Everything posted by Vegas64
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Unpopular movie opinions
Will Smith is a corny unc but he was the superior “Genie” in Aladdin. I get that the other corny unc, Robin Williams, is universally loved, and maybe it’s unfair as his was voice only animation, but yea…the Will Smith genie ate. Also, the live action Aladdin is the one (two if you count Cruella) example or the live action being better than the OG animation.
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ChatGPT AI Tool— We all work for robots now
Can I introduce you to the concept of Renewing a Class War?
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ChatGPT AI Tool— We all work for robots now
You should google Pactum AI and Walmart. They essentially are using AI as an optimal procurement bot. eta I'll just link it: https://procureconsupplychain.wbresearch.com/blog/walmart-ai-chatbot-automate-supplier-negotiations Anyways, the one actual factual use case that I think AI is actually a great deployed technology with real business value is in the contact center. The contact center has been being digitized and "transformed" for 20 years, why not let AI deliver the death blow?
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Dallas - Even Shittier than Normal
No not at all. It's just an observation of a very visual and relatively new phenomenon. That and the afreomentioned Costco being 80% Indian. I love my Indian brothers they are cool with me.
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Dallas - Even Shittier than Normal
You drive up and down 423 and all you will see is a) Indians in low end teslas b) 30 year old Indians in sedans with a yellow "student driver" magnet on the bumper or c) 30+ year old Indians in low end teslas with yellow "student driver" magnets on the bumper. That's about the gist of it. I am with you on being open minded and accepting and also benefiting from outsized appreciation. I think most people I know who want to leave have a "when my kids graduate plan" type 5 year plan at this point. I don't know anyone who would waste time at a townhall to complain and be racist.
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Dallas - Even Shittier than Normal
And it's scary for them too which I feel sad for. I have a close Indian friend up here who works for AWS. Probably makes $500k a year. When the Jan 27th layoffs were coming up, he was a nervous wreck all January until he found out he was safe. Not because the money, he can make +/- 10% of that probably anywhere. But it's the fear that he would have 30 days to find a job or have to leave the country if he was laid off and didn't find a landing spot to sponsor him. What's the phrase you taught me? Stochastic terrorism.
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Looksmaxxing: Body Dysmorphia For Men! Now Featuring Meth, Smashing One's Own Face With A Hammer, and Intentionally Driving Your Cybertruck Over Another Person
- Dallas - Even Shittier than Normal
Anecdotal to Frisco-area Indians, but you'd be surprised how they don't like affirmative action. I've seen it where they (and the Asians, surprisingly) are ever bit as racist as the anglos towards stuff like affirmative action, dei, etc. They feel like they squeezed on both sides, they get discriminated against because they aren't white, but on the other end they get zero benefit because of the "model minority" fallacy. I've seen more south asians and asians do explicitly racist things like call their kids away from the local playground and shooing them away from black kids when they were innocently playing or goofing around whereas the white folks here do that more sneaky. You'd think that the anglos of Frisco and Indians are almost the exact same people in a lot of ways like the aforementioned politics and community, except they are brown and generally not Christians (though some of that is even changing pretty quickly up here).- Dallas - Even Shittier than Normal
It's probably on par. Indians on visas get taking advantage a little bit in comp from what I've seen, at least in the wrench-turning class of IT (e.g. developers and technical middle management of products, etc.). I think I shared you can't take a walk in a neighborhood up here without seeing folks in a TWITCH branded swag of some sort (or traditional indian sari/wardrobe for those 75+ year olds who all walk around the 'hoods around keeping healthy).- Surly kids who can't get into UT
Well, I guess we have tried nothing and are all out of ideas on how to get our best students to want to consider crappy U of H and the like! We will always be unified in our complaints on not being the UC system.- ChatGPT AI Tool— We all work for robots now
Maybe so, but I just listened to the shopify earnings call yesterday and pretty much took away that the human experience of buying and shopping is cooked, as the kids say. UCP is a new term I learned that I think we will all learn in the future. Universal Commerce Protocol. Also ACP, Agentic Commerce Protocol (I think this one is OpenAI IP). Regardless, the goods will be bought and sold by AI in the foreseeable future.- Surly kids who can't get into UT
I spent some time on the U of H campus for an O&G symposium co-hosted by the university of some Houston based companies. It's a pretty poor experience if you value that sort of thing as a student. Which sucks beause they have all the potential in the world as you said and have access to some pretty powerful organizations to help being co-located in the 4th largest city in the US with a ton of F500 firepower. And they have a premiere college basketball program. I almost wonder if they should just go the route of the U of Miami and just go private and revamp themselves as the SMU of Houston and really use their endowments as debt pledge backing to transform. Otherwise, will they ever emerge from the primordial soup of commuter school and not a destination college for top students?- Dallas - Even Shittier than Normal
Indians up here LOVE Costco. That is indisputable. Also Indians up here are generally Dilliwalas and only about as far south as Marathi or Gujarati, because home prices are high and their jobs are higher up more long term so they invest in things like real estate versus the poorer castes of Southern Indians which you see more as renters in apartments in places like Plano and Irving/Coppell and other areas with lots of apartments. The Marathi and Gujarati are basically the Indian version of Republicans from Red States (they love them some Modi aka the Indian Trump) and they generally like to a) make money b) save money and c) care about their children's school district and college chances, in that order. In that sense they fit the ethos and culture of Frisco/Prosper area extremely well.- A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms HBO Max
But also in a world where the knighthood position has been corrupted and the culture of honor in the upper houses was dying out, there would be no "let's harken back to an ancient honorable tradition of 5 v 5 in the eyes of the mother to decide guilt or innocence" and then have some true blue blood types join a lethal melee for a no-name hedge knight. The Targs would have just killed him behind the tent with a bone saw like the Saudi prince did to Kashoogi and Baelor would have been rueful in his conscious for about 10 minutes before moving on with Westerosi life. That's the biggest plot hole to me and has been since it arose and I'm constantly having to remind myself to suspend disbelief in a world built where dragons are more natural than some of the humans.- Dallas - Even Shittier than Normal
There are some hold outs in Frisco for sure, but I think I shared most people who bought into Frisco and had their houses 1000x in value have sold and bought bigger lots in Prosper and Celina up near Dak Prescott and the Dude Perfect guys. White / Jan6th types have been sour on Frisco for years now. I had someone tell me there is a billboard in India advertising for Frisco, TX lol- UAP Pentagon Report (UFOs, Foo Fighters, Commie Drones)
You are 5 orders of magnitudes wrong. Astronomers estimate there are about 1 Septillion stars in the observable universe (a 1 followed by 24 zeros) which is a number that comes form multiplying the roughtly 2 trillion galaxies by the average number of stars inside each one. Your number of 200 billion trillion (200 sextillion) is 5x smaller or 20% than the actual number of 1 Septillion. I googled where you could have gotten your facts and it checks out, you get your information from facebook lol- Surly kids who can't get into UT
We joke, but I actually think Tech will be one of those biggest winners in the post-NIL/transfer portal world in that it will fund a very good football team which then creates the big college experience (good football, Greek, big school, etc.) that will attract the type of student profiles that UT/A&M reject but are now choosing schools like OU/ARK/BAMA, which will raise the academic profile over time.- Dumbass Shit We See On Facebook
paid a grip for the UT ring I haven't worn in decades, am I equally stupid (or 3x stupid based on costs)?- Surly kids who can't get into UT
Legal AI Startup Harvey In Talks To Raise $200 Million At $11 Billion ValuationThe startup, which develops AI software for lawyers and big law firms, is raising additional capital, increasing its valuation from $8 billion just two months ago. https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2026/02/09/legal-ai-startup-harvey-in-talks-to-raise-200-million-at-11-billion-valuation/- Everything is Shit: Tracking the Great Enshittening
Did you fall for an online hoax?- Dumbass Shit We See On Facebook
- Surly kids who can't get into UT
I'm not sure I agree 100% with your police work here with respect to the post you are responding to about the Texas system in big cities not providing the same total experience of an SEC program (e.g. lots of Frisco/Prosper kids going to Arkansas and Bama rather than go to UTSA or U of H or UTD). Of the schools you mentioned, William and Mary is unlike them all, right? like Rice or a better SMU? That's its own appeal which is narrow and is nothing like a UT/SEC college experience. From what I remember JMU and George Mason were regional safety schools for bros and B students who couldn't get into Vtech and UVA, which are the only two schools you mention that have anything like a total/full oncampus college experience with D1 sports and lots of organizations and a national name. - Dallas - Even Shittier than Normal
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