Thanks so much for writing this! That movie was an absolute trip. Got me way into the doors and trust me, it was obvious that Kilmer became Morrison by knowing very little outside just about watching the movie. But all these details you wrote here make it so much more interesting!

I remember stopping the DVD to Google if he was actually singing because it felt so goddamned authentic to the actor on screen, and yet also sounded almost exactly like him Morrison.

A helluva movie. Truly one of the greats.

No, but I knew he’s been pretty bad off for a long time

Neural network: for when saying LLM doesn’t sound smart enough

This is just more evidence that bullying through bluster is his only move.

Thanks for this tip. I’ve lived in three states. I’ll check them. I didn’t know about this!

I’m saying for those of us over 20 years old it’s probably hard or impossible to prove anything. I think it’s rather ironic that the reaction to trump being a piece of shit isolationist is to further isolate, not the government but people trying to escape it.

If it weren’t for your horrible shit attitude we could probably talk. But go ahead with your generalizations and assumptions. Thank God for tags in Boost

Sure act like trump. That’s the solution. Next you should close your borders entirely.

Some vaccines that may be possible but I can’t imagine it would be cheap even if you could check for the 20+ vaccines I’ve had.

Your motivation seems to be to punish good people for Trump’s actions. Pretty fucked up, petty, pointless, and unproductive if you ask me.

We (US) don’t even have a vaccine record system to my knowledge. I’ve had many vaccines starting from birth but the only record I have in the vast majority of cases is knowing it in my head. I remember getting a few like MMR (measles mumps rubella) vaccines as a young child, but there’s almost zero chance I could prove that.

Hell, the only reason I even know what I have gotten as an adult is I made a list a while back from memory and then confirmed what I could with doctors visit records.

Your idea would keep me, a fully vaccinated individual, out of Europe. A place I want to escape to eventually.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/28/investing/us-stocks-tariff-uncertainty-volatility/index.html

Thanks! Yeah, for me it’s that I have a bad memory so memorizing argument orders and things like that felt painful. Scripting is the solution! And you learn while you do it. It’s actually kind of fun to make a solid script that works between various OSes as nerdy as that is. I’ve taken a lot of typing and memorization and turned it into writing (ideally solid) software that allows me to type 1-3 words instead of 20 words. It’s satisfying. And you’re right, it’s something people won’t get until they come to it on their own terms.

At work I routinely do laborious tasks the rest of my team procrastinates due to how repetitive and annoying it is. And often it’s with a command or two. It feels quite powerful. And it’s so flexible how you can combine languages and tools! It’s also just interesting to be reminded how all the basic problems were solved by the 1970s when a lot of these tools were created.

I used to be on the yelling guys side and boy was I wrong. I now write scripts to do anything repetitive, all the time and it’s great. I have a whole library of them I use and add to and improve all the time.

Yeah, I was wrong.

Right yeah basically. From September we probably ought to be at a 3% - 4% gain but I’m personally down to a 2% gain. At one point it was down to like 1%. It’s super easy for me to check because I invested a multiple of 10 and haven’t touched it since.

What’s really concerning is the speed of loss. It’s hot garbage.

The funny part about this is that I feel even more validated when I check a live updates graph of the s and p 500.

See for yourself: https://www.macrotrends.net/2488/sp500-10-year-daily-chart

The way I interpret that graph of the last 5 years is that at only a couple of points in time did any drops as steep or as large occur except during covid times (exacerbated hugely by Trump) and once in 2023 which I’m not sure what happened but it was brief and the recovery was very strong.

Then funny enough I stumbled on this image (I had saved from a couple weeks ago) when I took this screenshot to show you:

I don’t find it fair to say it only is significant because it’s not visible on a 90 year graph. Times change a lot over decades. Even if you only look at 20 years back, this is a blip you can see and it’s only a couple months in.

https://www.macrotrends.net/2324/sp-500-historical-chart-data

If you look at this data and don’t see it, I don’t know what to tell you.

So I may have misspoke, and, I am also not smart enough to understand all of this, but I do understand one thing. Investments that track the stock market are supposed to grow. Usually about 7% a year. I invested in index funds back in september, at one point I saw it up by ~5% but now my balance is back down to ~2% from initial investment. At this point I would expect to reasonably be between those numbers. Given the instability we keep seeing, I’m not expecting nearly the ~7% growth per year that is normally a rule of thumb :'(

You aren’t right about this. Surely you can read a line graph… I have index funds that closely track the market as a whole and they are way down compared to even before the election.

lol alright

Cool. Enjoy your 2004 reddit practice… ?

I am familiar with this anachronistic practice, however it’s never actually been helpful, unless you decide to trust a person you already started to distrust because they basically wrote at the end “trust me bro”. We can let that one go.

You don’t need to tell us you fixed spelling