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I have a friend who handles dispositions of equipment for a very large government contractor. You'd probably be very surprised to see some of what goes through his warehouse. He go…

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Everything is irrelevant until it isn't. Then it isn't until it is. If we all do our part, X will become irrelevant.

Came here to say exactly this. Every interaction becomes a lie. I can bullshit with the best of them but doing it every day is not a path to satisfaction for me personally. Trying …

I use Claude Code every day and have for as long as it has been available. I use git add -p to ensure I'm only adding what is needed. I review all code changes and make sure I unde…

Can people read that? I want to do a study to see the cognitive difference between people who can read that and those who can't. I can't at all.

A stopped clock is right twice a day; a broken one can be wrong forever. Just saying.

AI chooses nuclear war 95% of the time. https://interestingengineering.com/ai-robotics/world-leader-...

If you unplug a life support system and a person dies did you kill a person or just disable their critical infrastructure?

In Maine there is a lack of public defenders and now must release those who are unable to get a trial in a reasonable time: https://observer-me.com/2025/03/12/news/maine-must-relea…

I felt the same. But I think the reason is similar to how your fuel economy is absolutely destroyed by sitting still. When you average in a speed of zero the calculation goes haywi…

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I think this form of delusional psychosis brought on by AI is a more rapid version of the delusions formed in many of the echo chambers of the internet. It's basically a positive f…

As long as the cost of an accident is lower than the cost of fixing the system this will continue to happen. This is one of many examples of why capitalism needs to be kept in chec…

Yet another example of this administration taking the side of companies over constituents. Now that the Consumer Protection Bureau has been dismantled, we can only expect more ruli…

One could pretty easily argue that free coffee, tea, energy drinks and energy bar snacks are all productivity driven perks.

Deploying nukes and "carefully" are opposite ends of the spectrum.

You just tripled my productivity!

I pay for the Ground News app. It's an aggregator that (somehow) gets me all the articles on a topic, shows me how factual each source is and which way they lean politically. It su…

The mixed use of commas and decimal points in those stock charts is warping my brain.

They want to make sure the "Freedom" consumed only contains the right kind of freedom. It'll be the the best freedom, the greatest freedom, everyone says so. There will never have …

Because: 1. One person companies are better at giving the wealth to the worker. 2. With thousands of companies the products can be more targeted and each product can serve fewer pe…

History shows that mass internment and populous movements against a segment of society never end well for the governments that push these tactics. Unfortunately, the damage to the …

I see a lot of people saying "We never lose power, what are you talking about?" I've lived in several places in New England, some more rural than others. Some places you lose power…

Two major factors I see a impediment to this: 1. Most management doesn't understand it and therefore won't champion it. 2. Those few that do understand it will resist it because it…