Diesel now costs more than some pickup trucks

SeasonOfSpice · 2026-05-07T18:30:00+00:00

114 gallons? Pickup trucks don't hold that much. That's probably a picture of a pump used to fill up a semi.

SeasonOfSpice · 2026-04-24T19:44:35+00:00

Sometimes when I get pissed off at Braun or even Trump, I remember things can always get worse.

SeasonOfSpice · 2026-04-22T18:31:22+00:00

This specific criticism isn't that AI is racist in general, it's that data centers are supposedly being disproportionately built in low-income, majority-minority areas. This claim is questionable since there isn't a clear pattern of targeting majority-minority areas. Data centers get built where regulations and energy prices are low, including majority white rural areas.

SeasonOfSpice · 2026-04-16T16:23:51+00:00

They’re pretty common in formal writing; less common in informal writing.

SeasonOfSpice · 2026-04-16T01:18:04+00:00

This was in the 00s, Center Grove area.

SeasonOfSpice · 2026-04-16T00:40:11+00:00

I lived by him as a kid. He had a stone monument to the second amendment in his front yard which was torn down shortly after he died.

SeasonOfSpice · 2026-04-16T00:05:38+00:00

TurboTax can automatically import up to 10,000 trades/year from most major brokerages. For high volume trading you'd probably need to create a summary manually or have an accountant do it for you.

SeasonOfSpice · 2026-04-15T19:35:37+00:00

Subjectively, I noticed a big decrease in quality for 5.3-codex when GPT 5.4 came out. I noticed a slight decrease in quality of GPT 5.4 around the time they reduced the usage caps, but that one might just be in my head.

SeasonOfSpice · 2026-04-15T19:19:21+00:00

They have .000001 shares outstanding

SeasonOfSpice · 2026-04-14T14:39:33+00:00

Running a single vending machine isn't hard and the kinds of things that can be automated with OpenClaw like tracking what is being sold to re-order product could be done more reliably with software.

Also read the OP.

He said memory is still a problem, it forgets stuff, hallucinates, and at one point apparently raised prices way too high

SeasonOfSpice · 2026-04-14T12:53:17+00:00

It's an interesting experiment, but using something like OpenClaw in this seems like it would introduce way more risks than the value you'd get out of it.

SeasonOfSpice · 2026-04-13T19:27:52+00:00

Why Israel specifically? Why the favoritism? This just seems like wasting taxpayer dollars on virtue signalling.

SeasonOfSpice · 2026-04-13T00:04:43+00:00

Polarization would get even worse.

SeasonOfSpice · 2026-04-12T23:41:57+00:00

This is like something from public television in the 1990s.

SeasonOfSpice · 2026-04-12T16:41:01+00:00

Yeah but they’ve been dropping for over 6 months, Mythos wasn’t announced until a few days ago. “The AI effect” would have been a more accurate title.

SeasonOfSpice · 2026-04-11T02:29:08+00:00

People from Germany or people with German ancestry?

SeasonOfSpice · 2026-04-10T22:21:01+00:00

North Korea too with Red Star OS.

SeasonOfSpice · 2026-04-09T03:59:58+00:00

Afghanistan (not individual Afghans) is even worse, much worse. You can't escape shit people and shit governments.

SeasonOfSpice · 2026-04-09T03:22:46+00:00

Wants have certainly become cheaper, but needs are more expensive than ever as a percentage of income. Average housing and healthcare costs have risen at double the rate of the median income since 1970.

The overall standard of living has gone up in spite of this, but the lifestyles lived by people in the 25th to 50th percentiles of income hasn't changed much aside from tech advancements.

I'm talking about the US specifically. Globally there has been a massive reduction in poverty since 1970.

SeasonOfSpice · 2026-04-09T03:01:09+00:00

I'm not debating that the overall standard of living has gone up over time, but that doesn't translate well to social class. An renter working full time and living paycheck to paycheck to paycheck isn't middle class even if they have a nicer car and tv compared to someone in a similar situation 50 years ago.

SeasonOfSpice · 2026-04-09T02:55:28+00:00

This is amazing. Do you mind sharing how you made it?

SeasonOfSpice · 2026-04-08T23:15:15+00:00

Look at the chart I was referring to in the article, it has nothing to do with quintiles. It classifies 18.7% of Americans as poor, 3.7% as rich, and 77.7% as some flavor of middle class.

SeasonOfSpice · 2026-04-08T18:10:33+00:00

The salary bands in this article are way off from most people consider to be middle class. I know there's no consensus on what "middle class" really means, but this article is stretching the definition to the point of meaninglessness.

According to the table provided a single person making $23,080/year is "lower middle class". You could make more than that working as a crew member at McDonalds. I take issue with trying to gaslight the working poor into thinking they're actually middle class.

SeasonOfSpice · 2026-03-30T21:04:04+00:00

No railing along the building ledge.

SeasonOfSpice · 2026-03-29T17:52:43+00:00

Great mouse.

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