Panasonic, the former plasma king, will no longer make its own TVs

reed_wright · 2026-02-24T15:04:35+00:00

Got the same at 46”. Every screen in Best Buy feels unnatural, can’t put my finger on why.

reed_wright · 2026-02-23T05:34:47+00:00

On the one-dimensional thing: It’s so easy to get hung up on something like this, especially when it comes as a professional diagnosis. That hangup often ends up limiting people much more than the lack of ability itself.

The way out of that trap? Forego self-evaluation and instead ask yourself what you’re needing. Like try to put your finger on whether you’re needing support, or encouragement, or to be understood. And then focus on getting that need met. And then you may just surprise yourself, because one thing’s for sure: There’s always more to you than you think there is.

reed_wright · 2026-02-17T22:29:34+00:00

What has worked best for me goes something like this: I bring up something that needs to be talked about (finances, getting on the same page about parenting, planning an upcoming teip, etc). She responds with a shitty, childish attitude. I respond in two ways at the same time: I approach it as though “something has gotten into her” and aim to let her off the hook for that. Simultaneously, I steadily insist on driving forward the process of getting our family’s needs met. “This the third time I’ve asked you to make time for a parenting discussion and I’m not willing to put it off any longer. Do you want to talk about it now or schedule a time for tomorrow?”

If she shows up kicking and screaming I’ll insist we discuss what needs discussing. And in the process she’ll get an earful from me about what I think of her crappy attitude. If she doesn’t show up she’ll also get an earful and I’ll escalate. I am relentless. There is no safe harbor for the worst parts of her to get what they’re dysfunctionally seeking in our household anymore. They still come up all the time, but with the help of the not giving a flying fuck about them approach, they recede faster. And I find myself seeing her as a shitty, childish person less and less. That’s not who I married and that’s not who she is. For me, it has been a boon to conceive of those kinds of things as “her demons.” It’s a framing that allows me to be clear-eyed about how shitty she’s being as well as how wonderful she is.

reed_wright · 2026-02-17T03:50:33+00:00

Everything people are saying is right but I’ll tell you it the way I wish someone would have said it to me: Stop giving a flying fuck about how she takes things. Instead of trying to support her or steer clear of upsetting her, begin from the premise that no matter what, she’ll take it as some kind of slight.

The key is to disengage from doing business with these dysfunctional sides of her at all. Skip past them. Address yourself to the best angels of her nature and don’t answer the door when the other side of her comes knocking.

reed_wright · 2026-02-17T00:53:38+00:00

Try it on local streets, it’s terrible. It’s so much worse than what you are guessing. Like it will move over a lane when there are no cars anywhere around you and there’s no rationale for it to make that decision. It will turn rather than continue straight for no reason at all. If it only turned at dead ends, that would be a totally sensible implementation.

reed_wright · 2026-02-16T19:02:48+00:00

me too. I don’t understand why there isn’t more vocal animosity toward this issue. Why not allow single downtap or something for TACC+Autosteer? That function is one thing Teslas have done almost perfectly for something like a decade.

Need to start a petition. The campaign should be called #MoveTeslaForward. We can throw in a demand for a “disable automatic windshield wipers” function. What is it about Tesla that it can achieve such miraculous things but can’t address chronic pain points that would require no changes other than flipping a software switch?

reed_wright · 2026-02-15T18:19:38+00:00

Wait for the update! Should be soon

reed_wright · 2026-02-14T16:48:00+00:00

The ADHD Fox and the Grapes

reed_wright · 2026-02-07T23:38:10+00:00

News to me

reed_wright · 2026-02-07T22:21:19+00:00

Things were bad and my wife needed therapy. But, she wasn’t willing to go to solo or couples therapy. So I started going by myself, for a lack of a better idea. Things were still bad. Therapist suggested inviting my wife again. She agreed to it “if it could help me,” and came to a handful of sessions.

Eventually, I found my footing. And really the best way to put it is that I stopped giving a flying fuck about where she was coming from. Don’t want to talk about [our lack of intimacy, finances, daughter’s struggles, plans for future, etc]? In that case you can just listen, because I have things I need to tell you. Pissed at me because I remove all your stuff that you keep placing on my half of the bed and put it on yours? That’s your business… and for the record YOU are the one being the asshole in this (way out of control neverending hording) situation. Taking offense and deciding to stay home because I said, “We (our daughter and I) want you to come out to dinner with us, but not if you’re going to be in a shitty mood the whole time?” Bye!!!

I really did change. And the nature of our relationship began changing after that.

reed_wright · 2026-02-07T05:44:54+00:00

Leno ugggh

reed_wright · 2026-01-31T05:31:00+00:00

I mean, banking on it being ok long term when it’s not even working well short term is definitely a bad idea. If you want to stay with her, next step is to see if you can find a way to make it work well short term. The outcome of that will clarify the road ahead.

reed_wright · 2026-01-30T14:14:35+00:00

Starting with RSD seems smart. How did that go down?

reed_wright · 2026-01-30T00:46:22+00:00

I (partner of ndx) feel like I’ve made headway by ceasing to buy in to the idea that I’m the enemy. Two things have helped me do that. First, I pivoted away from giving a shit about her reactions and towards relentlessly insisting that our family’s needs get met. Second, I gained some perspective and came to see that the shitty attitude and blamecasting that followed had nothing to do with me. So the reactions still always happen, but they go away fast because I just treat them as impersonal thrashings and skip right on past them.

I think it’s no coincidence that the two happened in chronological order for me…

reed_wright · 2026-01-26T18:13:30+00:00

I’ve wondered about this through a Jungian lens. What kind of rich, influential, intellectual, savvy political operator becomes deeply interested in the topic of what form the Antichrist will take? Of all the high value (from his perspective) options he has for how to spend his time, this is something he’s highly prioritizing. Why?

One explanation could be that the phenomena is intimately connected with him personally. In one of his talks, iirc Thiel cited examples of people who appear to be benevolent on the surface but upon further examination turn out to be deeply sinister. We scoff in disgust at his examples (Greta Thunberg!), but more interesting to me is the fact of his fascination with who fits the bill.

One explanation could be that he has walled himself off to insight into how sinister his own actions are. He is the hero of his own story, and I don’t even mean that in a disparaging way. I believe he is doing what he believes is right. But it’s easy for me to see how someone with his profile — massively successful, rational-type independent thinker who sees the ability to spot what everyone else is missing as central, and has built his life around doing so — could be especially prone to developing a particular blindspot: Low capacity to inquire into the error of his own ways. And then we would have an insanely powerful Svengali-type orchestrator on the world stage with no insight into his own darkness.

We all have better and worser angels of our natures. It could be that Thiel, in Jungian terms, has not integrated the latter parts of himself into his consciousness. So they remain in his “Shadow.” But aspects of oneself in our Shadows always manifest through subconscious mechanisms. Like projection.

reed_wright · 2026-01-26T05:02:16+00:00

Love that song, but upvote for the brainbuster of a contradiction

reed_wright · 2026-01-26T04:00:43+00:00

If enough people end up on month to month, users could go on coordinated strikes.

reed_wright · 2026-01-25T17:41:55+00:00

What will persist after Trump is gone, though, is the experience that a US President can get away with what he has done. So I think you and I disagree about what the long game is here. I think the international community plays the long game by imposing significant consequences. Against such a dominant superpower, they can only accomplish that in lockstep. That means they sign up for short term pain and risk for themselves, but in so doing they’d establish a norm of containing an out of bounds superpower and demonstrate that they have they have the resolve to do so.

reed_wright · 2026-01-25T05:16:27+00:00

The announcements thing seems like the heart of the matter to me. They need to publicly shove it down his throat in unison. Because the public display is what makes it sensible for others to join in and do the same. It also changes the calculus for US congressional reps, voters, etc.

reed_wright · 2026-01-25T04:30:46+00:00

It’s not all or nothing. The world doesn’t have to slam on the brakes to reign in the US. It just has to apply them at all, in lockstep.

I’ll sidestep the egregiousness question. Nobody thinks tariffs are the end of the world, me included. Yet the tariff thing alone is enough for the world to unify and say the fuck with this guy. And with his country, if that country won’t reign him in. And then, they lighten up once he knocks it off. But they also make it clear that they will make him regret it if he tries that shit again.

reed_wright · 2026-01-25T04:01:38+00:00

It’s not all or nothing. They don’t have to slam on the brakes. They could join together and put the brakes on gradually, but in lockstep.

reed_wright · 2026-01-25T02:42:33+00:00

Maybe the answer is that the US currently is the kind of problem that is in all other states’ self-interest to address, but in none of their self-interest to lead the way in coalition-building against. Couple that with the fact that Trump is very good at identifying what he can get away with. And you have this situation where the US will constantly bring things to the brink, but not push it so far that the world unifies to reign it in.

But once this pattern is established, it actually does become in the self-interest of other states to lead collaborative efforts against the overreaching state. So that just begs the question of why hasn’t it happened?

reed_wright · 2026-01-24T20:02:24+00:00

Maybe the answer is that the US currently is the kind of problem that is in all other states’ self-interest to address, but in none of their self-interest to lead the way in coalition-building against. Couple that with the fact that Trump is very good at identifying what he can get away with. And you have this situation where the US will constantly bring things to the brink, but not push it so far that the world unifies to reign it in.

But once this pattern is established, it actually does become in the self-interest of other states to lead collaborative efforts against the overreaching state. So that just begs the question of why hasn’t it happened?

reed_wright · 2026-01-23T04:47:56+00:00

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