aadsfasdfasdf @asdfafsf.bsky.social · 9hOne potential explanation is that it's an excuse to keep Ukraine from blowing up more of Russia's capacity. 000
aadsfasdfasdf @asdfafsf.bsky.social · 9hDiesel is a different distillate, you can have a shortage of gasoline and still have a surplus of diesel. As others have pointed out the amount that he's claiming to buy is pretty small and almost symbolic. 200
aadsfasdfasdf @asdfafsf.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Yeah, for sure. My cohort has been relatively lucky on both sides in general. It's frustrating that people can't jut be nice. 010
aadsfasdfasdf @asdfafsf.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Yeah, Japanese in-laws were super welcoming, American in-laws never met the grandkids because of racist stuff they said. Bizarre how much of that is still under the surface in the states. 110
aadsfasdfasdf @asdfafsf.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The "A very british bigotry" blocklist always catches those guys. 000
aadsfasdfasdf @asdfafsf.bsky.social · 04/10/2026My (charitable) impression is that median voter types believe that the consequences of protest votes for the crazy types get blocked by institutional guardrails. The dog caught the car and now they're having buyers remorse. 1191
Reposted by aadsfasdfasdfNiko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 02/10/2026talked about this before and again, i'm speaking as a third generation journeyman trades worker, but working in trades is not something that any of the people who write these pieces, or honestly most of you, respect at all. It's perceived as something you do when all the "good" options are gone. 2791171
aadsfasdfasdf @asdfafsf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026She went to Harvard and is married to Ezra Klein. 030
aadsfasdfasdf @asdfafsf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Definitely not, the US spends something like 3x per capita what any other country does on health care. With the government negotiating rates and no middlemen it's much easier to reduce costs. 000
aadsfasdfasdf @asdfafsf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I think we're saying the same thing. But if you translated the employer and employee share of health insurance to taxes it would be more than enough to cover everything. 200
aadsfasdfasdf @asdfafsf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It's pretty easy tbh. The money that people overpay for health insurance is already that "tax". 240
aadsfasdfasdf @asdfafsf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026FWIW this sort of violence and humiliation as a way of flaunting untouchability were just as rampant if not more in the past. It's the actual imposition of consequences and shaming that is new. 001
aadsfasdfasdf @asdfafsf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Oh yeah, I completely understand why people would keep it. It was just too damaging to my mental health. 010
aadsfasdfasdf @asdfafsf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026So glad I deleted Facebook. Even LinkedIn has those weirdos. It's so silly because those are the people that you want! 100
aadsfasdfasdf @asdfafsf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026What's funny is that they make the communities so much better! Getting real momos/curry and kebab was great! 110
aadsfasdfasdf @asdfafsf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I really liked the Nepalese and Turkish guys that hustled in my neck of the woods. I feel like this is specifically targeting folks like them. 110
aadsfasdfasdf @asdfafsf.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It really is a blight. That's why I this guys take is so funny. I guess people will say the same thing when sports gambling gets banned. 010
aadsfasdfasdf @asdfafsf.bsky.social · 25/09/2026In western mass your best bet is someone tanglewood related. Not sure if anybody connected to the symphony is still around. How desperate are they to offload? 000
aadsfasdfasdf @asdfafsf.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Yeah the sub thing was where the wheels came off for me too. "Maybe this guy was a thin skinned fraud all along." 010
aadsfasdfasdf @asdfafsf.bsky.social · 24/09/2026He had that good will! He was getting glazed by Star Trek! He just squandered it because he's a Nazi psycho. 100
aadsfasdfasdf @asdfafsf.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I mean he does have the same sort of genius for hucksterism and shamelessness that PT Barnum had. 110
aadsfasdfasdf @asdfafsf.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Between the boiling weather and what you mention, I've lost a lot of the sense of wonder being in JP. Part of it is getting older and part of it is the economic decline too, I no longer have any doubts about not getting citizenship when I could. 000
aadsfasdfasdf @asdfafsf.bsky.social · 21/09/2026To be charitable to the OP he could mean that all the old drudgery was just replaced by new makework and bureaucracy. 000
aadsfasdfasdf @asdfafsf.bsky.social · 08/09/2026The argument is pretty funny. "You guys just rent people, we own them!" 0151
aadsfasdfasdf @asdfafsf.bsky.social · 07/09/2026On the other hand it's also easier to fake understanding to a point, especially in writing, which is breaking all sorts of evaluation mechanisms like automated grading. 010
aadsfasdfasdf @asdfafsf.bsky.social · 07/09/2026There's an emancipatory aspect. For a motivated learner traditionally gatekept fields like mathematics become much more accessible because the LLM can explain the context. 110
aadsfasdfasdf @asdfafsf.bsky.social · 07/09/2026H1bs are heavily abused. Body shops were grabbing all the slots and making it impossible for us to hire world class researchers. 000
aadsfasdfasdf @asdfafsf.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Similar to how Kicad is inexorably taking over pcb design 010
aadsfasdfasdf @asdfafsf.bsky.social · 06/09/2026The vibe coding can likely replicate a lot of the engine, features and simulation. A lot of tools that rely on high barriers to entry will find themselves linuxed. 110
Reposted by aadsfasdfasdfGood Boy @goodboy.bsky.social · 15/09/2024When I post another wonderful skeet 1274562
aadsfasdfasdf @asdfafsf.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Folks are stressed and angry these days and looking for a fight. 000
aadsfasdfasdf @asdfafsf.bsky.social · 05/09/2026On the other hand I've had pedestrians jump in front of me demand I back up after I've crept up to the intersection, entered the crosswalk and waited for a gap and they've been 15+ feet away. 100
aadsfasdfasdf @asdfafsf.bsky.social · 05/09/2026If I have a signalized intersection and the right of way I will upbraid the driver if I have priority. 120
aadsfasdfasdf @asdfafsf.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I've been on both sides of this. My rule of thumb is to just walk behind the driver if they're trying to creep into traffic safely and I wasn't just about to enter the crosswalk. 100
aadsfasdfasdf @asdfafsf.bsky.social · 05/09/2026One paper you might get a kick out of: mitp-content-server.mit.edu:18180/books/conten...mitp-content-server.mit.edu 010
aadsfasdfasdf @asdfafsf.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Undertale really is amazing. Completely rewrote my understanding of video games. Procedural rhetoric at its best. 020
aadsfasdfasdf @asdfafsf.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Toby speaks that particular gaming language is a really fluent and interesting way (Megalovania is a riff on SNES boss fights he originally did for an Earthbound mod). But to "get" a lot of it your need the background. 110
aadsfasdfasdf @asdfafsf.bsky.social · 05/09/2026There's a whole bunch of cultural stuff you have to be exposed to before it resonates IMO. Toby is interesting because he's an "old soul" in gaming fandom, a lot of Undertale and Deltarune descend from Earthbound (sorry if this is patronizing) and early 90s SNES culture. 110