It's always tempting to think, well maybe someone has a better selection. And someone probably does! But google absolutely will not show you them, for a large percentage of these kinds of supplies queries the google results are close to 100% these copycat websites

the fabric sellers do this too

a thing I'm seeing more and more of online is a single store pretending to be many different stores. there's dozens of these bookbinding supply websites with identical products, identical prices, right down to the identical spam emails

you say that but if McConnell had been required to do pushups he would simply have come out in favor of Obamacare

wait I do have a four thing

My current thinking on pizza dough is
1 cup of flour
2 grams of salt
3 grams of yeast
110 grams of water sorry I didn't have a four thing

Interogating AI's crappy code output like a Chotiner interview. "Those other lines, what do they do?"

yeah it should, I just think it's not quite to the previous trend

the fact that every single billionaire in the emails seems depressed and lonely is pretty telling

If you call the Nazis Nazis the DHS will label you as a terrorist, the literal term the SS used to refer to the french resistance bsky.app/profile/bren...

Covid struck older people particularly hard, which made the population younger than it otherwise would be at this point in time. "Back to trend" should look like below trend mortality because of the missing high-morbidity population. I'd say we are still seeing downstream mortality from the pandemic

Sir Pibbins is a registered trademark of the Martinhof Corporation

just tallying up my cost of Sir Pibbins sold on one of these

If I use flavor oils instead of real cherries I can bring the cost down to about $130

when it's not freezing out I can ship Diet Dr Pepper syrup (5x concentration) at like $130. This batch of Sir Pippins is made with 4kg of real cherries and seems to be about 10x concentration, so with spices and aspartame works out to about $430 for an equivalent amount of soda

I can't ship Diet Dr Pepper syrup in the winter so I made Sir Pibbins

AI is garbage that tells us only what the billionaire overlords want most of the time, but also

It's a shame there isn't a right-wing economist anymore with the kind of stature Milton Friedman had to call this crap out. Come on JD, you're ivy-league educated, you're smart enough to know why this is wrong. What would Milton Friedman say bsky.app/profile/atru...

If you type the exact same calculation into AI there's some non-zero chance it will randomly hallucinate a wrong answer because it actually sees no difference between what you typed and some statistically representative thing a person would type

the purpose of the printer calculator is to guard against fat-fingers errors. You staple the calculations to your journal, the next person can see what you typed and see if it's what you were supposed to type, the calculator itself is deterministic and comprehensively tested

it's interesting that printer calculators persist in the AI slop era. Totally opposite paradigms on what is acceptable practice in business

particulate smoke is a big deal but I'm more concerned on the risk of the fire escaping and burning down some innocent person's property or possibly killing people. iirc there were arson accidents like this in both Ferguson and some of the George Floyd events

If you bring electric price down there's fewer gas water heaters, stoves, and HVACs. Even if 100% of the electricity is from gas power plants this reduces gas consumption (assuming induction and heat pumps), but also there's fewer gas leaks

In 2026 a gas turbine is just a lot cheaper per kilowatt hour than a coal powerplant. This means the relevant margin is not gas powerplant vs coal powerplant but gas powerplant vs coal powerplant *plus everyone having gas HVAC, waterheater, and stove.*

It's interesting that the gas leak critique of greenhouse effect of gas electric plants vs coal always focuses on leaks at the wells and never on leaks in private homes and such

the genocide against the Indians was bad but doing a second genocide again today would be exactly as bad, they're the same thing

I always wonder about spiral notebooks that have the three hole punch but no perforations, who is that for

I actually use a ribbon tie whenever I wear wool socks. It really shows that a lot of folks have never worn 100% wool, you pretty much always need a garter of some kind no matter how it's knit, unless it contains elastic

as a historical menswear guy I'm not a fan of these "flashes" people wear with kilt hose. It's modern and fake. The thing it is alluding to is a ribbon, just tie a real ribbon around your leg, it's so easy

Just ballpark it in by brain: people work 50-ish years, we're adding 2, that's about a one-time 5% increase in GDP, $1.5T more GDP of which we tax about 20%, for $310B new revenues, against a deficit projection of $1.7T