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New comment by weard_beard in "The house is a work of art: Frank Lloyd Wright"

weard_beard — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:06:19 +0000

Im drinking my morning coffee from my souvenir mug as I read this… https://imgur.com/a/c0USqaA

New comment by weard_beard in "Entrepreneurs don't have a special gene for risk, they come from families with m (2015)"

weard_beard — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 16:29:07 +0000

I'm curious about this take and what you think of https://www.metroparent.com/parenting/tweens-teens/how-to-be...

While it may be true that entrepreneurship means being overly absent in your child's life I think MOST parents are TOO present in their child's life.

New comment by weard_beard in "Blue Origin lands New Glenn rocket booster on second try"

weard_beard — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 16:11:45 +0000

"Prosperity" implies that the problem is folks smart enough to not have children beyond the means to raise them into a similar or better lifestyle.

I prefer "Precarity" induced fertility collapse. Down here in the mud I guess I have a different view with my 1 child and wife with a heart condition who would likely die from a 2nd pregnancy.

New comment by weard_beard in "I Work for an Evil Company, but Outside Work, I'm a Good Person"

weard_beard — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 15:53:53 +0000

Corollary: My income from living a well meaning life is not sufficient to have children. Having children while working for a non-profit in 2025 means living in precarity. While my individual choices have a negligible impact on the direction of the world or society at large, my low income would actively stunt my children and any hope that they might have the resources, support, influence, or opportunity to bring about systemic change.

Also, I refuse to consider any type of violence in my organizing even though that is precisely the escalation in tactics and extremism that the "evil" parts of the world have moved to.

I am prey. Please eat me.

If you do not fight the system the way I want I will pout and die faster in response. Because suicide is the ultimate form of control and emotional manipulation and that's all I really care about.

New comment by weard_beard in "In a stunning comeback, Jared Isaacman is renominated to lead NASA"

weard_beard — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 15:45:15 +0000

They need his money for the midterms

New comment by weard_beard in "In a stunning comeback, Jared Isaacman is renominated to lead NASA"

weard_beard — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 13:12:52 +0000

Because Duffy pissed off Musk. Federal Transit is where they stick the overly ambitious to bore them to death and/or trip on their own dick.

New comment by weard_beard in "More big companies bet they can still grow without hiring"

weard_beard — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 15:26:34 +0000

I hope you are right, but my understanding is that the high headcount in engineering could, in large part, be offset by American tax exemptions for engineering salaries and that this exemption is being actively sunset.

See: https://www.corumgroup.com/insights/major-tax-changes-us-sof...

https://technical.ly/startups/r-d-tax-change-reversal-startu...

New comment by weard_beard in "A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator"

weard_beard — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 03:38:55 +0000

Dang. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX5ahM24o8A

New comment by weard_beard in "Survey: a third of senior developers say over half their code is AI-generated"

weard_beard — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 16:37:17 +0000

Not only that, but the process described is how you train a junior dev.

There, at least, the wasted time results in the training of a human being who can become sophisticated enough to become a trusted independent implementer in a relatively short duration

New comment by weard_beard in "Tariff's found illegal, but will stay for now"

weard_beard — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 08:09:04 +0000

FYI Wreak - to cause, make happen, enact. Reek - stinks awfully like garbage.

I think you mean reek here.

New comment by weard_beard in "Mail Carriers Pause US Deliveries as Tariff Shift Sows Confusion"

weard_beard — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 16:45:20 +0000

My brother, can I introduce you to https://www.faribaultmill.com/collections/wool-blankets

New comment by weard_beard in "Why are there so many rationalist cults?"

weard_beard — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 23:50:59 +0000

GPT6 would come faster but we ran out of Casandra blood.

New comment by weard_beard in "Visa and Mastercard are getting overwhelmed by gamer fury over censorship"

weard_beard — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 18:48:20 +0000

Everyone is doing their job as private entities with their own standards... except the government who are supposed to break up monopolies.

I blame elizabeth warren.

New comment by weard_beard in "German court sends VW execs to prison over Dieselgate scandal"

weard_beard — Mon, 26 May 2025 16:21:22 +0000

It’s true. The only check on most corporate fraud is an engineer with an Annecdote of real consequences.

New comment by weard_beard in "How to live on $432 a month in America"

weard_beard — Fri, 23 May 2025 21:28:10 +0000

What I don’t understand is the authors antagonistic framing. The complaints about moving backward because of boomer greed aren’t any less valid just because caves exist, fire remains “discovered”, and we can clone wooly mammoths.

New comment by weard_beard in "Complex Systems Won't Survive the Competence Crisis"

weard_beard — Thu, 22 May 2025 11:16:59 +0000

Don’t bother reading this garbage.

TL;DR “We are all doomed to become gibbering monkey men because black people are bad at the SAT.”

New comment by weard_beard in "A Politically Neutral Military Is Not Always Obedient"

weard_beard — Thu, 08 May 2025 16:17:47 +0000

I strongly feel that real political leadership in opposition to the current administration running roughshod over the constitution is to promote and support candidates who represent the US military.

If I don't see a democrat in the next presidential primary who is deeply involved with and representing the interests and voters in our US military then the party will have criminally abrogated their duty to the American people.

New comment by weard_beard in "The Gruen Transfer is consuming the internet"

weard_beard — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 11:43:34 +0000

I’m certainly glad the Chinese and Americans primarily control them.

New comment by weard_beard in "Brit soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies"

weard_beard — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 03:16:25 +0000

So next week RF shielding that costs a fraction of what it costs to produce this truck mounted weapon gets added to drones and we find a new optimal TWR?

New comment by weard_beard in "Librarians are dangerous"

weard_beard — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 17:02:42 +0000

A significant part of the imagery of the joke on another level is that a librarian is there to use the bar for its intended purpose, and even within that small amount of power, the librarian knows her limits.