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2025-09-12 05:17:50 GMT

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Sometimes I have weird connectivity issues where speeds to servers outside Mexico drop to near dialup speeds in the middle of the night. The farther away geographically, the worse it is. It's only happend a handful of times but was quite annoying. I suspect that my ISP is just being cheap and not paying for enough transit, or perhaps they decide to YOLO some router maintenance without hot spares.
I really should change ISPs.

2025-09-12 05:14:09 GMT

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It might be getting to be that time of year in a few months.
https://shitpost.cloud/media/360e58b9-8b72-4f8a-b26e-85f440b010c6/poastmirror.png
https://shitpost.cloud/media/d4f5b1bf-a21d-4874-920c-f72663d8fc77/beenawhile.png

2025-07-19 05:23:13 GMT

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Because a comfy job is worth a substantial pay cut.

2025-07-19 05:12:08 GMT

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What you really need to get good at is convincing them that what you delivered is actually what they asked for. They don't understand what they want, so how would they know the difference? This is the enlightened path; trying to educate retarded clients is a fool's errand.

2025-07-19 05:10:45 GMT

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Professional LLMslop-fixer will be the new primary task of senior devs at any company not smart enough to ban vibecoding entirely. But, as you was, work is work. My entire professional career has been webshit of one kind or another.

2025-07-19 05:08:21 GMT

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Look for small startups, and learn how to administrate linux servers. Small startups love it when their devs can put on the sysadmin hat.

2025-07-19 05:03:29 GMT

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Bosses only care about shipping yesterday. Half the time they can't even tell if the thing you shipped is the thing they asked for because they can't even remember what they ate for lunch yesterday.

2025-07-19 05:02:46 GMT

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Depends on your approach. The more blackpilled would see bad code as job security. In your own personal code it's different, of course.

2025-07-19 04:53:21 GMT

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Oh, it's a totally fucked mentality from the standpoint of a sustainable business model. 98% of software companies don't care though. It's all about getting the next funding round or scamming the stock price. Total Boomer mentality.

2025-07-19 04:48:59 GMT

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That's what most of my jobs were. I was the dev getting rushed to ship everything out asap. It was shit code, but it got out there fast, sometimes even the same day.
What's not useful are tards who can barely code and only know how to cobble React plugins. The *reason* they're not useful is because they're slow, and hiring a swarm of them doesn't make them any faster, it just creates a much larger amount of shit at the slow pace.

2025-07-19 04:42:57 GMT

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It's not about what code is shipped, it's about who's making it. One skilled dev is faster and cheaper than a dozen tards who can only cobble, even when the goal is to shovel out garbage as fast as possible.
Half of my jobs consisted of cleaning up the broken, unshippable mess left by "cheap" developers.

2025-07-19 04:27:13 GMT

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Still nobody can code in 2025. Cobbling together React plugins isn't knowing how to "code" in an economically useful way. Software is actively getting worse at this point.

2025-06-20 04:11:31 GMT

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When we look at distant stars and galaxies, their measured motion is inconsistent with the estimation of their mass. They move like they're heavier than they look. The matter we can't see but is implied to exist by the orbits is called "dark matter" (you know, because we can't see it). Nobody knows what it is or if it even exists. It might just be horrible errors in the estimation of the mass of distant objects. It could be exotic particles or some other nonsense. It could also be a bunch of extremely cold osmium balls floating around.
"Dark energy" is probably bullshit though. The whole "universe is expanding" thing is sus, and the supposed Hubble Constant has some pretty big error bars.

2025-06-12 04:46:37 GMT

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Everything you hear is a lie in some form, but that should have been obvious from the fact that it came from the media.
It's pretty chill here. I live in a big city and there's very little crime by American standards. The cops don't let bums cause trouble. The cartels don't bother you if you don't bother them, so long as you don't live in some shithole village in the middle of nowhere. (You wouldn't live on the south side of Chicago either...)
Mostly people go to work, go to the market and drink caguamas (40's) with their friends. Everyone everywhere in all of history always thinks the economy is bad and prices are high, but things are going ok here. There are "help wanted" signs all over the place, and they list livable wages. Housing is cheap, if not luxurious, but better to live in a crappy house and have beer money than live in a fancy house and work 60 hours a week to keep above water. There are tons of laws, but nobody really cares, even the government enforcers, so in practice there is a lot more freedom than in the US; lots of normal people run a small business of some sort, and profitably, and without debt.
The most striking thing coming from the US is that the people are warm and nice and the streets and shopping districts aren't dead. You can just go hang out at the market or even at the taco stand on the corner and chat with people, for hours. I've even had strangers give me free beer while hanging out listening to live street music in the middle of the night on like a Tuesday.

2025-06-12 04:31:24 GMT

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The feds are largely aligned against the cartels, competing for control of territory. There is rife corruption and the accepting of bribes at all levels of government, but the feds are their own faction.
Dude doesn't have a single tattoo. Even grandmas have a half dozen tattoos here in Mexico. He's some lefty larping.

2025-06-12 04:24:25 GMT

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That would be weird indeed, as he'd be the first Mexican to give a shit about what the President says.

2025-06-12 04:22:35 GMT

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Pretty sure those guys aren't jumping the border illegally too often.

2025-06-12 04:14:41 GMT

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That guy is awfully pale.

2025-05-23 06:48:32 GMT

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Congress could have passed a law welching on the previous laws. Congress can do whatever it wants.

2025-05-03 04:07:13 GMT

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Ubuntu has been turning to shit. Mint is the new normie distro.

2025-04-29 05:47:44 GMT

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> They never told us fuck all that was worth hearing, especially about women.
"Women like Nice Guys"

2025-04-20 04:53:54 GMT

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And some people scoff when I say that the US is more communist than not.

2025-04-18 04:12:02 GMT

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Maybe stop building houses out of firewood and Elmer's glue?

2025-04-12 05:22:31 GMT

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Americans did fuck-all when the government locked them in their houses over an obviously fake flu scare.
School shootings are the work of mentally ill children and MKUltra victims, not a reflection of Americans' behavior in general.

2025-04-12 05:14:41 GMT

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It's more likely to become an internal problem first.

2025-04-12 04:09:11 GMT

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The decline of *Western* civilization

2025-04-12 04:00:48 GMT

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LLM's have a promising future to replace low-level call center workers, professional translators (a huge industry, I know), and minimum wage corporate photoshop monkeys. These are legitimate uses that will benefit the world, but it's not a gold rush even though all the suits are acting like it. With any luck, the Mark Cubans of this cycle will hodl all the way into bankruptcy.
I think we're seeing some degenerate, collapsing-empire shit here. The sclerotic, hyper-regulated, hyper-inflating, socialist-all-but-in-name economy has been dead for a while and the only big gains to be made are on asset bubbles and scams, so everybody is looking for "the next big ~~scam~~ thing," be that AI, electric cars, cryptocoins, regulation-dodging taxi services, or orbital burrito delivery systems. Nobody is looking to run an honest, modest, and consistently profitable business.

2025-04-12 03:40:56 GMT

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What they believe is that "AI iS tHe FuTuRe!!" and that chatbots will replace all the plebs and somehow they will get richer off this, rather than get hanged by a starving, unemployed mob. There is no rationality in it; it's vapid suits believing ridiculous things while having cartoonish green dollar signs in their eyes. They can fund this nonsense because they have hundreds of billions of VC dollars to throw at a wall with absolutely no accountability. The reason they have that money, in a *very* small nutshell, is that interest rates are way too low and it's illegal for poor people to invest anywhere except the stock market.

2025-04-02 05:03:01 GMT

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The video was not clickbait. There's nothing revolutionary, but it was mildly interesting and I do not regret watching it and I did learn a few new things.

2025-04-02 04:45:40 GMT

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There are spherical washers that allow up to 7 degrees of misalignment.
https://shitpost.cloud/media/b74d7c92-8740-4254-9c09-9d8c05316fb8/sphericalwashers.jpg

2025-04-02 04:35:30 GMT

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Youtube has ads?

2025-04-02 04:35:16 GMT

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I'll report back in no more than 23:06.

2025-04-02 04:27:30 GMT

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No way... I just saw that thumbnail and thought "I should screenshot this with the comment 'Please don't be clickbait...' "
Was too lazy tho

2025-03-26 05:38:34 GMT

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Most software has to be modified specifically to handle IPv6. There is some stupid wrapper shit that kinda works a little bit sometimes for some apps, but you can't type an IPv6 address into software that only supports IPv4.

2025-03-20 07:34:20 GMT

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What's worse, being overrun by gangs that randomly rape, rob, and murder civilians every day, or the government falsely imprisoning some people? Oh wait, the government does that anyway, regardless of if they stop the gangs. See gitmo.

2025-03-20 07:15:35 GMT

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When there's a single gang murder now in some village, they send thousands of cops and soldiers to physically surround the entire town then systematically search it door to door until the culprits are caught and thrown in prison forever. Solving organized crime is easy if you have a competent and ruthless leader.

2025-03-20 07:09:03 GMT

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It used to be one of the most dangerous places in the world, then the new president cleaned it up by rounding up anyone with a gang tattoo and throwing them in prison forever. Now it's apparently one of the safest countries in the western hemisphere.

2025-03-20 06:44:36 GMT

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"Gains" will continue until the elites decide to pull the rug.

2025-03-20 06:10:42 GMT

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You missed the point. The power and internet might be on, but you might not be authorized to use them for payment. Maybe you said a naughty word on the internet, or maybe your social credit score isn't high enough, or maybe the new sharia-vegan overlords have banned meat sales to non-Muslims, or maybe the giant pile of glitchy Microsoft shitware written by an army of H1-B's has stopped working and nobody knows why. And also the store's ISP's accounting office's Winblows computers took a shit too, so they can't pay transit fees to their upstream, so you're now stuck with dialup speeds until they can reinstall the entire glitchy software suite on new machines and then restore from backups on tape.
Just look at ATC.

2025-03-20 05:52:19 GMT

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It's dangerous to live in a place where cash isn't universally accepted. Cash is the only form of payment that depends only on the buyer and the seller, and only at the moment of the sale. Anything else leaves you dependent on complicated and increasingly brittle and vulnerable systems.

2025-03-14 03:41:41 GMT

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Xbone, iirc, and initially due to corporate incompetence.
But disc-only games aren't practical anymore. 16x Bluray read speed is only 72MB/s, contrasted with a low end SSD at 3500MB/s+. The Xbonex has 12GB of ram, and to fill 10 of that would take 138 seconds assuming its drive is capable of 16x. And that's not accounting for the dynamic nature of many modern AAA titles that are constantly swapping out large portions of data.

2025-03-14 03:05:38 GMT

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In 2019 I spent about $3000 bumming around Thailand and Vietnam for two months, not including plane tickets, but also not really being economical about things. $1500/mo (for two) is pretty cheap when you're not paying rent in the US. Sell all your shit, cancel all your subscriptions, and live on ramen for a couple months and you should be able to save up ~$6k or so, especially if you can guilt your loser parents into letting you crash on their couch while you save up. (Might as well get your inheritance in some form or another.)
We met a British couple in Thailand who had been just bumming around the world for the past few years, working little odd jobs here and there under the table to get by. The language schools in Vietnam would pay native English speakers to just come hang out and chat with their students for a few hours. Nearby here in a big city in Mexico there's a place that rents rooms (private room, shared bathroom, like a college dorm) for $80/mo. It's run down, but it's safe and it's *cheap* and located a few blocks from the cool parts of town. The US is a big money trap, and it's hard to see how cheap and easy life can potentially be while living inside it.

2025-03-14 02:46:24 GMT

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http://flights.google.com
It's cheap\*. Just go. You won't ever do it unless you just decide to do it.
\* The ones you really want to go to, at least.

2025-03-14 02:19:51 GMT

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Travelling to truly foreign places changes your whole perspective on life.

2025-03-14 02:16:29 GMT

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Sell all your shit and hop on a plane. Keep travelling until you find a place that fits you, or, after several years, you end up back in Boomerville.

2025-03-14 02:12:52 GMT

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Spain is only kinda Europe.
Besides, there's worse things out there, like living near American Boomers.

2025-03-14 01:57:18 GMT

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I've heard that rural Spain is a good place to get cheap land with an old house on it. Apparently over the last few generations everyone left their one-horse village to seek fame and fortune and running water in the big city. Keep in mind that much of Spain is mountainous and mild, not unlike the US mountain west.

2025-03-14 01:49:18 GMT

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> live out the last years in Michigan
I see they dream big.
As for the latter part,
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2012:46-50&version=NLT
Make sure you know who your real family is and isn't. Your conclusions might be difficult to come to grips with, but reality is always the easiest path in the long run.

2025-03-13 20:34:16 GMT

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Mostly, the Boomers are selling the country one Chinese-made dog toy at a time. God forbid they have to reduce their lavish lifestyle, even if it means the next generation has no opportunities or future whatsoever.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_international_investment_position
As you can see, the Boomers collectively ran out of savings to blow somewhere in the late 90's and therefore started selling the country to whoever was buying. This graph will only get exponentially worse until the US runs out of assets to hock or foreign countries lose faith in their ability to reliably own US assets. Both are very bad situations, but the latter is devastating, as it makes international business difficult in *both directions*; say goodbye to any dreams of being a mercantilist exporter.
Now, there are other options than those two mentioned, but they aren't realistic. Americans, especially Boomers, will never go for the severe austerity that comes with the combination of isolationism (high tariffs) and heavy regulation. They'll also never go for eliminating 95% of the regulations on the books at all levels of government (including zoning, building codes, mandatory unionization, and professional licensing), nor will they tolerate a working underclass that lives in literal shantytowns (lest they might become a denizen themselves, a very real possibility for people who never developed any useful skills).
https://shitpost.cloud/media/0749895e-c7a0-46f2-88b3-7799b30c0a20/US_Net_International_Investment_Position.png

2025-03-13 20:14:45 GMT

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Due to lack of a winter, simple road projects in Florida can drag on for years. Widening a small county highway that runs through the middle of nowhere over flat ground might take 3 or 4 years, for no reason at all except corruption.

2025-03-13 20:04:30 GMT

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One time Shoreline was without power for several days because like one big doug fir fell over on a trunk line. Contrast this with my two and a half decades of living in Florida where they would have the power back on the next day after a hurricane. Utility competency varies wildly in the US.

2025-03-13 19:41:25 GMT

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No, the *weekly* ones are a few seconds usually. I think the wires sag in the heat or blow in the wind and get shorted on a tree or nearby wire, shorting out my local (a couple blocks) 23kv->120v transformer for a moment. You can often hear the little explosion of whatever it was getting vaporized by 5000 amps.
Longer blackouts happen much less often, maybe 4 or 5 times a year, and *usually* are less than 12 hours. It's ridiculous to happen in 2025, but then again when I lived in Seattle there would be week-long blackouts for entire neighborhoods because a couple trees fell over in a wind storm.

2025-03-13 19:35:42 GMT

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VC's are funding the infinite construction of massive datacenters to train the new whiz-bang LLM chatbot that will finally make humans obsolete and therefore somehow make money off of people who now have no jobs.

2025-03-13 19:34:17 GMT

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That's because there are far more publish conversations of people agreeing than disagreeing. The latter you would only find on forums or novels, not published in nonfiction books or articles. There's little point publishing arguments in most situations, as only the final result is useful.
Of course, LLM's have no concept of truth or falsehood (or "concepts" at all for that matter) so if they were trained heavily on arguments then they would just constantly argue with you regardless of reality.

2025-03-08 05:58:04 GMT

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As opposed to America where everything is owned by a dozen megacorporations who sell you imported trash at premium prices *honestly to your face*.
The world is full of tradeoffs. Don't rush to assume that the ones you're used to are the best ones. The power flickers off for a few seconds about every week where I live and you can't drink the tap water, but on the flip side there's no such thing as building codes and you can basically do whatever you want on your land or in your house, including running a business. Make sure your priorities are where you actually want them, not where you're simply accustomed to them being.

2025-03-08 05:45:36 GMT

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I am curious as to the actual situation on the ground in Russia. On paper, they have a lot of red tape, just like the US and Europe, but they're also a country that seems to have readily available petty corruption, and a sort of zero-fucks-given attitude towards many things. It's entirely possible that a homestead in the Russian wilderness is incredibly free in practice.
As for me personally, I'm not opposed to living in Latin or Asian cultures, and I have no interest in learning a language with heavy noun declension. ymmv.

2025-03-08 05:39:48 GMT

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No, I don't think other countries will respond by glassing the planet, and the few small countries crazy enough to do it only have a handful of nukes and no good way to deliver them.
There have been a couple of times where the order to MAD was given, whether in error or as a secret test, and the men at the silos refused to push the button.
If someone does use a nuke, it'll either be Israel out of some petty spite over some petty ancient goatherder feud with their neighbors, or it'll be the US trying to relive the glory days back when their military was effective. And at most there will be a small, measured response, and that'll be the end of it. Most likely no nuclear response at all, rather global condemnation and conventional war.

2025-03-08 05:35:12 GMT

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The issue is with people who aren't of the proper culture. They were very welcoming to me, despite hailing from Seattle at the time.

2025-03-08 05:32:04 GMT

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Yes, but technically no.
Multiple
Independent
*Re-entry*
Vehicle
These things tend to re-enter the atmosphere and glide as one unit, then release independent warheads later on. It's closer to a cluster munition than a MIRV, and it's not clear how far apart the warheads can be spaced.

2025-03-08 05:27:03 GMT

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Just a technical point here, but the fancy new ones are hypersonic glide vehicles, not ballistic missiles. They are only ballistic during a short initial phase, mostly over friendly territory, where they do a nose-dive from the edge of space in order to gain speed before pulling up at mach 12 and then flying comparatively level towards the final target.
No interceptor missile will be any good, as their speed is not practical to achieve with direct rocket power, and they're moving so fast that head-on interception is nearly impossible to time correctly.

2025-03-08 05:16:53 GMT

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It's a weird place for sure, and land was going for $80k+/5 acres back in 2017 when I was looking. Also, it's a lot farther from civilization than many people understand. You might have to drive 4 hours to get to a Walmart, and in the winter that might double. If you're fine paying whatever price the one store of that kind in Sandpoint is asking, then no problem. If you think you're going to keep buying cheap junk to stuff your McMansion with, it's not the place for you.

2025-03-08 05:10:29 GMT

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"No restrictions land" is now essentially reduced to the two northernmost counties of Idaho. Everywhere else you need a loicense and permit to stack two rocks on your land.

2025-03-08 04:31:05 GMT

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This one kinda makes sense, so they know it's *not* the room they're looking for, depending on where this door is.

2025-03-08 04:24:31 GMT

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VC helicopter money collapse will happen first. They're already super jumpy.

2025-03-06 04:04:03 GMT

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So? Most countries take your fingerprints when you get a greencard these days.

2025-02-22 07:51:39 GMT

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But they're cucks, almost by definition. Moralists and purists always are.
Elon has personally done more damage to the deep state in the last month than the entire conservative movement in the last decade, but there are still spergs on fedi that hate him because he wanted to bring in some H1B workers. Zero sense of nuance, compromise, or strategy. After all, it's easy to revoke a bunch of H1B visas later on, but next to impossible to audit the IRS or Treasury and shut down the CIA money laundering fronts. It's like a fat smelly guy turning down a 9/10 bombshell because she's using an iphone instead of an android.

2025-02-22 07:44:03 GMT

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Remember when courts kept shooting down the covid nonsense and governors kept issuing a new EO with the same content immediately afterward?

2025-02-22 07:30:17 GMT

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Hell, they're putting impeachment papers forward for an activist judge right now.

2025-02-22 07:24:01 GMT

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Source: history
https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/government-politics/worcester-v-georgia-1832/
> Although Jackson is widely quoted as saying, “John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it,” his actual words to Brigadier General John Coffee were: “The decision of the supreme court has fell still born, and they find that it cannot coerce Georgia to yield to its mandate.”

2025-02-22 07:21:49 GMT

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It absolutely can, and has in the past. It can also arrest the men in gay robes on whatever suspicions it wants, and do so in succession until the judge overseeing the trials of the judges reads the writing on the wall.

2025-02-22 06:48:12 GMT

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skill issue

2025-02-22 05:39:49 GMT

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Like that one time in the 70's(?) that an Indian grifter guy out Wyoming tried to secede and form his own nation?

2025-02-22 05:37:39 GMT

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Like that one time in the 1860's when they killed each other?

2025-02-22 04:42:30 GMT

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The most likely outcome will be alternating administrations, whether legit or not, that abuse the executive to the maximum. Congress will drag their feet when they have a small conservative majority, and pass millions of pages is insane corruption when they have a small leftist majority. SCOTUS will have 60% bad takes while completely ignoring the most important cases. The US will progressively alienate its neighbors and allies, driving them into the arms of whatever other power is most convenient.

2025-02-22 04:23:46 GMT

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His neck

2025-02-22 04:20:45 GMT

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...that can't beat goat herders in Afghanistan

2025-02-21 04:38:58 GMT

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A fellow man of refined taste and culture, I see.

2025-02-21 04:36:00 GMT

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Imagine still caring at all what leftist word-weasels say

2025-02-21 04:28:43 GMT

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Congestion pricing is dead... for now.

2025-02-21 03:47:37 GMT

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The best thing to do would be simply lower taxes across the board. Taking money and then giving some back is dumb.

2025-02-21 03:36:06 GMT

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$5k for every American is around $1.5 trillion. They didn't find $1.5 trillion of actual unspent money laying around; it would come from inflation.
Welcome to the stage of empire collapse where they directly bribe the entire populace by aggressively watering down the currency.

2025-02-13 05:25:50 GMT

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Better yet, it just lowers taxes across the board. No need to hand out cash and then take it back, just steal less to start with.

2025-02-13 05:23:13 GMT

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Mentally lazy generation. How did they keep voting for the same liars their whole life. "Gee, George H. W. Bush started a war for oil in Iraq, and I didn't like that. Ok, I'll vote for George W. Bush because red." Same with blue team Boomers.

2025-02-13 05:19:21 GMT

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Sam is a bit of an eccentric idiot. Good with weird math, bad at everything else. He's not the people driving the stock up though. He's cheerleading it, but the world is full of cheerleaders for every stupid scheme and venture. It's the Wall Street tards that think they can magically replace burger flippers and longshoremen with chatbots *and then just pocket the savings* like when they outsourced all those jobs to Asia a few decades ago. The problem is that if nobody works then nobody has any money to buy burgers and imported dog toys. They won't go down a UBI road, but if they did it would eat up all the profits and more. It's damned if they do, damned if they don't.
We're probably somewhere between the Sunk Cost Fallacy phase and the Want To Pull Out But Can't Spook The Market phase right now. Look at how fast Nvidia stock dropped because some random Chinese company released a slightly crappier but less inefficient chatbot. The shareholders are jumpy.

2025-02-13 05:01:00 GMT

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Web design will stick around forever. The core of it is Boomeresque managers wanting the icon to be cornflower blue and the button to pop up a new dialog that asks people to sign up for the newsletter, but *slightly different* from all the other websites. That's the sort of shit that is easy to do but can't just be copypasted from Stack Overflow; chatbots can't sit in a meeting and make middle managers feel important.
After all, there are already a million CMS's and sitebuilder tools that work perfectly fine for 98.5% of basic websites.

2025-02-13 04:56:24 GMT

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Real feudalism formed over the course of centuries, and had responsibilities in both directions. Monty Python's "I didn't vote for a king" segment is a lot closer to historical reality than people think. Trying to put a large portion of your population out of work over the course of only a few years will absolutely result in riots; industrialization happened over the course of two hundred years and there was no shortage of violence from people who are now obsolete and need to learn how to factory or whatever.
Fortunately, it looks like chatbots will take the jobs of journalists, call center workers, Hollywood writers, and two-bit furry porn artists and not much else.

2025-02-13 03:49:58 GMT

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GPUs are expensive because Wall Street thinks they can replace all human labor with chatbots and somehow the starving masses wouldn't just kill them all and smash the chatbots.

2025-02-13 03:06:50 GMT

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I mean Richard Trevithick, co-inventor of the steam engine.

2025-02-13 02:56:23 GMT

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Richard spent some time wasting money in South America on failed mining ventures and served in Simon Bolivar's army for a bit.

2025-02-13 01:41:12 GMT

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As opposed to before, which was exactly the same.

2025-02-13 01:32:43 GMT

All the history you've been told is a fucking lie.
The steam engine was invented by William Murdoch and Richard Trevithick just before 1800. They were harassed and hampered by a piece-of-shit patent troll named James Watt who was actively trying to suppress the development of a steam engine while promoting his own barely-functional contraption which was a minor improvement over the one that Thomas Newcomen ripped off of Denis Papin (a true genius) and patented without any credit or compensation. Similar to Edison, Watt would go around claiming that real steam engines were dAnGeRoUs and should be banned. Between Watt and Newcomen, humanity was likely set back decades by patent trolling.
Those machines prior to Murdoch and Trevithick weren't powered by steam expansion and were closer in form to a terrible sterling engine; they wouldn't be considered "steam engines" by the modern definition of the word, and were so weak that they couldn't even function at all at high altitude, much less power a locomotive at sea level. They also couldn't run at a consistent speed, which prevented them from being used for factories. Instead, factories used them to pump water (their only real use, and even then only barely) into a reservoir which then fed a *water wheel*.

2025-01-30 02:48:52 GMT

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I heard it runs on a toaster though

2025-01-30 02:37:46 GMT

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They probably just used a better training dataset that wasn't full of duplicate information and complete trash, then didn't spend years trying to censor every little non-woke thing.

2025-01-23 01:15:52 GMT

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Yeah, the deep state will probably try to throw a wrench into the economy (which is barely running to begin with).

2025-01-22 03:37:08 GMT

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Heh. I suspect that there are certain people in the know who will just cash in on most of it. Farmers and the like.

2025-01-22 03:23:17 GMT

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If it's real then they'll have to add a penalty or filter of some sort for randomly reporting latinos, otherwise the system will get flooded with useless reports on citizens.

2025-01-21 02:23:51 GMT

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"Doctor" is practically an insult these days, medical or otherwise.

2025-01-21 01:43:24 GMT

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It's $20 now

2025-01-16 06:54:30 GMT

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> Catholic
Pretty sure that's an Orthodox cross he's wearing. It's kind of hard to see, and I'm no expert in symbology...

2025-01-16 06:39:54 GMT

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Because it only involved flipping off one power strip.