Know_not_Scotty_does

That looks absolutely amazing.

If you want crunchy hashbrowns, add more butter onto the top of them while you cook. The butter melts down through the hashbrowns and improves the way the crunchify. Cook them on a lower heat for a little longer to keep them from burning.

They are trying their best okay?

The top person is standing in front of a Lamborghini. Money apparently can't buy education either.

I can't see a scenario where a bailout doesn't happen but I also don't see it being beneficial if a bailout does occur.

While the automakers bailout boosted an industry that was on major trouble, they were able to return to profitability in the end and pay back those loans right? The whole A.I. industry has never turned a profit, so even if we bail them out, the fundamental model as it is now would just revert to a known unprofitable state.

You could argue that you should bail out the hardware companies so you don't cripple the chip manufacturers, and foundries, but there is no financial benefit that I can see to bail out a llm developer. If you were going that route. I would say they have to nationalize the software companies but I don't want that being part of the government at fucking all.

The weird thing for me is that where I live, lots of these middle school kids ride them on the sidewalks that run along the greenbelt area and absolutely refuse to ride them in the grass even to go around people. If I were riding something like a pseudo dirt bike you couldn't keep me off the grass.

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Its better if you use fresh, coarse ground (not chunky) peanut butter with a little salt and honey in it. Our local grocery store had a grinder in the store where you can make your own. I also prefer to use preserves or jam, not jelly.

For bread, if you can get good fresh bread, its amazing, if not, lightly toasted (but not buttered) honey-wheat is my go to.

You can also make a fluffernutter by substituting the jelly/jam/preserves with marshmallow fluff. Use the good fluff stuff with the red lid though, not the generic stuff. It really does make a difference.

Another good one is peanut butter and banana slices with honey, or peanut butter and apple slices.

I left a toxic workplace (for another more toxic workplace, then left that one too) and found an actual good job with nice people who provide proper pay and time off. Been there almost 3 years now. My blood pressure went down by 20 points, I fall asleep easier (without supplements or medicine) my commute went from 70 minutes to 5, and I get to see my kids at lunch and early after school now.

There are better things out there, don't stay somewhere that sucks because you are used to it. It's not worth your health. Even if you find another shitty place, you don't give up and settle. The place I landed after I left the first one was bad and I felt really dumb for falling for the sales pitch on it but I stuck around until I found my current gig and bailed on them. Once you realize that you can just leave it's really freeing.

Oh look, another example of a product that worked fine without internet connectivity and was improved by adding extra bullshit you don't actually need that then gets worse when those features can't function properly because their server is offline.

We got a basic roomba 650 (the one that crashes into stuff and randomly cleans) like 10 years ago and it still works fine (well, as well as it ever worked which wasn't great), you program the time and day of the week with physical buttons, and leave it alone.

We bought our new place in June of this year. Its a proper suburb. 30-45mins to downtown. Greater Houston area. Our new house is basically the median price, under 3000sqft with a decent back yard but nothing special. Its in an older neighborhood and it needed work when we bought it.

We purchased our first house in 2016 for 191 at 3.25% interest with 3.5% down. Homeowners insurance was like $1200/year. sold it this year for $295ish and homeowners insurance on the same house was at $4800/year. Bought our new house in June of this year for $425 at 6.7% interest and put 80k down (part of the equity we had in the old house we used for the down payment and the rest we put in our savings/emergency fund because I don't have faith in the booming economy right now).

If I were starting out again where I was in 2016 (i.e. same salary as I made in 2016 but today), I would not be able to buy my old house. Its crazy.

I personally feel like we are due for a reconning on all this, the house prices, insurance, and property taxes are not sustainable. The market is starting to reflect that too.

When we were looking at houses, there were several that had been on the market for over a year because they were overpriced by 20-30%. Our old house was not worth 300k to me, it was to the market and the buyer but the people who bought and lived in that neighborhood pre covid are different than the new buyers and that isn't a good thing imo.

You can escrow them or pay them separately. Ours is separate. Our last house was an escrow account all lumped together.