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Homebuilding in the US did make some serious efficiency improvements, just many decades ago rather than a couple. Sheetrock is massively more efficient than lath-and-plaster, trusses are more efficient than onsite rafter roofs, and prebuilt windows and doors are more efficient than the older casement windows and hand-hung wooden doors. Never mind that these more efficient alternatives are much shittier in so many ways than what they replaced.

More recent efficiency improvements have been confined to massively underpaying construction workers and bribing inspectors to cover up the incredibly shitty quality work this inevitably produces.

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  • [–] 3 points 23 hours ago*

    His actual, stated defense was that sexual deviancy is directed at only one sex, and since he is attracted to women (while the victim was a boy) he can't possibly be a sexual abuser. We've actually finally hit something that is so illogical even Republicans can't support it.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    I was talking to my mom's tax preparer a couple of months ago. He was telling me how his $30K/month software system went down this year and fucked up his whole business (which was why he had to file extensions for all of his clients) and I told him how that was probably because of AI and vibe coding. He then launched into a diatribe about how great AI is which was hilarious by itself, but then he started telling me about how he had invested in some dude's "reactionless space drive" because the dude had solved all of his problems with this "technology" by using ChatGPT. I don't think I've ever had a professional convince me that quickly to use someone else.

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