@AndyMasley this is just describing the standard experience of driving in utah
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My vision of the future is AVs at every 5 miles on a road forming a complete barrier that goes exactly at the speed limit and only parting for emergency vehicles
“paula”@paularambles
okay but have you considered that they’re just two waymos in love
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@vt__snowflake guess who is very sick with the flu and just watched HOURS of youtube videos comparing ancient linen samples to modern linens at the microscopic level
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it is a constant refrain in american culture that everything is made more poorly than in the past. wrt the lifetime of textiles (clothing, bed and bath linens, etc), it might be worth asking yourself if the fact that your grandma did not own a dryer is relevant
constans@constans
Wheee do euros get the idea that a dryer will ruin their clothes? I wash my tshirts after every wearing, and it’s not like my tshirts are falling apart. Are you getting 15-20 years out of your towels instead of “just” 10 years?
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the robots are doing mormon roadblocks now
“paula”@paularambles
okay but have you considered that they’re just two waymos in love
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an employee at a filipino call center makes like $400 a month, assuming 40h weeks that’s $2.50/hr. the tokens are more expensive than the human
Benjamin Todd@ben_j_todd
Hard to think of a more AI-exposed job than Filipino call centres, but employment was up 4% in 2025.
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Sometimes I think the U.S. is a declining power then I see a real declining power
Visegrád 24@visegrad24
The Russian Africa Corps is now abandoning their Malian allies. Assad, Maduro, Khamenei and now Goïta… The Russians never help their allies when they need it the most
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@idobadtakes @constans my mom still line dries pretty much everything she washes and let me tell you, there is nothing like putting on a shirt or getting into a bed w/sheets that were dried in the sunshine. They just feel and smell *so* good. And the smell changes with the season, it’s rly nice
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@idobadtakes @constans Yeah it absolutely beats the shit out of textiles. Actually it’s kind of ironic how everyone bemoans how clothes and linens used to last decades but now fall apart within years- must be evil corporations, the fact that grandma line-dried everything is completely unrelated
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Wheee do euros get the idea that a dryer will ruin their clothes? I wash my tshirts after every wearing, and it’s not like my tshirts are falling apart.
Are you getting 15-20 years out of your towels instead of “just” 10 years?
taoki@justalexoki
ok so either American dryers are fundamentally different than European dryers or Americans just don't care about ruining their clothes
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@jimbutlr @Empty_America Swim over a mile every day and you won’t really need to lift lol
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@Empty_America You know he's European because both his workouts are cardio and not lifting weights
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These bleak lifestyles are far more depressing in the European context.
We want to believe that it's different in France, that they are still drinking wine, 2 hour lunch, having affair.
Not "consuming protein" and so forth.
Joe Rogan Podcast News@joeroganhq
Do you think this is "simple"?
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@NakatomiHarry @DexterDaygame being rich and famous doesn’t hurt either
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I'm always fascinated by prolific playboys like Trump and 50 Cent who have never drank.
Duke Herndon@DukeHerndon
@DexterDaygame Yep. I quit a long time ago but still meet women for drinks. You can’t fight what works
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saw a lady giving away a set of some rather nice dining chairs for free on FBM. thought they looked familiar, image searched, msged her saying she might want to ask a reasonable price instead. “oh i ended up selling them for $100, i thought they were ugly.” see below for reveal
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@realEstateTrent @General_d33 he thought consuming heavy metals would give him faster gains bc they’re heavy
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@General_d33 Why eBay for protein powder over everyone else?
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I Haven’t thought about eBay in over 10 years.
They’re still doing $10B+ in revenue.
Serious question:
Who is actually using it?
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@bobbyfijan speak for yourself, i sleep in the movie room 2-3 nights a week
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It’s good enough for leasing tour
No one uses amenities anyway
Tyler | Kenji Capital@KenjiCapital
How much do you think residents value this type of amenity? Do you think there's a good ROI on this as an owner?
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@ne0petsgirl my guess is that would currently cover about a bedroom and a half
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Used to live in Allston. Just checked and 1br apartments in the same building now rent for about $100/mo more than the 4br we had did when we were there lol
neopets girl online@ne0petsgirl
my first apartment in Boston with my bf at the time was $600 and 1,100sq ft. same area today has studios for $3500, 374 sq ft. I worked at a bookstore part time and could make my rent in 1 week!
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tbf I can’t remember our exact rent, but it was ~$500-600 a head for four bedrooms and the apartment was like 1,500 square feet. These days in the same building you get 350sqft (lol) for two grand
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this kind of thing is very fun to do as a hobby, but whats missing from the description is that bc of the niche market you’re operating in if you run this at any volume for longer than a month or two you’ll need to lease a warehouse. the antique market is not meaningfully liquid
Loris@0xLoris
i can admit when i was wrong. so there's good news and bad news: bad news: sniping modern pateks/rolexes on ebay is not a thing. it's an ~efficient market good news: passing unidetified manhattan estate liquidation lot images through a vision model to find mispricings appears to be a thing the core of the thesis has evolved to: find auction pools where the clearing price is structurally depressed for reasons unrelated to what the item is, and value it against the current bid you thought C-tier perp DEX RWA flow was soft? how about regional pickup-only estate liquidation listings that busted up old japanese paper divider that sat next to Gramps' writing corner? it's worth $12,000 to a collector, but the top bid is for $30, and the seller just wants it gone Maw Maw's favorite brooch listed for $120? it's tiffany and it's worth $25,000 but nobody knows these valuations except a few thousand people in the entire USA per niche category. and the odds that they are going to sift thourgh hundreds of thousands of random listings daily that are mislabeled (or, more commonly, unlabeled) to find all mispricings is ~0 so i (claude) built a tool to scrape nyc tri-state area estate liquidation sales, price listings, and surface the gems first pass does a claude haiku 4.5 valuation. 2nd pass (manual) is an opus 4.7 valuation for the high ticket items with low bids. on many thousands of listings per day manhattan is a particularly good sub-market for this (although probably more efficient than some) because of the concentration of wealth but any major metro will have some inefficiency / insane deals -- to expand on the thesis a bit edge comes primarily from the venue, not the query. we are trying to stack multiple qualifiers from the following list to determine likely 'soft' venues for listing discovery A. limited bidder pool - small venue, obscure platform, in-person, local-only B. wrong bidder pool - charity gala, corporate event, room full of non-specialists C. friction - pickup only, wire/cash only, old bad website D. non-monetary motivation - tax deduction > price, speed > price (estate, divorce, bankruptcy) E. information asymmetry - seller doesn't know what they have F. time-boxed release - court deadlines, closeouts, lapsed reservations scraping currently on estate liquidations in the tri-state area but i think there is probably softer flow out there. maybe charity auctions or court-ordered liquidations ---- good side project, will continue
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@MarkVanHook3 @danpfeiffer It’s less humane! bullets to the heart don’t leave people gasping for breath and writhing in agony for hours and hours on end
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@vt__snowflake @danpfeiffer Sorry to say I think this is right. I’m anti-death penalty in principle but if we have to have it then by all means let’s not pretend lethal injection is any more humane than this.
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Really normal shit coming from this White House
Fox News@FoxNews
BREAKING: Justice Department announces it's readopting the firing squad as a means of execution
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