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@eurydicelives @estherzelda0514 Says a lot about the taste of the average viewer imo. S8 got all the hate because the sloppiness of the ending made the decline undeniable

The fact that S5E6 is not the worst rated episode of Game of Thrones is definitely evidence of fans disliking the ending of the series rather than actually reacting to offensively poor quality. Further, high ratings through Season 7 are also evidence of the same, as that season was rushed and stupid. Nevertheless, S5E6 was so gratuitously bad between the Sand Snakes, whom nobody cared about, and the completely unnecessary Sansa rape scene, that I seriously thought about not finishing the show. In fact, when I rewatched the entire series with my fiancée, I skipped that episode on purpose. At least Season 8 looked good, even if it was fairly stupid. But still, it was not any stupider than Season 7, when I rewatched the whole series. But that one episode... it stands out as completely unnecessary.

@WystanTBS @algekalipso Nice!!

Full writeup to come, but Visuddhimagga jhana lives up to the hype. Great gratitude to the sangha of this retreat and all the lineage.❤️🙏🏻

@samswoora Love running the dishwasher over night to get work done while I sleep. I wake up excited every morning to check on it and see what it has cleaned

Something magical about having your dishwasher, washing machine, dryer, and claude code all running simultaneously

@samswoora Nice!!!! Well deserved

It’s a good offer. Wow. This is gonna happen.

@samswoora Hell yeah

Recruiter said offer was accepted, getting the details Monday. Now just to see if it’ll work for me and we can come to an agreement. Let’s fucking go

@samswoora Good luck!

Tomorrows interview day. Guy on my team at current company turned in his notice today. Bit burned out from all the prep. Gotta tune the presentation in the next hour and then get good sleep. Lock in time

@SurrealistShip @eigenrobot A lower income tax than most states?

@eigenrobot Could be worse axios.com/local/seattle/…

its very unfortunate that i am coming to hate this fucking state should have figured that out before moving here i guess

@samswoora Oh ya hahaha

@b___brian Oh! your the Brian I met!! PFP changes -> face blindness for me

Nothing shaves your ego like interviewing

@samswoora I ask because this is my likely future when I move to Houston 😭

@b___brian Its spotty you can kind of make it work if you’re good or willing to travel to one of the hubs frequently but youre fighting upstream for sure

@samswoora You are looking for remote right? How are the options for that looking?

@b___brian I want to work on AI and be paid more

@samswoora Hence everyone remaining needing to be an F1 driver… I see the vision and I hate it

@b___brian I agree this is the problem and you’ll see a lot of reduction in headcount to reduce alignment cost.

POV you are a late 2026 FAANG hyper capitalized centaur engineer burning 10,000k per day in Anthropic spend

@tautologer Ahh nice

@b___brian I didn't 😎

broccoli, pre-cut and washed ~$5 keto pasta ~$6 heavy cream ~$2 parmesan ~$2 butter ~$1 1lb pre-cooked steak ~$14 garlic, spices, olive oil <$1 about 30 minutes of effort total (including cleanup) 3 delicious and nutritious meals, roughly $10 and 10 minutes each

@Duderichy Quit? In this economy?

I have too many friends with too much money who are afraid to quit their job and cross of tons of bucket list items in their late 20's and spend months doing things they actually want to do

@abettertake @Duderichy I’ve heard the local tech industry there doesn’t have as much going on as it was hyped up to have. Is that true in your experience?

@Duderichy that's why you move to a tier 2 but upward trajectory city like Austin :)

the problem with moving from a big city is, even if you can take your job with you, you cannot take all jobs with you if you get caught in a layoff, replacing big city income is difficult

@_its_not_real_ @DistractedAnna *not generally a fan

@_its_not_real_ @DistractedAnna You don’t vote for who the mayor appoints after they are elected But you have a point, I’m not generally not super a fan of dragging up decade old tweets to try to cancel people

I am surprised by how annoyed I am to see multiple moots react to just the first part of the tweet (some ppl hate him and prefer he not exist, which is true but not exactly unique, literally everyone has haters) and not the second part (WHAT policies?!?)

@_its_not_real_ @DistractedAnna I guess she will join me in the gulag But seriously im not a fan of her or the late 2010s style anti white rhetoric but all that stuff has gone from the way everyone spoke to politically toxic in the last several years. Sure its not gone but I don’t see it leading to genocide

@b___brian @DistractedAnna He still appointed Cea Weaver and she is still part of the campaign and has explicit comments about targeting white people. city-journal.org/article/cea-we…