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I’m on the internet, where everyone agrees and all information is true. (#notAI)

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@fogellxy Do things for other people, instead of yourself. Really make a difference in someone else’s life.

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I don’t mean 40–60% of the price of groceries is fuel. I mean a very large portion of the grocery supply chain, potentially on the order of 40–60% of the value chain, is exposed directly or indirectly to energy and fuel costs. The actual embedded fuel/energy cost is much smaller, probably single digits of the final retail price for many products, so even a massive diesel spike translates into a few percentage points of potential food-price pressure rather than a proportional increase.

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@dhh Those were just the conference attendees you upset!

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@gamesgames1238 @dhh What a lame take. You are on less sure footing because of your perspective.

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@girdley Good thing I told you not to be an earlier adopter on iPhone 16 and Siri AI.

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@Ayzacoder Like the thread until this final posted seemed too AI written.

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@MSiekmoeller I’m so glad my dad made me learn how to use a film camera instead of a digital camera, because… oh wait, those skills I learned are completely useless now. Shucks.

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@fedchanges35954 @MSiekmoeller @PurnenduBuilds Well said.

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@MSiekmoeller @PurnenduBuilds No it’s about making the thing and seeing their friends use it. What’s so cool is that making the things isn’t the barrier anymore. Making a cool thing is.

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@MSiekmoeller He’s right. You focused on the wrong cool thing. He’s so lucky that instead of an esoteric skill he can instead focus more on creative and critical output.

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In the 1990s and early 2000s, Microsoft engaged in aggressive anti-competitive practices that led to landmark antitrust lawsuits, though the term "regulatory capture"—where an industry co-opts regulators to serve its interests—was less descriptive of their primary historical trouble than monopolistic market control and exclusionary practices aimed at neutralizing government oversight and crushing competitors.

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I like this idea but my kids also really like going to school with their friends. They share experiences together and create social bonds that would be hard in our community otherwise. If it was just about education I’d homeschool for sure but at this age social dynamics matter more to me.

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@BednarikMatt No.

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@stevesi I’ve been doing that since the matrix.

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@hey_kea @Shpigford @rachioco Grass is only greener where you water it.

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@createwithtommy @rsobers Thanks I’ll check it out. 🙏

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@dhh My stack of old Apple laptops have been revived and are mightier than ever! (Batteries have aged a bit however… yet not hard to replace in these models)

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@Shpigford So happy now and never going back now that we figured out shared family auth codes in Apple passwords.