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The scope and breadth of the finding out over the next 5 years is just going to be impossible to see the edges of. A planet-sized phenomenon it will be impossible to ever fully perceive, record, or collate.
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H1Bs are even replacing newborns now. We are so fucked.
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🚨 A Florida couple is keeping their baby that isn't theirs after IVF screw-up. Read more: tmz.me/4a6t9na
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Hopefully, you’ve learned something.
so @Airbnb let me get this straight we pay $1100 to stay at an airbnb, they then hold the keys hostage until 9pm for check in, only for them to tell me they won’t give us the keys until we pay for an authorization hold, that would be Ā£1,100. we realize that it’s against airbnb TOS, we report it, and one of your representatives TELLS us that he is ā€œwithholding the keynest details until an offsite hold is authorizedā€ they said they would help us and we have been waiting for 15 hours, we had to get an emergency hotel for Ā£100, and haven’t gotten a response back for accommodation this week.
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Speaking as a guy who has now endured over 30 straight years of non-stop tinnitus: I recommend against it.
dear @apple i know i am playing my music loud that is the whole point kindly fuck off with your nanny nudge alerts to turn my volume down thx - mgmt
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mad_muppet retweeted
Hydrogen peroxide is actually a great way to kill algae. Fish keepers use it as a last resort when you want to reset a tank completely because it kills everything from algae to bacteria and in 24 hours you can put your fish back in. But it does absolutely nothing to address why the reflecting pool has algae in the first place and it's just going to be back in a week or two unless the plan is to just dump hundreds of gallons of peroxide in the reflecting pool every week.
They're literally dumping hydrogen peroxide into the reflecting pool this morning... 😳
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Read post, assume he’s selling shovels. Check bio. Yep, shovels.
My hot take... There is freaking no reason to keep working a $100K or more 9-5 job after age 35. You've shown you have the skills and experience already. Every minute you stay is another minute you get underpaid. And if layoffs strike you're cooked. I retired from corporate at 34. I'm not that smart. The modern $100K 9-5 job is nothing more than cowards refusing to take a chance on themselves.
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This just in: people have a rich life outside of their employment
People are taking this as yuppie sneering, but I’m genuinely aghast by the concept of someone choosing to work one job at one place for the best decade of their life. I feel dread being in one place for a year. My God, you have one life! Make it count!
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There is nothing a 19 year old, especially one I did not know, could ever say to me that would make me this rageful. He could talk about my looks, my gender, my race, my ancestry, my personality, even my immediate family and it would never have this effect on me. Something is seriously mentally wrong when tons of powerful grown adults’ first instinct is to shift into a collective effort to make sure this 19 year old is punished indefinitely. A healthy society does not encourage this kind of vindictiveness.
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How many more of these are we gonna do this year?
Literally what the fuck are you talking about?
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Hot take: NYC is the most overrated city in the world and people destroy their lives attempting to live there when they really belong (and would be happier) in a much smaller city.
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Guy who wants to RETVRN to a high trust society but also wants any white Gen Xer who he perceives to have made non optimal financial decisions to die homeless under a bridge.
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The social contract in the US is completely broken. It's not parenting. It's a host of issues, mostly economic, the rest mostly social. People as always tend to blame the symptoms rather than the causes. So it goes. It won't get better, collapse will continue.
You can't convince me in America in 2026 that we don't have some kind of really bad parenting issue. It's either that or the education system or both. Something systemic is causing people to be inconsiderate, entitled idiots.
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Peter Thiel tasting menu
went to a @cursor_ai hackathon today my entire june is already filled up with lots of event met @nur_daulet_ & @hellohelldar
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I worked at a YC company for a bit. Everything there from the 401k provider, to the documents app, the health insurance provide, was from some new startup. I found out later, YC requires founders use other founders products, creating a big circle jerk where they share users.
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There actually used to be tens of millions of competent people in the workforce. Everything has just become infantilized.
3 years after college I took a startup job with backing from a mega fund and I was happy/mischievous and doing a million things at a million mph but slowly went insane over 2 yrs realizing there are no adults, there never has been- accolades are abundant, actual answers are rare
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Nobody mentioned the obvious answer of nursing, which is the trades for women. Carpenter nurse is the median couple: the problem isn't that these jobs are ignoble or bad but that we've filled them with cheap foreign laborers
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We seriously gotta nuke San Francisco yesterday
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If you believe any LLM’s post hoc explanations for a failure, then it’s *your* theory of mind that’s in trouble.
One interesting pattern with Fable 5 is that it will often say things that are gibberish when I use it for coding. Things like "The morning's slim-scan fix cured the scan hang", "this is a latent-drift API-shape wrinkle", etc. When I ask why it does this, Fable explains that it invents codenames while reasoning about the problem, then fails to realize they're meaningless to me. Its neuralese is blending into its output because of a theory-of-mind failure about what's in its head vs. mine.
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Yes, AI is a bubble. So is the financial/insurance/b2b services economy. That’s not a revelation.
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I'm 38. At this point of my life/career, I have so many friends working corporate W2 jobs making $200-400K/year (mostly in NYC/NJ/PA corridor) who just don't actually work that much. One friend makes $250K as a manager at a biotech... all he does is send pictures of his chicken coop or other DIY projects all day during the week.. no idea what value he actually provides his company. Then there's my "jiggler" friend who you might recall... guy makes $250-300K and just plugs a "mouse jiggler" into his laptop and just goes to the gym, homeschools his kids, tans, does yard work... all day. I ask him what he does and he can't even articulate it... Another friend makes $150K at a remote startup and just travels around the world all the time... don't ask don't tell situation on where people are at any given time... but does seemingly little actual work.. maybe 1 hour a day. This is truly what's going on out there... BS W2 jobs all over the place. And AI is a bubble? Really?
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If you have nothing interesting to say by 17 then you are not being penalized for being ā€œnormalā€.
College essays should be abolished. 17 year olds mostly don't have deep interesting things to say ( if what they are saying is even true or written by them) and people shouldnt be at a disadvantage for living a normal middle class childhood.
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