winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 3hI've driven all over the world. Toronto drivers, in my limited experience there, are the worst. The sense or entitlement is palpable. Nicest folks ever but totally different when they get in the car. Too many cars! Build reliable, free transit. 000
winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026That's about the age I learned. I was selling grandfather clocks and special orders were always priced as "FOB Zeeland, MI" so I asked my boss what that meant and he said "add thirty bucks to the price" then explained it to me. Thanks Vic. 010
winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Absolutely. About 25 years ago there was a Gyrfalcon that spent the winter hanging out on a water tower in Lubbock. 010
winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026My thought was maybe it got on a ship and didn't get off. Maybe was stuck. Lots of containers go through Corpus. 110
winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026It's a 3 pound package, so 1.36 kg. au$45.75. au$33.64/kg 000
winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Tom Morello was the first person that came to my mind. 021
winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026And even more ironically Catholic teaching is that both Jewish people and Muslims worship the same G-d we do. 030
winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I would argue that it comes from a misunderstanding of "Nostre Aetate" but I can't 'cause I'm almost certain that far less than 1% of Catholics have read it. 020
winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026They taught the agents to lie, cheat, and steal. "Misaligned model behavior" is another way of saying "we wrote shitty code." 030
winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Doesn't "misaligned model activity" basically mean "we wrote shitty code"? 011
winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026This is not a bad theory. Imagine if our universe was their 33 554 433rd try. 000
winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026"(Unless you like tar with notes of arsenic and mercury.)" Just say Guinness. 111
winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Well, anything shiny would be loved by both the Fairies and the crows. Bottle caps? Dimes? Colored rhinestones? 020
winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This is true. It reminds me that Biden was 28th on my list of the 31 candidates who ran in 2020. (of course I voted for Biden once he was the nominee) 001
winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026My sister is a librarian for a law firm. They pay her pretty well to "google shit for them" because she's really good at figuring out how to frame a search to find what they need. (with no hallucinations) 020
winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I would like to nominate: John Dickerson Christiane Amanpour Leon Harris Scott Pelley Stephen Colbert Don Lemon 030
winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026But that might be inconvenient! Americans proved beyond all doubt in 2020 that they will NOT be inconvenienced. 000
winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026There's several systems that help keep airspace from getting too crowded, and they work pretty well almost all the time. They all involve living people as the final check point though, so we have to find a new system. (Jaded retired controller) 020
winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026As a retired controller I can tell you there's a 99.99994% chance it'll be fine. 130
winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The EPA number nay be 14 mpg but then the suburban warriors do 85 instead of the 70 that number is based on so they're really getting less than 10 mpg and complaining about gas prices. Something like 8% of the people that own these need one. 070
winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I'll have a little more faith in AI when Anthropic announces that they've fired their accounting firm and Claude is going to do their taxes. 021
winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I haven't found a case where I think AI would be useful for me, so I go out of my way to keep it out of my life as much as possible. I don't hate it, I just don't like it. There's plenty of cases where I'm convinced it's very useful. I'm just not involved in any of them. 001
winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026For context, 35 ish years ago I took about 10 hours of flight instruction. I have successfully landed a C152. Have 0 hours since 1995. 010
winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026So, how good a landing does it have to be? Nobody dies? Maybe. Everybody walks away? Probably not. The plane can fly again tomorrow? Nah. 110
winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The words of William Bruce Cameron: "However, not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." You keep banging your head against the idea that people are, or should be, rational according to your definition of rational. 010
winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026That first one is kinda funny when the s+p 500 is up almost twice that percentage over the same time frame. 020
winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Sometime since January all the hotels that had FoxNews on in the breakfast area switched to GMA. 021
winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026We live in a very lefty neighborhood where nobody uses pesticides or herbicides or fertilizer on our lawns and it's an oasis for bug and grub eating birds. Catbirds, Thrashers, and Flickers love it. Altho Catbirds do freak our cat out when she hears them 'meow.' 000
winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Can we bring back John Ratzenberger to overdub his rally speeches? 120
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winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 22/08/2026We live in the greatest time ever for food. My preference is thick, doughy crust like Nirchi's (Binghamton) or Charles and Reed (Traverse City) but that's just *my* preference. Giordano's is good. I Fratelli (DFW) is good. Every decent NY slice is good. Eat what y'all want. Stop with the gatekeeping 010
winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Is there a difference, in your opinion, between Jeff Bezos buying the Washington Post, Eric Meyer buying the Marion County Record, and Eddie Lampert buying K-Mart and Sears? 000
winojohn @winojohn.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Recently had the pleasure of meeting some Algerian folks. While they spoke French, it was very clear that it was not their preferred language. 021