That Suncor refinery is in a bit of a fight with the state over environmental pollution. Cheap gas certainly helps improve the political situation for that particular refinery.

https://coloradosun.com/2025/09/26/colorado-suncor-water-dis...

My brother in law used to work for a refinery. He always said that politicians attacked them in the media all the time, but when the refinery wanted to expand they never had problems getting all the permits needed.

People love to hate on the oil companies (and there is good reason to do so), but they love cheap gas far more than that.

It is done for entire species.

There is plenty of fruits (Pawpaw, loquat, soursop come to mind) that are really not grown at-scale commercially in the US due to spoilage, easy to bruise, or other similar issues.

If you like interesting fruit, I highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/@WeirdExplorer/

for many fruits you will have never seen before.

Loquat cardamom jam is pure sex on a buttered english muffin. Probably the most satisfying flavor I've ever consumed, certainly there is no more satisfying flavor. Sadly just as my tree started producing bumper crops a historic freeze killed it.

People grow it all over socal but it has the weather for it.

Berkeley is full of Loquat trees too. There is one in the Safeway parking lot :).

...and in 2008. sadly, it might actually work:

https://bipartisanpolicy.org/article/the-deficit-in-a-downtu...

https://www.frbsf.org/research-and-insights/publications/eco...

The hard part is reigning that spending in during non-crash years (see the uproar over removing the temporary COVID subsidies) in a way that is not political suicide. At the Federal level, there is zero incentive to not run a deficit.

this is just not true. Building great products with average talent is a sign of great management, and it's been done before in both business and sports. moneyball is about this idea at some level.

Plenty of SV is building below average products with exceptional talent.

> Building great products

This is where they are failing.

> Plenty of SV is building below average products with exceptional talent.

Yes, you can hire exceptional talent and give them poor directions, resulting in poor products.

But to hire mediocre talent and still produce competitive products you must have an unfair advantage of some sort. The Windows and Office monopolies gave Microsoft that unfair advantage. But it is becoming clear that this unfair advantage does not extend to AI.

DEI used to make them money, and now it loses them money. It is not surprising they would jettison it.

Treating your employees with respect may not be profitable in the short term, but that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t happen.

DEI has nothing to do with treating your employees with respect.

> Airpods, amazing, redefined what wireless headphones are.

Airpods are a cash grab solution to a problem that Apple created, and nobody actually had before. They are the exact opposite of a good product; they are Apple squeezing money from its captive audience. If the iPhone hadn't dropped the headphone jack nobody would've bought Airpods, thus the jack was killed.

To be fair though the switch to wireless earbuds and headphones helped advance that market quickly. That applies to all of the companies in the space. It's also been so nice to not have to deal with tangled wired earbuds or headphones. Removing the jack was a band aid that needed to be ripped eventually, and Apple just happened to be the ones to do it. There is a reason the industry followed. Even when they didn't have their own product to offer.

> If the iPhone hadn't dropped the headphone jack nobody would've bought Airpods, thus the jack was killed.

My understanding was Apple wanted to get rid of cables entirely if they could. It's one of the major pieces of waste and the reason EU forced USB-C on everyone.

Personally I find the airpods great. I use the noise cancellation to sleep.

Yeah, I’m not going back to wired headphones, like, ever.

Totally agree.

> Half of the features in the last 2-3 iOS releases were in Cydia over a decade ago.

And I don’t even care about the features. Just give me stability and reliability. Don’t bluntly break what was working before. Spend some time on bug fixing. Please, Apple.

Steam and Ubuntu has worked really well for me, big picture mode + hdmi switch has made for a very-close-to-console experience

I am playing mostly single player campaign type games (Assassins creed, RDR2, etc) which certainly improves the picture.

If steam really wanted to put a knife in games on windows, it would develop an anticheat and give it away for free. That is AFAICT the only thing keeping people on windows for modern, multiplayer games.

Reliable Anticheat rootkits are just not possible on Open PC platforms. Consoles should just add proper keyboard+mouse support and competitive online players can move over...

Consoles support kb and mouse. Most popular fps games support it.

Nowadays you can mix&match however you like. I have one game that is available on PS, PC and mobile. You can use keyboard, mouse and PS controllers in this game on all of the platforms and it works the same. For now, I mainly play it on linux (it's not linux native game, heh) with ps4 controller.

I really wish there was an (k)Ubuntu-like Linux distro - apt-based, semi-annual updates, kde default or selectable - but without all the stupid Ubuntu-isms like snap and alpha quality rust coreutils and whatnot. I run Gentoo and Debian for myself, but I'd like something normie-friendly I can put on other peoples machines and not get a ton of support questions.

Imho the future (or present) of normie friendly distros is in atomic linux. Fedora Silverblue, Bazzite, Aurora, SteamOS. It seems to me that Ubuntu on desktop is traditional but quite behind. For normies its gonna be some Fedora based distro and they choose Gnome or KDE.

Fedora looks interesting I admit, but having used Gentoo for ~20 years and Debian for ~10 [1], Fedora feels like a new pair of uncomfortable shoes.

[1] And then one day you find / ten years have got behind you...

That is exactly Linux Mint ( https://linuxmint.com/ ) . I encourage you to give it a try. It is what I have settled on after 25 years of using linux, and trying near about every distro in existence.

I'm aware of Linux Mint, but I always dismissed it because of Cinnamon without giving it much thought. Looks like KDE can be shoehorned in without much trouble.

Is SolydK not good enough? There's also Mageia if you can stomach RPM instead of Deb (I prefer RPMs, but recognize it's a matter of personal taste).

Tried Mint?

Consoles also bring a lot of headache when it comes to modding, though.

Great video. The convergence between traditional stock market finance and casino gambling is going to seriously scar a generation.

Who do you think was buying options 30 years ago? Institutional demand, particularly for non-OTC options, was zero. Countries which have legalized gambling tend not to have large options markets.

There is no convergence. They have always been the same thing. The difference is that you can provide a venue where harm is reduced or one where harm is maximised.

Wasn't around to personally witness it, but I do not believe the first part is true:

https://www.princeton.edu/~ota/disk2/1990/9015/901507.PDF, specifically page 94.

Also, IMO there is a big difference between an open market that allows for price discovery and free trading versus placing bets against the same casino at predetermined prices.

Options markets help farmers and miners decide how much to invest in future production. Ditto the consumer of a commodity faced with an investment decision where the success of the investment depends on continued access to the commodity.

Are you thinking of the futures market? That's different than options

Options can be thought of as a form of insurance, so they have a useful purpose.

In the simplest case you might hold a stock and a put to limit your downside for a set period of time.

The opposite is also true - you can use options to increase risk. I don't think insurance is a particularly good analogy in general.

I mean generally speaking derivatives can be used as insurance or for speculation, and a wide gradient of gray in between.

By contrast, sports gambling is well, gambling. And importantly as we've seen in a lot of reports - the big online sports books essentially freeze out anyone who is good so that they are collecting revenue primarily from the.. innumerate.

Of course you also have some markets like India without legal gambling and oversized derivatives markets that are unfortunately serving as a replacement.

I'd also point out that you don't see the sort of degenerate nonstop advertising for options punting that you see for sports gambling. "Thanks for tuning into the ESPN FanDuel pregame show at the Caesars Superdome / and don't forget to stop by the DraftKings Sportsbook lounge." Followed by a barrage of other gambling ads in between plays.

They are roughly the same thing packaged differently. Both can be used to lock-in the price at a certain premium.

They are both derivatives but using a farmer as an example is 100% futures.

For commodities, the Futures demand delivery of the underlying. Options are settles in cash.

Yes. My bad.

I still can't take him seriously, he's a long time crypto grifter exposing grifting, why should we enable him? I don't follow him very closely but he always positioned himself as a pick me saavy crypto investor not like the others (who were into shitcoins).

Any example video?

Getting a 1% across the board general purpose improvement might sound small, but is quite significant. Happy to see Canonical invest more heavily in performance and correctness.

Would love to see which packages benefited the most in terms of percentile gain and install base. You could probably back out a kWh/tons of CO2 saved metric from it.

This is it. Later versions of python .11/.12/.13 have significant improvements and differences. Being able to seamlessly test/switch between them is a big QOL improvement.

I don't love that UV is basically tied to a for profit company, Astral. I think such core tooling should be tied to the PSF, but that's a minor point. It's partially the issue I have with Conda too.

> Later versions of python .11/.12/.13 have significant improvements and differences. Being able to seamlessly test/switch between them is a big QOL improvement.

I just... build from source and make virtual environments based off them as necessary. Although I don't really understand why you'd want to keep older patch versions around. (The Windows installers don't even accommodate that, IIRC.) And I can't say I've noticed any of those "significant improvements and differences" between patch versions ever mattering to my own projects.

> I don't love that UV is basically tied to a for profit company, Astral. I think such core tooling should be tied to the PSF, but that's a minor point. It's partially the issue I have with Conda too.

In my book, the less under the PSF's control, the better. The meager funding they do receive now is mostly directed towards making PyCon happen (the main one; others like PyCon Africa get a pittance) and to certain grants, and to a short list of paid staff who are generally speaking board members and other decision makers and not the people actually developing Python. Even without considering "politics" (cf. the latest news turning down a grant for ideological reasons) I consider this gross mismanagement.

> I think such core tooling should be tied to the PSF, but that's a minor point.

The PSF is busy with social issues and doesn't concern itself with trivia like this.

Didn't Astral get created out of uv (and other tools), though? Isn't it fair for the creators to try and turn it into a sustainable job?

Edit: or was it ruff? Either way. I thought they created the tools first, then the company.