Spotify lossless does sound pretty good for any hi-fi geek and I'm not sure what the Tidal or Qobuz argument is anymore.

Plastic bottles for water are banned from my home. It least if you’re gonna waste plastic needlessly, do it for something with value-add like syrupy carbonated water.

Why do they even stream the Lindsay songs when people only really want the Stevie songs?

As a Spanish speaker, I still find it bizarre that the store “Chicos” is, apparently, not a menswear store.

If they genetically eradicated thistle weed nothing bad would happen and only good would happen. In fact you’d probably have less toxic Monsanto use. Just eradicate thistle. There’s no reason for it to exist.

Reflecting pool is one step from being tentacle porn

People should be able to once annually use their 401ks to pay for home debt or student debt, penalty free. Tax the withdrawal, no penalty. Because reducing debt = building wealth, so why compel someone to “invest” at x% when they can reduce debt at a known 5-15% guaranteed. It’s the same thing!

I’m so High Millennial that I cannot for the life of me fear past in my head that $35k gets you a BMW 3 series entry luxury car, a nice Accord is like $15-20-ish depending on upspecs, and $20-30 is like SUVs depending on specs. I refuse to adjust that price anchoring.

probably one of the most efficiency-improving AI things I find is its ability to QC a technical write up against an excel or csv model outputs. I find it quite good at simply reconciling report text to output, especially if you are making many changes last minute and easily get tripped up.

I like that it’s been eight different champions for eight years

Sorta concerned about Mr. Noodle’s cognitive health.

I thought tickets were hard to come by and like a bajillion dollars why’s the stadium look like it’s at 65-70% only ?

Team USA’s offensive formation

Sorry but the kits look like cheap candy canes

anyone else have a hispanic mom who will literally just sit and watch mass and Spanish rosaries on TV?

Your constant use of two word sentences is a vary obvious AI writing tell. Lazy execution. Fake boldness. It’s not effective, it’s distracting.

I’ll never comprehend wearing shorts on a flight. Airports and planes are so filthy it just seems so unclean to do so.

If companies aren’t paying for AI tools and protecting their data it’s setting up a perverse incentive for many employees to pay for their own AI costs out of pocket. For lower-paid employees in the knowledge economy this sets up a class divide for those with money to pay $200/mo and others

Chait seems to think it’s dispositive of anti-monopolist theory that Walmart was supplanted by Amazon. I mean it’s not. If markets operate like the Sith, with a master and a jealous apprentice who will kill him, that’s not quite a free market working. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Me: “doc says to shut down internet stuff an hour or more before bed. I should read books. Let me buy some ebooks for my reader” ::searches for books so I won’t be as stressed at night, but also interesting:: ….

I don’t get Anglophile people: if one has a double barrel last name (no hyphen) and you’re gonna go and drop one of them, why in the world would you drop the FIRST one? (We went with Spanish convention for my daughter.)

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Intellectually I get that Jupiter is huge and heavy because I get physics, but part of me wants to refuse it can be that massive while not having a rocky core and being mostly gas.

Again with this UFO footage: why tf does a $100 mil. jet have a camera with the shittiest video footage but an Uber driver can afford 1080p HD dashcam.

At my nieces graduation from college and I always think it would be a cool tradition if everyone in attendance of a graduation were encouraged to wear their respective academic regalia. Just a reason for people to actually put caps and gowns and such to use.

if you want a smile from an elder millennial, ask them about Homestar Runner

Request: can we use genetic modifications to eradicate dandelions and thistle weeds? How much time and money is spent getting rid of these?! Not to mention they push people to use harmful chemical weed killers.

Gonna start making a “heart of hearts” adjustment whenever using stated preference or survey sentiment data.

Mayor Humdinger in Paw Patrol sounds like Paul Giamatti doing a bit.

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Thinking about discount rates and like how does banking work in the Star Wars universe if different beings have vastly different lifespans.

It is 3am and had trouble sleeping and my thought is that elder millennials are like the High Elves, the last beings to ever see the true light of the Trees of Valinor

No one: * Cargo Bike People:

the thing is that the economy bubble, especially in stocks, was highly vulnerable to an exogenous negative shock. Any little thing could come and be the needle that pops it. So then they go "lets start a war that inflates deficits and also creates massive oil price spikes and supply chain issues"

Gen Z employees don't seem to yet understand the full cost / value of employer health insurance, esp. if its an employer that pays 100% of premiums. They be like...

It’s insane how the Chinese are lapping us at EV tech. To be fair, they’re also lapping Europe. www.fastcompany.com/91503415/byd...

Transit oriented development in action. People thought McLean Station on the Silver Line was underused. But as Capital One Tower went back to office, this is a train of knowledge workers jammed, queued to exit, every morning I come to go the other way. #wmata #virginia

The reality here is that universities would love to hire visible and capable conservative scholars. That they have to create separate centers, and then hire people who would never make it in an open search, underlines the fact that its not anti-conservative bias, its a lack of strong candidates.

I’m often here questioning Ryder’s choice of pups for his missions and saying “had it been me, I’d have picked…”

Dow 50,000! Also 21st out of 23.

Not every valiant action that could deserve a Bronze Star, or even the very rare Army Cross, deserves the highly exclusive and high-standard Medal of Honor.

On this SOTU week I reiterate my multi decade position: stop doing it. No one learns anything. Just have a president submit a letter as the minimum requirement. I wish the stupid theater of it all would be dispensed with and do not think it to be a positive cultural event.

The thing about the whole rice debate on here is that, as a Hispanic, we don’t care about your debate because you’re getting it all wrong anyways cuz you’re not mixing beans, or in case of yellow rice, sofrito and peas, in there so what are you even doing with that rice? Forget how you cook it.

The American Planning Association could make great moral strides in guidance on the profession: do not provide planning services for internment camps. But they’ve been spineless in using the profession for critical moral claims, despite claiming that we plan “for the public interest”. Just toothless

Skiing is a wealthy person’s sport where its risks are negative externalities borne by all of society, instead of internalized by its participants. All so some generally wealthier people could engage in a dangerous high-risk activity. There should be mandatory supplemental insurance contracts.

is wayback machine down for a bunch of you?

The movie Cars and the whole Carse XU makes me uncomfortable. Why is there human scaled infrastructure and roles but no humans? Whi di the taxis haul? The plane crop dusts crops… for what? Why are there fighter jets?