A 50 year mortgage is fucking stupid for the same reason an 84 month auto loan is fucking stupid: if you think you need either of them, you cannot afford the thing you're trying to buy.

Isn't this the guy who was going to blow his brains out on live television if Mamdani was elected Mayor? Still waiting on him to make good on that.

Writing matplotlib code is a lot like Javascript in the sense that if you can't vibe code yourself 90% of the way to a working solution for any given problem, it's probably not worth doing.

This is not a left right issue. It's a people who approve of fucking children versus people who think that is abhorrent and should be severely punished.

LMFAO. This is what we call playing both sides of the field 🤣🤣🤣

"Moments later armed agents began separating the workers..." Some literal Nazi shit right there

Was using Gemini Pro in Copilot for code review today, and it's nice that it tells me my code isn't trash before telling me all the things I need to fix, where to vectorize, and shaming me for not having complete unit tests yet.

Technology has gone too far and we need to burn it all down with fire.

On one downside, my city MPG in the new Mustang is soooo much worse than my I4 Mustang was and the city/highway differential is wild. On the upside, I don't drive anywhere because I live ~4 minutes from everything so I only have to get gas once a month

There is no way to fix our politics that doesn't involve a lot of powerful people going to prison.

Earnest post: there is increasingly direct evidence that Trump participated in child sex trafficking or at least knew about it. He should resign, be impeached and removed from office, and prosecuted. Even if you don’t think that WILL happen it’s important to say publicly that it SHOULD happen.

This is precisely why you don't negotiate with bullies, terrorists, Russian assets, or Republicans. The moment you show any weakness or give an inch, you've lost.

Anti-lock breaks are good, planned obsolescence of consumer appliances because the manufacturer just stops maintaining the software is bad. But it's not the technological advancements that are the problem here, it's that manufacturers are being anti-consumer dicks.

Draining my custom loops today so I can move them down to the house since I have the day off and strongly considering finally adding some additional drain points to the loops whilr I have them emptied to make this a less time consuming/labor intensive process 😮‍💨

Exactly this. Democrats are comically bad at messaging, part 1423

instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."

You can always trust Americans to build more housing, just as soon as they've exhausted every other possible option, regardless of how unlikely it may be to actually solve the problem, multiple times over 🤦‍♂️

Well, this turned into a multi-hour project because I had to disassemble it and carry the pieces seperately because it wouldn't fit through the gate 😮‍💨 Some of the screws holding it together, particularly in the top, have straight up disintegrated 😬

Today in home improvement activities, trying to get this DIYed generator case the previous owners built and left behind to the curb since bulk trash day is tomorrow. The wood on the inside is decomposing, so this will be fun 😬. Now accepting bets for whether it falls apart before we get to the curb

I struggle to think of a statistical "method" that has been more damaging to psychology (and related disciplines) than mediation analysis based on observational data. IMHO all such manuscripts should be desk rejected.

Sellers left a 50" early 2000s 720P plasma screen TV on the wall upstairs and I've been trying to figure out what to do with it for two weeks since I realized you can't bulk trash TVs. My wife and I can't even lift it off the wall. Just going to have a new one delivered to get rid of this one 😮‍💨

So the little Marshall bluetooth speakers definitely live up to the name.

Severely reduced FAA capacity going into the holiday season seems not great. My condolences to people with holiday travel plans 😬

I, for one, am looking forward to seeing Alan Dershowitz prove that he's a man of his word

For the first time in my lifetime, voters in NYC have elected someone other than the biggest asshole in the race as mayor.

This sounds like a really neat opportunity

This weekend's project is discovering that apparently paint can bleed through painters tape, so I'm sitting on the floor with razor blade trying to scrape trim paint off the floor 😬😮‍💨

Really? An extra hour?? In 2025??? Read the room.

What substances are know to the State of California to NOT cause cancer?

I know absolutely nothing about baseball and an not watching the game, but based purely on the state of this site right now that was probably a great choice for my cardiac health

Step 1. Do popular things, reform institutions to be more democratic/anti-authoritarian Step 2. Make Republicans own the repeal of those popular things and reforms if they want to get rid of them Step 3. Be a successful political party

Once again, the Actual Thing the Actual Democrats Must Actually Do is to make institutional reform the platform & to explain to voters why & how Doing A Popularism is the <consequence> of that, not a prerequisite.

If it's important they'll either leave me a message or send me a text

This is millennial erasure

Trump wasn't wrong when he called the New York Times the enemy of the people, because the NYT gas overwhelming demonstrated that is in facr the case. He was just wrong about which people they were the enemy of

The guy at the end of my street has done a very nice job of implementing someone driving too fast down our street in his yard for Halloween today.

Juan Linz was right

The Democratic party during my lifetime can be summed up as "make grandiose promises, blame Republicans for failing to deliver on them." They can't actually stand on their record because they haven't enacted a major policy since 2009.

Make Hatch Act violations a capital offense with no statute of limitations.

There are people who want to live in a society and there are people who believe a "pinch" is a valid unit of measurement. There is zero overlap between these two groups.

Raikou is healing up nicely. Gotta wait six weeks then do touch-ups on it and Entei. Haven't decided if I want to add Lugia and Ho-Oh on my back on this side and just go full Gen 2 or not.

My prediction for the NYC Mayoral race is still that the biggest asshole will get elected. I would love to be proven wrong, but NYC's pattern of electing the worst possible people™️ is pretty lengthy at this point

The puppy might have a drug problem... 😬

The point that no politician openly supports work from home/remote work is an interesting one, particularly when it comes to progressives, because any climate-related plan that doesn't involve reducing pollution resulting from unnecessary commuter traffic is a bad plan.

Rule of Law is a "kitchen table issue"

Successfully washed the new Mustang for the first time this morning and I finally understand why all of the ones I had seen in this color looked brown. This thing attracts dust like there's no tomorrow 😬

The AI bubble popping may take half the economy with it, but at least the price per hour for GPU instances will probably go down

You can have candidates that aren't manufactured in factory and groomed for political office their entire lives with pristine flawless records and no questionable past or you can have candidates who are real people but it's really hard to have both.

No one has done more damage to the empirical study of Democracy than the "Democracy is just the presence of elections + turnover" people