https://www.homedepot.com/p/Milwaukee-100-ft-Bold-Line-Chalk...

I think that was when Lego speculation was just becoming a bigger thing.

Now, I don't think something like that could retire with stock being on the shelf.

I grabbed Betrayal at Cloud City (75222) from my local Lego Store after it retired because they still had one in stock. I don't think I'll get that lucky again.

Especially with the push for exclusive Gift With Purchase (GWP) sets. It's become slightly ridiculous.

But I'm not a speculator, I'm just a dude who likes assembling plastic bricks.

It is worth roughly $10,000 sealed in box.

I have some of the original Lego Star Wars sets. All opened and built and etc.

Including this one which I purchased for like $5 or $10

https://www.ebay.com/itm/198386156944

I also have the only Deadpool figure Lego ever put in a set that goes for $75 or $100 by itself. It was in a $20 set.

So the amount they spent could be somewhere in the thousands, but probably below $100,000.

It gets used a fair bit, but mostly because it is zero-player. Not to get too much into it, but since neither of us can influence the outcome, it's a good way to imitate a fictional competition fairly.

Fire departments are good for the community at large as well so the fire at your house doesn't become the fire at my house.

You can reduce any statement to a series of true/false statements. Now, it may take a lot of statements, but that’s not the point. The point is to have the base be as simple as possible

It's Jared Diamond. That's who says agriculture was the worst thing that ever happened to humanity.

You can even insert them in an unvalidated state, then validate them later. That way if you have two transactions that come one after another, it doesn't matter because you can process them sequentially anyway.

Mice are used only partly because they share a considerable amount of DNA with us. But they're mostly used because they're cheap. Both in financial and ethical costs.

They live for about two years, and breed in about three months. They are disposable. Over 100 million are killed each year in various labs across the country.

And for all of this, only about 5% of medicine that show positive animal results make it to market in some fashion. So basically, the best thing we can say about a mouse-tested drug is that "this most likely won't make things worse". But that's like a low bar.

They seemed like an indictment of the technology as a whole. The LLM character proxies all spoke with the LLM-cadence and phrasing. Because we all know it. LLM writing is very uncanny valley. And they didn't even try to deny this. It made LLMs itself look like a joke.

It seems this may be a case of "I am representative of everyone's experience."

Her first credit was in 2008 and then there is a 5 year gap between that and her next credit. Then 8 years between that one and the next.

For comparison, I pulled up the crew for The Boys. Most of them have tighter credits.

While there is probably some people in her situation. I feel that she also could have written this with the title: "I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Waiting Tables."

And this isn't to disparage her. It was always a hard business and getting consistent work was always hard. Even if it is good.

I can talk to plumbers. I can talk to electricians, hvac, construction guys, anyone in the trades. Because what they work on are essentially systems and systems are interesting to me.

Trust me, these guys don't really mind talking shop. And they appreciate someone acknowledging that they do have knowledge and skill not everyone has.

We use a VPN to enable remote users to access our internal network for things we don't want exposed to the public at large. And we're not a tech company.

This really sounds like someone who has no fucking clue trying to legislate away all the loopholes to their other shitty legislation.