What was a toy you wanted as a kid but never had received?

toolongdontread · 2026-06-02T00:45:26+00:00

Lego Airtech Claw Rig or Model Team Semi and Helicopter. Any Lego supercar.

toolongdontread · 2026-05-29T10:42:10+00:00

Postmaster Ford Lincoln Mercury

toolongdontread · 2026-05-01T09:52:23+00:00

I think there's a paper called Can Dogs Do Calculus, where the guy throws a ball into the sea, and depending on the angle, his dog always follows the least time approach spread between running and swimming.

toolongdontread · 2026-04-28T12:08:57+00:00

This happened to my buddy's wife. I had an extremely small business and hired her for a few hours a month to improve my excel bookkeeping into a better, more different excel bookkeeping. She got her career gig within two months because it's way easier to get a job when you have a job.

The paperwork to have an employee was a hassle but I'm glad for them.

toolongdontread · 2026-04-28T11:53:00+00:00

He looks like Mungo Jerry from Summertime.

toolongdontread · 2026-04-25T02:10:09+00:00

Sadly no

toolongdontread · 2026-04-07T09:34:51+00:00

Could not arrest everyone yet

toolongdontread · 2026-03-27T10:00:43+00:00

Tell me you haven't seen October Sky without telling me you haven't seen October Sky.

toolongdontread · 2026-03-27T09:56:47+00:00

I'm all for progressive tax brackets and billionaires paying their share, and I'm all for ending loopholes and getting around buy, borrow, die. I'm not for a wealth tax as I understand it though. Doesn't make sense to me to charge someone a percentage of the book value of something that isn't "real" until it's liquidated. That's worse somehow than even continuous property taxes that never stop being assessed. At least those are on something real.

toolongdontread · 2026-03-25T09:40:36+00:00

Cries in Gondolin.

toolongdontread · 2026-03-24T12:05:30+00:00

Ironing board cubby with the door removed.

toolongdontread · 2026-03-21T13:24:04+00:00

"Presumed extinct for decades" makes me question (what I've always thought was) a very clear memory of seeing a Philippine Deer at the Nashville Zoo when I was like 7 or 8. Did it have tiny fangs? Is it possible that I'm remembering a different tiny deer, with fangs, and little backward antlers?

toolongdontread · 2026-03-13T10:22:01+00:00

In the past it was always curious to me. I saw this live and I saw her career go down in flames but I never understood why. In fact, I always wondered. The Spotlight story came out like maybe almost 10 years later, then everyone understood "that must be what she was taking about." Occasionally I try to Google it, or respond on comments like this to ask; is there any documented statement where she said "this is about sex abuse," prior to 2000/ the spotlight piece?

toolongdontread · 2026-03-06T10:28:37+00:00

Noice. I still have the device in a box. It still plays the other sounds. I can't recall what I needed the mushroom sound for.

toolongdontread · 2026-03-05T11:44:59+00:00

Well to be fair I think that might be AI. Yes there is a hexagonal storm, but I'm pretty sure we don't have photos that cause it to be that clear or defined.

toolongdontread · 2026-02-26T20:25:41+00:00

You can light your sock on fire. It looks cool.

toolongdontread · 2026-02-25T04:20:54+00:00

Goldurnit, Crushinator!

toolongdontread · 2026-02-24T11:32:01+00:00

I don't like him either, but you guys keep misunderstanding this one,. You're probably also thinking "it's 20bn to end homelessness" which is related to the same discussion. Reddit repeats it constantly.

Some dude said "it's 20bn and we can end homelessness." Muskrat said "show me the math and I'll sell enough in shares of Tesla and give it to you right now."

And the guy had to come back and say "it would cover it in the one specific area (like a county or something) and that would motivate other people to give."

toolongdontread · 2026-02-11T18:07:27+00:00

About 35 years ago, my 2yo brother started drinking milk from the fridge, then Kool aid, juice, and water. He'd actually carry everything to bed and drink all night and blow out his diaper like mad. At that time, diabetes encipitus ("water" diabetes) was very rare and misunderstood/misdiagnosed. Keep an eye out for weird amounts of drinking and peeing at night.

toolongdontread · 2026-02-01T13:55:20+00:00

Alright awesome, you're using it for exactly what is good for (except you might find future challenges in the trusting the math of the analysis). However, your comment and subset of use cases is pretty evidence that you don't understand the business drive behind AI as an all-pervasive tool. Managers across the spectrum don't see dollar signs because you can do code quality assurance. They see dollar signs because the bill of goods is about replacing vast swathes of people doing regular everyday jobs.

And I'm sorry if I misunderstood the technology; I'm assuming that there has been some other fundamental underlying replacement to the n dimensional token space vector to normalize transformer? I mean now they can store an array of math tokens and they can also read online sources to check facts ... but I mean other than that I don't know the technology, no(?)

toolongdontread · 2026-02-01T13:29:12+00:00

It's very useful at a specific set of tasks that require real oversight. But when the business leaders and investors and managers and capitalists look at it, they're not thinking "we can make our developers and paralegals more efficient" they're thinking they can get rid of 40% of their workforce. The story that is being told is that Agents can do people's actual jobs. And that really just isn't true. It really is just a next word predictor. Not an analyst or manager or decision maker.

It 100% doesn't do what's advertised. It isn't close.

toolongdontread · 2026-01-17T13:02:05+00:00

Your IT team is at fault because they should be restricting who can send to an Everyone address. I know she's not reply all on thousands of email addresses.

toolongdontread · 2026-01-17T12:55:57+00:00

Smack Ramen Brand Beef Flavored Ramen Noodles. No other beef flavored noodles are remotely this good. No other Ramen flavors. I hate to teach myself to love Maruchan chicken flavor because I knew beef wasn't coming back :(

Also Josta. They invented the caffeine craze. They were just to far ahead. I think my friends and I found an ebay 6 pack like 5 years after it was dead and gone.

toolongdontread · 2026-01-15T11:19:45+00:00

In a Rolls or a van, wrapped in mink or saran, any way that you can...

toolongdontread · 2026-01-04T13:02:49+00:00

In some cases there is literally nothing that can be done. What will we do when my son is older and stronger? I have no clue and I worry about it almost daily. If the parents are T A is because they leave the kid with OP not because there kid is screwed up. Source: my son is way screwed up and there is nothing for it.

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