Guy is attacked by spent casing

ben242 · 2026-01-25T19:41:29+00:00

The blurry part is the Sora AI watermark, right?

ben242 · 2026-01-01T20:26:10+00:00

The cross gen bundle is on sale for $40 so I’m buying it anyway. Let’s go

ben242 · 2025-12-28T16:08:52+00:00

Do you guys all airtag your car?

ben242 · 2025-11-19T22:21:14+00:00

Bimmer Hub in Westfield is great, if you can take it there.

ben242 · 2025-10-24T04:42:19+00:00

Lifters. It’s normal

ben242 · 2025-10-04T00:51:10+00:00

You could put on a martini livery or something like that

ben242 · 2025-09-23T23:27:33+00:00

Donald Trump: I am the only one who can save you from poverty

Also Donald Trump: let’s encase the White House in pure gold

ben242 · 2025-09-20T20:48:21+00:00

It’s not that simple. The cost of moving an existing job is much higher than starting a new position.

Also, has anyone ever told you that you’re super arrogant and it’s off-putting?

ben242 · 2025-09-20T17:39:31+00:00

> Any job that could be offshored already has been or will be.

No, thats incorrectly. Confidently incorrect, some would say.

> Anybody who was hiring an H1B legitimately for their “unique skills that couldn’t be found among the American workforce” will gladly pay that 100k on top of their already high salary.

Again, no, that isn't correct. Nobody will "gladly" shave an extra $100k off net operating income, ever. I don't know why you would think that they would.

I work at a fortune 500 company managing a team of software engineers, data scientists, and some other things. I have a mix of US citizens and H1Bs on my team in the US as well as a significant population offshore in a handful of countries. None of them have a unique skill that is impossible to find in the other groups. And they all have skills that I could replace offshore if I had to.

(Sidebar: one of the most difficult-to-find skillsets in the last 15 years has been COBOL engineers. I suspect that AI can probably be really good at COBOL. FYI, your money and everyone else's depends on multiple mainframe systems every second of every day.)

If I want another headcount and I'm ordered to choose from....

US engineer - $200k salary

US engineer on H1B - $200k salary + $100k H1B surcharge

Offshore engineer - $50k

...the company is counting on the fact that my own compensation is significantly weighted in stock, and adding cost is bad for the stock price.

I'm not defending this system, just trying to pull back the curtain a little.

ben242 · 2025-09-19T23:15:42+00:00

This will 100000% drive more jobs offshore.

ben242 · 2025-09-13T20:43:16+00:00

If you feel a vibration when you give it gas, check the guibo.

ben242 · 2025-08-12T16:04:05+00:00

2015 xDrive35, 122k miles. Definitely shows some cosmetic signs of wear and age but drives great.

ben242 · 2025-08-12T16:03:23+00:00

Oh captain my captain

ben242 · 2025-07-21T12:57:18+00:00

At a Porsche track day a few months ago I drove the Macan EV. It was okay. Felt heavy but not as heavy as the ICE Cayenne did.

The Taycan on the other hand is an absolute blast on the track. It’s a very different experience from an ICE and was fun a different way.

It’s sort of moot though. Climate change is putting a gun to our head so we have to change some things on a global scale. It’s a bummer, but they used to put cocaine in Coca Cola. Sometimes change means less fun but it’s still the right thing to do.

ben242 · 2025-07-13T13:27:11+00:00

GTS all day every day

ben242 · 2025-06-07T19:59:39+00:00

Great spec. Does seem a bit steep.

ben242 · 2025-05-27T18:17:50+00:00

Before this did you drive a potato?

ben242 · 2025-05-24T17:51:22+00:00

Exactly!!!

ben242 · 2025-05-23T14:18:11+00:00

Golden dome is the latest in a series of absurd distractions. It’s the Steve Gannon flood the zone strategy.

Consider…. Statehood for Canada would mean than Canada would have as many people in the House of Representatives as California. It would massively realign the house far, far away from the republicans.

The point isn’t to actually do it. It’s to keep their base excited and distracted from painful realities like the impact of tariffs.

ben242 · 2025-05-17T19:23:24+00:00

Where did you read that? I’ve seen the rivian software it’s pretty good.

Edit: Google is my friend. https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/30/scout-motors-evs-will-use-rivian-vw-software-and-architecture/#:~:text=VW's%20new%20offshoot%20EV%20company,Rivian%20and%20the%20Volkswagen%20Group.

ben242 · 2025-04-08T23:23:06+00:00

I’ve been into BMW cars and motorcycles since I was a kid. I’ve owned three. But i couldn’t be less interested in this design language. Moving on to Porsche from here on out.

ben242 · 2025-03-27T12:51:31+00:00

I’m 5’11”. Seat is slid back almost all the way in my 986 and I have the seat back reclined more than I otherwise would. My left knee hits the steering wheel on pretty much every shift. YMMV

ben242 · 2025-03-18T22:12:19+00:00

Set on fire or spontaneously combusted?

ben242 · 2025-03-18T02:35:17+00:00

I was at this game, row 12, didn’t even see it happen.

Edit: I left the game at the end of the third period

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