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On that site I linked you can flip a switch to see traffic cameras. I got some good entertainment yesterday watching slip'n'slide sled race driving... Today it seems to have quelled down. The major highways between towns all seem to have a single lane cleared by a combination of the Dept of...

Here in Dallas, we have around 1-2" of accumulated sleet. Which of course means the whole city is pretty functionally shut down. I might get out in it this afternoon to scout the area and see how good/bad it is. Most of the freeways are moderately clear already due to traffic. Looks like...

I could back this one as well. IMHO, it would be Urban if you wanted a grittier Man-at-arms, Offerman if you wanted more levity with it. Then again I'm kinda hoping they aren't going to "grimdark" He-Man... Let the IP be what the IP has always been. In my perfect world this movie results in...

I'll chip in with that I love Mr Elba in everything I've seen him in. And I don't doubt he could make a good Man At Arms. But there are other characters he could have been cast as to make room for who I'd prefer.... Forgive the quick and dirty AI slop.... Would also give them someone with...

Make sure to start calling the people running the meetings "Scrumbags"

So essentially, you're automating Elon's repetitive "Send me a list of 5 things you got done this week" emails.. but with AI.

Time to shift to "Learn2Weld"

From a stand point of me just liking to make things out of silver, and .800 and .925 (sterling) being fine for that I wish this were true enough for the price on that "junk" to drop some. heh

OK, basically... God damn it, I feel stupider for just needing to recount that nonsense.... At this point I'm starting to finally hit the black pilled realization that the science fiction franchises I cherished as a kid have all be irrevocably broken in such a way that only burying them for a...

Essentially crypto is here to do to banks what online retailers did to brick and mortar ones....

Relative to my posting about copper in Politics... I also melt some silver as part of my metalcrafting hobby. I have purchased lots of "junk" silver jewlery which is .800 purity. Melt it down to make coins and things. Also a tiny pile of actual rounds which I bought ages ago (when it was...

... Or just to the several places in the US with "Wide Bore" CT and MRI machines. Strangely , for the first time in my life less than a year ago I had essentially a claustrophobic panic attack when being put in for an MRI (see the whole Kidney saga for me in the Health Problems thread). Because...

Cross post from Politics, as someone mentioned the skyrocketing cost of metals (mostly silver and gold). It's also affected Copper. Which made me curious enough to go get all the copper I've cast together and weigh it. Mostly all metal I come across through seeing things people have tossed...

Historically..... BTC will tend to rally AFTER a Gold rally finishes/pops. Gold is still posting new ATHs, so BTC being somewhat subdued isn't that surprising to me. Question is if we're really seeing an irrational bubble in gold/silver prices, or if this is the "new normal". If the latter...

OK, so we're getting the Aquaman "I had to hide you somewhere safe" trope... Good enough. I just hope they don't spend 2/3rds of the move getting him to the point of getting the sword and back to Eternia.

NGL, I pulled out our generator and did a 2 hour "test run" to make sure it was ready just in case. We're in N. Texas and apparently going to be getting "wintry mix" Friday night, freezing rain/sleet Saturday, then snow Saturday night. I test the generator because anytime anything frozen...

Looks like Davos jump started the speed of this cycle. Since today he announced a "framework" was reached for a deal. Which would now put us at step 8 to lead into this weekend.

I'm trying to hunt down if it's real or not. But I'm seeing tweets and nonsense saying there's a second crypto bill about to plow through congress because of the money behind it, and it's going to functionally make self custody impossible by stating that all crypto must be held on government...

Talking to some of the folks in my org who are "coders" now... all in their early 20's.... And I feel this future is charging at them like Thomas the Tank Engine on a cocaine bender...

Now a days they could just set a stream of Nuvoluxe off youtube into the things.... The ultimate in "wallpaper music". Completely AI generated, always sounds somehow comfortable and familiar, while also being completely forgettable. I'll literally put it on in my car when I want to wholly...

In my case the mortgage for me is the last standing debt I have. No CC balances, no car payments... and I never racked up college debt.

Yeah, another Trump generated "buying opportunity".... Following his standard tariff playbook. A comprehensive step-by-step playbook to navigate Trump's trade war: On Friday, President Trump posts a cryptic message signaling tariffs on a specific country or sector. Markets drift lower as...

I've actually had this shop fix a different rim for me before. Cool guy and simple cracks are usually $30-50. Just annoyed that now my side project tomorrow morning will be taking the wheel off and hauling it up there in the wife's car.

So today's entry in "The surprise expenses never stop"... Had the rear passenger tire in my caddy losing around 1lb of pressure every couple days, I believe if you recall I talked about this before in here and they found and fixed a flat (screw in the tire). It started again. I figured with...

The fact of it being in a bank account is part of my "speed to money" habit which came from my post depression era grandfather. It starts with that adage about "Always have 6 months of your expenses readily available in case of emergency", which for me I've always seen as something like...

Only big purchase would be the potential of "buying land away from town to build the forever house on" and that's a far larger scale than what's left. It's also probably something I'd cash out my outsized bucket of stock in my current company to do. But I am also in my mid 50's so looking at...

When I had around a nice car left, I meant in the principal, and if $50k is what it takes to get a nice car now, then it's less than a nice car left.... Around $36k

My daily driver is a full sized corsair mechanical with round keycaps on it.

Yeah, exactly how is the slicer or the printer going to know that the random plastic object it's fabricating is part of a gun? I mean, you might do something where the slicer sends it to an AI to identify, but then just make sure the slicer/printer don't have internet connections and you're golden.

I have mostly generic rounds. With a few "year of the <whatever>" rounds throw in for variety. A solid silver coin makes a treat card cover when playing poker.

RE: The bills every winning it all :

You sir, obviously work for the genius titans of capitalism that walk the Earth! Godspeed....

So today I find myself pondering something involving Chez Haus. We have a pretty tiny scrap left on a ~3% interest mortgage (To the tune of less than a decent new car amount of money). I have kept to my logic that the money I can deploy is making more than the mortgage rate so it doesn't make...

I wonder if they think they're going to do this with the highly vaunted "AI^2" architecture.... Artificial Intelligence * Another Indian (probably in India, maybe an H1b)

Oh, I wouldn't run the photon in my office either. Just that a lot of people talk about needing some super industrial vent system, but so long as you have some kind of air exhaust to pull air out of the room you should, IMHO, be fine. They make some now I have seen with activated carbon HEPA...

OK, from the reality of me having both a resin printer (OG Photon), and FDM (Currently Ender5 Pro). And doing a lot of printing over time for 28mm tabletop gaming. I print scenery, larger mobs, and such on the FDM and can get good enough with the Ender for that (Usually leveraging tree...

Embrace the one true keyboard... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_F_keyboard That bad boy will give you fingers so strong lesbians will envy you, and is loud enough that when you get into enthusiastic shitposting people will think you're firing a machine gun at the monitor to make your...

For me, the lack of a legit 10 key numeric pad is a deal breaker. I do enough with numbers that my hand is well trained to the comfortable arena of 10-key. The smaller arrows would also annoy the piss out of me. (These are reasons I rarely do serious work with my work laptop unless I have a...

You're not even on the chart my dude.... But then again you did admit this is the keyboard to appease your 'tism.

Whatever little voice we, as people, have... It should be trying to kill this bill and get a proper one done. This bill would not only prevent any stablecoins from offering any type of yield/interest, it would also massively further invade any privacy anybody in the crypto space has. Almost...