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ydat

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    Meanwhile as a young man the financial aid system told me I was a dependent solely because I was under 24 (I paid my own bills, rent, worked and filed my taxes, and relied not at a…

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    > You’re going to have to figure out new things to care about, but you can do it, because you found it the first time! I have found many interesting things to care about. The probl…

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    One negative thing I’ve heard about Boise and some other smaller western cities is that they have awful air quality due to the geography settling all the exhausts and particles in …

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    Massie is kinda interesting. Because he’s a sort of libertarian who ran as a republican when the right was a bit more united But it was a strange election. The “establishment” cand…

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    > I would write to my congress person rather than commit a crime and destroy someone's property. Your congressman is having a nice steak dinner with representatives of the company …

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    Comment #49388321

    I’ve never been hit by a stoner because they were high I’ve never been abandoned by a stoner because being high was more important than their children I’ve never had a stoner so hi…

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    > From my bubble (we’re all in bubbles), it seems that the populist right are in bed with the technocrat authoritarians, e.g. the Vance-Thiel connection. Interesting, in my bubble …

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    Comment #49387949

    They have the warchest. They’ll buy the politicians. Look how the populist right has failed its primaries so hard.

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    > Presumably miners get a high wage to offset the negatives of the job and attract people. A common thread I see when these types of topics come up too is that the high pay in many…

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    > In hindsight, I realized it was b/c I hadn't found subjects in high school that really resonated with me My most frustrating experience was barely lazing my way through calculus …

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    Wouldn’t be the first time the US government grossly abused its own citizens and violated their rights

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    Comment #49378266

    Frankly, Shakespeare is one of the few things I enjoyed reading in school. It was classic American novels I couldn’t stand. I couldn’t tell you why, but getting through something e…

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    > Anthropic started out as the "safe", "ethical" and "computer science elite" type personality facade but after that stopped working (i.e., they were booted out of the US gov), the…

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    > College really isn't that hard or complex. All that's required is you attend classes, study, and pass tests. Sure that’s all that’s required. And simple people such as yourself m…

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    Comment #49376712

    Cool now give me classic job search back.

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    > what exactly would have to change in this relationship for you to not infantilize the consumer and put them on equal moral weighting as the merchant? Lmao lolbertarians now steep…

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    > What stops the rest of humanity from turning data centers into a pile of ash? A mix of other people who will defend them because it’s a way better and more stable economic deal t…

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    Of course not, but consider the size of the field if the “webdev” stuff goes away. Competition for the remaining positions in other domains become more competitive and you may find…

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    > I think this is part of the tragedy of our parents generation pushing college at all costs. I can’t blame em, they seem to have lucked out and been around just at the right time.…