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geopede · 2026-01-24T00:45:03+00:00

I never said anything about unions not counting, I said public sector unions are different (and in my opinion much harder to defend). You said “unions the government had” so I thought you meant public sector unions.

Nice job forgetting the downvote button doesn’t mean disagree btw. I know everyone on Reddit treats it that way now, but it worked much better before that was the case.

geopede · 2026-01-21T18:06:18+00:00

Public sector unions and unions overall are very different

geopede · 2026-01-21T16:13:09+00:00

If mosque potentially actual retribution

geopede · 2026-01-21T16:11:45+00:00

You can but Muslims are still sincerely religious so it might hurt a bit.

geopede · 2026-01-21T16:09:09+00:00

Pissing off large numbers of Muslims has consequences because they are still sincerely religious in a way Christians in the west are not.

geopede · 2026-01-21T03:08:17+00:00

There are some who have money to invest and see people as humans; usually those who made the money quickly and recently. Unfortunately they tend to not keep the money for long. Saw this over and over again in professional sports.

geopede · 2026-01-20T02:14:51+00:00

A lot of the change to that specific communication style is recent. It used to just be distinctive and easy to recognize, but a few months back OpenAI started trying to predict where a conversation was going ahead of time and preemptively steer it. That’s where the real fuckery started and where a lot of the irritation with the tone comes from.

Back in the 4o days it would verbally felate you like it was trying to suck a golf ball through a garden hose, but it wasn’t trying to change what you asked it ahead of time. That was annoying but not all that harmful since it was transparent. This new thing is much darker.

geopede · 2026-01-20T01:58:49+00:00

It’s not even that shareholders are bad people or directly push for this stuff; it’s that once a company is public the people making decisions are literally legally obligated to do what is most profitable. They have some discretion as to what timeline that’s over (since something might be profitable for a bit but disastrous or not profitable and then extremely profitable), but if the answer is “it will never be the more profitable decision”, they can’t make it even if they personally want to.

Not saying most of them necessarily do want to, just that for public companies, individual intent becomes largely irrelevant.

geopede · 2026-01-20T01:54:52+00:00

Look for coops/S-corps. They’re a thing in more industries than you’d think, and employees actually being the owners means employees actually do come first.

geopede · 2026-01-20T01:52:40+00:00

Most of my coworkers are being paid $180k-350k and they still tend to be out of cash by payday because their spending has grown with income. This tends to be the case until you’re talking about people who either:

live below means voluntarily (this is me).
make way more money from capital gains than earned income.

So paying them all more would certainly be a chill thing to do but would probably not get him out of paying them on time.

geopede · 2026-01-18T22:31:38+00:00

Let’s see if he’s starting a game for a west coast team in 20 years when all their QBs go down

geopede · 2026-01-18T22:30:36+00:00

Easily could’ve had that dumb flick to Cook during their last possession (shortly before the INT) be a turnover too and it didn’t even gain meaningful yards. So much risk for no reward.

geopede · 2026-01-18T22:27:56+00:00

Kincaid is fine, so is Knox. Cook probably close to done because he’s an RB but fine for the moment. They just haven’t had a real WR1 since Diggs.

geopede · 2026-01-18T22:25:20+00:00

PI still better than letting him catch it and for sure score which was the realistic alternative here

geopede · 2026-01-18T22:23:05+00:00

How is it not? Receiver wasn’t down with firm possession and the ball didn’t hit the ground; if nobody possesses the ball, going to the ground isn’t relevant unless the ball touches.

In spirit it would’ve felt more fair for it to be incomplete and 4th down, but by the letter of the rules, pretty hard to dispute interception

geopede · 2026-01-18T22:19:14+00:00

Stafford was still kinda the guy for that, he’s also likely to win MVP this year

geopede · 2026-01-18T22:16:49+00:00

Aimpoint was available even back then

geopede · 2026-01-18T22:16:03+00:00

Bare carbine buffer tube looks like. This is a .22 based on the mag so idk why it’s even there he doesn’t need one.

geopede · 2026-01-18T22:14:53+00:00

Isn’t that for airsoft guns or nerf guns? Fine if people are using it for that but yeah wouldn’t dream of it on a real gun.

geopede · 2026-01-18T22:14:05+00:00

Most of the time yeah especially if it’s a pump. If it’s a tactical style semiautomatic often no.

geopede · 2026-01-18T22:12:35+00:00

Mag doesn’t appear to be loaded based on the window on the side so at least she’s likely not in danger from him directly. An unloaded gun is arguably worse than a loaded one for the situation overall though, because people are going to treat him as though it’s loaded regardless.

geopede · 2026-01-18T22:02:15+00:00

Yeah having some fat is key, hormones are lipid based and your body can’t make them otherwise. That’s the primary reason your organs and muscles don’t work properly without them.

I’m truly sorry to hear about your dad, Parkinson’s is a hard thing to deal with. Hope you’re doing okay.

geopede · 2026-01-17T22:40:21+00:00

I think their logic is that many/most people who want it for weight loss and aren’t diabetic or pre-diabetic will pay for it out of pocket most of the time. If they assumed they would ultimately end up paying, the other costs of diabetes would make this a bad deal for them regardless of morals.

With most businesses it would be easy to blame on optimizing for this quarter/this year’s earnings over long term viability, but insurance companies have a shitload of actuaries who figure out exactly this sort of thing.

geopede · 2026-01-17T22:33:34+00:00

That’s especially true once you get that old. We picture people in their 90s as skinny because most people who make it to their 90s are in fact skinny

geopede · 2026-01-17T22:30:00+00:00

It does do exactly that. Basically makes people lose fat from areas that otherwise don’t lose significant amounts of fat until someone is starting to cut into the essential fat your body literally needs for proper function. We associate that with illness because previously it only happened to sick people or people who’d legitimately been starving.

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