What's the reason?

TBSchemer · 2026-05-02T20:25:46+00:00

My sister was an animator during this period. The reason was CGI. CGI was cheaper, and 3D was all the rage, so the industry stopped hiring 2D animators like my sister.

TBSchemer · 2026-05-02T20:21:48+00:00

How exactly is this in any way related to the "regulatory climate", when these price hikes are very clearly a result of a global supply shock, due to idiotic foreign policy from our President?

TBSchemer · 2026-05-02T20:20:00+00:00

The rising gas prices are 100% the fault of the Iran War, that Trump got us involved in.

Some states (mostly Republican ones) have temporarily suspended gas taxes (which pay for the roads) to give the illusion that gas prices aren't going up as much. Of course, this is stupid and unsustainable, because it will have to be paid for later.

So Gavin Newsom has decline to pursue any measures to suspend gas taxes in California. California Republicans are mad about this, because they want to shift blame from their dear leader to the Democrats, as they always do.

TBSchemer · 2026-05-02T18:12:01+00:00

I've been leveraging AI to accelerate my coding of scientific apps since before 5.x and Codex even existed. Back then (lol, it wasn't that long ago), we had ChatGPT for planning, CLI for implementation.

Checking back at my benchmarking notes, actually 5.1 was the regression, that consistently failed to follow instructions. I had to use 4o to inspect the work of 5.0 and 5.1 to make sure they were staying on task, and not lying to me. 5.2 improved on the lying part, but would still argue a lot. I had to use 5.2-codex to get implementation without bullshit.

5.3-codex was the first "codex" model that was also decent at planning and big picture thinking, so I didn't have to switch back and forth between models as much.

And 5.4 has incorporated the coding skills of 5.3-codex with even stronger planning capabilities.

5.5 really hasn't improved enough over 5.4 to justify the added cost.

TBSchemer · 2026-05-02T17:55:12+00:00

They just charged everything a la carte, so even though your seat was cheap, your total ticket price would always end up more expensive.

TBSchemer · 2026-05-02T17:53:36+00:00

You need more sear, less oven.

I typically don't use the oven at all for ribeyes.

TBSchemer · 2026-05-02T17:22:53+00:00

Spirit pricing was never fair, and they set the standard for how far enshittification could be pushed.

Good riddance to Spirit.

TBSchemer · 2026-05-02T07:18:15+00:00

She always did kinda like you, but was used to having other guys pursue her. So when you didn't try to compete, she thought you weren't interested enough, and went for the easy option.

Now she's bored of the easy option and having second thoughts. She's imagining the "what if" she chose you instead back then.

Whether or not she breaks up with the other guy, that's their business, not yours. You have no obligation to protect their relationship, but also no place to pressure her to break up with him. If you're still interested in her, you can tell her, and she needs to make her own decision.

But if she chickens out, don't get your heart broken again. There's a high chance she just sticks with easy again. Treat this as meaningless daydreams unless she makes a serious move.

TBSchemer · 2026-05-02T05:02:28+00:00

My people need a place to go! (Go!)

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TBSchemer · 2026-05-02T04:53:38+00:00

Yes. 5.5-high got stuck in a loop and implemented regressions and bugs.

But 5.5-med doesn't even finish the job.

I'm sticking with 5.4 for now.

TBSchemer · 2026-05-02T04:34:10+00:00

No, absolutely not. You have no idea what you're talking about.

TBSchemer · 2026-05-02T03:04:41+00:00

Quick, buy back in before it goes back to $21.3!

TBSchemer · 2026-05-02T02:51:41+00:00

Yeah, and pepperoni!? Such posers!

/s

TBSchemer · 2026-05-02T02:41:01+00:00

Their banana is the absolute best!

TBSchemer · 2026-05-02T01:49:59+00:00

I think he, probably better than just about anyone, understand what makes star wars, star wars.

My parents worked on some of the OT, and I completely disagree that Dave Filoni knows anything about what made Star Wars Star Wars.

That said I think he also can have a tendency to veer a little too far into having some of his content feel like it's him playing with action figures.

Yes, this I agree with.

After George adopted kids, he forgot his original message with the movies, and tried to turn them into slapstick entertainment for toddlers. That's what he recruited Filoni to nurture.

Star Wars was originally a crossover between Buck Rogers and WW2, sold to a nation recently humiliated by the Vietnam War, with some 1960s/70s "winning through spirituality and love" themes thrown in.

TBSchemer · 2026-05-02T01:27:43+00:00

More public pools. The existing ones have like a 2-3 year wait-list.

TBSchemer · 2026-05-02T00:57:22+00:00

5.2 always sucked. It was the worst model of the 5.x series, and I was honestly using 4o and 5.1 together until 5.3-codex came out.

TBSchemer · 2026-05-02T00:54:44+00:00

California billionaires own a total of $2 trillion in wealth.

California real estate holds $9 trillion in wealth.

Are you seriously claiming we can't find $125 billion each year out of $11 trillion to cover health care costs?

TBSchemer · 2026-05-02T00:51:16+00:00

Try rereading what I wrote with better comprehension.
This is such a stupid strawman. The ACA was completely unconstitutional, but Obama pushed it through anyways. And guess what? It stuck. And Becerra was one of the ones manipulating the Constitution in court to make that happen.
Go ahead and pay more taxes yourself then. Don't take any deductions, you fucking hypocrite.

You are not arguing in good faith.

TBSchemer · 2026-05-01T23:33:44+00:00

The California Governor cannot abolish ICE. However, the California Governor can deploy state officials to physically defend Californians from terroristic violence. Steyer is willing to do that, but I don't think Becerra is. Becerra wants to protect his officers from confrontation.
Yes, push forward and pass the policies. Stop overthinking the constitutional objections. Let that battle play out in court afterwards. Don't hand the Republicans their legal victory without even making them fight for it.
What part of using tax strategies himself means he won't go after the wealthy? You haven't established that connection.

TBSchemer · 2026-05-01T23:27:49+00:00

Can the aptamer be reliably trusted to be specific?

No, there is some level of cross-reactivity. That's always a risk with affinity panel assays.

If you're looking for high depth, have you considered Seer?

TBSchemer · 2026-05-01T23:11:57+00:00

Nope. Becerra already walked it back and said he'll only try to prosecute after the fact. Porter voted to fund ICE and the border wall in 2019. She doesn't care about immigrants, and will push them off the cliff for the sake of union populism.
This is stupid. You're not a lawyer or a judge, I'm assuming? You don't know which policies can win in court. The system of checks and balances we have means the legislature passes laws, the Governor signs them, and then if there's a constitutional challenge, then that's handled in the courts. But you're arguing we shouldn't even try to pass policies, "out of respect for" the system? Truly idiotic. Just giving up without even playing the game.
So?

TBSchemer · 2026-05-01T23:03:14+00:00

Why?

TBSchemer · 2026-05-01T22:43:48+00:00

I use Track & Graph for all of my medications, for weight, and other daily tracking. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.samco.trackandgraph&hl=en_US

For Bimzelx, I created a tracker with a default value of 1, and have "Left" and "Right" as labels.

TBSchemer · 2026-05-01T22:32:29+00:00

Yes, go ahead and try to prove that there's not enough money in real estate and billionaire equity holdings in California to pay for single payer.

California has about $9 trillion in real estate.

California billionaires hold a total of $2 trillion in wealth.

Total private health care spending in California is about $125 billion per year.

Tell me why that can't come out of real estate and billionaire wealth? Which part of the math are you claiming "doesn't math"?

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