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Yeah, this one clearly reads as satire. The fact that people think it's not is wild to me.

While I don't disagree, I do feel like people are over-quick to label any hard questions that don't align with thier viewpoint as sealioning.

I've more than once asked questions about the practicality or edge cases of a particular stance and been called a sealion for it.

But the thing is, I want to know how that thing handles the practicality or edge case issues, and am trying to have someone who is deeper into the weeds on the issue than I am explain it to me, but just get called a sealion for it.

To be fair, this has only happened to me 2-3 times, but it's super annoying, because I'm actually trying to understand, and might even be on your side if you'd address my concerns.

Ngl, I saw this and was like, effing chatgpt garbage, and down voted.

Then I realized the joke and upvoted. You got me on that one.

Sure, but that's not what the article is saying, to be clear.

Rsync

To clarify, the article is just saying that it's wildly unfeasible and prohibitively expensive.

They're not saying it's dangerous or going to harm people in some way.

I feel like some people may get the wrong idea from the headline.

What makes you think you can't leave a significant positive legacy?

You can get involved with your neighbors. Invest in your local community. Adopt an orphan or volunteer at a women's shelter.

There's a million things you can do to make a significant impact. Every person you invest in is another person who can go and invest in others.

This idea that anything that's below the national or worldwide level isn't significant is a cancer on society.

There are people who lived hundreds of years ago who, sure, you'll probably have never heard of if you don't live in the same area as me, but who have had huge impact on the community. The same is true for where you live. I promise you.

Bring your eyes down, and look to make your legacy local. I promise you it's possible. And I promise you that it's significant.

I think the controversial bit, is that it's thanking a rival nation for invading and committing atrocities.

It'd be like if Zelensky came out and thanked Putin for invading Ukraine, as it let him be president over a more united country.

Sure, maybe technically correct, but people probably would be (rightfully) pretty pissed if he said it.

God I wish, lol. Pretty sure he's long since retired.

This headline just inspired me to channel his spirit, lol.

Yeah, I'm not surprised. I'd imagine an experience like being kidnapped would really change someone. Glad the little fella's made it back to his family.

-Ken M

I do feel like the H1-B visa system is completely broken though. You're telling me you "can't find" a cloud engineer in the US, so you just have to import one from India or wherever? It's all just fraud to let companies undercut the American labor market.

Interesting. Makes sense.
I'm sure some re-enter from, like, coinstar machines or something, but that's gotta be a tiny minority.

But that seems like another point in favor of discontinuing them. If people who get them literally never use them, seems like a pointless coin, lol.

But it seems like they'll probably self eliminate one way or the other over time. I guess the concern would be that they'd self eliminate too quickly, as no one who gets them ever spends them, so basically every distributed penny just instantly vanishes.

But I think the problems with cutting over will largely just be minor heartache. Like, it'll be minorly bumpy for a month or two, but by a year out everyone will have figured it out and no one will miss them.