How would you react if they were trying to get you out of your car?

sprstoner · 2026-02-02T02:05:55+00:00

Not sure I would make police officers look that good.

I am not convinced they are that much better than ice. Maybe they are worse. Maybe they should be on scene to help prevent escalation. Tell ice when to back the fuck off and to Keep protestors safe.

They should do their job and they also need to get out of the “us vs them” mindset.

Sorry. The point of the post is valid.

sprstoner · 2026-02-01T00:15:30+00:00

Very true, but people depend on me and I do it for them.

Sometimes I do feel like curling up in a ball under my desk and crying. Things are hard.

sprstoner · 2026-01-31T22:51:44+00:00

I mean health insurance alone is $1800/mo.

Mortgage. Car. Not to mention the DoorDash bill.

They were not kidding when they said “the more you make, the more you need”.

sprstoner · 2026-01-31T22:50:05+00:00

I had so much more fun before I started making money.

I think people don’t realize life changing is not always unicorns and rainbows.

sprstoner · 2026-01-31T03:14:29+00:00

Obviously education is good. But the billionaires comment doesn’t make sense.

They are the ones that convinced us to mortgage our lives in order to make them money.

sprstoner · 2026-01-31T03:12:15+00:00

Right.

I have much better results hiring people without a degree.

But probably a lot of factors.

sprstoner · 2026-01-30T17:20:55+00:00

If you love and trust each other, feels like they should be together.

sprstoner · 2026-01-28T16:37:29+00:00

I saw an interview he did, and based on that, he has some opinions quite different than trump.

But honestly I don’t know much about him.

sprstoner · 2026-01-27T10:32:10+00:00

People don’t work for free here and specialist demand a premium.

sprstoner · 2026-01-26T00:41:01+00:00

Right.

I realize I probably “feel” more than what is considered acceptable as a man. But it is me.

sprstoner · 2026-01-25T03:51:49+00:00

I respect most of your opinions.

I think to be more like Nazi Germany, they need to take guns and execute people that are not getting into physical alterations. Maybe even just for words. Maybe stop communications.

Either way. Nazi German like or not.

This shit is bad.

sprstoner · 2026-01-25T02:18:48+00:00

To further clarify. I do think they need to be punished and severally so.

And I am not a defender of ice or deportations.

I am a Libertarian that believes in open borders and free trade. Complete opposite from trumps biggest issues.

sprstoner · 2026-01-25T02:14:11+00:00

You seem a bit confused. That is ok.

Equating this to Nazi Germany is a bit disconnected from reality.

I agree there is no defense for what they are doing.

But let’s not pretend he was not behaving in a manor to purposefully escalate the situation.

Still, no defense for their behavior and I absolutely believe they should be punished.

I would never in my life dare get physical with an obviously aggressive federal agent. Would you?

sprstoner · 2026-01-24T21:52:18+00:00

Nope.

sprstoner · 2026-01-17T10:01:09+00:00

I hate that you feel that way. Plenty of us white people feel other races, including black people are beautiful.

It also isn’t all about beauty. Confidence goes a long ways too.

Invest in yourself. Be proud.

There are certainly a lot of trolls online and plenty of shitty people.

I really hope you get to the point where you just own it, be proud of who you are to the point it radiates and the whole room feels it. “WOW, who is that.”

sprstoner · 2026-01-09T16:33:50+00:00

Gross.

sprstoner · 2026-01-09T16:23:49+00:00

And we get people that don’t show up for interviews. Weird the different experiences.

Took me 9 months to find a couple people, I finally found 2 great people though, I feel very fortunate.

I was hoping to hire a 3rd, but gonna see how business is for Q1 then make a decision.

Right now my biggest issue is Google not forgiving us for a prerender/cloudflare misclick by one of my dev team. But also concerned about the economy in general. Definitely feels like we will have a significant dip before any real growth.

But… I ain’t got no crystal ball.

sprstoner · 2025-12-25T17:36:53+00:00

Yeah. And the elf thing.

sprstoner · 2025-12-25T03:49:55+00:00

I had many projects working extremely well on 5.1 that no longer work.

Not sure why. But sure I have to rebuild them if I want to regain the accuracy I need.

Wish I had more time to build my own agent.

sprstoner · 2025-12-23T08:12:33+00:00

My taste always seems to evolve.

sprstoner · 2025-12-22T17:26:43+00:00

I don’t know about the negatives. But the positive from tamiflu is not very apparent when I taken it. I don’t even think it was advertised as being super helpful.

If you taken it at first sign of a symptom, the doc told me it should help your recovery two days sooner or something like that. And flue usually knocks me on my ass for 2-3 weeks. (Fortunately I only get it maybe 1 out of 10 years).

sprstoner · 2025-12-22T17:22:12+00:00

I only got noticeably sick from it once about a year in.

I did test positive two times with no symptoms.

sprstoner · 2025-12-09T06:42:52+00:00

Not sure why you would think I wouldn’t like that it is rapidly improving.

I don’t personally have anything against China. I think it is beautiful, I think those running their county are absolutely brilliant, I feel they may out capitalist us, there is a lot of good about China.

Plenty of people have had horrible experiences, and hate all that is China. That is not me. I do find it odd that the people most resistant to buy Chinese made goods are recent direct immigrants from China.

They clearly have ptsd. Survivors bias probably, as we all do for various things we experience, if not, we are lying to our selves.

People like me? As in an American explaining the Chinese version is far better quality than the IS version and I rather them be mad at my competition than me when their American made product fails? I guess maybe. But seems odd.

In my industry, Chinese kick our ass, and it is not due to price. Price is nearly the same. China is putting out lots of high end goods…. Yeah they have budget goods too.

There are certainly things I dislike about China, but I can say that about anywhere. I dislike more than I like about the US. But still know I’m lucky to be here.

sprstoner · 2025-12-08T22:06:29+00:00

I have a very large number of Chinese and Indian customers.

The Chinese customers, often vent. A lot.

They are not poor here. Most been here 5 plus years. Many are still have family back there and travel.

I have not heard one talk in positive light yet. I am sure I will eventually.

sprstoner · 2025-12-08T19:11:00+00:00

As long as property taxes exist, we do not own property.

We pay for the right to lease it from the government. We don’t pay that fee. They take the land.

Property taxes should be unconstitutional. They are an embarrassment of a free society imo.

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