kbos87

I don't think about any of this and never have. My 2022 Model Y has 60,000 miles on it and the battery has only lost a negligible amount of health/range since I bought it.

The couple of times I’ve even done as little as fly through Heathrow it has been apparent to me that the UK is on its way to becoming an unfettered surveillance state, and I never hear anyone talking about it.

Yes, the one time I've tried mushrooms it was a very unpleasant experience. For weeks I was left feeling like I had done some permanent damage to my mental health. I eventually got past that feeling and there might be a point I try them again, but not without professional guidance. Psilocybin is powerful and not a remotely recreational thing (for me at least.)

Can anyone tell me why I have several devices in my home that demand a certain USB-C cord in order to charge? They are mostly cheap Chinese devices that won’t acknowledge a more expensive (e.g., Apple) uSB-C cord plugged into them. Even when plugged into the same transformer. They only charge with the cheap USB-C cord they came with. What gives?

Day to day I use a home body composition scale (Withings Body Scan), the results of which have been corroborated by two Dexascans I've done at my gym a little less than a year apart.

For me personally, the little bit of help in the form of forward progress on weight loss has given me a reason to be a little more methodical in my strength training, and I'm seeing a slow but consistent payoff. And as far as I can tell, I'm not fighting an uphill battle in terms of adding muscle mass at all because of the GLP-1.

GLP-1s have legitimately changed my life for the better. I've always been very active but have consistently been moderately overweight. A relatively low dose of Semaglitide has helped me lose 40lbs and keep it off. I'm a year and a half in and have had very few side effects, no loss of efficacy, and my muscle mass has increased slightly despite all the negative press about muscle loss. My diet is similar in composition to what it was before, but I probably eat 25% less by volume. Recognizing I'm a sample of one, but my experience is reflected in the research.

I plan on being a GLP-1 for the rest of my life. Perfectly fine with that. It seems like society has more problems with GLP-1s than its users do.

I was weary but took the leap and installed Lutron Caseta switches throughout my house. They are absolutely fantastic.

My one experience with psilocybin was the only time in my life I've ever confronted the fragility of my mental and emotional wellbeing in such a sudden way. Drastically different from other psychedelics I've experienced. MDMA is pure bliss - psilocybin is something I won't go near without professional guidance.

Fair point and I absolutely acknowledge that the future AI will usher in is still very much an unknown. I do think it's worth recognizing that there is one part of the story that is very predictable because it's happened over and over again - the part where some sort of innovation creates new efficiencies and advantages. I think it's fair to debate the extent to which AI will completely disrupt the white collar working class, but to whatever extent it does, I don't think there's much argument about where the benefit will accrue under our current economic system.

Why would my employer pay me more for using their AI? I am already massively more productive at work using AI. I'm not getting paid more, and I'm not working fewer hours. The road we are headed down is one where all of the economic benefits go straight to the owning class.

Companies like Nvidia and OpenAI base their answers to any questions on economic risk on their own best interests and a pretty short view of history. They are fighting like hell to make sure they are among a small set of winners while waving away the risk or claiming that there's some better future for the majority of people on the other side of all this.

To claim that all of the benefit isn't going to naturally accrue to a thin layer of people at the top isn't a speculation at this point - it's a bold faced lie.

When AI finally does cause massive disruption to white collar work, what happens then? Do we really think that most of the American economy is just going to downshift into living off a meager universal basic income allotment (assuming we could ever muster the political will to create a social safety net?) Who gets the nice car and the vacation home?

Once people are robbed of what remaining opportunities they have to exercise agency and improve their life, it isn't hard to imagine that we see some form of swift and punitive backlash, politically or otherwise.

I think the appeal and the value equation of AR would be completely different if it didn’t feel like you were donning a heavy headset to step into the matrix. It’s very likely that there will be innovation in translucent displays and input methods that make AR ubiquitous at some point in the future. I just don’t know if that will be in 5 years or 15 years.

99.999% of businesses are child friendly. One comes along that states an opinion and offers a child-free option and the sky is falling.

The biggest question for me is depreciation. My 2022 Model Y in perfect condition with 50k miles on it is probably worth less than 1/3 of what I paid for it. That’s very tough to stomach.

As we think about offloading the Tesla, I’m left wondering if this is a point in time issue (due to Tesla dropping prices so dramatically, their brand being in the gutter, lingering post-pandemic market effects, slowly evolving consumer hesitations about EVs) or a permanent reality where EVs will just never command the resale value that ICE cars do.

On the other side of the equation, there are some great deals to be had in the used EV market. We added a second EV last year and saved in the neighborhood of $20,000 on a Volvo XC40 Recharge that might as well have been new.

My X experience has become scrolling through the 2/3 of posts I never asked for, including: 1) Elon's posts, though I never interact with him as a subject, 2) Ads from Trump-supporting PACs seeking donations, 3) Ads for hunting games with graphic depictions of animals being shot. Everything else is insultingly basic clickbait. These aren't topics I interact with, they are just representative of baseline content on X right now.

We need a name for this genre of companies. Their value proposition is completely based on you not knowing that the noise monitors they feature centrally in their strawman argument have also had their core feature for years.

Minut is the example I’m thinking of. It’s a small sensor for short term rentals that monitors noise levels, but also “crowd risk”, which is essentially measuring the number of devices nearby in the same way that this thing is. It also has a variety of other sensors onboard (it detects motion, humidity, and smoking… it can even distinguish between cigarette and marijuana smoke.)

Whatever you think about this technology aside, this company’s pitch that they are the “first guest occupancy counter” is a flat out lie. They are simply focusing their positioning on one feature available in an existing category of products that have a lot more to offer.

Being able to access iPhone apps I use continuously during the day without having to pick up the device makes this feature hugely useful to me. I only get asked to auth on my iPhone once every few days, if that.

There are a lot of people here citing loss of muscle mass as a side effect of GLP-1s, when the reality is that weight loss almost always comes with muscle loss.

For me, that hasn't even been the case. I'm down 40lbs on a relatively low dose of Semaglutide and my muscle mass has moderately increased over the last 6 months. The hysteria over this is totally unfounded.

It isn't hard to imagine that the last 10% of mass a bodybuilder has added was hard won and easily lost. That isn't representative of most people.

Most likely case -

- The pool of companies seeking VC funding has exploded as the playbook became democratized

- The pool of VC funds has exploded as the playbook became democratized

- There is still a thin layer of interesting companies that are deserving of VC investment as there was in 2021, 2016, 2011, back and back, but this is the actual constraint and hasn't grown to keep pace

This all strikes me as simple and cyclical.

It seems like there's growing medical acceptance of the idea that everyone has a natural weight that they seem to plateau at (which in some cases is overweight.) 1mg of semaglutide reset my natural plateau from 225 to 180. You are exactly right though - being overweight is either a daily physical battle or an hour by hour mental battle if you are trying to restrict calories.

What an insightful and additive point of view that I've never considered before.

I'm on 1mg of compounded semaglutide, where I've been for the past 4 months. I have a similar arc in terms of days 2-5 being the strongest effect, but I haven't experienced any nausea (except the smallest bit during the first couple of weeks at 0.5mg.) I was briefly at 1.5mg but was brought down because I started losing weight faster than needed. My weight has been rock steady since coming back to 1mg.

The best way that I can describe what Semaglutide has done for me is that I feel like almost nothing in my life has changed (other than being down 45lbs, suddenly having normalized liver enzyme levels and blood pressure.) Before starting it, I generally ate until I was satiated, almost never over full. From time to time I'd maintain a caloric deficit, but it meant a large part of my attention was consumed, day and night, by a nagging distraction of food.

Today, I still just eat a normal diet until I'm satiated - but 1/3 of the food is left on the plate. I have a little less of an interest in alcohol and coffee, but other than that it's like nothing has changed.

My point is that there's still a common sentiment that these drugs are some sort of a shortcut for people who want the ability to over-indulge, when in reality that couldn't be further from the truth.

I think what I feel like on a GLP-1 is what most people feel like without one. If you want to know what I feel like without a GLP-1, try not eating until your mind is constantly nagging you to do so - then try staying like that forever. That's what a lot of people propose to anyone who has a problem with their weight.

"The [food system] can remain irrational longer than you can remain [alive]."

Fair point in the sense that most professions involve some level of trading your well being for labor, as anyone who works in a job that even remotely involves manual labor can tell you. The difference here, for me at least, is that my attention would directly subsidize a system that clearly costs young, often under-resourced minorities decades of their lives. That really should be tough for people to sit with.

For me, seeing a person or business consciously claim neutrality this year is reprehensible and impossibly out of touch. Whether Bezos likes it or not the business he is in comes with the assumption of an endorsement, and silence is an implicit endorsement. I’d never hold an individual to that standard but power comes with responsibility and this choice is putting his privilege on full display.

This is exactly my question. I wish I could better justify the value of spaceflight, but I’m wholly unconvinced. The arguments for investing in it always seem like vague references to the future with no specific value delivered today.

Here we have a perfect specimen of an assumption-laden, chronically online take. I’m not a fan of the man but it has nothing to do with my question.

What portion of the national budget that is devoted to spaceflight would it take to shower the USFS in riches? I'd much rather see it going to the latter.