Down 4% today so far. Retirement fantasies evaporating. Probably good news for 20 somethings, they can buy more and if they survive the climate change famines, water wars, genocides, and non-renewable resource shortages, those shares will probably be worth a lot.

New fear for couches unlocked.

Betteridge’s law applies. The answer to a yes-no headline question is always no.

I don’t want to ask ai. Google automatically gives me ai search results that are piss poor. Those useless results still use energy to generate.

And the quality of the AI output sucks. I was recently looking for information about positive convention for yaw, pitch, and roll in aircraft. I was looking at az and yaw and got reasonable results from the AI, but when I looked at pitch and el all of the results were about elevator pitches. Even when I spelled out elevation it insisted on elevator pitches. I scroll past the AI results as a matter of principle, but I usually look at them so I have something specific to complain about when people ask why I am so virulently anti-AI.

Cause it’s too old for the list writers to know about? Also, their adoption rate was pretty poor.

One point. I have never owned an encyclopedia unless Encarta counts. My parents owned one when I was a kid, and I used the library encyclopedia a ton. I’m in my early 50s. I’m surprised the encyclopedia is not the most common point.

Bees aren’t the only arthropods having this problem, but for most of the other non-pollinators people seem to think "good less bugs to bother me. " I guess we should just give up on the survival of the food chain.

The news for insects is not entirely bad, emerald ash borers are finding the ability to survive in areas that were formerly too cold for them. This allows them to kill more trees turning them into kindling for lightning strikes and other fire starting events.

Who could have known that fucking with our habitat might have negative consequences for us?

Ah, who are the snowflakes again?? Got to suppress criticism, especially if it is funny.

It would be amazing if the Senate inadvertently caused a run on the banks. What if every Wells Fargo customer said, fuck it, I am moving my money to a local CU this week? I would be so happy. Can’t wait for closing your account to be made a war crime. Move your shit while it’s legal!

Omits that critical oxygen intake system overlaps with food intake system that can clog causing death. No redundancy on oxygen intake.

Lots of evidence for not-so-intelligent design.

That deal fell through. They are still struggling, but huge companies like that take a while to really die. The workers and engineers still show up and do stuff like design new vehicles.

Lots of free movies on Tubi. I watched a few old movies that I missed there. I just don’t watch movies much anymore.

Yay, my 50 something butt is a younger people.

And the return of Jim Crow has begun. Next they’ll probably require proof of some minimum level of tax payment.

I have an Audi EV (2023 etron). I bought it over a similarly priced i4. The etron has significantly more cargo room and the cockpit ergonomics were significantly better. I found the doorsill of the i4 too wide. Also, I hit my knee on the steering wheel in the i4 every time I got into the vehicle. I tried repeatedly but couldn’t figure out how to avoid it (lose weight?).

I can’t really speak to customer education, I owned 2 Nissan Leafs prior to the etron, so education would have probably just annoyed me. Also, I bought used because depreciation is insane - I got a nearly new car for half price.

For us this design is closer to marketing’s portrayal. The design is a tiger that has lost his tail, is slightly inbred, and has a bit of mange. The implementation looks like this implementation after a dog has used it as a chew toy.

So glad I am not the only one. It doesn’t help that I work on various projects, some of which use really old compilers. Tried using make_shared the other day and the compiler was not having any of it. Triple checked my syntax and spelling three times before realizing that the compiler was too old to support it.

"People who live paycheck to paycheck? I don’t believe they exist. "

What are the poor landlords going to do when their entire retirement home is delinquent on rent? lol

Floridians thought FEMA was bad? Wait until they DeSantAIDs.