2025 Letter

Post by maxglute » Fri, Jan 02, 2026, 9:23 PM UTC

riku_iki wrote: post #314

maxglute wrote: post #313

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I'm not here to enter your lame sealioning effort for basic facts. This is 2026, you can validate claims trivially. Or you can keep demonstrating illiteracy/innumeracy, which is just as well. Audience can go through comment chain and judge argument merits / cognitive function.

burden of proof is on you, because you made a statement. If you blindly trust LLMs, it explains well why you are like this.. > Audience can go through comment chain and judge argument merits / cognitive function. or very few care about your fantasies spam lol

Post by riku_iki » Fri, Jan 02, 2026, 9:32 PM UTC

maxglute wrote: post #321

riku_iki wrote: post #314

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burden of proof is on you, because you made a statement. If you blindly trust LLMs, it explains well why you are like this.. > Audience can go through comment chain and judge argument merits / cognitive function. or very few care about your fantasies spam lol

I've been writing metric dense post before LLMs, and even then I don't entertain sealions who don't do their own minimal research, or demonstrate inability to. LLMs simply available now for previously lazy/cognitively inept readers to validate gist if they want. For those that have trouble with basic comprehension (i.e. can't read gud so only retort is words & numbers are fantasy spam to be handwaved without much sub…

Post by pertymcpert » Fri, Jan 02, 2026, 9:49 PM UTC

basisword wrote: post #147

hereonout2 wrote: post #136

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Conversely, I've no idea where you or the parent has the idea that the UK is full of automated car washes and the OP is talking bullshit. I live in London and can think of a only a handful of the old fashioned automatic car washes. Whereas I can get a hand carwash at pretty much any supermarket car park I land on. From a guy with a bucket and trolley to a full team of four going at it with a power wash. Tesco, Sainsb…

London is an odd one as space is limited and the hand wash places can pop up anywhere quite easily. If I look at the more suburban place I'm from most petrol stations still have the automated ones (contactless payment now instead of the tokens). And most of the larger supermarkets there that have petrol stations still have the automated car washes too.

Post by lifeisstillgood » Fri, Jan 02, 2026, 9:54 PM UTC

tacker2000 wrote: post #322

lifeisstillgood wrote: post #119

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I am interested in what is working in Vienna when “housing problem” is what almost every city in “the West” has or thinks it has. To me it seems to be a combination of - wealth inequality (eg 20/30 trillion dollars was printed and furloughed out in Covid, which funnels its way up to the holders of the most assets, seeing asset price inflation but no attempt to tax back the money printed). Repeat on different scales f…

1/3 of the housing stock in Vienna is social housing which belongs to and is managed by the city. They offer low rents and therefore a large part of tenants dont compete on the private market, therefore pulling overall rents lower.

Post by twic » Fri, Jan 02, 2026, 11:10 PM UTC

jemmyw wrote: post #153

hereonout2 wrote: post #137

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Is it that unimaginable things might have changed in the almost two decades since you left?

Yes, it is unimaginable that the UK has replaced most of their automated car washes with immigrants washing cars manually. I've been back there and I've still family there, it's not that different "on the ground" as it were, despite the big political changes.