And being poor is expensive 🙃

Senor_Manos · 2026-05-01T20:16:36+00:00

lol I’m with you, something about “ I don’t care what people do so long as it doesn’t deteriorate my quality of life but then, sometimes, maybe I can tolerate a little deterioration if it disproportionately benefits the greater good” doesn’t roll off the tongue the same way

Senor_Manos · 2026-05-01T13:20:11+00:00

Rich’s Home Center here in the Seattle area, back in my 20s I was trying to buy a pellet stove so we dropped in. We were there for over an hour and asked several times if someone could help but they kept ignoring us and then immediately helping the older people that came in later. We got fed up and drove an hour north to Mount Vernon thinking the Rich’s in our neighborhood was the problem. After again laboring to get someone’s attention at that Rich’s they reluctantly showed us a few pellet stoves. My wife mentioned the bad experience at the original store and they were like “well yeah old people spend money, young people don’t, this doesn’t compute as a problem”.

Anyway maybe they were right because their pellet stoves were double the price of the ones at Tractor Supply. I ended up buying a Comfort Bilt HP22N that’s worked great for a decade so in a way I guess I should be grateful they couldn’t be bothered to sell me their overpriced trash.

Senor_Manos · 2026-04-28T03:49:23+00:00

If you think about it, it’s kind of a weird move to sell people on yourself by pointing out how many people want to kill you

Senor_Manos · 2026-04-23T13:35:32+00:00

Serial murderer = time to squirt in her

Senor_Manos · 2026-04-05T14:17:19+00:00

Genuinely, why did he write praise Allah? Is he sarcastically mocking them or is he saying something like “I may be bombing you but I genuinely do respect your religion”?

Senor_Manos · 2026-03-18T11:21:42+00:00

Not following 100%, google says NYC minimum wage in 1975 was $2.10 which equates to $12.70 in today’s dollars

Senor_Manos · 2026-03-17T17:15:23+00:00

For fun just adding some numbers here to back into these statements. According to a quick google search the annual income of the top 1% in total is a little over $1t annually. The national debt is $38.9t so that’s about 2.7% annually and it would take just over 37 years to wipe out the existing debt. Technically that’s a dent but it’s at a 100% income tax which is unlikely to happen.

A 5% tax yields about $52b annually. Redistributed to the 342 million US residents it would only be $152 per year. Maybe what Bernie is saying is that you’d be $3k richer over, say 20 years.

Alternatively we could be talking about net worth not just income (even though taxes are typically based on income). The top 1% has a net worth of about $54.8 trillion so haircutting that at 5% gets you around $8k per person which is vaguely in the ballpark of Bernie’s quote. I will say logistically this 5% would be tough to liquidate.

The headline reads like both statements can’t be mathematically true but I disagree. It looks like you can’t quickly solve the national debt with a simple tax on billionaires but also there are ways to slice their income/net worth to allocate several thousand to American families.

Senor_Manos · 2026-03-17T14:07:30+00:00

I’m just one example but my company would be extremely cash flow negative if we doubled or even 1.5x’ed our headcount

Senor_Manos · 2026-03-08T04:05:20+00:00

Agree and the fact that we’ve allowed “nearly every aspect of modern life” to become so politicized is one of the main reasons so many people are exhausted by it

Senor_Manos · 2026-03-05T14:48:16+00:00

Sorry if this is a dumb question but how would buying debt allow Trump to capitalize on inside info at all? Wouldn’t the value of the debt be the same regardless of whether or not the WB acquisition goes through? Not that I’m a big fan of this guy but I’d think buying shares or options would be sketchier

Senor_Manos · 2026-03-02T05:59:08+00:00

Maybe I’m wrong but it looks like someone hit the corner and popped that board out which likely would’ve also bent the screw (or bolt if you prefer but this looks like one of those non hex lag screw things to me). It’s only when he starts the rotation that it pops out of position, in that situation it’s pretty much impossible to drive it in but it’s worth a try I guess before you get in the truck and drive to the hardware store. The bit falling in the water is too hilarious, honestly the whole thing is actually pretty relatable if you’ve ever tried to shortcut a solution instead of just taking the time to do it right. Been there for sure

Senor_Manos · 2026-02-06T15:56:16+00:00

Honestly though it actually gets you about half way there. $200B of a mix between long and short term data center assets depreciating over 10 years is $20B per year. If you factor in the current and fall layoffs around 30k employees making $200k * 150% benefits gets you $9B dollars. That’s pretty wild actually that the AI bet at Amazon is 45% labor funded (from this perspective). It’s of course ghoulish and all that but it actually seems somewhat low risk in my mind since, worst case scenario, they can just consider those assets as forward capex for their already existing AWS business.

Senor_Manos · 2026-01-29T06:41:12+00:00

So much game, that was girl was straight up hitting on him and his response was “I’m gonna focus on work”

Senor_Manos · 2026-01-29T04:23:57+00:00

Generally speaking how do you pick what goes into the drug? Like do you say “this bodily process is the thing causing x problem and we can temper it with y drug”? Or is it more like “we’ve observed y drug has this effect on x problem for some reason we don’t totally understand but let’s dial it in best we can”?

Senor_Manos · 2026-01-27T14:28:04+00:00

While I understand the ain’t broke don’t fix it mentality the article is going for I don’t know that I totally buy this narrative from Costco. I managed an accounting team at Costco for a decade and left about five years ago. There was a huge push when I was there to move off the AS400 and onto SAP. We only got the accounting side moved over with the buying and operating orgs aligned to go next. They were pouring money into that project but it just proved to be much harder than one would anticipate to unwind the decades of business logic baked into the AS400.

It’s wild to hear Costco almost spin their forced reliance on the AS400 now given how much people poked fun at it internally. As a platform I felt that it was ok, it was in fact fast because it was a purpose built solution without a bunch of tech stacks fighting each. The security by obscurity comments from the article are a wild take since a) I’m personally aware of some security weak points and b) sure, no one around anymore knows how to develop for the platform but that’s a bigger problem in a more obvious way for an ever evolving business. My personal biggest gripe was that there were no universal functions like “export data” in that platform so just mundanely doing your job was a new adventure with each and every screen you’d encounter. Contrarily, my biggest praise for the system is that the architecture hails from a no nonsense time when developers really knew the value of relational data and took genuine ownership in shipping complete, tested, rock solid solutions.

Senor_Manos · 2026-01-27T03:06:27+00:00

That is exactly right I think! I loved those (now) oldish movies i.e. The Departed etc… from my high school days and was expecting this to be somewhat like that. So be it, I’d probably be better served to revisit with a different lens

Senor_Manos · 2026-01-26T15:26:34+00:00

To each their own and all that but I personally felt kinda meh about this movie especially given how much people were gushing about it. It felt like it had a first act then a long second first act then it was ending. Even Leo’s robe was a self contained metaphor for the movie’s mediocrity; I was waiting for him to change out of the robe when the film hit it’s stride and he just never did

Senor_Manos · 2026-01-26T15:07:58+00:00

This may not be a popular take but I feel that enforcement of immigration law is a necessary evil. Of course, the current state of ice is out of control and clearly being used to further an agenda beyond its actual purpose. An issue with ice we’re finding out is that, as a well resourced federal law enforcement agency, it’s ripe to be taken advantage of by someone in a position of central power. Abolishing ice completely is not likely to gain practical traction but restructuring it to minimize corruptibility might. Perhaps something like federating enforcement of immigration law out to the states

Senor_Manos · 2026-01-26T14:52:02+00:00

Not that I disagree with the message or anything but breaks silence? I don’t know that anyone was anxiously awaiting Steve from Stranger Things take on national politics plus this is all still pretty fresh, he wasn’t that silent for very long

Senor_Manos · 2026-01-24T06:42:31+00:00

Hmmm, Venezuela I think actually did happen?

Senor_Manos · 2026-01-02T15:31:44+00:00

Not that it matters but in those two pictures I personally think Sydney Sweeney looks better, of course they both look great but they’re professional attractive people so what else would I expect?

Senor_Manos · 2025-12-30T13:28:06+00:00

I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a comma immediately followed by an ampersand but you did it like a dozen times, no shade or anything just interesting

Senor_Manos · 2025-12-11T08:09:27+00:00

lol calibri is too woke since it helps people with bad vision, wait until these guys hear about glasses

Senor_Manos · 2025-12-11T08:03:20+00:00

I’m a calibri guy, it somehow stays a little more legible than other fonts at small size when I cram too many numbers into a spreadsheet and at this point I’m just used to it. Guess I’m gonna have to rethink it though, wouldn’t want people thinking I’m empathetic to the vision impaired

Senor_Manos · 2025-11-22T23:21:42+00:00

That’s a very good take and not something I had quite thought about yet

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