- All of these are "not launched yet."
I thought the Slate looked interesting. Then the price started creeping up.
I'll just buy a Ford Ranger or Maverick instead.
- > Why do you need a truck?
To haul dirt. To haul junk out to the dump. Etc.
Do people load their Transits with piles of dirt and mulch? I doubt it.
I live in the US and have a small house in the city, and I haul stuff like this all the time.
Yes, you can rent a pickup truck as needed from U-Haul, but that gets old real quick.
Yes, I would love it if there was a nice small or mid-sized truck with an extended bed available, because most trucks are overkill for my use case.
But this idea that no normal person needs a pickup truck a dozen times a year is just weird.
- Drug companies net profit margin is 2x that of a typical company. EU and America have equal size populations.
Back of envelope, if the total cost of that drug went solely to profit, and profits were cut in half, it would cost $200 for both Europeans and Americans if we paid the same price.
So yeah, we are kind of subsidizing the lower prices for Europe.
- We'd have to grant some form of blanket immunity to drug companies the way we currently do with vaccines.
Also, aren't most mostly benign drugs dangerous when combined with the wrong other mostly benign drugs? The gatekeeping protects against that.
- Who said they're not allowed to sell it?
I used to own an OP-1 and I thought it was great.
- If Teenage Engineering made a computer.
Expensive, not ergonomic, probably totally useless.
- Agree. Everyone would be singing a different tune if say, Fox News were asking for this.
- Yes.
- It was my desktop daily driver circa year 2000.
Not sure what people use it for now.
- People are nostalgic for the pixel art made specifically to look good on CRTs.
It’s like sometimes preferring 24 fps cinema or oil paints over photography.
It depends on what’s being displayed.
- Same.
I'm half convinced it's something like blood vessels too close to sound receptor thingies in my ear. Or something similar.
I had a hearing test done a few years ago and my hearing is actually slightly above average for my age.
It would be nice to not have it, but whatever.
- Next time a jihadist invites you to their wedding... politely decline.
- Stop charging $300k for the medical degree.
- > out of spite
Or, they're just protecting their property value and neighborhood composition, like anyone else would do.
- > Newly elected Representatives in the 119th Congress had a median age of 47.8 years.
> Similar to the House, the incoming class of Senators in the 119th Congress was also younger, with a median age of 50.4 years.
> The average age of Representatives is 57.9 years.
- I use LLMs daily as a software engineer and they save me dozens of hours a week and I can’t imagine going back to a time without them.
But call me when you can load all human knowledge circa 1905 and have them spit out the Theory of Relativity.
And even then I might shift my goalposts.
- You can be arrested for not paying your parking tickets.
- LLMs are more powerful/capable on any number of axes than the other stuff, so it’s going to cast a wider net.
Not a big deal, but things still slide around in a van.