Sabitlenmiş Tweet
bendodge
10.8K posts
bendodge retweetledi
Olive Garden implemented the SAVE America Act more quickly than the US Senate.
English
@HormuzLetter I have noticed Jamie Dimon doing a lot of market manipulation, and I formally request that $1.4 billion be wired to me.
English
BREAKING: Iran calculated $9 billion in profits from market manipulation by "individuals close to Trump," mainly Kushner and Witkoff, and formally requested $4.5 billion of that sum be allocated to Iran through intermediaries, adding that "the exchanged texts will ultimately become part of the historical record," a senior Iranian official tells Drop Site.
Iran sent a private message to Vance during the Switzerland talks warning that Kushner and Witkoff were "abusing" the negotiations, "more interested in exploiting insider knowledge to profit in financial markets than reaching a deal."
Iran also expressed concern about repeated leaks from Kushner to Netanyahu, since Witkoff and Kushner “talk almost every day to Netanyahu” and the head of Mossad.
English
@Leonajardinho This is what happens when the government destroys the currency. The US must return to the gold standard.
English
My coworker and I were talking today about how a quick lunch run feels like a sit-down restaurant bill now.
I pulled up a digital McDonald's receipt on my phone from late 2020.
Two standard Big Mac meals.
15.98 total.
I opened the app and added the exact same two meals to my cart today.
31.48 before tax.
Same food. Same drive-thru. Same paper bag.
15.50 more.
A 97 percent price increase in just a few years.
They keep telling us that wages grew to match the modern economy.
My paycheck definitely did not grow by 97 percent.
They are charging luxury dine-in prices for processed food thrown together in a drive-thru, while the executives record billions in profit and wonder why the working class is finally stopping to eat at home.
English
bendodge retweetledi
I truly do not care about this one way or the other, but I will say I absolutely thought what we were all talking about was making daylight savings time permanent. It simply did not occur to me that anyone would want to have an earlier sunrise rather than a later sunset. I have no idea what use that is to anyone. That is completely wasted daylight. You are getting ready for work or already at work. You are not socializing or doing anything outside. It does not matter whether the sun is up.
𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚗𝚊𝚑 𝚐𝚛𝚒𝚏𝚏@yeahrightgirlhg
with the “end daylight savings” conversation, can we just confirm we mean canceling “falling back”? we want to cancel the shorter, darker days in winter. not the longer days. so technically we want to make daylight savings permanent?? not end it??? pls say we’re on the same page
English
bendodge retweetledi
This is why were are here:
THe DST people have lobbyists in Washington. Apparently common sense doesn't.
In the 1980s, many of companies formed the National Daylight Saving Time Coalition, which successfully lobbied for DST extensions (e.g., the 1986 and 2005 changes that lengthened the DST period).
Similar business interests continue to support making it permanent today.The push for permanent Daylight Saving Time (DST) — mainly through the Sunshine Protection Act (H.R. 139 / similar Senate versions) — is driven primarily by business and industry interests that benefit from more evening daylight, rather than a single dominant funder.
Key industries and groups lobbying for it:
These groups have a long history of advocacy through trade associations, coalitions, and standard lobbying channels (campaign contributions, testimony, and direct engagement with lawmakers):
Retail, convenience stores, and outdoor product retailers — Want extended evening shopping and consumer activity.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has long promoted DST on their behalf.
Golf industry — Benefits significantly from longer playable evenings. Golf associations (e.g., Michigan Golf Course Association) have provided testimony supporting DST extensions and permanence.
Tourism, amusement parks, and recreation — More time for after-work activities, sports, dining out, etc.
Fast food, barbecue/outdoor equipment, and related retail — Part of past and ongoing coalitions favoring evening economic activity.
Petroleum industry — Has lobbied since the 1930s, linking DST to increased driving and consumer spending.
Candy manufacturers (historically) — Pushed for DST extensions into November to boost Halloween sales/trick-or-treating.
English
@_its_not_real_ Can you somehow get AI to add visual polish? AI isn't a great designer, but it's better than a backend engineer.
English
Most feedback throughout my career has mostly been variations on "be more social, be less cynical," which has varied in magnitude.
I've never been told I need to work on cultivating better aesthetic taste while working in the realm of enterprise industrial automation.
_its_not_real_@_its_not_real_
Very confusing mid-year review. Filing as unactionable.
English
Everyone agrees the twice-a-year clock change is ridiculous.
But if we’re making one time permanent, why choose the one that most sleep and circadian experts don’t recommend?
Permanent standard time aligns better with our biology because morning sunlight is what sets our internal clocks. Permanent Daylight Saving Time means darker winter mornings, later body clocks, and more circadian disruption. This would be another disaster for American health. It’s probably too late to stop this but switch this to permanent Standard time instead!!!!
Breaking911@Breaking911
BREAKING: The House has passed legislation to make Daylight Saving Time permanent nationwide, ending the twice-a-year clock changes by a 308-117 vote. Backed by President Trump, the bill now heads to the Senate. If approved and signed into law, Americans would no longer have to change their clocks.
English
Right, because $500m is better than $0. Let's say the normal tax would be $1b. Offer a 50% discount to avoid the project going somewhere else.
They can't [shouldn't] offer big breaks to a project that consume a lot of services because the municipality might lose money, but these things don't need lots of services.
English
@robertgraham They're giving tax breaks because of the tax windfall?
English
Because data centers are an enormous TAX WINDFALL.
Data centers use almost no government services, because they pay for their own infrastructure upgrades.
But they pay taxes. Those taxes are massive windfalls for state and local governments.
It's building a vault for $50 billion in gold. You'd have to pay $2.5 billion in sales taxes to buy the gold, then hundreds of million a year on property taxes simply to own the gold.
All while not really impacting the community at all.
That's why governments give data centers tax incentives, to lure them to build there, for the free money.
Meta's deal requires them to pay 1% sales tax to the local county/parish. That's $500 million, a huge windfall for them to spend on schools and such. But it doesn't cost the county anything to have the data center there -- it's essentially free $500 million.
Joe Weisenthal@TheStalwart
One thing that I don't totally understand. Given the industry's voracious desires for more compute. Why are there places that still have tax incentives for their development. For all the backlash, is geographical capacity still not particularly scarce?
English
@jasoncrawford Pretty sure @RonPaul will still send you letters with typewriter fonts if you donate 😁
English
Story I heard: Before people got used to computer word processors, they thought that anything that looked typeset must have been through a long publishing process.
If it was a newsletter, that meant the news was old/obsolete. Timely newsletters were typed up on typewriters.
So one guy had to use a typewriter font on his computer-produced finance newsletter, just so his subscribers wouldn't think it was all out of date when it got to them.
Steven Sinofsky@stevesi
Endorse. 💯 No one would believe that people used to think "did you use a word processor to create this?" When documents first started having formatting—the first indication was a prolific use of hyphenated words because that was the first thing solved automagically in word processors—people would viscerally devalue the material. Early word processing docs (of the Mac era) had *too* much formatting and ImageWriter output looked toy like. The lack of typos and spelling seemed a bit mysterious. The software and hardware had to improve. The LaserWriter was the tipping function. Then documents looked like something created by a commercial printer. Amazing as it sounds people would ask "how did you do that?" in 1985. There were many things in word processing that needed to improve before they could fully replace old processes. Many were just how people used the tools (less formatting and ransom notes). Many were missing features like tables which used to be hand drawn and literally pasted into empty space. And many were just bugs like how subscript/superscript worked and footnotes. All along people could "tell" you used the new thing and had emotional reactions ranging from awe to disdain. If you made a mistake with a word processor believe me everyone pointed it out. A single typo would make you a laughing stock for low quality work. When Word introduced AutoCorrect we took out full page adds with giant typography "teh -> the" it was so important. AI is going through all this right now. The bugs will get fixed. New ways of acceptable writing will emerge. People will "catch" others using these new tools and scream busted. Embarrassing mistakes will happen. But "It's happening" is definitely true.
English
bendodge retweetledi
They built a new high school and turned the old one into the middle school when I was in maybe 4th-5th grade.
All three schools—the old middle, new middle, and new high school—were within probably 2-3 city blocks of each other. So one day, they had literally everyone—all elementary, middle, high schoolers, plus staff—line up shoulder to shoulder, starting at the old middle school, going to the new middle school (old high school) and then to the newly built high school. And we transferred all of the library books that way.
I was stationed in the new middle school library. And literally all day, we just passed books from our right to our left. And someone was at the beginning/end in each spot, removing or reshelving. All the books stayed in order. It was actually a pretty fun day.
English
@huanghelou12 @charlieboardman @TSA Yeah, they've improved, but they still exist and get federal pensions.
English
Unpopular opinion but I genuinely think the TSA has improved a lot over the past decade or so. A ton of hate is just residual hate from how absolutely awful they were in the past. Yes there’s still a lot of low-IQ people there but generally things seems to move pretty smoothly and the new tech like the auto bin thing etc actually works well. And I say this as a generally small government skeptic of federal agencies. I might be biased though because I’ve had PreCheck for years though. Maybe life is still miserable for the non-precheck peasants.
English
@seandsweeney Do you ask AI to pick your apartments or just to write about them?
English
I’ve been looking at a small apartment renovation in Valencia's old quarter.
A 19th-century building, updated for modern living without gutting what made it worth living in.
No corporate-lobby-in-a-historic-shell move.
They kept the bones and let the new stuff sit quietly next to the old stuff.
Design lesson buried in there and it’s one I preach.
The neighborhood and the building are often already the amenity.
You don't always need to add much.
Sometimes you need to stop taking away.
English
bendodge retweetledi
CELEBRATE!
The Trump administration is mere months away from ABOLISHING the ALARA and Linear No-Threshold nuclear standards that have caused our country's nuclear reactors to cost SO MUCH more than they ought to.
We can have a nuclear renaissance, if we want it!
English
@BuckSexton @realBrandonGill The problem is the airports, which are run by the government. The airlines don't want their airplanes sitting around on the tarmac.
English
Hey @realBrandonGill I know you're focused on saving the Republic, protecting our borders (thanks btw)-
But how about a transpo bill that would give airlines 30 min time limit once they land to get passengers to a gate, or else fines kick in and escalate every hour?
English
@RichieBucketsUK @LVann_Sports Not quite. Toe box is narrower on the Ariat. Shank pattern is different.
English
@bendodge @LVann_Sports These are the exact boots aren’t they? Lol.
English
They really got him ostrich leather and he has no idea how premium that is 😭
Freddy🇩🇪@FreddyLA7
This is the most American I‘ve ever felt🇺🇸
English
@johnloeber But then you have to smell overpowering perfume for hours.
English
I am often surprised by what is possible.
Going from SF to Tahoe feels like a big deal. It’s a 200 mile drive, you have to get a rental car, etc. And you assume that no Uber driver would want such a far trip.
Turns out: you can totally just take an Uber. Some drivers want these! 3.5 hour drive, a straight shot in the summer. Much less stressful than the entire rental car rigamarole.
I was surprised by how easy and viable this is. The inevitable next thought is when Waymos will be able to handle this drive. Certainly for summer weather, it feels within reach.
English
@RichieBucketsUK @LVann_Sports I prefer these very similar Ariat's.
Only wear them to church and nice dinners!
English
@LVann_Sports Those boots are extremely top shelf lol. Can’t think of a more elite boot.
English
bendodge retweetledi
Absolutely insane to me the damage that multiple companies have done to themselves with their AI strategies.
- Meta spent BILLIONS hiring a bunch of people to make a new, top-tier AI research lab, and after only a few months it's worse than dead. Working there is currently like working at Sun Microsystems (which is still on the back of the Facebook sign out front, by the way). Like ancient history
- Microsoft tries to do something with Copilot, it fails, then they go all-in on AI in the OS, gets rejected, goes all-in with OpenAI, and now that relationship is completely adversarial. They basically need to start over. They're really starting to look like a company that sells Windows and Office, desperately trying to pretend to be not that, but in an AI way
We're talking about hundreds of billions of dollars. For what?
OpenAI has lit tons of money on fire too, but at least Sam has a vision. He's just doing fast-flux on different ideas to see what sticks, and the only question is whether he can get another hit before the bottom falls out with all the money they owe. But they have a serious chance because he has an idea and they have great people pushing in multiple directions.
Anthropic's in the best state because Dario has both the vision and the business discipline. So they're already profitable.
There's nothing more K-shaped than the difference between a company with lots of money and a good vs. bad (or non-existent) AI strategy.
If you have a clear vision and can execute you're going to crush your competition. And if you don't, all ideas look like good ones. And the chances of self-immolation within 6-24 months are super high.
Here's the ultimate AI prompt for businesses, that they should answer for themselves.
What is the specific problem that we have as a company, and why do we think AI can help us solve it?
For far too many companies the answer is a dismal:
"The primary problem we have is that leadership wants us to use AI. So the way AI can help us solve that is by implementing AI."
Fantastic. You've said precisely nothing. And you might be gone in 24 months.
English
This is *excellent* advice for aspiring professional pilots, or their parents.
Get the Class I medical before you start training. Also, be extremely careful of getting a diagnosis for something. I’m sorry, but that’s the reality.
Cyborg Pediatrician@CyborgPeds
If you want to be a professional pilot when you grow up, go to the eye doctor before scheduling your FAA Class 1 medical exam. The standard is 20/20 w or wo corrective lenses. If you come in and can’t pass, I am unable issue you a certificate no matter how mad your mom gets.
English