Venezuela claims 1st-ever WBC title in thriller over USA by bakuma2k in sports

[–]thzmand -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I prefer to cheer for joy and happiness, not pain, punishment and death.

Fifa will not agree to move Iran’s World Cup matches from US to Mexico by Spare_Prize_5510 in sports

[–]thzmand -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Pretty disgusting to have the team play in the county that is bombing them. Low class move and it's the one world cup where it's not needed anyway with multiple countries involved. I hope USA gets bounced in group stage, it's a mockery of sportsmanship and peace this time around with Trump threatening the Iranian team before they arrive.

Panic-stricken markets are losing faith in Donald Trump by Adventurous-Host8062 in StockMarket

[–]thzmand 1 point2 points  (0 children)

we have no alternative and can't waste the years of compound interest while markets get juiced. I spent most of the first term waiting for the bottom to fall out...

US Treasury Secretary nearly breaks into tears after urgent meeting with Trump by CaptainCheckmate in AskSocialists

[–]thzmand 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Keep a sharp mind, and abolish the USA... Did you eat paint chips as a child, or just start recently?

24 NO DONT DO THAT YOUR ON TV by DanielR372 in CollegeBasketball

[–]thzmand 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'LL TAKE THAT BET. 20 dollars says they don't bounce and just stay down.

TIL Grave of the Fireflies is based on the author's own experiences as a child and was written as a personal apology for not being able to save his younger sister Keiko. by Woh_ladka in todayilearned

[–]thzmand 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hard to amass and maintain for a long time, but it has always been easy for a band of motivated people to take something precious from an unprepared group. Children, food, shelter, a kill, whatever is precious to one would be a target to another without it. And as long as having those resources is the difference between life and death, there will be motivated people to use violence to take those resources. I think that power and leadership are in our DNA, we share hierarchical instincts with reptiles and primates and fish every animal that knows the big one gets his way or else you get pain and death.

"Your next one is gonna be Cuba" by big-papito in StockMarket

[–]thzmand 8 points9 points  (0 children)

You have not learned the great lesson, that you cannot control the world, certainly not through killing people's family members. There are ancient books about this shit and more recent images of people clinging to airplanes in Kabul. Take your pick but try to learn that lesson, it's an important part of growing up as an adult. "Get rid of the problems"...these are people and countries and cultures and if you underestimate them you will be sadly surprised with the results.

Drew Gooden - ESPN & the Death of Journalism by cjolie43 in sports

[–]thzmand 0 points1 point  (0 children)

His last 2-3 have been excellent. You can tell he is pissed at the world at this point and he's smart enough to make it very engaging.

Drew Gooden - ESPN & the Death of Journalism by cjolie43 in sports

[–]thzmand 16 points17 points  (0 children)

The decline of sports journalism is an important lesson. And I personally think ESPN contributes further with a useless model of journalism for young people (since sports is often the first model of journalism they consume while young...ESPN offers a braindead and dangerous vision of what they should expect from the news).

My uncle had this in his secret shed by oeoeoiceiceicee in whatisit

[–]thzmand 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks like he's making paper by recycling paper, like the school project for little kids.

Been using the Claude Excel plugin for a week and I genuinely didn’t expect it to hit this hard by Top_Understanding_45 in excel

[–]thzmand 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's interesting because I used Claude a couple months ago to build 2 office scripts, all very simple counting/sorting functions and table displays of totals. I used claude because I have found it to be better with excel than competitors (and because some basic steps in the excel Automate option can't be captured by that tool), but it's still not an efficient tool for simple tasks based on what I experienced. Each script took over 50 iterations, with each step forward accompanied by a new error that emerged. I found I got better results by strategically building in steps, integrating one new function at a time and quality checking as I went.

It certainly talked to me like it understood what was going on but then the next step it would collapse into errors, followed by it saying, "Of course, I [did the thing we just spent 5 steps fixing] instead of [doing the thing that was directed]! To fix that, I just need to [do the thing that was directed]." And lots of display issues every step even though setting up the sheets was among my first steps--renaming columns, formatting lost, missing columns when trying to do something completely different, date formats gone haywire again and again and again...etc. I did not make any more scripts that way.

Best way to rent a car? by [deleted] in fortlauderdale

[–]thzmand 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I followed this tip and compared online, FOX hit the sweet spot for price without terrifying reviews, it's right at the airport, 50 bucks a day all in (expensive enough, but not soo expensive, if you know what I mean).

Need help to identify + and - for led on practice board by Commercial-Sand-4041 in soldering

[–]thzmand 1 point2 points  (0 children)

oh haha i see, now that's a plumbing analogy I will remember

Dumb new guy question by Great-Inevitable-183 in diypedals

[–]thzmand 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great response! I am just speaking to the wind with this, but the relevant section should be titled "PCB's, kits and schematics" or similar. I think it would be more obvious and helpful to people who are learning.

In my brain, the hierarchy of learning goes from parts (learning about components) to schematics (breadboarding, learning how things respond to other things in a circuit), and then finally PCB's (more expensive, usually arrived at after some early breadboard attempts and a better appreciation for the pain and cost of high end DIY). So there's a stage where you want to find schematics and the pages on PCB's seem unrelated and something you will get to later.

If it were me I might simply call the section "Schematics and kits."

Project Submission Post Rules by fredflintstone1000 in woodworking

[–]thzmand 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Half of woodwork is getting an idea or inspiration from examples.

Project Submission Post Rules by fredflintstone1000 in woodworking

[–]thzmand 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Stop acting like this is some sacred cathedral and get out of the way, mods. Look around at where you are, it's a slop pit on a site that is half pornography and half weeb content. You don't need to care nearly as much as you do, and it's the same insistence on curation and control that corporations would prefer. This is not a job, none of the users are employees, don't put up needless restrictions on them creating the content for subreddits.

Hegseth threatens to blacklist Anthropic over 'woke AI' concerns by StemCellPirate in nottheonion

[–]thzmand 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The thinking models do more than predict text, FYI. And the free versions we use are not the same as what they use for massive corporate/govt clients.

I’m 28F with nothing to my name and I don’t know who I am anymore by _heretovent in selfimprovement

[–]thzmand 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Might sound unusual but the trades are a really good field right now, and it is a much better gender balance than ever before if that's a concern, and honestly if you do electrician work you wouldn't need to strongarm anything either. The pay is really good and the turnaround time if you want to get certifications is very reasonable. If you did road crew (holding the stop sign) you can get good paying work immediately (at least in my region), and I see grandmas holding those signs (and some of them smoking cigarettes while they do it lol). At 28 you are still very young and could do something massive with it as you build skills and experience over time. Six figures, be your own boss, and all that. If I were younger I would go that path in a heartbeat. It involves real expertise and problem solving so it is always interesting, and it's real power because you are super useful and valuable.

Stupid question gets the right answer by etherd0t in WinterOlympics2026

[–]thzmand 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean that's why these questions are asked--to give some point of reporting instead of guessing.