That’s fascinating. I actually like the ending, most people think it’s sappy, but I don’t think I’ve ever heard it called boring.

My mom loves Planes, Trains and Automobiles with John Candy and Steve Martin. It’s a funny movie, but she still wants to watch it with the family every thanksgiving and it’s gotten incredibly old.

My dad loved Scent of a Woman, which is such a dogshit movie. He didn’t even really understand the movie, he actually wanted to be like the Al Pacino character which makes no sense

I upgraded my touchpad on mine to a glass one using the part from a newer thinkpad. I believe it was the pad from the x1 carbon.

Huge upgrade and not too expensive. I saw it on a reddit thread, found the OEM part number and then bought it off AliExpress. You do have to be careful to find one that specifically says it’s glass because sellers will list the plastic pad as compatible with the newer part number because they’re interchangeable

I finally started working at UPS. I had been hired 3 times previously but for various reasons never got a start date. Even this time took nearly a month between orientation and my first day. I guess it’s just bad management and outsourced HR.

I knew it was going to be a physical job, but I’m still surprised me how much it kicked my ass. I’m in great shape cardio-wise, but I was still so unbelievably sore in my arms and back. Each day during that first week I had to lay down when I got home. And I woke up thinking I wasn’t going to be able to do it every morning.

4 more weeks until I pass probation and get protection under the union contract.

One of my favorite birds, beautiful calls.

There’s a pair that have been using the same nesting spot for 3 years at my house. I guess it could be a different pair because they all look the same to me, but mourning doves will reuse nesting places if they’re safe.

Turns out it was much easier than expected. They were riding decent within minutes and after about 20 minutes of practice they felt good enough to ride alone.

I think we’ll do one more practice session somewhere hilly to work on gears and brake skills, but they are basically good enough to ride to work now, I think.

That was my initial plan and actually what we’re trying later today. I removed the pedals and they’re going to just focus on getting the balance part and using the brakes. If that goes well, I’ll put the pedals back on and try some starts on grass(because their helmet hasn’t arrived yet).

Anyone have tips for teaching someone to ride a bike?

My partner hasn’t really ever learned to ride(they think maybe they rode a tiny kids bike like 30 years ago). I’m super proud of them for trying this late in life, they want to be able to ride an e bike to work.

I’m probably not the best person to teach this because I haven’t ridden in ages. I did ride a bit yesterday and was able to do it still, even if I wasn’t super smooth. I watched that video of Tom Scott learning to ride and a few tutorials. Seemed helpful.

We already have an ebike for them from a family member who used it twice and then stored it. It’s an aventon level 2 and I had it checked out by a bike shop. I’m not sure if they should try learning on that right off the bat, or if it makes more sense to buy a cheap or used regular bike to learn on.

I really want this to go well. My partner never learned to drive because they have epilepsy, so being able to do their own transportation is a huge step for them. They’re just getting out of a long period of depression and it makes me happy to see them excited about something again.

IIRC correctly one of the first Trump family crypto grifts came from Barron and some sleezeball he met at school. So probably already evil

Benn Jordan has a new video where he gets one of these and hacks it. They are incredibly insecure and one could conceivably get one and program it to roam around and hack other robot dogs and assemble an army.

There’s more in the video about how they connect to servers in China. Normally I’d suspect it’s fear mongering, but it does seem like the company spent nearly zero effort to protect the hardware from hacking and tons of effort to prevent someone from figuring out they phone home.

https://youtu.be/lA8WuXDXfcI

How would electing Kamala have changed the result? Trump hasn’t appointed a justice yet this term. Even if Kamala had won and one of the justices died, she still wouldn’t have been able to replace them because Republicans control the Senate.

Even if Kamala had won, and somehow got to appoint a justice, the result would have been the same. It was a 6-3 decision.

I taught myself how to backup a trailer using a sim racing wheel and one of those tractor trailer sim games. Very helpful for me because I’d get anxiety when trying to do it in real life

Really genius time to build more AI datacenters. There are over 100 gigawatts of planned datacenters by 2030, and they’re struggling to build anything right now due to component and power shortages.

A single gigawatt is a staggering amount of power, roughly enough to power 1 million homes.

This is surely a stock grift, but it seems kinda late for it. Aren’t we already past the point where any random company can slap AI in their name and juice the stock price?

New car dealerships very rarely sell Tesla’s. They will take them as trades and stick them on the lot for a while, but they aren’t going out to buy them at auction. They aren’t equipped to repair them and Telsa gives them a hassle on buying parts because they don’t have the cars registered to them in Tesla’s computer system.

I guess this could be a user car dealer, but “auto group” usually means one of those mega dealers with multiple new car dealerships all on adjoining lots

I watched the video this morning. It’s actually worse than just this.

It’s about so called chameleon trucking companies. They chameleon companies lease their trucks from a parent company that captures all the profit, re-lease them to drivers and then force the drivers to exceed the legal working time limits. When the safety record gets too bad they change company names. It’s the same trucks, same dispatchers, same drivers, just changing the stickers on the truck.

The competition to screw drivers out of pay is on top of the already predatory lease relationship between these companies and the drivers. The driver accepts all the risk and expenses and is forced to use the company dispatchers and only haul freight brokered through them. They can reject loads or negotiate rates, but realistically they have a lease to pay in order to keep the truck, so they have to accept what is offered most of the time.

It’s weird to advertise your car dealership using a car that you don’t sell at your dealership. Car dealers threw a hissyfit because Tesla bribed the right politicians to allow them to do direct to consumer auto sales.

Really cool that the president is tweeting AI generated ads for a crypto casino that employs streamers to sell gambling to children.

There was an article where they analyzed the streams of Adin Ross and Drake and showed that Stake was rigging the odds in their favor, essentially making the casino look better than it is to the children who watch that garbage

I don’t know if it’s actually better, but the cables are supposed to be the weak point. At least that was the marketing of USBC over the previous versions that had stronger locking tabs/shapes. The idea is that the cheap cable breaks so the port or the motherboard it’s attached to don’t