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Unanticipated "roll for initiative."

I'm old enough to remember how companies all tripped over themselves trying to help the government spy on their customers after 9/11. I assume that every company that I do business…

I used to work for a startup called TripIt 15 years ago. Took a double take when I saw your name.

The last manager I quit had this problem. I kept telling him I didn't like it when he interrupted me while I was speaking, and he continued to do it.

Is that why I'm paying $15/day for them?

I remember when I first voted at 18, thinking that I'd be pissed if I were old enough to die fighting a war, but not old enough to elect the people that drafted me in the first pla…

We could demand amendments or a new Constitutional Convention. In practice, though, the US Constitution is pretty sclerotic in comparison to other nations'.

> fast food > everyday needs The cost of a lot of things, dining out in particular, were kept in check for decades because wages for labor were suppressed. The true costs of "every…

> Every one of these deaths is on the head of the government of California I can't tell if this is sincere or PhD-level trolling. Bravo.

> low-income people with gambling addictions Not to mention the fact that they're now outright _creating_ gambling addicts that wouldn't have been addicts before the legalization o…

Supply and demand. If you artificially cap the supply of doctors, then the doctors can ramp up their prices.

We see that mass marketing and availability of opioids had a touch of harm that continues to be mitigated, but surely making cocaine widely available won't have any of the messy pr…

> I mostly run in circles that are of not-tech-people, and while the jobs may suck, I get the feeling that finding them is not the hard part right now. I moved out of tech a few ye…

It feels like everything is noticeably more expensive now than in 2019 and I'm seeing far more homeless people and their tents. Finding a job seems way tougher now, too, even thoug…

Maybe we should be giving these tests as part of college admissions. I'd like to know if I can't pass these tests before taking out a six figure loan only to find I have the wrong …

> I feel something is getting horribly out of balance In my country, they dropped interest rates to near 0 in the wake of 9/11 in order to prevent the economy from crashing, and he…

> that's not a sustainable business model Why not? Trump's 2016 election alone seems to have caused subscriptions to places like the Washington Post and New York Times to increase,…

Maybe the media could all chip in to elect a Donald Trump-like figure to boost revenue through subscriptions and ads? It seems like a model that could be replicated all over the wo…

In the US, the billionaires are largely buying up legacy media.

https://archive.is/8sTWS

> Shakespeare in the original Klingon citation needed

> I've been reading a lot of commentary saying that most of the posted job openings are fake (which I also experience anecdotally as true) +1. I saw a couple of ads this morning wh…

The pro move was to look at that job as a long-term internship that allowed him to save up cash so he could go back to school when the economy went south without taking out student…

The "die slow" in this case is a reference to an actual death threat made in a song from the 90s. > it's clearly not a threat No, it's not a threat, it just _references_ a famous d…