Degrade and underinvest in rail networks

Fuck that, freight rail has been doing that for over half a century. Coal doesn’t care how slow it moves or how off schedule it is, but when that’s all freight ts cares about, they ruin rail for everyone.

Time to seize that track by eminent domain, force them to obey the law giving g passenger rail priority, and forcing maintenance if they want to use the track

I was wondering about that. That’s amazing progress, but let’s also get those wind numbers up

My Tesla has full functionality whether I subscribe to anything or not. Subscribing gets me cell service so it can update as we go, and is similar in price to cell service for other gadgets

With cell service

• maps have live traffic
• I can listen to streaming music

Without cell service

• maps can’t update live traffic data
• I can listen to streaming music on my driveway, but otherwise use Bluetooth to stream from my phone

Ok, fine, full self driving is now a subscription

every rich person about working from sun up to sunset is a lie

I worked at a startup once where one of the guys was honest about that. He had helped a prior startup succeed and made his money, so was not interested in working.

We paid for the name so investors would think we could succeed. He just screwed around when he actually made it in to work, but occasionally talked to investors about the great things he was doing

Don’t want to put in the effort of that many lies to that many people, that many broken contracts, that many violated morals

As an X’er not too far behind them:

On paper I look like one of those hoarders: nice income and a lot of house equity. I also have above average 401k balance

However

• excessive home inflation
• interest rates lock-in
• medical emergency costs ridiculous
• kid college costs ridiculous
• car costs ridiculous
• divorce lost half of everything
• retirement age 65–>67
• ageism means i can’t expect to work as long as I need to
• boomer parents not going to leave anything

We’re hit by all the same excessive inflation as everyone else but we can’t downsize because mortgage rates are too high. All the missing safety nets affect us as much as everyone, except we’re out of time to recover from any catastrophe.

Given a family medical emergency, I missed 15 years of 401k contributions, and never upgraded from A “starter home”, despite what the valuation looks like, and I have a lot of major maintenance coming up

I have to say that despite a lot of things that look really good on paper, I was much better off financially in my 30’s

I wonder the opposite: when the ai bubble pops, will it take spacex with it?

Whatever life alert-like system my Mom has …. She wears it as a pendant and it has fall sensors. When it triggers, the monitoring company calls her on the base. No buttons required.

The only limitation is there can be only one base, so the volume has to be turned way up to cover her condo

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Used to be called starting a war. It’s working for Russia but you really need to have a draft/conscription to make it succeed. The wealthy pay a doctor to say they have bone spurs and the poor go die somewhere else. As a plus some wealthy benefit from an overheated military industrial complex

But there are side effects, such as generating more poverty by killing off the main income in families

For me it was the opposite. As a married couple we had a house almost paid for. But then in the divorce we both had to get large mortgages again.

I bought out her half of the house and now have a mortgage as big as our initial starting price 20 years ago, that doesn’t get paid off until I’m like 80. So that didn’t work so well

Of course now I also have enough equity to buy a house in most of the country. So there’s definite upside

I wish they’d put them in front of my local elementary school, despite my kids grew past that and despite people not speeding. The problem is the fence is mangled, in a bunch of spots all along the front of the school. Somehow cars are repeatedly jumping the curb, crossing the sidewalk where kids walk to school, then colliding with the fence. wtf

It is a bubble, but ……

• a bubble is a great place to make huge gains …… as long as you get out in time
• usually a few companies survive the bubble pop. Their stock price baby also crashes but then recovers to “normal” valuation

I sit out bubbles because I recognize them but know I never know how to get out in time. But I do know some who succeed in riding the wave while still coming out the other side

Yeah we don’t spend money on road maintenance, only road creation

Assuming the phrasing is intentional, I love it. LoL

But taking it more seriously it has been really tempting. But if get one kid a car I need to get both kids a car to be fair. If each kid has a car I run out of excuses to not let them take it to college. It becomes a whole thing for a whole lot of money

A great use for the new sodium batteries, assuming they pan out as expected and can scale up quickly. While I still think the PHEV strategy is most appropriate for last decade before batteries were sufficiently developed, a cheaper, longer lasting battery can make them more compelling

Or too early. Part of the flood of bad driving since pandemic is everyone seems to cut corners now. Whether crossing lanes or the into opposing traffic on a curve, having trouble with a simple turn, or changing lanes while turning

Maybe, but if you insist on an oversized vehicle and don’t have the skill to keep it in lane, then maybe a little inconvenience is ok

They’re less ugly than a jersey barrier and do less damage to cars that can’t stay in their lane while still protecting cyclists.

But yeah, visibility is key. I wonder if they are still visible in ten years. That’s my only objection to things like raised crossings: once the paint wears off or in snow they become a lot less visible and no longer as effective. I hate that both as a driver and a cyclist

Still time to inflate more. This season is still building up to the biggest and baddest. At the start of this season we hear names like Mythos and Glasswing but they don’t mean anything. Now we’ve learned they’re a new and faster way to discover vulnerabilities in software. The foreshadowing is building. We have the date, we know the upcoming catastrophe. In July, they will make public thousands of new software vulnerabilities. The internet will panic, software companies will spend billions on ai service to handle the damage. Anthropic will have a record IPO, followed by other AI companies. It’ll be YUGE. Stay tuned for the cliff hanger