Ah, that does make more sense :) Thank you

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I’m assuming this was a typo – sea duck community support makes no sense – but I can’t quite figure out what the intended word was. Elder? Other? Something else?

What are they feeding them?!

I noticed this effect when city buses were idling about a block away from my old house. It would hit just right (just wrong?) on a really noticable resonance frequency for that place. It used to make it hard to fall asleep if I went to bed after midnight.

I don’t notice weird vibrations like that much at my current address, fortunately.

No matter what you call them, cookies are still delicious treats!

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Great, now I’m thinking about the Trojan horse but with high explosives.

True, I’m very much looking at it in terms of work tooling. I don’t have much use for the ELIZA-with-delusions-of-grandeur models in my personal life.

80 bucks for a session could be a lot, but if it saves you 4 hours of work, I’d say it’s worth it.

OTOH, I’ve seen some articles claim that using AI tools actually slows you down. In that case, it’s a giant boondoggle.

Yes, and?

You might want to recheck your math.

.2 cents is $0.002

40000 * .002 = $80

Clipper chip all over again

Do you want more allies? Chasing away reluctant ones seems counterproductive to me TBH.

Glam doll! I haven’t been there in ages. I should pop over there this weekend.

I think I know the pizza shop you mentioned. I don’t remember its name, but it’s a little hole-in-the-wall place near the MIA.

Seward neighborhood? I used to work at Franklin & 22nd - near the Pizza Luce. That was before you lived here, though.

Now I live near Minnehaha Falls.

Did you live in Minneapolis or a suburb?

Winter of 2013-2014 was pretty brutal. I’m not sure about 16-17 though.

Eh, Minneapolis gets cold, but it doesn’t quite get that cold. The record low was -34 degrees F (-37C). We do regularly hit -20F, but we haven’t hit -30 since 1996.

Nitpicking aside, I agree that the winters can get brutal.

My wife and I invited around 200 to our reception. I guess you could call it mostly “tertiary characters” (ugh, just typing that makes me feel like I’m falling into Main Character Syndrome).

We probably had around 30 friends (quick tally), then immediate family accounted for a dozen more, then extended relatives pushed us over 200. My mother and my paternal grandfather both came from larger families, so you get lots of aunts, uncles, and cousins that way. +1s definitely inflate that figure, too.

Am I super close with them all? No, but I was still happy to have them there. I generally like my extended family (fortunate in this day and age, I know!).

Would you rather be right or have friends? That’s the tradeoff I’ve seen

correct other’s use of it.

In practical terms, that just pisses off your friends :(