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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 24 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

For many things I completely agree.

That said, we just had our second kid, and neither set of grandparents live locally. That we can video chat with our family


for free, essentially!


is astonishing. And it's not a big deal, not something we plan, just, "hey let's say hi to Gramma and Gramps!"

When I was a kid, videoconferencing was exclusive to seriously high end offices. And when we wanted to make a long distance phone call, we'd sometimes plan it in advance and buy prepaid minutes (this was on a landline, mid 90s maybe). Now my mom can just chat with her friend "across the pond" whenever she wants, from the comfort of her couch, and for zero incremental cost.

I think technology that "feels like tech" is oftentimes a time sink and a waste. But the tech we take for granted? There's some pretty amazing stuff there.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Seriously, it is the lowest-latency and highest-bandwidth communication method we have, when used appropriately.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yes, but your wine futures would be worthless, what with his unlimited water-to-wine abilities.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 3 points 3 months ago

My usual:

  • Peanut butter and jam sandwich on multi grain.
  • Beans (garbanzo or a melange

start with dried and cook in instant pot or other pressure cooker)

  • Fruit (banana, strawberries, maybe other berries)
  • Veggies (carrot sticks, broccoli, cucumber)

Sometimes throw in some rice, a mandarin orange, or just leftovers from dinner. I'm vegetarian so the kiddo doesn't get meat in their packed lunch (they can eat whatever they want though, and do at restaurants).

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Yeah, I think the issue is that the other racist, xenophobic, antivax, generally incompetent policy choices are actually kind of what he campaigned on.

The tarrifs


even though he campaigned on them


are antithetical to his promise of lowering cost of living expenses.

That said, it's the WSJ editorial page


their coverage of the Second Coming of Jesus would be its impact on your 401(k), so this type of coverage (and not e.g., social justice) is their bread and butter.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

They were thinking of making a Minority Report adaptation (with Arnold, not Cruise) as the sequel to Total Recall, with the mutant Martians as the precogs. Could have been a fun one!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Recall_(1990_film)

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 33 points 3 months ago (2 children)

How do you make a small fortune?

Start with a large fortune and buy a boat.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 7 points 3 months ago

No, but I think it's good when someone with credibility among certain people reiterate something, even if it adds nothing of value to you and me.

Democratic and left-of-center politicians (or "liberal elite economists") can say this until they're blue in the face but Trumpers will dismiss it as I dunno, woke butthurtism or something. But when someone like Buffet says it, at least they (maybe) have to think a little bit before coming up with some mental gymnastics to dismiss him. And maybe along the way they'll question, if only a little bit, the sanity of Trump's policies.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 23 points 3 months ago

If it's a campus bus it's almost certainly free, and probably timed to class schedules. If you only have 10m or so between classes it makes sense.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 21 points 3 months ago

Code doesn't even pass the example test


mind your case sensitivity!

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 7 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I prefer the phrase "testicular manifold."

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