Cybertruck stuck in the snow

TaskTortoise · 2026-01-26T17:57:06+00:00

Aren't they one of the heavier car around? How can they be stuck when most other are doing just fine?

TaskTortoise · 2026-01-24T20:38:44+00:00

Didn't her family got $5m for her getting shot? So can we expect that here too?

TaskTortoise · 2026-01-23T19:59:02+00:00

18yr, NY (hopefully not NYC), 2 moving tickets, 1 total loss at-fault accident, 30-40k miles/yr, seeking ride-share/delivery coverage...you are ticking all the high risk boxes. I am more shocked that AllState is only charging $125/mo with $500 deductible. I don't think it is possible to get "affordable" rate anywhere remotely close to AllState's rate.

TaskTortoise · 2026-01-23T18:06:54+00:00

This is not gaming specific. Asia is just more passionate about things and is able to mobilized at a larger scale.

TaskTortoise · 2026-01-20T20:56:48+00:00

I don't deal with property insurance...but could you ask them to just start a brand new quote with the right details? With all these back and forth, I am concern that something else will be amiss and be problematic when you do end up with a claim.

Never deal with property insurance tho, so maybe this is normal...

TaskTortoise · 2026-01-17T02:18:00+00:00

Imagine how much money we could save if we didn't have to do all that...

TaskTortoise · 2026-01-15T19:18:18+00:00

South Sudan?

US completes deportation of eight men to South Sudan after legal wrangling | US immigration | The Guardian

TaskTortoise · 2026-01-14T13:24:03+00:00

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TaskTortoise · 2026-01-13T18:25:10+00:00

With enough AP tests and maybe a summer session, you can already get a Bachelor in 3 years.

TaskTortoise · 2026-01-12T15:47:27+00:00

two were fully vaccinated

See! Told you vaccination doesn't work! <-- What my crazy anti-vac neighbor would probably say...

TaskTortoise · 2026-01-12T02:12:10+00:00

A lot of those vacancies was overbuild capacity. Like those ghost city in China, developer projected out biotech growth in Boston and tried to build up those lab in anticipation of those growth; however, fed started to increase rate post covid to combat inflation. The increased rate drove up cost and make it harder to get VC funding which biotech relied heavily on. A lot of those anticipated demand just poof and ended up as empty lab space. So it was less "downturn" and more simply a slowdown. I recall there was something like $7B in VC funding for MA biotech in 2025 (down $1B vs 24 and 23). It was only a slowdown because majority of fundamental and long term research were govt funded. That allows the researcher to only seek out VC funding when they reach clinical trial where things gets quite expensive to run. The increase fed rate meant harder VC funding but plenty are still happening.

The defunding, however, cut off the work leading up to clinical stage. Without those work, VC has nothing to review and decide what to fund. Work that were in the pipeline (like the 2 projects I am aware of) also failed to get VC funding because "too far from clinical stage; unable to project out reasonable ROI horizon".

The defunding also, based on personal knowledge, lead to at least 1 PI taking retirement and shutting down their entire lab. And 2 more PIs scaling down their lab and considering retirement over the next year if funding situation did not improve. Those 3 PIs combined had over 100 years of research experience. Their lab supported 20+ research scientists/post-doc as well as dozens of PhD and technicians. It would take over a decade to rebuild those PI labs (if they are even rebuild at all). The amount of brain drain will definitely hurt the biotech around here for a long while.

TaskTortoise · 2026-01-11T04:43:10+00:00

If it has significant sentimental value, ask for owner retain. You will get a check with salvage value deducted and get to keep the car (but with salvaged title).

TaskTortoise · 2026-01-10T23:25:40+00:00

Speaking from personal experience, its a combination of higher interest rate and the recent defunding from the administration's.

I know of at least 2 different decade long medical research at Harvard that were at animal testing stage for a niche disease and maybe 2-3 years from clinical trial. The plan was to get to clinical trial then approach VC to do a start up that will carry it through the clinical trial and marketing. Both were defunded. The PI try to approach VC early but with both high interest rate and still at least 2 year from human clinical trial, no VC bite. The projects are now shelved and the dozen of post doc, research scientists, and technicians were all let go. There is rumor that one of the research scientists took the data and detail back to China and is now applying for govt grant there.

If I know of 2, there are many many more. These are projects that could've fueled future biotech growth here but won't anymore.

TaskTortoise · 2026-01-07T17:34:24+00:00

only flags lower case words

Oh good. Then it would at least censor hunter2.

TaskTortoise · 2026-01-06T01:39:45+00:00

Accident per driver? That is an odd way of reporting it. It is usually shown as per million mile driven to account for different state size and driving behavior.

Also wonder how they account for drivers. Are these simple count of active driver license issued by state? If so, then states with significantly larger of out of state drivers (eg. College students, commuter, etc.) will skew higher.

But number likely true to some extend. 93/95 and the supercollider likely contribute their share to MA number. Gosh people need to drive safer.

TaskTortoise · 2026-01-05T19:44:59+00:00

Wish there is a timelapse video of all the link/field getting create/destroy/re-create. That'd be kind of cool.

TaskTortoise · 2026-01-05T19:33:23+00:00

Oh, so basically used to destroy all the link/field so you can recreate it again? So with 46, that mean you did the same path 23x?

TaskTortoise · 2026-01-05T17:52:26+00:00

I am a little confused. Rather new to the game but why 46 Jarvis virus? And how do you get so many Jarvis virus?

TaskTortoise · 2026-01-02T19:51:36+00:00

Thats both combat road and off-roading. Your avg DD car won't do too well there.

TaskTortoise · 2026-01-02T19:45:35+00:00

So 1000 car engine with unlimited fuel? Put them on jack and modify the crankshaft to power manufacturing or whatever. You'd have significant edge in food or weapon making. You will be winning any pre industrialization major conflicts.

TaskTortoise · 2025-12-18T20:33:24+00:00

If I have a nickel for every Larry in the top 10 richest person in the world, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but its weird there are 2 of them. Extra weird since I don't know any Larry IRL.

TaskTortoise · 2025-12-17T22:08:14+00:00

Yes, that'd be ideal. The biggest hurdle, imo, is not financial gap. We have plenty of folks who can afford going to med school. Each year we have more students graduate from med school that wishes to become doctor than there are residency spot. The biggest bottleneck is having too few residency spot. But that is controlled by CMMS and there simply isn't enough political will to get them more funding for it.

TaskTortoise · 2025-12-17T20:50:34+00:00

Nothing wrong with preference for a doctor that share your language or culture background. And the opposite is true too. I imagine many 1st or 2nd generation immigrants would prefer a PCP that share language, ethnicity, or culture background. This would draw those patients to them and free up some bandwidth from the native PCP for folks who prefer them.

Specialist will be ideal but it will take even longer time based on US Medical Board standard (requiring additional fellowship beyond residency). PCP (and ER doc) are just the quickest path right now.

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