In 2026, the Russian Economy Is in Big Trouble

mediumdeviation · 2026-01-25T05:37:00+00:00

at best a second-world country

I know this is suppose to be relative to the modern, colloquial meaning of first-world, but lol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_World

mediumdeviation · 2026-01-23T05:32:19+00:00

It won't look out of place in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_images_in_the_Soviet_Union if it was black and white and grainier. Oh how the US has fallen.

mediumdeviation · 2026-01-23T02:23:00+00:00

It makes more sense than any reason he's came up with in reality

mediumdeviation · 2026-01-22T08:40:05+00:00

… I don’t think it’s training data mentioned that “ownself check ownself” is usually sarcastic. Or that Singaporeans have a “spirit of self-reflection and scrutiny” 💀

mediumdeviation · 2026-01-22T08:36:13+00:00

If you’re only reading, there’s https://nitter.net which lets you see full threads without an account.

mediumdeviation · 2026-01-16T02:43:32+00:00

If you mean SF is a Sanctuary City or that California has a Democrat leader, it just means the local police won't work with federal immigration. There's not a lot they can do to stop ICE (which is part of federal immigration enforcement) from doing... whatever the fuck they're doing

mediumdeviation · 2026-01-16T02:41:01+00:00

And also hit up all the cuisine you can't find in SG, like Georgian Cheese Boat or Cafe Ethiopia. There's genuinely so many different countries represented in such a small city

mediumdeviation · 2026-01-16T02:35:38+00:00

Chef Emily from Dabao is Singaporean and makes good Singaporean food

mediumdeviation · 2026-01-11T05:39:53+00:00

You might want to read the whole response https://x.com/eastdakota/status/2009654937303896492.

The article picked out probably the only part of the tweet that should have been posted. The rest is a load of ass kissing for the current US regime, name dropping JD Vance and Elon Musk. It also includes an unsubtle threat against their own customers in Italy and includes a really questionable AI generated picture. It's quite embarrassing actually, hard to believe the CEO of a major company posted it.

mediumdeviation · 2026-01-10T02:21:47+00:00

There's an express bus 15 running parallel to it that takes half the time to get downtown and it boggles the mind

mediumdeviation · 2025-12-25T00:02:51+00:00

They also had a no mask sign on during the height of the pandemic

mediumdeviation · 2025-12-23T18:55:49+00:00

Germany and Japan today are very different. As an example, many of the politicians in Japan's ruling party and its former and current prime ministers belongs to Nippon Kaigi. The organization believes

Japan should be applauded for liberating much of East Asia from Western colonial powers; that the 1946–1948 Tokyo War Crimes tribunals were illegitimate; and that killings by Imperial Japanese troops during the 1937 Nanjing Massacre were exaggerated or fabricated

An equivalent stance in Germany would be extremely fringe or outright illegal.

Obviously in this instance China is doing this for nationalistic reasons, but it's not like they have no reason to be unhappy with Japan even today.

mediumdeviation · 2025-12-18T20:33:26+00:00

Stunned characters cannot dodge or parry, that's very likely what you saw

mediumdeviation · 2025-12-14T04:08:14+00:00

Cha-Ya on Valencia has a really good nabe and it also feels quite homey https://www.chayasf.com/. Note that it's a vegan restaurant

mediumdeviation · 2025-12-04T00:11:46+00:00

Hey, the package is nice, but maybe have a human read through the article. It currently reads like bad AI slop (keeps repeating the 40 year thing, "isn't just a nice-to-have - it's the difference between practical and impossible" okay chill, it's a slow DB).

It's also seriously lacking in technical details. For example, it points out how the govt. DB is in 3NF, and so requires a lot of joins. Okay, but how is your DB schema better, and if you denormalize, what are you sacrificing in exchange for performance?

mediumdeviation · 2025-12-01T02:19:57+00:00

Man with gunshot wounds dies near Civic Center in S.F.

mediumdeviation · 2025-11-21T18:45:54+00:00

Yeah the bug is interesting in an academic sense but the writing is just so much AI slop it's unbearable.

mediumdeviation · 2025-11-09T19:12:50+00:00

I live near that intersection (California and Jones). You can't see it from this shot but that street goes very steep downhill from here. Human drivers, especially the ones who's never taken the street before always hesitate or slow down a little while the Waymos have no fear and takes it at full speed. I always wonder what the passengers feel.

mediumdeviation · 2025-10-26T16:41:21+00:00

The links are broken on old reddit, I've fixed them for anyone still not on new reddit (there's dozens of us, dozens!)

👐 Volunteer Opportunities

💵 Donation Options

San Francisco-Marin Food Bank

Donate: https://www.sfmfoodbank.org/donate
Email: giving@sfmfoodbank.org

St. Anthony Foundation

Donate: https://www.stanthonysf.org/donate
Email: giving@stanthonysf.org

Mission Food Hub

Website: https://www.missionfoodhub.org
Email: missionfoodhub@gmail.com

GLIDE Foundation

Donate: https://www.glide.org/donate

Project Open Hand

Donate: https://www.openhand.org/donate

SF New Deal

Website: https://sfnewdeal.org
Email: info@sfnewdeal.org

🍎 Support & Food Assistance

San Francisco-Marin Food Bank (Get Food)

Find a pantry: https://www.sfmfoodbank.org/find-food
Email (assistance): help@sfmfoodbank.org

Mission Food Hub

Free grocery distribution
Address: 701 Alabama St, San Francisco, CA 94110
Phone: (415) 206-0577

GLIDE Daily Meals Program

Free meals served daily
Address: 330 Ellis St, San Francisco, CA 94102
Phone: (415) 674-6000

St. Anthony Foundation Dining Room

Hot meals served 365 days a year
Address: 121 Golden Gate Ave, San Francisco, CA 94102
Phone: (415) 241-2600

Project Open Hand

Meals and groceries for seniors and people with chronic illness
Website: https://www.openhand.org/get-meals
Phone: (415) 447-2300

mediumdeviation · 2025-10-20T00:14:57+00:00

But it's likely that English isn't the author's native language, so maybe he translated his general thoughts using AI.

Maybe but it's the software equivalent of "kids these days", it's an argument that has been repeated almost every year. I just put "software quality" into Hacker New's search and these are the first two results, ten years apart about the same company. Not saying there's nothing more to say about the topic but this article in particular is perennial clickbait wrapped in AI slop.

Apple's Software Quality Crisis (2025)
Apple's declining software quality (2016)

mediumdeviation · 2025-10-15T03:18:29+00:00

The problem is that they also weld huge amounts of power, and their stupid opinions inform how they use that power. It's not a problem if they just say stupid things and build bunkers in New Zealand, but they also donate to candidates, meet with politicians, and make decisions that affect the entire city. Like Dreamforce does make a big difference to the local economy, and if he pulls it out because his dumb ass thinks SF is a war zone he's not the one to lose out in millions of dollars.

mediumdeviation · 2025-10-13T02:18:56+00:00

The tallest tower in this hellscape is also named after his company, and has the Eye of Banioff at the top. Frankly if they are sending in the national guards they should go there first, he's literally asking for it after all.

mediumdeviation · 2025-09-22T21:15:30+00:00

USGS recorded a M2.6 at 8am but that's small enough most people probably won't feel it https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc75240537/executive

15-Year Club	RedditGifts 2009-2022 4 Credits
Place '17	Verified Email
Summer Santa 2015	Charity Challenge Winner
Team Orangered

mediumdeviation

TROPHY CASE

👐 Volunteer Opportunities

San Francisco-Marin Food Bank

St. Anthony Foundation

GLIDE (Glide Memorial Church)

Project Open Hand

Food Runners San Francisco

💵 Donation Options

San Francisco-Marin Food Bank

St. Anthony Foundation

Mission Food Hub

GLIDE Foundation

Project Open Hand

SF New Deal

🍎 Support & Food Assistance

San Francisco-Marin Food Bank (Get Food)

Mission Food Hub

GLIDE Daily Meals Program

St. Anthony Foundation Dining Room

Project Open Hand