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consciously incompetent
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Most of the guys driving around in vans clearing clogs aren't plumbers they are technicians working under someone else’s master license.
A real Plumber has either leveraged that license to build a company or owns the equity in the operation. If you’re just turning a wrench for a wage you are a tech.
I am not lying you just don't understand how the trades work.
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why is "plumbers are actually fuckin millionaires" such a common dumb normie belief
Joseph Younis, MD@YounisJoseph
Ok, looks like some non doctors got triggered. Let’s try this another way? Neurosurgeon: $251 an hour Master Electrician: $170-300 an hour Senior software: $150-300 an hour Consultants: $200-2000 an hour Attorney: $400-2000 an hour Master plumber: $250-300 an hour Better?
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@SunburnerDeFi @sreddi_515 Then you’re making you’re money by being a business owner, not a plumber. Being a plumber alone won’t make you rich.
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@sreddi_515 Because if you run 3-6 trucks in any decent sized area your likely clearing 30k per month in profit and can sell the company at any time for a million easy.
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@DaltonBMiller he's def not 20, i took a dexa and was 17% BF and didn't look nearly as shredded as this.
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I’m not going at Lance here at all. I don’t expect everyone to understand bf%.
This isn’t close to 6%. Bodybuilders on stage are 4-7% with striated glutes and their faces literally sunk in.
This is closer to 20. He just has A LOT of muscle and good ab genetics.!
Lance Zierlein@LanceZierlein
306 pounds and 6% body fat.
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@freedimm @CapitolKVD The world you seem to want to see would have politicians on both sides using courts to stop each other ad infinitum. You're just wrong. It's OK to be wrong. It's not OK to expect others to follow in your delusion. And it is delusion.
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The president sat in the public gallery, on a bench, surrounded by ordinary citizens. There was no announcement of his arrival. No Hail to the Chief. Instead, Trump came in quietly, shuffled around looking for a seat, and waited in silence with the rest of us for the final 10 minutes before arguments began.
I was 50 feet away from him. It was stunning. Trump looked small on that wooden bench in the grandeur of the courtroom, sitting below the nine justices. It was a stark reminder of how our founders structured our government.
Trump is not a king. He cannot ignore the Constitution. And the Supreme Court has the last word on what he can and cannot do.
Scott Thuman@ScottThuman
The court sketches of President Trump sitting in at the Supreme Court today as justices weighed his actions to limit 'birthright citizenship'. Trump is the first sitting President to attend proceedings. He stayed just about an hour and left during the defense's arguments. After court adjourned, Trump posted on Truth Social: “We are the only Country in the World STUPID enough to allow ‘Birthright’ Citizenship!” Actually, about three dozen countries, nearly all of them in the Americas, guarantee citizenship to children born on their territory, per Associated Press.
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@Glennman8 @CapitolKVD It’s not pedantic, it’s pretty important that they are not co equal, it’s a common misconception.
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@freedimm @CapitolKVD LOL now you're just being pedantic on top of the stupid post. OK, whatever.
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@Glennman8 @CapitolKVD Perfectly co-ordinate, meaning they work together and check each other’s powers, not that they are co-equal. Legislative is by far the most powerful branch, it is not co equal with the others.
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There is no explicit use of the term co-equal in the constitution. It is a commonly used reference to the separation of powers enumerated in the Constitution. It was the founders' specific intention not to have one branch perform the responsibilities of another.
James Madison described the branches as "perfectly co-ordinate", meaning they share equal standing under the Constitution and none has superior authority to interpret the boundaries of the others' powers. See Federalist No. 49 (1788).
This is a massive problem today as a radical leftist judiciary has tried constantly in the last 10 years to do exactly that, attempting to force the Executive branch against its will not to do things that are actually within its authority, including even rulings on foreign relations, law enforcement and many other things. It's actually absurd. The ENTIRE power of the Executive branch of government rests with the President. Everything that is enumerated in the Constitution for the Executive branch is within the power of the President we elect and those he appoints to handle his affairs.
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@Glennman8 @CapitolKVD Where in the constitution does it say the branches are equal?
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@CapitolKVD He's not a king. But your comment is stupid. They are supposed to be co-equal branches of government.
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@ryxcommar Right but now the barrier to entry is preciseness with written language. I suspect lawyers would be good vibe coders.
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Every time I complain that vibe coding produces slop, people tell me I can get better results by writing more specific instructions for the machine to follow. Good idea! But I think we need a catchier name for the concept of writing specific instructions for a machine to follow.
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Shameless was arguably the most Weimar piece of media ever created, pure concentrated evil
LT Jonathan Kendrick@enjoyer_liberty
niggas be like “i’m not self destructive” meanwhile this is the type of bitch they go for:
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@JohnnyWalsh__ When they say “the electrician is billing 180/hour” they are not talking about the electrician, they are talking about the business owner. The actual electricians make far less than that.
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People really twist themselves in knots to overestimate how much those in the trades are really making
Codie Sanchez@Codie_Sanchez
“Learn to code," they said. Meanwhile, the electrician is billing $180/hour and booked out 3 weeks.
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@ZooMass There’s a reason nobody cares about ECH rankings
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Sweep last weeks #13, no movement in the rankings. Solid logic.
EVERYTHING COLLEGE HOCKEY@TeamECH
🚨NEW ECH Men's Rankings🚨 1. North Dakota 2. Michigan State 3. Michigan 4. WMU 5. Providence 6. Quinnipiac 7. Denver 8. Penn State 9. UMD 10. Wisconsin 11. Dartmouth 12. Cornell 13. BC 14. Minnesota State 15. UConn 16. Union 17. Maine 18. Augustana 19. UMass 20. Bowling Green
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@JohnAntichrist @Dystopiq @Okabe_Rintar0IF That can happen if you know a new and rare coding language, but it doesn't last long. Like how Solidity devs were raking in the dough in 2021- by 2023 the well had run dry because everyone knew Solidity by then. Point is its rare and short-lived to make that kind of salary
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are you kidding me
these people basically get paid triple the average salary in my country for going to an office building and pretending to be busy
fuck everything
Michael McCarthy@punishablepress
It really is just daycare.
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@maebichka Isn't it obvious? That's how insurance works
The only exception is health insurance if you know you're getting sick really often etc, as usually the law prohibits a fair premium
I don't have health insurance.
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i never heard this explicitly?? but i realized given that insurance companies do a ton of math to ensure theyre profitable, getting insured for anything whose cost wouldn't be catastrophic to you is negative EV. betting against the house
is this already obvious to ppl?? or is
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@maebichka My high school AP stats teacher taught me this, most people don’t know it though
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@TomeiTyler Real ones know that Redwood City has the best. President of Mexico (and Cal grad) Claudia Sheinbaum said so herself.
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Real ball knowers know there is like a dozen plus random taquerias in this area that are as good (if not better) at 20% of the cost.
Sam Esfandiari@samesfandiari
Probably the pound for pound most consistent burrito in SF
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@MILFmassacre I can ejaculate and pee at the same time
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in my middle school sex ed class on the first day the teacher started by explaining what ejaculation is and then stressed repeatedly that it is impossible to ejaculate and pee at the same time and that if anyone told us they did they were lying. has never been relevant to my life
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@EduardIncognito @benhylak It literally means nothing, sometimes more lines is better, sometimes less lines is better
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whenever i see anyone brag about "lines of code" I think about this classic article about legendary apple engineer bill atkinson
Josh Albrecht@joshalbrecht
The Claude Code hype is real Over our @imbue_ai winter break, I wanted to see how fast I could reconstruct the lowest level of our product as an AI engineering principles experiment—vibe engineering, not just vibe coding. In < 2 weeks, I shipped over 50k lines of high quality code with > 80% test coverage. Here's how: My 7 Principles of AI-first Engineering: 1. Iteratively prevent Claude errors - Every time I catch a mistake from Claude, I add a new rule so it never happens again. - Make these programmatically enforced! 2. Right-size tasks (Goldilocks only) - Too small = slow and annoying. - Too big = the agent thrashes. - The sweet spot: one focused change that barely fits in the context window and finishes in ~10 min. 3. Think in two modes of work - There’s feature mode (ship new things) and maintenance mode (clean, refactor & programmatically prevent AI mistakes). 4. Require passing tests (with a floor, not perfection) - I gate everything on tests + ~80% coverage. This forces the agent to fix things without forcing it to write lots of bad tests. 5. Refactoring is non-negotiable - When imports get confusing or abstractions drift, stop and move things where they should live. You should always know all of the code in your codebase. 6. You still have to look at the code - Not necessarily line-by-line, but shape-by-shape. - For example, does it live in the right place? Does it smell weird? - Did tests pass for the right reason? 7. Write a real style guide with executable examples - A bunch of rules + examples that anchor the agent to my version of “good code". - You can even have an agent generate the style guide examples (just stick {{EXAMPLE}} in there and tell it to fix). And if AI-first engineering is exciting to you, reach out! We're hiring :)
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@ZachWarunek @_imdawon are you gonna get off the plane if the pilot is black
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@_imdawon This is the same reason why looking into the cockpit when you board is a reasonable thing to do
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This graph still baffles me to this day
You can’t even have an intelligent conversation about this with any one
It’s literally impossible to show this to a normal person and them not have an immune system psyop response
Like this literally informs how I should choose my doctor
Based on race
It’s bizarre it’s come to this
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