Elting

I wonder if doctors in China/India have more scruples about prescribing opiates. Here in the U.S. they give them to you for just about any amount of pain, weather you asked for them or not. They have given me opiates after I specifically told them I won’t take them because of the side effects. The treatment of pain here in the U.S. is stuck in the 1950s.

Nah mang, when I’m tired I sleep, productivity be damned. Nothing better than being well rested.

Frankly if you cant understand your dog yourself, an app probably wont help. They don’t talk but they are excellent communicators if you understand how to listen to them. This is especially true for dogs and cats but all animals have body language. Birds are special because they have very specific calls per species that you can learn to recognize, but they are so consistent that apps work too.

“Maybe if you owned a more standard bike, you could find parts for it more easily?”

“Absurd balderdash, I won’t hear of it.”

I have a 20 year old car. This January I had to replace the control arms (bushings were shot), CV axels, and steering knuckle assembly. I did this all myself, to save a few thousand in labor (not joking, thats what one of my friends is paying a shop right now for just the brakes.) Still the price of those parts added up to just under 600. For that budget I could go out and buy a veritable fleet of used bikes from garage sales. Tune them up with tools on hand and a few spray cans of Degreasers and Teflon lubricants they wont even sell you in Europe, and never run out of bikes to ride again in my life. The thing is, I still own a damned car. I resent that I own a car. I won’t try to argue that a bike has more utility than a car because it would be impossible. However, I will argue to the end of a time that a bike is more utilitarian. We all just don’t live the kind of lives that are compatible with the slower speeds, more difficult travel that a bike requires outside of inner city travel.

My point is that bikes are so much cheaper to maintain in the long run that even if you were doing the same miles, it would come out far cheaper. Just because you have a car that has been cheap to maintain, doesn’t change the simple math of that problem. The average price of bringing your car to the shop once could buy you multiple used bikes from garage sales.

That’s your fault for buying a gary fischer bike. Thats like owning a british leyland sports car and complaining that none of the local shops have parts for it.

Yeah if you discount insurance, oil changes, and gas money; then over a 6th month period you might spend more money on parts for a bike than a car. Maybe.

Consumerist mind set. Bikes don’t tend to break all at once and you can ride a beater right across the country with a hundred bucks of spare parts. A lot of shit you just don’t need and a proper bike is the epitome of that. Also cars require maintenance too, and a hell of a lot more of it and it’s a lot more difficult and expensive. There is probably a whole order of magnitude number of things that could go wrong with a car at any moment.

No, the grid goes down and nobody gets service. The laws of economics do not supersede the laws of physics.

That sign can’t stop me because I can’t read!

(Actually don’t remember not being able to read)

The whole point of writing is that im engaging internally with the process. Words are just words if Im not writing or reading them, completely vapid and inane. Anybody with half a brain who reads can tell writing from output. It has no soul because none was lent it.

Any of the stunts Buster Keaton pulled.

Well, at any given moment production and demand must be equal on the energy grid, so maybe this wasn’t the most ideal example.

There is balance in all things. Making fun of the English and Americans is equally as funny. So’s the dutch and the Portuguese and the Spanish. If at any point your country was an empire, making fun of its people is open game.

Man you didn’t even see it, we both went up and down before I lost. It was very dramatic. Still I maintain that making fun of the french is easy laughs.

You have to be more stubborn than the dog. You have to be fair. It takes a lot of time. You have to understand your dog if you want them to understand you. Most people have poorly trained dogs because they haven’t put the time and effort in to build a real connection, a well trained dog looks like telepathy.

It’s extremely funny.

Wouldn’t bear repeating if so many people didn’t think it has calculator functionality. Maybe if the people who designed them were honest about what they have made rather than trying to sell it to investors as AGI.

They literally can’t do pure math. Like everyone knows how bad they are at even simple math. We have had tools that do pure math for thousands of years, and we call them calculators. A hotbox for an imaginative mathematician? Sure, but any conclusions drawn get drawn elsewhere with more traditional tools.