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  1. My read is because AI was a bubble and now that the bubble is bursting (or slowly inflating) it's taking all the other fake gains across the other sectors with it? Smells a little dotcommy?
  2. Egg Arbitrage. Go to a diner/breakfast restuarant and order your egg plates before they jack up the prices.
  3. My brother, this has been the entire issue for the last 3 years. American's will NOT stop spending even when exacerbating inflation. We have zero impulse control and access to way too many and too much line of credit.
  4. BTW, just read on aljeezera.com the row and what was inhuamne treatment was the pictures the Colombian president saw of them with their hands and feet restrained. It would be better to not treat them like narcos and known criminals and just let them board the plane like you or me on a business trip. Maybe they will do that moving forward to avoid issues, I think that would be smart. https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025/1/27/how-trump-coerced-colombia-to-accept-deportees-by-threatening-us-tariff-war
  5. This is dumb. I'm not a republican and I didn't vote for the orange cheetoh. I am an independent and do think immigration reform is a big deal. I hadn't read that those on the plane were treated inhumanely, that's horrific. I'm also all about taking care of the little ones who are here illegally with compassion because they are innocent!
  6. This is the missing piece here. As with anything else in America, tie it back to a monetary value and ROI number and make a business case to get your point of view across and implemented. e.g. "if you idiots deport all these illegals, your monthly lawn, pest control, and pool bill is going to jump $300+, your grocery bill will go up $300+, and any sort of home building, remodel, home project you have in mind for 2025 is going to double." That will get the suburban folks at least talking about a compromise.
  7. Why did Colombia refuse it's people back, though? Did we try to stick Colombia with the bill for the costs of returning their people (I can see that being disrespectful and antaganostic)? Otherwise, I mean, they are your people and your issue and it's not a great look to be like "nope, they got through the border illegally so they are yours to deal with now!"
  8. Mac Miller was in an era that is complete blindspot to me because I was working 70 hour weeks, traveling internationally for work and gained 30 lbs because I never had time to do anything enjoyable like go to the gym, sleep more than 5 hours a night, listen to music or watch movies. I haven't even tried to listen to his music because I have this notion that if you weren't a part of it in real time, it's just enjoying a documentary and it's not a living, breathing moment anymore. But maybe I'll go listen now that I'm in a more relaxed place in life.
  9. Agree with all this. I think if we can broker a deal and do an Alaska 2.0 deal, the entire world would be better for it, but definitely Americans as Russia and China jockey for arctic sphere of influence.
  10. Same. The kids and now the grandkids love it. It’s a whole thing for them, but unless you want to gain 10lbs by eating their junk food, there ain’t much there that’s special. agree that any animal in a circle is off limits is super lame.
  11. I’ve found AI prompts to be a good starting point for things I’m fuzzy on. Interesting journey. If you’ve ever typed out your experience I’d love to read it.
  12. Not wrong.
  13. I have tried to start reading the bible as a New Years resolution. Beeing reading some of the OT. Pretty wild stuff and there is more to it than the sanitized stories we are taught in sunday bible school class as kids too.
  14. I don't get it either. Are we stupid or something?
  15. In the current system, the way an Indian coworker told me, his kid was closer to being 18+ and getting to the age where the kid could sponsor his parents for citizenship than the wait period and timing of getting his green card naturally. I think his kid is like 13.
  16. @Dahobbs My hunch is ole Ed Citron must not be very technical and/or a practicioner of any sort of technology (or owner of any business process) to be making these asinine claims. But happy to be wrong and have him be a Sam Altman-type and know some secrets. But at the surface level, it was moronic to share his moronic opinions and pretend they were insightful or intelligently provocative. They were embarrassing. ETA: Sorry if you are Ed, if Ed is you.
  17. For one thing, Ed's fearmongering of not being functional because of a redesign of the GUI is dumb to me. Even the "intelligent" automation that exists today (the second and third generation of macros and web scraping) are resilient enough to handle UI changes and not break the bots. If even these dumb automations which have been using dynamic capabilities and computer vision for years, you think the new OpenAI digital agent/computer vision will be more fragile and break? Secondly, $200/month is not incredibly expensive and for the use cases that this can be pointed at and the value captured can be massive. Industries with massive amount of manual or (headcount) intensive labor to punch keyboards or copy and paste and move data around spreadsheets into software systems, and especially the OSP/BPO space, will see massive business value. And even if it's not 95% accurate as Ed suggested was the break-even point, there are still massive efficiency and cost gains (full time employees, manual labor hours) that can be captured.
  18. ohhhhh Ryan Reynolds gonna get the Ellen DeGeneres tear down and have the tide turn against him and everyone hate him? Juicy, I love it, I'm here for it, Go!
  19. I mean I think we are saying the same thing. The Vanderbilt/Chase/Carnegie reincarnate who harnesses nuclear fusion is going to own the power generation monopoly as even the most chinese, temu-priced solar panels would be a more expensive way to generate power.
  20. I agree with you. But I don't think there is anything inherent or intrinsic to the latino and browner skin. I think it's just because the lionshare of immigrants (and illegal immigrants) are latino and brown due to geography. If the borders were being inundated with Dutch people, you'd get a bunch of Dutch slurs and hate, etc. I think that's why in Canada you see the villianization of immigrants with their demographic (Arabs) and the same thing with Germany (Turks), etc. (Granted all those situations are the whiter skin being immigrated upon in droves by darker skin, but it's not inherently the skin color that is the problem)
  21. The neverending breadsticks porn threatens to ruin a generation of men like only hostile wartime has in past eras.
  22. Have you completely abandoned, then, the flimsy cover story of the original premise being made to help your girlfriend? lol
  23. So Ed Zitron and Dahobbs are morons.
  24. Dr. Pepper is the King. Blue Bell cannot be beat, despite their checkered ethical past and the fact they are lousy with Aggies. They still are the GOAT of ice cream to thine taste buds. Whataburger openly sucks now. Southwest Airlines has always sucked (I didn't fly it in the 60's or 70's when the stewardesses dressed like twin peaks girls). Texas BBQ is superior to all other SEC bastion bbq (Carolina, Tennessee, etc.)
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