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ButterflyEffect  ·  3 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: March 26, 2025

there’s definitely no, NO, possible way that tariffs announced on vehicles produced outside the United States is a way to obscure the Atlantic posting the entirety, unredacted, of the war plans they were texted.

no way.

how does this shit end for trump and the rest of these assholes

ButterflyEffect  ·  3 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: March 26, 2025

This just sounds like bad or missing management. Do what you can, and keep looking for a better work environment for yourself.

The cabin sounds great! Cabin's even on a rainy day are hard to beat. We have a slight, I think 2% to 4% last I looked, chance of tornado later today here which is...not normal.

ButterflyEffect  ·  8 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The used Tesla market is crumbling

would you say you’re…bull-ish?

ButterflyEffect  ·  10 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: March 19th, 2025

i cannot for the life of me place that park. somewhere up in richmond beach area? looks like a great park, nice that you got a ferry in it!

gotta hang this still. dealing with some food poisoning though so not happening today.

ButterflyEffect  ·  10 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: March 19th, 2025

printed and framed a 24x36 photo i took in north cascades National park a couple of years ago! really happy with how it turned out and was happy to pay a premium to get it done by the local shop a mile away.

ButterflyEffect  ·  10 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: March 19th, 2025

time for more good news what ya got

ButterflyEffect  ·  15 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: $JHOLOW: THE MEME COIN MANHUNT

somehow this entire news story passed me by holy shit. still don’t super understand the site and crypto you shared but at least getting caught up with some news articles on all of this..:

ButterflyEffect  ·  16 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: March 12th, 2025

One of my favorite LLM quips recently was someone commenting how LLMs are right about everything they know little about, and wrong about everything they know a lot about.

ButterflyEffect  ·  16 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: March 12th, 2025

    Oh, we also have to drop it on concrete from 1 meter 45 times without functional impairment. Yeah.

LOL can you please take a video of your drop test. 45 times is a weirdly specific number.

ButterflyEffect  ·  16 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: March 12th, 2025

life is too short to be told when you can and cannot have a cappuccino.

is the adding instant coffee thing because you like instant coffee or to make the whole thing more economical? or both? that’s a new one! never heard of mixing brewed ground coffee and instant.

ButterflyEffect  ·  16 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: March 12th, 2025

who’s the biggest bastard between hegseth, rfk jr, and linda mcmahon

not political news, ordered a decently large print of a photo i took while out on a climb two years ago. excited to see what it looks printed and framed, and to start a photo wall! one goal this year is to take more photos with my lil sony camera, so far, have taken a few days worth of shots!

ButterflyEffect  ·  16 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: March 12th, 2025

    The only impediment was being repeatedly told my way of enjoying coffee is wrong. Keep it to yourself coffee-bitches.

What’s “wrong” about how you enjoy coffee and what were they saying is the “right” way?

ButterflyEffect  ·  16 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: March 12th, 2025

the most important and most unfortunate aspect of your update!!

the thing is, I don’t disagree with you? i would love US food/bev regulations to be on par with western europe. but i don’t find that and vaccine policy to be mutually exclusive, so.

all i really want to know from mk and others who are pro rfk jr is how you all feel about his role in the samoan measles outbreak in 2019

because he’s the same guy now as he was then

I was a healthy 32 year old last year. Forgot to get my seasonal flu vaccine.

Got the flu. Didn’t fight it off. Developed pneumonia. I was a couple days off hospitalization.

I eat healthy, I run ultras, I lift weights. The odds are in my favor for that to not happen. But it did.

Sure wish I had remembered to get vaccinated. I don’t expect me or cgod to change your mind. I hope it gives you some pause, though.

What does a successful FDA look like to you?

ButterflyEffect  ·  23 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Juicero, but make it for coffee

    We'd sell a music subscription to, say, Bank of America. The idea is, they're going to give us $20/mo for piping the Fugees into the lobby of every BofA. That's 6900 banks! That's $138k a month! $1.66m a year! Except we're going to give them a 40% discount for the first two years. So really, it's $993k a year. And we're giving them the system for free. Which, with installation, comes in at $2500/store. So... $17m in outlays. And it's a five-year contract. So... we're spending $2500 to earn $1000... seven thousand times. Except what we report - non-GAAP - is $140k a month in recurring monthly revenue (RMR) STRAIGHT INTO THE VEINS of our EBITDA. It gets better though because I report the price of our player as zero dollars because we make it and we can give it away. The player department reports 6900 sales at $1200 ea because non-GAAP, we just "earned" $8m from selling players to Bank of America.

Yeah, you know, I've wondered about this having worked for 1 company who cared mostly about EBIDTA and another who does care about it, but since we don't have shareholders are like "we'll report it and try to optimize it but it's not a be-all-end-all". I'm not sure what you do about that one other than tighter SEC regulations which...lol that ain't happening.

ButterflyEffect  ·  24 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Juicero, but make it for coffee

share this comment with 20 friends or you’re going to get NUNC.’ed at midnight