jtrek

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[–] jtrek@startrek.website 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Stop using Instagram. It's a platform run by assholes and monsters.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I guess you'd avoid having the loss on your record, but you'd still be a sad sack who fucked with config files to avoid having a loss on your record in a free to play video game. That's just pathetic.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If that's the case, I imagine it would be better to charge people for frivolous use, rather than charge everyone. Or come up with a system where dispatch sends something else for non-emergency, if you can tell.

I'm not a policy expert, but the current system is bad for everyone.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 42 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I don't believe there is a problem of people needlessly calling ambulances.

If that was the case, the appropriate response would not be to charge everyone bank breaking fees for it.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sure, for a generous definition of "possible". However I don't see how you get from there to "either all are, or all are not".

Like, you could at some point have said we don't understand magnetism. You couldn't from that argue that either all metals are magnetic or none are.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Ehh. It's hard for me to relate to low executive function, but you're not wrong.

I think the key metric isn't time to reply. The stakes matter- replying quickly to a meme is less important than, like, making plans. If someone isn't responsive about if they want to go, then I probably don't get a ticket for them, and they can't come to the show with us. Sorry. You were busy.

And the quality is also important. I've got friends that will reply like a day or two later, but then we usually have a whole conversation.

If someone is replying every few days with "lol" tier responses, it's going to feel like a waste of my time.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 4 points 1 week ago (4 children)

either all plant matter and all animal matter are consious or they are all not

man what

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 3 points 1 week ago

Seems reasonable. I've seen other people proposing that or similar solutions to the supreme Court.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Seems karmic that people who voted for trump suffered.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 9 points 1 week ago (6 children)

You're making me grapple with how expensive housing is here. A down payment for a two bedroom apartment in Brooklyn is going to be like $100-200k.

It's fine, I tell myself. I can walk to everything I need and take transit to everything else.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 60 points 1 week ago (16 children)

$50k is a weird amount.

If you're currently financially in crisis, it will probably save your life. But if you're doing okay, it probably won't change your life much. And if you're even mildly rich, like six figure salary, you might not even notice.

I'd probably just put it in vanguard or a high yield savings, in preparation for bigger expenses that are probably coming (eg: moving, unemployment)

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

“I never thought that it was so easy to take freedom from anyone,” she said.

Despite all the warnings and history, somehow.

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