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ElfinTrousers

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About ElfinTrousers

If you're under 70 years old you weren't promised flying cars. You were promised a brutal cyberpunk dystopia. Ḋone.

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    Comment #36330695

    You know, we could save a lot on consultants if we had LLMs write the BS reports.

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    Comment #36325458

    Alternate headline: two ostensibly smart people waste time on nonsense.

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    Comment #36325368

    I feel ridiculous having to explain this, but it's possible to know the name of a place and still get it wrong when you intend to write it down, or overlook a mistake when reading …

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    Comment #36325330

    It's not, it's Business Insider. It's journalism-flavored entertainment.

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    Comment #36325201

    > If you're surprised to find occasional micro-aggressions in small towns, well... bless your heart. There's reasons plenty of people prefer cities over large towns. At least in th…

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    Comment #36325062

    BREAKING NEWS: Small town Germans not effusively welcoming to representative of foreign military, yuppie wife who expects place to work like California.

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    Comment #36292843

    Or perhaps, just spitballing here, we could find something actually useful to do with the excess energy.

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    Comment #36292756

    Only if you expect people running large companies (tech or no) to not be uptight control freaks.

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    Comment #36285816

    I'm sure the failson/daughter is a phenomenon with literally ancient roots. To paraphrase the Bible, the rich will be with you always.

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    Comment #36282258

    No kidding, this review made me very interested in reading the novel. I wonder if something about a depiction of anxious, uptight, pretentious and rudderless hipsters struck a litt…

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    Comment #36282075

    Do human editors catch every mistake? No.

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    Comment #36282052

    It was sure a good stress test for my eyes.

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    Comment #36282048

    I tried too. Awful. And the biggest chumbox I've ever seen in my damn life at the bottom.

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    Comment #36273707

    To be fair, the US doesn't have everything, but it does have a lot, so I can see how you could get this idea if you weren't a particularly imaginative or curious person.

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    Comment #36269982

    The real reason is #4: it's simpler for the school, as they don't have to run several different bus services.

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    Comment #36269972

    > I would guess that most people from outside the states are familiar with the geographical size of the country If they do they don't act like it: my experience has been like the O…

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    Comment #36241100

    It's pretty cool though how other people went out of their way to say how bothered by it they weren't, congratulations guys, you're all real champs.

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    Comment #36226599

    I see huge meme potential in the statement "we are operating as a fking unlicensed securities exchange in the USA bro". What do you say, should we make this a Thing?

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    Comment #36226136

    Someone violated Bell's Principle (take no notes when conducting an alleged criminal goddamn conspiracy).

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    Comment #36176252

    As some put it, if you can't trust your staff to work remotely, you can't trust them to work.

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    Comment #36169039

    I guess I'll just reverse-engineer the binaries and patch it myself. If you want something done right...

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    Comment #36168978

    I did once and I liked where I ended up.

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    Comment #36168958

    Almost as if they were flailing.

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    Comment #36150645

    Where do we submit change requests for People 2.0? I found a bug where people crash after roughly 60-80 years and can't be rebooted, they're just plain bricked.

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    Comment #36150625

    Hadn't heard, but nice.