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  1. P.F. Chang’s downtown Austin on like 4th street was my go to date night in the 90’s. Then did the Chang’s at North Park in Dallas in early aughts. Havent been to one in 20 years but Pei Wei has sucked for the entire time I’ve never known about them and every time I’ve gone.
  2. As of this past fall, no. But this next follow up I think so.
  3. I'm old and fragile. Fragile as in I don't have clearance from my doctor(s) to work out with weights due to bone density issues and some other medications that make injury more likely and risky if I do get hurt. That said, my goal this year is to get clearance to start working with weights again. My doctor said he's aiming for May timeframe for me. This would be good because I've atrophied a ton of muscle and gained a ton of fat. I have a very long road ahead of me and it can feel overwhelming and daunting to be honest. I guess, also, be grateful if you are healthy enough to even GET to go to the gym and do resistence and weights.
  4. My wife and I were talking about how in just a few short years (okay 5+ now I guess since right before Covid and accelerating during Covid) we have a 3 and 5 year old grandkids who don't know what it is like to go inside stores and go shopping. Everything is use the mobile app and have them load it up for you in the loading parking spot or delivery. I think they can probably count on their hands how many times they've been inside a store, which is crazy because it was the only option we had raising kids.
  5. Filed during the Trump administration, but the Linda Khanniness of it all (divestiture, forced selling, etc.) will fall away in about 3 or 4 days.
  6. That's a real article and headline, innit?
  7. Greenland wants to hit that transfer portal and come to America is what I'm hearing?
  8. I think birthrates were slowing even before Covid-19, and Covid-19 threw birth rates off the cliff. So I expect more of the same once the Covid babies that never were, should be 6-16 years old.
  9. I'd like to hear about this Derek Thompson guy I guess-- but that makes sense timing-wise as in December Google released Willow it's quantum chip. This is what was said about it: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/10/google-claims-quantum-milestone-but-cant-solve-real-world-problems-.html
  10. I mean, right now it's 100% focused on digital labor and capital cost takeout (e.g. replacing human beings). Post labor economy is one of things we should all be studying IMO. That said, this prolonged AI hype cycle might just be priming us for the real revolution: Quantum Computing!
  11. The old gray lady.
  12. agreed. and also the christopher columbus skit for my money:
  13. Last week there was some noise around a company that was able to be as fast and good as OpenAI (plus or minus 10%, let's say) with like 1% of the investment or something that OpenAI had to date. I'll try to find it, but essentially homeboy tweeted out an acknowledgement of that fact with a "it's easier to copy someone who has already done the hard part" in the standing-on-the-shoulders-of-giants sort of way. But just like the Cloud Wars, the big winners are going to be legacy big tech and the decacorns of today, IMO.
  14. And because China's chips/capabilities are orders of magnitude behind ours (e.g. nvidia) which is why nvidia got peeved with the latest announcements of restrictions to export to that part of the world (though likely the new administration will strike it down, thus nvidia stock has rebounded). But, that won't be the case forever. We can look at EV's (BYD) as the example of catching up when the innovation is one and it's mass production, operationalizing and commodotizing time. There will certainly be huge losers, but the bigger risk is to sit idly and let the opportunity pass you by and you attrit to nothing slowly (then quickly). Unless you think AI is NOT going to be transformational in the way mobile or the internet was, then you keep your powder dry and play it safe, but I don't think many serious business or industry pundits are that contrarian or bearish on AI; today presently, since November 2022, and even before when AI was quietly being worked on.
  15. One of the consequences of going all in with globalism (not that there was much of a choice) is that you can't just put the toothpaste back in the tube. Systems, people and processes-- business, money, and governments-- are way too complex and enmeshed and entangled to simply do what you suggest.
  16. It's interesting and I've read a lot of commentary how usually when leaders do layoffs, unless it's whole swaths of departments or roles being eliminated, it's of course the lowest performers. But it's uncouth to say that because it makes it harder for those recently laid off to get a job if the new company and interviewers think "dang, this guy/gal was laid off because they were in the lowest bucket, I bet they kinda suck".
  17. har har, what a sick burn.
  18. Wow, that is actually quite awesome/amazing.
  19. Man, I don't care what y'all say, Yang is hilarious. Sheeeez, I ain't scared of y'all.
  20. Inflation and price of eggs is, apparently, undefeated.
  21. Clicked on this thread thinking we were talking about the guy who broke his hip wrestling with God.
  22. I saw a youtube video a few weeks ago that outlines the construction of this beat and it was next level for sure. I'll try and find it.
  23. Fake. AI. Who kisses with head tilting to the left.
  24. I bet you are really fun at parties!
  25. How does the surly hip hop fan community feel about the latest takeover:
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