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aesthelete,

Points deducted for missing an opportunity to use the word penultimate.

aesthelete,

fuck whoever thought putting super bright moving images right next to roads is safe and should be allowed.

I agree fuck ads and all but 90% of the drivers are too distracted by their phones to even see the ad. 😜

Though I guess this might grab the remaining 10% that were trying to actually pay attention to the road (a hypothetical percentage I cannot claim to personally have encountered).

aesthelete,

Having the green light coincide with a walk signal is basically coaxing drivers to strike pedestrians. In crowded parts of a city with idiot drivers behind me, I’ve actually had people try to pass me on the right (and drive into pedestrians) after laying on their horns while I was making a right because I was properly waiting for pedestrians to clear the intersection first.

It’s bizarre that they set the traffic up this way. They should make a right arrow and have it red, or do pedestrian traffic while the red’s still on or something. But a green light with a walk signal is very stupid.

aesthelete,

What is this? Public policy recommendations from the Cato institute?

Did American History X foreshadow the resurgence of white nationalism in the US? (www.bbc.com)

A brilliant film emerged from these skirmishes – but its core insight still takes work to unpack. For generations, a persistent myth that black families were irreparably broken by sloth and hedonism had been perpetuated by US culture. Congress’s landmark 1965 Moynihan Report, for example, blamed persistent racial inequality...

aesthelete,

Political correctness gets a lot of flak, but what it did was raise the bar.

It boggles my mind that anyone could live in the United States for any amount of time and have the takeaway that the problem in this country is too much political correctness.

aesthelete,

When they dumped all of that discovery network garbage on there I knew my days with the service were numbered. When they canceled winning time (the one show they had left worth watching imo) and ended it with the Lakers losing, I knew it was time to leave.

aesthelete,

A spoiler? Dude, it’s covering things that actually happened.

They just stopped making it abruptly because HBO are assholes and I wouldn’t recommend wasting the rest of your time unless you like watching unfinished stories that are concluded by blocks of text like a fucking Wikipedia article.

The plot follows actual events very closely.

I suspect if they had known they were getting the axe they wouldn’t have spent nearly the whole season detailing the year they did.

aesthelete,

The people who spend a thousand on concert tickets or five hundred on shoes will be complaining about their credit card debt on Facebook next month.

Or not. Because they could just be well off.

aesthelete,

If anyone sees this comment and shops at target for their groceries, would you mind explaining why?

I’ll bite. It’s significantly more convenient than most of the other options, has less dregs than a Walmart does, and tends to contain most of the crap that trader joes doesn’t.

aesthelete,

I’ll just go ahead and keep vinegar out of my bathing process entirely thank you very much.

aesthelete,

I paid $400ish for it (my wife and I) because I’m on Kaiser and they pretended they had it, but they didn’t really, and I wanted it because I wanted to be confident I wouldn’t get sick getting a haircut.

So, maybe the shitty health systems in the US have something to do with this.

Also, I’m kinda glad most people haven’t gotten it yet. I’d rather have extra immunity juice so I can act a little more normal comfortably before the next variant shows up.

aesthelete,

Millions of people in this country apparently have problems keeping two thoughts in their head at the same time.

To these people, COVID is simultaneously not as bad as the flu, a Chinese hoax, something to be fought with ivermectin, a liberal hoax, something so infectious it can get through even the best fitted filtration mask, fought by going to the gym, fought by getting more sunlight, overblown in death count, etc etc.

Masks are the same. They’re simultaneously stifling and damaging to your health because they disallow O2 ingress or whatever and you can’t use them because you have some private health condition, and they’re completely ineffective at keeping out COVID somehow.

My diagnosis is that they’re brain wormed from the maga mind virus, and probably got some damage from COVID too.

aesthelete,

There’s something to be said for masks that aren’t 100% effective that isn’t often said: letting in a little virus when out in public, but not enough viral load to cause an infection, very likely has a positive effect on your immunity to the virus.

Elon Musk gives X employees one year to replace your bank - ‘You won’t need a bank account... it would blow my mind if we don’t have that rolled out by the end of next year.’ (www.theverge.com)

“If it involves money. It’ll be on our platform. Money or securities or whatever. So, it’s not just like send $20 to my friend. I’m talking about, like, you won’t need a bank account.”...

aesthelete,

It continues to blow my mind that anyone cares what this fucking gasbag has to say about anything.

aesthelete,

People are doing their damnedest to fight against climate change no matter the odds, and that should fill you with inspiration and encouragement.

This is like saying people on the Titanic are doing their damnedest to fight the iceberg that’s approaching right ahead and that should fill you with inspiration and encouragement.

We’re not even stopping new drilling or driving cars with better MPG than decades ago; forget net zero carbon emissions. We’re still pushing more CO2 into the air every year.

To come back to my analogy the passengers may want to swerve from the iceberg, but the captain is mad, drunk, and stubborn and wants to teach the iceberg a lesson.

aesthelete,

It’s a very trying time, plz Bitcoin me your thoughts in my unverifiable time of need. 🙏

aesthelete,

Everyone is a “responsible gun owner” and “good guy with a gun”… until sometimes they suddenly aren’t anymore.

Yeah, and unpopular opinion likely but I think of this similarly to dogs turning on their owners.

And similarly I’d rather have a Yorkshire terrier go crazy on me than a Pitbull.

aesthelete,

Their property taxes also suck more than people know but there’s no denying California real estate prices suck.

aesthelete,

They’re either fulfilling their job responsibilities or they’re not.

I agree, but the problem is that they still have no way of determining that aside from chair to ass ratios because all of the upper layers of these organizations don’t know how to do their jobs.

aesthelete,

They’re the howling ghouls of neofuedalism. They would legalize slavery again in an instant if they could.

aesthelete,

They say we should look out further, I guess it wouldn’t hurt us… We don’t have to live by all these coffee shops

aesthelete,

Or receiving a reading from an unlicensed psychic.

aesthelete,

Subscribed to Google Music when it was still a thing for about a year. Found it largely horrible for music discovery, which was surprising to me because prior to it I had discovered music mostly manually (browsing websites, etc.).

I wound up going back to running my own streaming software from my own MP3 catalog and haven’t really looked back since.

aesthelete,

No algorithmic suggestions and therefore, no curated daily taste playlists, no sorting your library by genre (at least not as granular and specific as Spotify unless you put in as much work as they do at tagging your music), finding new music manually takes at least 10x more effort and you’re limited to the taste you already know you have

I haven’t used Spotify much, but I found Google Music and Pandora to be very shallow with regards to discovery. There’s not really much to them other than “people who liked X tend to like Y” or “here’s something that sounds similar to an artist you like”. It’s discovery sure, but it’s discovery on autopilot. It’ll keep you treading water in the same shallow area of the ocean forever unless you make a concerted effort outside of its algorithms to listen to something new.

I usually don’t want something “similar to…X” when finding new music. I usually want things that are completely different. I subscribed to Google Music for around a year and found maybe two new artists I liked to listen to. I switched back to a manual discovery process around five years ago and this year alone I’ve found probably a dozen.

aesthelete,

Your only hope of getting even a comparable experience is to be tech savvy and patient enough to set up a home streaming server, manually tag all your music, and find an audio app with an interface/features that you like that also supports streaming. Oh and then your home computer needs to be on all the time, and your Internet has to be great, and you must not care about your energy bill that much, and … I’m just gonna stop.

It’s a bit spam-like, but I’m going to write something about this separately despite having replied about a different item previously.

I’m technical so it has to be taken with a grain of salt but umm:

  1. Home streaming software is not really that difficult to setup and run.
  2. Search beats tagging for me, which is embedded as part of point #1.
  3. There are an abundance of options for streaming music, it’s (almost of course) easier and with more available choice than running your own Plex server which millions of people do. Hell, if you like plex you can just use its music app.
  4. Of course you have to have a computer on in order to stream to yourself. I have a NUC (to counterpoint your “large energy bill” point) I use for the purpose of Plex and music streaming. But at least the music you like will stay there even as artists fight with various streaming services or try to start their own to get market share via exclusivity. It’s all still there, because in a very real way you actually have the music.
  5. Your Internet does not have to be great to stream music. Some of us older fucks remember RealAudio. We literally streamed audio via dial-up modem. Aside from that, many streaming software packages including the one I use have an ability to locally cache what you’re listening to. I can listen to anything I’ve recently listened to on an airplane without preparing because it has an offline mode.

To each their own, but Spotify isn’t for me for a large number of reasons.

aesthelete,

Unless you’ve personally gone out and solved at least one injustice in your country then you really can’t talk.

Lol because that’s how injustices ever get solved: by one guy.

Man, I’m an American but this “you need to be a guy who personally solved government” take is so American it’s rolling coal in a F-150 with a tattered flag flying from it while blasting rounds from two ar-15s.

aesthelete,

Isn’t that literally what they’re doing when they generalize all of us as being ok with this bullshit?

No, not really. You not understanding the difference is also pretty American.

In some other countries, the people actually do address problems with the laws and make reforms. One of the main reasons we cannot is because our country is run by oligarchs and/or kleptocrats.

Having industry write government policy isn’t a universal, and shouldn’t be expected knowledge about a country that brands itself as a “democracy”. In fact, many of our own citizens don’t even know the reality of how this country runs.

So, people outside of the American system don’t know how difficult it is for “the people” (as a group) to actually wield power within it, especially if they have bought any of our propaganda about us being #1 at democracy or whatever.

They likely weren’t calling for some “rugged individual” / Superman character to fix the government. Such notions are laughable within some other countries. Instead, a lot of countries have successful protest, voting, and labor groups that help shape policy. The US just hasn’t meaningfully worked that way in a long time (though I’ve been pretty happy with recent developments in labor organization).

aesthelete, (edited )

I don’t know what’s insulting about that but I’m glad I saved you a brain wrinkle. 🫡

Edit: I’d like someone to explain to me the online phenomenon whereby people who roll around being gruff assholes are also permitted by the audience to be pearl clutchers who faint at the slightest perceived insult two posts later.

aesthelete,

It is gross, but I find the honesty a little refreshing.

Half of the time in meetings I wonder if we’re really trying to accomplish what we’re saying we are or if the whole thing is farcical and driven by ulterior motives.

aesthelete,

The humor understander has entered the thread.

aesthelete, (edited )

If they’re going to label NPR that way they should be consistent about it and label the other news platforms as billionaire supported media.

aesthelete, (edited )

You’d think at this point that investors would wait for a thing to fill out the question mark second step in their business plan before investing in it, but you’d be way, way wrong.

Every new tech company comes to the investor panel with:

  1. build expressive to run new tool and give it away to end users for free
  2. ???
  3. profit!

And somehow they keep falling for it.

aesthelete,

Soon I’ll probably be payinf 200$ a month because i cant remember how to do things without AI.

Sounds like a problem TBH, I’d get that checked out by a professional.

aesthelete, (edited )

It’s some ML/AI thing that analyzes the review content.

I honestly have no idea how accurate it is either, but I guess if it gives a strong ranking back you’d probably be best to take that into consideration.

aesthelete, (edited )

This question poses an existential challenge to its community.

(For the brain wormed: this is a stupid question)

America's nonreligious are a growing, diverse phenomenon. They really don't like organized religion (apnews.com)

Mike Dulak grew up Catholic in Southern California, but by his teen years, he began skipping Mass and driving straight to the shore to play guitar, watch the waves and enjoy the beauty of the morning. “And it felt more spiritual than any time I set foot in a church,” he recalled....

aesthelete,

People have support structures outside of organized religion.

I agree with you overall, but do not agree with this point. There are very few non-commercial support structures in America for adults outside of organized religion, and even some of them (e.g. AA) are somewhat religious in nature.

aesthelete,

I think it’s in addition. I say that because I worked for my company in two different states and they have a special PTO category in their time tracking / HR software for CA sick time.

aesthelete,

It can be:

Step #1: download it (🏴‍☠️)

Step #2: burn it

Step #3: enjoy owning a more lasting copy for almost free

aesthelete,

I hate it for the refresh nag messages alone.

The default Firefox in Ubuntu is a snap and I only knew that because due to nagging and having to restart constantly while I was using it and had to learn about snaps and how to install Firefox without them on Ubuntu.

aesthelete,
  • Supreme Court does still need 60 votes to end debate and actually vote on confirming

I thought McConnell actually ended that for Supreme Court nominations with his rule set, and that’s how he was able to stuff acb on the court.

aesthelete,

defunding it so that the self fulfilling prophecy comes true and they can be a Santa by giving tax cuts for the programs they defund.

This is giving them slightly too much credit. They don’t even shrink the government and pass the savings back to the American people. They continually grow the government, just like Democrats, however they have no mechanism to fund it because they also always support tax cuts. That’s why the deficit and the debt tend to grow even larger under their governance. That’s the two santas: government freebies and tax cuts both. Billions for defense contractors while we’re also giving Mr Private Jet a tax write-off.

aesthelete, (edited )

who cares as long as the numbers go up for a bit

Especially when you’re mostly stock compensated. Just make the numbers go up long enough to see your share prices soar, browse around for a different job in the meantime. Sell your stocks at a high, exit the company as it implodes behind you. Rinse and repeat.

aesthelete,

My condo is paid in full. I want the market to sink like a stone.

This current housing market has everyone trapped. I cannot sell and upgrade because I’m not going to pay 7% interest on the part I don’t have in my bank account.

aesthelete,

That’s always the idle threat, but the reality is that they likely don’t want to invest in the machines anyway.

I think a more likely phenomenon is that some (likely smaller) chains will be like “fuck it” and close up shop in CA.

Or the most likely scenario is that they just pad the prices a little more in CA and keep the chains open.

Long term I think people will just adjust to it and it’ll be normal. Chains that are looking to maintain their “value” positioning will just absorb it out of their profit margins like they do in other localities.

aesthelete,

I’m more interested in Club Shay Shay personally. But then again, who isn’t?

aesthelete,

Amazon’s marketshare with aws scares me more than their retail presence.

As it should. AWS is making Amazon a feudal lord in the cloud space.

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