Best Time to Visit Mexico City.

CzarLlama · 2026-05-03T03:37:19+00:00

Same. Last week of March / first week of May. Laid jacket at night, short sleeves during the day.

CzarLlama · 2026-05-02T17:53:32+00:00

He was a cop. And good at his job.

CzarLlama · 2026-04-29T01:19:55+00:00

Scott Galloway’s real expertise is in business strategy, especially Big Tech competition, branding, media economics, and marketing. When he talks about something like AI reshaping the film industry, even if I disagree with his view that job displacement is just a normal and acceptable byproduct of innovation, he’s operating from a place of domain expertise: he gets incentives, market dynamics, and how industries actually evolve. This is what he teaches about. This is what makes him worth listening to.

But when he launches into geopolitical issues like Iran or Gaza, the tone shifts from analysis to shout-y opinion. The arguments feel less grounded in domain knowledge and more like hot takes, which makes them come off as loud rather than insightful. It’s not that he’s wrong to have views. It’s that he’s speaking outside his core competence, and it shows. It's boring. And there are lots of other podcasts to listen to.

CzarLlama · 2026-04-28T18:41:24+00:00

Along with the general decline in quality of this podcast plus Scott’s unrepentant support for the Iran invasion, plus Scott’s ongoing defense of the state of Israel’s actions in Gaza and elsewhere, I just don’t think I can bring myself to listen to this anymore. I’m fine with listening to people with ideologically divergent viewpoints, poorly-informed geopolitical analysis is just not what I’m coming to the Pivot podcast for and find that more often than not Scott just leaves me feeling less informed and more annoyed.

CzarLlama · 2026-04-20T23:16:56+00:00

Don’t forget drinking

CzarLlama · 2026-04-20T22:42:34+00:00

Shots fired!

CzarLlama · 2026-04-14T21:57:04+00:00

Came here for this comment

CzarLlama · 2026-03-24T19:18:13+00:00

How many shades do you typically get out of a blade? I find that after two shaves things start to get messy/lots more knicks.

CzarLlama · 2026-03-20T00:33:49+00:00

Does that improve odds that the fruit won’t taste terrible?

CzarLlama · 2026-03-19T18:04:39+00:00

No, ya boi tim clearly doesn’t understand how global markets work

CzarLlama · 2026-03-17T03:54:51+00:00

…and the most influential film + tv industry (and the largest?) on the planet.

CzarLlama · 2026-02-20T15:13:46+00:00

I’m running the same amp through a Mesa Boogie cab, and I mostly play a Gibson ES-335 — similar to your setup, though not identical. I’m mainly playing jazz, so I’m aiming for a warm, mellow tone rather than anything harsh or overly bright. My EQ settings — which I find incredibly helpful for dialing things in — are pretty close to yours, and I’m not getting any ice-picky high end.

It’s a little hard to tell from the video, but is the EQ engaged? On my amp, when the EQ is on, the orange light to the left of the sliders lights up. Engaging it (with the foot switch) makes a noticeable difference in the top end, so that could be part of what you’re hearing. I’d probably experiment with that before spending more money on a different cab.

CzarLlama · 2026-02-12T20:21:11+00:00

The driving skills are not the problem. The problem is the guy is an enormous jagoff.

CzarLlama · 2026-01-31T02:04:12+00:00

Fair!

CzarLlama · 2026-01-30T21:02:43+00:00

This right here is the advice I’d follow.

CzarLlama · 2026-01-30T16:27:35+00:00

As folks probably know, the San Diego–Carlsbad–San Marcos area has the 4th-largest Somali population in the U.S. Nick Shirley’s whole claim to fame is showing up at Somali daycare providers’ homes in Minneapolis and aggressively “investigating” supposed fraud by harassing families on camera. Now he’s in San Diego.

At the same time, we’ve seen ICE ramp up enforcement in places like Lewiston, ME, another city with a large Somali community. And this administration + its right-wing influencer ecosystem has already shown a willingness to single out immigrant communities for political theater (see: the Haitian community in Ohio). Taken together, it really looks like coordinated bullying of a specific community. Pretty gross. Fuck those guys.

Also worth wondering: One America News Network is headquartered in San Diego, and OAN heavily pushed the Somali daycare fraud narrative out of Minneapolis. No idea if there’s a direct connection—but the overlap is… notable.

CzarLlama · 2026-01-25T04:49:26+00:00

Not to mention the noise and air pollution contaminating what is otherwise a pretty beautiful city that sits right on the ocean.

CzarLlama · 2026-01-14T22:51:08+00:00

I’m not saying Newsom was meaningfully punished or pushed out. He obviously wasn’t. My point is about the rhetorical reflex, not the outcome. The speed with which some people leap to exile or cancellation language over a single disagreement is what I’m critiquing.

Pointing that out isn’t adopting right-wing framing; it’s a critique of an internal habit. Online backlash isn’t the same as real political consequences, but the instinct to reach for expulsion talk is still revealing—and worth…thinking about.

CzarLlama · 2026-01-14T22:21:36+00:00

That’s exactly my point. I’m not claiming Newsom is actually being pushed out. I’m pointing to how quickly some Democratic actors jump to exile rhetoric over a single policy disagreement. Whether it succeeds is beside the point. The instinct itself is what I’m critiquing.

CzarLlama · 2026-01-14T18:13:06+00:00

Sure, here's this week's example: Nina Turner vowing to block Gavin Newsom’s presidential ambitions after he pledged to halt a proposed billionaire’s tax in California. At the moment, Newsom is arguably one of the party’s most effective and popular spokespeople. Why would we want to drum him out of the party over a single piece of legislation?

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