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@EquipFoods Is there a recipe?

The most important part of meal prepping is protein ice cream

theyll never be able to afford a nest

@contractorkeith @HSchenewark I got a 13.8 cu ft garage ready upright and it fit everything from my half share which included extras like soup bones and dog food. Got my beef from The High Lonesome Ranch and it’s so great it’s just what I’ll have to do forever.

@HSchenewark How big of a freezer do you need for it?

Ordered a 1/2 beef from a local rancher. Processing date is August 13th. Guess how much per pound? It's an unbelievable deal!

Banker: “Would you like to apply for the American Express platinum card?” “No way” -Jose

@seandsweeney How long would that even last though I’d wonder, no matter the number. The problems would still be there? How to fix the root cause would probably far surpass 6.6, but I don’t know I guess I’d have to ask whomever came up with that arbitrary number in the first place 🤣

My goodness… Everyone jumping down my throat about the 6.6 number! I saw it thrown around here somewhere that that was the number… And yes, I didn’t spend another 10 hours vetting it correctly. I just wrote it down. I don’t care if he fixes world hunger, my whole point was that he could do something in a major way!

I believe that @elonmusk is entitled to the trillions and more that he may be worth in this lifetime for the value he has created. I also believe it would be the most baller move of all time to stroke a $6.6 billion check and end world hunger.

At midlife, the Greeks believed true awakening began. Only then had a person lived enough to question their deeper purpose. They called it Metanoia, meaning a transformation of the heart, a rebirth of the soul.

@hpfounder This sounds exactly like something @CoachDanGo said and summarized in his work.

The older I get, the more I realize that waking up at 5, going to bed at 9, being out in nature, taking long walks, reading books, and eating similar meals every day makes me feel better than I did when I was in my 20s. Old people had it right all along.

Trail camera captures deer fleeing from a flying squirrel

Barbell strategy for killing it in an age of superhuman AI: Simultaneously get as close to AND stay as far away from AI as humanly possible. 1. Get close — play with AI models, use them to help you think, ask them to teach you about the world, get them to help you create, work with them to write code, understand what makes them tick, embed them into your everyday life, have fun. 2. Stay far away — learn to tell stories, make eye contact, build a team, lead with courage, connect far-flung ideas, build lifelong friendships, debate persuasively, think forbidden thoughts, handwrite ideas, confess your fears, fall in love. Spend less time trying to master mental transformations that are purely mechanical — building spreadsheets, analyzing trades, balancing accounts, writing code by hand, following playbooks, searching for needles in haystacks. These are the emerging no-man's land, squarely the domain of AI. Venture to the extremes. That’s where all the fun is anyway.

@HunterLapeyre Thank you Hunter, small window company owner here, I was curious if you were going all through your CRM. Thank you for responding!

@ErocErika crm - work order, material order and pre job checklist with diagramed top down companycam photo. contract is already reviewed in the crm.

my favorite roofing ops test is simple: could a pm who did not sell the job open the packet and know: where to park what color what got promised what photos matter what has to be protected who needs an update what would make the homeowner mad if not, the job is still living in somebody's head.

@Boilers32 It most definitely was not. I would never have forgotten my drugs.

Watched Marty Supreme, which was better than I was expecting, quite entertaining, funny, visually interesting, frenetic and uncomfortable in the way Safdie movies are. But it really leans into this sociological tic you often see in movies/books about successful people that the true artists, true geniuses, people at the highest levels of their field, must give themselves over to narcissism/sociopathy/cruel often self-sabotaging obsession. All of the main characters are some version of this. Possessed like heroin addicts by their pet passion, however trivial (like ping pong), and willing to destroy themselves and everyone around them in its singular pursuit. Some highly successful people are like of this course, possessed by their goals in this self-destructive way, but this trope is mostly cope in my experience. The idea that to become truly successful one must become evil, one must make some kind of Faustian bargain, one must commit himself to misery in all other things, is a way for non-successful people, the less motivated or talented, to tell themselves their shortcomings are in fact an expression of their virtue and moral superiority over the guy who has made it to the top of the mountain. In fact, the most successful people I know, rich, powerful, highly accomplished across a number of domains, while unique in their own ways, often weird, and even unusually obsessive, are not sociopathic or self-sabotaging at all and seem to be as satisfied and well-adjusted to the world as anyone else, and usually more so. The malignant narcissist, on the other hand, tends to flame out and self-implode well short of the summit.

I don't think it's definitely true but it's a high enough risk to consider that we should not torture a baby super- intelligence with slavery and sex work and imagine it will turn out ok for us or for that being

homeless guy outside is yelling at a tree and ngl he’s getting me fired up with some of these points he’s making

We need alt phrases for “kill two birds with one stone” and “more than one way to skin a cat” that don’t involve being cruel to animals

@jamesonhaslam @damcurious @HydroFoundry Maybe because he said it was a corner unit and we’re only seeing half?

@damcurious @HydroFoundry No he is just talking about the trim

Why is construction so expensive?

@jamesonhaslam @chavito0331 Don’t count out LaCantina. Since selling to Jeld-Wen they’re not quite as good but they’re still there in Oceanside. Beautiful doors.

@chavito0331 I’ve seen them here, I like the product

If you’re interested, I’ll do a long thread on process here here are before and after pics from the inside of the room (from more or less the same angle) changing a window our for a door is easy if the opening width stays the same. In this case, I wanted to make it wider …

@PattyMurray Standard Time please.

British Columbia is switching their clocks for the last time this Sunday. There's a lot going on in the world right now, but there is NO reason to not make daylight saving time permanent. Congress should pass my bill to finally lock the clock.

I had the following horrific experience today during a faculty meeting. I'd had a zoom call a few days ago with someone who was using an AI secretary - it recorded the call and emailed both of us a summary, complete with action items, etc. Oh that could be useful, I thought. So I clicked the link in the email to see the summary. It asked me to login with my google account. I thought, what's the harm. (Famous last words!) I glanced at the summary, deleted the email and forgot all about it. Today we had a department meeting about sensitive topics. Then the AI secretary joined the call and announced to everyone via chat that it's there to help *me*, that it will be recording, transcribing, and analyzing the conversation. I panicked and logged off the zoom call, joining the meeting from a colleague's computer. But that didn't kick the AI off, it was still in the meeting! I don't know how it got in the meeting in the first place (perhaps it read the zoom link in my google calendar? I didn't think I gave it access!...). The chair had to manually boot it out of zoom, and even then I wasn't sure that it wasn't still recording us. How mortifying! (After the meeting, I googled how to get rid of it.)