Better response than the teacher’s:

Points for trying, but your series of questions are irrelevant non sequiturs.

Phones are banned, not just your, or any other particular physically manifested instance of the sublime, intangible, transcendent ideal of ‘a phone’.

I did not expect my invocation of the phrase to summon forth a relevant meme image, but hey there ya go, lol.

#accidentalcybermancy

This pun caused me so much actual pain I now have testicular torsion.

… Does the Pope golf in the woods?

Close!

I used to compile all the high level analytics and projection reports for all the Vice Presidents and Board Members, but they didn’t even notice when I corrected a massive category of double counted revenue within a month of taking over from the person whose position I was taking over.

After a year of being absurdly overworked, doing the job of half of the IT department for them, so that I could actually access the data I needed, being hilariously underpaid, and becoming far, far too well versed in passive aggressive, buzzword heavy, actionable information empty, corpospeak…

I left for greener pastures.

(not Discord lol. did contract db admin type work for MSFT for a bit, then said executive reports for a massive import export firm… then nonprofits, serving the homeless)

Holy shit that was fast, good lord.

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Yep lol, golden parachute deployed!

… For the pilot.

Passengers are still in the plane, lunch cart just came around!

Please, please Canada, as an American I beg you, fucking ban Uber.

Throw it on the pile of ‘shit from America it turns out we don’t actually need or want that badly’.

I… assume you are joking, but having grown up with a mother who had legitimate OCD, and would clean and clean and clean and clean in very particular ways, far beyond what was necesarry, and would freak out when any minor spec was anywhere…

I do not find this funny.

Got nothing to clean.

Because … I follow these rules… and keep everything clean.

… Even assuming the self driving tech was actually capable of doing this, which is won’t be…

How would this even make any sense?

Ok, if you live within about 200 to 300 miles of a Tesla factory, … you have this option?

Fremont, California; Sparks, Nevada; Austin, Texas; Buffalo, New York; Lathrop, California.

Outside of 250 miles ish of one of those places? No self driving delivery for you.

… And I am pretty surr not all models are made at all those locations.

Despite long ago claiming his EVs and charger network would be capable of automatically recharging or battery swapping themselves… to make a long distance journey… that … doesn’t exist, he abandoned all of that.

Even funnier: Imagine a tesla self driving from the as of yet to be completed gigafactory in Monterrey Mexico… through the border checkpoint.

The auto charger network doesn’t exist, the car would murder people, cause an accident or fucking explode in the border queue… and even if none of that happened… how in the fuck is a self driving car gonna get through a militarized border crossing?

If he just gives himself a waiver via DOGE for his cars… congrats Elon, you are now a drug trafficker / arms smuggler, whether you know it or not.

… fucking lunacy.

I absolutely despise the patronizing and bellittling nature of that phrase, and the tone it is usually delivered in…

… But at the same time… cleaning as you cook a complex meal with multiple steps and lots of involved cookware… really really does cut down on overall time spent in the kitchen, and makes for an actually usable and sanitary kitchen.

Worst case scenario, you’ve got everything but the final used cookware soapily soaking in the sink when you serve and eat… and then right after you eat, you rinse and dry those off, and then clean the final stage cookware and serving plates/utensils.

If you don’t have the time or energy to handle cooking and cleaning a complex meal… you don’t have the time and energy to just cook it, and then be overwhelmed later by the accumulation of ‘dish cleaning debt’.

…

It can be somewhat challenging to learn how to cook and clean at the same time, and avoid getting soap into your food or visa versa… but it is by no means impossible, and is a huge time saver… and you can feel proud of yourself for legitimately learning an extremely useful life skill.

If you just set a rule for yourself or your apartment or house that … there should basically never be any dishes left in the sink for over an hour… you avoid the massive pile up of dishes and always being overwhelmed and avoiding them… because your rule basically enforces breaking things down into cleaning smaller amounts of dishes at a time, and it also forces the generally positive experience of cooking and eating to be integrated with the generally negative experience of cleaning dishes.

…

I have, waaaay too many times, lived with people who just pile up dishes somehow in the sink and dishwasher, such that it becomes an actual biohazard (I mean it, rotting food and mold, swarms of flies in a sink that hasn’t been cleaned in two weeks or more, nobody can even remember if the dishes in the dishwasher are all clean, all dirty, or a mix of both)…

…and that means if you wanna cook anything with a commonly used piece of cookware, ok, now you gotta pull it out of the ratsnest in the sink, hope nobody threw any knives in there to cut your hands on, and get an infection from the festering biohazard… and then also you must now somehow clean this cookware while the sink is completely full.

Which means you have to just clean the entire sink to begin to be able to clean the major cookware you need to begin to cook the food.

…

Hell, the solution that ended up working best for me was to just also throw on a ‘no dishwasher’ rule.

Force yourself to associate the actual cleaning cost with whatever you are cooking… and the result was that I ended up with a mental health affirming regular structured rule/habit, that I actually ended up genuienly enjoying, as another source of ‘i actually accomplished something today’… as well as basically ingraining a better subconscious ability to understand what level of cooking complexity I actually had the energy to prepare.

If you find yourself being often overwhelmed by what you want to make… learn to make simpler recipes, get a rice cooker or crockpot and just have basically a constant supply of something approximating a stew, get an airfryer or toaster oven for rapidly heating up smaller portions, salads are great for you and often have a pretty low prep time.

Save the dishwasher for actual schedule emergencies and hosting an occasional get together or party.

…

Basically, treat dishes as credit card debt.

Pay that shit off ASAP, otherwise, it’ll snowball into disaster.

Remove the ‘i can handle the dishes/pay this off later’ from your mental approach to it, directly associate all the costs together in a very near time frame.

…

tldr; that saying needs a makeover or rebrand.

Maybe:

Clean as you go, dish pile don’t grow.

something like that? I am not really a … sloganeer.

They’re climbing up from B6 to B2 or B1 lol.

That… the wild motorcycles… may be a subgroup of the rockabilly group, or another group?

I am not sure lol.

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Japan, more specifically, the Harajuku district of Tokyo, has a number of … very aesthetically bold subcultures, which certain people take extremely seriously.

One of which is basically exagerated 1950s American Rockabilly.

https://www.messynessychic.com/2015/01/07/the-tokyo-subculture-of-1950s-rockabilly-gangs/

A good number of these guys are in actual Rockabilly bands.

I dunno if this guy’s PS1 blocky haircut really fits into an existing subculture, or if it is a joke off of this subculture… or if it is totally unrelated to all that…

But there actually are a good number of very dedicated aesthetic subcultures in the Harajuku district, Rockabilly is one… the ‘gothic lolita’ style almost certainly came out of Harajuku… there are many other niche identity/aesthetic/lifestyle cliques.

That is what I was referring to, not just… psycho/rockabilly generally around the world.

As someone with an actual Econ degree:

… Yeah, a whole lot of ‘technical signals’ aka, chart reading that a lot of ‘retail’ (ie, amateur) day traders use… is basically astrology.

Its not quite as absolutely nonsensical as astrology, which is just absolutely 100% bullshit… like, a 50 MA crossing a 200 MA downward… definitely does indicate that stock is not having a great time right now… but as far as the “power” of such a signal to reliably indicate future trends?

No, basically no. There are some technical indicators that have a slightly higher correlation coefficient of being a reliable leading indicator, but the correlations are not really that strong… there are just way too many other confounding variables.

…

Even the quants who work for hedge funds… who use some of the most advanced and complex mathematical models in the world to try to untangle all of those confounding effects…

…well, they are on average, over a decently long timescale, no better, or even slightly worse than random chance at picking stocks, bonds, a portfolio that will grow more than just the average.

Part of this is because… if a technical trading strategy that actually works to generate outsized gains… is actually figured out by one of the big boy quants… the other big boy quants will notice this and reverse engineer it from analyzing what their rival is doing.

Then, once all the big boys are using the same strategy… well now it doesn’t return outsized gains anymore.

… Which is why all your 401ks are basically index funds for their stock component, which is just a weighted average basket of whichever particular market, usually the DJIA or SP500 as the Nasdaq is historically a bit more volatile.

…

Now, all that being said… one arguably ‘technical indicator’ that always has been correct in the last 100 years… is when the bond yield curve inverts… the economy and stock market generally suffer a downturn roughly proportional to the time and magnitude of the bond yield curve inversion… soon after or right as the bond yield curve uninverts.

Except for right now, the last few years.

We have now, in the last 4 or 5 years, had 3 periods of yield curve inversion, 2 uninversions… and the broader economy has technically not yet entered into a recession, a period of negative GDP growth.

But it looks like we are heading now for basically something akin to the Great Depression, as the latest inversion is pretty widely being interpreted as ‘investors no longer see the US Bonds as the defacto save haven, the USD as the defacto world currency’… which means the dollar will devalue as demand for it goes down… which means even if the tariffs went away and never came back, all our imports would be more expensive… and our exports won’t be worth as much… and our external debt to other countries will become even more onerous…

And we are kind of massively reliant on importing material things and exporting services or non physical ‘products’.

(Great work Mr. Trump -.-)

So… yeah you can’t really make a day trading strategy out of that.

…

Beyond all that, its probably also worth mentioning that GDP per capita is not a reliable measure of actual wellbeing of the population of a country when it has enormous wealth disparity.

Ah, I was using the uh… food industry sense of the term (which is admittedly a fuzzy definition), not the chemistry definition.

Yay for domain dependent meanings!

Couldn’t you… use basically moonshine?

Like, set up a distillery, get your grain mash and sugar… now you have very high proof alcohol.

Now, you could just strap basically a pilot light to … a more seriously designed super soaker… and you’d have to add some kind of … jellying, gelling? agent to the moonshine to get it to act more like a flame thrower than a squirt gun…

This would not be a 100% organicly sourced entire flamethrower, but you could at least make the fuel mostly, if not fully, from organic, non petroleum products.