I shall call you, Captain Obvious.

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I just saw a post today on linkedin that shares how to use Claude in 7 days. I think it’s day 3-4 where you’ve been told to don’t think, let Claude do the thinking and I just gave up on the future of humanity.

Idiocracy is more like real Life tv now versus a movie.

Plausible deniability. If he’s wrong he can say nothing, if he’s right he can say “I said it here”.

The guy as president was the first step in the right direction of killing off everything we see today in the USA. But no, evil won and he just gives minimal shits and sound bites.

Fuck Israel and fuck Donald Trump

80s kid here, we learned on typewriters and the shared apple ii in the library. I was good at it because I knew piano and it just settled easy in my mind.

I made it mandatory for my kids to learn because I just knew this shit would be needed. Also didn’t allow for short words like LOL until they could type it out. Daughter got to a point where her “laugh out loud” was amazingly fast and she begged me to let her “be normal” lmfao.

You probably don’t want me there trying to enact change. It’s gonna get messy.

Jokes on them, I stay away from all products that advertise to me unless I need said product and go searching for it.

This is the way.

Fellow OG. I remember. The day it was close to hitting 5gb I was watching it like an every guy watches their car odometer as it hits some magic number. It was worthy of celebration.

1gb back then was 5x the allowed size for my exchange mailbox at work. HUGE!

Anyone else remember when Google bragged about never being worried about storage as you watched your storage free count, grow and grow and grow.

That is a perfect Tl;dr. Heh

I borrowed money to pay for it. I was lucky, very lucky.

We don’t talk about BTC… cough cough over 1000 and went, “well that’s boring” and deleted the wallet. Wasn’t even worth a pizza but looked cool and I had extra compute at the office that was just doing SETI work.

But I would have sold that shit too the moment it hit $1.

Me looking back at 20yr old me who sold stock for the company I worked for 5 weeks before we were bought out by a large teleco company for $4 a share. When hired I was granted 200k options at .14c each and sold for .30 each. Bought a house with that downpayment, could have bought 4 with the 800k… or just invested with 11% returns for 25 years (-50% for divorce)…

As a parent, we will do anything to entertain our children that requires near zero effort. I could walk around the house with my kid hanging off my back (me holding his feet) and say “Where’s <kidname>??!??!” And ask everyone who i’d see in the house if they’d seen him. 5min of being goofy==lifetime kid memories for them. This pic reminds me of that.

I did the math in the USA. When I was married with kids my effective rate for a the highest year was 52%. My last year as a single male and all kids over 26, it was 46%. Effective, not marginal, because that matters in the USA as we don’t track those “other salary deductions” for taxes. Effective for those ready to argue include stupid shit like deductibles, copays, uncovered care, out of network care (that happens more than you think with kids). one year we spent 40k (max. In network deductible) because one of my kids had a spiral fracture of his leg on a growth section that had he not endured 3 (THREE) surgeries, he would be left side shorter. That was 190k for all surgeries and 40k out of pocket. Dental, HSA, FSA, Vision, Medical… People need to realize that even though its pre tax, you’re still paying for it and that needs to be considered for effective rate.

I was offered a job in Denmark, so I know this for fact: Denmark was a near match at marginal rate to USA effective rate assuming I never needed critical care in the USA (i would be in debt). BUT, Denmark has effective tax rates in the 40% for those making less than 85k (USD). I think there’s a rich person tax above that at 49%, but I never accepted the job because my Ex wife was a shithead so I didn’t find out.

I’m now in spain paying around 47% effective, but get Beckhams law will make that be 24% at tax time for the next 10 years. After that I need to pay like everyone else and at 10 years I get a pension (small one) for spain.

So yes, Americans pay more. Waaaaay more.

Ahhh. Memories.

• Me at 11yr answering phone: “hello? I AM NOT <moms name>!!!
• Me at 16yr answering phone: “hello? I AM NOT <dad’s name>!!!

And:

• Also me: “MOM PHONE FOR YOOOOUUU!!”
• Mom: <normal tone cause she’s in the room near by> “did you ask who it was!?!”
• Me: <normal tone> “who’s calling please? <yelling>Mom, it’s Debbie!!!”

And lastly:

Kids will never get to experience the thrill of talking to your girlfriend about tonight while your little sister gets on the phone in the basement and makes “make out noises” loudly before giggling and hanging up.

Or how about you just have this god person you’re so fond of, come on down and shake my hand and then show me how he smites the wicked as he’s done so many times in that book you carry around? Worried you might be on the smite list? Im pretty sure I’m not…

No one wants to kill a baby or eat a baby or just hurt a baby in any way. My goal in life is to get that kid giggling so hard they hiccup.