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I recently had an inheritance of about that much and it brought forward a refrigerator purchase. I guess imagine a sitcom dad claiming that's life changing because of the reduction in nagging you to fix the fridge agai
I don't think $30k is a life-changing amount of money. Median American born in 1980 will have $2m in income in their lifetime. It's a 1% increase in earnings.
It's interesting to me that, contra this website, my brother in a traditionally creative field uses AI to rewrite his emails to strike the exact respectable tone he wants while my engineer ass just throws out sentence fragment replies followed by my initials
I believe strongly in 100% human-written blogs and papers, and bridle even at emails with a canned AI voice. But talking to family friends who don’t write for a living and find writing a chore … I’ve come to accept that ppl in other walks of life will use these tools for writing more than I do.
Yes it's funny that anthropic thought they could bribe or intimidate the guy who holds the Office of the Keys, but they're not even the first guys to do it
Few things funnier than a guy being frustrated about being unable to impress spiritual leaders with his temporal powers and one of them it trying to impress anyone with the powers of the vice presidency.
One time I was eating lunch with a friend in his truck in a nice neighborhood and we had a cop called on us. He was obviously annoyed and told us this was his second call of the shift and the first was about a guy playing NPR too loudly while doing yardwork
"blasting NPR" as NPR listeners are wont to do, driving through your neighborhood, windows rolled down, scaring your kids.
We simply need to find the people who are passionate about garbage collection youtu.be/Bz2-49q6DOI?...
You cannot run a civilisation based on volunteering.
Excellent point we gotta increase the conviction rate for being young in public
As murder rates plummet to a 20-year low, why are so many American cities still grappling with disorder? In @themimsshow.bsky.social, Carine Hajjar sits down with Heather Mac Donald to explore “teen takeovers,” pushback against progressive prosecutors and more.
The best predictor for student success is an embarrassing crush that makes their professor slightly uncomfortable. To this end i suggest stylists who are given the keys to professors homes so they can throw out cargo pants.
This is like how sometimes you know the solutions manual on scribd is wrong so you make sure to assign that and the best students still get it right.
When my grandmother died my grandfather sent paper plates and napkins from their house, but not the first edition Oz books. Those he donated to a local library. He did this because my mother already owned copies. He valued the books for what they were, not their accidental attributes.
“Nobody bought this book, but that doesn’t mean it has no value!,” brought to you by the folks insisting that products people *are* happily spending money on actually have no value. Okay.
Friends, I believe that we can work together to build a world where the biggest problems are teaching children to use the post office to keep in touch with friends who moved away and the letter V feeling unappreciated and underutilized
If we're going to use a cartoon as our target for society I propose one of those PBS ones where nothing happens and everyone enjoys the public library
We already have this it's the ghost of Christmas past scenes they are exactly as long as they can be already. Dickens was paid by the word I promise he didn't cut even any fat
First poster for ‘EBENEZER’, a new film based on ‘A Christmas Carol’ starring Johnny Depp. “Before he was Scrooge, he was Ebenezer”