Colin Cannell
915 posts
Colin Cannell
@ColinCannell
Somebody who’s bored is asleep, and somebody who’s asleep will not say no.
Katılım Eylül 2012
30 Takip Edilen48 Takipçiler
@StatisticUrban Wasn't this also the case with one of the tendons connecting our hands, to the point where it was the first one that doctors remove if they need a donor?
English
Here's an example of ongoing human physiological change: some people have a third artery in their arm. Some don't.
~10% of people born in the 1880s had the third artery, but ~33% of late 1900s babies have one, and a 2025 Australian cadaver study found it in ~43% of upper limbs.
English
@FredipusRex @deanwball When I talk about it with my wife I just call it Roto-Rooter
English
@deanwball And being confused as to whether to pronounce it RETA-true-tide or ruh-TAT-roo-tide
English
one of the side effects of being on 'retatrutide' is constantly talking about the side effects of being on 'retatrutide'
English
@jasonc_nc Worth noting they have over 2x the number of hospitals as well. US CoN laws shift the supply of hospitals toward massive, do-everything buildings spaced far apart.
English
The survival rate for someone having an out of hospital cardiac arrest in the United States is 10%.
Comparatively it is:
-23% in The Netherlands
-16% in Norway*
-15% in Denmark*
-13% in Sweden*
If you’re going to have a heart attack, you want to have it in The Netherlands.
Jason,@jasonc_nc
Every time someone tells me lack of universal healthcare is actually why American healthcare is superior in quality I’m forced to go read another study that proves otherwise. For examples, cardiovascular mortality improvements completely stalled ~2010 in the U.S. compared to peer countries. And it gets a lot worse when you compare state by state disparities.
English
@jasonc_nc @LexCrazed Not my spending, no. But I also don't do takeout/DoorDash. You may start to see effects in Q3/Q4 when Medicare GLP1 Bridge starts. I would watch fast food and takeout numbers (driven by hunger rather than experience).
English
@ColinCannell @LexCrazed So it’s probably not really changed your $ spending much at all then correct?
English
@jasonc_nc @LexCrazed For me personally, the effect is actually that I don't mind going out to eat because (1) I don't feel bad about eating, (2) I know I'm going to order something reasonable, (3) if I don't finish it I'm not bothered. I do find myself avoiding stuff high in fat though.
English
So a few thoughts here based on my restaurant vantage and some anecdotal experience with people I know on them.
First while you eat less I’m not sure that meaningfully changes your overall spend when going out to eat. Maybe you end up with leftovers vs finishing, but it’s not causing people to just not go out. And in truth people often take leftovers home to just throw them away in a few days.
Groceries I could see shifting some from simply eating less, but still the above mechanics tend to hold. Make a standard meal and there is more leftover, with much of it getting thrown away.
If a GLP made you overall eat 20% less I’m thinking the actual grocery and dining spend drop is 1/4-1/2 of that.
English
@Empty_America I’m on a few forums for guys who do antique cars. They complain a lot about how expensive it is. One guy posted, “Well, there’s no such thing as a cheap hobby.” Which is plainly false (yo-yo is pretty cheap… card magic… darts) but it illustrates what counts as a hobby for them.
English
Blue collar guys tend to spend a LOT of money on stuff.
The only real low spenders are educated bohemians.
Gia Macool@GiaMMacool
They tell you marrying a blue collar man means a low-maintenance, cheap life. Nawhhhh. Don’t let them fool you. These men have EXPENSIVE taste. He’ll complain your $40 pedicure is too much… then drop $2,000 on a prepped kit without blinking. And don’t even think about borrowing his tools. He cleans them with surgeon precision. Blue collar men aren’t “simple.” But they’re hella hot because they have a perfect tool to fix everything.
English
@jasonc_nc It's a hard sell to progressives because private underwriting of loans would mean (a) less financing available to low SES students and (b) lower demand for education would cause more marginal colleges to fail.
English
Not a new idea but anyone who thinks college is too expensive OR believes too many are getting bad degrees should be united in allowing student loans to be discharged via bankruptcy.
Because the moment this happens the resulting underwriting will mean 1) private colleges getting cheaper and 2) less people taking on debt for negative ROI degrees.
English
@jasonc_nc You know who does have yachts, though – the PE firms rolling up small coffee roasters. dailycoffeenews.com/2026/02/03/joe…
English
Yes, after each coffee shop reaches its one year anniversary we all gather and help the owner pick out their yacht.
Nothing like that first store yacht, the fifth one just doesn’t hit the same.
Jason,@jasonc_nc
I just can’t sometimes.
English
@jasonc_nc Tying property tax exemption to whether a house has an active mortgage shows how much of this movement is purely emotional. If you get a second mortgage, should your taxes double? If you get a reverse mortgage, does the state pay you?
English
While the “why do I have to pay property tax when my home is paid off” discourse is tired it’s demoralizing how ridiculously cheap property taxes are in virtually any nice European city compared to a random U.S. suburb.
Ashley Schendel@ashleyschendel
A paid off house should actually feel paid off. When the average property tax bill is $4,427 and keeps climbing even if you didn’t sell, refinance, or magically get richer, it’s not hard to see why people feel like they never fully own the place they worked for.
English
@jasonc_nc @sam_d_1995 Tbf, everyone I know in municipal government is aware of this and factors it in. You also get more confident once you approve something “unpopular” and… nothing happens. Nobody ever shows up a year later waving a tax notice and saying “See, my property value DID go down.”
English
@sam_d_1995 Public comment takes this and completely inverts it, elevating only those against something
English
Instagram perfectly demonstrates why public comment is a flawed system.
look at this post: it has over 2k likes, but most of the people who like the post never even bother to engage with the comments where a few dozen unhinged NIMBYs are spouting off
QnZ@Theo47102867
The comments bro… insane
English
@jasonc_nc I still think we should try to rebrand these as “luxury fire trucks”
English
@ColinCannell @RogerRogerATX Vs if you had a Nashville type first response and then 2 more guys follow with an engine to meet for an actual fire if one occurs.
Meanwhile if the 3-4 crew engine is out on a medical and another one comes in the second option is a 5 crew ladder truck.
Jason,@jasonc_nc
“Then they come back to Pierce like an abusive spouse” Yesterday I noted Charlottesville VA’s move to “metro” sized engines to meet street improvement & safety goals. Charlotte NC has chosen the opposite - purchasing even larger “specialized” apparatus like a new 59’ tiller truck which has been awaiting repair more than it has been in service. “It’s a nice truck,” said Lou Lesesne, a former lawyer for the firefighters union. “Other than the fact it doesn’t work.” This is a recurring, increasing issue with the oversized, all-custom preferences of American fire departments. Poor reliability, expensive repairs, and a lack of parts that sidelines emergency vehicles for months at a time. In return for the excess size and expense the city also gets to add 3-4 fire fighters (plus future pensions) for the 2nd driver position. But it has let the fire department post some really cool hype videos on Facebook.
English
I’m happy to report that American manufacturers sell truck chassis that are perfectly capable of all the tasks below with a wheelbase and turning radius that allows for narrower lanes, intersection bump outs and other street improvements in our cities.
We just have to wean American fire departments off of their unhealthy addiction to unreliable, less-safe, oversized custom chassis from defense contractor subsidiaries.
In return we get fewer injuries and deaths, they get fewer calls to accidents and we all save a lot of pain and expense.
TheProf@SocraticBloke
@fortworthchris @AustinTunnell Respectfully, this approach is dumb and has no merit. It's not just firetrucks- it's utility trucks, moving vans, car haulers, and big rigs who service homes. They will shrink in time. But ignoring those vehicle needs is retarded
English
@jasonc_nc @RogerRogerATX Right, the sequence is more likely to be:
1. We have to send a couple guys to this medical call.
2. The smallest apparatus available requires three guys
3. We are sending three guys on a massive truck.
English
As to the dispatch yes, if you amended the overall crew size in a truck it shifts how dispatching works. But that’s 1) a much longer chat and 2) not as insane as a solution as some may first think.
Nor does it run afoul of any NFPA requirements. We have gotten very stuck on the belief that a company for a fire must all exist on the same truck at all times.
Considering the reality of urban stations and their call volumes and types, that fire is actually all-hazards dept with a side of fire makes it worth exploring that question some.
Jason,@jasonc_nc
@bridgelenderguy Nope. 1. The belief every responder must be in the same truck is an American one that isn’t even actually a NFPA requirement. You do need a full company to begin working a fire scene. FWIW I was wrong in earlier assumptions about EU response, in that their totals on scene
English
@RogerRogerATX @jasonc_nc Right but the redesign burden on the FD seems small compared to cost savings and the option to send a smaller crew for simpler calls.
English
@ColinCannell @jasonc_nc yes and no, it's more than just the # to run the apparatus, it's also crew on scene for safety. (Adding SUVs to go along may require redesigning stations)
English
@RogerRogerATX @jasonc_nc But isn’t the number of people dispatched to a call largely a function of the number who are required to run the apparatus? Like, “this apparatus requires three guys so we have that number assigned to go out with it.” If you need more guys they can accompany the truck in an SUV.
English
@jasonc_nc Ok, while I am willing to listen to the possibility of using these, they would require a MASSIVE rethinking of how stations are dispatched to calls. The E-One Cyclone can bring more firefighters on board than the Magirus.
English
Every guy who says this could go live completely off grid in a remote place where property taxes are little to nothing and exercise their Galt’s Gulch dreams of freedom and rugged individualism. Yet they never do.
They just imagine a twelve-year old’s version of the world and type out screeds online every day while believing they would be the protagonist in an Ayn Rand novel instead of the unmentioned background character they would actually be.
English
@patio11 “We’re about to raise prices and here is a 20% off coupon” is a potent combo.
English
Me: BTW not covered by Alex but you can defuse some of the bad feelings by combo pre-announcing the price increase and grandfathering people who use that as an opportunity to start paying you money. Gives people agency; gives you money.
English
Next up at MicroConf, an attendee talk from Alex Pham. "The price increase you've been avoiding."
English
We should Oglethorpe-max our cities and then establish dad parks where guys can get together and cut the grass, water the lawn together.
Cure the male loneliness epidemic at the same time.
Dealflow Guy@dealflow_guy
@jasonc_nc @zapatas_mom I like this. But where will I ride my riding mower? I’d also prefer to water my lawn through the drought.
English
@jasonc_nc (1) Identify a real problem (widespread CRE vacancies)
(2) Promote a root cause that has no empirical basis but has the right vibe (tax code exploitation)
(3) Demand a solution that oddly sounds a lot like the root cause (tax code counter-exploitation)
That’s the activist waltz.
English
The real estate lie that will not die
Salina Mendoza@inababi
@missmayn They don’t. This is a tax write off incentive for owners. We need to update the law to make it so they are NOT incentivized to keep that shit vacant. Worked with plenty who refuse to even do temp events for cash because of liability. Even tho I pay for insurance. Fucked
English
@jasonc_nc @spurner11 Presumably because no one attended it. No wonder the prayers to destroy the Dollar General have been ineffective.
English
They tore down a church in my hometown to erect one of these things to sell diabetes juice and plastic Chinese junk. Every time I pass it I pray for it to be carpet bombed. #Nuke
Jason,@jasonc_nc
Dollar General discourse is funny to me because anyone who actually lives near one is like “man I’m glad I don’t have to drive 25 minutes if I forget a couple basic things” whereas the person who doesn’t even live there is like “this is a pox upon rural Americans”.
English