Certain companies have tried this in a heads-up fashion: offer both the USA made option and one made overseas. The catch is the one made in the USA is 3x more expensive.

0% of people bought the USA-made one.

Source

I agree with nearly all of your sentiment here, other than “people with C’s shouldn’t go to college”.

I like Scott Galloway’s take: colleges and universities are the opportunity to take the unremarkable and give them a chance at being remarkable.

Of course there needs to be a cut off here, but I’d say curriculum is a better indicator than average letter grade. Often, I’d rather work with someone who has really struggled to earn mediocre grades, but knuckled down and made it through because they wanted it that badly. Because that’s most of life after school. Most of my friends that struggled after school were the ones that never had to try when we were in school. Then they graduated and life hit them in the face for the first time.

My undergrad degree is in Computer Science and I really struggled because I didn’t have a quality maths foundation. That said, I worked my ass off and graduated with a 3.8 in my major, and now am the Sr. Solutions Architect at my city’s largest employer, soon to clinch a director position. College enabled me to do that and fostered a life long curiosity of all things.

My partner is another good example. She barely earned C’s in high school, worked at a grocery store, and decided she wanted something better. She went to community college when she was ready, and now owns two extremely successful businesses. She would have not done well in trades.

Having access to higher education at the “right” time for people is critical. And as you said, also having options for those who aren’t motivated to continue in higher education but still want to make a fair wage, like trade school.

Not to nitpick, but the article says Andrew Callaghan is a conservative media personality. IMO he’s far from conservative. I’d appreciate other’s thoughts on this.

His interview series with Hunter is pretty eye opening. Worth a watch.

Also, yes, I would pay to watch Hunter, a former crack addict, absolutely embarrass the silver spoon twins.

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If only we used 100% of our hearts

Lifestyle brands, amiright 🤷‍♂️

Worth a read if anyone is interested: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/02/16/what-is-claude-anthropic-doesnt-know-either

My favorite part is Anthropic has a bot in the cafeteria that orders what staff request and if the bank balance goes to zero or negative, then it loses and has to close up shop.

This far, nearly all employees have a 1” tungsten cube on their desk that some managed to get for free with a fake 100% off coupon.

It’s a fun experiment in what happens when these agents start doing things in the real world and I commend Anthropic for putting it on display. A real hype train killer.

As a technologist, I work with them all day, every day. I wouldn’t trust them to do my laundry without oversight, let alone run a business.

Such an underrated point. The economics and strategic impact of renewables is obvious at this point. Every time there’s a price surge in petrol, I hope that the US would wake up and hasten the transition, but we just keep kicking our feet like toddlers.

I’ve totally fallen for markdown. I want more normies to know about it.

All the nice things about rich text with none of the Word.

Yeah, taking the L would be best for everyone in the short term, but the Iranians must seek nuclear arms now, at any cost, because it’s the only thing that makes other countries take each other seriously so it seems. So the options of the US all suck:

1. Allow Iran to gain nuclear capability, and deal with the consequences (which I think may include a nuclear detonation on US soil). Israel and the US won’t let that happen.
2. Invade, get all fissile material out of Iran, and engage in nation building activities (again) which has never ended badly /s. I think this is the most likely option.
3. Declare victory and leave Israel to do their worst.

I really don’t see any other option here. The market will tank, energy prices go trough the roof, we hit another depression, and everyone the world over feels the pain. 30% of Americans will still back this play because of “freedom” or because “Kamala would have done the same thing” (I disagree, but guess who did do this? NOT KAMALA).

This die was cast when Trump tore up the nuclear deal which met be the biggest strategic blunder since Bush The Lesser invaded Iraq for no reason other than to “get even”.

My entire life we’ve been at war and I can’t believe we’re here again…

Not leveraging solar energy, which abundant , decentralized, and is the cheapest unit of energy there is.

Passkeys or oauthn/fido. I just can’t believe we’re still talking about passwords in 2025 when these very robust, user friendly features have been widely available for years.

Not at all. You get to say what happens with your body. The fact that he took offense to it is on him. It’s also a smart move.

Personally, I can’t stand condoms, but I wouldn’t hook up without one. “This is a strange car, in a foreign dense highway; why would I need a seat belt?”

Also, if I heard a woman say “it was a fine night” in a meh tone, I’d be gutted lol.

Gentleman reading this, remember the golden rule: women always come first.

Travel. Ignore him. I’ve had the pleasure visiting 7 countries, 5 non English native. Top of the list are Italy, Sweden, Czech Republic, England, Ireland, Canada (Montreal). I’d travel more if I had more money and time to. It’s been one of the most impactful things on me as a human.

The US has no national language by design. We’re a melting pot; a country of immigrants. That is our greatest strength. Taking the often humble, mixing it, mutating it, and making it our own.

I don’t speak any other languages, but I try. Only on very rare occasions was language a barrier. I understand I’m a guest in other people’s countries so I mind my p’s & q’s. You’re representing your country, so be kind. Approach other cultures with genuine curiosity. At least learn basic phrases like hello, goodbye, please, thank you, and anything else you can manage, but you don’t need to fluent.

IMO, US born tourist are the worst. Loud, entitled, obnoxious, ignorant. They expect everywhere to be just perfect for them and how they like to live, like it’s Disney World. Those people won’t get a whole lot out of travel and just make us look worse than we already do on the international stage. Oh and the “influencers”… In Venice, they were like locusts.

I’ve also traveled all over the US and it can be beautiful, but you live here; you’ll get much more of a perspective shift going somewhere completely different. Also, by comparison of other countries, the US is pretty mid. Traveling help you see the US for what it is, not for what we’re told it is.

Definitely go with your instinct here. Foster that curiosity. I promise it will pay dividends you can’t imagine now.

I’m curious how energy costs affect public transit. Of course they have very good bargaining power and are well set up to augment energy prices.

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This! I think twice before commenting because of blowback. And everything is _ so_ dramatic. Also, consistently, if my world view and lived experience doesn’t align with the group think of the post and comments, then I’m automatically disqualified as a “bot” or “fedposting”. In all honesty, it’s not the most welcoming community. Diverse discourse is discouraged.

I migrated openaw from docker running on my raspberry pi to an old nuc I had lying around. Backed it with mainly models off of OpenRouter or my local Ollama instance. For very difficult tasks it uses anthropic. Added it to my GitHub repo and implemented Plane for task management. Added a subagent for coding and have it work on touch up or research tasks I don’t have personal time to do. Made an sdlc document that it follows so I can review all of its work. Added a cron so it checks for work every hour. It ran out of tasks in five days. Work quality: C+, but it’s a hell of a lot better than having nothing.

It helped research and implement SilverBullet for personal notes management in one shot.

I also migrated all of my services’ DNS resolution to CloudFlare so I get automatic TLS handoff and set up nginx with deny rules so any app I don’t want exposed don’t get proxied.

This weekend I’m resurrecting my HomeAssistant build.

We need more of this. I bought my SO stickers for Christmas. Time to put them everywhere.

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