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Yeah, delis make buckets of the stuff because no one buy’s it… get out of here.
There’s a storefront by me, maybe 300sf of retail space, called like “Sweetland” or some such generic name, that is more or less empty inside but for about a dozen shelves that hold some Doritos bags, M&M’s packages, etc. I haven’t really looked into it much, but I’m so intrigued as to what actually is being run out of there.
I consulted the scrolls (GOAT sandwich thread) and see it did win against cucumber tea, but lost against a Jewish deli pastrami. It even received some votes in the latter, so I concede that some do like an egg salad sandwich.
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Trump’s take is it’s a regressive tax.
Apparently they wanted it at 15 dollars and it will slowly rise to 15 by 2031.
I use ChatGPT to create quizzes and assignments for my students. It’s an indispensable tool.
How would you prompt a quiz question? (I am curious about the process)
You don’t. You type in “Create a gap fill quiz testing this list of vocabulary words”. Then include the list of vocabulary words.
Might have to tweak it a bit to get the desired questions but once you do that’s that.
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Oh man, this could be really helpful.
That being said, I’m somewhat surprised by what I just got.
Here’s what I prompted: “create 10 college level quiz questions focusing on present value concepts”
And I got back 10 very reasonable questions. One of them was this:
You’re planning for retirement and want to have $3 million in 35 years. Assuming an annual return of 8%, how much would you need to invest as a lump sum today? Round your answer to the nearest thousand dollars.
Great, very relevant and straightforward question. Claude asked if I wanted the solutions, to which I said yes. Here’s what it said:
Retirement planning using PV formula:
PV = FV / (1 + r)^n
PV = $3,000,000 / (1 + 0.08)^35
PV = $279,823 (rounded to nearest thousand)
The problem is that 3,000,000/(1+0.08)^35 is not actually 279,823. Seeing this, I typed in “Check the solution to question 3”, which resulted in:
Let me solve question 3 again step by step:
Given:
- Future Value (FV) = $3,000,000
- Number of years (n) = 35
- Interest rate (r) = 8% = 0.08
- Need to solve for Present Value (PV)
Using the Present Value formula: PV = FV / (1 + r)^n PV = $3,000,000 / (1 + 0.08)^35
Let me calculate this carefully:
- (1 + 0.08)^35 = 14.785
- $3,000,000 / 14.785 = $202,908
My earlier answer of $279,823 was incorrect.
The correct answer is $202,908 (rounded to nearest thousand dollars).
This is super fucking weird. It perfectly recognized the question and set up the calculation correctly. It somehow miscalculated the answer, but when poked it calculated it correctly?
I will probably use this to generate questions, but man I would never rely on the output for anything important without checking it.
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The Honey scam hasn’t really been talked about on legacy media, but it’s huge on socials/alternative media. Check out these recent youtube stats:
Legal Eagle like a rocket
the fee is already set to go up over time, I think it’s currently scheduled to hit $15 by 2030.
It didn’t round to the nearest thousand dollars in either solution.
Exactly!
Just when the world couldn’t get any stupider.
Five students at Assumption University face criminal charges after police say they lured a man to campus in a plot inspired by the TV series “To Catch a Predator.”
Police say the plot was not only inspired by the show but also a recent TikTok trend copying it.
According to police, on Oct. 1, Assumption University student Kelsy Brainard, 18, was messaging the victim on the dating app Tinder. After the conversation turned sexual, her friends orchestrated the plot to lure the 22-year-old man to campus and ambush him, according to police.
Court documents state campus video shows Brainard leading the man to a basement lounge and then watching TV with him. Then nearly 30 students began confronting him, preventing him from leaving, and one underaged student can be seen assaulting him, police said.
Police said Brainard is seen laughing before the man escapes, and the mob of students chases him to his car. At that point, police said one of the students assaulted him using a car door. That student is identified as Kevin Carroll, 18, and is facing assault and battery charges.
The 22-year-old victim immediately reported this to Worcester police, which began the monthslong investigation.
Brainard, the woman at the center of the incident, is facing an intimidation charge for misleading police.
Brainard, Carroll, Isabella Trudeau, 18, Joaquin Smith, 18, and Easton Randall, 19, all face kidnapping and conspiracy charges.
Officers said there is no indication the victim was looking to meet underage girls.
“A review of Tinder messages shared by Ms. Brainard and the victim is negative for any indication that the subject was looking for underage girls to meet,” according to Assumption University police, adding, “the information Brainard was providing was not factual but falsification and lies."
Students on campus said they received an email about the incident a couple of days ago and are shocked.
“I’ve seen on social media stuff like that, but I would never imagine it happening right here at my school, but um, that’s the first I heard of that,” said freshman Tiger An.
Assumption University released a statement, saying in part, “Our public safety team, in concert with other University departments, commenced an immediate and thorough investigation – with concern for the victim at the forefront – which resulted in the charges filed against the students …”
The victim’s father said he is currently serving in the Army and was deployed overseas days after the ambush at the university.
There are a ton of these dudes catching predators on Youtube for clicks.