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  1. The problem with a re-brand is they suck. Their menu is poorly constructed. CB is the epitome of the restaurant you haven't eaten in a long time and you think, "you know what, that might be good, sure let's go" and then 10 minutes into the drive, the tchotsky store and the menu and you remember why exactly you don't go. It sucks. THAT SAID You know it's a good year when you limit out dove hunting by 10am and the whole lobby is full of old, gray men in camo with our big ol bellies.
  2. Great last few pages, especially the empathy for the homeless. My key takeaway is that the Democratic Party is singing "Well holy moly, me oh my / you are the apple of my eye" in 2025 and nobody is here for it.
  3. That cat was awesome.
  4. There is certainly a fair amount of privilege to be able to spend $50k a year to be educated in California (or New York or Seattle, etc.) and accelerate the move out of Texas for an education that is average-to-above-average (e.g. Oregon, Arizona, Colorado, San Diego St., Cal Poly, etc.) Like I said, I'm old and poor-- my kids had to do for in-state tuition and if you can't get into the affordable good schools, we have McDonald's cheap second-tier schools at home
  5. That makes sense. Probably an easy 5x uplift in tuition for OoS kids right?
  6. Dude what? I agree with you. If I wasn't so brokeback poor you think I would live in Texas? Southern California is a paradise, brother.
  7. I kinda agree with you but I think there is a level of nuance that should be employed when talking about speculative "bubbles". While they all have something similiar in common in an arc and a bust, they are not all created equally. There is a lot of conversation about how a bubble is not just a lot of noise but actually a very positive signal. Bubbles can be very productive if the asset or technology is going to be transformational (e.g. Internet vs Tulips) in that they build the foundations and infrastructure, encourage experimentation, segementation, creativity, IP, skillsets and experiences during the boom. When it busts, you have all the debris and detritus that will be valuable and integral inputs to the rise of the standardization and forms that mature. Companies (and governments) are investing hundreds of billions into the data centers and infrastructure as @Captainant points out. Chip fabs, silicon, design, development. This isn't the same as dotcom's raising $100 million dollars and buying billboards and creating e-games to deliver coupons and pay for Super Bowl ads. I think we oughta be careful about lumping the AI bubble with the Crypto bubble (and even the latter has it's merits and of course naysayers).
  8. Vegas64

    Grammer Bored

    On a serious note, the things that sucks the worst about the commodization of LLMs and GPT's is that those of us who actually are extremely well read and with an extensive and arrayed vocabulary (and who have horrible writing crutches like the em dash, which are organically and well earned from years of trying to write in at least a semi-serious manner)-- we are the babies who are thrown out with the bath water when it comes to automatically disqualifying our original writing as cheap ChatGPT output.
  9. Outside of UCSD and UC-Irvine (which as stated by others, if your kid can't get into UT, they ai't getting in from out of state), adn Trinity, the list feels like a very, very expensive (out of state) list of 2nd tier/B-tier schools. If saving money is a concern there are a much cheaper local (in state) options that are comparable. But I know there are a lot of folks who are biting the out of state bullet to get out of Texas for political reasons too...
  10. or OU vs Arkansas or Bama vs Ole Miss, etc. Half of SEC West seems Texas kids now (sans Auburn & Vandy & UTk)
  11. China already had the solar game on lock. Crazy those guys.
  12. Where did you get that hood ornament? I got it from off of the car in the junkyard.
  13. General Question: Are the brains of people who can not only grasp, but fully understand and expand upon things like theoritical physics, four forces, standard model, classical physics and quantum mechanics built differently and more capable and able than the rest of us?
  14. It's a must to get on early if you have an overhead bag and don't want to be that guy swimming upstream to find a compartment or check at the gate.
  15. That's how you read the situation? I thought Alan was being a good, reasonable dude.
  16. My grandkids go to a school that is 4 day week, but private school. Most kids have the mom staying at home or if both parents work have a nanny that does a lot of the heavy lifting of driving and pick-ups and aftercare up to a certain age. There are no school buses and the expectation is that 100% of the responsibility is on the parents. And there is still so much griping and complaining about 4 days. I cannot imagine in a district where both parents work and there is no help and you have elementary aged children. It's a disaster waiting to happen.
  17. Cool thanks for the note. I respect that you got through it and enjoyed it, I've done a fair bit of looking into it, people either really love it and "get it" as experimental literature or, they are not as equipped like yours truly, and completely whiff and don't enjoy it. Either way, George Saunders is one of our generational greats and should get a lot more national attention as a public intellectual as well.
  18. https://ferosevr.com/lincoln-in-the-bardo-review-the-best-of-experimental-writing/
  19. Dude, I HAVE tried the audiobook. There are over 100+ narrarators and they are distracting and it's easier to zone out. Have you read and enjoyed LitB? Not to derail because "Love Letter" was awesome and deserves the flowers. I mean maybe it's just me and I am an illiterate donkey who doesn't deserve to know nice literary things, but if so tell me.
  20. Dude. I'm a complete George Saunders stan. I love 95% of his throughput. But for the life of me I cannot get through Lincoln in the Bardo. I've tried on three seperate occassions. And it's lauded. Litfic critters love it. It's consistently ranked and even a modern top 50 contemporary classic or whatever. But it's so bad and boring to me, I just can't do it. Help me understand. What am I missing? Signed, a Stan who wants to Stan but isn't Stanning.
  21. It's because Republicans cheat and interfere with voters and voting. Full stop.
  22. I think I misspoke upon furthe reading, currently the idea of the national government taking the 10% stake in Intel is NOT bipartisan but Trump led; what is bipartisan is the interest in the government getting involved in some capacity to help Intel as a matter of national interest (even much more so than U.S. Steel).
  23. Or....guaranteed a nuclear WWIII response.
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