rainwall

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[–] rainwall@piefed.social 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Your link is to your older comments, and claims they "kicked out the nazis" they had on their platform. So the nazis are all gone, huh?

Their systems just pushed a very racist notification from the nazis currently on their platform to users. The article also points out that one of the other nazis accounts is being pushed algorithmically to users via substacks "rising" tab, with the nazi account currently at number 46. That's seperate from their "oops, all nazis" notifications issue. How is substack not a nazi platform when its still promoting and platforming nazis?

Also, they just took more funding from Marc Andeerssen in their most recent $100 million funding round 13 days ago, so your TL;DR is also all fucked up.

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

You say you spent 8 years sub six figures to retire at 31. Can you list your savings rate and what you live on now? Did you just directly build a large nest egg or did you get lucky with investments?

Id like to give your advice its due, but if you were able to randomly retire because you gambled and bought $1k of bitcoin in 2012 and held it till 2020, it may not be that correlated to most peoples lived experience.

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 2 points 7 hours ago

*Should be running a cryptominer

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Also noise pollution. Under 35 mph, most car noise is engine noise.

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 26 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Thats how Casey Neistat got his youtube start back in 2012 or so.

The bike lane in NYC was blocked by some bullshit, so he peddled over into the road and a cop ticketed him for riding in the road. So he decided to just ride straight into any obstacle in the bike lane, including construction, delivery trucks, and cop cars. The video went viral, which back then meant something.

The kicker? The ticket was bullshit. He broke no laws by joining the lane. The cop just made shit up and fined him $50, which he unknowingly paid.

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Buying things is literally the economy. People spending money into it improves the economy directly. The velocity of money is a key part of a working market, and the rich impart very little of their wealth into it.

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 4 points 3 days ago

The job was literally called "computers." People that did long and tedious calculations to output mathematical tables.

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

The extra panel hidden by the red button is also a great magic school bus callback.

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 9 points 3 days ago

Not surprised Thiels/Musks paypal/venmo are onboard.

This is just an absurd attempt to derail arguments about fair taxation by waiving a red herring around about people being able to voluntarily increase their own taxes, as if asking for a fair system is the same as utterly destroying your own solvency.

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 27 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Sounds like someone separated his brain from his body to either sell to medical science, a university, or the army, and instead fucked it up.

Maybe legal, probably not. Its common in the US, and deeply fucked up.

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 28 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I dont know the article, but looking for work generally helps me when im absolutely fucking done with a job.

Yes, its more work, but it makes all the "huge and terrible" problems of your main job seem smaller, isolated, even stupid. They matter less because you dont have to depend on that job anymore, so you actually do get better mentally.

Then, if the job search is good or the second job is enough, quit that first fucker and be totally done with all the stress.

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 10 points 4 days ago

Cardio is good for you, bro.

At least lift some different rocks in some different ways.

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