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A derivation of this I've experienced is being Asian. I had two half Chinese half English friends and I'm fully Chinese (roughly) and we went to Chinese restaurant in London and they were going on about how much more Chinese they were than me. I think it was because I didn't speak Mandarin (they seem to forget Cantonese is a thing but whatever...) anyways they go on about it and when the waiter came he brought me chopsticks and he brought the other two knives and forks and there was just silence ... I didn't say a word I just cracked up and left it at that.

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Doubling Down 💪

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I do that. I think that's a fine immediate reaction.

The problem is when you do it in public and the people think you're on their side. Then you get looks from the other side as if you're condoning it. Meanwhile you're just like, "it's an internal tick I got! I don't approve of any of this!"

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Meta gave 6 executives options worth up to $921M each, then cut 8,000 jobs after a record $56.3B quarter

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Whatsapp is really hard to migrate off of ... not because of its features. There's hardly anything special there (at least in my usage). It's mostly about who it allows you to connect with.

I've cut off Facebook and my Oculus Quest 1 sits in the dust (I bought it before it was acquired by Facebook) ... I don't use Instagram or Threads.

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Housing crisis: London teen builds $20K modular home

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Yup. He says he has a "water storage membrane" not sure what that means but a problem with a lot of tiny homes is that a lot of the plumbing for toilets is basically a bucket. When you go #2 ... apparently the whole tiny home can smell it. Not sure what the water storage membrane is but if it doesn't proper septic system then this can be kinda painful for a lot of people.

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What's the strangest you've seen?

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I only like it when it's like expected to be that way ... the problem that I see in tech interviews is that there's an expected path to solving these and they don't "actually" reward out-of-the-box thinking ... they want to nudge you to their answer and I find that boring.

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So...old...

The gym is rough for me. Right shoulder hurts from years of bad lifting and push ups. Left arm has tennis elbow from shovelling snow this past winter. Right knee hurts so I can't run that hard any more. Left ankle hurts from a drunken accident on Victoria Station in London ...

Now I'm just getting a lot of random headaches and I don't know why :/