There is again, but there was, too.

The funny thing about people who say it’s not a bubble because AI has value is that the asset category having value doesn’t prevent valuation bubbles from forming.

Houses have value: you can live in them. Yet there was a housing bubble.

The internet has value: you can watch cat videos on it. Yet there was a dot com bubble.

Tulip bulbs have value: you can grow pretty flowers with them. Yet there was a tulip bulb bubble.

In my experience, whenever you start reading news stories asking if something is a bubble and quoting investment bankers say, “no, it’s not a bubble,” well, usually it’s a bubble.

I regret ever getting mixed up with Amazon in the first place. I canceled Prime, stopped ordering from Amazon’s website, found a Kindle alternative, pulled the plug on my IoT crap, and unplugged my Echoes. No regrets. YMMV.

I don’t know. Here I am occupying my day explaining to strangers that a map posted to something literally called “Lemmy Shitpost” is not scientifically accurate. I think I’m probably not clever enough to operate in the future. I hate the future. It sucks. Where’s my flying car?

Oh, this again? Come on. That’s not what scientists say. It’s a map of the Mediterranean Sea superimposed on the US. It’s a joke. Florida is going to be submerged way before the Rocky Mountains.

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Eh, I think a lot of people cling to ridiculous superstitions because the world is scary. I get impatient sometimes with stuff like that. I can’t whistle at night, I can’t go to the beach during ghost month, I have to pay my wife a dollar if she buys me shoes, etc. I think it’s all silly but I wouldn’t trade my wife for anything.

Can he? Yes. Should he? Yes. Will he? No.

I think he’s really mixed up. He is saying that promoting equal rights for everyone is divisive. But what could be more divisive than dividing people into groups and assigning different rights to each division?

I’ve been trying to find cool stuff on PeerTube. Sometimes it feels like wandering in the wilderness. I guess people really only do post cool stuff to YouTube for the money. I found this, though it was pretty cool. https://video.mycrowd.ca/w/8wu8fRidkbjQ1FK3zqo1Mp

I wouldn’t hesitate to walk that far for a library, but realistically I’d take my cruiser bike for that distance. I’ve heard people tend to cite around 15-20 minutes as the maximum walk length that is considered “walkable,” but I’ve often chosen walking longer distances than that even when other options were available. For dense urban areas, I’d rather walk that take a bus unless it’s really far. Sometimes I get passed up by the same bus 5 or 6 times along the way. I agree with others who have said that time estimate sounds way long.

The violent crime rate is significantly lower than it was in the 1980s. So there’s that.

Boring English name. It’s fine.

I met someone with my same first and last name when they called my name to come up to the podium at the airport gate and two of us showed up.

🤣 yeah no format change. Got me.

The data changes every day. And it’s been getting more and more depressing.

Super niche, but water-data.com

It lists current and historical water levels, inflow and outflow data for all of the reservoirs in the upper Colorado River basin. It’s all html tables and graphs.

I’v been watching it for at least 20 years and I don’t think it has ever changed.

That’s probably not why.

Yes but you must acknowledge the crowding out effect. There are only so many screens. If so many are taken up by the never-ending sequel/adaptation/remake churn, that leaves precious little chance to actually see something original. If you’re a movie buff, I could see how that could become frustrating, even if you never watch any of the content you don’t like.

Even if it had gone perfectly, what would it have proved? That with the magic of AI, anyone can make Korean inspired barbecue sauce, as long as they are in a well-appointed kitchen that happens to have the right amount all the ingredients of Korean inspired barbecue sauce all laid out in front of them. I mean, if you know to go get all that stuff, you pretty much know how to make Korean inspired barbecue sauce already.

Surprised? Yeah me neither.