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  • Too lazy to switch apps too

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  • Editing is a power not all people should be trusted with.

    You all know at least one person (or are the person) who would text a yes/no like "Did you see Dave today?" and then when you write "yeah" edit their message to "Can I borrow your car?" or something you wouldn't have said yes to.

  • Mamdani Threatens 9.5% Property Tax Increase if Wealth Tax Is Not Passed

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  • I know a couple people here who own apartments. Median income here I think is like $115k. None of them are much more than that.

  • Mamdani Threatens 9.5% Property Tax Increase if Wealth Tax Is Not Passed

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  • I'm pretty sure property taxes aren't progressive and I'm baffled as to why.

    Make it so like the first 100k is taxed low, and then ramp up so people with millions of property pay through the nose.

  • What's your favourite album title?

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  • I don't know if it's favorite of all time but I thought of this one now:

    haha and then what ;) by jawbreaker reunion. Probably gave some software nerds a headache trying to incorporate the semicolon and parenthesis. Points for a confusing band name, too.

    https://jawbreakerreunion.bandcamp.com/album/haha-and-then-what

    "Patches" might be my favorite track on it.

  • but my narrative

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  • I really dislike all the "ceremonies" that seem to be involved in software development now. It's just so much useless ritual.

  • They just wanted to grow food. Their suburban neighbors declared war.

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  • Feel like the neighbors that complained should be named, shamed, and had the ire of the state turned on them. They seem to have poor empathy, so maybe some personal experience would stir some up in them.

  • Meta could make social media posting immortal — and we should all cancel our Facebook accounts right now

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  • It's really hard to get people to suffer mild inconvenience when they don't emotionally connect with the benefits.

    Most of facebook's evils are remote and impersonal. Seeing your cousin's baby photos is real and at hand.

  • How Walmart And Pepsico Rigged Prices And Supercharged Food Inflation

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  • Right. Stocks and other assets are used as collateral against loans. The loans give them liquid cash, but they're not taxed on this.

    There are probably a bunch of solutions to this, but the ultra wealthy enjoy this system so changing it has well financed opposition

  • Something to make everyone unhappy :) 5e-based Traveller

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  • Why are each of your lines wrapped in ellipsis?

    …what many anti-fifth-edition positions miss is that it’s not about learning a new system, it’s about compatibility across a vast ecosystem of disparate settings and campaigns…

    I don't think 5e is especially compatible with disparate settings and campaigns. It's not an actually generic system like Fate or GURPS. It's got underbaked or entirely missing whole RPG subsystems and mechanics (eg: social conflict, succeed-at-a-cost, metagame currency). It's highly opinionated in other regards- hit points, class and level, resting. You can hammer the peg into the hole, but you could do that with anything.

    It's not a good system for modeling anything outside heroic fantasy.

    It's certainly a popular system, but many things are popular without being good. But, if your top priority is going where people are, by all means stick to D&D 5e, reddit, facebook, etc.

  • How Walmart And Pepsico Rigged Prices And Supercharged Food Inflation

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  • Break them up.

    Jail the leaders and seize their wealth.

    The shareholders get nothing. I probably own shares via Vanguard-type generic investing but I don't care.

  • OOP is a construct of oppression installed by the burgoise

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  • Sometimes I still see job postings that are like "MUST KNOW OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING" and I'm wondering who in 2026 isn't at least passably familiar with it.

    But then again I also see job posts that are like "must know Java or JavaScript"

  • 2 action turns a bad idea?

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  • I can't speak specifically to gurps but as a general rule, for any game, I highly recommend playing it as intended for a bit before doing substantial tinkering. To do otherwise is a lot of hubris.

  • What dating apps are really optimizing. Hint: it isn’t love

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  • I’m just going to move on

    That's my point. They're doing a self-sabotage. Some of them will then complain that they're not getting good matches and messages, but a big factor is they're not giving potential good matches anything to work with.

  • Something to make everyone unhappy :) 5e-based Traveller

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  • I don't really have a lot of empathy for people who don't want to learn a new rule system.

    First off, most of those people barely know 5e to begin with. You could swap them into another system and they'd probably perform about as well.

    Aside from that, maybe they don't mean to sound anti-intellectual, but they kind of do. It's okay to read and learn new things. I've had potential players put up more of a fight than it would've taken to just read the thing.

    Related, I think there's like a literacy crisis. Many people don't seem to read or think great.

  • What dating apps are really optimizing. Hint: it isn’t love

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  • So many people see the prompt "what I'm looking for" and write "my keys".

    A. That's not a terribly funny joke. It's fine, but not great.

    B. It's not original.

    C. You are wasting valuable space. Now the other person has a little less information to make a good opening message. Do you really want that many people messaging you about your keys? Really? Why are you setting yourself up for unhappy outcomes?

    Most people don't think very hard about this, and hope it'll just work out.

  • What dating apps are really optimizing. Hint: it isn’t love

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  • What dating apps are really optimizing. Hint: it isn’t love

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  • One problem is users are selfish idiots. They won't go somewhere that doesn't already have a lot of users. They don't care that going there now moves it closer to having a lot of users, so in a few months it'll be good and vibrant. Most people can't even think an hour ahead.

    Another problem is that there are many scammers and bad actors. You need to deal with them, and convince your real users that the scammers are dealt with.

    Lastly, in this capitalist hellscape everything is expensive. How are you going to run a big service that's got low latency and high quality?

  • I tried AI, was impressed by it, and it's embarrassing; Need advice

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  • Sure, could be. They didn't have any automated checks, and I saw errors like "that's too many parenthesis" and "you're trying to use a library you didn't add to the dependencies list" sail through.

  • The City of Barcelona traded 3 lanes of vehicle traffic for a green pedestrian corridor. Businesses sued, & eventually won in court. Then they admitted that they actually like the change.

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  • So much so we fight tooth and nail to keep the cars, but once the street is transformed to something like above we absolutely love it and can’t see life any other way.

    Things like this support my argument that conservatives are in a very fundamental way stupid. They don't have good reasons. They just don't want change for childish emotional reasons.