dnick

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[–] dnick@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

Head first, but the line up to the top has a really good view.

[–] dnick@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 day ago

Well, can you imagine being given a million dollars and someone coming along and saying 'oh, sorry, you didn't withdraw that in time and now it's no longer there, and you owe use a $100 transaction fee'. That would really suck, wouldn't it?

Now imagine that happening 10 times a day, and you can start to imagine how horrible some of these billionaires feel every day!

Of course to make it more realistic, your job wouldn't require you to actually ever come into the office or do anything, they would occasionally double or triple your salary based on the stock market, and instead of it being a million dollars, it would be a dollar or so every once in awhile and you wouldn't know what the transaction fee was because it is effectively less than a rounding error on your current balance. Also banks will loan you money and just write it off if you don't pay it back with no impact to your credit score.

[–] dnick@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why do headlines have to be so stupidly specific about a meaningless part of the situation. He also (probably) shot her 'after' they had breakfast, took out the garbage, watched some reality tv show....

He shot her while she was trying to stop him from leaving with their kid and arguing about drinking.... The headline makes it sound like he caught her stealing his coins and pulled out a gun and shot her for it. This situation is obviously f'd up, but it's literally just a domestic dispute that they tried click baiting.

[–] dnick@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

It will burn coal, have his name in gold letters, and never leave the dock because unlike a hotel it can't be finished before the contractors are paid.

[–] dnick@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

Not sure if you're being intentional obtuse, but the point is that some things are more important than protecting members of your own in group that don't deserve protecting, even if it harms the group short term.

No doubt there are considerations to have it happen far enough ahead of the mid-terms so they can recover if it does implicate them, but doesn't the fact that Democrats are willing to push for releasing the document and Trump is pushing to hide them tell you a while lot about what's really likely in there?

[–] dnick@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

Ha, that would make sense, but nope, the answer was 'anything'. Animal husbandry or underwater basket weaving? Didn't matter, just had to stapled to the letters BA.

[–] dnick@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Except for 'genius'. A PhD meant you will likely be extremely well 'informed' about a specific topic in a very narrow field. So well informed that you will be able to come up with 'something' worth saying even to others that are well informed in that same field. It's a pretty low bar with an extremely high motivation/focus/effort requirement.

I think it's similar to a job we were hiring for that was essentially cold calling companies too sell licenses for Microsoft. To apply you were required to have a BA. A BA in what, you might ask? Well that didn't even make it onto the form we used. It was just a checkbox. It was literally a gauge to see if you'd been able to stick through a program like that.

[–] dnick@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

Fight 'terror' with terror.

[–] dnick@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago

It is arguably preying on this trait that made the pricing possibleAsode from that, you can't honestly suggest to that just 'not being that way' is a valid option. Sure that can work to a small degree for specific individuals, but 'just don't be the way you are' to solve some specific challenge, likely at the detriment to many other traits you may not want to break, is thoughtless and ignorant advice.

[–] dnick@sh.itjust.works 75 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

But you don't actually head out at that point, that's just the time you start to reckon whether you outa.

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