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  • Reddit does the courtesy of blocking my VPN so I am not tempted to use it and be tracked.

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    What is your income and do you feel wealthy or poor?

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  • Its weird to me that while I make twice as much as I did before college I feel not that much wealthier, since I now have to pay more for insurance, student loans, rent hikes to live in a hcol area, more is drawn out in my 401k, and I've spent five figures in medical expenses in that timeframe.

    It is easy to spend in a way to feel poor at every level I guess, at least below the millionaire tier. I am not poor but I check my bank account constantly anyway and I have lots of big purchase anxiety.

  • A roundabout

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  • I regularly take a busy road with a two-lane roundabout marked this way and you can be sure that people will ignore these lane markers. I'm honestly surprised I haven't seen a fender bender there before.

  • How have you given two week notices in the past?

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  • I pretty much have always given at least two weeks notice, the one exception was during training at a warehouse job and I think I was going to get fired shortly if I didn't quit since it was clearly not working. Sometimes you have to give notice in bad situations.

    In retrospect I'm glad I took that job anyway though, it got me out of a job I hated and I quickly found a workplace that respected me. I did worry a lot at the time though, I didn't have much savings. Also, a few days after I became unemployed Hurricane Harvey hit us in Houston, which could have turned out pretty badly for me if I lost my apartment or my car, but it had no serious impact on my livelihood. Giving no notice definitely feels better when you have options and the ability to burn bridges.

  • At somepoint in human history there was likely a day where not a single human died.

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  • If there was at least one, it also means there was a last day prior to today where no humans died, that went unnoticed and unremarked, and probably will be the last for a long time yet.

  • Flow chart for choosing a Linux distribution

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  • It is impossible to please everyone with something like this but I personally think it strikes a good balance of opinionated and thoughtful. Thanks for making this.

  • Teams

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  • This is a fair point, I was being a bit facetious, but I'm sure there are plenty of teams both totally in person and totally remote using it. It is just bad optics I think. Like if Teams isn't useful enough for them that they have to be in person despite having an ostensibly full-featured videoconferencing and calendar coordination and chat, the hell good is it for my organization?

  • Teams

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  • Makes me laugh additionally because the modern conception of "dogfooding" in tech was popularized by Microsoft itself back in the 1990s. This is the opposite of dogfooding and really is a big condemnation of Teams as a software solution for connected work, at least on paper.

  • I’m So Old, I Remember When Going on the Internet Made You Smarter

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  • The information to make you smarter hasn't gone away, it is just harder to find buried under the shit, and it feels like the community around self-improvement through knowledge just isn't as good as it used to be.

    Also I just realized this is the Diesel Sweeties guy! Been a minute since that webcomic, hasn't it?

  • facebook ai

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  • A rightwing adaptation of A Modest Proposal for the Trump era might replace the Irish babies with illegal immigrants (think Alligator Alcatraz meets Soylent Green). The one snag might be that it would have to be Certified Fetus-Free, to placate the pro-life crowd.

  • What is your personal little luxury you aren't supposed to have?

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  • They are using it in a different sense. Not that they are considered luxury goods by being expensive and associated with higher socioeconomic standing, but that they are a frivolity which is not necessary and which has tangible costs that they feel are justified due to pure pleasure.

  • Las Vegas mayor says the city is suffering from a serious drop in Canadian tourists: 'We need you, and we miss you' | Fortune

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  • How many more people would have needed to vote blue before the actual blue voters in NV are worthy of our sympathy in this trying time?

  • Las Vegas mayor says the city is suffering from a serious drop in Canadian tourists: 'We need you, and we miss you' | Fortune

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  • I don't feel like this counts since Mayor Berkeley is a Democrat and Las Vegas' Clark county swung for Harris in 2024 even if Nevada's electoral votes went for Trump. The people being hurt by this mostly didn't have the day they voted for, in other words...

  • Protocol rule

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  • "3-way handshake" does sound pretty lewd in context doesn't it

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  • This how the Governor of Oregon wants to finance her transportation plan

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  • It's disappointing that this funding is coming from regressive sources (gas tax, registration fees, payroll taxes) rather than from the state income tax, since I doubt most working poor in Oregon have the luxury of choosing a car-free work situation (can't work near public transit or can't live near public transit or both or perhaps it is possible but the commute is not useful for shift work). But at least they didn't have to cut funding for other state services I guess?

  • Does anyone truly think times are better now than 30 years ago? (US)

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  • Since it hasn't been mentioned, one thing that I am truly thankful for that we have improved since the 1990s is public smoking. Not having to be prepared for the reek of cigarettes in virtually every public space is such a big win.

    Hell, in 1990, which is 35 years ago, you could still smoke on airplanes in the US. Airplanes! Can you imagine flying back then? Your neighbor could light up and there was nothing you could do but sit there and stew in the smoke stream. I'm glad I never had to experience flying with smoke but I had my fair share of being forced to sit in smoking sections of restaurants until my teenage years.