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yimmothathird

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God-king, progamer, master debater

I bet you make widgets

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yimmothathird··on Brazilian court orders suspension of X
When someone will embrace anything to harm you, you have to be prepared to weaponize the same things.
yimmothathird··on Brazil to Ban X from the Country
Democracy is dying anyway. It's not sustainable anymore. Enjoy the ride and wait and see if there's any opportunity for you.
yimmothathird··on Paul Graham blocked me on X because I quoted Hacker News's guidelines
Evil people involved in that organization anyway.
yimmothathird··on City of Columbus sues expert who exposed extent of cyberattack
Only if that person is me
yimmothathird··on I always found this picture of Steve Jobs in his home office fascinating
It's not possible for the simple minds of peon workers. For ubermensch executives it's well within their ability.
yimmothathird··on The Thin Purple Line
That was just a propaganda piece from big theft.
yimmothathird··on Brazil top court threatens to suspend X within 24 hours
> If I have to choose between a dictatorship of the military and a dictatorship of a communist judiciary, I'd rather live under the military one.

Have you tried asking the CIA?

yimmothathird··on Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressure on content
Yes but sadly those people continue to live and vote
yimmothathird··on Dutch DPA fines Uber €290M because of transfers of drivers’ data to the US
Corporations should make the laws.
yimmothathird··on Homebound: The Long-Term Rise in Time Spent at Home Among U.S. Adults
> Since removing the office from my life, I think I spend more time at home and more time in social spaces.

Same here, I got out a lot more when I was WFH, even when I was hybrid, I would get out even on weekday afternoons/evenings and socialize a bit.

But we were just dragged in office full time again, and it's once again rare for my to step outside after work. Now I'm more likely to be mental exhausted and spend my time napping, and consuming low energy entertaining before the next day.

yimmothathird··on Mass Market DVDs Are Dead: Long Live Heritage Physical Media
The data hoarders are just a greedy sometimes. I can across a story of some lost media the other day, that supposedly had at least one physical copy remain, but no copies would be made, so that the holder could jack the price up on ebay.
yimmothathird··on Ask HN: Best resources for job market trends and data?
I just wish it was easier to browse. Maybe it's just me, but I find navigating to what I'm looking for on their site painful every time I try.
yimmothathird··on [dead]
What can you expect from a substance blog tbf.
yimmothathird··on It's the land, stupid: How the homebuilder cartel drives high housing prices
I could never understand why people expect everything to be static and never change.
yimmothathird··on Aristotle – How to live a good life
Im sure ifbits perfectly fine if you pair it with a nice lead based diet.
yimmothathird··on Programmers Don't Read Books – But You Should (2008)
I saw an HN thread a while back where someone recommended a comprehensive book on some networking subject. I'm sure it was a good book, I was floored when I saw physical copies being sold fucking $700.

Unfortunately, a lot of the technical books I wish to read fall into this grift of academic texts.

yimmothathird··on US judge has girl handcuffed for sleeping during court field trip
At this point I'm convinced judges are among the most corrupt, despicable government officials in the US.
yimmothathird··on Texas sues GM for unlaw­ful­ly collecting and selling dri­vers' pri­vate data [pdf]
Hopefully the people running the scams will eventually just get lynched
yimmothathird··on The Imminent Student-Loan Disaster
McDonald's is hiring though
yimmothathird··on Employers used return-to-office to make workers quit
Maybe try starting a cult instead of a company, you'll find more idiots willing to be true believers in whatever bullshit you've cooked up.
yimmothathird··on Employers used return-to-office to make workers quit
> So by utilizing this kind of strategy you select for the employees you least want.

Unless the employees you want are those that can be easily controlled.

yimmothathird··on Over 90% of US Population Growth Since 2020 Came from Hispanics
> Good thing those are the things people need to live?

Not but those are the sort of things people who say stuff like this need to you to purchase to keep you complaisant

yimmothathird··on Where Facebook's AI Slop Comes From
Pretty much what I expected. It was very obvious to me it was just engagement hacking for money when I saw damn near every one has a list of irrelevant celebrity hashtags attached at the end.

Still, there are ones even stranger than the trash AI images targeting the attention of idiots. I saw a post seemingly advertising a real book, but for some reason, in the content of the post. The claimed the book was written by [Person A] while the photo of the book they posted clearly noted the author as [Person B]. Didn't seem like a simple accident either. The actual author had a name that looked to be of middle eastern origin, while the fale author was some west-African insert.

yimmothathird··on The upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis is the loss of community
Eh, that's not even too far off from many of the people I meet.
yimmothathird··on CISA broke into a US federal agency, and no one noticed for a full 5 months
I was fine for the pay structure on its own. I gave up when I was rejected for not having the hyper specific domain experience they wanted for the pay they were asking for. This was primarily a CRUD job btw and I was qualified by any other standard.
yimmothathird··on Save Team Fortress 2 (#savetf2)
Yeah, but it’s very likely a massive amount of the player count is bots, mostly bots farming for drops at that https://youtu.be/2stmQfv93oQ?si=qaecdQh723xwpr7T
yimmothathird··on Save Team Fortress 2 (#savetf2)
It’s dead to me until they only take care of the bots and cheaters but nuke all cunts who defend and refuse to kick said cheaters
yimmothathird··on Ask HN: Anyone left their job because of RTO?
I wish, market is too dangerous right now though. I was out of work for significantly longer than I should have been because my one dealbreaker for the longest time was remote.

Current job started out 3/2 hybrid but full RTO is being mandated by the end of the month. Not looking forward to it.

yimmothathird··on Ask HN: What are your favo YouTube Channels?
The US Chemical Safety Board channel. They do mini documentaries on chemical/industrial disasters that they investigated. Some of them are relatively in depth: https://youtube.com/@uscsb

Most videos are probably a bit shorter than 20min, but they do have several in that range.