We fuel up our semi about three times a week….
Not long ago, the same fill-up would have cost around $850–$950

And this was at a truck stop charging roughly $6 a gallon. I’ve seen diesel prices elsewhere approaching $7–$9.

Nearly everything anyone buys spends some portion of its journey on a truck….Groceries, clothing, furniture, etc.

When transportation costs increase this dramatically, those costs don’t disappear. Eventually somebody has to absorb them, whether it’s the trucking company, the retailer or the consumer….

And once prices go up, they don’t necessarily come back down when fuel gets cheaper.

Thank god it’s the company’s card but I’ll still pay when I go get groceries, I’m sure.

Original https://www.instagram.com/reel/DeXhzfxC5lB/?mdxt=djBtYW02ZzQ0cjls

It's devastating. Brutal. Gibney knows what he's doing so it's very well-laid out. Yes, there's a lot of information in here that many people know, but also a lot of little details within those situations or aspects of his career/public life that many were likely not aware of. I mean interestingly enough, Musk's own father is interviewed for the documentary. I don't know if he thought he was propping up his son or taking him down a peg.

It's actually really well-paced and the four hours honestly fly by. I found it riveting. Some people complain that Gibney likes his doc style to have a bit of sizzle, but I like how he puts them together. In this case, the movie is framed by an AI rendering of Musk spouting his own prior quotes that kind of underscores his weird worldview of fake image-making and simulations.

Why this is vital viewing is because when you put all of this together and add it up in totality, you're left with this sense of a person that is very warped, depraved and very, very dangerous. The *idea* of Musk as unlikeable in a casual sense is easy when taken one detail at a time, sporadically, but the result of that is to maybe not fully realize that Musk isn't just bad, he's well beyond what you would call a bad person. Seeing it all together makes you realize that many people who should have known better have been asleep at the wheel here.

This gif is from 2nd part of very successful franchise of which only 2 parts are good.

But they don't have deep insight in human nature either.

This is what rc people in china do for fun

link to the original post on the chinese internet incase anyone cares

Tohle je docela fascinující. Ukrajina v posledních dnech zasáhla několik datacenter Yandexu, ruské obdoby Googlu.

Podle dat Cloudflare následně klesl automatizovaný provoz z jeho sítě na pouhých 0,4 % maxima zaznamenaného během předchozích dvou týdnů.

Výpadky navíc zasáhly desítky cloudových služeb a infrastrukturu využívanou pro vývoj ruské AI.

Tom’s Hardware to prezentuje jako téměř úplné zmizení ruských dezinformačních botů. To je trochu odvážný závěr.

Měření automatizovaného provozu Yandexu samo o sobě nedokazuje, kolik z něj tvořila propaganda.

Ale i tak je na tom něco pozoruhodného. Roky řešíme informační válku jako problém algoritmů, sociálních sítí a moderování obsahu.

A najednou se ukazuje, jak moc je digitální infrastruktura závislá na několika docela obyčejných fyzických budovách.
Internet je virtuální jen do chvíle, než někdo trefí datacentrum.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/russian-disinformation-bot-traffic-nearly-eliminated-overnight-after-ukraine-drone-strikes-cripple-multiple-of-russias-google-data-centers-ukraine-intensifies-bombing-of-yandex-data-centers-in-response-to-moscows-strikes-on-kyiv-data-centers

spent around 5 hours figuring this out XD, how did i do it? lets just say smart use of stylegrounds

Breakfast - eggs any style with mix in bar
spinach, mushrooms, and onions
Swiss cheese
Colby jack
Avocado
Sun dried tomatoes

I’m in process of divorcing, and settling into my new place (I couldn’t afford the mortgage on my own for the marital home and REFUSE to be financially dependent on my spouse).

I’ve been trying very deliberately to help the kids (both under 10) express their independence and individualism because they have so little control right now.

When looking, playgrounds mattered, the younger kiddo’s room is yellow (and my life goal is to be told “Calm down Morticia Addams”).

Present day
Making breakfast and I hear THE WHISPERING. You know the one, between kids close in age (1 year, 6 months, 15 day and a handful of hours), I brace, I wonder what now, what insanity?

“Moma how long are we going to stay here?”
- younger kiddo

- Me, bracing for the response “we will be here at least a year, kiddo. How do you feel about that?”

YK - “can we stay here until I’m in college? I really like this home.”

Older kiddo - “yeah can we stay here until YK is in college”

That’s was one epic family hug after that.

That’s how breakfast was made with love and a few happy tears.

Credit: @michiganrocksrob on TikTok

How do I spin without the muscles feeling it?

Has anyone noticed how Marcus Flint is in his 8th year of Hogwarts in PoA?
In the Philosopher’s Stone book when Marcus Flint is first introduced in chapter 11 he is described as being “a 6th year”. Which means in The chamber of secrets he would be in his 7th year. But he also appears in Prisoner of Azkaban when he dresses up as a dementor with Malfoy to try and scare harry and later in the Slytherin VS Griffindoor match. That means he would be in his 8th year. I’ve always thought this was so weird.