felledman.bsky.social
Dogs should be safe, legal, and rare
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your narrative is mostly correct, but is missing how the social distancing + COVID stimulus led to a massive demand for computer services and thus labor, which cooled post-vaccination. Subsequent layoffs mean you know have tons of people with 1-3 yrs experience glutting the labor market
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1047 developing a live service shooter with BR that minimizes it's unique mechanic
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I've played SG2 a fair bit and actually enjoy it, but capping off this speech with a "live service battle royale" announcement is so funny
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shorter version: Republicans want to make life worse, we don't want to do that
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on some level I have sympathy for 50's style Arab nationalism but it sure was bad they ethnically cleansed hundreds of thousands of Jews, Italians, Greek, Turks, etc.
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If it makes you feel better it's because we were too busy touching grass in 2023
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my take is that Yavin is a codename, that name doesn't exist on any star charts. The ISB already knows the name, but not the location
(I'm sure canon contradicts this somewhere)
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Has any city implemented a rolling rent control system of say 30 years? Would be kinda interested to see how that shakes out
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I feel bad for you but this is incredible content
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what state was you car in
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I believe in the castle doctrine but only for sidewalks and bike lanes
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Hmm I think I prefer the system where police pull you over based on semi-arbitrary criteria. I especially like that it sometimes ends in horrendous violence a random minority of times
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I have a solution en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of...
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Also 90% of microtransactions in "core" gaming are just cosmetics now. I do not like the live service freemium model but the backlash SW Battlefront 2 basically worked!
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i mean, most studios that don't have massive backers are already putting out games at < $60
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and unlike fast food video game price increases have risen at rates far below median income or inflation
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Now it's hard to feel as attached to the IPs because a) game development cycles take forever and b) there isn't a huge wave of excitement because the proliferation of games led to community fragmentation
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a take I'm developing is that what people miss about gaming (besides their childhood) is the monoculture around it. You had a handful of big series releasing regularly, and there was excitement because "everyone" was playing them
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how are people still stuck in perpetual 2012 where we think twitter is going to end dictatorships. We pretty clearly have the evidence on social media and it's pretty bad
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okay upon further reflection I'm remembering how bad the first seasons in many excellent ST shows are, and I'm having more sympathy for this even if I don't agree
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Incredibly wrong take, I salute you for just putting it out into the world though
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in one of my video game podcasts the host said "I don't like $80 games but it's probably a fair tradeoff for good working conditions and no microtransactions" and he got eaten alive by the comments
I genuinely appreciated him making the point!
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I will never forget the anecdote about '08 canvassers in rural Pennsylvania who asked a couple who they supported in, and they said they were "voting for the n word"
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To make a good SFF story, there should be a wikipedia-like definition of the internal magic/tech system without the book ever reading like a wikipedia page. Not easy!
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1-4 are reasonable, the last two are kinda bizarre
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Will it give Trump credit for a popular idea? Yes. Is it at least good policy? No
Peak Dem brain right here
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The id has just totally taken over Israel (and tbf, kinda the US as well). Can't even pretend to be responsible
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Israel is like the US in that while elements of the insane far-right have always been present in it's governance, it's now totally subsumed by them. They at least used to be able to pretend to be grown-ups
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possibly the exact opposite of my personal preferences but respectable nonetheless
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What games are Morgan Stanley Maoists into these days
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Graduating in 2019 with a Computer Science major was funny because half the class were nerds and the other half were dumb jocks who would've gotten a business major 10 years previously
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People who take majors just for the money can be either ambitious (does okay in the workplace) or just lazy/stupid (do really poorly). People who spent 4 years actually trying to learn something are probably going to be better
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Also anyone who's ever used a Cloud Product knows the risks you take when you attach a credit card to any form of automation. It's a lot when it's something that purely rules based, imagine when tied to a hallucinating LLM!
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He's dumb but in a mostly benign way, can't really be bothered caring too much
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What do you think the Turning point was? Black Ops 1? Advanced Warfare?
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this is every career sub tbh. The people in the FIRE subs are obnoxious but at least they have jobs
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Mando s1-s2 is by far the best non-Andor SW show. Acolyte has some pretty interesting ideas and fight scenes but is still pretty mediocre overall
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Transit is supposed to be pretty good. I do all my own routing now, but when I used it it at least gives a good breakdown of what parts of the route are trail vs bike lane vs calm road vs busy road
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wouldn't solve the academic crisis issues, might help with the AI saturated "dead" internet but also might be too late
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Ft Meyer Construction Delenda Est
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Joey, I was assured that new mixed-use developments are infeasible unless anchored by a sports stadium that has 8 events/year
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The answer to this is you are greatly overestimating the quality of undergraduate writing
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yeah lifestyle bloat is definitely a thing but in the past decade I think social media has been a bigger driver than cheap credit (which has been around for decades)
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Door Dash financing
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oh agreed. The whole hospital sequence was incredible
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You can tell Tony had a fantastic storyline built out but just couldn't get it all on-screen. I do appreciate that he decided to focus on fewer, excellent set pieces rather than jam in a bunch of stuff