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If anyone plans to go to any of his upcoming appearances, just fyi the Pearl and Center Street courthouses are literally right next to each other.

My problem with Tesla is that so many things seem half-unthinking, half-finished or half-assed:

Unthinking: I know! I’ll put a ledge in from of the headlights, so snow can pile up while I’m driving!

Unfinished: all the seam mismatches and eternally unfinished-but-really-close! full self-driving (it ain’t gonna happen).

Half-assed: that recall they had to do because sometimes the latch doesn’t catch properly and the hood flies open when you’re driving and blocks your view. Tesla’s solution isn’t to fix or replace the hood latch so this doesn’t happen; they push a software up that monitors the hood latch and pops up a warning, telling you to pull over and check the hood latch. Because apparently fixing the issue that their poor design (see #1) and bad implementation (see #2) doesn’t warrant an actual fix, they’re just going to fob the risk , the cost and the work off to the customer.

without the risks of addiction

Didn’t the drug companies say opioids weren’t addictive? I guess we’re up for round 2 …

Edit: from the company’s press release:

Vertex has established a wholesale acquisition cost for JOURNAVX in the United States of $15.50 per 50mg pill.

That’s the wholesale price. Consumer price will be higher.

The prescribing information sheet says to start with 100mg, then take 50mg every 12 hours. So at wholesale costs, a two-week supply is $450; actual patient costs will be higher. Also, I limited my math to only two weeks because:

Use JOURNAVX for the shortest duration, consistent with individual patient treatment goals. Use of JOURNAVX for the treatment of acute pain has not been studied beyond 14 days.

For this to work, you need to download and install the app, and sign up for CVS’ loyalty program. In the store, you need to be logged into the app and connected to the store’s Wi-Fi, and have Bluetooth turned on.

For this to work, you need to download and install the app and sign up for CVS’ loyalty program. In the store, you need to be logged into the app and connected to the store’s Wi-Fi, and have Bluetooth turned on.

Oh good, this is going to be an excuse for every other business to start doing this shit …

I was trying to solve a betweenle a couple weeks ago, had it down to the words immediately before and after the word-for-the-day, and couldn’t think of it. I went to three different AI engines and asked them what word was between those two, alphabetically. All three engines repeatedly gave me “answers” that did not occur between the two words. Like, I’d ask "what 5-letter English words are alphabetically between amber and amble, and they’d suggest aisle or armor. None of them understood ‘alphabetically’.

It’s interesting that his thought process is, “It’s not cheating, everyone does it which means this is fine!”

I mean, the thought process he’s admitting to here is interesting in light of Trump thanking Musk for “He knows those computers better than anybody. All those computers. Those vote-counting computers. And we ended up winning Pennsylvania like in a landslide.”

Cheap materials aside: for a lot of this stuff, you really want to be putting wood glue on the joints when you assemble it. The screws will hold the joints tight while the glue dries, then the glue holds the furniture together much better than it would with plain screws into cheap particle board. It’s not a perfect solution, but it definitely increases the life of your furniture.

Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg will be sitting together at Trump’s inauguration. This also is a comment that I felt like making for no particular reason.

Virtue signalling means that you want to appear like you’re better than you actually are, at least in public.

So it means that Zuck thinks people who leave Meta are actually scum, they just want to look nice to others.

My issue is the disparity of the pictures, with the bowtie picture having the duck’s entire neck almost completely in shadow, while the shadow is comparatively minimized on the necktie image. It’d be nice to see both options under both light and dark conditions.

That said, I currently prefer the necktie; it provides an element to the rest of the body. I’m the bowtie picture, everything is happening around the head - beak, eyes, hat, bowtie - leaving the rest of the body comparatively empty.

If you’re at a table with nine Nazis and you don’t leave, then the table has ten Nazis at it. History won’t care why you were at the table, just that you were there.

Nah, with Trump in office, he’ll be delighted to hire in H1B slave labor …

Well, the Democrats don’t have an entire media echo-system in place - multiple tv ‘news’ channels, a coast-to-coast network of local conservative radio propagandists, an entire chain of ever-so-slightly-increasingly-radicalized YouTube “hosts” leading from self-improvement and self-appreciation through to denigration and hatred of others - turns out, the easiest way for the alt-right to make someone feel better about themselves is for them to tell their acolytes that they’re great and that someone else is beneath them - doesn’t matter if the ‘other’ are blacks or women or Jews or Muslims or LGBTQ or Hispanics or immigrants or whatever. Just know that “those people” are beneath you, it’s okay to physically, legally, emotionally, and socially attack them whenever you feel like it to ‘remind them of their place’ (especially if you think they might be inclined to overstep it), and everything will be fine …

Also, the jacket cuffs are different.

It has correctly identified both a Stargate and a moai made of snow.

I gave it two pictures of my cat and it said that she looked annoyed in one picture and contemplative in the other, both of which were true.

I should go dig up some of those “Overly Honest Methods” memes …

Reminder that Ben Stein was a member of the Nixon White House. So was Diane Sawyer.