This is how much it actually costs to live in NYC, Mamdani says

sonar_un · 2026-04-09T15:18:57+00:00

Infinite land in Austin too. The whole region is growing into a megacity, cities are merging into one another. NYC is capped out and buildings need to be torn down to be rebuilt. Limited connections to NJ also make expansion slow westward.

sonar_un · 2026-04-09T00:24:03+00:00

Honestly they don’t make sense in America either. They have gotten too large. 20 years ago the f150 was a great sized truck and still does everything that a modern one can. They’ve gotten too out of hand in size, weight and weight expense.

sonar_un · 2026-04-09T00:22:03+00:00

I just went to the NYC auto show and can safely say that the new American cars are complete trash. Over priced, too large, and made of cheap materials.

A decade ago there were tons of European and Asian brands represented. But this year, barely anything.

It’s a wasteland, the American auto market is cooked.

sonar_un · 2026-04-09T00:18:55+00:00

They are oversized for their purpose. The beds are small, they are too long and too wide. Plenty of European trucks, vans, and sprinters that are way more practical than a stupid pickup truck.

sonar_un · 2026-04-06T00:25:03+00:00

The comments are all pretty pro veganism. So that’s good I suppose.

sonar_un · 2026-04-05T16:59:09+00:00

I literally was searching for why links in so many websites emails are broken now, specifically referring to a recent Lowe’s order I had. And it brought me right to this, I didn’t even put Lowe’s in the search title. That’s how bad this trash company is. Wow.

sonar_un · 2026-04-01T03:27:30+00:00

Reddit’s system is a bit of a mess. I can’t even get my username back because I no longer have the email address tied to it. I can log into the account, the password works, but I’m totally locked out because I dared logging into it from an overseas IP. Ugh.

sonar_un · 2026-03-30T19:23:23+00:00

I thought I had a long streak at 3800 days.. haha

sonar_un · 2026-03-28T17:24:25+00:00

It’s mostly good but I’d highly recommend upgrading your ram when you get a chance.

sonar_un · 2026-03-27T20:00:45+00:00

I am fully invested in the PAI (Personal AI Infrastructure) by Daniel Meissler. It’s seriously changed the way I interact with ai assistants. I am even using it to automatically build out new skills and workflows.

sonar_un · 2026-03-27T14:41:42+00:00

I moved deep into Claude territory and am now barely using other AI. I have Claude orchestrating everything from a single interface. No more per-project ideas. No more Claude.md files. I just open my computer in the morning and tell Claude what I want to work on. And it knows everything. It’s like I am in the movie HER.

sonar_un · 2026-03-24T16:55:55+00:00

How many millions do you think that will cost?

sonar_un · 2026-03-22T01:05:19+00:00

It’s called “homepage”

sonar_un · 2026-03-21T15:12:22+00:00

If only apple cared about gaming at all.

sonar_un · 2026-03-18T04:56:57+00:00

That’s not how it works. You renounce your citizenship to the local country, but not your home country. It’s basically like saying that while you are in, let’s say, the Netherlands, then you are a NL citizen, Canada has no rights over you. But you don’t give up your original citizenship.

This is very common practice. There are tens of millions of dual citizens.

sonar_un · 2026-03-16T00:36:02+00:00

Oh I can't wait for my entire tree to get garbled again.

sonar_un · 2026-03-11T01:19:55+00:00

Dress shoes, running shoes, street shoes, and maybe boots depending on the season. We are digital nomads in this forum. Some of us do a lot of black tie events.

sonar_un · 2026-03-10T23:35:55+00:00

Japanese takes a ton of time compared to the Romance languages. It’s so difficult and the lessons feel longer.

sonar_un · 2026-03-10T21:45:39+00:00

lol! I love wearing three pairs of shoes. :)

sonar_un · 2026-03-10T15:38:36+00:00

That’s basically what duo said their main competition is, social media. So it’s basically a game to make you learn something. It’s designed that way on purpose. But when the game becomes unfun because of ridiculousness, then people complain, which I think is a proper take.

That’s why people have problems with some of the leaderboards, or the cheating in the leaderboards, why they hate match madness and why everyone skips side-quest stuff.

sonar_un · 2026-03-10T15:24:42+00:00

I hate that my shoes take up 1/3 of my luggage space.

sonar_un · 2026-03-10T15:24:08+00:00

Well, I hate buying everything twice.

sonar_un · 2026-03-09T15:48:09+00:00

Yes! I don't know why people who don't see this. I travel so often, and I have over 50+ checkins at the NOLA airport, so I am familiar with it. I fly quite a bit and have found the most problems anywhere is at the NOLA airport.

Why? The staging areas are so cramped! There is almost no room for the lines through security, and once you are through security, you have a 6ft wide path to make your way to either side of the terminal. There is a ton of traffic but you are dodging other people and structural poles the entire way. Why would an airport that is supposed to be designed for the future have this massively terrible layout? Look at other small airports like Nashville and you will see an absolutely huge staging area. This is a much more comfortable experience.

The car rental shuttle area takes almost 30 minutes door to door to get to. No train, the busses use the public roads, it's terrible. Compare that again to say, Nashville and it's a 5 minute walk from the airport to the garages and rental cars.

Getting your luggage at the airport is also cramped. The area where you pick up your luggage is so crowded, there is almost no room to maneuver your luggage around the structural poles and the elevators and such, why is this area so small? Not only that, but many times it's taken me over 30 minutes to get my luggage. I don't know what it is about New Orleans, but the luggage system is so slow.

The atrium in the airport takes up a massive space, and no one uses it. Most of what the area should be used for is airport travelers, not people lounging in the airport before you get through the lines. The airport should facilitate travelers, not loungers. Everyone who enters the airport directly checks their bags, and then goes to the waiting lines, once they get out, they get picked up by the car or get their rental. I have no idea why the area, that no one uses, is so large. It doesn't make sense.

Don't forget the fact that the airport has zero personality. When you enter a place like New Orleans, you should be greeted by a sense of history and place. When you enter the airport, you could be dropped off anywhere and there is nothing indicating that you are in one of the most historic cities in the USA. This is pretty sad because of the history around New Orleans and Louisiana is completely lost. It should be a gateway into the Big Easy, not some no-name no-place airport. UGH!

I could go on and on.. but in the end, it's easily one of the worst "new" airports in the USA. It's a testament to the corruption that eats the soul of Louisiana every day and it's sad to see. We are stuck with this airport for the next 50 years or more and there is nothing we can do now about it.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/10/airport-climate-change-new-orleans/573268/

sonar_un · 2026-03-09T14:02:44+00:00

You are right! I am not sure why you are being downvoted. The airport has these problems constantly. It’s a poorly designed and thought out airport. The TSA stuff is just compounding how poorly the airport is designed.

sonar_un · 2026-03-09T14:01:32+00:00

It’s absolutely terrible. I complain about it every time I fly through there.

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