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  1. We dont have to blame Wally anymore anytime the market drops. its all blutos fault from now on.
  2. Treasury bonds are doing well if you folks havent abandoned it in your retirement portfolio
  3. This is just like when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor
  4. My understanding that is most dealers don't really care to resell your car -- unless its same make, recent, or particularly desirable. Most trade-ins they just offload to wholesalers and end up in independent car-lots or at auctions. The low price they offer is worth the convenience to many people.
  5. We used to have a housecleaner come once a week, and my wife always freaks out before her visits because she feels compelled to "preclean" for the cleaner. Anyway, wife often asks me to clean up or rephrase her work memos so they sound perfect. I told her GPT/LLMs can do that task very well, all she has to do is just copy and paste the text to them.. So now instead of dumping the text to AI and letting it handle the hard work.... she's actually spending 5 minutes trying to clean up the QUESTION to GPT, so what she's asking it sounds perfect. 🥴
  6. Its inexplicable how bad Amazon Prime (and other platforms’) video player UI is compared to Netflix’s, especially on Apple TV. I mean, im not talking about the backend/infrastructure engineering, just the interface of the navigation and digital video player, with which every person on earth has been familiar with for decades. Its not the flight controls of the 787 jet. Its just a play/back/fwd button, a timeline scrubber, and some toggles for audio and caption modes. How hard is that to design? Why is it so bad?
  7. No equity longs until after tax season
  8. Im fairly certain OW rules are similar to *A: AA-status holders get access to AA lounges in the US only if flying on international (or select domestic) itineraries. Those with status from other alliance carriers get access to all alliance lounges everywhere.
  9. I dont understand the psychological basis behind the meme of women and murder mysteries … but yeah all my wife watches on streaming are swedish homicide thrillers and harlan coben style investigative shows
  10. Movie kinda sucks. The animation is a bit cheap and distracting and the story feels more like a 3-episode show than a LOTR epic movie.
  11. Its amazing there isnt more consumer activism against the car dealership model. I think the entire country is united in their disdain for car dealerships. They hate them more than telecomms, but while everyone grits their teeth at paying $50/mo for Verizon, nobodys really mobilizing against the car dealerships ripping them off on $50,000 trucks.
  12. 1. This fucking charity/microlending platform says because I havent loaned in a while, theyre just gonna confiscate my funds. And if I want to withdraw it, its a fucking complicated process. And I do all that to find out the only withdrawal route is through Paypal. 2. For what was once an innovative tech service, paypal has been such a shitpile. Once in a blue moon that I have to use it I have to lift mountain and earth to restore access, because of their draconian stone age verification measures.
  13. That's pretty much the consensus: noone is remotely close to what you described as FSD for native in-car implementation. Comma is supposed to be good but I dont have first hand experience. Waymo is fully autonomous, but they operate in a very limited area, and require a gigantic suite of sensors. Mercedes is probably the most falsely-advertised system. They claim to be the only Level 4 system but are ridiculously constrained: basically <40mph on certain preapproved sections of highway only (lol) and in perfect weather condition and traffic density. Ford's Bluecruise is also supposed to be decent comparator to GM's Supercruise
  14. GM's Super Cruise is reputed to have the 2nd best driving assist system, when comparing to original Enhanced Auto Pilot (EAP). Comma.Ai is a 3rd party system retrofitted to cars that has lots of fans. For actual all-road autonomy, in which Tesla made tons of recent progress (and, to be clear, is NOT commercialized at the moment), noone else is supposed to be close.
  15. the cool thing about nyc is it has everything from around the world. and the cool thing about tokyo is that it has the absolute best version of everything from around the world. like if you want nepalese chicken momo dumpling, theres probably some 90 year old japanese guy in a hut below the JR train line whos been cooking nothing but that since he was 4 years old.
  16. American auto dealers ARE cartels. State laws around franchising grant geographic exclusivity, preventing competition. It auto has protections against manufacturer terminating dealer agreements unless there are obvious and egregious causes. The best solution is buying direct from manufacturer, online. Like Tesla. (go ahead CR boys). But many states have or have had laws prohibiting direct sales from manufacture. It's the most illiberal anti-market thing. It should be noted there's less fuckery with dealerships in Europe. The majority are still privately owned, but there's less protective clause around them. Dealerships don't carry large new car inventory where they go through pricing cycles, and they act more or less as agents for you to order a new car from manufacturer. The general pricing attitude is take it or leave it. It's a cleaner transaction.
  17. watched The Gorge on AppleTV. this is Anja Taylor Joy, who Hollywood tells the public is the hottest it-girl:
  18. i guess its more accurate to say i hate this bug-eyed looking motherfucker, in every role he plays in every tv show or movie ever. just complete creeper energy.
  19. this pre-flight entertainment is superior to the in-flight entertainment.
  20. I had never watched Stargate. Ancient Egyptian Scifi stuff is always a bit of brainless fun. Frame by frame it was everything a 90s blockbuster scifi should be. Very curious what a "serious" director like Villeneuve or Nolan or Cameron can do to a franchise like this instead of Roland Emmerich.
  21. Thats what i ballpark the watch is for. income taxes are really high in this market, and doing cash is kinda icky for me. I figured a fancy watch is worth the seatdown meeting we had and he can flip it for cash if he wants to.
  22. Hes the boss of his particular branch office and is ‘junior partner’ in the franchise, so i assume he nets a sizable chunk of the commission.
  23. Wondering what you guys would do in this situation: A few years ago I enlisted an agent to rent out my house. He found my current tenant. The first time I raised the rent, the tenant proactively offered to buy my house (at a low-ball price). We declined and just extended the lease. Last year, I told him I am extending lease for the final time and would sell the house afterwards; he made no indication of interest to buy. Recently I talked to the agent to ask about selling the house. We shook hands on him putting it on the market this summer when the lease ends. He said he would also ask the tenant if hes interested (or if he needs help looking for a property). ….well now the tenant just got back to me directly, saying he wants to buy the house directly (at a very fair price). and suggested the agent doesnt need to be involved to save cost. The standard procedure in this market is 3.6% agents fee payable by the buyer. Its completely true that agent is not doing anything here - no listing, hosting, etc. But I feel obligated to him out of a sense of ethics. I’m thinking if we skip him out of the process, I buy the guy an Omega watch or something as a ‘serious’ business gift? Is that fair?
  24. cool moving goalpost bro. argue with someone else about the wheres and whys of military service. surely of the hundreds or thousands of deportees, you couldnt link to a story to one who *didnt* shoot a gun randomly into a crowd of people. i didnt cherry pick this story — your buddy brought it into the thread. why are you mad at me for pointing out that of all the people to lionize as martyr, you people happen to choose felons, each and every time? the universe has an incredibly sense of humor.
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