I found 100 000 dollars

• https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpadx1/thinkpad-x1-carbon-gen-12-14-inch-intel/len101t0083

• https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/business/laptops/?visibleDatas=790%3AThinkPad%2520X%2520Series%2CThinkPad%2520T%2520Series%3B696%3AAll%2520AMD%2520Processors%3B711%3ABuild%2520Your%2520Own

My Lenovo Thinkpad just broke… again.

Daym, I though those things are tanks. Which model?

I used it for a while with an m2 macbook perhaps half a year ago, but ended up getting a PC so I wouldn’t have to deal with so much jank.

Yeah, we did that in Finland too before euros.

I think it denotes the cents. 35:23 would mean “35 kronor and 23 öre” (where öre is 1/100s of a krona). 35:- means “35 kronor” and “0 öre”.

Krona, i.e. Swedish crowns. One’s about $0.09.

I don’t want to pretend that this (this being how and why people think the way they think about trans rights et al) is a simple issue, which is why what I say on two different comments might be slightly incongruent. I think I was mostly answering your specific question in my second comment without so much trying to address or bolster my first comment.

Are you saying most people are anti-trans?

No, I think it’s more nuanced than just black-or-white allies and anti-trans people. The level of pro- or anti-transness within individuals falls on a spectrum that’s shaped like a bell curve, and the majority in the middle are usually amenable to trans rights if they bump into the issue in a way that resonates with them. Like for instance in their personal life with friends or family.

But less amenable if they mostly face the issue on TV, social media or via angry activists. You might then recognize these people as anti-trans, especially if the issue is deeply personal to you.

And that people who aren’t anti-trans are somehow not of sane mind?

No, that’s not what I was trying to say. In fact, I’d say that genuinely anti-trans people (the other end of the bell curve) are the insane ones. Socio- and/or psychopathic. My claim (possibly a bit extraordinary claim in this day and age) is that most people are not at that end.

Most people agree with the ultrarich on this issue (at least initially, before social media insanity), but only the ultrarich can afford making arbitrary people hate them without any good reason. That’s why it looks like only the billionaires are doing it.

Then they go to Twitter with these opinions and go insane and the whole thing enters a neverending tailspin.

Elon is slightly different insofar that one of his own kids is trans. So that’s not entirely due to Twitter, but there’s also some lived experience at the bottom of it all (I assume here that he spent time with said child).

I’d kinda like to get a VW, but jeez they are boring as cars. Boring is sometimes good in traffic of course, but a difficult thing when trying to make up your mind at the dealership.

I wonder why people always say things like “even more impressive because he’s a high schooler”. I feel like I did some of my best stuff at that age, and certainly had the most creativity going around in my head. A person in that age, given enough resources (which this kid certainly had due to being in one of the best private schools in US) and bit of luck can move mountains.

Not to be so gloomy, let’s also remember Tolkien, who published The Hobbit at age 45.

I know Daniel somewhat from some years back, and calling him extremely toxic is just wrong. He is and has always been rather bad at communication under stress and is clearly on the spectrum in some way. Technically a genius person, but perhaps doesn’t have the right set of qualities to lead things, except from a strictly technical pov.

Very good decision from him to withdraw from social media. I hope he manages to contribute in the future.