As an example this weekend: Farmers market organic apples(Braeburn and Honeycrisp), single farm, guy who sold me the apples oversaw their picking this week. $3.50 / pound.
Superstore, US grown Galas, been in a box for 6 months, $3 / pound.
We’re around 60-70 / week for me and my partner four usual food, but that also includes some steak and pork once and a while.
Not surprising.
Their solution to everything LLM has been to add intermediary LLMs to manage the one we interact with to add “guardrails” or point them to a calculator.
It shouldn’t be surprising that they utterly fail at basic tasks on their own.
Vancouver, Canada: People are of course worried about the US having returned to it trying to conquer and subjugate us again, and global warming casts an increasingly looming shadow. But the US utterly failed to split off Alberta, Quebec is showing no interest in it either and Carney is mostly doing a good job so there is still increasing hope.
Gas prices are still punitive in Vancouver, but that has been the case since we stood up for ourselves against having a pipeline to nowhere shoved up our ass, so we’re used to that now. We havent seen the crazy increase other places have other than in diesel because China is buying it all to keep their prices down.
Food prices are only bad if you shop at the big supermarkets. If you shop at farmers markets or small locals, prices have stayed relatively steady.
Job wise market is looking very strong. A few years back, most of the posts I saw were international or fraud reposts, but more and more in the last 18 months have been local growth, with larger compensation as well for the most part.
They’ve been doing that for over a decade now.
Its not “early days”.
Early days for AI models was a decade ago.
Often they dont realize how much the local elite benefit from it.
E.g. that Bibi helped ensure Hamas survived and dominated in Gaza over the more peace oriented groups.
Ukraine is being punished because of two centuries of local leaders opting for easy western cash at the expense of the greater local populace.
Reminder that the US would never have existed had it not been for opportunistic Iroquois and later Huron leaders propping them up.
Its a recent quote from Canadian PM Mark Carney after the US tried to trick and pressure us into signing away our soverignty
The US signs contracts in pencil.
Referring to the DOJ is a meaningless act of theatre. Even If the DOJ didn’t have a long standing policy to not prosecute sitting presidents
SCOTUS made the president immune to regular prosecution
The only path forward is impeachment. That is the only way to hold him accountable.