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Yeah, I just moved from SF Bay to Pittsburgh and I have to agree with this. Although everyone here complains about the weather, I WANTED weather again (SEASONS!), and I wanted affordability and a relatively left-leaning city.

I bought a pretty damn big house (comparative to what I had in the Bay Area). I'm taking more vacations. The people are nicer than SF Bay Area, you can go places (restaurants on a weekend, for example!) without having to wait in long lines or park a million miles away. You can get tickets to concerts without having to be the FIRST person on Ticketmaster the moment they become available. You can get to nature a lot faster (I went skiing a couple months ago and it was bonkers how there were no lines or waiting for anything). Everything just feels easier, like you get to enjoy everything 20% more than you can in a metropolis where everything feels like a hassle and you've got people crawling on you like roaches.

The backup rule of 3?

Not for the United States government, the issuer of fiat currency. They can guarantee all deposits. Money is a concept.

All of those projects were built nearly 100 or more years ago. Public works can't be built in the same way anymore because laws are different and there's vastly more complexity in property ownership.

The absurd part of this is that the solution is so clear and easy in the United States: Use the scale of the federal government.

We got to where we are, in the U.S., because we've got massive inefficiency in state and local government. There's only a handful of cities that are massive enough to do projects that would require hiring highly paid specialists to manage these huge projects. Similarly, most states have very few opportunities for long-term career-building public project management. (There's like 3 west of the Mississippi.)

But consolidating all of this expertise in a federal agency tasked with planning and executing massive public projects would allow us to hire career-oriented planners and keep them busy for ever. It's how we run the military, of course. And, ironically, the military is a leech on the U.S. taxpayer, massively bloated and throwing money at foreign problems in the most ham-fisted way just to justify itself – but if you shifted even 20% of the military's spending to a domestic public works department, all that money would not only be to the benefit of the U.S. taxpayer, but you could hire tens of thousands more American workers to do the jobs. It's a win-win for everyone. And it's probably something a lot of legislators could get behind.

Not only that, but a federal public works department would quickly be able to aggregate learnings on improving efficiency – knowing what works and what doesn't – while also being able to wield the power of the federal government to negotiate lower prices.

Yes, came here to say something similar. I searched for a song that was playing on at the moment, and what I got back were six other versions of the same song, at the top of the list, from the same artist from different albums.

Covers of this song would be great! But probably worthwhile to exclude anything with the same name by the same artist.

Green activists are the only reason we have any green energy at all.

> But I can't help thinking that this is solving a problem no actual humans have.

This. There are 10000 children's books out there with coherent art sets and a storyline that's not just total gibberish.

This kind of crap is no better than SEO blogs. Its only purpose is to pump out massive amounts of content in the hopes of earning a small amount of money on each squirt of crap that maybe amounts to something over the long term.

Build good things. Solve problems. That's how you make money.

The idea that the COVID era is "easier" with social media is a fantasy.

It's not intended as some kind of compatibility survey. The way it's supposed to work is both people answer all the questions – as opposed to one person asking the other personal all of them. You're also supposed to stare into each other's eyes during the whole thing. The point is to create a sense of shared vulnerability by both "forcing" both people to talk about things they wouldn't normally talk about and also by "forcing" intimacy into the space.

Sure, this is great if your biggest concern is password security vs. password breaches. No one using pen & paper is creating new passwords for every site they register for, so they're probably just reusing the same few passwords (or, maybe, with small variations) between sites. Which means they're constantly putting themselves in a position to be hacked, regardless, since breaches expose all your other accounts when you have just one email address.

I'm not going to bother reading this because it's obviously click-bait, but I just want to relate that when I was in high school in the 90s, I remember being in a class where a guest speaker gave a talk and tried to convince us all that artificial sweeteners would "rot our brains" and give us alzheimers. For years, I avoided them because of that – until it became clear that real sugar was destroying my health and putting me on the path for diabetes. Since then, I've not only tried to minimize sugar in my diet, but also tried to sparingly use artificial sweeteners (specifically Stevia, whenever i can) to offset when possible.

Point being: Don't listen to this shrill health BS that purports to have new revelations about what's good for you or not, since this health advice comes in cycles. We saw the same thing with butter/margarine. First butter was good, then it was the devil and margarine was the only way to go. Then margarine was the devil and butter was the only way to go.

Very small anecdotal experience, but I was in Montessori school for grades 2-3 (in the late 80s) and it ruined my math education. When I should have been learning the standard ways to do basic math, they were teaching me nonsense like "skip counting" with rhymes. Despite coming from a family of people very good at math (which also put a focus on math education at an early age), I fell behind and never caught up.

Mastodon was not made for the moment when Twitter collapsed. It was made as an alternative to (a fully working) Twitter for people who hated the toxic environment. So all of their marketing materials and onboarding process are geared toward helping the kinds of people who transition off Twitter to understand the benefits.

Now that Mastodon is being portrayed by the media as the escape hatch from Twitter for a broader audience, they'll probably start focusing more on making the onboarding process clearer and their marketing less techy-focused.

Sure, but even still – there's limited space on my resume. Imagine I've brainstormed 20 short "responsibilities and accomplishments" statements I can list for my last job. Of course I'm not going to list them all, but I am going to pick out the top four that make sense for the employer I'm applying to. I might put a different four on LinkedIn.

I assure you, in the nonprofit space, cover letters are extremely important for contextualizing experience.

The interesting thing to me about this, and many other responses here, is that it's so blind to the reality beyond the tech space about how hiring actually operates for a job seeker. If you're in a position like, say, "software engineer," your skills are clear and unambiguous. You can list the same skills for every job application and eventually find what you want. But many – if not most – job seekers don't actually have that kind of experience. There's a ton of experience that needs to be tailored to the employer. I'm in the nonprofit operations space and there's about 10 different ways I can spin my experience based on what's being asked in the job listing. I don't WANT to copy & paste my LinkedIn because that's not going to get me the job – it reflects what my previous employer wanted, not what my new one might want.

The comments on this post do not pass the vibe check. There's absolutely nothing wrong with a company taking extra care during a layoff to make sure that under-represented minorities are not the hardest hit by it. Throwing around the word "woke" and acting like this is oppression against white people is just performative nonsense.

Oh good, another service where people can plan genocide and exchange pedo content!

> If I were a full on Nazi I would get the same treatment as I would if expressed that I'm glad my son doesn't want to be a girl.

If that were true, either no one would be on social media except perfectly politically correct people, or everyone would be desperately trying to be perfectly politically correct. But instead, social media is filled with racist, homophobic, sexist jerks who constantly say things that hurt other people and reinforce stereotypes. So...