That’s just reckless! You’re a maverick who doesn’t play by the rules! I’m too old for this shit!

I actually do think the point is there more as an alignment guide for a potentially sloppy stack of punched paper (see also the manila envelopes with brads built in), but I would be lying if I said I never skipped the hole punch when it was just a couple of sheets.

More or less. Nominally they were for quickly binding paper that had been through a 2- or 3-hole punch.

Really, they were for making badass clocks in kindergarten.

Yup. You want to speculate on SpaceX, then no one is stopping you. You may even make a shitload of money if you do it right (based on recent valuations I’m not so sure, though), but maximizing short term capital gains based on vibes is absolutely not what the S&P 500 is used for.

If SpaceX is actually consistently profitable, they’ll be in the index in one year. Is what it is.

This corporate product placement is getting out of hand!

I suppose to hear them say it, they’d say this is how they’re holding the line on the core use. Shrinkflation instead of inflation, so… Yay?

He is promising… “a Rally to end all Rallies!”

Can we hold him to that?

It reminds me of 30 Rock in that sense, where you can imagine some of these people will become respected names, but some will never deliver a performance as good again for their entire careers.

Also a solid defensive catcher on the baseball team.

I finally started watching Resident Alien, and I’m about halfway through S3. I am a sucker for both sci-fi and Northern Exposure-ish shows where a fish out of water is dropped into a quirky and isolated community, so I don’t really know how I waited so long, but it does mean I don’t have to worry about it getting canceled on a cliffhanger.

As an aside, I watched S1 on a TV with “soap opera vision” motion interpolation turned on, and JFC I forgot how cheap and awful it makes everything look.

you could also use a colon

Now, with the caveat that prescriptive grammar is kind of stupid, you’d need to remove the word ‘that’ to make the colon a “correct” choice.

Remember, anytime a New Yorker cartoon doesn’t land, just substitute the caption with “Christ, what an asshole.” You’re guaranteed a befuddled chuckle at minimum.

Like, she was cool with the slaughter of sand people, sorta.

I mean, that’s kinda enough… 😬

“I killed them all. They’re dead. Every single one of them. And not just the men… but the women… and the children too.” Followed immediately by “To be angry is to be human” and a few scenes later by “I truly… deeply love you… and before we die, I want you to know.”

If the meme fits, wear it, Ms Padme…

I get it. We skew older here, but somebody playing around on the fuzzy edges of spelling a gen-z meme is not illiteracy. To be clear, I am also a clueless old, but I thought I’d look it up before piling on.

I’m deep into my 40s, and I’m one of those. I can get up to 70 words per minute for short stretches, but it’s still a weird dance that combines muscle memory and hand-eye coordination.

I did learn just enough to know to hover my hands and keep my arms at a good posture, so I’ve never had any RSI from typing. That also may be partly because that I’m so inconsistent that I don’t get enough of the R for RSI, LOL.

It’s not exactly the same as an express line, but IIRC Starbucks already has a process where if you order brewed black coffee, the cashier dispenses it for you before taking the next customer, rather than turning it over to the baristas’ queue. There are so many things you can say about Starbucks, but failing to understand efficiency is rarely one of them.

In small but statistically and financially significant numbers, yes, absolutely.

The bigger paradigm shift will be moving corporate users to per-token pricing, and that’s the one that will really kill Anthropic and OpenAI (and maybe Oracle) if it doesn’t go how they need, but there are way more actual people spending money on AI than one might think… or hope.

I like listening to Ed Zitron stuff, though admittedly part of it is AI Doomer comfort food, but one of the drums he beats is that the spend is absolutely obscene, and they’re going to have to start dramatically dialing up the prices, and soon, to have any chance at all of converting to profitability.

From what I’ve seen, even people who like AI won’t pay for anywhere near as much as they’re using now while it’s free or flat rate.

“What’s worse than lies but not as bad as statistics?”

“DAMNED LIES, MOTHERFUCKER.”

Fair enough, LOL. Just love that it’s “oh I pay TONS of taxes, but asking me to pay more in taxes won’t help anything.”

“The top 1% of taxpayers pay about 40% of all the tax revenue, and the bottom half pay 3%,” Bezos said. “I don’t think it should be 3%. I think it should be zero.”

“People sometimes say that, you know, I don’t pay taxes. Not true. I pay billions of dollars in taxes,”

“You could double the taxes I pay, and it’s not going to help that teacher in Queens. I promise you.”

WT-absolute-F? I think he got oxygen-deprived in space.