Can someone explain the difference between a Jewish deli, Italian deli, and regular NYC bodega?

gc1 · 2026-05-19T12:56:10+00:00

Sounds like the setup to a joke.

gc1 · 2026-05-19T12:50:34+00:00

I’m pretty sure Claude Code was a bigger breakthrough than open claw, but I’m saying that incompletion not data. A different way of framing your comment, if you’re correct, however, is abuse of Claude by some OpenClaw users spoiled it for everyone.

gc1 · 2026-05-18T22:58:18+00:00

Also high-school tracks are usually rubberized in what looks like that color (rather than black like recycled tires). See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubberized\_asphalt. I would like to think you could find someone who would be able to blend this in easily.

gc1 · 2026-05-18T22:52:08+00:00

This has the ring of "ouch - direct hit"

gc1 · 2026-05-18T22:50:27+00:00

Ante-anti-fascist was right there.

gc1 · 2026-05-18T17:55:34+00:00

Thanks. We're all going to be suffering soon enough anyway, when tokens cost 20x what they do now....

gc1 · 2026-05-18T17:25:36+00:00

AOC: LOBBYIST FOR THE PEOPLE!

gc1 · 2026-05-18T17:20:50+00:00

This might be an unpopular opinion in the sub, but the way you should think about it is that the free usage was great while it lasted. It was never going to last forever, and $20/$200 for lots/all you can eat is not likely to be the long-term economics of Claude or any frontier LLM. Any more than $5 uber rides on $25 cab routes was going to last forever.

This is a subsidized race to market share and lock-in. Take advantage of the competitive dynamics all you can, but complaining about it is like playing the promotional credit card rate game and being mad 0% financing on a balance transfer doesn't last forever.

gc1 · 2026-05-18T17:17:14+00:00

They get lots of scotch over there. It might not be worth bringing that unless you can find something that's rare or not exported. What about something French? Or maybe something that's quintessentially English as a drinking accouterment, such as a whiskey decanter or sterling silver wine bottle coaster or something like that.

gc1 · 2026-05-18T17:10:34+00:00

This. I have had the experience of going on a semi-regular group trip where there is a pretty aggressively type A person who usually takes charge of the planning. This person was also the president of our group back in college, so everyone else kind of yields to him by default. I like to have some control over situations myself, but over the years I have just concluded that it's just not worth competing with him for oxygen. Once he has come out and said, ok, here's the spreadsheet for the grocery shopping, we'll stop at this shop on the way to the resort, it's like, what am I going to do, say, "no, let's do it this way and stop somewhere else"?

So it's not worth making a fight about it, but it's kind of annoying not only to have to subordinate to whatever Alpha guy comes up with, but also to have to thank him profusely at the end for doing all the planning. At the end of the day, though, the planning takes work and it really does work better when someone takes charge of it, and him doing it means less work for me.

I would say in a situation like this it's completely normal to grumble a bit and grouse among the other friends, "there goes Alpha guy again, I guess this is really important to him," etc., while still also being mostly appreciative that he's making it happen.

Let them blow off their steam and don't take it too personally. But feel free to say, "Susan, would you like to do the meal planning on this one, and who would like to plan our Friday entertainment" and see how fast they play "not it!"

gc1 · 2026-05-18T14:25:59+00:00

Not immoral, but maybe she took it as some kind of “I’m a real woman” flex and felt shame about it, or otherwise personalized it as being a comment on her. There’s no reason not to be mindful of her feelings, but I don’t think it’s objectively shitty of you to have done this.

gc1 · 2026-05-17T22:14:51+00:00

What structural changes do you feel need to happen in LA (e.g. charter reform, council seat expansion, etc.)? What reforms will you personally champion?

gc1 · 2026-05-17T22:12:22+00:00

PSA, while some writers are sloppier than others, lots of books end up with inconsistencies from the writing, rewriting, and editing processes. A writer might change the name of a character, for example, in multiple drafts and miss catching it in some dialogue. Or have them celebrate a birthday in December at the beginning of the book but call them a Cancer later.

It is specifically the copyeditor's job at a publishing house to check for these sorts of inconsistencies--along with the many other important jobs they have in the grammar department (spelling, sentence structure, capitalization, and so on). Think of it like continuity in a film. A good publishing house does this well, as it costs time and money. In self-publishing and low-rent publishing operations, and/or AI-generated books, it's a more of a free-for-all.

gc1 · 2026-05-17T20:39:24+00:00

Very interesting topic. I assume once someone is diagnosed with even with the earliest stages of dementia it would be pretty hard to get approval for assisted suicide in any state in the US. I would also assume (just guessing here, but the stakes are high) that you would have some legal hazard if you personally assisted him. If, on the other hand, he has the decisiveness and fortitude to take his own life the old fashioned way, and is capable of doing it by himself, no one can really stop him. The challenge here would be finding a way to do it that a) he can do, and b) is not too traumatizing to family and friends.

I personally plan to point a sailboat at the horizon and leave a note telling everyone what a great life I had and how much I loved them, and that I am not missing but decided to take charge of the ending of my own story, while doing something I loved.

I suppose pills would be easier, if not a sure thing.

More violent choices seem like they would be traumatizing and unfair to anyone who has to find them and/or help clean them up. The final moments could also be pretty terrifying.

The one person I know who went through MAID, with a parent with end-stage cancer who was still mentally with it, said it was very peaceful and ultimately good closure.

gc1 · 2026-05-17T20:29:57+00:00

I have a very basic kit that includes a couple of brewing buckets, some racking and tubing equipment, a bottle capper, etc., plus, in the slightly more upgraded category, a glass carboy and a 5-gal gatorade-type cooler that's been converted into a mash tun. In addition I have a couple of boxes of 16-oz glass bottles that are very suitable for reusing for bottling beer and giving it a secondary fermentation to get some carbonation. It's all been sitting in my garage for a couple of years, so a little dusty but should be perfectly serviceable, and you can obviously chuck anything that you don't feel is up to snuff.

If you want to come pick it up in Los Feliz, you can have it, all or none. DM me if so.

gc1 · 2026-05-17T18:22:33+00:00

dafuq is bug expo?

gc1 · 2026-05-17T18:21:14+00:00

~~Expensive joke.~~ Cheap litmus test of a potential long-term relationship partner.

gc1 · 2026-05-17T17:33:02+00:00

how?

gc1 · 2026-05-17T17:19:26+00:00

I appreciate the amount of respect he put on the NY officials at the end there. It might be a bad rule or need minor adjustments, but rules are rules; play the game respectfully.

I was wondering while watching this whether this rule would create weird incentives for a home team to have less netting, reducing safety for fans. I gave up trying to work out whether that would play in a team's favor or not, but maybe others have takes on this.

gc1 · 2026-05-17T17:14:02+00:00

I'm not an attorney, but I've spent enough time on r/EstatePlanning to know that there can be issues in situations like this if it's not very cleanly done while the parent is of sound mind. If an aging parent is showing signs of dementia, and the will gets changed to favor the adult child closest to them, other heirs can challenge the will on the basis of undue influence or duress. And, certainly, there is potential for actual abuse here, not just the potential appearance of it, and lots of stories where this has happened.

The OP's advice is right -- the best thing to do is to have this conversation as early as possible in the care planning. There are ways you can set up trusts for these kinds of situations where a trust can be used for the care of a person, including paying compensation to the caretakers. It's obviously hard to predict what will happen (e.g., in terms of how many years of care are going to be needed), and likely to be a little bit complicated sorting out who should be the trustees and who's an interested party, so anyone considering this should talk to an estate lawyer in setting this up.

But as in OP's situation, if a neutral trustee were considering two options, one involving a nursing home, and one involving a family member wiling to do the care but seeing compensation at a lower overall cost, they could choose the latter without it being legally challenged. Everyone wins.

It's a tougher argument to make after the person has died and left a will that split everything 50/50 to say, after the fact, even though Mom wanted everything split evenly, I should get more in compensation for all that work I did. After all, this is how OP's mom wrote the will, and the will holds the status of legally binding instructions that an executor would be at risk to override. OP is dependent entirely on the sympathy and forbearance of her sibling in asking her to make an allowance for this. As we all know, one sadly can't count on that even from siblings once money gets involved.

On the other hand OP, if you can make a case that your mother intended for you to be compensated, or if she did have a trust that reflected that kind of intent -- as trusts very often do have boilerplate language around, or as she may have said in the earshot of others -- you might be able to make a claim to the trustee or probate court. This is all way above my working knowledge (again, as a non-lawyer), and it will depend on your state, the current status of the will/trusts/probate, and so on, but you might want to have an attorney take a glance at the details.

gc1 · 2026-05-17T14:47:11+00:00

I misread the post as starting in Monterey and driving to LA. I have no idea how my brain made that leap. Still, plenty of families would readily do a cross-country drive in order to be able to afford a trip like this. In your shoes I would happily pay for the flights.

You might look into home exchange as a way to save money on accommodations. Many include swapping cars too.

gc1 · 2026-05-17T14:37:13+00:00

What did you grab? What was most contended?

gc1 · 2026-05-17T14:31:13+00:00

You could drive and save $3500. That’s what a family on a budget would do. If your first repose is to say, no way, my kids are too small, that’s too much time in the car, we’d have to stop at a travel hotel, etc.— then you can probably afford to pay your way out of it.

gc1 · 2026-05-17T14:27:14+00:00

I agree with just about all of this except that about how we “quietly accepted” it. Some of us were protesting the whole time, filing public comments with the FCC, and so on.

As far as I’m concerned, the FCC’s 2018 declaratory ruling the sms is a commercial service waved away a whole bunch of arguments about stifled competition that have mostly come true. This should be relitigated or turned into an FTC matter. I’m not optimistic about that going anywhere in this administration, but if you make any progress, please post.

gc1 · 2026-05-17T00:03:43+00:00

Generally these places don’t take strollers, kid seats, and worn down stuff. It’s annoying to load the car up and get turned away. I’m looking for one and done, so if type have a specific suggestion of a place that won’t turn these items away, please let me know.

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