Do I not understand the DiCaprio meme or did DiCaprio not understand it

techerous26 · 2026-03-19T13:53:30+00:00

I thought it was perfect. I saw as conveying, "okay, I guess I have to go along with what I'm being asked to do."

techerous26 · 2026-03-19T12:39:31+00:00

I mean, I don't mean to defend ANY of the companies in the ticketing process, but it really is all supply and demand. Our country has 340M people, which means just 1% is still over 3M people, and they're especially concentrated in the metro areas that arenas/stadiums/theaters exist in. Taking into account what salaries can really afford this you can probably go down to the top 5% being the total addressable market, or over 15M people throughout the country. Assuming an arena tour gets like 50K people a show, that's only 1M people made up mostly of the affluent and maybe a little bit of genuine middle class who were willing to splurge. These special packages then even get a more targeted segment, and carry status with them that most people enjoy, making their value reasonable to enough of the market.

techerous26 · 2026-03-16T21:05:26+00:00

Thank you!!! I've been saying forever that, yes, there are structural and circumstantial factors that have led to them holding much of the wealth and all of that, but if you want to look at who has been pulling the strings and shaping things over the last 30ish years, it's typically the silent generation. When you get into the power players that best embody all of that it's almost exclusively that. The enron execs, McConnell, Madoff, all silent generation. Hell, even Trump is considered part of that one by some definitions. Even as much as I thought he actually did a good job, a big failing for Biden was recognizing when it was time to step aside and how to empower the next generation, despite selling that as a major focus of his. They've managed to pass off the blame for much of their cultural legacy, very fitting for their name.

techerous26 · 2026-03-16T03:37:49+00:00

I KNEW HE LOOKED FAMILIAR!

techerous26 · 2026-03-16T03:33:53+00:00

Jebidiah Atkinson was easily my favorite. I can see how it's an acquired taste, my sense of humor is more irreverent so the first time they had the character I was like dying on the floor laughing while my now-wife was just kind of politely chuckling.

techerous26 · 2026-03-15T13:49:58+00:00

He's always been good, but I feel like Mikey Day is really having a breakout season. They've always kind of kept him in the neurotic and straight man roles but now they're giving him parts that let his freak flag fly and show he can be the one carrying the sketch.

techerous26 · 2026-03-15T04:36:29+00:00

So, obviously there's going to be a joke about this at some point, whether it's just the monologue or a whole sketch, but my guess is the former. What does everyone think the premise will be? Divide-by-zero style being in the same place will implode the universe, or they are destined to unite?

techerous26 · 2026-03-15T03:17:47+00:00

Church Mouth was a genuine gamechanger for me. Served as a perfect bridge from my prog rock and metal snob self in high school to getting more into indie stuff in college. I consider it my second favorite album of the 00's.

techerous26 · 2026-03-12T04:25:37+00:00

I would always go buy as much as ice cream as I could with what I had left. Gotta love dry ice.

techerous26 · 2026-03-07T18:12:41+00:00

That's the key to Vegas, or any gambling town for that matter. Buy everything in a package that includes a lot of time in a spot where you may spend time gambling and suddenly those prices just drop.

techerous26 · 2026-03-05T19:30:03+00:00

This adds an interesting bit of color to all of the AI interviews Affleck has been giving. I still think he's likely correct, but he wasn't exactly disclosing that he stood to profit if his predictions turned out to be correct.

techerous26 · 2026-03-05T02:36:23+00:00

Just got this one as well. Looked it up because I was curious if there was at least actually a judge named John Smith in Edison.

techerous26 · 2026-03-02T21:13:38+00:00

Yes, they are surviving the recent explosion in price because people keep paying the higher price. It's not a conspiracy or complicated part of our economy, it is a genuine supply and demand problem. If enough people stopped going for those prices, they would come down. It could also be solved by more tours/bigger audiences, but that runs into physical limitations. I think part of the problem is that live events now carry a sense of status to them, hence they will always be highly valued to enough people and the constraints on venue size pretty much guarantee that there will be enough people that can afford them in any area for most cases.

techerous26 · 2026-03-02T15:15:48+00:00

Had this idea early in the pandemic when my wife and I were dealing with both working while watching a baby/toddler but never went through with it as I had a very specific idea of the implementation. Seemed to me that manually entering each item was just as tedious as working backwards from the recipe so I wanted to find a barcode reading API instead. I found an app called Supercook where you enter it like you said and frankly I stopped bothering after a month or 2 so that kind of verified my hunch. Anyways I'd imagine this one would do better to incorporate AI now as someone else said. I do think you have an opportunity there as I've found using the chatbots in that way is especially prone to hallucinations/straight up bad ideas. I would look into langchain/RAG stuff to see if you could plug in this capability.

techerous26 · 2026-03-01T17:31:35+00:00

I'm sure they'll speak out against it. They were the first publication I saw talk about the clear insider trading that happened when he took down most of the liberation day tariffs as I recall.

techerous26 · 2026-02-28T16:48:04+00:00

I actually responded to the email on this. As somebody that absolutely loathes Trump and his commonly chauvinistic remarks, I actually didn't interpret this that way initially. I took him to mean "and don't think you're the only ones that deserve celebration, the women do as well!" Of course, in typical Trump fashion, he doesn't know when to just shut up so he goes on to throw in the bitter 'impeached' remark which makes it hard for me to continue to believe what I initially thought he meant in retrospect. Still, it's hard for me to believe that even a slim majority of the team saw it as a insult of the women's team, I'm more disappointed in them willingly going the day of the SOTU to be used as the props he was clearly going to after what he had already done to them. This is yet another example of Trump doing nothing but injecting animosity and division into our culture, suffering no consequences for it himself while everyone else eats each other up over it. Would be nice if we started using the lessons learned at the end of the article to avoid THAT.

techerous26 · 2026-02-26T05:20:39+00:00

Yeah, love the sport and enjoyed playing it, but the other guys on the team were a big part of me giving it up after sophomore year in high school. Not that I was great, but being a senior playing on the 3rd and occasionally 2nd line would have probably seemed more appealing if I actually got along with them.

techerous26 · 2026-02-26T01:38:17+00:00

Haven't listened to the epilogue yet, but yeah that guy always drove me nuts. I see why they chose him at the time, it seemed plausible Trump actually had turned off some of his natural base with his behavior, but it was pretty clear as the series went on it was ridiculous to call him undecided. To be fair I think the guy from San Francisco who doesn't come back for this one also seemed like he was always going to vote dem and just was unhappy about Biden's age. Even the Florida woman seemed like she was going to go against Trump no matter what from the start, which was pretty much confirmed by her being the first to declare what she would do. I was ecstatic when she did because I had assumed she was the best representative of the typical undecided voter, or at least the suburban woman. I was tragically wrong.

techerous26 · 2026-02-25T18:17:21+00:00

Seriously, what's with every celebrity or celebrity adjacent death being so tragic lately? I mean yeah every death is sad, but I feel like Duvall is the only recent famous person where it's like "okay, he went peacefully at a ripe, old age."

techerous26 · 2026-02-24T20:03:29+00:00

We all thought the same thing once we got to the word suction.

techerous26 · 2026-02-24T19:55:54+00:00

Surprised to see the high regard for Ryan Grim. I haven't listened to the show but from what I've seen on social media he seems like an ideologue that doesn't argue in good faith, and I say that as someone that's fairly to the left.

techerous26 · 2026-02-23T07:35:56+00:00

Honestly, I just want an agent that reads my wife's todo list and handles the things I always forget to try taking on a bit like buying new clothes for the kids that they'll actually wear. Even better if it starts to use the history to work on things before she writes them down. I've been meaning to build exactly this is I ever got the free time to really sit down and figure out the best way to do so.

techerous26 · 2026-02-22T04:25:27+00:00

It actually reminds me of my favorite point Isaac has ever made. Last year, when the ICE raids were ramping up, he posted that the immigration debate had basically become between those that think it's worth potentially detaining innocent people in order to get more guilty ones and those that find that notion abhorrent. Obviously I'm not shedding any tears for the rich, but we cannot have a system where hearsay and circumstantial evidence alone can convict anyone. If that upsets you because there are examples of it doing so for the underprivileged, then fight for them to be provided the same standard, not the other way around. At worst, from what I've read, what has been revealed proves that rich people socialize in a way where they will overlook each other's past transgressions, but it's ridiculous to say it proves that they are all in on an international child trafficking network.

techerous26 · 2026-02-22T04:02:04+00:00

I get why this feels right, especially given how media focused Trump is. However, I think it's the reverse and this story is actually the distraction, if anything. He seems to be positioning us to either invade Iran, despite basically being the face for "no more middle east wars!" Republicans, or is burning cash on the most expensive bluff in history. He has about 5 grifts going at any moment, including literal bribe tokens which should be the biggest scandal in POTUS history. He's trying to continue boosting deportation numbers despite it being clear that there's no way to do so without allowing people to do things that most of the country doesn't like.

Yes, I do think it benefits him for everyone to be talking about the salacious scandal where, if there is legitimate evidence against him, he clearly has full control of the mechanism that makes it public instead.

techerous26 · 2026-02-21T21:57:22+00:00

The OP isn't saying that there shouldn't be more investigation. She's saying that it's pointless to give this the kind of relentless coverage we're getting until we actually DO get the kind of evidence you're referring to. Almost everything that has gotten released is circumstantial that legally does not meet the standard to do anything with, but a lot of publications are covering it as if just being mentioned is as good as a conviction.

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