
Big_Sur
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Registered on: | 11/3/2012 |
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re: Why would a business owner publicly display their political leanings?
Posted by Big_Sur on 4/18/25 at 7:30 pm
Ego
re: When Yo-Yos made a comeback in the late 90's
Posted by Big_Sur on 4/12/25 at 7:03 pm
Y'all gotta zoom out. It's a cyclical trend.
- Seth Godin https://thementalclutch.org/2018/11/14/the-yo-yo-phenomenon/
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Yo-yos are regularly banned and frowned upon in school, especially elementary school. It goes in phases. Every few years a kid shows up with a yo-yo. If the kid is of low status then it’s the end, nothing to worry about. What if this kid is well liked though, someone who people want to be around? If a well-liked kid brings in a yo-yo to school then the next week you can expect 2-3 more kids to bring in a yo-yo. The week after that there will be 6 more kids with a yo-yo. Every week more kids will be bringing in yoyos until it gets out of hand that it needs to be banned. The secret to the yoyo becoming popular again is that the right kid needs to bring in a yo-yo the first day.
- Seth Godin https://thementalclutch.org/2018/11/14/the-yo-yo-phenomenon/
re: Do I have to buy an iPhone to play my music now?
Posted by Big_Sur on 4/5/25 at 10:17 am
You'll need one of these

re: You’re in charge of the Super Bowl, who are you bringing in for the halftime show?
Posted by Big_Sur on 2/9/25 at 7:44 pm
Dave Matthews Band with Hootie and the Blowfish would probably kill it with the audience in attendance.
re: Lil Wayne would have been better
Posted by Big_Sur on 2/9/25 at 7:35 pm
Tonight I learned I've never heard a Kendrick Lamar song before
re: Brands that came out of nowhere and took over.
Posted by Big_Sur on 1/25/25 at 5:19 pm
Maldon Sea Salt has really taken over the large flake sea salt market
re: Crypto attached to AI is the future
Posted by Big_Sur on 1/19/25 at 1:25 pm
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Bitcoin is globally decentralized. It will never stop unless the entire planet loses it's electric grid which is impossible.
I guess my understanding is lots of miners need to be running to process transactions. Maybe those miners are in South America or Europe or Asia while we have lost our power and are bartering in the USA.
And I'm thinking me and my barter friends are gonna need cellphones with towers working, and/or laptops or something and the towers are still connected to the underwater telecoms lines connecting the continents.
Just seems like a lot of infrastructure continuing to work like it does today when we're in a world of bartering and chaos.
re: Trump launches a coin on Solana
Posted by Big_Sur on 1/19/25 at 12:51 pm
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I would hope everyone would see it as a massive ethical issue, but I think too many people are busy gargling Trump's old man balls to admit it.
This exactly. Hard to know if there's ever been a president who's balls have been gargled this much before, by the wealthiest elites on earth. Nothing close to this gargling in recent history in the US.
Impressive really.
re: Crypto attached to AI is the future
Posted by Big_Sur on 1/19/25 at 7:59 am
Is there stable Internet and electricity and data centers full of miners in the barter world?
re: What has been your experience stopping smoking/nicotine use on Chantix?
Posted by Big_Sur on 1/7/25 at 8:12 pm
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Nicotine is healthy just chew the gum mate
Yes but...you've got this monkey on your back constantly. Can never relax, always trying to ease the craving.
Better to kick the monkey to the curb.
re: What has been your experience stopping smoking/nicotine use on Chantix?
Posted by Big_Sur on 1/7/25 at 7:44 pm
Used Chantix 15 years ago, was awful on my stomach and crazy crazy nightmares all night every night.
Just read Alan Carr's Easy Way book and you'll be quit - easily painlessly no problem in a day or two.
Just read Alan Carr's Easy Way book and you'll be quit - easily painlessly no problem in a day or two.
re: Anyone ever use another job offer as a tactic to get a raise/promotion?
Posted by Big_Sur on 12/22/24 at 8:28 pm
Twice at different companies I've had another job lined up, submitted my resignation, and been offered enough to stay on.
Not a smart tactic to get a raise, but it can certainly work that way.
Not a smart tactic to get a raise, but it can certainly work that way.
re: Just recently started listening to Joe Rogan
Posted by Big_Sur on 11/16/24 at 2:07 pm
Duncan Trussel episodes are the best
re: What magazine subscriptions did you enjoy before digital media made them all but obsolete?
Posted by Big_Sur on 10/29/24 at 10:13 pm
Long time and still subscriber to Skeptic Magazine from the Skeptic Society
re: Snoring solutions
Posted by Big_Sur on 10/4/24 at 9:05 pm
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Sleep study and CPAP
I did this recently, because my wife complains about my snoring. The snoring doesn't bother me at all.
The CPAP machines are ridiculously cumbersome and annoying. I never made it through a night wearing the thing and took it back after a week.
If you sneeze or cough or something, it's literally a nightmare with this machine blowing air into your face.
frick that shite.
re: Tech firm fires most of HR team after Tech lead anonymously gets resume rejected by ATS.
Posted by Big_Sur on 10/3/24 at 6:43 am
VP > CMO > CEO
At a company with nearly 90k employees.
At a company with nearly 90k employees.
re: Got asked an interesting question during health screening today.
Posted by Big_Sur on 9/16/24 at 9:41 pm
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Sad people will have already forgotten who pushed this
Trump? with his Operation Warp Speed Vaccine
quote:
We’re here to discuss a monumental national achievement. From the instant the coronavirus invaded our shores, we raced into action to develop a safe and effective vaccine at breakneck speed. It would normally take five years, six years, seven years, or even more. In order to achieve this goal, we harnessed the full power of government, the genius of American scientists, and the might of American industry to save millions and millions of lives all over the world. We’re just days away from authorization from the FDA, and we’re pushing them hard, at which point we will immediately begin mass distribution.
Before Operation Warp Speed, the typical timeframe for development and approval, as you know, could be infinity. And we were very, very happy that we were able to get things done at a level that nobody has ever seen before. The gold standard vaccine has been done in less than nine months.
On behalf of the entire nation, I want to thank everyone here today who has been involved in this extraordinary American initiative.
re: 4 time Olympic gold medalist Michael Johnson had stroke at 50 years old.
Posted by Big_Sur on 8/31/24 at 4:31 pm
Y'all sound like a bunch of Biden & Kamala voters, what happened to this place
re: 4 time Olympic gold medalist Michael Johnson had stroke at 50 years old.
Posted by Big_Sur on 8/31/24 at 3:56 pm
Guaranteed he took the Covid vaccine, otherwise no way an athlete of his caliber would suffer like this
re: Web Scraper Help (Webscraper.IO)
Posted by Big_Sur on 8/18/24 at 9:11 pm
Sort of depends what you are trying to pull off exactly.
You want a dashboard for you and a couple of others showing just recent data? Or a website that includes historical data?
For the first you might get by with some Excel macros or something. For the second you probably want to connect to their API with a MySQL or similar database.
You want a dashboard for you and a couple of others showing just recent data? Or a website that includes historical data?
For the first you might get by with some Excel macros or something. For the second you probably want to connect to their API with a MySQL or similar database.
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