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  • American Nursing Homes are Shit

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    Not much for me to say, everything's covered in the below video. UGH!

    I would love to say find the right one, but how do you know you are getting into the right nursing home? You OBVIOUSLY need to do research, but outside of that how do you find the best one? Why are the worst ones so bad as if there is no bottom? Supposedly the FREE MARKET is supposed to create competition where you provide the service everyone wants at a competitive rate therefore there would be a bottom with regards to basic care in...

  • Learning Japanese with Maru App

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    MARU app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/maru-learn-japanese-hiragana/id1208009110

    Why at all? I will travel to Japan very soon. My goal is simple, learn how recognize characters and sound them out. No writing. Just reading. Makes it easy to remember how to say certain things in a conversation or read signs.

    It's an app for beginners more towards memorization and writing of characters and expanding your vocabulary. I like the drills as it helps with memorization/association. The reminders are very helpful of c...

  • I Use The 24Hr Clock

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    I've been doing this since 2019-2020. It's been off and on before that, but I fully committed to it at that point. AM/PM is great and all but learning and getting used to the 24hr then translating in my head to PM (AM is straightforward) becomes muscle memory.

    I can look at 20:00 and say 8PM very quickly. The math is straightforward: 20:00 - 12:00 = 8:00 then slap PM (save for the 12AM/PM case). Obviously you are not going to do 11:00 - 12:00 = -1:00 for AM when you can say 11:00AM = 11:00 (24hr time), but i...

  • Data Gathering and Sharing of PII Without Consent is Illegal

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    I will find out who is doing this shit from all the places that I have visited in the Healthcare system and file suit against them. It's illegal especially under State law. I will absolutely sue these dumb fucks. Most likely it was a company in Texas given the incorrect address.

    Dip shits. Pieces of literal shit. Scum fucks. Fucking criminals.

  • Bad Workers? What About Bad CEOs?

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    Tend to see articles about the damage that bad hires can cause, but never about bad CEOs who have more impact on company finances and your job stability. What is the rate of bad worker hires to acceptable worker hiresย  and bad CEO hires to acceptable CEO hires? How about the exit package for a CEO?

    They say firing a CEO after hiring them once realized they are not good is a bad look and costly for a company. For some reason, a CEO is hired in and giving an exit package not tied to their performance, yet the ...

  • I Commit Secrets To Git Repositories

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    Yes, and it would be bad if it weren't for C5Store's secrets handling. Secrets are encrypted before commit ๐Ÿ˜ฎโ€๐Ÿ’จ

  • When I was Younger, I Used to Do This A Lot

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    Set a direction, not a goal and just keep going.

    It's not like I thought of every direction as a learning opportunity and it's not like I was training to embrace failure. If failure occurred there was always a way to adapt to a different direction. Some times that meant re doing large parts of code, but there was generally no reason to quit overall.

    It makes sense as a self taught programmer who had little to some clue what they are doing. Just do it was the innate mantra. Failure was part of the journey not ...

  • Bumble was Just Tinder 2.0 Anyway

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    There's nothing lost in their so called update where women don't have to message first anymore. The premise was just marketing babble. Women message first was a total shit show. Let's be honest, women on dating apps tend to have no rizz. Some tend to just be there for emotional validation, bored and flaky or just looking for their next bang. It all contributes to a shit atmosphere where learned behaviors propagate.

    Bumble has no moat. It attracted an audience that thought it could empower itself with some va...

  • Won't be Surprised If Intel is Kicked Off The Dow Jones 30

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    Its stock continues to do badly. Just horribly. They said they were going to do bad, but this under performs every other chip maker. How do you get free money (government subsidies) and do so horribly. Literally supposed to be a hedge against the upcoming China-Taiwan war to stave off chip choke off. Patrick Gelsinger maybe able to turn it around, but INTC probably will be kicked off before then.

    It's like Boeing, the business people r*aped the company with constant buybacks and dividends while making bad ba...

  • Small Business Owners With Physical Storefronts Need to Switch To Digital Payments

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    Peer pressure or not, going digital helps deter crime. Accepting cash makes you a target to be robbed by people looking to take advantage of your weak points.

    If getting robbed is cheaper than just accepting credit cards, apple pay and what not then stop complaining about it looking for sympathy.

    Stop feeding the bears!