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US gas prices reach highest ever recorded for August amid stalled talks with Iran (r/news)

• hukep: Not just in the USA. I cry every time, I visit a gas station.
• dontrike: There are no talks with Iran. That title is stupid.
• thegrimranger: With our reserves at record-lows it’s going to get a lot worse before it gets better. And let’s hope we don’t need our reserves for normal reasons rather than hiding tacos awful decision-making

CDC: U.S. kindergarten vaccine exemptions hit record high as coverage falls nationwide (r/news)

• PlacebosForALL: Cultists would rather listen to their orange god and brain worm buddy than actual experts
• thegooddoktorjones: Abortion is bad and illegal, but letting your kids die of measles is a-ok, apprently.
• zer04ll: And measles is back, polio is back, tb is spreading

What’s a physical object from 15–20 years ago that disappeared so quietly that nobody even noticed it left? (r/AskReddit)

• ElectrifiedSword: ITT: People not remembering that 15-20 years ago was 2006-2011 not the 1970s through 1990s.
• cartooned: Swappable mobile phone batteries.
• Dizzy_Wallaby3101: The humble paper map. There wasn’t really a dramatic moment when they disappeared you just gradually stopped seeing them. Now almost everyone instinctively reaches for their phone instead. I can’t remember the last time I actually saw someone unfold a huge road map and try to work out where they were.

What major gets mocked as “easy” but actually requires serious intelligence? (r/AskReddit)

• ScottRiqui: I have degrees in engineering, applied physics, and law, and some of my wife’s readings for her philosophy degree made my brain want to run out of my ears.
• Sensitive_Blood1469: Anything with music
• Miggus_amogus: 90% of humanities if you actually want to be really good at it

Millennials, what’s something our generation was taught to accept that you’re glad younger generations are rejecting? (r/AskReddit)

• CrazyPlato: That discussing your working conditions or pay with your coworkers is wrong.
• KirinG: I love seeing younger retail/service workers take down and just not cater to rude customers. I never would have dared.
• Medical-Potato5920: Women not having to wear heels to go out. Seeing young women wearing sneakers to go out dancing was liberating.

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Coworker uses AI to write all his messages (Blind)

• TXPg31 (NVIDIA): Things like status updates are mostly performative BS anyway. Why wouldn’t he optimize? This is one of the places where slop is actually the right solution.
• jkWb53 (Coinbase): Start doing the same before you become the team bottleneck. Nobody cares about your artisanal code, so get off your high horse and meet your weekly PR quotas ASAP
• f thuggery (Roku): Use Ai to summarize his messages and it won’t bother you anymore

Don’t come to Bloomberg I think we’re doomed… (Blind)

• BBaxel (Bloomberg): Just making stuff up. There’s no 15-20% layoff. Stop the fear mongering. We’ve still had zero layoffs and there’s no real news of one coming up
• merchant0 (Klaviyo): Damn that’s actually so cooked. My dream job was Bloomberg because I assumed no layoffs. Thank the lord I failed r4 of my interviews last year.
• WPslayer (Bloomberg): it was 10% last week in December. 20% by October on he following Monday. By Friday, 75% of us will be getting shitcanned by Sept 1st.

Genuinely why would anyone want to work at Microsoft at this point? (Blind)

• EdSnowden👀 (Oracle): You can either work at Microsoft for \$250k TC or some mid-sized company for \$150k.
• xcdvetyui1 (Microsoft): Unlimited PTO. People regularly go 3 weeks. Especially to India and often 4 or 5 and work weeks from there. The place shuts down 3 weeks at holiday. Tradeoff is extreme politics and everyone worships the CVP. Not innovative at all. Just navigating org politics and endless reviews before you can build anything.
• murderbot6 (Meta): what are the better options? rolling layoffs seem to be the norm now

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility / The shipment was found at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books (r/technology)

• Brick_Cabin2529: 404 is pretty great aren’t they? hope they keep up this quality of work
• Waidawut: An appalling desecration in the name of “progress” – it’s the American way.
• bryguypgh: We need a law against destroying the last known physical copy of a book with astronomical penalties. This is a crime against humanity.

Honey loses over 7 million users and 7,000 stores following YouTuber’s viral expose (r/technology)

• Maleficent-Serve2553: In conjunction with the Phoebe Gates news in the same vein, it feels like an increasing number of companies are battling for attribution of a declining number of legitimate consumer purchases (i.e., stealing someone’s margin is more profitable than creating new organic sales).
• Tasty-Traffic-680: Honey, I blew up my business model
• YAELLINGISFUN: Losing 35% of your users and 20% of your merchants because one guy made a YouTube video is the kind of accountability regulators should be embarrassed they didn’t provide first.

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US law to investigate foodborne illness outbreaks has been delayed for 15 years (r/news)

• DarkPetitChat: Are you great again america?
• Muzi5060: If they could feed us shit, they’d feed us shit.
• SidneyMacdonald: 15 years of lobbying just so grocery chains dont have to track where tainted lettuce came from while thousands of people get parasites. corporate greed at its finest

Lake Powell hits record low, threatening key water and electricity supply for millions (r/news)

• The_Bitter_Bear: I’m guessing that nothing will be done until it runs dry a few times at this point.
• allmybreath: Alfalfa and grass hay consume roughly 30% to 40% of the entire Colorado River’s annual flow. This is more than all municipal, industrial, and urban uses combined.
• Widespreaddd: I see some experts saying that any cuts will likely come from agriculture, and then I see other experts saying that a lot of the most senior water rights are held by farmers. The situation is clear as mud to me.

What’s a habit you picked up purely out of laziness that turned out to be surprisingly genius? (r/AskReddit)

• Outrageous_Expert635: I started leaving a basket by the couch for remotes and stuff so i never hunt around when i need them it was pure laziness but the place feels way less messy now
• lkeshaw: Keeping a small trash can in every room. The house stays cleaner with less effort.
• Miserable-Series1209: Eating chips with chopsticks so I don’t have to clean grease off my mouse and keyboard

What medical procedure or test turned out to be far more painful or uncomfortable than you expected? (r/AskReddit)

• hometown_heretic: IUD insertion. I blacked out on the table.
• DPetrilloZbornak: Cervical check during labor.  They did it when my husband left the room and went down the hall for something.  He heard my screams of agony from down the hall and around the corner and came running.
• YesYeahWhatever: Getting a chemo port installed in my chest. Almost everyone gets it done with twilight sedation but for unknown reasons my surgical team said, nah, she’s good. Quite unpleasant.

Gym goers, what’s the dark side of the gym life that no one ever admits? (r/AskReddit)

• Fphiz-: going after work and then having to come home to cook. Just literal exhaustion. Which is why meal prepping comes in handy though.
• Don_Pablo512: I had a roomate who was a very serious lifter, basically dedicated his life to it and was on roids and idk what else, he was jacked. But in his mind he was always small and no amount of gains could get him to where he wanted to be, there was always a bigger dude. Def had some big mental issues from it and was extremely insecure even tho the average dude could dream of having his physique.
• Illustrious_Salad346: Overall, nothing dark. My life is better for it. The only downside is that it’s a timesuck. I would like going to the gym more if I had an extra hour in a day four days a week. I enjoy working out, but trying to fit in the time means that I have less time to spend on other things I enjoy.

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I have not typed a single line of code since January this year. All Claude generated. (Blind)

• Txsp46 (Cisco): I have not used AI a single time since ever. All hand generated. I’m happy that my coding and cognitive skills are as sharp as ever.
• VhAc71 (Apple): Pretty sure interviews and interview prep is the only context where I’ll ever write code by hand.
• hlfvjcbj (JPMorganChase): I am not even enjoying this tbh. Dont get the same satisfaction when I finish task

More and More Convinced future isn’t great for Goog (Blind)

• ctf98Ht (Meta): I use google AI search, so whatever you have posted is just your opinion with one datapoint.
• abababcd (Western Digital): Meta being pessimistic on google is the highest level of disillusionment , world needs google and the world is a better place without meta.
• uneal (Palo Alto Networks): I agree , these AI agents are eating up goog lunch

Do you believe Anthropic employees really don’t work for the money? (Blind)

• cQfh64 (Intuit): Everybody only works for money, period. People who say i want to focus on mission and problem solving already have millions in the bank to take care of their expenses.
• boredddddd (Microsoft): Obviously. They work for the mission lol
• 4599f332 (PayPal): I believe they don’t _only_ work for the money.

Bernie Sanders calls out Sergey Brin for spending over \$100 million to defeat California’s billionaire tax — ‘If California passes its one-time 5% wealth tax, Brin would owe \$14 billion and still be worth \$270 billion’ (r/technology)

• Donnicton: But you don’t understand, if he has to pay taxes then that means he has to exist as part of society, rather than above it!
• hard2resist: Track record. Billionaires lobby hard against every wealth tax proposal, one-time or permanent. Brin’s \$100 million spend proves the point if this passes, expect the same fight against the next one.
• Oceanbreeze871: A one time billionaire tax is better than no tax ever.

3D-printing enthusiast creates ‘Flock Sock’ to blind controversial cameras, shares design — slip-on cover attaches to broom handle to make it easy to put on devices placed on traffic and streetlights (r/technology)

• Redlettucehead: Now that’s a waste of a good sock. What you may not realise however, and which I just learnt, is that there is about 2 pounds of copper and an ounce of gold in each camera as well as an NVDA chip
• MarketCrache: Tucker Carlson said we shouldn’t permanently blind them with a green laser pointer…
• Dave-C: I’m just waiting on the flipper zero that can make them report all tag plates as “penis.” One day…

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Massive egg recall in US south and south-west due to salmonella outbreak (r/news)

• Existential_Vibes: “The affected eggs were available at Kroger stores in Texas and Louisiana and Brookshire Grocery locations in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico and Mississippi – as well as “other smaller retail outlets,” according to the initial recall alert.”
• Kopav: It’s almost like a functional government with regulations to protect citizens is a good thing and worth paying for. Dismantling important infrastructure is bad.
• VegetableYesterday63: Inspections and monitoring were a Doge cost reduction. You have to pay for those tax cuts for the rich somehow

2 planes with the same flight number avoid possible disaster thanks to quick-thinking controller (r/news)

• Ginger_Anarchy: I’d always assumed, I guess wrongly, that those numbers were assigned to that specific plane, not each individual flight. TIL.
• ValuableFun6447: Good job by the air traffic controller to deal with this situation. Importantly, what procedural failures allowed two aircraft in simultaneous flight to be assigned the same flight number? I suspect the airline was responsible.
• Antique-Quantity-608: Those pilots were super chill professional during the radio call. Respect. 🫡

HR of reddit, what was the worst case for firing a worker? (r/AskReddit)

• maybenomaybe: Manager went into the office on a weekend to pick up something he’d forgotten there and found another employee downloading the entire contents of the company server to personal hard drives. That guy was fired with prejudice.
• DuffMiver8: A news photographer for the television station I worked for had a habit of taking one of the news vans, with our station logo prominently displayed, to the local strip club.
• tcrispina: A salesperson threw the prospective buyer’s keys on the roof of the building to prevent them from leaving. He was still insisting it was to make a point about the quality of the item for sale. He had 20 years at the company. It was wild.

Which companies do you think are dying? (r/AskReddit)

• baronvondoofus: I can’t believe JC Penney is still holding on after all these years.
• TheSnappleGhost: iRobot (maker of the Roomba) is dying. They went through a bankruptcy, restructure and sale. Tons of their products are discontinued and have no support, parts, filters etc. They’re on their way out.
• Zebrehn: Harley Davidson. Their target demographic is boomers, and they’re getting too old to ride. The brand is basically toxic to younger riders.

What’s your “20 dollar burrito” example for how expensive things have got? (r/AskReddit)

• Stunning-Example208: I’ll go first: last night we went to a fast casual counter service burger place for dinner and it was over 100 dollars for 4 people.
• Stunning-Example208: Another example: a can of diet Coke used to be 50 cents at Walmart on our way in. It’s 1 dollar now
• hemoglobinBlue: A silly example, but I’ve been the cool house every halloween for a while now - giving out big candy. For what I’ve got in the past, prices are up %50 and the size is down %20.

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Companies with strong engineering culture? (Blind)

• bampf_it (Waymo): Lol @ the people saying Waymo isn’t quality critical or is a slop factory. Very high standards here for good reason.
• jaskeerat (Salesforce): Strong engineering culture lol. These places are all slop factories. If you want to see real engineering, there are no name companies who do phenomenal open source work. Plenty of DB startups in this category. Big tech has stopped innovating for a long time.
• something4 (Meta): Meta used to have a strong engineering culture but it’s all AI slop now

Should I give up coasting at work to let my fiance be a stay at home wife (Blind)

• vJlu25 (Microsoft): If your fiance has any decency at all, she wouldn’t want you to sacrifice your wellbeing and health. If she’s OK with you working 60h weeks and adding stress so she doesn’t have to work, that tells you something.
• o’henry (Zoox): I don’t remember.. remind me again. Is you fiancé beautiful you said? Work your ass off. If you send her outside maybe she might get stolen!
• aVqo85 (The Trade Desk): This is a troll post. He’s bragging about his lack of work, TC, and “beautiful” wife when everyone knows it’s total BS cus nobody would write this garbage. Lol

Building a business is so damn hard (Blind)

• auqhzu (NVIDIA): Which is why you need to be an operator plugging into a platform like Airbnb, Turo, VRBO. Outsource the front end to an established player and focus on the operations.
• &3’h &3$w (Salesforce): It is an infinitely easier and higher ROI path to wealth to be a random, checked out employee at a large company than to start your own business. This is why the politics at companies is so nasty: people know how hard it is to actually make a living outside doing real work and 99% of corporate employees have no talent or drive to do anything else
• oopskie (Oracle): Why wont you just pay for ads. Or use agents. For me hardest part is to listen to management.

Remote workers report the highest well-being in study of 7,700 employees (r/technology)

• frquency-equinox: Who would’ve thought people that don’t have to sit in hours of traffic, can be at home with their pets (and maybe their spouse), and save money making food at home etc would be happier 🫨?
• Javontarious: All the studies in the world can show how remote work is better for people, the environment, etc and it won’t matter. Companies are weaponizing in office regardless of the data.
• ifeltatap: I wish that everybody who has a job that doesn’t need them be on location, can work from home and avoid all the added stress that comes with a commute, traffic, crowds etc… it’s a massive quality of life improvement that people deserve.

Chris Hansen banned from Roblox live at CrimeCon during child safety demo with Schlep (r/technology)

• Rockyrox: I will never let my children play this game. It’s filled with creeps and it’s just too much exposure to the world for children.
• dpny_nyc: Why does dexerto cite Gays Against Groomers, the far-right anti LGBT org?
• StatementCareful522: Nothing says “we have have nothing to hide” like banning one of the most renowned predator-hunters

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Luigi Mangione admits to shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO as he pleads guilty in federal case (r/news)

• temujin94: Mangione’s lawyers have said they didn’t strike a plea deal, strange turn of events.
• Uzas_Was_Right: I figured he’d roll the dice for a sympathetic jury.
• Llamapocalypse_Now: Great, now let’s all move on to the national conversation about insurance companies taking your money and then deciding that you get to die in pain and poverty because they don’t want to use it to pay your healthcare bills.

Jason Arday, former Cambridge university professor, found dead after resigning following plagiarism row (r/news)

• djxcqtion: The former and current students who came forward, and anyone else who raised concerns or brought this to light, are in no way responsible for what has happened. I really hope they have people around them reminding them of that right now. It’s an incredibly sad situation, but if there are questions about how things got to this point, those are for Cambridge University and, sadly, Jason Arday himself, not the people who spoke up.
• ApprehensiveStark25: RIP but what a wild sequence of events.
• supercoolpartydude: Reading the wiki on the allegations and accusations and my man was living a Catch Me If You Can existence.

What is a skill that takes less than an hour to learn, but makes you look like an absolute genius to others ? (r/AskReddit)

• Turdulator: Vlookup/Xlookup and Pivot Tables. (Both ways of viewing data in excel). If you can use both of these quickly on the fly people who don’t know them will think you are a wizard.
• nvd20: Basic Excel formulas. People start treating you like the office wizard
• roonerspize: Backing a trailer, especially at the boat ramp.

What was a single sentence spoken by a friend or partner that instantly made you realize, ‘Oh, we are completely done’? (r/AskReddit)

• TensionElectrical910: Left for a 2 week business trip. This happened the day I got home. Ex Husband: You were gone for 2 weeks and I didnt miss you once.
• lady_mapetite: don’t give me the opportunity to hurt you again
• WilmaValley1226: I used to have a gym friend. We would work out together. We were both quite overweight when we met and stayed that way for a year or two. I finally got my shit together and started changing my habits and losing weight. A spinning teacher that we both loved said to me in passing one day, You’ve lost weight, you look terrific, good for you. My friend got this sneer on her face and said in a really nasty voice, Yeah, don’t you think she’s too thin? I was not but I knew that our friendship was not going to survive this shift, this would always come between us.

What product exists entirely because people are too lazy to do 10 seconds of effort? (r/AskReddit)

• CasualChic: Coffee pods. You can just put the coffee into a reusable pod but no one wants to do that or wash the pod after.
• MadameCat: Tbh I have a lot more patience for this stuff since I found out that a LOT of “lazy people products” are products designed for people with disabilities marketed to a wider populace to keep the company profitable/keep prices low. Slap chops, snuggies, etc.
• polkastripper: PB & J in a jar. It’s shitty PB and shitty jelly to boot.

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Companies are mailing interview candidates THIS now (Blind)

• uibwrnbebd (eBay): All this because they don’t want an in person interview 🤣
• 356r556556 (Google): Wouldn’t that make it easier to cheat since you could just hire proxy interviewer and they wouldn’t even know who’s behind the mask?
• CbDG61 (Coinbase): bring back onsites

Made a fool of myself and regret it (Blind)

• lppmsj (Google): Now send another mail saying you will do his job at a pay decrease and ask him to resign
• @nosense (Red Hat): See if you can recall the message. Otherwise also don’t worry about it. Most likely it will be read by his assistant and laughed at it.
• fqXS20 (Oracle): You were not in the list but now you are

Anthropic aiming for 2 trillion valuation (Blind)

• ututsfd (Flexport): Delusional… they will face some heavy competition from open source and will have to cut prices heavily. Also looks like their stock price has been trending down significantly
• hdjdjjnrn (Meta): Peak bubble.
• BGIR33 (Amazon): The tech bubble burst when sky-high valuations cratered as infrastructure buildouts failed to generate revenue. The builders are at least generating some revenue this time around, but valuations are going from sky-high to astronomical. Hard to see how this ends well.

Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin (r/technology)

• Anachron101: I have used Firefox for two decades now and I don’t understand why you wouldn’t. Before it was technology and the ability to adjust the browser to whatever you needed, including blocking scripts and ads. Now it’s simply the fact that everything else is Chromium
• frmr000: I’ve used Firefox for as long as I remember. I’m also a web developer who routinely needs to test on other browsers, so I’m well versed in what every browsers user experience is like. I don’t know why any human would use any browser other than Firefox, I really don’t. Oh well.
• el_doherz: This is why I moved to Firefox within minutes of reading what manifest V3 would do to adblockers. Not regretted it once and pushed multiple friends and family to make the switch too.

The CEO who fired 900 people on Zoom just before Christmas wants his job back | CNN Business (r/technology)

• Sean_Paul_Sartre: He’s been promoted to customer.
• thedeeb56: I worked for a guy that did that. The day before Christmas vacation he gave me a list of about 100 people to have their accounts disabled. We only had about 200 employees. I hated that fucker
• biladelph: Lol so this dude spent a few months rizzing the CEO (Garg) and the board to put himself on the board, gets Garg removed as CEO and then the stock tanks immediately by 45% LOL. Rich mfers live in La la land. This is literally an episode of the show Billions.

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Documents show federal surveillance operation in Minnesota targeted progressive groups, unions (r/news)

• kstargate-425: Holy shit. In any other decade this would be a HUGE scandal similar to Watergate and take down the Trump administration. With Republicans today, its just another Thursday…
• Edge_of_the_Unoverse: Fascists always hate unions.
• ASUethcisu: [They had officers going into librarys to listen to meetings about planning peaceful protests.

“Take, for example, a Jan. 31 meeting in a Minneapolis library, when a Homeland Security report says an undercover officer identified as “UCA 9833” listened as supporters of a progressive climate group, the Sunrise Movement, discussed sit-ins, de-escalation tactics and “having a police liaison and safety marshal present during events.”](https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1vnvenh/comment/p3kt0i7/)

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Should I go to OpenAI from Google (Blind)

• cpdizmj (NVIDIA): Why even going to OpenAI if pay is not good? Their culture is horrible
• {123} (OpenAI): Either this is non swe or fake post. 400k does not match with any offers we give for swe.
• kLSd54 (ex-Block): Is this a swe role? I recently got an offer and it was the standard 900k offer for L5

Waymo vs Meta for double the TC? (Blind)

• rottenswe (Apple): [Waymo is not a viable business. Automated cars outside of the US doesn’t make sense since they have good mass public transit.

It won’t gain traction in America because we love to drive our own cars. Google always makes cool tech but always fails to turn it into profit.](https://www.teamblind.com/post/waymo-vs-meta-for-double-the-tc-blkk03k3#comment-51679571)