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  1. 29 minutes ago, Ojo Rojo said:

    Which one?  I don't know who the black girl is, but the white girl is Bobbi Althoff.  She's a newly famous podcaster or influencer or whatever.  She's sneaky hot.  Her interviews are a bit, thankfully.

    Would. 

  2. 14 hours ago, Zone Read said:

    Looking to replace my Tesla Model 3 performance with another Model 3 performance.  When we got my wife's Model Y last year in March, I found a rate of 3.99% at US Senate FCU, which was at the time a lower rate than the 4.5% or higher I was seeing elsewhere.  Probably a promotional rate.  Love to find a similar deal, anybody seeing anything under 5% APR for 60 months with an over 820 credit score? Lowest so far I've found was 5.24.  

    This time last year the 5Y Treasury yield 3.6%, 100bps (1%) lower than today's 4.6%. 

    5.25% loan is not too high of a premium above that, and should be considered quite fair.

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  3. 55 minutes ago, gsoda3 said:

    i love the spatial visualization they rolled out a few months ago.  it was a pleasant surprise being able to have almost a birds eye view of which spaces are occupied in parking lots.  i still can't figure out how they're seeing ("seeing" maybe?) around corners i don't have an angle to.  

    I recently got another muskmobile and thought I would lament missing the ultrasonic sensors…but the 3d park assist is badass. And gained matrix lights in the process. 

  4. On 4/20/2024 at 5:36 AM, cabowabo said:

    The random lane changes on the highways, from the right lane to the left (fast) lane when no cars are around is annoying as fuck.  And then on the highway when approaching slower traffic, it doesn’t switch lanes but just slows down. 

    The neural net was trained on Dallas drivers. 

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  5. 6 hours ago, nnm said:

    My theory is because we’re in this weird transition period in which most new cars have auto headlight functions, but most old cars don’t. So people sometimes drive a car that has the function, and sometimes drive a car that doesn’t. They get used to the function in their new car and forget to turn them on in the old. 

    The problem is compounded because many newer cars also have daytime running lights, which means that the parking lights are always on, and sometimes means the headlights are on, but not the tail lights.  When it gets dark, people see the light in front of them because of the running lights function, and never turn on the full headlights. 

    For sure this is why, but ive never seen so many of them on the same drive. Highway was well lit, but 11pm is 11pm and ambient was dark that they shouldve noticed. And the cars with the busted lights - annual inspections are strict so that was also unusual to see. 

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  6. Something weird and fucky today. Did a 11pm run to airport. I saw no less than 20 cars without their headlights on, or at most only their parking lights on. I flashed a few of the ones ahead of me (same direction) to no avail. Also saw a bunch of cars with only 1 functioning head or tail light. 

    Never seen that much on a single drive. 

     

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  7. 1 hour ago, Nivek said:

    Explains why you think the world is getting more dangerous.  You seek out stupid shit to be offended by and scared of.  

    This statement is hilarious. Because for the past decade plus, it was considered “right wing coded”. 

    The suggestion that “everything is fine, actually. things are better than ever. nobody is oppressing you that you need a safe space”  sent most of you in a fucking tizzy. 

  8. 35 minutes ago, LCHorn said:

    I think you are overstating Ishido’s power and understating Mariko’s.  
     

    Ishido is one of the five regents and essentially mayor of Kyoto, but he’s not able to force project much beyond it and has a fief smaller than the other four regents (also, remember these aren’t the only daimyos, just the five the taiko selected).  He can’t really do much without working through the other, wealthier regents and that’s why he has to isolate them in order to exert control.  He’s also dependent on Lady Ochiba, who controls the samurai pledged directly to the taiko’s heir.

    Mariko is more like Lynda Bird Johnson Robb and if she was best friends with Caroline Kennedy as a kid.  She’s got her own money, married into a distinguished family, and her father retains respect in some quarters.  She’s also super savvy at playing the game within their carefully constructed social behaviors. 

    That could be the nuance thats covered in the books, which I have not read, but is not shown in the TV series. My surface interpretation of the relative power as it's presented is this:

    -Taiko has the ultimate authority, but because he's underage, he and his mom sit idle with their executive powers.

    -The 5 regents are next in hierarchy. In theory equals as they abide by contracts and consensus, but obviously have soft power ie influence.

    -Their army/fiefdom backs their power only if push comes to shove. Meanwhile, in the political sphere, there is ample room to jostle for lead. Ishido sat at the literal head of the room during the meetings.

     

    Mariko did try to press her noble lineage ("Im the daughter or Akechai!")... but that family was dishonored, she was almost run out of the empire, and shes married to a samurai, not a Lord.  The presentation of her importance just didnt seem consistent throughout the show.

  9. 25 minutes ago, Captainant said:

    We've been over this in the thread. They were asking UT to not officially sponsor the anti-palestinian, pro-zionist group that was calling for Palestinian genocide. That is the speech that I am inferring that you wanted to see, mainly because you're so happy to see their opposition met with outrageous violence. 

    There is an important distinction between being not allowed to say anything at all and being teakettled in a designated public discourse space, and between wanting UT to not endorse pro-genocide speech. Nobody was trying to silence the pro-zionist speech, they just didn't want it wearing a UT logo. 

     

    And yet, you choose to not see this key distinction and instead lean on name calling to attempt to derail the thread. 

    This is not a court of law.  Nobody is debating the legal merits of any one group shutting down the other.

    This is a discussion thread. I am discussing the humor in one group, just months before, wanting a shut down, and later getting shut down, just in the unintended way.

    You are not the thread police. You are not an appointed judge. You are a little activist LARPer.  Stay mad.

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  10. 47 minutes ago, Captainant said:

    You do know what happens after they come after the people you don't like, right? 

    Which people do I like, and which people did I ask to be censored? Didn't you suggest that I gave no shits to either the Israelis or Palestinians?

    I know exactly what happened after the palestinian group begged and "demanded" for another group to be shutdown: something that made you cry. Pissant.

  11. Does the political importance of Mariko just seems quite overstated relative to her actual position?

    Ishido is the de facto lead Regent for the entire country. Basically the prime minister or chairman of the board.

    Mariko is "merely" the daughter of a subordinate to a lord/daimyo... a **disgraced** one at that.  So at best like a child of a George Santos or assistant to the regional vice president or something.

    Given that Toranaga can simply command Lord Yabushige to kill himself, or that Fuji's husband committed infanticide on his own goddamn son for offending a Regent, there's such an insane disparity in the power structure that its hard to believe 1 single Mariko was the lynchpin to Ishido's future and to the Kingdom itself.  For example, when she was being really mouthy in episode 9, wouldnt it have been acceptable within the construct of the show/culture for Ishido to punish her just for being rude.

  12. 5 hours ago, bolverk said:

    There is also a very large share that you are completely ignoring or refusing to acknowledge: those who are neither anti-Israel nor antisemitic but only want Palestinians to be allowed to have their own homeland.

    Oh boy! Imagine if people on this website use associative fallacy - painting individuals with a group brush - when anything mildly political comes up. Good thing that never happens. 

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