This take is US centric, because that’s where I’m from.

I’m a millennial. I feel like I got on the last boat boat out of 'Nam. I graduated college and got my first job just before that mini recession in 2014.

I do feel like if you were mid 20s around 9/11 you got to ride the crest of the last surge of “greatness” in the US; old enough to get your bag while the world changed everything for the people coming after.

In reality, there’s almost always been a 2-4 year period every 10-15 years where it’s actually pretty great to enter into adulthood compared to surrounding age demographics. I feel like I was in the last one, and the next one hasn’t hit yet.

Seemingly great times to be a 24 year old college graduate (comparative to other years):

2011-13 - you narrowly avoided 08 and 14 recessions

1997-99 - you got job experience before the dot com bubble popped

1988 - you’re starting your career with a straight decade of prosperity

1967-73 - you went to college and avoided the draft; you got career experience before inflation and the gas crisis hit in the next few years

1948-50 - too young to go to war, early enough to participate in the largest economic boom in human history

10/10 username

I use ollama to run it, litellm to put an openai API in front of it, and use it via any app that can talk to an open AI API.

Most maga people I know are from Texas; they consistently use the Chilean flag emoji 🇨🇱 thinking it’s the Texas flag

There are police videos of it happening all over YouTube. I first saw a guy running from the law eastbound from Houston. The helicopter couldn’t go fast enough.

Get a hellcat, live in an area with a long straight section of interstate (i10 in Texas works well) , only commit one crime with the car.

Most police choppers have a max speed of 140mph. The hellcat can sustain 180.

Where

No need for this. A Z-Wave or Zigbee thermostat does the same thing.

Carbon steel loses 70% of its strength at 800 degrees though.