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indepndnt,

I keep getting more and more glad that I moved here.

indepndnt,

Honestly you wrote your post on a fairly polarizing way. If you wanted calmer discourse around the strange idea, you could have gone with something like “What are your thoughts about this?” instead of “Doesn’t that seem rather fucked up?”

Edit: also maybe be less combative in your comments, but I’m starting to recognize that this complaint was not made in good faith.

indepndnt,

Hmm, interesting, I’ll try it. Here are my chapter titles.

  1. Ignorance is bliss.
  2. Loneliness and anger.
  3. How to ruin your life with one simple marriage.
  4. Growth, healing, and self-discovery.
  5. How I became an ethical billionaire.

Haha, jk about 5, I’m still in chapter 4 and there’s no such thing as an ethical billionaire.

indepndnt,

My first car, a 1973 Dodge Charger. This is a representative picture, not my actual car. 1973 Dodge Charger

I bought it for $750 with no engine or transmission (but it came with a bunch of tools). It was a stock automatic but I converted it to a 4-speed manual in the process of building it back up.

I probably spent twice as much time working on it than I did driving it before I totalled it. That was very sad.

How often to you bail on a half-written post or response?

I have had a tendency since my earliest days on social media where I will get halfway or more through a response, and end up just cancelling it. Sometimes I feel like I’m just being to over the top with snark or otherwise don’t want to be that kind of person, but a lot of the time I’ll decide I just really don’t care...

indepndnt,

Less now that I’ve learned to give up before I start.

indepndnt,

More or less? Actually it’s more like extortion as written, but generally speaking rent seeking is buying something that you can get others to pay you for regularly. Like “hey, this land has oil, I’ll buy it and lease the oil rights” or “hey, this land has a house on it that people like to live in, I’ll buy it and lease the habitation rights”.

indepndnt,

Woah, I grew up in Portland, do they really call it soda there now? That’s wild.

indepndnt,

Wow that’s awful. My highest rated comments on Reddit all seemed to be about a personal tragedy, so I quit going to look at my comment scores. Glad I’m not there to experience this.

indepndnt,

(she’s a runner)

toilet paper (how is she always running out?!)

You included a question mark, but I feel like you already answered your question…

indepndnt,

The difference I see with supersonic jets is that our hypothetical scenario is all about an instantaneous occurrence, whereas jets start at a standstill and accelerate up to that speed relatively gradually, meaning there is some opportunity for air displacement to begin before the jet arrives and occur over some marginally longer time period.

indepndnt,

Wait, are the commenters in danger?

indepndnt,

Right front or right rear?

indepndnt,

I’m just pleased to see so many comments talking about dealing with your phone before you drive. Thank you all.

indepndnt,

The path to change through customers decreasing their tips would be:

  • Workers who rely on tips for income make a lot less money, many of them suffer. There is no impact on the companies.
  • Workers who can, move to different industries. There is less competition for these roles, and they are filled with less skilled and/or more desperate workers. Companies employ more draconian tactics to compel performance, which the more desperate workers will tolerate.
  • Eventually the quality of service will deteriorate to an extent that customers will start to notice. Most customers won’t really care. Companies will raise prices to compensate for the few customers who leave.
  • Given the money saved by not tipping, customers won’t mind the higher prices. Companies will tout their record profits on earnings calls with shareholders.
  • Eventually some kind of legal or political action will be mounted to challenge the minimum wage exception, now that “tipped employees” don’t make minimum wage when counting their tips any more. Most people don’t feel like they’re affected and don’t care. Companies lobby the government to ensure it is not successful, or if it is, to ensure that it is toothless and won’t impact their earnings.
  • Companies raise prices more with the excuse of the recent actions. Customers are now paying more than they used to when including tips. Workers are poor and abused. Shareholders think these companies are winners and invest more.
  • Problem solved?
indepndnt,

The OP lists four numbered rules.

indepndnt,

I guess one specific, concrete example would be reversing Citizens United. As I understand it, that could be done either by legislative action or through the judicial, though the former would probably be better.

What item have you been using on a daily basis for the longest amount of time?

Sometimes I will use something and realize I’ve owned it forever. It’s a nice change in our throwaway reality. I think my personal record is a bicycle multi-tool I got for one of my first bikes, ~25 years ago. Still have it, still use it. When it comes to electronic devices I have a Panasonic mini Hi-Fi from ~2005. Never...

indepndnt,

I don’t use it every day, but today I used the pizza cutter that I bought for myself when I was maybe in my early 20s and I thought about how long I’ve had it. I had been pretty fed up with the cheap ones that my parents had around and decided to spend some money on a good one. I was pretty poor so it’s not like made of marble or anything, but it’s still sturdy and cuts pizza well after 20 years, so it was probably worth whatever I spent on it.

indepndnt,

Yup. My kids are learning about it in school, and they regard it about how we regarded the civil war. Like dude, that was really fucked up, but it was a long time ago.

Well it turns out it wasn’t that long ago, and now we’ve had an insurrection in your lifetime so, …probably some good lessons in there.

indepndnt,

Same, I just can’t get over that name. I’m not sure if that’s because of or in spite of the fact that I had a fedora phase when I was younger…

Has Windows startup repair or a troubleshooter ever fixed your issue even once?

Yeah, basically that. I’m back at work in Windows land on a Monday morning, and pondering what sadist at Microsoft included these features. It’s not hyperbole to say that the startup repair, and the troubleshooters in settings, have never fixed an issue I’ve encountered with Windows. Not even once. Is this typical?...

indepndnt,

I’ve occasionally had success restoring a network connection with troubleshooter. Generally if you switch between Ethernet and WiFi, Windows will get confused, but the troubleshooter will turn the network devices off and on which gets it back. I find it’s easier to turn off the device I’m not using, but if that’s too complicated for someone usually “run the troubleshooter” works.

indepndnt,

I had jaw surgery this year and it was incredibly comforting that my surgeon was such a huge nerd about it.

indepndnt,

I’m a CPA and my PC runs Linux, but also has a Windows VM for when I need Excel (unfortunately the open source alternatives just don’t cut it, and I’m guessing it’s similar for someone who relies on Word the way accountants rely on Excel), and my work laptop runs Windows.

If you ever edit PDFs with Acrobat Pro, there’s no good Linux equivalent that I’ve found for that either. It can be done, but you’ll need a couple of different programs depending on what you need to edit in the PDF.

In general I’d say that you can run your business in Linux, but it is probably not the best choice.

indepndnt,

When I was a kid I had this idea about a protagonist who’s a serial killer but kills bad people. I think I even wrote a chapter or so, but it was probably shit. Then later someone wrote Dexter, so I don’t need to worry about it any more.

Edit: it was Jeff Lindsay, the first book was in 2004. It was probably the mid-90s when I was having those ideas so we might’ve been thinking about it at the same time lol

indepndnt,

I tend to think of it like a garbage disposal. If you can’t dispose of your garbage, you gotta keep it somewhere. Except most things probably don’t check if it exists or have a backup plan, so they’ll just crash.

indepndnt,

I don’t actually know all that much about it, but the anarchists that I know are all about communities and mutual support and stuff. So I guess they think government is bad and communities supporting each other is good.

Personally I wonder what they’d call it when a community gets really good at providing a particular type of support and they agree to pool their resources to efficiently provide said support to all members of the community.

indepndnt,

I’m a slightly more complicated man, I had to scroll back up to upvote everyone.

indepndnt,

What’s more human than murder?

indepndnt,

I had gotten a small telescope for Christmas or birthday that year and it came with an infographic poster all about Halley’s Comet and I was super excited, then I promptly forgot all about it until several months after it passed. I’ll have my redemption in 2061!

I suspect it would’ve been a disappointing experience with that cheap little telescope. I have a telescope now that’s like 6-10 times the size and it’s still impossible to find the comets that come by. I’m sure by 2061 I’ll have a much larger one with computer controlled alignment and whatnot…

indepndnt,

I used to try posting stuff but it never got much engagement, I really just don’t get how this shit works. These days I only occasionally comment, and even then it’s only when I’m already just trying to waste time.

At what age and how do you tell children about the truth of Christmas?

I’m writing this as someone who has mostly lived in the US and Canada. Personally, I find the whole “lying to children about Christmas” thing just a bit weird (no judgment on those who enjoy this aspect of the holiday). But because it’s completely normalized in our culture, this is something many people have to deal...

indepndnt,

My parents always told me the “truth” about Christmas: it’s Jesus’ birthday, and Santa Claus is a lie from the devil meant to turn you away from God.

I grappled with this question for awhile as a young parent. A thing that I noticed about kids is that they are great at make-believe, and they will get endless enjoyment from things that they made up themselves.

So I gave them presents “from Santa”, I filled stockings on Christmas Eve, etc., and we all knew we were playing the Christmas game together. I don’t think there was any lack in wonder or enjoyment.

I also made sure that they knew that some folks take it really seriously and believe Santa is real and everything, and that’s really none of your business so just play along and don’t ruin it for them.

indepndnt,

To be fair, the engineering solution is much more robust.

indepndnt,

Ironically, that’s like the one thing I’ve learned to do in Vim.

I use Brave to test whether my websites work on Chromium browsers, but their scummy actions lately make me want to find a new Chromium browser to test with. What's the best Chromium based browser?

I already use Firefox for browsing normally, but I have to test on a Chromium based browser too. One soft requirement is that it should be installable with Flatpak on Linux.

indepndnt,

I just saw someone on Mastodon saying they replaced Chrome with Vivaldi, so maybe that?

indepndnt,

She discovered she was trans. Note that the friend was referred to as “he” in the first post, then the second post was “…what happened to her.” Additionally, 90% of her friends were apparently trans already because she gravitated to them because either consciously or subconsciously she recognized their common experience.

indepndnt,

Yes, it’s a bad take; what’s actually demonstrated here though is that you are likely to make friends that you have stuff in common with.

indepndnt,

I’m down with scraping, but “parses HTML with regex” has got me fucked up.

indepndnt,

In short, it’s the wrong tool for the job.

In practice, if your target is very limited and consistent, it’s probably fine. But as a general statement about someone’s behavior, it really sounds like someone is wasting a lot of time and regularly getting sub-par results.

indepndnt,

Not quite the same thing, but my first name inspires people to quote Dr. Seuss to me. Eventually I dropped it and started using my middle name instead.

I do share a last name with a couple of celebrities, and people will ask “any relation to (celeb whose name is spelled differently)?” Depending on my mood I’ll either point out the spelling or tell them he’s my cousin. Or bring up the celebs whose names are spelled the same.

indepndnt,

I saw something about this somewhere else, but I don’t know what’s going on? What is this about?

indepndnt,

I felt seriously betrayed by that show, I’d loved it for so long. I could’ve probably forgiven everything but the last two minutes.

I gave up getting invested in shows after that.

indepndnt,

I’m still waiting for the movie.

indepndnt,

The Wizard of Oz didn’t help things either.

indepndnt,

I mean, you weren’t exactly 100% wrong.

indepndnt,

Apart from the babies thing, that’s still a very interesting question. I bet someone knows the answer, but I wonder if the weight of the earth increases or decreases on average. I’d have to guess it’s a net increase from picking up stuff as we move through space, which probably dwarfs the mass of stuff we’ve sent out (especially if you don’t count satellites since they’re more or less still tied to earth). I don’t think there’s anything like natural ejections of matter from earth either.

indepndnt,

I’ve always enjoyed some classic rock, when I was a kid I used to listen to the oldies station and groove to some Steppenwolf or whatever. One day I was driving to work, radio tuned to the classic rock station, and they played Pearl Jam.

indepndnt,

I can figure it out.

indepndnt,

Something like parsing a string that could have command codes in it of varying length. So I guess the difference is, is this a 1-, 2-, or 3-character code?

I have something like this in a barcode generator and I keep trying to find a way to make it more elegant, but I keep coming back to index and offset as the simplest and most understandable approach.

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