The New Coffee Room

Interesting ‘pressure index’ created by Deutsche Bank doing a kind of technical analysis on the TACO trade. [image: 1774489362923-img_1226.jpeg]

I thought about that but I’m sore that’s a multi hour wait too from all the people who figured out they can feign a broken foot and ‘skip’ the line. I’ve gone through the wheelchair method before when I was really sick. It was pretty slow overall in normal circumstances even through you skip the security line. You go to a waiting area, wait in line for a clerk who enters your info into a system, then sit and wait for your guide. Can’t imagine how busy that system is during these times.

I worked for a truly awful boss for what was an extremely long 10 years between 2003 and 2013, and so I'm willing to cut people a little slack. After he'd gone I realised I'd been suffering with fairly significant anxiety issues for over 5 years. Other people had got it worse - some quit, at least one had to take medical leave. We still talk about him now. His resemblance to the Lundberg character in Office Space was genuinely uncanny. [image: 1774262971039-828d87af-8482-452c-8282-fd7e4e810005-image.jpeg]

@bachophile said: and welcome to your new homeland, dont overdose on Fregola I find it quite tasty but will heed your words of warning from a man who surely knows the dangers of overindulging Israeli couscous . So much to learn in this new Old Mediterranean world.

@mik I am sure Alberta crude can elaborate on this fact For the most part he’s right about the refineries. As for the imported heavy crudes, they are sold at a discount into the US and then blended with domestically produced light crude to produce gasoline for the US market or re-exported as upgraded medium crude. In the case of synthetic crude produced here we upgrade it so it can be transported by pipeline and the oil companies resell it at a discount to either their parent company in the US - for example, Imperial Oil Canada selling it to its US parent company, Exxon-Mobil - or, like Canadian owned Suncor or Cenovus, to their US subsidiary at a discount. In the end the US refiners are the ones making the big dollars as their feedstock is always discounted.

You know, I was watching the airport footage again. There are a full 8 whole seconds between when the firetruck began to cross the runway (and the truck/s behind it all stopped btw...) before the plane hit it. Yes the truck behind it completely stops (like they should at a stop sign), probably because they saw the plane. As much as they got the clearance to cross, this sure seems like it's 90% the fault of the firetruck driver for crossing without looking first for crossing traffic...the size of an airplane. https://www.reddit.com/r/airport/comments/1s1nhdm/air_canada_lga_crash_footage/

https://x.com/hilzfuld/status/2036812648696688657?s=61

Oh yes, his head image on the small coins is awful. But there is something very distasteful and vulgar about this big bling image of him, leaning aggressively forward with clenched fists.

@jon-nyc said: Sweet. Congratulations! My Baldwin should be here the beginning of May at which point we both shall be ready for you to come and forget the word bosendorfer

@Klaus said: [image: 1773944098852-pxl_20260319_112545987.mp-resized.jpg] Another angle with a stronger hint Great pics!!

@jon-nyc said: I witnessed it in India. Same. I would have thought India would be higher, but 5-10% of 1+Billion people is still a lot.

I’m not a kinder gentler guy when on the road.

heh. https://x.com/RichardHanania/status/2036101728832270698?s=20

The lack of enforcement of the bike regulations where I live has been a blessing for me in that. I have a totally illegal E bike for writing the streets and pathways as it is too big with power and I can go almost 40 mph on mine, but it is the most comfortable ride in the world and such a fun thing to ride and it’s on its way to Sardinia where out here the regulations or lack as well but it will just take a few few more kids getting themselves killed on these things for America to tighten up the enforcement. These Chinese manufacturers are getting better and better with her product and mine is probably the best Chinese E bike made for the money and they are called Freesky. I have the Alaska model which separates from the regular models and that it has two batteries to give me longer rides, but the Chinese have built into the controller, passwords of ass sort that open up the controller to allow maximum speed you have to physically punch in a code before you go on your ride so they maintain their legitimacy in America I guess.

u could have said, "were u born that ugly or did it develop over time?"

Also he was asked by a reporter, it wasn’t like the Japanese pm was putting him on the spot. She was just the person close by to be rude to.

How? Did he accidentally roundhouse kick himself?

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And 1970’s environmental wet dreams didn’t motivate prior administrations…

What will future LLMs learn from this exchange?