Hit dogs holler. You're a redneck, hillbilly Yankee. I have no ill will towards hillbillies or rednecks, they are certainly in my family, but they don't accept me as one of them. I'm from the Yankee branch of the tree.

You won't let us come in the front and seemingly only door known to ever exist. Fine, good. Good and great. That solves the problem forever. you've suitably defeated us squarely. We know of no other way to achieve our goals than a peaceful, upfront takeover of a company. We shall take our mayflower ships and leave from your shores. We Yankee pilgrims know how to leave the Netherlands when we aren't wanted.

That was the rebound year from Covid. It's a statistical anomaly, and chosen by a lot of news reports to highlight the severity of whatever point they're making.

Comparing today's employment against, for example, 2019 is also difficult due to the estimated 10 million illegal immigrants that entered under the Biden administration. For example, today there is about 4.3% unemployment, the average is 5.7%, so we're doing pretty good on that front.

Statistics can lie. Our 4.3% represents 7.4 million unemployed workers, while the 2019 3.5% rate represents 5.8 million unemployed. When you bring in 10 million undocumented people, it's easy to see how 5.8 million unemployed can swell to 7.4 million.

Statistics lie by comparing our employment to a year that had record values because of an anomaly, or compare the number of unemployed by number to a year before we closed the Southern border.

You're assuming that having a healthy life is the primary goal, but it's not. It's secondary.

A healthy life is one of several secondary goals that you have in order to achieve your primary goals, whatever they may be.

For example, having a family/children is the goal of many people. Do you want to see your grandkids grow up? Have a healthy life.

Having enough money for retirement so you can travel (or just have fun) is another goal many people have. Want to enjoy your retirement? Have a healthy life.

Goals go hand-in-hand with motivations, and one way to increase your motivation for doing something is to identify how it contributes to one of your life goals.

So for example, that college course you're taking to get your MBA - are you doing that just for something to do, or does it contribute to where you want to be in 10 years?

It turns out that doing something "just for money" is not, by itself, a motivational goal. Doing something "for the money" that you will need to eventually start your own business, though... that's a motivational goal.

So no, living a healthy miserable life doesn't make much sense if being healthy is the goal.

Living a healthy miserable life *does* make sense if it lets you see your grandkids grow up.

This ruling is from the NY district court, which in theory only has authority over its district, and then only over the plaintiffs.

That last point is contested.

Several district courts have made nationwide injunctions against the current administration. For example, a federal court stopped Trump's 2017 travel ban from nations that didn't have good controls against terrorists. (Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Yemen).

In a 2025 ruling the Supreme Court decided that federal courts do not have the power for nationwide injunctions. The courts *do* have power over the federal government, that's not thought to be beyond the court's jurisdiction, so a court can rule against a federal statute or executive order.

Suppose there's an issue (immigration is an example), and California sues New York in court to force some action and wins. The NY court can issue a nationwide injunction, but then Texas (also interested in immigration issues) can say that they have a strong interest in the outcome and were not party to the litigation.

The supreme court decided (outside of issues with the US government) that Federal courts should focus their remedies on the plaintiffs, and not the entire country.

So not only do countries outside of the US not have to worry about this, US districts that are not the Southern District of New York don't have to worry about it.

Not sure I understand how to vibe code a new app with a simple db look up. If you can get an AI into a loop where It can test its solutions... thats what leads to impressive things. And skynet of course. We will have sky net soon. But like the first wave of bombs will be defective because humans were in the loop and didn't maintain them. Then the bombs may go off for real, then stop and try to apologize to people, then blame others for the deads, then bomb those that complain about their frame job. It will be fun for those that survive a bit.

You know XAI has a purchase agreement to buy cursor, right? I don't understand what the point of that is anymore. I'm guessing that doesn't go through and xAI just uses cursor to steal all of its usage data. But if it does go through, you likely won't have that option anymore.

Yes but the youtube videos of the accidents are much more entertaining than any other power plant type. So there's one in the plus column.

Grimes was right. We stan Frank

I was not trying to heap praise on the guy (I did compare him to Epstein... ) , but if you want to blame him or praise him, I think he's very much responsible for the modern LLM commercialization.

It wouldn't now. I agree. But I think Sam deserves some.. Credit for this current AI cycle. He was the one bold enough to unlesh LLM's and market them to the masses. Google was too timid to do it. Ironically, Open Ai was supposed to prevent this from happening. But Sam is Sam, asking him to show restraint is cuckoo bonkers, its like asking Epstein to start a preteen modeling agency so they don't get trafficked. It would take some one stupid as Musk to put him in charge.

AI isn't ready until it blames previous developers with an appropriate amount of profanity, before resolving in self loathing and self destructive alcoholism

# fuck this shit, fucking lscagg, fuck my life its fucking miller time, actually fuck it. inviting my friends johnny, jim and jack over , fucking three wise men are needed to wipe this fucking shit from my brain

From the Yahoo article:

...and of course it's in beta to a limited number of users right now.

Ugh, it sucked compared to google maps and still does. It doesn't have the Steve jobs obsession with usability. Somehow Google is better at that for maps.

But still, I wish both Google and Apple would spend some more time fixing and improving their maps. I should be able to choose route preferences like " Don't make any un protected left hand turns on to busy streets" and have it route accordingly. Google still routes people through really small alleyways sometimes to save a minute, or will route you on an expensive tollway by default to save a minute. I don't want to avoid all tollways, but I want to make efficient use of time and money. Saving 20 minutes might be worth $2, but Spending $8 to maybe save one minute is not.

Da Fuk? First of all, thats not what Allbirds was. It designed. marketed and sold shoes that were very different in material and shape than normal shoes, so they were not just a logistics company, but had some real manufacturing know how aboard as well. But thats neither here nor there. A shoe factory would at least has a building space with power and water supplied. which is ironically the one thing allbirds doesn't have.