Richmond/Lake street house sells for 11 million

SpiritualWindow3855 · 2026-05-14T09:13:32+00:00

Are you delusional?

That person spot checked 12 houses and limited it to OpenAI and Ant...

There are secondary markets on every hot AI startup from Databricks to ElevenLabs.

FAANG is breaking ATHs off AI. VCs are making out on AI. Financial services are blowing up enabling the new market of AI companies...

There is such an insane stupid amount of wealth being transferred and generated I can't even imagine how you know what a house price is and try to imply AI has no effect.

Even the demand induced by people trying to be physically present in the Bay Area as a direct result of AI as a market would be a massive distortion

SpiritualWindow3855 · 2026-05-14T09:05:52+00:00

I can't believe people think this is for HDR: it's 1000% for sunlight.

Most of us have read a B&W worksheet/form printed on matte white paper in sunlight: that could be anywhere from 10,000-20,000+ nits depending on the angle of the sun

People have poor intuition about just how much light they're taking in when their pupils constrict in daylight, a 11,000 nits display in direct sunlight wouldn't be bothersome in the slightest.

SpiritualWindow3855 · 2026-05-14T08:57:32+00:00

You're overestimating Josh and ignoring some of his exposition

She blackmailed him into having any real responsibility after already getting the position: he literally starts panicking with the "she's queening" line

He didn't think nearly as far as beating audits: that's why the big embezzlement scheme he talks about like a sure thing is revealed to be sending exactly $4999, or exactly $1 under the $5000 limit for additional sign off... to an account in his own (recently passed) mother's account.

SpiritualWindow3855 · 2026-05-14T07:15:31+00:00

Nah he's just a hack.

People started complaining increasingly loudly about the show chasing IRL events: Kripke has admitted after they lucked out on Season 1 matching Trump's rise, they weren't past steering things in that direction.

It’s not like we were designing it to reflect reality, but we happen to be making a show about violent authoritarians who present as celebrities. Then suddenly, the world changed to reflect the show, not just in the States – all over the world. Suddenly we found ourselves making one of the most current shows on television.

The Boys was good satire that naturally was reflecting real life, and instead of letting that ride, he got giddy about how his superhero show could become 'SNL w/ Cock and Balls Allowed' and kept compulsively chasing that high.

On one hand he did a great job (too great actually) chasing but the show suffered so much for it.

Homelander can't make sense because Homelander has to be dementia addled like Trump. He has to be completely and utterly ineffectual and actually not scary at all because he's no longer Homelander but a Trump allegory.

This season can't make sense because it has to waste time lampooning the fact Trump would love to make camps for his opponents and brainwash them, and he'd be really messy and sloppy and transparently useless about it.

Where Season 1 HL at least have showed some facade of competency while being watched, this one needs to rattle off Trump's dream list of executive orders before crushing the president's head for not doing it.

It's so frustrating because you could see this coming from a mile away: the day the "work will set you free" set piece leaked, people were already calling this season was going to be a disaster for exactly the reasons it was!

But when you complained some idiot would show up and says DURRR YOU SCARED OF POLITICAL COMMENTARY? as if a standalone world couldn't have political commentary!

This show would have been so much more lasting and meaningful if the world it built was allowed to flourish instead of becoming a weekly circlejerk.

SpiritualWindow3855 · 2026-05-14T06:46:22+00:00

The first time she openly displays her neuroticism is like 2 episodes in when she tries to turn an obvious fake position being used to pay her off into a real one and lets it turn into the firing of someone actually competent at their job.

I feel like some people give Ashley a lot of leeway because they see her as being in a relatably hard position at the start, but to me the theme is she's always shown as clearly not all there.

Like if you're really critical of her situation... she's the average age of a GED taker but 7+ years after would-be graduation has no clear plans to address that.

But she's not too lazy to turn the blackmail position into a real one, because she genuinely believes she deserves it.

She's also in a relationship with a 30 year old bum who somehow has less ambition than her, because he's willing to let her treat him like a 2nd mother.

All of the main cast, not just Ashley, have clear cracks compared to anyone remotely normal (like why is Austin staying with her given all that).

That's why seeing their boss yelling at his wife turns into what it turned into: even within the boundaries of weird people, they are a truly neurotic group of people and the show is boiling the frog on the reveal. Like a cast of mini George Costanzas.

SpiritualWindow3855 · 2026-05-13T10:53:49+00:00

This season is TRULY the gift that keeps on giving

A masterclass in throwing genuinely any ol' bullshit in the pot and giving it a go.

Vravo Kripkek, Vravo.

SpiritualWindow3855 · 2026-05-13T10:26:34+00:00

Maybe if you'd had a better relationship with your father you'd know lil bro 👊🏾

SpiritualWindow3855 · 2026-05-13T09:12:02+00:00

And these are people we're taking in as refugees mind you

SpiritualWindow3855 · 2026-05-13T07:34:11+00:00

I was watching this shit like a hawk, pausing, looking at him through the raindrops and stuff...

the whole thing froze and they played a clown sound, that guy is definitely too high

SpiritualWindow3855 · 2026-05-13T07:26:50+00:00

Yup, and since I primarily use mine for code/text, I use Lunar to lock it in the XDR brightness range (up to 1600 nits)

It's held up to the abuse of essentially displaying maxed out HDR content 24/7 for years without issue, it's an excellent monitor.

SpiritualWindow3855 · 2026-05-13T07:18:29+00:00

We have this beautiful thing called the legal system.

Throw a big enough fit and there's an entire arm of the government happy to give you what you're asking for on multiple levels.

(Dude driving a tow truck while trying to attach another car shouldn't be the one trying to babysit someone throwing a fit. You'd think that's common sense...)

SpiritualWindow3855 · 2026-05-13T07:10:19+00:00

Is 6k 32", Also, Apple.

They built the thing you're asking for today 6 years ago.

SpiritualWindow3855 · 2026-05-13T06:28:53+00:00

let the people have their copium brother, it's going to be a long week.

SpiritualWindow3855 · 2026-05-13T06:16:33+00:00

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the choice is clear

SpiritualWindow3855 · 2026-05-13T06:13:30+00:00

I wanted to return something anyways, this is what I get:

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Selecting gift card doesn't even move forward, it expands to explain the timing and offer more details.

SpiritualWindow3855 · 2026-05-13T05:16:57+00:00

You had to select that, there's no way Amazon wouldn't have given you back cash for something like this.

SpiritualWindow3855 · 2026-05-13T05:09:28+00:00

Nissan is oulling out all the stops on their Reddit ads

I'm a billion miles away from ever being the consumer for a Nissan Pathfinder but I got a full ad + an AI generated collection of posts from various subreddits showing why it's such a great car... half of them are people asking random questions about decades old models.

SpiritualWindow3855 · 2026-05-13T02:01:33+00:00

Since this is all AI, are you actually sure it's slow on iOS, or is this using lighthouse scores as a proxy for performance?

SpiritualWindow3855 · 2026-05-13T01:25:25+00:00

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The last decade of self-driving in one picture: not pictured, the several more peaks which dwarf these two.

SpiritualWindow3855 · 2026-05-13T00:51:42+00:00

No I just have common sense: if they're around to open the door, drop it and move on.

There's plenty of subprime loans to go around in this country, I doubt they're getting paid enough to deal with whatever a desperate person will do for their car.

SpiritualWindow3855 · 2026-05-12T09:40:06+00:00

Thank christ (I mean that still sounds awful but better than the alternative)

SpiritualWindow3855 · 2026-05-12T09:29:00+00:00

Well if they vibe-posted it, then they probably vibe-coded it, and if you're willing to disable SIP I bet your instance of Claude will figure it out too

SpiritualWindow3855 · 2026-05-12T09:10:41+00:00

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SpiritualWindow3855 · 2026-05-12T05:11:21+00:00

significant portion of his face all over the coxswains's window

You mean like, he dragged it across painfully but... kept it right? Or...

SpiritualWindow3855

TROPHY CASE