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- Comment on Millennials are giving up on the thought of ever buying a house and experts estimate fewer will become homeowners 1 day ago:
Americans got spoiled during the baby boom era. Few people actually need a 1200+ square foot house with lofted ceilings and a large back patio.
Row houses existed for a reason. Starter homes existed for a reason.
If you want a larger house, then go in on it with a bunch of family members. Somewhere along the way, we decided that each and every individual one of us needed our own house. Multi-generational houses used to be a thing. Families all living on the same property used to be a thing. It was probably healthier for us too, to be around people who care about your well-being and will be there in case of emergency.
It’s the same damn thing with university. Why does every Uni need a climbing wall and a lazy river? You want those things, then yea, you should expect to be able to pay through the nose for them, both for the amenities and the support and admin staff to keep them going.
This rant brought to you by Simpler Times beer. “It ain’t nothin fancy, but, hey, at least you can afford it.”
- Comment on Visa says AI will start shopping and paying for you in 2026 4 days ago:
Ok, so I think I’ve actually seen some of this in action. And, I think there is a certain level of convenience here that isn’t properly being conveyed in the short headline.
Imagine you want to pay your utility bill by credit card. Your smart meter tracks your usage and enters it into the utility system. Their AI agent then generates a utility bill based upon your purchase agreement. Another agent performs an audit to verify the numbers. And lastly, another agent sends the invoice to your cc company.
Now on your side. You’ve already authorized the cc company to authorize utility payments up to a certain threshold and frequency. It understands the rules and so it processes the payment for you.
Now, you may ask. “How is this different than autopay.” Well, for one, you no longer would have to configure your autopay with every single company, you just do it with your bank or cc company, making it more centralized and convenient.
Potentially less overhead for both companies too. Less maintenance for all the websites and payment processes your utility company has to keep up now. Less people involved in the invoicing stream too. And I don’t know about you, but personally I feel like an AP clerk would be a fairly dull way to live. Let them do the more complex work of bulk invoice auditing.
In the cc side, agent can streamline the processes and API handshakes where they have agreements with companies like the utility company. And on your side, you get the convenience of autopay. Much better than the current duct taped together connextorys and processes between companies. And moreover, much less of your time to pay than the days of yore when you had to sign and handover your check through the utility company drive through.
I could also see this being used for routine maintenance, groceries, prescriptions. Anything where you have a typical ordering frequency and schedule.
Of course, this could get all wiki sticks quickly. Companies could abuse it and jack up prices since you’re not monitoring it, but they do that now anyway, so we have to remain vigilant.
- Comment on Visa says AI will start shopping and paying for you in 2026 4 days ago:
Hey there. Just in case you needed to hear it. You are more than a jukebox.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
I agree. I was an early adopter. It’s a compelling idea to have a public ledger, but so far it’s been terrible execution, and what a disaster for the environment.
- Comment on corn 2 weeks ago:
Well? What are you doing just standing there? It ain’t gonna shuck itself.
- Comment on A legend 5 weeks ago:
Pretty sure he would have been Sonic.
- Comment on How hard would it be to trap gated communities by crashing dozens of cars into the front of their gates blocking them from leaving ? 1 month ago:
The more well off ones usually have a connected airport and “fuck-you-money security. As someone else mentioned, helicopters are an option, or perhaps boat of they’re by a waterway.
So congratulations, you’ve trapped the community doctors and lawyers, maybe a very well off Grammy or two with limited faculties, but you’ve set off the alarm bells to the true predators of society, who’ve now made it to Madagascar and shut down the ports.
- Comment on When kids come trick-or-treating, what happens if I choose trick? 1 month ago:
One of the wittier guys in the trailer park I grew up in did that trick where it looks like you can pull one of your fingers off from one hand. As an 8 year old that was fucking cool.
Another time he did the quarter behind your ear trick and then gave us the quarter.
To this day, I still remember it more than any other Milky Way or Babe Ruth candy bar I ever got. So yeah, go for it, make an impression.
- Comment on Catch of the day 2 months ago:
Grew up there. Myrtle Beach is the kind of place where everyone has 3 jobs and no money. The place thrives on tricking others into relieving them of theirs.
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- Comment on Could a minority in US Senate essentially disolve the federal state? 2 months ago:
Federal workers will get back pay. You’re parroting the right’s messaging. People wanted the left to fight.
Because of how the people gave the right all of the levers of government last election, this is one of the few areas where dems have any power to wield - senate needs 60% to pass any funding legislation.
You wanted a battle, the dems took it to the mattresses. We should be praising them for being bold and we, the left, should be seeking out those government workers who are struggling the most and doing gofundme’s to care for them. This is a war and they are soldiers on the front lines, directly in the line of fire. We need to be their support regiment.
Conversely, the right needs to feel the pain of what a lack of federal government looks like, because a lot of them don’t value it at all, because they don’t understand how it serves them. They only see it as “protection money” that come out of their paycheck. For them, we need to find the union workers who left the left. We need to gain back the dirt farmers in Montana, the disenfranchised Hispanics in Southern Texas and in the burroughs of NYC and the suburbanite moms in Bucks County. Moreover, we need to fight like hell to show that we give a damn and have a spine and that we will, we will, thought for them.
- Comment on The father, the son, and tails 2 months ago:
Hope you get a lot of miles out of this one.
- Comment on Meta won’t allow users to opt out of targeted ads based on AI chats 2 months ago:
Sounds like a great time for malicious compliance.
- Comment on IT'S A TRAP 2 months ago:
I’d just close my eyes and believe the bodies I’m trampling are imaginary.
- Comment on xkcd #3149: Measure Twice, Cut Once 2 months ago:
Ever cut a channel into a beam of wood? Measure once, maybe twice. Cut until you can’t keep cutting.
- Comment on And the pre-peeled containers for 4x the price are a ripoff 2 months ago:
Devil gets beat up enough, I just prefer to beat my fruit.
- Comment on And the pre-peeled containers for 4x the price are a ripoff 2 months ago:
- cut off the top and bottom
- on the bottom, look for the pith lines, usually 5 of them. Cut down from there all the way to the bottom, so that you have 5 slices. If you’re a pro you can not cut all the way to the bottom and simply starfish it.
- Take a slice and a wooden spoon. Beat the ever living daylights out of the back of the slice, the delicious rubies will go flying everywhere…hopefully into the bowl you put underneath where you’re thwacking. Or, if you don’t have an anger management disorder, just tap the backs gently, ymmv.
- Comment on Trapeze artists 2 months ago:
The cannon was loaded from the start.
- Comment on people who use AI a lot would probably be the most likely to get their exact wish from a genie. 2 months ago:
Sadly no, it’s going to be the junior people who are replaced because they lack tribal knowledge. Offshore will decrease as well. It’s already happening.
- Comment on US presidents are getting younger over time 2 months ago:
You can’t handle the TRUTH!
For most of us, no truer words have ever been spoken.
- Comment on They recalled the radioactive shrimp again. Why? My research shows you can just cook off the radiation. 2 months ago:
Reduce, reuse, recycle ☢️
- Comment on I've ordered bucket of lava but they keep delivering different product 2 months ago:
Magma, like, from the toilet?
- Comment on Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway 2 months ago:
Most magats are autists but not all autists are magats?
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 2 months ago:
Lots of peeps on the D train, so I’m going G. You’ve got the spiciness of Mexican and Caribbean paired with the savoryness of Guatemalan. Jam packed with fish and chicken dishes. Ceviche, jerk chicken, fried plantains, cornbreads, tacos, giant burritos. Southern Spain means you get paella chock full of shellfish and also Spanish olives. And in the far west you get a bit of Hawaiian flare, so a little bit of Japanese sneaks in.
Regardless D and G are S tier. E and A are A tier.
- Comment on “Filling a Gap in the Market: Genetic Modification of a Carrot with a Flared Base” 2 months ago:
No thanks, I’m not that into farmers.
- Comment on “Filling a Gap in the Market: Genetic Modification of a Carrot with a Flared Base” 2 months ago:
So where’s the market on this one? We going to start seeing these on grocery store shelves or am I going to have to buy this discreetly?
- Comment on oh no 3 months ago:
Is this where I can find more Annabel Lee? She went viral a while back, but I haven’t seen anything else with her in a while.
- Comment on Oh god 3 months ago:
Yea, embrace it. Think about the most ridiculous things you’ve ever heard other people say. Oh, you can only remember maybe 5? 10? Realize that the one dumb thing you said is most likely not on the list.
And if it is? Congratulations you made an imprint on someone else.
- Comment on Is there no good inexpensive CAD software? 3 months ago:
I use a free version of sketchup make from 2008. You can still find it out there on the internet for download.
- Comment on Name this minivan 3 months ago:
The Sienna ARBY - Apocalypse Ready Budget Yolo Edition