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HallelujahLee posted:(The Hill) – Former President Trump on Monday said he views Facebook as “an enemy of the people” as he reiterated his opposition to a ban on TikTok. 👍
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Apr 20, 2024 04:51
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:My job is all google workspace and it's a loving nightmare it’s what you deserve
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Apr 20, 2024 04:53
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:My job is all google workspace and it's a loving nightmare lmfao. that'd be a dealbreaker to change jobs
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Apr 20, 2024 04:53
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386-SX 25Mhz VGA posted:is there something better now (that’s not a custom server and domain)? Having your own domain is pretty much it, IMO. The ISP that I used to use when I was a kid let their domain lapse and I was able to snap it up, so I use that for a lot of stuff now.
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Apr 20, 2024 04:57
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Xaris posted:lmfao. that'd be a dealbreaker to change jobs They're paying me a lot of money
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Apr 20, 2024 05:02
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:They're paying me a lot of money How much?
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Apr 20, 2024 05:03
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Vox Nihili posted:How much? a bunch
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Apr 20, 2024 05:05
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It's fun because your entire job is tabs on your browser, so instead of shitposting it's just a job now
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Apr 20, 2024 05:06
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Shrinkflation chat: has anyone else noticed how flimsy food cans have gotten? Feels like they might burst open with the slightest pressure.
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Apr 20, 2024 05:07
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Glad you're finally making MANGA level money, everyone should have a shot at their dreams
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Apr 20, 2024 05:07
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:It's fun because your entire job is tabs on your browser, so instead of shitposting it's just a job now the yospos to jobpos pipeline
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Apr 20, 2024 05:08
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its not “gently caress you” level of money tho
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Apr 20, 2024 05:09
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super sweet best pal posted:Shrinkflation chat: has anyone else noticed how flimsy food cans have gotten? Feels like they might burst open with the slightest pressure.
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Apr 20, 2024 05:13
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super sweet best pal posted:Shrinkflation chat: has anyone else noticed how flimsy food cans have gotten? Feels like they might burst open with the slightest pressure. Most of the time I get canned cat food shipped from petsmart or chewy they're all dented. At first I thought it was the box getting dropped and sometomes it is - just a few cans dented and some worse than others - but lately it's every drat can with a nearly identical dent. I don't understand how unless they hosed up the canning machines or something. Some redditors speculate that they're deliberately buying factory rejects and mixing them in with normal cans.
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Apr 20, 2024 05:36
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Majorian posted:It's Thorn. You know it's Thorn. Ahahahahaaaa get wrecked, Stancil-rear end bitch
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Apr 20, 2024 05:48
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Other consumer fuckery - I've had a vendetta against Dawn dish soap because that poo poo leaves a foul petrochemical stench on sponges and my skin that's difficult to wash off. A few years ago I could find a few posts complaining about this but most people claimed they didn't notice anything and it must be bacteria in the sponges (bullshit). I dunno if it's a particular sensitivity like the cilantro soap taste gene. Anyway, check reviews of most Dawn poo poo in the last few months including the PowerWash that's all the rage and there are thousands of people complaining that it smells godawful since they reformulated. Probably they added more of whatever was bothering me originally. I see now it has a preservative called methylisothiazolinone that is allergenic, cytotoxic and banned in most countries except for uses that require rinsing but hey, I'm sure it's only present in totally safe concentrations. Oh there's also C9-11 PARETH-8, a surfactant that "gently aids soil removal". This farm to table poo poo is getting too literal. Precambrian Video Games has issued a correction as of 05:54 on Apr 20, 2024 |
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Apr 20, 2024 05:51
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Precambrian Video Games posted:Most of the time I get canned cat food shipped from petsmart or chewy they're all dented. At first I thought it was the box getting dropped and sometomes it is - just a few cans dented and some worse than others - but lately it's every drat can with a nearly identical dent. I don't understand how unless they hosed up the canning machines or something. Some redditors speculate that they're deliberately buying factory rejects and mixing them in with normal cans. Yeah, cat food's one of the main ones I've noticed since I feed my cat from a can more often than I feed myself, but it's the same with other cans I've opened. They just feel so flimsy now.
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Apr 20, 2024 05:53
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Precambrian Video Games posted:Other consumer fuckery - I've had a vendetta against Dawn dish soap because that poo poo leaves a foul petrochemical stench on sponges and my skin that's difficult to wash off. A few years ago I could find a few posts complaining about this but most people claimed they didn't notice anything and it must be bacteria in the sponges (bullshit). I dunno if it's a particular sensitivity like the cilantro soap taste gene. are you sure you are not a baby duck
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Apr 20, 2024 05:54
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If you want to know how things are going in the startup world, YC is practically begging for applications for this year's summer batch while HN is full of people saying it's a complete waste of time. I've never seen it this bad and no one takes YC seriously any more.
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Apr 20, 2024 05:55
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On the shrinkflation tip, I've been watching with grim fascination the rapid diminution of the little breakfast sandwiches I've been getting the last year and a half so that I have something easy to eat in the morning when I'm having a depression day and struggling to muster the willpower to make a full breakfast (I've found that not eating makes sure the depression day gets locked in really bad). The diameter of these things has shrunk for sure, but what's really comical is the little slice of cheese that comes on it. It used to be a square that roughly fit the sandwich, even poking out beyond it. As of the box my wife picked up this past week, the cheese has finished its gradual and subtle shrinkage and is now very obviously a rectangle that is half the size of what it is supposed to be. I'll try to remember to take a picture next time. It's really funny, like it's SO obvious what's going on there. I haven't even been eating these for two years and they're already unrecognizable.
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Apr 20, 2024 06:16
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the best part about shrinkflation is CPI doesnt pick up on it unless its something measured by weight
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Apr 20, 2024 06:19
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anime was right posted:the best part about shrinkflation is CPI doesnt pick up on it unless its something measured by weight iirc it probably doesnt track junk food like pringles, oreos, digornos, lucky charms, fast food and all the other amerijunk that's seen the worst cases of it? i dunno its like pulling teeth to drill into the actual data to figure out wtf they're actually tracking
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Apr 20, 2024 06:50
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Xaris posted:iirc it probably doesnt track junk food like pringles, oreos, digornos, lucky charms, fast food and all the other amerijunk that's seen the worst cases of it? i dunno its like pulling teeth to drill into the actual data to figure out wtf they're actually tracking https://www.bls.gov/cpi/additional-resources/entry-level-item-descriptions.htm pretty sure it just goes by raw products, some are measured by pound where they're typically sold at a static price (meat, etc.)
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Apr 20, 2024 07:56
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Willa Rogers posted:Are hip & knee replacements lucrative for providers? Because like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ars458hcETE
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Apr 20, 2024 08:16
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FirstnameLastname posted:are you sure you are not a baby duck If I were I'd just keep the drat oil coat, it's fashionable these days.
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Apr 20, 2024 09:15
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super sweet best pal posted:Yeah, cat food's one of the main ones I've noticed since I feed my cat from a can more often than I feed myself, but it's the same with other cans I've opened. They just feel so flimsy now. Maybe you have got stronger
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Apr 20, 2024 09:16
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Weka posted:Maybe you have got stronger In this economy?
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Apr 20, 2024 10:15
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SlimGoodbody posted:On the shrinkflation tip, I've been watching with grim fascination the rapid diminution of the little breakfast sandwiches I've been getting the last year and a half so that I have something easy to eat in the morning when I'm having a depression day and struggling to muster the willpower to make a full breakfast (I've found that not eating makes sure the depression day gets locked in really bad). The diameter of these things has shrunk for sure, but what's really comical is the little slice of cheese that comes on it. It used to be a square that roughly fit the sandwich, even poking out beyond it. Which brand/store are they from? But yeah, that type of stuff is now all over the place. I wouldn't be surprised if selection also shrinks over time just because of demand. quote:In the U.S., the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) monthly collects the prices of some 94,000 items from a scientifically selected sample of goods and services to assemble its representative basket. The numbers are then adjusted to ensure price changes don't reflect improvements in product quality, and weighted in proportion with consumer spending patterns derived from a separate survey of about 36,000 consumers in a given year. The CPI should be adjusted upwards theoretically in terms of item weight at least (it is why a chained CPI is a such a big deal because it doesn't take into account substitution). That said, there is probably a bunch of ways to game the system especially in terms of additives.
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Apr 20, 2024 11:24
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aren’t all the facial features described in this article just normal for someone with a healthy weight? or is it all their cosmetic work, sculpting, fillers etc. looking unbalanced after weight loss?
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Apr 20, 2024 11:33
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kreeningsons posted:aren’t all the facial features described in this article just normal for someone with a healthy weight? or is it all their cosmetic work, sculpting, fillers etc. looking unbalanced after weight loss? America got so used to fat face that reg face just looks wrong now
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Apr 20, 2024 12:12
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Yeah, the massive drops for Nvidia, Netflix, and to a lesser extent Facebook make a lot of sense if you just see the Nasdaq/S&P having become a "crypto"fied casino where value is just based on betting behavior rather than anything resembling value. Obviously, this applies to stocks as a whole to an extent but really a lot of tech just really doesn't act that different than BTC at this point and huge moves in terms of value are just based on a handful of equities while the Russell 2000 has been going sideways if not losing versus inflation. Admittedly, I do think the craps table just became hot due to some decent news about inflation that was coming in late last year and then it just took until now for reality to set in and the players are fleeing the table again. The Nasdaq is already back to where it was in late December and the movement is pretty negative. The VIX is the highest it has been since October, it is just VIX-based ETFs usually are extremely high risk. Ardennes has issued a correction as of 12:34 on Apr 20, 2024 |
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Apr 20, 2024 12:31
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We’re moving cross country and I thought there was a tax deduction for that but lol it was eliminated in the Trump tax bill in 2017  except of course for the military
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Apr 20, 2024 12:32
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skooma512 posted:We’re moving cross country and I thought there was a tax deduction for that but lol it was eliminated in the Trump tax bill in 2017 look at this guy bragging about itemizing in the doomsday thread
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Apr 20, 2024 13:02
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BRAKE FOR MOOSE posted:look at this guy bragging about itemizing in the doomsday thread lol
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Apr 20, 2024 13:03
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BRAKE FOR MOOSE posted:look at this guy bragging about itemizing in the doomsday thread I can’t itemize lol, that’s the problem.
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Apr 20, 2024 13:11
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Pick up some gig work, tada, you file as an s corp, and now your moving expenses are work expenses Bing Bong
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Apr 20, 2024 13:12
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kreeningsons posted:aren’t all the facial features described in this article just normal for someone with a healthy weight? or is it all their cosmetic work, sculpting, fillers etc. looking unbalanced after weight loss? Feels like more of the latter
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Apr 20, 2024 14:13
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Xaris posted:iirc it probably doesnt track junk food like pringles, oreos, digornos, lucky charms, fast food and all the other amerijunk that's seen the worst cases of it? i dunno its like pulling teeth to drill into the actual data to figure out wtf they're actually tracking CPI only measures television sets
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Apr 20, 2024 15:01
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Speaking of number going down. It’s looking like ozempic causes a 260% increase in deep vein thrombosis rates among diabetics, the primary group it’s being prescribed for. https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/endocrj/68/6/68_EJ21-0129/_html/ More studies are being done so there’s going to be a lag before they pull it but I’d say if we were in the pre-Covid world, Ozempic would definitely get pulled. That might not be the case anymore, however. I can’t state enough how Trump’s waiving of vaccine safety measures fundamentally changed the paradigm in getting and keeping profitable meds on the market. I was part of the group that broke the news on the problems with COX-2 inhibitors back in the day and even then there was tremendous corporate pressure to find in favor of the drug company. (They offered funding and future jobs to the grad students who were only making $25k/yr at the time.) One of the major factors in keeping that analysis on course was knowing federal oversight would be there to double check the data. The FDA has been gutted and compromised now so there really aren’t many guardrails left.
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Apr 20, 2024 15:08
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Yeah but computer touchers are losing weight so it must be good
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