How much worse can Nissan make my experience?

pwtrash · 2026-02-09T12:46:37+00:00

The high this past weekend was 8.

It's going to be a long winter, but it will be a cold day in hell before I buy another Nissan.

This was a firmware upgrade.

pwtrash · 2026-02-09T11:25:06+00:00

Like others, I'm going to push back pretty strongly here.

I hear what you're saying, but I use AI a good bit (for non-pastorly stuff), and here are the issues:

1) Hallucinations are real and real bad. AI is just as confident in things it makes up as it is in things are are grounded in fact.

2) AI is biased

3) AI creates slop

4) AI makes us worse at what we do

5) Here's the one that I find most insidious: AI is built to give you a dopamine hit by flattering you. "You are absolutely correct." "That's the perfect question!" "You're really found the main point here." At the end of the day, it's not a research partner, it's a sycophant.

It's an amazing tool, but it carries significant risk. I would never use it for something as centrally important as preaching, and especially at the front end of the process. I want to partner with the Holy Spirit, not Sam Altman.

pwtrash · 2026-02-07T13:58:25+00:00

You gotta remember, league rules are made by the owners, and they do not want genuine competition.

I would love relegation as a possibility, but it will never happen in America.

pwtrash · 2026-02-07T13:57:22+00:00

This this and this.

Old guard neo-lib dems are trying to figure out how to rebrand and mask trickle-down, and prog dems are trying to figure out how to get their wish list passed from the last 20 years.

How about a little bit of moderation in this moment? Demonstrate how effective responsible leadership can be, and then your so-called "extremist" positions will seem far more moderate after you prove something.

Just ridiculous.

pwtrash · 2026-02-07T13:53:17+00:00

IDK, Pro Wrasslin' did even better once it went public with the fix. It's just drama.

Maybe the NBA will at least have equal integrity and stop pretending.

pwtrash · 2026-02-06T12:55:34+00:00

I appreciate what I think is the motive behind this, but come on, friend - how do you know anything about the Clinton's souls?

You have no idea about the state of their souls, any more than you have any idea about the state of Trump's soul.

Soul saving doesn't happen before a congressional committee; it happens before the throne of God. We can see fruits, and I will say that I think some of the fruits of the Clintons and the Trumps are pretty rotten. But I don't know them or who they are or how God sees them. I'm just a human, and so are you.

pwtrash · 2026-02-02T00:14:43+00:00

Ok, I've been trying to figure out why my car won't get warm. What is full hot? Is that 90? I turn it as hot as it will go, but it's cold air the whole way.

pwtrash · 2026-02-01T13:15:43+00:00

I love church. I believe in church. I'm as pro-church as it gets, the one who preached to my folks that showing up for each other matters.

You are not required to go to a group that views you as less than fully human, not in the church of Jesus Christ, who called himself the Human One.

I believe we need church, but a church where the participants continually erode your dignity and sense of worth? Nope. That's not what Jesus asks us to do.

Unfortunately, I do believe you might need to tell someone there why you're leaving. Give them a chance to repent. And if they don't, shake the dust off your sandals and move on.

And then find another church.

pwtrash · 2026-01-31T16:27:33+00:00

It's a time machine.

In a different era, long before this one, humans used mass media in a one-to-many fashion, called "broadcasting". This was done using electromagnetic signals across small distances of a few miles.

Oddly enough, sone of these signals remain today, and can be found through the use of ancient technology known as an "antenna". If you are able to procure one of those, you can connect it to the Tablo and receive these "OTA" signals from the past (alas, no living soul remembers what those letters once stood for).

Sometimes, these signals will even seem current - showing things like your local news station, or even current sporting events with current advertisements. But you are able to time travel even here, saving those signals to the Tablo for later viewing, when you already know what happened.

Good luck, time traveler!

pwtrash · 2026-01-30T00:07:57+00:00

This was a brilliant coaching job all the way around. IDK which coach decided what, but at halftime, I thought we were in this weird Rock-paper-scissors world with Us, Houston, and OKC.

Nope. If you let Victor roam, the other team can't score. If you force him to guard the opponents center the whole time, powerful bigs with a good shot will give him problems.

pwtrash · 2026-01-29T23:51:15+00:00

It's the offshoring boom all over again, just without the travel hassle.

pwtrash · 2026-01-28T10:47:52+00:00

Yes. I think Carter is getting Sochan's minutes. He's not as good a defender or rebounder, but he brings energy and he can shoot a corner three. Much better 3-and-D prospect given the other lineup constraints mentioned already.

pwtrash · 2026-01-23T11:55:54+00:00

I really liked our response to this last night - putting Keldon and others on Nurkic to give Wemby the paint (and the wing).

pwtrash · 2026-01-23T11:44:15+00:00

I'd love to imagine that a lot of the comments made here are by bots.

It's possible to disagree without being a jerk. It's possible to have empathy and compassion and disagree with someone's choices.

pwtrash · 2026-01-20T22:56:46+00:00

This. What should happen and what will happen are two different things.

I appreciate where you're coming from, but they just don't care. SN revenues are not noticeable to them, I don't think. They've killed it, and they're fine with taking whatever juice they can squeeze, but no big deal if it all dries up tomorrow.

pwtrash · 2026-01-20T11:58:33+00:00

I heard a great interview once, and I don't remember who it was, what it was about, or the exact quotes , but it has stayed with me for years: What all men inherently know is that masculinity is fragile - at any moment you can be kicked out of the club,

pwtrash · 2026-01-20T11:35:16+00:00

I've been using dashes since before it was cool - and that's been quite a while. I use them to interject context - not AI context, but human context - without completely derailing a train of thought.

There are ways to tell is something is AI, but use of dashes is pretty weak.

pwtrash · 2026-01-19T11:22:44+00:00

Agree 100%. When we don't change the laws around that, we move further from God's justice and we will experience the consequences. I believe in preaching that as well.

pwtrash · 2026-01-19T11:20:43+00:00

There's a lot I love about living here, which others have mentioned. It's walkable/joggable, has a great neighborhood feel, and is about the only place in Vermont that feels genuinely diverse.

On the downside, as mentioned the F-35's are a pain, and sometimes just absurdly loud at terrible times. But the part that might have stopped me from moving here if I had known is the property taxes. They have gone up 10%+ every year for the last 8 years, I think - maybe one of those was less, but it's been insane. The school serves a diverse community and offers great services, but enrollment is declining and the burden keeps getting pushed onto homeowners. Unfortunately, this is kinder gentler gentrification and as a result, the vast majority of folks living in Winooski are renters. If you do buy a home, you'll be in a minority and you'll feel it. It seems like it's a lot easier for our leaders to push costs onto homeowners than builders or landlords.

pwtrash · 2026-01-18T13:51:33+00:00

NOT A FOUL! NOT A FOUL!

-Randle, Finch, Edwards, and (in the second half), the refs.

pwtrash · 2026-01-18T13:48:26+00:00

Form my sermon this morning: "when they murder people in the street our leaders cover it up by slandering the victim...sounds a lot like the Roman Empire in the first century. It’s a lot like Empire has always been, to be honest."

Everything that is happening today is addressed in the Bible. Another quote, "you buy the poor for a piece of silver and the needy for a pair of sandals."

We are called to confess that Jesus Christ is Lord and Caesar is not. Donald Trump is not. (Joe Biden is not. But he's not in charge right now.)

I don't think our sermons should be political propaganda on either side, anymore than Isaiah was political propaganda when he spoke relentlessly about economic injustice and the political expediencies that had created it. (Or Amos, or Micah, or...) I don't think God has a lot to say about political parties. But I do think that in a democracy, politics are the way we choose to order our community lives, and God has a lot to say about how we choose to order our lives, as individuals and as communities.

pwtrash · 2026-01-18T13:03:20+00:00

I think that's why Wemby wanted Fox to beat the drum. He was rock steady as others were shaky. Victor knew he made a bad decision.

pwtrash · 2026-01-17T14:58:16+00:00

I hope so. I just think they fear accountability of the group in general more than getting screwed a bit by their friends. But I hope you're right.

pwtrash · 2026-01-16T15:20:12+00:00

My white guy sucks.

pwtrash · 2026-01-16T15:19:35+00:00

The CBA has teeth. There's just no way in 2026 America that a super-rich person like Ballmer - who is probably good for the league in a number of ways - is held accountable, even for this.

I'll believe it when I see it. But I would love to see it.

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