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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)

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Tim Hortons employee won’t face criminal charges in death of customer (r/news)

• centipededamascus: Imagine finding out your grandmother died because she started a fight with the staff at a Tim Horton’s.
• RudolftheDuck: Ripped a chunk of the employee’s hair out and then put it in her purse. She took it like it was a trophy. For 75 that’s not very mature.
• MagicTheBurrito: I feel bad for the young employees. Hopefully they don’t blame themselves. The entitlement by some of the older folks are ridiculous. Especially in “customer service” settings. Source: am a server in a retirement town in Florida.

Two people are dead after a military helicopter crashes in Texas, sparking a fire (r/news)

• igetproteinfartsHELP: It was the AH-64 U.S. Army Apache attack helicopter
• IneptFortitude: This seems to be happening a little more regularly than usual
• john-know-nothing: The political comments in this thread are unhinged. I’ve worked in these Army heli units and the maintenance and operational schedules are insane. This stuff happens more than it should, yes, but the problem environment for it existed well before this administration, and the one before it as well.

People over 35: What is something you invested a massive amount of time or money into in your 20s that turned out to be a complete waste? (r/AskReddit)

• Bodgerpoo: My job at the time. I prioritised it over spending time with family. I wish I hadn’t done that.
• cantfrag: Avoiding things that made me anxious, instead of confronting them. I missed out on so much socialization and so many opportunities because of my anxiety - I started to really challenge it in my mid 20’s, but I still mourn the complete waste of lost time.
• ThatCarlosGuy: Seeing people say their hobbies are a complete waste is sad. Hobbies are what get you through day to day. That’s NOT a waste imo.

Married people of Reddit, what’s your most unhinged marriage hack? (r/AskReddit)

• pzschrek1: If your marriage is getting stale, start a feud with another couple. Nothing restores marital solidarity like having mutual enemies
• EvilAbed57: We both suck at deciding on low stakes stuff, so we have a rule. If we can’t pick a movie or show to watch within a strict 5 minutes (we literally set a timer), we have to watch Sharknado.
• needmoredoggos: [We’ve agreed that I’m the boss of him and he’s the boss of me. But only when one of us is refusing to do something for ourselves that we need to do.

For example: putting off making an appointment with the dentist? “I’m the boss of you and I say you have to call them.” Boom, gotta call the dentist, the boss said so.

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Staff is the new Senior now (Blind)

• carpet2 (Microsoft): Senior is the new Staff now*
• fish 🐠 (Lyft): Senior Staff is the new Senior actually. Staff is the new mid-level. Senior is the new entry-level. Anything below that is intern.
• gkdnwodrnn (ex-Amazon): Senior is the new staff, staff promos and interviews are harder across the board What you’re describing is 2021 Covid market where anyone was getting in as senior or staff

Being polite to LLMs (Blind)

• Maximum10! (Vanta): I am still being polite out of habit. I don’t see why you would not be. Maybe skipping a thank you or please occasionally to minimize typing, but I don’t see why anyone would try to be impolite.
• c8ycyloy (Salesforce): I’m still polite. Old habits die hard. I figure it’s fine to stay in practice lest I start being super curt to people 😂
• griwi029 (Pixar): [I am polite because it doesn’t cost me any more money or time or effort to be nice than it does to be a prick, and the latter doesn’t make it work any better. It’s how I converse normally and it’d be an effort to be rude.

I see the people whose prompts are abusive and cruel and wonder how damaged they are to be like that and I bet they would treat humans the same way if they could. Power over another shows a person’s true nature, frequently.](https://www.teamblind.com/post/being-polite-to-llms-jx0goiws#comment-51665866)

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Multiple USS Abraham Lincoln sailors have tried to go overboard amid extended deployment, families say (r/news)

• traceyh415: My father was deployed for six months with no port of call during the Cuban missile crisis. It changed him as a person. He would NEVER wait in lines, did not like confined spaces, did not really like to be around people that much. My understanding is that it was like doing a jail sentence especially the way they were isolated from outside communication.
• AstralElement: As someone who was stationed on this very ship 23 years ago on a year long deployment, I really feel for these sailors. Deployment sucks, extended deployment really sucks. Your whole life is on pause. You can’t be with your family, you often have few friends, the food is often not great and really bad watch rotations if you’re early in your Naval career. The only saving grace for me with videogames and reading. People talk about how big they are, but it gets really small really fast. You don’t really have internet, maybe some email… that’s it.
• Whatdoesthibattahndo: We’ve never had a carrier from this era deployed for this long. Things are going to break in ways we didn’t even know they could break. Normal schedule is 6 months deployed, 6 months work-up, 6 months qualification and preparation for the next deployment. USS Lincoln is probably going to need longer and some maintenance might have to be pulled forward due to increased wear without proper work.

AP Exclusive: ICE plans to give officers gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks (r/news)

• One-Environment-1444: These are good to repel people. You shock them and they want to get away. But people are already trying to get away from ICE not attack them. So these will mostly be used for holding someone down and shocking them while they are already in custody. I bet there is no way to determine when they have been used also. You watch.
• HallucinogenicFish: [The manufacturer warns the device should not be used as punishment, against people merely exhibiting “verbal defiance or belligerence” or on high-risk populations such as children, pregnant women or elderly or disabled people.

ICE agents will use this list like a bingo card.](https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1vlxppb/comment/p3555l8/)

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Sold my company, now I don’t know what to do (Blind)

• dronegirl (Amazon): Well bud you can make up for rest of it now. Congrats and enjoy.
• ulyss (Google): Get married. Get divorced. Lose everything. Start over
• p4head (Google): [You remind me of this tolstoy story - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Much_Land_Does_a_Man_Need%3F

You dont have to run anymore buddy.](https://www.teamblind.com/post/sold-my-company-now-i-dont-know-what-to-do-cj1hviz5#comment-51649155)