Fortune

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  • Yeah I like him too. The only asterisk on that is that I guess I might like some other actor better who didn’t have a family “in”

  • If this is true, then RIP

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  • Yes it’s a distinction without a difference. You might even say not worth mentioning.

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
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    Sam Bankman-Fried is angling for a pardon from Trump

    gizmodo.com /sam-bankman-fried-thrown-into-solitary-over-tucker-carlson-interview-report-2000573371
  • cats @lemmy.world
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    Sisters hanging out, holding hands (and feet)

  • cats @lemmy.world
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    Cuddle train has left the station!

  • Gardening @lemmy.world
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    It’s not a proper gardening community without this posted at least once, so let’s get it out of the way :D

  • Gardening @lemmy.world
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    This potted succulent REALLY gave our doorstep some pizzazz this year