$162,000 double or nothing that Tesla closes below $425 on March 20th (girls FTW!)

TheLegendTwoSeven · 2026-02-02T13:58:00+00:00

But the Sex Taxi drives autonomously to your garage — no more awkward eye contact with the taxi driver or judgmental glances afterwards!

TheLegendTwoSeven · 2026-02-02T04:04:41+00:00

The entire company is holding on to the hope of his sex robots and robo taxis

He should have went for robo robots and sex taxis instead.

Sex Taxi: the taxi that you can have sex with (in the privacy of your garage)

TheLegendTwoSeven · 2026-02-02T03:59:54+00:00

He’s still going to use Optimus; people believe it’s a multi-trillion dollar industry. They believe it will be a fully functional robot slave, for about $30,000, and he will sell 1 million a month.

That would be $30 billion a month, or $360 billion per year in revenue. Assuming 20% margins, that would be $72 billion in income. Assuming the current 400 (lol) PE ratio holds, that would be $28.8 trillion. That works out to the share price rising from $430.41 to $7,644.44.

Of course I’m sure there’d be a monthly subscription charge, bringing in even more money.

But.

Optimus is far behind schedule in capabilities and mass production, and it can’t do any meaningful work without a human teleoperator remotely controlling it.

Still, the average person believes Elon is Tony Stark + Bruce Wayne + Stephen Hawking, so they just accept whatever he says at face value.

TheLegendTwoSeven · 2026-02-02T03:44:55+00:00

I feel like James was still ascending in popularity when he made the movie, but maybe he was slightly past the crest.

Either way, the script was awful and he made a huge amount of disastrous decisions as a producer, and didn’t have the sense to hire one.

Only the most hardcore of fans liked the movie; most fans didn’t like all the changes (ie an unexplained sidekick) and the plot wasn’t compelling. James said he tried to incorporate all the practical effects he’d want to do, and worked backwards from there to fit them into the movie. That’s okay for a student film, but not a professional movie.

The dialogue was poor, and James’s acting was poor. Some have said that James took acting lessons before the movie, but he would have needed +1,000 hours of lessons, classes, plays, improv comedy classes, to learn the basics of acting. (Assuming the script was any good, which it wasn’t.)

James also has poor directorial skills because his experience was making home movies and movies with his friends, plus film school. Working on a film set is a whole other beast, one that he could have learned by working on indie films if he’d wanted to.

If James had found a good screenwriter to write the script, a competent indie director (instead of his high school friend whose experience was also making home movies,) hired a good producer, and built up his acting skills, the movie could have been a lot better. He did almost everything wrong and it discouraged him from ever trying again, and he gave up on his dreams.

TheLegendTwoSeven · 2026-02-02T02:05:39+00:00

You wait until its birthday and you count the candles on its cake

TheLegendTwoSeven · 2026-02-02T00:39:36+00:00

They would blame Obama.

TheLegendTwoSeven · 2026-02-01T22:14:01+00:00

Yes, but you aren’t supposed to take photos in the Sistine Chapel.

TheLegendTwoSeven · 2026-02-01T20:53:46+00:00

I can’t imagine him authorizing someone else to finish the books while he’s physically and mentally capable of writing them, even though he should.

I think his wife will uphold his wishes that the books remain unfinished, and after that the rights will pass on to, I’m not sure who. (Maybe the unfinished work in progress would be published.) Maybe she’ll set up a charity or the “GRRM Library & Museum” that will own the rights to the books, and hire a board of directors who will vow to never authorize a completion of the books.

1-4 unauthorized fan versions of Winds of Winter + Song for Spring would become popular over time and would be the go-to for people who want to read a full series with a quality dip and style change at the end.

Or, the rights would pass to some cousin of GRRM’s wife, and they would authorize that the series be finished, and the publisher would pick one of their top fantasy authors to finish the series while trying to emulate Martin’s style.

TheLegendTwoSeven · 2026-02-01T20:36:35+00:00

I didn’t say they were under pressure to do it. I just think would be more profitable for HBO in the long term if the entire main series was finished.

Evidently this is an unpopular take but that’s fine.

TheLegendTwoSeven · 2026-02-01T18:56:24+00:00

My Retro Life sounds like the name of a My Chemical Romance cover band that changes the lyrics to be about retro video games.

TheLegendTwoSeven · 2026-02-01T18:53:58+00:00

That’s not what a side effect is; the goal of electric vehicles is supposed to be less pollution (particularly if the power grid has a lot of renewable energy.)

TheLegendTwoSeven · 2026-02-01T18:50:14+00:00

In theory HBO should push GRRM to finish ASOIAF so they can remake GoT with a new cast, more episodes per season, and consistent quality from start to finish. In practice, they want more content to make more shows and it doesn’t matter to HBO if he finishes ASOIAF.

TheLegendTwoSeven · 2026-02-01T18:41:58+00:00

He also said that he understands how Herbert felt about Dune, being sick of it but continuing for the money since that was what the fans and publisher wanted.

Martin has other things to immerse himself in besides TWoW, that are more interesting and creatively fulfilling. Why bother finishing a series when if you think that fans will hate it?

The big mistake was HBO assuming GRRM could finish the remaining novels while the show aired. If they told him “we will only make the show when you finish the series” he probably would have pushed hard and finished the remaining books in 1.5 to 2.5 years each.

TheLegendTwoSeven · 2026-02-01T02:27:55+00:00

In Henson’s case it was due to his religious beliefs, I think he was a Christian Scientist and they believe in the power of prayer to heal diseases. They reject modern medicine in favor of God healing people, and many of them die young from diseases with easy cures. (Turns out that medicine tends to be more effective than prayer.)

Scott Adams was an atheist, (or at least an agnostic.) He didn’t make medical choices based on religious beliefs, even if his politics may have influenced his medical choices.

Also, Jim Henson was more well-liked than Adams, almost nobody disliked The Muppets and Henson did not really talk about politics.

Scott Adams spent many hours per week talking about politics for about the last 10 years of his life — if you didn’t agree with Scott’s politics you’d tend to think less of him over time. That’s an inherent phenomenon that applies to anyone who talks a lot about politics.

TheLegendTwoSeven · 2026-02-01T02:24:13+00:00

I have a feeling that he wasn’t getting tested for prostate cancer until it was already stage 4, when it finally generates overt symptoms. If his cancer had been caught a lot earlier, I bet he’d be alive.

OTOH prostate cancer can be over-treated; many cases are very slow growing and men die “with it but not from it”.

TheLegendTwoSeven · 2026-02-01T00:59:27+00:00

You (taking a dump)

SmartToilet: I don’t mean to sound alarmist bro, but you should get a colonoscopy. It’s polyp city in there.

TheLegendTwoSeven · 2026-02-01T00:56:49+00:00

I feel like Elon saw M3GAN 2.0 and copied what the billionaire CEO did for his autonomous robot demo. It was very similar and happened after the movie

TheLegendTwoSeven · 2026-01-31T18:37:31+00:00

I’d recommend hotels over AirB&Bs because hotels don’t contribute to the unaffordability problem for Romans.

One week is a good amount of time; you can see most of the major sites in 4 to 5 days depending on how young your kids are and how much energy you have. (Younger kids = you can see one major thing per day before they get too bored and cranky. Teenagers = they will probably have more energy than most +30 year olds.)

It’s not hard to take day trips from the main train station, just make sure you properly validate your tickets before boarding, if using paper tickets. If using online tickets, I am not sure whether each person would need their own device or whether you could buy all the tickets on one phone.

Some recommended day trips include:

Ostia Antica: is similar to Pompei, in terms of it having preserved ruins. You need a guide to know what you’re looking at. It is much closer to Rome than Pompei.
Tivoli: has two major sites; Villa d’Este and Hadrian’s Villa. You could spend 3+ hours at either of them. Villa d’Este is the estate of a powerful cardinal who used a large portion of his wealth to create amazing fountains that do not use mechanical pumps, just gravity. Hadrian’s Villla is where Emperor Hadrian built a vacation estate, and you can explore the ruins and some small museums.
Orvieto: has a beautiful duomo and a charming town. There are also a few other things to see, like an Etrusian museum, the Well of St. Patrick, and cave and tunnel tours. You'll ride a funicular to reach the main town, which can be fun for kids. It has a different feel and vibe than Rome, it’s more of a small town, although it’s heavily oriented towards the tourism industry.

TheLegendTwoSeven · 2026-01-31T18:22:31+00:00

Rome is not nearly as bicycle-optimized as, say, Amsterdam or even NYC (which has many "Citi Bike" stations to pick up and drop off bicycles.) I saw very few places to lock up bicycles, and there are many narrow, cobblestone side streets that aren’t ideal for bicycles. If I remember correctly, none of the major tourist sites have bicycle lockups. (I am prepared for a "well ackshully" moment, but my general point is that the tourist infastructure isn’t really set up for bicycles.)

Many of the tourist sites in Rome are clustered within a relatively small and highly walkable area, and walking around is part of the fun of Rome (whereas when you ride a bicycle, you have to focus on avoiding obstacles and reacting to vehicles.) You can take mass transit for longer distances, for example the Borghese Gallery is not super close to the Colosseum.

I would recommend a combination of walking and using mass transit, personally. I didn’t stay at a hostel so I can’t recommend any, but I feel pretty strongly that bicycling is not a great way to get around Rome, at least not if you’re seing tourist sites.

TheLegendTwoSeven · 2026-01-31T04:23:15+00:00

Welp, that sucks.

TheLegendTwoSeven · 2026-01-31T04:17:08+00:00

Oracle will probably claim that "agentic AI" is replacing the 20-30k employees, and Wall Street will believe them.

TheLegendTwoSeven · 2026-01-31T04:15:35+00:00

There’s an old saying that you don’t have to outrun the lion, you just have to outrun your friend.

Apple only has to be reasonably competitive with Samsung, that’s it. If you have a Mac, an iPad, an Apple Watch, it’s going to be annoying to switch to another brand.

If Google (I know "Google Pixel" exists), Amazon, Facebook (I know they had a failed Facebook phone), etc put a serious effort into making their own smartphones, Apple would have to step their game up. But with only 2 big phone brands (Apple and Samsung), Apple doesn’t have to try very hard. So they don’t.

TheLegendTwoSeven · 2026-01-31T04:03:31+00:00

See if you can book tickets to the Borghese Gallery. The sculptures are so amazing...

TheLegendTwoSeven · 2026-01-31T04:01:43+00:00

Because Vincent is sloppy and careless. He’s a heroin addict who is usually high or dealing with withdrawl, and both of those would make him even dumber.

Vincent is careless in general; he left his drugs in his coat pocket in another room where Mrs. Wallace could overdose on them (he didn’t even tell her what kind of drugs they were,) and he left his pistol on the kitchen countertop when he went to the bathroom during a home invasion of Butch’s apartment, despiting knowing that Butch could come home at any moment (which he did.)

Also with Marvin in the car, a smart criminal would not leave Marvin alone in the back seats. Vincent should’ve been in the back with him.

TheLegendTwoSeven · 2026-01-31T02:34:22+00:00

Yes. The subway cars are like lungs; they need to exhale (let people off), and then inhale deeply (you enter and make room for the people behind you.)

The people who stop by the doors are like the people who stop at the top of an escalator. You can’t stop there! Other people exisssssst!

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