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Wenger out

Don’t tell the other Americans I said this, but American football is objectively just not a good sport. I follow it because it has cultural and social relevance here, but there’s at least a dozen sports I can think of off the top of my head that are objectively better for viewing. The NFL is only popular because it’s the best sport for advertisers.

Oh, snap, yikes, my bad. I totally thought I checked the date before I posted this and saw it was from this week. Thanks for pointing that out; I feel much better now.

Government can provide the same service for a lower cost and a greater benefit to society.

Seems a lot of college grads haven’t been updating their news feeds in reaction to newsroom cuts, which is disappointing. I would hope sources that have really taken a hit, like wapo and npr, would start moving down the ranks.

I have this question quite a lot. For instance, if you want to post about soccer, you have to follow this trail of like four communities that were shuttered before you end up at the one that is currently most popular, !football@sopuli.xyz. I don’t really have a better suggestion than using the search communities function, but I do think it’s time to let communities follow each other, by which I mean if you post to a defunct community, it should automatically cross-post to a related community that had opted in. I think the piefed topics are a step in the right direction, since even if you post to a dead community, it still shows up in the relevant topic.

I have a bunch of friends that head to an amusement park for the Super Bowl every year because there are no lines at all.

Or at least if we retained ownership of the stadium afterwards. I’d be a lot less annoyed if we were charging rent to the teams who use them.

That’s the thing about Arsenal, they always try to walk it in. Put in a couple of crosses from the wide area to make space for your number 9 to operate at the top of the box!

You lead a very sheltered life as a sports enjoyer if you think this comment belongs in an “I hate sportsball” community.

If, for whatever reason, you are called upon to bluff your way through a conversation about the Super Bowl, you can say that you’re rooting for the Seahawks because you cannot stomach the particular flavor of Americana that the Patriots embody at this time.

The scarf is a stretch cuz the players don’t wear scarves, but I love it when my non-sports friends call my sports apparel fabulous. Wearing a jersey with a player’s name and number is inarguably cosplay. If they’re wearing too much apparel (usually the shirt and the shorts), the traditional insult is “full kit wanker”.

I grieve. I came to software development because I wanted to write. I studied literature in school, and I wanted to put pen to paper, to read and write and to communicate with other humans about the things that matter to me. But the academy graduates far more literature students than there are positions for writers and teachers, and the market promised me that if I learned to write code instead of human language, I would never want for a steady paycheck. And so I dug in, creating open source projects on GitHub to make a portfolio, and reassuring myself that software development was primarily a way that humans communicated with each other about how we want the systems around us to work. I had hope — I could write C# to talk to my coworkers about how health care should work, or Java to talk about how financial systems should work, or JavaScript to talk about how people should find jobs, and the fact that a computer was eavesdropping was incidental to the project.

And I think what is so mournful for me is that my voice is preserved forever in these LLMs. They’ve scraped everything I’ve ever done, and joined me into the shared song of all of humanity and lowered the barriers to entry for new software developers and everything should be beautiful and shared, but instead of it being the great equalizer that allows users to finally generate the custom software for themselves they’ve always wanted, and never been able to articulate to me, we’ve stolen the entire intellectual history of the human race to help a small cadre of fascists burn the planet. I fell for it, completely, and that’s what I grieve for most.

Yeah. If you want to go visit Mexico as an American, or to buy goods from Mexico, it now takes ~20% more dollars to get the same amount of stuff. Most Americans haven’t noticed because the numbers on their investment accounts keep going up (or they don’t have investment accounts), but we are significantly poorer now than we were a year ago because even if you have more dollars (and many people do not), the interest you’ve gotten on your portfolio is less than the larger amount of dollars required to obtain goods and services from abroad.

Oh yeah for sure. I’m very self-conscious about my social media presence and worry about messing up a lot. I totally get contributing only in the way that makes you feel most comfortable, and I’m glad you’re here.

I may be something of a pesophile myself after looking at the value of the dollar against the peso over the past year:

Source: https://www.wsj.com/market-data/quotes/fx/USDMXN/

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If I were to follow a single user, it’d probably be @LadyButterfly@reddthat.com They seem delightful.

Edit: All of the “big accounts” I recognize are because I asked this question, which might be of interest here.