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Lived there for years and never figured out what black magic those cafe owners use to stay in business.

Inverse of Freudian slip is a Freudian slop

Understand this is the game plan: make up stories about people doing this to Americans, so they have an excuse to do it too.

Okay tbf it's a little deceptive that "middle class" is lower than "median income". I'm sure there is a reason for this, but it seems an easy mistake to make.

Never stocked shelves, but I did clean hotel rooms, and I still insist it had the potential to be the best job ever. The only bad part is you have such little bargaining power, so your boss treats you like shit. Maybe if you go into it already wealthy you have the power to stand up for yourself.

NSF *requires* broader impact statements and DEI statements for basically every grant application lmao. Clown shit.

PRIVACY LESSON:

Get a used Pixel phone. Open. Destroy the Mic. Cover the camera. Get usb-c earbuds. Install GrapheneOS and deGoogle the phone. Use a real sim card. Install Signal, Protonmail/vpn, tor.

Get an old laptop w/ wired Ethernet. Run TAILS/Linux with same apps.

STFU on the open Internet.

"excluded" being on this list is incredible. You might as well ban any grant application that says the word "research" at this point.

Are there any good films that try to get into the neolithic perspective? Valhalla or Apocalypto are the closest I can think of but neither are quite old enough.

This Deepseek embarrassment should be a good lesson in how capitalism fucks innovation. If you invent something cool, money pours in, and then greedy idiots follow, who muddy the waters by trying to maximize their own financial gain.

Money has DESTROYED tech. Full stop.

I knew it was over for tech when I typed in "Indian restaurant" and Google showed me this