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The checks that add up are the social security checks cashed by the quarter or so of baby boomers who don’t need them.

I have sat down and figured out how to program an Apple //e this year for fun. It is possible. It was quite instructive on how much has been added to the idea of what a computer is these days.

I feel like if you want to tackle hard problems there are plenty out there to tackle and plenty of people who will put money into you doing it. I would rather that people unwilling to do so get out of the way with UBI then force people to work to feed themselves. I suppose that is a rather utopian view not shared by many because of the fears of elites controlling everything but that is also a hard problem that some find worth tackling.

It also got rid of being able to right click and open in a new window. Tabs only. Whyyyyyy.

Take two.

Clearly you are not speechless.

How can you be sure it helps as opposed to biases and perhaps blinds?

I think you are over thinking this. Better to get a job and see if you enjoy it than try to predict your impact on the world around you before you actually do anything that would create an impact.

When I was a teenager in boarding school I sent away for these books. I got this fully illustrated Star Wars encyclopedia amongst other books of sci-fi interest to me. Suddenly I realized I could not afford the actual monthly fees I had signed myself up for. So a teacher at the school advised me to send a letter saying I was the parent of a young child who had managed to mail off for these books without my permission and that this service must be canceled immediately because no child can make such a decision. That worked and I got to keep the books.

recaptcha wants you to download an app to access it through a qr code? are you kidding?

I met a guy who bragged about spending 10k euros a month on tokens out of pocket. He was unable to describe anything he built that had made the expense worth it except for the bragging rights that he was spending 10k a month on tokens.

Boomer politics has always been about me and not thee.

Journalists have given up except for organizations like bellingcat, lighthouse reports, etc. that focus on data based reporting instead of narrative.

does anyone else feel like this kind of web design is like the em-dash of web design? im not trying to knock the project itself, just wondering because every website that claude makes me looks like this until i tell it to look like something else.