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I'm updating my profile photo to this photo edit I made on my computer. I got the original photo from the subreddit image of the US Marine Corps ( https://www.reddit.com/r/USMC/ ). This is the original photo: https://www.amazon.com/General-Mattis-Patron-Saint-Chaos/dp/B09YNC7K2M .
It depicts general James Mattis ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Mattis ). He is legendary among The Marines. Something funny I noticed is that Robert Mueller was a Marine and published The Mueller Report. The report failed to find collusion/conspiracy (see: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cw7KG6oO4gA/ ). Given all the other information, the narrative does not match reality. Historically highly classified government information was compartmentalized, with The Army having one compartment and The Marines having another. Jim Mattis and Robert Mueller come from The Marines compartment. I suspect a government conspiracy, and these people know about it.
A "Deep State" if you will. They will support me. I want to be King. God. The Fathe
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JohnReedLOL / create.html
Created March 27, 2024 03:40
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JohnReedLOL / Complaint.txt
Created March 20, 2024 04:07
Complaint about Google Chrome for Android and Progressive Web Apps
Dear Google Chrome,
I need a little bit of technical assistance. Before you sigh or roll your eyes, know I have a computer science degree, used to work as a software engineer at Amazon, and have used Linux as my personal desktop operating system for the past 10 years, so I'm pretty tech savvy. Now here's the issue.
I want to save a shortcut that goes directly to https://www.facebook.com/events/ on my phone's home screen. With the DuckDuckGo app I can do that no problem. I just go to https://www.facebook.com/events/ , tap the three dots on the top right corner, tap "Add to Home Screen", and I have a shortcut that takes me straight to https://www.facebook.com/events/ on my home screen. That being said, I want that shortcut on my Android phone to use the Google Chrome browser, not the DuckDuckGo browser, but when I tap the three dots on the top right of Google Chrome and try to select "Add to Home Screen", all I see is "Install app". When I tap this, it adds a Facebook shortcut to my home screen, but it goes
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JohnReedLOL / Female_sexuality_explained_for_ForeverAlone_men.txt
Last active March 6, 2024 04:30
Female sexuality explained - why she doesn't want you inside her
I'm the author of the prior post at
https://www.reddit.com/r/ForeverAlone/comments/1b5sava/reality_some_people_will_never_have_a_partner_no/
and I wanted to get your thumbs up (and maybe some suggested changes from you) before I post the following long post:
I wanted to write this article and didn't know where to post it so I'm posting it here. Despite my long struggles, I have had sex with some women in life, and I tried to experiment with a man before, and I noticed a pattern. Men do not need to love someone to fuck them. Gay men on Grindr will post sexy or nude photos of themselves without their faces visible in any of the photos, get matches, and then meet their matches at their residence and have sex with them, absolutely no love required. Women will literally never do that for free. Yes, prostitutes exist, but they will never do it for free. I read what they write on [r/AskAnEscort](https://np.reddit.com/r/AskAnEscort/) and even the total sluts say the actual sex part is their least favorite part o
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JohnReedLOL / My_Social_Problems.txt
Created March 2, 2024 06:30
My_Social_Problems.txt
I wrote a very long rant that I wanted to send to Social Security explaining what is wrong with me socially (they review my mental disability benefits every 3 years). It's really hard for me to explain it briefly so I wrote this massive essay, lol:
The fourth reason I can't work is social. I have issues with forming or sustaining human relationships and I have social issues. I have no real two-way friendships (I like the idea of being a normal person, but I am fine living with no real friendships and I don't even experience loneliness except for occasionally missing the company of my mother). Like on 11/14/2022 I was in Washington DC on a trip and my uncle who lives there asked me if I was seeing any old friends in the area because from December 2016 to August 2018 I lived there for work, and the truth was that even though I had Facebook friends from my old work and from the board game club that I used to attend there, there was nobody who I was actually close with, who I actually kept in contact with, or w
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JohnReedLOL / gist:3492f32805f1934086bc33b5b0b8beff
Created September 10, 2023 10:15
Social Media Post - Sept 10, 2023
If I'm going to be honest, I think Republicans are crazy/paranoid, often close-minded simpletons who haven't been properly acclimated to the diversity of peoples and communities that exist in this country. If you have a problem with the LGBTQIA+ community, hate Blacks or Hispanics, believe government is more of a problem than a solution, have never traveled overseas, hate women, or don't want to share any of your money even if you have plenty, I'm talking about you. If you can't understand things that are different than you or different than the mainstream (what you consider "normal"), I'm talking about you. If you pull Bible quotes out of context without having actually read the Bible (from the front cover to the back) plus at least one other holy book (in the same manner), I'm talking about you. If you believe all living humans today are survivors of Noah's Ark who are descendents of Adam and Eve and that vaccines contain tracking microchips from Bill Gates, I'm talking about you. If you believe you need mo
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JohnReedLOL / Neil.txt
Created August 28, 2023 03:36
Dear Neil deGrasse Tyson...
Just wrote the following letter to Neil deGrasse Tyson via https://neildegrassetyson.com/general-comments/ (This version is better because of edits):
Hey Neil,
I heard you say online that we've had AI (which currently means the exact same thing to computer people as the phrase "Machine Learning") for many decades. No. The meaning of the term "AI" has changed. It used to mean any program that tries to mimic what a human would do (like a computer that does calculations to determine which move to make in chess). That's not what AI means anymore. Nowadays there is a division between traditional, non-ambiguous, concrete, literal computer code (i.e. "IF this happens THEN do that") and Machine Learning based computer code. When you talk to Apple's Siri and it converts what you just said into typed text, that is Machine Learning, not traditional computer coding. The distinction is that Machine Learning requires massive samples of clean, pre-prepared, usually pre-labeled data that is used to train an algorithm which
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JohnReedLOL / gist:c21ce8d122e4f5538a47971bf93ae59b
Created May 21, 2023 10:52
Advice as a former Amazon software engineer
There are a lot of CS majors who aspire to work for the FAANG/MAMAA companies the same way some high schoolers aspire to get into Ivy League universities. As a former Amazon engineer who worked on the AWS Virtual Private Cloud service back in 2017-2018, let me explain to you what is wrong with that line of thinking.
The first thing you need to keep in mind about any real job is that work is normally exploitative, and big tech jobs are no exception. They give great starting salaries compared to other junior developer positions, sure, but there's a catch. They lose money on you during your first year working there with no experience with the expectation that they will make that money back from your labor later on when you know what you're doing there. Big tech companies like Amazon and Facebook often use their own, internal, company-specific tools that aren't used at other companies. For example, Facebook created and uses the Hack programming language that nobody else uses (it started as an offshoot of PHP wit
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JohnReedLOL / Question.txt
Last active April 19, 2023 05:45
Answer to CuriousCat Question 4/19/2023
Question:
You say you've never had a gf but you refer to Anna as an "ex". How does this work?
Answer:
I'll answer that with a story. Here it goes.
It is the morning after the first time Anna and I had sex. The first thing she asks me in the morning when she wakes up in my college student cooperative house bedroom and looks at me awake, fully naked, is "did we have sex?". I was surprised she didn't remember (she had a traumatic brain injury before so I guess her TBI was the reason). Anyway, we start fooling around in bed, probably going to have sex again, but then the fire alarm rings. There was no fire, my student coop house was just assembling everyone to have a communal breakfast and then have a special chores day. Anyway, we are interrupted, but before we go to breakfast, we are standing up, and she hugs me around the waist and sorta screams "I LOVE YOU!" I lean back, away from her, and go "uhh...". Like okay, thanks mommy (her first name is the same as my mom's name but pronounced slightly differentl
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JohnReedLOL / response.txt
Created February 20, 2023 20:58
I am a truly bad former software developer (response to previous Reddit post)
This gist is in response to: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/11756hp/i_am_a_bad_software_developer_and_this_is_my_life/
I think some people don't understand what a truly bad software developer is, so I am going to tell my story. I was always good at standardized exams that I studied for. The first time I took the SAT college entrance exam in the US, I scored a perfect 800 on the math and a 720 on the critical reading, for an SAT score of 1520 out of 1600 - a Harvard admissions level SAT score. I graduated with a bachelor's in computer science and was able to pass the coding interviews after studying the book "Cracking The Coding Interview", but despite having done well at interviews, I was always a worthless programmer. My first real job in 2016 was an entry level software engineering position at Amazon, and despite it being entry level, I started out with a 130k base, 20k bonus issued in monthly installments, and some vesting stock on the East coast of the US (I had multiple competing offers a