I feel this a lot. Between people moving away and turning inward, I have maybe one or two really good friends.

It’s not about waiting, it’s about enticing people to use Amazon fresh rather than the other grocery options they typically use.

My guess is that Amazon fresh makes its prices even more absurdly low to get more people buying.

Texas?

That’s literally how “AI agents” are being marketed. “Tell it to do a thing and it will do it for you.”

What are you checking against? Part of my job is looking for events in cities that are upcoming and may impact traffic, and ChatGPT has frequently missed events that were obviously going to have an impact.

Sadly a lot of that is probably marketing, with little to no LLM integration, but it’s basically impossible to know for sure.

Claude why did you make me an appointment with a gynecologist? I need an appointment with my neurologist, I’m a man and I have Parkinson’s.

I’ve known a number of homeless folks, and not a single one has made anywhere near that flying a sign, but plenty of them have had everything they owned trashed by the cops, who also confiscated any cash because the homeless folks “couldn’t explain where they got it.”

That sounds like an urban legend. The Sherlock Holmes story “The Man With the Twisted Lip” includes a wealthy man who had made his money by begging. The “beggar king” trope goes back further than that, and as far as I can tell it’s just a comfortable fiction to excuse society’s failure to care for its most vulnerable members.

I’m so glad I don’t use telegram.

I like the cold…

Agree, and I missed the fact that I didn’t make that clear. If Airbnb stayed what their initial marketing portrayed them to be (connecting people who had a spare room or mother-in-law suite that was unoccupied with people who wanted a more genuine local experience,) I’d have no problem with them.

The penalties should be higher for short term rental properties-if it’s listed on Airbnb or VRBO or similar, taxes double.

It was bullshit before generative slop was a thing. It’s even more bullshit now.

Yeah, there’s a big difference between “this herb has some naturally occurring anti-inflammatory compounds” and “this berry is a cure for cancer and lupus and the common cold.”

Regarding yoga, stretching and bodyweight exercises are definitely a good part of fitness, but the mystical side of it is complete horseshit.

People laughed when leftists talked about the yoga studio to fascism pipeline…

In all seriousness this is utterly fucked.

The podcast Weird Little Guys just concluded a long series of episodes about the weird bullshit leading up to this.

One of the worst things we do as a culture is setting arbitrary milestones and then shaming ourselves or others for missing them.

Are you expecting to graduate? You’re better off than many who didn’t finish at all. You stumbled, you’re moving forward. You’re going to be fine.

I’m not running for a third term, I’ll just have a third term.