I think that putting in the hours to be very good at PoE2 is more embarrassing than being an amateur who only played a little bit. I say that as someone who looks forward to playing a lot.

I’m glad someone other than me is trying this sort of thing. He bears the risks, but if he succeeds then I share in the benefits.

The story about selling to Musk is coming from Bloomberg. Meanwhile the “pure fiction” quote comes from TikTok’s reply to Variety’s request for comments. Variety is unlikely to have access to anyone at TikTok senior enough to know the truth and willing to talk about it.

The purchase of valuable assets by someone in the president’s inner circle after the government forces their owner to sell them is the sort of thing that usually involves Russian oligarchs. It would be a shameful act by the US government.

Is this price gouging or is it the new, higher long-term price? Rebuilding will take years and so the housing shortage and therefore the higher prices seem like they will last.

Whatever it is called, it does seem to be illegal at the moment.

I don’t think the sort of people who would have paid $10,000 are going to end up homeless.

I don’t see the rental listing for 120 1/2 but 120 Galleon St costs $25,000 a month.

IMO the main pro of cloud storage is that the provider’s engineers are much better at doing backups than you are. You won’t lose your data if, like most people, you only have one copy of everything and your hard drive is destroyed.

The main con is that the provider can deny you access without warning. You probably won’t get an explanation or a real chance to appeal the decision.

So far that second thing hasn’t been a common problem for normal users but I would still keep local copies of the data which I can’t easily replace.

It would be very nice if being conventionally unattractive also made a person attracted to other conventionally unattractive people.

I wonder what hurts more: the unfulfilled asymmetric entitlement shown in the comic or intellectual honesty of the “I wouldn’t be attracted to me, so I shouldn’t expect most other people to be attracted to me either” sort. Probably the honesty, since many people pick experiencing the entitlement.

I didn’t pay a couple of private tickets, over ten years passed, and so far I have been fine, but I’m not a lawyer…

Don’t actually do this. You can get your license suspended (or worse) even if you never go back to the town that gave you the ticket.

Nationally, large insurance companies net an average profit of 4.2 percent on insurance transactions. In California, they lose more than 6 percent.

So why do they offer insurance in California at all?

I would make a suggestion but I wouldn’t insist on it being followed, because arguments about style are tedious and rarely productive.

You’d go to the school gym to see friends? I don’t even know if I’m being sarcastic. On the one hand, I don’t think I’d do that no matter how many friends I had and how nice the gym was because it’s such a bizarre thing to do. On the other hand, the past is often bizarre.

Who would want to go to

libraries and school gyms and union halls

to have fun? “Hey guys, let’s all go hang out at the, uh, school gym! No? How about the union hall?”

Maybe people had lower standards back before technology made having fun alone at home easy.

I think this is just OpenAI marketing.

“Insane thing: We are currently losing money on OpenAI Pro subscriptions!” he wrote in a post.

The problem? Well according to @Sama, “people use it much more than we expected.”

Oh no, ChatGPT is too useful to customers! Altman isn’t going to be telling any real problems that OpenAI has to the whole world over Twitter.

I was worried that this would be like those cookies pop-ups, but the functionality is still present here in the land of the free…

I don’t think we disagree about anything that isn’t a matter of opinion.

(But if making drivers pay for the streets is fair, wouldn’t making the people who use mass transit pay for it also be fair? The MTA spends three or four times as much as it collects in fares.)

I’m not a big fan of those other tolls either, especially since there isn’t any way to get across the Hudson River in a car without paying a toll unless you drive 160 miles each way to Albany. (In practice you would only need to drive 80 miles each way to pay a very low toll.) I’m currently considering some jobs in New Jersey and having to pay about $50 every time I visit my relative in NYC is definitely something I need to account for. It all makes me wish I was still living in New Hampshire.

Your article makes congestion pricing in London seem like a failure, and I would call getting those same results in New York a failure.

I think the advertising is moderated and that’s one reason why these things are being called fuel filters. It isn’t reasonable to expect Facebook moderators to distinguish a filter from a silencer that looks like a filter. I doubt I could do it myself, especially if it wasn’t specifically what I was looking for.

People can get used to anything. I think it’s also likely that the Democratic party will not put forth any serious candidates who oppose congestion pricing, most people aren’t going to be single-issue voters about it, and even if someone who opposes it gets elected then he’ll still have a hard time getting rid of it for all the reasons why it’s always hard to lower taxes. Trump might manage to kill it, but if he doesn’t then I wouldn’t bet on it ending even if it does cost Hochul the election.

(But I wouldn’t want to bet $500 million on it not ending either.)

No (and neither are sandwiches). Even being in NYC at all isn’t required to live.