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  • Do you judge people for buying stuff that you're boycotting?

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    You can get an ioniq 5 2025 with 318 2wd or 290 AWD. But they are more expensive due to Trump's tariffs and rebates that he clawed back.
  • Iteration over already generated image (Possible?)

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    Thanks I will try it
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    I guess I wasn't factoring in the context. I was just focused on the hard drives not having issues with magnets thing. But yeah in that case you're right. And google did tell me that most modern hard drives have pretty robust protection from magnetic fields now. So you're doubly right. TIL
  • Job application requests a work sample

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    I work in HR and it could also just be a poorly setup, unmonitored, unmanaged ATS (Applicant Tracking System) question that doesn't apply. I was applying for a job yesterday and one of their standard intake questions was about whether I had experience in molten metal pressing or something that (I hope?) didn't have anything to do with my application. I'm constantly blown away at how poorly companies setup the top of their talent funnel. NO ONE looks at the applications they force people to go through.
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    Not all of them! Just the ones that have more than one sandwich in them
  • Reported, rule 5.

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    thank you
  • What if it came from Justin Bieber's perfume?

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  • What do you mean download?

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    What do you mean download? download as zip file To use in other apps other than signal?? For which app? element
  • What are the unknowable traits of one's self?

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    Is the "soul" an ephemeral entity that becomes detached and goes somewhere else, or is it a byproduct of our brains and it dies with us. I believe the second one is much, much more likely. But there's no way to know until I finally die. I really hope I'm right, it eternity sounds like its own kind of hell no matter where you are.
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    The amount of people who fake seizures or passing out is staggering. I've delivered a fair share of sternum rubs, and only one time did they not pop awake immediately, but the city has dispatched an ambulance, fire engine, and a couple police cars to the house. As a side note: everyone should learn basic rescue techniques like CPR, so people stop throwing water in someone having a medical emergency. They are now having a medical emergency while being soaking wet.
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    Bibimbap. Reasonably healthy and would take me a long time to get tired of.
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  • That is prejudice nonsense politics.

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  • Is the expectation of an apology ultimately narcissistic?

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    In broader context here, I'm working through some issues with how I deal with my family, while also reflecting on my own biases. My thought process is radically different from yours. Neither is some right or wrong in an oversimplified dichotomy. In real life we would likely struggle to find common ground in many instances. I do not know how I feel without taking pause and mulling it over. I can easily tell you what comes to mind in the moment, but that has little to do with the real me. The thing is, I don't really care all that much about how I feel. I do not care to live in that space. I'm driven by curiosity. My view of other people is more like statistics. I'm rarely ever surprised by people. Most people that hurt me in some way were expected as a potential probable outcome. The probabilities of people are a curiosity of mine. People that are focused inward on their emotions do not make sense to me probabilistically speaking. They are whimsical and random in many respects. I've been hurt by people many times before, especially when I was young. I have learned to never find myself in a vulnerable position with someone that lacks independent ethics to do the right thing when it counts. My real emotions are reserved for cohabitation and no one is welcome in that space without an invitation. So apologizing to me doesn't mean anything. Be a better person and improve themselves to be less predictably terrible, that would be an amusing curiosity. When I know someone is focused inwards on their emotions, I might placate them when needed, but that is limited to trivial misunderstandings when I am aware of them happening. I live by my independent sense of ethics that I subject myself to entirely without exception. Unless you're off somewhere in crazy land, I will always treat you fairly and amicably, but no different than anyone else. When it comes to irreversible wrongs. I still fall into two wrongs do not make a right. Restitution is ethically obligatory, but beyond that is pointless. If the issue could harm someone else in a preventable way, then that should be addressed, but stuff like vengeance and punishment for the sake of it is stupid to me. For stuff like companies, companies are not people and should be extremely prejudiced in an ethical society. Businesses should be easy to start and even easier to fail, and any excuse to fail should be due cause. That is real capitalism in practice. Anyways, my sense of judgement is like a 3rd party abstract person in my head. They are not part of my emotions. That separation of judgment from emotions is my definition of the absence of narcissism at a fundamental level. I care more about doing the right thing than I care about doing what is best for me. I'm quite reliable in that respect. I keep people at a distance because that can make me vulnerable to less consistently reliable people, especially when times are hard and it really counts.
  • What physically feels the worst?

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    Forbidden meringue.
  • What's your Nerf?

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    Yeah small price to pay, but hey it's back day today and I'm off to do my deadlifts now
  • So you’ll buy two swastikars out of spite?

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    I hated smellmo long before he was dunking on cave rescue heroes
  • I'm judging you for your anger about being judged

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    According to the US, they're both convicts and totally-not-slaves at the same time.