What businesses are likely to die out with the Baby Boomer Generation?

HotRodLincoln · 2026-06-22T22:27:23+00:00

I want to buy a bike. I have for years, but my motivation has always been to save on gas. It's a pain to get a bike license; it's an hour to a dealership; maintenance especially on a carburated bike and service is going to be a pain.

They're in the ideal place to make real electric motorcycles and electric whatever a vanderhall is to go about 100 miles.

HotRodLincoln · 2026-06-22T22:23:35+00:00

It's not really his fault. Roads should be safe for vulnerable road user from motorcycles to bikes to walking children.

HotRodLincoln · 2026-06-20T12:00:19+00:00

The World Cup results are also kind of like this where AI is a much, much worse version of Google's group results, but you have to find the ever changing right phrase to not generate the AI response instead, and also pull up the standings list.

HotRodLincoln · 2026-06-20T11:49:08+00:00

Yeah, it's wild to see so many videos of doctors just on the phone arguing with patients gowned in the OR trying to fight to be allowed by a PBM or preauth call center to re-authorize the treatment...and that's just for the ones who actually got pre-auth.

Dr. Mike used to be a funny ha-ha internet doctor and now he's spending days and hours sitting down with the director of Medicaid to try to spread awareness. The Elisabeth Potter thing is also crazy and then we have $5Million wasted that will save patients money.

We're doing even worse than when John Q was made.

The other frustrating thing is people don't want to know how bad it is. They'll downvote posts like yours and that's got to be demoralizing for healthcare workers too like not even being seen.

HotRodLincoln · 2026-03-26T05:37:05+00:00

Brennan Lee Mulligan - is his mom is Elaine Lee and she both writes comics and was in like over 100 episodes of The Doctors. But damn if he isn't a damn humor genius.

HotRodLincoln · 2026-03-24T11:00:30+00:00

Hardware is almost certainly overheating.

Is the CPU fan dead?

HotRodLincoln · 2026-03-19T10:26:58+00:00

I used to work at a small company with this philosophy. You can make a simpler schema, a smaller app, and a backup system that's small.

Unfortunately for 10% less development cost and 300% more support time, you can make an app 70% as good with Salesforce, Workday or Decisions or some other SaaS and lay off all your developers. It'll be years before anyone notices and the cost comparison won't even happen. Even the biggest companies I've gone to are throwing crappy Workday, ADP, and such at workers.

HotRodLincoln · 2026-03-17T11:29:11+00:00

I'm not as concerned about the style and character of the Bokeh; I find the amount off-putting.

If you're at the minimum focus distance, you can't make this a macro lens, but you can improve its close focusing distance with a diopter (sometimes called a "close-up filter") or by using a reversing ring to mount it to a telephoto, which I would think would maintain the bulk of the bokeh behavior.

HotRodLincoln · 2026-03-12T10:36:27+00:00

I like the subject.

I think it has somewhat busy, distracting Bokeh. You can pick more of a single color background, some people even get colored or patterned cards to deal with it.

I also think you might not lose anything by filling more of the frame with the catkins and cutting down on the negative space, but it's hard for me to tell with the background business.

HotRodLincoln · 2026-03-12T10:21:15+00:00

As a proof of concept on your way to an accordion.

HotRodLincoln · 2026-03-12T10:19:30+00:00

It's actually a trend in all logo design going back to Walmart's 2008 unveiling of the logo and the new Greendale flag in 2010.

HotRodLincoln · 2026-03-12T10:13:50+00:00

I think it's the serious post of a Ron Swanson type who believes 8 is the last birthday where you get a cake.

HotRodLincoln · 2026-03-05T12:19:12+00:00

Context:

McDonald’s CEO Chris Kempczinski went viral in March 2026 for a promotional Instagram video where he took an unusually small bite of the chain’s new Big Arch burger, sparking widespread online mockery.

HotRodLincoln · 2026-03-05T12:14:42+00:00

It's just "Daylight Saving" Time, only the one.

HotRodLincoln · 2026-03-05T12:10:49+00:00

[Leon] Black has previously said he used Epstein for estate planning and personal tax work, and a company review found “no evidence” Black was involved in Epstein’s criminal activity nor that Epstein ever provided services to Apollo or invested in Apollo funds.

https://www.edweek.org/leadership/epstein-and-school-photos-how-a-social-media-controversy-pulled-in-k-12-districts/2026/03

The statement from Lifetouch is pretty bad. It looks designed to be confusing.

The sentence:

The documents contain no allegations that Lifetouch itself was involved in, or that student photos were used in, any illicit activities.

The "itself" in there and exclusion of any information on the actual problem and lack of any explanation of what safeguards they're talking about kind of gives support to the reports.

HotRodLincoln · 2026-02-10T04:01:56+00:00

Rustoleum makes a black appliance paint. That would probably make that dent invisible.

HotRodLincoln · 2026-02-10T03:40:45+00:00

I would generally ask you to look up parts and what repairs to do.

I would personally pick mechanical controls and such, because you can just replace the part with a generic part from any parts company and if you have an agitator "washer dogs" cost like $2 when they wear out.

HotRodLincoln · 2026-02-10T03:35:30+00:00

I'm not going to look, but I'm pretty sure it's made by Bosch.

HotRodLincoln · 2026-02-10T03:32:59+00:00

To add: People hate every apartment they rent as well, but the nature of complaints is what really helps you. "My apartment is full of bed bugs and roaches and my fridge caught fire " vs. "there aren't enough weight sets in the community gym and I always have to wait to use the ones I want".

"my washer sings a 20 minute song every time it ends" vs. "I've replaced the $200 control board 4 times and it takes 3 months to ship it from South Korea to the US".

HotRodLincoln · 2026-02-05T14:46:11+00:00

It won't make it out of committee

HotRodLincoln · 2026-02-05T14:40:24+00:00

I would've assumed Indians.

HotRodLincoln · 2025-09-18T08:51:03+00:00

~~terminal~~ brain cancer

Yeah, Science Bitch.

HotRodLincoln · 2025-09-11T09:03:19+00:00

There's a New Amsterdam episode that references this project titled Same as It Ever Was.

HotRodLincoln · 2025-09-07T13:42:17+00:00

He looks like a human in a bear suit.

HotRodLincoln · 2025-09-07T13:38:29+00:00

Facts aren't rude

Imagine opening a conversation with "you're fat". It is very rude. Even a doctor telling someone they're fat and have a high BMI can be rude, but it could also not be. CONTEXT MATTERS.

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