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The urban scarecrow is the last folk art of the empire. He descends, through many generations, from the colonial bureaucrat: once stood in khaki on a Bengal platform supervising the construction of a railway, he now stands in hi-vis in Croydon, supervising a hole
The great unwashed in the flat beneath me are screeching like birds after a lightning strike knocked out the power. Their forefathers have never been more disappointed.
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Pharmacists are so annoying, just put the controlled substances in the bag lil bro
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Sadly, California is the only state in the union that prohibits insurers from pricing based on how people actually drive.
So in Tesla's largest US market, the state prevents Tesla from giving heavy FSD users the insurance discount their lower risk warrants.
The result: @CDInews, under @ICRicardoLara, taxes road users who actively use life-saving technology to subsidize those more likely to kill or maim.
It comes across as very out of touch when student alt type complains about tech workers in SF... it's like going to pittsburgh and being disappointed that the average steel worker isn't sufficiently cool and bohemian.
'house rules' appears to be the latest LLM-ism - I can't quite put a finger on why, but it's clear this is a more exaggerated term laying along the same vector as 'smoke test'
A few years ago, I managed to convince the creator of the TeamTNT malware (some German 16 year old) to quit while he was ahead. I wonder how he's doing now.
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In striver circles, saying "I'm recruiting" now means "I'm looking for a job"
Is this an esl/chinese grammar thing? Or is it a side effect of low literacy in tech? I think they discovered the word on LinkedIn and thought it sounded nice. I've heard it from so many people
Just disposed of a large huel box in someone else's recycling bin, taking care to remove any identifying labels beforehand
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I'll say it out loud: the fact that admissions officers now have to read heaps of AI slop is karma for inventing the worst genre ever and subjecting millions of kids to having to write in it.
