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Bought a vehicle private sale yesterday. It was one of those unicorn finds. A guy around 70 who kept it immaculate and maintained every tiny detail. Had it listed on Craigslist. We met him at the bank, got everything squared away quickly, and as we went to part ways, he mentioned he was grabbing an Uber home. My husband was like no no. Let me just drive you. When he dropped him off at his house the guy said, “hey that center console is super spacious. You can fit so much in there. Make sure you check it out.” My husband opened it after he left and there was a gift bag inside. A hand written note. Chocolates for our kids. And a bottle of champagne for us. People are so good.

If the socialists had their way, Elon would have had his paypal profits taken and redistributed for the greater good. The world would never have seen Tesla, nor SpaceX. And the world wouldn't know it, because they were uncreated, and thus unseen. Imagine the companies that don't exist, because Washington destroyed them before they were born.

7 year old me at a mcdonald’s

me with 1 share of SpaceX monitoring the situation all day today

nightmare blunt rotation

she looks like the entire cast of stranger things

A great deal more is known than has been proved.

This intro had kids ready to run through drywall.

WHOA! You've got to see this. This is the view looking northwest from Rochester, New York this evening. See that needle in the distance? That's not supposed to be there. But it is. You're looking at the CN Tower in Toronto, Canada over 100 miles away. The 1,815 foot observation tower should not be visible at this great distance. But under certain conditions, the bending of light can make it seem like it's right in front of you. This is a spectacular example of a mirage. Layers of cool vs. warm air bend and warp light. It can distort objects, enlarge them, even make them feel like they're right in your backyard. Note how wonky the even sky looks adjacent to the CN Tower in this image. The mirage is affecting the clouds and sky as a whole. I've seen some strange mirages through the years and this is the most pronounced cases of the CN Tower I've captured.

Bach was an alien.

Hi, it's me, I'm the reason

I am thrilled to introduce Claude Opus 4.8, our most terrifying and dangerous model yet. There’s a small chance it won’t kill you, but it will almost certainly take your job. I feel terrible about this, and terribly excited. I think there’s a very good chance Opus 4.8 will be able to build a model that reverses the damage Opus 4.8 does. We can’t know for sure, but a decade from now might be really great. Hold on to your butts.

mind your own fucking business

The best joke I've seen on TV is on The Sopranos when Tony asks Pussy's son whether he's taking Astronomy in Uni. He goes no why? Then Tony says because he hears he's just taking up space at school. I thought that was really really good

In 1977, Jorge Luis Borges — already blind, already legendary — sat across from William F. Buckley on Firing Line & explained why English is the greatest language in the world & why he respected it too much to write his poetry in it.

Lifelong Libertarian activist Ayn Rand enrolls in Social Security and Medicare, as she has gotten lung cancer after years of heavy smoking.

This quote from Peter Thiel in 2014 has always resonated with me. Finite and infinite games aren’t only for business; they also apply to life generally. “People always say they want to live every day as though it will be their last. I always have this contrasting view that I think I’d like to live every day as though it will go on forever. If we had an indefinite life span, we would continue to work and start great new projects, we would be very careful about how we treated the people around us because we would encounter them again.”

baby boomers before they tell you that you can get rich packing a $2 sandwich for lunch:

"(Ghost) Riders in the Sky: A Cowboy Legend" is a cowboy-styled country/western song written in 1948 by American songwriter Stan Jones. Lawrence Welk and His Orchestra released this unforgettable instrumental version in 1961.