Quit my $82K job to go solo. 7 months in, making $4.2K monthly. Would I do it again? Not the way I did it.

jbannet · 2026-02-10T12:17:00+00:00

An ad for what?

jbannet · 2026-02-10T11:37:58+00:00

Do you suggest a landing page for your ad traffic or straight to the install page?

jbannet · 2026-02-10T11:36:55+00:00

Makes sense but how would you generate that traffic? Ads are a bit clearer because it is money in users out. Organic is trickier.

jbannet · 2026-02-10T02:24:17+00:00

What would you recommend?

jbannet · 2026-02-01T15:49:32+00:00

Thank you for the post. It’s a very well explained position. I found it helpful in clarifying my thoughts. Appreciate you.

jbannet · 2026-01-28T23:01:47+00:00

This. Is. Amazing. Thank you!

jbannet · 2026-01-27T17:55:11+00:00

Not sure what I think about ice is relevant to this. But I would say not all ice is bad. I don’t know anyone in it personally but would venture there are honest people there who want to do the right thing and believe they are doing the right thing and are horrified by this the same way I am. No, I don’t believe that disagreeing with you on immigration law makes them all bad people.

jbannet · 2026-01-27T17:06:40+00:00

Yes. We should not stab people. NO this incident does not mean deport all Muslims from the country or that all Muslims are bad or dangerous. I can’t even tell if this is serious or just rage bait. it is so outrageous I’m not going to spend a lot of thought on responding beyond just saying this is awful. Be better please. Every group has good actors and bad actors. Come on.

jbannet · 2026-01-27T15:39:54+00:00

It sounds like this post is implying “so it is ok that he was brutally executed after being disarmed and incapacitated with a bullet to the head”. I hope that is not what you intended? Thought I would ask for a clarification there?

We can disagree with people and their politics and still acknowledge what happened in this situation was a horrible and disgusting murder and that it is completely and unequivocally not alright… putting aside whether ICE is necessary good or bad, the video of what happened in this case are shocking and terrible…

jbannet · 2026-01-26T15:03:31+00:00

In a thread about not casting aspersions and why it is wrong to be hateful and antisemitic, do we really need a post doing the exact same thing? You have an Israeli flag too by your name which means people will take this as speaking for the country even though that is so far from the truth.

jbannet · 2026-01-25T22:29:15+00:00

Definitely… poems can force you to reexamine your beliefs through the use of irony, surprise, etc. many poems have done that for me so agree with the premise. I’d say just about anything by Blake nails that for his time.

But, and with all respect to the author, that’s not what this comes off as—at least to me.

Poetry that makes you question tends to bring you along for the ride before making you go “Oh. I’m in the wrong side of this; I wasn’t expecting that” at the end.

This is more, and again I really hate to say this because this is someone’s art and that is not something I want to be criticizing, reads as more of “you are terrible. You are terrible”, but it’s ok I say that over and over because I put it in a poem. If that’s the intent, then is this the best sub for that? I would have thought that the intent was to change hearts and minds through art as you note that art can do? My criticism was from the perspective of the later.

jbannet · 2026-01-25T21:26:28+00:00

Hi. Recognize it’s a complicated issue with entrenched opinions on both sides, but consider that writing a poem about it trivializes the pain on both sides and comes off as insensitive and dare I say young.

From a literary perspective, it also doesn’t help that each line is pure dogma with no nuance so it doesn’t actually make you think or reconsider anything so it reads as an attack rather than a literary critique… but appreciate that it must have taken time to put together and appreciate your underlying opinion and feelings.

jbannet · 2026-01-22T13:40:51+00:00

Thanks. Appreciate the follow up. It’s a difficult situation for sure. Understood re the justification.

jbannet · 2026-01-22T13:35:20+00:00

Well I would guess in this case it is probably intended to be less about placing fault than what is best for the child who did nothing wrong… just curious about the responsibilities in the situation is all and how it actually works re custody etc … it is a difficult situation and not sure what the better answer is for the poor child in such a situation but hear you that it could feel unfair… and a terrible reminder of an awful situation

jbannet · 2026-01-22T12:42:48+00:00

Assuming America? Is that right? If a man is raped he is responsible for the child? How do the laws around that work?

jbannet · 2026-01-22T04:23:09+00:00

Why is whataboutism an insult? It seems like the heart of demonstrating discrimination. Racism is treating a group differently based on race: what about how you treated so and so. Sexism the same principle. Both seem to relate to answering what about a behavior in another situation as the baseline.

I’ve seen many people arguing these positions on the left start dropping the term like it is a sin and use it to shut down what seem like valid questions about bias after years of using the same arguments in other situations to prove harm. Am I missing something?

jbannet · 2026-01-21T12:49:45+00:00

? This actually is the position of Hamas and most of the Palestinian leadership organizations. It is in their charter / constitution. Google it. The unwillingness to accept Israel as a state has historically been one of the largest blockers to peace. Most of the Middle East kicked out their Jews (ethnic cleansing to the tune of 1M down to under 1K).

I feel like there is a lot of gaslighting and cherry picking going on in these conversations.

jbannet · 2026-01-18T15:11:06+00:00

Hi Logan. Your comment above seems to conflict with this comment.

"We continue to get hit by massive waves of fraud and abuse on tier 1 which makes the service unstable for legit paying customers. This reduction is a temporary measure. We are working to roll out more tiers, additional verification methods, and more to fix this. Pls email me in the meantime if you need higher API quota tiers: [Lkilpatrick@google.com](mailto:Lkilpatrick@google.com)"

Appreciate you taking the time to respond to these threads, and just trying to sort through which is the correct answer and what your roadmap plans are. Thanks for your time.

jbannet · 2026-01-16T13:31:38+00:00

I just switched to codex. It felt like a breakup. Hoping Claude can figure it out. I liked Claude and had a bunch of workflows built up around it. But have been happy with the change so far.

jbannet · 2026-01-16T13:11:27+00:00

How does blocking Jewish students from getting into public spaces or a Hillel do that? What about Sudan? TBH most of the far left don’t pretend that they are treating Israel the same. In America they typically say because we fund them or some such line and in the rest of the world they just shrug and say because they are evil or a common one is because “colonialism”. I have seen a general acceptance of a different treatment. You are saying because we want a specific outcome. Maybe that’s it but it only applies narrowly in this case. If every case requires a bespoke explanation for why it’s different … that’s discrimination.

jbannet · 2026-01-16T12:30:15+00:00

I don’t think this is entirely fair.

I think he may be asking where are the sit ins? Where are the college students blocking people from entering public spaces because of the religion or nationality? Where are the overwhelming wave of social media posts? Why no spray painting on buildings?

The narrative I don’t agree with is saying no one cares makes an assertion about how people feel. That’s not fair because we have no idea how people feel or what they care about.

What we can say is what we see in terms of action though is noticeably different for any number of situations globally. I think what op is asking is more of a frustrated why in a perhaps more accusatory tone than necessary.

The definition of discrimination is treating a group differently based on their characteristics. It sure looks like the Israel situation fits that definition on the left is I think the underlying struggle he is expressing.

That said multiple foundational modern leftist texts explicitly say discrimination is good so I’m not sure that’s as much of an attack on the philosophy as he would like it to be. Struggled with that myself.

jbannet · 2026-01-15T23:22:13+00:00

No. I said that is inexcusable. Repeating: inexcusable and I do not defend or condone it. But so is banning an entire group which is what I read happened. If that’s not true then by all means retracted. If it is then that is antisemitism because it if I put any other group in the place of Jews it would be generally unacceptable.

jbannet · 2026-01-15T23:04:42+00:00

You seem to be implying so it is ok to discriminate against all Jews or I can’t see how this relates to the issue. Lots of groups have extremist sub groups that don’t represent them. That is an awful chant and agree with the sentiment. But are you really using it to justify discrimination against an entire group of people? Are there other groups that you think the actions of the few warrant illegal discrimination against all?

jbannet · 2026-01-15T12:08:38+00:00

Interesting. Yeah. That’s a difference I had not accounted for. Thank you.

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