@GarandThumb1 For: your culture is too far gone to live safely without them.
Against: i dont wish for the culture that these will bring about.
People underestimate the impact that decisions have on culture, that is a grave mistake.
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Travel Pirate
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Travel Pirate
@AcrossTimePod
Lived abroad for 14 years. Love meeting interesting people from around the world, sharing laughs, stories, and culture with tasty drinks :) Curious as a trait!
Katılım Ocak 2025
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alright. I’m personally against flock cameras. let’s hear your arguments for or against
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@Fahadnaimb I just feel like we could take out maybe 80% of that and probably be fine. I made that up but, like a good ignorant internet preacher, im not going to change my mind! 😎
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Brand new 737 MAX main wheel well... squeaky clean like it just rolled out. There’s so much stuff crammed in there it’s crazy! Packed like my toolbox on a busy day.
Way more going on than it looks from outside, but that’s what keeps these birds safe and reliable.
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SF is in a weird place where $500k/yr employees are having a hard time affording it... and yet
"In the SF housing market everything's going for 2X asking price. All cash, or in lab (Anthropic, OpenAI, etc) equity."
"There's so many knock-on effects in terms of like, what do those employees do? What do they invest in? What causes or companies do they then invest in? Do they start new companies? Do they stay at these labs?"
"It's going to be a shock that will impact every single aspect of life, both practical life in Silicon Valley, but then also the lives of employees, investors, and founders in the ecosystem as well."
" At least SpaceX took 20+ years to make everyone rich and put all this money in the ecosystem."
Benchmark GP @EverettRandle
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ALERT: Uber driver fell asleep as he was driving a passenger on a California freeway.
The rider was taking a trip from Yorba Linda to Santa Ana at around 3:30 AM when they noticed the driver was apparently asleep behind the wheel.
The driver was allegedly using the Tesla Full Self-Driving feature, which requires you to still stay attentive to the road.
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@thesamparr Tell your ai intern to write at least at a 4th grade level.
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$6 to acquire a customer. Ridge's cost to get someone to buy a wallet on Facebook was $6. Their wearable was $400. One year they only grew from $15m to $18m because they physically couldn't make enough wallets.
We asked the CEO of Ridge Wallet why the wallet won when their other products didn't.
The cost to get someone to buy the wearable on Facebook was $400. The cost to get someone to buy the wallet was $6.
He told us one year they only went from $15m to $18m, and that was just because they couldn't make enough wallets to keep them in stock.
Demand was never the problem. They could just put up a new static image ad and it sold.
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@toddsaunders @HubSpot Im convinced they only way they get new customers is by offering startups free usage until they are locked-in and can't get out.
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The pricing at @HubSpot is out of control.
To be able to upload HTML emails you need to pay $800/mo.
Time to switch.
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FANG is too fucking slow now
Last ex-Googler on my team drove me insane
“3 weeks planning, 3 weeks testing, 3 weeks documenting”
How the fuck does it take 3 weeks to write a report?
3 weeks to plan????
She had 2 years of industry exp btw
zek@zekramu
10 years at faang means you are a great faang engineer and basically useless anywhere that doesn’t hold your hand end to end
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Ever walk away from a conversation and think, “Man… that was painful.”
Ran into a hockey dad I hadn’t seen in a year or two. Our kids played on the same team for two seasons.
For the next 10 minutes, he talked about his kids… and only his kids.
Never asked about mine. Honestly, I don’t even think he remembered their names.
The second I realized it was an own way convo, I stopped engaging.
Shook his hand, said, “Great seeing you,” and went on with my day.
Nothing drives me crazy more than talking to a caveman with zero listening skills and the social IQ of a tree stump.
Don’t care if I’m a broken record on this topic…
If you can learn to listen more than you talk…you’ll be someone people actually enjoy being around and be viewed as an interesting person.
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@DirtDogs643 @codebrewed I dont even have to argue with you on this because it's simply wrong.
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I love how TSA rules are different at every airport and they look at you like you're a fucking idiot when you don't speak their regional dialect of security theater.
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@codebrewed And you have to just accept someone with a 3rd grade reading level berating you. I think it is some sort of cosmic patience test, like once you've mastered the dmv, you level up to this😅
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@DesireeAmerica4 Whoever is her health insurance company should refuse to pay for this. Make her famous. Maybe her insurance will find out.
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@ShadowofEzra Nobody saw that coming.......... .................... ........ enough dots?!
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Multiple police officers are being removed from their positions across the country after they were caught using Flock cameras to stalk and track their own family members.
American citizens are demanding that Flock cameras be removed by "any means necessary."
"They're unconstitutional, and they have to pay us for our data."
"We're becoming a police state. We've got to stop it."
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@HistContent Pompeii was by far the coolest thing i did in italy, everyone who likes this kind of history and ruins should visit if they can.
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Pompeii had 80 fast food joints. For a city of about 13,000, that is one snack bar per 160 people.
Here is why. Most ordinary Romans lived in apartments without kitchens. The thermopolium, literally a place where something hot is sold, was not a treat. It was how the city ate, daily, standing at the counter.
The one found in Regio V still held its painted menu of roosters and ducks, jars with real traces of duck, pork, goat, fish, and snails, wine flasks, and a bronze drinking bowl.
Elites sneered at eating out as vulgar. The other 90 percent of Pompeii was in line for lunch.
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@bscholl Jokes on all em, i carry instant coffee like a drug addict😅
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Low end hotel: no coffee in room
Mid tier hotel: coffee maker in your room
High end hotel: no coffee in room
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Ive only met a few people who were rescued and all of them, in their own way, was like this gal, even if they weren't really big. I say we juat leave them where they are overnight and get em next morning - no one will die, most likely they will find their way home, it will be a good lesson.
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Hot damn. Grace couldn't take it and had to sit one out for the hikers after just a two-mile trek.
Now a flight evacuation team had to come in, leaving the group facing a massive $70,000 rescue bill.
You really have to wonder if the rest of the group is going to turn around and try to sue her for putting them in this financial nightmare.
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@garyvee Charlie from Its Always Sunny has changed a bit, but spot on!
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Streaming 18 years ago desperately trying to put people onto social media … this almost feels like ai 🤖 it’s so crazy to look 👀 back on … my friends … there’s always gonna be emerging opportunities… no matter how saturated you think things are now … there’s always a platform or trend or cultural movement that is being misunderstood or disrespected .. look for those angles .. just like this kid did lol 😝
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@Thefactsdude That life jacket rule is b.s. - you guys used to be Texas.... now you are nannies?!
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BUSTED: London psych nurse hit with a BUI after struggling with life jacket and field sobriety tests on July 4th weekend
Sarah Steel, a psych nurse from London, had her holiday weekend cut short when Texas Parks and Wildlife officers pulled her over on the water.
She was wearing her life jacket improperly and had trouble counting backwards.
Once on board the officers' boat, they made her play patty-cake with the female officer before placing her under arrest.
Steel was arrested for Boating Under the Influence with a .144 BAC.
Drop all charges!
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@TommyMac501 @zekramu Sound like the start of a movie with some dramatic ending haha. Great description at the end.
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Way back in the day, I had a buddy who was literally an indispensable developer by the major airline he worked for. We’re talking a top 3 airline. What was his value? He wrote the sql that managed the data from multi line data entry systems. Think invoices, sales orders etc. they flew him all over the country to install his code. These were local systems, pre-Internet. In the wider world he was a one trick pony, but in his world he was a god.
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@zekramu If you thrive in structure but have no record of thriving in chaos, you are not qualified for a startup.
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