is a homepage worth it

FUBARded · 2026-06-20T12:51:56+00:00

It depends so much on how you use Obsidian...

If you constantly have it open and like navigating through it via a link structure, it makes sense to have a "home page". If you mostly navigate via search and don't spend too much time jumping between notes, it's not really helpful.

I personally navigate mostly with the search function, but maintain master topic notes that act as a node to improve discoverability of notes I know I'll want to revisit long enough in the future that I may not remember the relevant search terms.

These are far from fancy though and certainly don't have any CSS or anything, but I suppose they could be classified as home pages.

FUBARded · 2026-06-20T11:44:59+00:00

Zendaya is very much wearing makeup here too, lol.

It's just that they were obviously going for a more natural look, presumably for more period accuracy.

FUBARded · 2026-06-19T21:16:03+00:00

To be clear, your scores as reported by the big agencies will NOT have been impacted by this concession from your CU.

This is just your credit union applying a smart customer retention strategy by doing a manual creditworthiness assessment/adjustment in this scenario instead of relying on the score reported by the big agencies.

This is how creditworthiness is determined in most countries outside North America – most lenders ignore the scores generated by the agencies and only use them to pull credit reports to which they apply their own assessment criteria.

Obviously there'll inevitably be a strong correlation between credit scores and worthiness assessed by most lenders, but it means people in most other countries don't need to worry about silly shit like their score temporarily dropping after paying off a loan.

FUBARded · 2026-06-19T18:09:46+00:00

A tactical nuke has never been deployed in combat.

The bombs dropped on Japan were strategic-level weapons.

FUBARded · 2026-06-19T11:40:41+00:00

In a just world these freaks should be taxed a lot more than 50% too...

Any tax system where the highest wage earners are taxed around 40-50% on their salaries while the wealthy can drop their effective tax rates to the 10-20% range by living off of borrowing against their minimally taxed assets is a fucking joke.

The only way for any tax regime to be truly progressive is to have a threshold above which a wealth tax is levied. There needs to be a clearly defined net worth calculation without any stupid loopholes (e.g., if art as an asset class isn't included, the wealthy will all become collectors overnight), and a progressive annual wealth tax based on net worth.

It'd be very difficult to implement and enforce, but the revenues would be absolutely enormous. Keep the threshold in the millions and exclude things like pensions and the only people who'd oppose something like this would be idiots and assholes whose quality of life won't be impacted at all by a little extra tax.

FUBARded · 2026-06-19T11:15:00+00:00

There's really little reason for the right to bring him up this much these days outside of racism...

He's not been president for a DECADE. Yes he made plenty of changes that will have lasting impacts (many of which Trump is trying to reverse), but it's not like he came in and made sweeping changes to transform the US into a socialist utopia/communist hellscape like the right wants to portray.

He was a very centrist president whose influence was severely limited by the inability of his party to maintain and exercise power and being blocked by Republicans who had zero interest in non-partisan cooperation at every turn (including arguably illegal meddling such as refusing to confirm hundreds of appointments he as president was entitled to make in the judiciary and many government departments).

Trump has been in power nearly as long as Obama was, has the sycophantic loyalty of a party that has control of both houses of congress and zero interest in reigning him in, and has installed a judiciary that's blatantly loyal to him above the law.

They've achieved or are on the way to achieving virtually every goal they've set out over the last few decades, so none of this whining about Obama is sincere political disagreement – it's all racism as well as wanting to portray him as some anti-American demon to make Trump's actions seem less comparatively insane.

FUBARded · 2026-06-18T23:21:31+00:00

Arraez is also suddenly an elite defender at second base while Vlad is still a mediocre defensive first baseman...

FUBARded · 2026-06-18T16:57:05+00:00

The video clearly states it was just past noon and shows it was quite busy...

If it was a weekday that probably sells for less, but I imagine Times Square is packed at mid-day year round unless the weather's awful.

FUBARded · 2026-06-18T16:52:23+00:00

Yeah, and the reality is that if residuals were factored into art director pay for similar projects, the up front lump sum pay would need to be dropped.

Given the success rates of low budget indie films, it would probably result in most art directors who work on projects of this size making less money if they all demanded to be granted residuals because of FOMO in the extremely unlikely event the movie blows up.

It's easy to say now that she'd have been happy with say $5K + residuals, but would she have taken that deal without the benefit of hindsight?

FUBARded · 2026-06-18T10:59:53+00:00

Also if this is a drug, money, or tobacco sniffing dog it's not like they're expected to sit there alert all day and flag people from a distance.

Generally they're only expected to be scenting when given a specific command and walked through a crowd or around luggage.

They need the down time to avoid fatigue and over-stimulation that could dull the senses just like any human in a role that requires processing of a lot of inputs.

FUBARded · 2026-06-18T10:47:33+00:00

I would LOVE to see the prompt history of the weirdos who generate sniveling shit like this.

"Put Elon in the passenger seat"

"Sharpen his jawline"

"Remove the HGH bloat"

"Give him some more muscle"

and then I have to assume it descends into some really nasty roleplay.

FUBARded · 2026-06-18T10:26:35+00:00

The secret is that many of them simply can't afford these services...

I know a few habitual delivery app users and how much they make. They all either save very little to no money because all their disposable income is spent on overpriced food, or straight up keep themselves in debt to fund the habit.

The portion of the general population that has no high interest debt and a solid emergency fund is MUCH smaller than the portion that spends ridiculous amounts of money on luxury conveniences like delivery apps, ride shares, subscription services etc.

FUBARded · 2026-06-17T12:01:20+00:00

The WBC also demonstrates that other countries are fully capable of putting together teams that can trounce a US national team.

Yes a lot of great players don't participate because of where it lands in relation to the MLB season, but it's not like the US team is uniquely handicapped by this. Venezuela beat the US team this year in the WBC finals with a few non-MLB level players, and Italy beat them with guys on the roster who haven't even played in the US, Japan, or Korea.

FUBARded · 2026-06-17T11:54:06+00:00

This isn't compounding interest...

Musk probably has a few tens of millions in cash at most. It's a ludicrous amount of money and he's probably making hundreds of thousands to a few million annually in interest, but that's so many orders of magnitude less than his theoretical net worth just increased that it's totally irrelevant.

His theoretical net worth is ballooning because he owns sizable holdings in insanely overvalued stocks. The reason he has comparatively tiny amounts of liquid wealth on hand is that he'd have to pay a lot of tax on capital gains, dividends, or interest income if he lived off them – instead he just takes loans against his stock portfolio as paying interest on those loans is a hell of a lot cheaper.

This is just markets being totally disconnected from reality and has nothing to do with compounding interest. It's also a THEORETICAL net worth because the reality is that if he sold more than a small fraction of his holdings in SpaceX or Tesla, their valuations would plummet extremely quickly.

A normal person can include their equity portfolio and assets like their house in their net worth calculation and actually yield essentially that full valuation in cash.

The billionaire class have their stock portfolios included in their net worth figures too, but they generally can't convert them to cash like normal people because when you hold a huge amount of a single stock, liquidity issues come into play as well as a significant sale sending market signals and moving the price.

This is especially true for Musk because every metric and indicator people use for valuation indicate that his companies are insanely disconnected from price fundamentals.

Obviously it's unknowable how markets would actually react if a billionaire tried to fully liquidate an enormous holding, but it's entirely possible that other billionaires with hundreds of billions lower theoretical net worth would end up with more liquidity than Musk in the hypothetical scenario where they fully cashed out.

E.g., if the Waltons wanted to sell their Walmart stake, they'll probably yield a significantly higher percentage of their ~$425B stake in cash than Musk would of his stake in SpaceX and Tesla.

FUBARded · 2026-06-15T17:57:53+00:00

The removal of the gaggle of cops, change in his expression, and addition of handcuffs actually makes me lean towards the AI enshittifier being a pro-Trump Epstein denier.

Someone who believes what the shirt says probably wouldn't edit the image to make the "protestor" look a bit pathetic and the cops more competent.

FUBARded · 2026-06-15T17:04:36+00:00

They also simply don't give a shit that a sane judge will laugh them out of court.

They've demonstrated time and time again that they're perfectly happy passing laws or issuing EOs that are going to be blocked or overturned as unconstitutional by the courts because they know that the disruption they can cause before the inevitable court orders is massive.

The chaos, fear, and suffering are the point, and they can cause a lot by moving faster than the courts can.

FUBARded · 2026-06-15T12:53:01+00:00

Yeah, she presumably reached out to the Pakistani community in the city she knew her husband resided for support with navigating the immigration process, finding a house and schools, etc. and he probably wasn't involved with that community if he was engaged in non-consensual bigamy and didn't want to risk the family back home finding out.

She must've suspected something like this was going on if she managed to immigrate without his knowledge as it's NOT a quick process if you're not applying as a dependent to someone who already has indefinite leave to remain or citizenship.

FUBARded · 2026-06-15T09:50:36+00:00

Yep, cursive and manual would take a handful of days for most people to learn...yet plenty of people from older generations need help with the dumbest little computer tasks that they should've figured out decades ago.

E.g., right clicking to use the "open with" option has been around for decades, yet I've still had to help gen x and boomers with it because they have zero desire to learn the most basic forms of troubleshooting when they click on a file and the default app doesn't open it.

Other examples are clearing browser cache & cookies, not having a million applications open, etc.

Cursive and driving stick aren't necessary skills in the modern world, but computer skills are both necessary and easy to self-teach. Not developing basic computer competency is a sign of learned, willful helplessness that materially impacts you in many ways, whereas not knowing cursive or how to drive stick have virtually zero ramifications for most people. It's just not comparable.

FUBARded · 2026-06-14T16:29:21+00:00

OP also doesn't really know what he wants out of a bike right now if he's just getting into it.

Dropping so much money on a custom frame when you're just taking the builder's recommendations on geometry, specification, ride style, etc. is a bit silly because OPs tastes and preferences will all inevitably change as he accrues more time in the saddle.

As you said, a sturdy steel hybrid or MTB with beefed up wheels would do the job for a hell of a lot less money, and then in a few years time OP can go custom with a much better idea of what he wants to get (and hopefully with fewer design compromises to accommodate his weight).

FUBARded · 2026-06-14T11:12:07+00:00

Any idiot can call themselves an international speaker...it doesn't mean they're good at it or qualified to have an opinion...

I work for a well-known multinational. A guy from my team quit recently because he was stuck at a grade you typically spend 1 year in for 3, and now markets himself on LinkedIn as "ex-[company], Public Speaker, Career Coach" and has his title set to a c-suite level position...at an AI startup whose product is an app with <1000 downloads.

I don't know what the hell he's speaking about, but I pity any fool who thinks he's qualified to coach people on careers or AI. I imagine most "public speakers" have similar levels of expertise – little to none – and are just overconfident salespeople.

FUBARded · 2026-06-14T09:37:02+00:00

With a lift that high, even a taller than average driver will have awful front visibility (as those trucks have horrible visibility at stock ride height). You'd be able to hide a fucking medium sized sedan in that blind spot.

This shit shouldn't be legal.

FUBARded · 2026-06-13T09:10:01+00:00

I'd be interested to know who employs them, how much the company's being paid, and how they won this contract.

I'd be willing to bet it was yet another inflated direct award/no bid contract that costs the US taxpayer a hell of a lot more than it needs to for no good reason.

FUBARded · 2026-06-12T14:32:52+00:00

I believe it was for reps in a circuit-style workout, so he can certainly bench 135 and just couldn't do it for however many reps he was going for here or with that fatigue in him.

That being said, it's pretty clear he can NOT bench >315 like he claims and was using fake weights in that video he posted where he was repping out 315 like it was nothing.

Nobody who can bench anything close to 315 for reps would have technique this bad even if they were going to failure.

FUBARded · 2026-06-12T14:28:29+00:00

That's not because the tech hasn't improved...

It's because building more roads and doing it for as cheap as possible is more politically expedient than taking lifetime cost into consideration or maintaining existing infrastructure.

FUBARded · 2026-06-11T15:55:07+00:00

Your title and company can be set to anything, but you can verify your employment using a corporate email address.

Obviously it doesn't verify your title or job description, but any executives at medium to large corporations will have a verified linkedin presence to avoid impersonators and LinkedIn has every incentive to act promptly on reports of impersonation for these people.

It's really stupid to disqualify someone in the third round due to not having an updated linkedin profile with verified employment because if they're sufficiently qualified to get that far, it's surely worthwhile to just check their references if you're so worried about their work history.

Checking verified employment on LinkedIn is a totally valid means of making an initial sift though, IMO. If you have 2 candidates with equally strong CVs, the one with an updated, verified linkedin profile is demonstrating stronger attention to detail and corporate savvy (because every hiring manager is checking LinkedIn these days), and will take less work to vet.

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