Hi everyone, Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com, coming at you with a nice little mixer here, featuring 2012-2013 Panini Immaculate Basketball, a two-box break, or two boxes of that, and then three boxes of 2021 Hip Parade Basketball. This is Random Team Break number one. We can run this back a couple of times, I think. So there it is, two boxes of that, and three boxes of 2020-2021 Hip Parade Graded Basketball Series One. Thirty spots here, all teams are in. Remember, New Orleans stuff goes to New Orleans, Charlotte stuff goes to Charlotte. Keep that in mind. Yeah, it's a sealed case, too, of that Immaculate. Big thanks to everybody here for getting in on it. Thanks to the people who bought their spots straight up, and congrats again to the winners of these spots. Again, all 30 basketball teams are in. Let's do it. Let's roll it. Let's randomize it. One and a four, five times for names and teams. One, two, three, four, and five. One and a four, five times for the teams. One, two, three, four, and a one. Good luck. Fifth and final time. After five, we've got the Pelicans on top. Lakers' second name down, all the way down to the Timberwolves. All right, so here's how it shakes out ladies and gents. Ryan with the Pelicans, Louis with the Lakers, Sean O with the Trailblazers, Derek with the Pacers, David with the Thunder and the Heak, Sean M with the Hawks, Eric with the Wizards, David with the Clippers, Tom with the Rockets, Louis with the Nets, David with the Kaz, Louis with the Bucks, John with the Kings, Brian with the Bulls, Sean O with the Warriors, Kevin with the Mavs, last spot, Mojo. David with the Magic Paul with the Raptors, Sean O with the Sons, Ryan with the Spurs, Tom with the Hornets, Simon with the Jazz, David with the Celtics, Louis with the Gris, Sean O with the Gris, Louis with the Knicks, Sean O has the Gris, Louis with the Nuggets and the Sixers, Jeremy with the Pistons, and Brian with the Timberwolves. Let's order these alphabetically by team. I'm going to flip back to the screen in just a second, but while you're considering trades, let's see which boxes we're going to do. So first of all, two boxes of 2013 Immaculate. Here's the rookie's case right here. A little blast from the past here. 2012, 2013 Immaculate Hoops, sealed. Let's see what we got. We've got Pacers up for trade. All right, so I'm just going to take the top two boxes right here and slide them right over here. So now we have three stacks of two, and we're going to select those two boxes using, let's use that guy right there. So we'll go one, two, three, four, five, six on the dice roll. One, two, three, four, five, six. And it's four. One, two, three, four, five, six. These we'll save for next time. So we'll put those squiggly marks on there so you know they're from the same case. Now let's grab this case right here. We're doing three boxes of 2020, 2021. This one says 21-22. Graded basketball edition series one. I think it's the same thing. We're going to pause the video. Keep the trade window going. Let me come back. We'll see if this is the correct case. Thanks, BRB. Also Pacers for trade once again. All right, so really quick. This is the correct one. I adjusted the item description. I think it's still series one, still the same thing, but this is 21-22. Graded basketball edition series one. So we're going to do three boxes of 2020. So we're going to do three boxes of that. So let's select those three boxes and then we'll pause again and see if there's any trades when we come back. All right, so this has one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. Let's see how we're selecting three boxes, huh? So here's what I'll do here. We're going to number these one through ten. So here's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. We're going to go to... How should I do this? You know what, since we already have a dice roll, let's flip back to this screen right here. Let's get another list. We'll use the same dice roll as we used for the names and for the teams. It was five. And I'll get one through ten. And we'll also randomize it five times. So it'll be the top three numbers after five. One, two, three, four, and a one, fifth and final time. So after five, we're going to do box ten, four, and one. There's ten right there on the bottom. There's four, and there's one. Ten, four, and one, once again. Ten, four, and one. All right, any trades. After all this time, there shouldn't be someone with a trade. No, no one has trades. Closing the trade window. TWC trade window closed. Let's just print and rip. Good luck, everybody. What should I do first? Am I doing the hit parade first? I got to do the immaculate last, right? Because that's the little more, some more rare one. We'll do the two immaculate boxes last. We'll do the three hit parade boxes first. Here on a Sunday, thanks everybody for joining me on us. Thanks for making us part of your Sunday. We've got lots going on. We've got Hall of Fame, enshrinement, some sports on TV, blah, blah, blah. I appreciate everybody spending a little time with Jaspies. What do we got? It's graded. It's a rookie. And it's Tim Duncan. Nice. From 1997, Skybox basketball, Z-Force. Tim Duncan, PSA 9. That is nice. That will be for Ryan Swanberg and the San Antonio Spurs. Next one. Graded and a rookie. It is Bam! Bam Adabayo. From 2017, Panini Hoops basketball, PSA 10. It's David with Miami. There you go, Dave. PSA 10. I've always loved seeing that. Third box. It's Shaquille O'Neal. Wow, 1992. Ultra, all rookies Shaquille O'Neal, PSA 10. The big diesel, the big Aristotle. Shaquille O'Neal, Shaq. That is for David and Orlando. All right, now the Immaculate. This is definitely a blast from the past. That's crazy. 2012, 13. Immaculate basketball. Kobe Pax, of course, goes to the Lakers. That'll be for Louie with the Lakers. Sometimes we've seen some of these. Some of these can be numbered. And sometimes autographed. We haven't seen an auto out of these Kobe Pax in a really long time. Many, many years, but it is possible. This old stuff is fun. Because sometimes it could be some awesome old school name. Sometimes it could be like, what? That bust? But it's always worth the hunt, considering we know what these players are like now. In the 2012 class, I want to say this was the double draft class, wasn't it? Because there was a lockout, and so Panini ended up combining two draft classes in one. I think they did. Was it 2011 and 2012? I think so. Because 2011, Kyrie Kemba, Clay Kawai, Nikola Vusevich, Jimmy Butler. And then 2012, they combined, yeah, Anthony Davis, Bradley Beal, Damian Lillard, Andre Drummond in 2012, Dreymon, Chris Middleton, so on and so forth. You should also confirm that. Yes, and there could be redemptions. That's always the risk when we do old stuff like this. But I don't see any redemptions here, so good news. Let's go. I'll be back. All right, thanks. 7 out of 25, Dennis Rodman. Little worm. Going to Brian and the Bulls. Patch Auto, that's Malcolm Lee. 6 out of 25. Nice patch, nice on-card autograph. And that is, even though it's clearly Minnesota gear, looks like he was traded to the Suns in the summer of 2013. So this goes to Phoenix. Sean O with the Suns. Nice Jordan Hamill, good patch there. 18 out of 25. Louis with Denver. We've got a, we've got a triple rally. Harrison Barnes, Kawhi Leonard, Kenneth Farid. 30 out of 99. That's a randomizer between the Warriors. Sean O. The Spurs. Ryan. And the Nuggets. Louis. One happy person. Two sad people. Ooh, look at this. Big rookie patch, 11 out of 13. Kyrie Irving. Big rookie relic for David Green and the Cavs. Cleveland, this is for you. And the last one here is Brandon Rush. 89 out of 99. For the Jazz. That's Simon with Utah. All right. Let's see what we got in there. Those are the Kobe Cards going to the Lakers for Louis. And let's see what we have in here. 92 out of 99. Tim Dundle. That's for the Spurs, Ryan. We have Chris Singleton for the Wizards. Eric. Nice three-color patch in autograph. 21 out of 25. Marshawn Brooks. Celtics edition. Three-color patch in on-card autograph. Going to David and Boston. Got a big relic of Jeremy Lynn Rockets edition. 53 out of 75. Tom with Houston. Mugsy Bowes. 38 out of 99. Nice one for the Charlotte Hornets. And that will go to Tom and Charlotte. And the last one here is... Ooh, nice. Four out of 24. Three-color patch. Kobe Bean Bryant. Wow, that's a really sharp-looking card there. Four out of 24. And that is the enclosed game-worn material. Wish we had some ink on there, but... Still really cool. Louis got randomized in my Lakers. There you go, man. He pops nicely here. R.I.P. Kobe Bryant. Maybe we'll find his autograph somewhere in the next couple of boxes. Thanks, everyone, for getting in. Let's do a quick randomizer here. Yeah, what are the relics just go for on the secondary market, you think? All right, so we had the... Let's flip back over here to this. We had Harrison Barnes, Golden State Warriors, Kawhi Leonard, San Antonio Spurs, and Kenneth Freed Nuggets. Let's roll it, randomize it. Two out of three, five times, team on top. After five, we'll get it. One, two, three, four, and fifth and final time. Stays with San Antonio after five, and that will be for Ryan. Ryan, you're going to get the triple relic. One happy person, the other two people sad. Thanks for getting in on the action. This was 30 out of 99. Thanks, everybody. I'm Joe for jasphyscasebreaks.com. We actually have another version of this break.  I'm Joe. I'll see you next time for the next one. Bye-bye.


My name is Jonathan Dugan. I work with many people in the room. Now I serve as chief research officer for BIDS, Berkeley Institute for Data Science, which is a unit here on campus focused on data science. There's one project I want to make people aware of. It's called the NumPy project that we're working on at BIDS. And it's an example of something that Jason brought up where there's a lot of focus in the room around publishing and archiving as that aspect of this open science ecosystem. There's a whole other part of the ecosystem, which is less represented here, which is the tools and software that people are using in research groups. And what we're doing with the NumPy project is sort of bridging between professional developers and an open source community to see if we can't sort of up the game and how we're maintaining the software that people use to do the actual research in their labs. So if people want to learn more about what's going on in data science here at Berkeley, if they want to talk more about open source communities and their interface with professional developers and how we bridge that, I'm happy to chat. I'll be here most of the rest of the day, today and tomorrow. So thanks.


As software developers, we build information systems that connect people and ideas. Often these ideas involve managing complexity. And when we manage complexity, it's very helpful to have simplifications or mental shortcuts that allow us to deal with complex topics in an easier way. These simplifications can also manifest themselves as cognitive biases that can have unintended consequences where we simplify and end up addressing a problem different than the one we're trying to address. Let's go back to 2002. It was the year of Linux on the desktop. Walmart had boxed sets of Mandrake Linux and having read about Linux, but being limited by dial-up, I was excited to be able to try out the operating system. My first lesson was how to partition the hard drive. My second lesson was explaining to my parents and siblings what happened when I partitioned the hard drive for the family PC. Over time, I became very excited about open source development, exploring different desktop environments, image tools, publications. I was becoming an open source zealot. And it wasn't just fanaticism for Linux, it was hatred of all things Microsoft. Except for their mice, they had good mice. It's so intense that I actively avoided this book, Code Complete, published by the Microsoft Press. It was only after several years of seeing it, and assuming that it couldn't be good because it was published by Microsoft, that I finally read it after the recommendation of many people. Many years later, when I studied cognitive biases, I realized that this was a selection bias where I had limited the inputs that I was willing to consider and was therefore in self-inflicted ignorance. Like many, during the process of learning programming, the topic of design patterns has come up. These make it very easy to foster a sense of shared understanding and common vocabulary for different problems. Before reading about design patterns, I was independently rediscovering NVC on every PHP application. I was also creating unnamed monstrosities, whereas now I had names for them. A danger of a shared vocabulary is that it isn't always shared by its share, it isn't always accompanied by shared understanding. As a developer familiar with ORMs, I know exactly what this does. I build a model and save it so that triggers a SQL update or insert statement. But not if the ORM is something like this, where suddenly it's dealing with much more than persistence. What should have been very obvious as a save operation on an ORM object now requires digging into extensive operations throughout a code base simply in order to understand how an object might be saved. This sort of setup breaks the contract of a simplification because it's simplifying, but it's no longer possible to understand what's happening. A more honest approach might be to use a different pattern. These names are deliberately using pattern names for illustration purposes. In a case like this, it might not be obvious what it does, but digging into the implementation, it's clearly revealed where persistence occurs. This kind of pattern of introducing clarity is extremely useful in development and can be a way to foster shared understanding that is not just about having common concepts, but also having a shared definition for what those concepts should be. We've heard about rapid change in the software industry and how things are constantly evolving. Sometimes it feels that one has to run just to keep up. Sometimes the quest for novelty is a manifestation of a simplification. Replacing the question, why are we struggling with implementing something or why are we less competent at this than it should be, but the question, are we using the newest possible thing? Like any consideration, there are many nuances to evaluate and the propensity for choosing something new might be warranted in many cases. It's difficult to have absolute sense about when something should be explored or when the problem is really something that's just not effectively used. With this bias, the appeal to novelty is perhaps one that most easily arises in software development teams. Another one, as developers we quickly become familiar with different tools and having the ability to work with particular families of languages can reasonably quickly understand what's going on with a new framework or new tool, at least enough to go through a tutorial and build a simple application. The challenges of a real application, say an application that is going to be developed for months or even for years, are quite different from the obstacles that one might encounter in a two-hour or four-hour exploratory session. Being mindful of this, it's important to consider how unintended obstacles might arise and how the mastery of a particular small area may not be representative of the ease with which something would be used in a larger system. These mental shortcuts can be seen as something similar to autopilot. They make it easier to get from one place to another and in many cases they work extremely well. Whether or not correct, they can cause deadly consequences. Thinking back to lessons learned from a book by Microsoft, one simple way to think about improving as a developer in both mastering ideas and avoiding the dangers of unproductive mental shortcuts is to think about embracing the reality of cognitive biases, assuming that one is not immune to the effects of mental shortcuts. To extend the scope of safe assumptions people can make. If you're reading your code base and have a strong inclination about what something should be doing based on how it's written and it isn't doing it that way, it means that every time you're reading that code in the future you'll have more difficulty than necessary in maintaining or improving it. Finally, by extinguishing common causes for unproductive mental shortcuts we can greatly increase the reliability of our interacting with the ideas in whatever project we're building. I'm as guilty of this as anyone else, but it is my goal to eliminate words like obviously, basically, simply or just when describing functionality of rather sophisticated systems that may not be obviously understood. Assuming that our inclinations are correct and failing to take note of ways in which we can easily meet ourselves astray reduces the quality of our intellectual work. So in short, recognize autopilot where it exists, improve it and avoid crashing with faulty assumptions. Thank you.


Hey, how's it going everyone get to see everyone welcome to dedicated to financial literacy Russ Russell Moore coming to you live again Wow Investor Day with Tesla. It was investor investor day talking about his master plan 3 It got it it got a lot of kickback today a lot of people were complaining three hours of just You know and really you guys it was it was very boring to the average person is very very boring a lot of geek stuff a lot of technical talk But I I just I was personally really impressed The only thing is many of these things have already been discussed So they did the team the Tesla team and Elon Elon Musk. They did seem a little bit I'm prepared. I mean the meeting started. I think they were like 30 minutes late. I thought that was pretty interesting Anyway, I'm not gonna go. I'm not gonna go to a political thing But I just thought it was very interesting that they were 30 30 minutes late With such a huge You know Expectations of this of this investor day everybody was like Everybody's like trying to find out. Okay, what is he gonna say? What are they gonna bring up? Are they gonna be any surprises are they gonna talk about model to a smaller car? Are they gonna what's happening with the Cybertruck? Will he come out and drive out with a you know a side the Cybertruck or what?  So they they confirmed that that it's gonna be build I believe I don't know if they've broken ground or they're gonna they're about to break ground and so But the the stock I mean it was that the investor day Presentations were so lengthy and so detailed and and many of the presenters were very you know Not to to rag on them, it's a lot of engineers, you know, they're not They're not emcees. These were not Steve Harvey. So These You know or Adam Sandler. These were not comedians or lively people talking and they were talking about a lot of details were concerning the company I'm not gonna go into all of that. There's plenty of footage on YouTube so But one thing that I felt like to me what what I got out of today's investor meeting was this They have from where from where they began they have done a great job at reducing costs to build a car to build an EV a Model 3 the model s the model X the model Y and The Cybertruck and they've made great leaps on how to reduce the cost to make them and Their supply chain Evolution and innovation and things are they're doing with their supply chain was second I mean it no one in the industry is gonna be able to compare it to them and what they're able to do from a manufacturing standpoint building the cars and Getting them out I don't think anybody's gonna be able to compare with them for a while. I don't think Ford With all their money and everything. It's it's not just having money. It's not just being an established car maker it's Your ability to utilize the latest technology from AI to oh My god Software building their own software in chips and you know semi-conductors all the things that Tesla does where they're innovating and Actually, they're actually creating This is what I people are not getting about Tesla. They're actually Creating and innovating as they go So each year they're getting better. They're getting more efficient. So here's what I got lower cost and Proving efficiency and Proving the product Equals a great future that was they could have just stood up and said that Instead of all the details that they gave now. I personally was interested in some a lot of the details But most people your everyday investor is not gonna be that excited about People want to hear some exciting news Click bait. Okay, so So that's about the nutshell of it the investor on the investor meeting was I In on a scale the one one to ten I would give it a I would give it a four I Would give it a four on a scale to one to ten Most people would have said a one or two But I'm gonna give it a four because some of the information, especially if you don't follow Tesla was Was amazing and incredible But most people didn't want to hear that when you get an investor day you're looking for New products and something exciting and something new to hear about what the company is doing And I think people got their bubble busted and so me I was I was I was surprised I was surprised that they didn't do a better job and they made a lot of people were talking about them needing a media Marketing department to handle that kind of stuff. I think they had presenters there. They shouldn't have been presenting The the best presenter there Was by far a woman. I don't know her last name I can't remember but her first name is Rebecca and she literally she knocked it out of the park She was concise. She was alive and she wasn't long She got to the point She was a very good orator very good communicator and she got out of there and She finished her part and was gone and I was comes. I was like wow, where did she go? Where you know? They need to bring her back So anyway That's it for my update for Tesla now the stock is down the last time I checked after hours It was down from 200 above $200 a share. It was down to 180 in the 180 So they would lost probably about 10 to 15 billion dollars in market cap Market share today From this meeting. That's how bad it was Now for investors for those that are long-term Tesla holders It's good news because now you can get it at a cheaper price because many people think that it's overvalued anyway And so I'm just gonna load up and get more to begin more shares in the morning They hurts my call options, but as far as the shares of just regular stock, it's it's probably good news Because let me tell you something They're on track. They want to do 20 million cars Annually and I believe they're gonna get there Their team is working very hard. That's one thing that I I learned today that the team at Tesla Works hard and they're dedicated to improving the product anyway Have a wonderful day you guys and I look forward to doing more videos in the future. Please subscribe hit the subscribe button and Hit the notify bell and you'll get more content in the future. Talk to you later


Daily Tech News show is made possible by you, the listener. Thanks to all of you, including Norm Fizikas, Chris Allen, Chris Smith, and Gabriel Hermosillo. On this episode of DTNS, why the solar eclipse reveals solar power's prominence. Tech has spurred comedy's renaissance. And Patrick Norton is here to tell us how to avoid wasting money on GPUs. You need that money. This is the Daily Tech News for Friday, March 8, 2024 in Los Angeles. I'm Top Mary. And from Studio Animal House, I'm Sarah Lane. At the edge of the 314, I'm Patrick Norton. Drawing the top tech stories, in Cleveland, I'm Len Peralta. And I'm the show's producer, Roger Chang. I'd also like to tell everyone to pre-order my book. Thank you for mentioning it on yesterday's show, Sarah. I appreciate that. Well, you're very welcome. I know I told you to do it, but.  If you didn't hear yesterday, I've got a book coming out about technology called Sinked. And if you go to tomsnewbook.com, you can pre-order it. Please do find out more about it there. If you like my perspective on technology on this show, you just have more of it within arm's reach on a bookshelf near you. All right, let's start with the quick hits. In a blog post posted on Friday, Microsoft said that attackers gained access to some of its source code repositories and internal systems and what the company describes as an ongoing attack first detected in January. It's not clear what source code was accessed, but Microsoft warns that the attackers are using secrets of different types. It has found to try to further breach the company and potentially its customers. Microsoft is working with affected customers to mitigate the attacks. Thursday, we talked about the bipartisan effort to pass a law in the United States that would require bite dance to sell the US arm of TikTok or have it effectively banned in the country. President Trump signed an executive order along similar lines during his term as president, which is why it's possibly surprising to some people that he indicated support for TikTok and opposition to the ban. To be very clear, he didn't say either of those explicitly. What he did say was that if you got rid of TikTok, it would benefit Facebook and he doesn't like Facebook and doesn't want Facebook to do better. TikTok has also been flexing its muscles a bit, sending a notice to US users Thursday, asking them to call their congressional representatives and apparently a lot of them did. Phones have been ringing. VisionOS 1.1 for the Apple Vision Pro is now out for everybody and adds the multiple device management option enterprises that some enterprises rather have wanted, including enterprise support for email, contacts, and calendars. Apple has also improved personas. Some people like them, many people didn't. The beta feature that creates a digital version of yourself for use during video calls. So you don't have to hold it in your hands anymore when you set it up. And also the avatars should look better. Apple changed its mind, I guess. I guess it's convinced that Epic has changed its way and will play by the rules. Epic Games wrote on a blog post, Apple has told us and committed to the European Commission that they will reinstate our developer account. The European Commission had said it was gonna investigate Apple's decision to revoke the developer account of Epic Sweden and see if it violated any provisions of either the Digital Markets Act or the Digital Services Act. If you recall, Apple had revoked Epic's developer account in 2020 after Epic admitted it broke the rules on purpose. Apple briefly approved a developer account for Epic Sweden earlier this week, but then asked Epic to give assurances it wouldn't break the rules again and then Apple found Epic's short response insufficient and revoked the account. But after the EC said it would investigate, Apple has changed its mind without commenting as to why, leaving us all to assume that they believe Epic after all, if those two should get a room. Reddit launched more business tools to help companies make better use of Reddit and who knows, maybe pay for more ads. Among the tools a Reddit pro users gets is trending topics relevant to the brand, mentions on subreddits and publishing tools for creating drafts and scheduling posts as well. Then there's the stuff that you might expect like analytics, you can also turn posts into advertisements if you so desire. More than 200 businesses have started using Reddit pro as of this recording. All right. I'm getting ready for a trip, Sarah. You are getting ready for a trip, Tom and I know tacos will be part of it, but you are headed to Austin, Texas for Brian Brushwood's event during a very interesting time, a solar eclipse and in fact, a total solar eclipse. Now, there is some power stuff that might be affected. While you're there, tell us about that. Yes, it is an eclipse of more than just my heart, visible in the US from Texas all the way up to Maine in the northeast part of the country. USC professor of physics and astronomy, Vahe Perumian wrote an article for the conversation about how the advances in solar power in the US mean that power grids are going to have to take unprecedented steps in order to stop the eclipse from causing blackouts. Okay, so this is not the first eclipse. Many of us as kids remember wearing the eclipse glasses, looking up at the sun, be careful, super fun. Why is it a bigger problem this time? Because the US has three times the capacity for solar energy generation now than it did the last time. There was a total solar eclipse in 2017. In Texas, the eclipse is gonna last a little less than three hours. It's only four and a half minutes or so of total darkness, but it's blocking out the sun for a good long time, which stops solar power from working, just like it does at night. It's not just solar, it affects either. The lack of light reduces heat, reducing the temperature, which causes the winds to die down, so that has an effect on wind power as well. Okay, so you say, all right, three hours of darkness, solar power got it, but isn't solar already affected by something like a cloudy day or everything after sundown? We know the eclipse is coming, so can we not mitigate the issue ahead of time? It's not like the eclipse lurks behind the moon and just pops out. They're like, ah, you didn't know.  Exactly. And we actually have pretty good models for anticipating cloudy days and dealing with those as well. There are battery banks out there in larger numbers, helping even out the variables, but cloudy's not the same as darkness. A total eclipse is more like night falling for a few hours and it happens faster than sunset. It gets darker than cloud cover. So even though we know it's coming, it's going to cause a different kind of strain on the grid. Okay, so we know it's coming. People who understand what's going on are warning others. What is actually happening to prevent a real issue? Yeah, to make sure that there isn't a problem and there probably will not be. We're not trying to spread fear here, but I thought it was curious that the grid operators had to prepare for this. So they're readying local reserves, especially if they have battery banks or unaffected sources like natural gas plants, coal plants, stuff like that, making sure that they've got enough in reserve to crank those up. They're also limiting power transfers between grids so that another grid doesn't start pulling a bunch of power out of a grid that needs it. That'll reduce strain on the transmission lines and all of that should prevent there from being any problem. It's not like there was going to be a huge problem, but if they hadn't done anything, there could have been a problem. So it's good to know that they're thinking of it ahead of time, right, Patrick? I think it's better to prepare and not have issues than be like whatever and then have something terrible happen. It's funny, right? Because I'll be driving down to Carbondale, Illinois or somewhere around there to see the, I want totality because it's an extraordinary experience. It's like seeing the Grand Canyon, but better. But it's like, at least it's, I feel like it's running through a path where it's not going to do as much trouble as it could in other paths across the United States. That said, I know people down in Texas that use solar and are probably looking up and wondering if their battery power is going to last them. I mean, I'm kind of curious to see what the after report is like in terms of how it impacts things. Yeah, I mean, the more I think about it, the more I'm like, well, I don't have solar panels on my roof, but let's say I did, it's like, I don't know, maybe my energy consumption that month might be a little wonky later when I get my bill, but what if you're a hospital or some sort of municipal situation where a lot of people would be affected by systems going down even for a brief period of time. There are probably situations that we're going to hear about after the fact where it's like, oh yeah, they should have prepared better because that's how these things go.  Yeah, the speed of it is part of the problem, right? When the eclipse happens, the total eclipse blocks out the sun real fast. And it's not like the sun slowly going down with the long twilight. And totality in this one's a fairly long event. It's like four minutes, which is... Yeah, 4.27, I think, yeah. Yeah, which is huge.  Well, given the fact that you cannot rent a car in Austin on April 8th, the day of the eclipse, it tells me that there's a lot of people do know it's coming, and hopefully they'll tell the other people, but yeah. Yeah, I wasn't totally aware of this until I saw a Facebook post. I was telling the guys before the show, friend of mine was gonna fly to, I think it was Austin, it was somewhere in Texas. And she just had to give up her plane ticket, she couldn't go. And I mean, people jumped on that in two shakes of a lamb's tail. Oh my gosh, it was like, we want the tickets, we wanna go. Yeah, cause it's hard to get there. I think because there was just one in 2017, there's a lot of people who were like, that was so cool, I wanna do it again. And a lot of people who heard from the people who were there, like that was so cool, and now I wanna try it. But it's also... To me, the significance of this story is not that we're worried there's gonna be a problem. It's that solar power has reached a large enough percentage of power generation in the United States that they have to think about it ahead of time. Yeah. Yeah. It's not just that tree-hugging. A little blip in the radar actually. Yeah, yeah. It affects a lot of folks. And it sounds so accessible. Oops, sorry. Don't be sorry, Patrick, just laugh because comedy is having a renaissance. But not necessarily just because people are funnier, although that would be cool too. Variety is reporting that between Netflix specials, COVID streaming numbers that peaked for a lot of folks, and social media in general have all been boons to modern comedians.  Today, comedians have other options to get the jokes out, so to speak. Variety notes that in 2016, just for laughs, executive Robbie Praw joined Netflix as VP of standup and comedy formats. You might have noticed around that time you started to see a lot of comedy specials on Netflix that gave performers potentially seven-figure deals that they might not have gotten otherwise to make Netflix specials and turn the comedy landscape into a seller's market and help make comedians, Ellie Wong, for example, Household Names. She does good Netflix specials. There are other indications of this independent artist's media partner Dave Rath says that Netflix created an imbalance in the marketplace because before that, you had Comedy Central, you had HBO, a few other places doing those long-form specials, but not paying the kind of money that comedians can get now. And then of course, as I mentioned COVID, you've got in-person restaurants that weren't a thing, bars, not a thing, comedy clubs, not a thing. Where are you gonna get your laughs? Well, you turn to the internet. You got YouTube channels now. You've got TikTok, you've got Instagram. Comedians have podcasts or appear on other podcasts. Not that they didn't before, but they are in larger numbers. I don't know, I'm cool with this. I don't love every comedian in the world, but boy, do I like a good stand-up special. Yeah, I think this is really interesting in the sense that it didn't replace a lot of the new streaming world is replacing cable. We're watching it happen slowly. In this particular instance, it's not that it did that. It's that it enhanced. It said, we are going to give more comedians a path to getting those specials. And the specials won't just be HBO specials available to a limited few. There'll be Netflix specials and there are others out there, Paramount Plus, HBO Max, or just Max as it is now. So I like this. And in fact, I have a cousin who does stand-up and I consume most of his humor through Instagram. Like that's where I see it and he's hilarious. And it does work. He's like, yeah, I get most of the people coming out to my shows saying, I saw you on Instagram, maybe on TikTok and elsewhere, but it's his entire livelihood and it's done an entirely different way than he would have had to do it 10, 15 years ago.  But it's often late at night. You might have to be over the age of 21 because it's in a bar type thing.  So it's limited, but the internet is not. And the idea that it's driving more folks to get audiences that really think that this comedian deserves their own special and then those comedians getting the specials, getting more eyeballs, getting more laughs, getting paid, it just seems like, it seems like a better time than ever to try your hand at it. So Patrick, get on up on that stage and give us your best. Nope, I'm a little late to start stand up. I will say, there's a couple of comedians like Taylor Tomlinson I discovered through Netflix, but I think one of the big things about this is they're actually making real money. And I hate to say real in quotes, but it's like more than I'll make in the next 10 years, they're making for a special. But the fact that they're actually creating a bidding war because there used to be some pretty limited outlets and people so wanted to be on that outlet, they were willing to do it for the exposure. So now to see people actually making considerable amounts of cash off these and getting the boost, it gets them in the live appearances, it just seems nice. Yeah, and it's driven more festivals because people are more aware and more interested. So you see Netflix doing 200 venues, New York Comedy Festival, 250 venues. Like, it's not that there weren't comedy festivals before, but they are more popular now because more people are into more comedians. Yeah, South by Southwest, which was, well, it was never dead, but it wasn't a thing. Again, a couple of years ago, because no live events and festivals were a thing, has a big comedy line up coming up for the folks that are gonna be joining that festival this year. And yeah, it's a renaissance of sorts for comedians. And yeah, it's a genre that has benefited well from the fact that we were all struggling, you know? It's an unusual side effect, isn't it? Yeah, to think. It actually caused more people to be interested, more people to make a livelihood, and not just on the internet. It caused people to go out in real life and go see more comedies, so that's cool. Well, folks, when you're not buying my new book on pre-order at thomsnewbook.com, you can also watch Tom's Top Five, the show where I break down five things you need to know about technology in about 60 seconds.  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So you might as well just say, why not buy a GPU at this point? If you do wanna mess with the hardware and buy a GPU, Patrick has been keeping us up to date for years on GPU price trends, what to look for to get the best deal, and Patrick, it sounds like prices have been edging up a little bit again. What's going on? Well, it's kinda interesting. First of all, the GPUs are flowing as in, gosh darn, I remember when this whole aisle of Micro Center was glass doors with nothing behind them, and now there's a huge section of GPUs and Nvidia and AMD, and then there's an aisle, and then there's more GPUs. These are the ones that nobody buys except for servers or stuff like that. But I'm still adapting to the new reality of being able to buy a GPU somewhere near MSRP. MSRP is not a fantasy. It was for a long time. As you get into the most expensive cards, though, MSRP is gone again, at least by a couple of hundred bucks, which sounds outrageous on, say, a thousand or $1,500 card, but compared to the bad times when the GPUs were scarce, it's not so bad at all. So when you say MSRP is gone, in other words, you can't find some of these GPUs at the price they're listed at.  So if you're looking at a 4070 Super, an Nvidia RTX card, great for 1440p, MSRP on that is $599. They're selling anywhere from like $599 to $700. Get into a 4080 Super, they're selling closer to, you know, 1050, 1100, 1250 MSRP, and those is a thousand. And the really tough one is when you're looking at like the 4090s, I wanna say the 4090, the MSRP is $1,599, and those are selling for 1,800 to 2,000, so two to 400, so, you know, at $400 over MSRP, that's a 25% bump over MSRP. That's steep, but not as steep as it has been. No, and that's, you know, and it's not like I need a 4090 anyway, but you know, it's interesting, right? When you look at the Steam hardware survey, most folks still game at 1080p, right? 1920 by 1080, 1080p, 58.82% of people on Steam. 1440p, 2560 by 1440, that's another 19%. And then when you get into, let's see, the dreaded WXGA, which I think it was a miserable laptop screen, that's like 3.56%. 2560 by 1660, which is the wide WXGA, it's like 3.14%, 4K is 3.45%. You know, 21 by 9, 3440 by 1440, my personal desktop monitor, which I wish was faster than 60 frames per second, that's like 2.13%. So 78% of gamers are 1080p, 1440p, and add in WQXGA and you're up at like 81%. And 6K and all its flavors is still under, well under 6%. So that means you don't necessarily need a high-end GPU. And if you're building 1080p, you can actually build a relatively inexpensive machine. You know, bargain build, entry level 1080p, Radeon RX 6600, I think it's gonna be like $200. Stepping up to better 1080p performance, Radeon RX 7600, those between 270 and 290, GeForce RTX 4060s that are somewhere between 290 and 390 dollars. The other thing is like, I've been fascinated by as GPUs are available in like more than one in that store over there that's surrounded by angry people. It's been funny to watch all of the, you know, they're overclocked. They're super cool. We have nine fans, they're water-cooled. So you're watching some pretty significant deltas on the price depending on how fancy it is. I'm just looking for the longer warranty which should mean better components and longevity.  They will take your money. They will take your money. 4070 Super, which is a great 1440p card. It's got better ray tracing. That's when you're starting to get the okay space for 4K, not great. That's six to $700 on an MSRP of 599. 10% bump, I think, for a 4070 Ti Super, then you're around $800 to $900. 48 is super, 4080 Super, NVIDIA RTX 4080 Super, pretty serious 1440p performance, better 4K performance, then you're in that $1,000 range. But for most of us, I think we're gonna be pretty happy, you know, unless you're going to spend significant money with a 4060. And if you wanna spend more money, you can get pretty serious gaming performance for well under $1,000, which is not what you could do for oh, so many years during the challenges of gaming. The question, I know a lot of people are like, no, but I want 4K, even if I don't need it. The more rational question is, how future-proof am I at these different price points? Like if I have to spend $600 now, so I don't have to replace it in two years, is that worth it? Well, let me ask you a question, Thomas. What's the last time you replaced your desktop gaming monitor?  I never replaced it, but yeah. Let's not judge here. Let's say I don't like to maximize the value of my investment. I've gotten several years, right? But most people, you know, maybe actually looking at the Steam numbers, it's obviously the most people, but most people change their monitor, never? Every five years, right? And if you're upgrading your GPU without changing your monitor, you're not taking advantage of the GPU, so. Well, we could argue, and my elder teen is not obsessed with frame rates yet, because a lot of the gaming he's doing is not super much gaming. But I know people who are like, I want 400 frames per second. I run my games at 720p for superior response, and it's like, not my world, but it's out there. I think a lot of cases though, most people are probably getting, if you're not a graphics artist, if you're not obsessed with color fidelity, if you're not obsessed with upping your frame rates on your monitor, I think most people are sitting on their monitors for at least one or two PC builds, if not more. So I feel that unless, until your games you like to play start to slow down, your GPU is fast enough. I would say level up if you can when you're buying a new GPU, but that may be hopefulness off my part. I'm shocked at how many games are basically designed around on machines. Six years ago, that huge number of people are still playing today, so do with that as you will. You can get a lot more mileage out of it than maybe you expect. All right, let's check out the mailbag. This one comes in from Eric, who says I've been a listener of the DTNS podcast, MP3 downloads from your DTNS.com webpage for many years, dailytechnewshow.com. Back to the buzz out loud days. I visited patreon.com looking for that ad free version, but after signing up for a trial membership, I didn't find a way to download the short version of the podcast. I don't want the longer GDI podcast. I don't want to have to use an iOS app on my phone. 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But you know, it's kind of funny, we don't know if it's going to be cloudy or anything else that's going to affect the solar energy. So that's what this is sort of about. My friend's over in Avon Lake saying, oh, it's cold and dark in Cleveland. The end, oh, wait a minute, that's cloudy, dark, it's cold. That's just Cleveland, man, so. They're just like, oh, it's the same as any day. Yeah, exactly, I wish you could come out here and spend some time, but it's gonna be, you're gonna have a great vantage point from where you're at. Yeah, Brian's been planning this. Like he actually founded his business on April 8th with the idea of being able to celebrate its five-year anniversary on the eclipse. I was planning my eclipse stuff during the 2017 one, so sure. If you, you know, it's so funny because I was actually at a store last night and they had eclipse t-shirts there.  So happy eclipse, everybody, and hopefully those in the path of totality will be, will have a great view and no clouds and no solar stopping either. Yeah, exactly. Patrick Norton, always good to have you. Let folks know where they can keep up with what you do in between appearances on DTNS. Well, I'm ramping up my appearances on X and other alternate Twitter-like platforms, but really though, what I'm thinking about right now, Tom, is it true that your new book synced at, well, website? Is that really about understanding technology, making it work for you instead of work for me? I'm glad you asked, Patrick. Yes, it is. Sorry, I couldn't resist. No, thank you. Appreciate that. Tom'snewbook.com. At Patrick Norton. And Patrick will talk about it on his Twitter as well. Patrons, stick around for the extended show Good Day Internet. It's Friday quiz time. Get ready, movie buffs. 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Is Starship actually going to launch? There's a new space plane from New Zealand, ULA's centaur anomaly has been seen and much more is to come. This is Tomorrow Space News. We're starting off the show with the biggest story of the week and most likely the biggest story of the year. Starship, the largest rocket ever built, is on track for a launch in just seven days. And this isn't any Elon time we're talking about. In fact, Elon Musk has been one of the most pessimistic voices in terms of the launch date recently. The FAA have advisories at the ready and SpaceX have unveiled their timeline to the public. This week, SpaceX are gearing up to perform a second wet dress rehearsal of the full Starship stack. It's assumed that this will be very similar to the one that we saw in January. Assuming that this is successful, the first launch attempt will take place approximately a week later, but that doesn't mean that Starship will actually launch on that date. This is the world's largest rocket ever, so get ready for some scrubs. According to Elon, Starship is ready for launch and SpaceX is awaiting regulatory approval from the Federal Aviation Administration, but soon after this tweet was published, teams could be seen working on ship 24 once again. And just before I started recording this episode, Elon tweeted yet again saying that the first launch attempt is trending towards the end of the third week of April. And it's not only ship 24 that's been getting some work as even with the OFT coming up the rest of Starbase is business as usual. Younger sibling ship 28, the first to use the top down stacking method, has been getting spun around in high bay one. Before S24 was stacked to top B7, the super heavy booster underwent another grid fin test to ensure that all four were steering as expected. These are crucial for the return to launch site recovery, which SpaceX won't be testing on the OFT, but could simulate in the Gulf of Mexico. Starlink is getting yet another cruise line deal, as Norwegian cruise line are testing the space-based high-speed internet service provider on their ship Norwegian Breakaway. If Norwegian Breakaway's trial is successful, which by the positive words from the CEO Harry Sommer, it sounds like it is, the company are going to roll out Starlink dishes across seven additional ships before the end of 2023, including the holding company's three newest vessels. The rollout plan for the rest of the fleet is yet to be finalised by the company. See this photo? That's the aftermath of the reports that were circulating last week about ULA's Centre 5 anomaly at the test stand at the Marshall Space Flight Centre. The photo is from Blue Origin who, according to ULA CEO Tori Bruno, were very helpful in securing the video and sending it to themselves and NASA following all of the necessary protocol. Unfortunately, that's the end of the solid fact and venturing any further would just be pure speculation. And just to be clear, Tori didn't have to tell us that this had happened. ULA are a private company. They can keep themselves to themselves. Elon Musk doesn't highlight all of the anomalies at McGregor, for example. I think we can all agree that space planes are cool. I mean, one of the most loved vehicles of all time is a space plane and NASA built five of them, only counting the ones that went to space, of course. What if I told you there's a new space plane in town and it's designed to be rapidly reusable? There's no belly flopping for door and aerospace as they are aiming to utilise normal runways for daily flights to space, utilising the same vehicle. On the 29th, 30th and 31st of March, door and aerospace successfully completed test flights of its Mark II Aurora out of the Glentiner Aerodrome on New Zealand's breathtaking South Island. Previously tested with standing jet engines, these flights were the first tests with a rocket engine propelling the aircraft. Just because the Mark II Aurora is certified as an aircraft doesn't restrict it to normal aircraft altitudes, as Dawn are planning to gradually increase the altitude of the test flights until the Carman line has been reached. From here, Dawn is aiming to become the first company to send the same vehicle to 100 kilometres twice in 24 hours. The company's next phase of development, phase three, will see a new space plane called Mark III. This is the spacecraft that will be capable of deploying a second stage and sending a payload onto orbit whilst the space plane returns to land. And in case any of you were wondering from the video you saw earlier, yeah, Mark II isn't automated. A person flies it remotely using a joystick and a throttle quadrant. That's a very cool job to have. Virgin orbit after letting off their staff has officially filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. In a statement, the company said the company is focused on a swift conclusion to its sale process in order to provide clarity on the future of the company to its customers, vendors and employees. In the interim, Virgin orbit will continue operating in the ordinary course as a debtor in possession under the jurisdiction of the bankruptcy court and in accordance with the applicable provisions of the US bankruptcy code. Running out of money hasn't stopped other aerospace companies in the past from finding buyers, but as there are so many entrants into the small sat market at the moment, a positive future for Virgin orbit still remains uncertain. We all want an investor to swoop up the company and make it profitable, but we also need to keep our dreams realistic. It's been a bit of a quieter week this week, but before we get into that, thank you to the citizens of tomorrow. Your monthly contributions are greatly appreciated, helping to fund Station 204, allowing us to do our live shows every week. If you'd like to see new scripts as they're being written, hang out in our primary communications channel on Discord or just see a name on screen twice a week, head down to the join button below. Where were we? Oh yeah, space traffic. The week started out with Hyperbola 1 carrying a dummy payload to retest the reliability of this vehicle. Its past three flights spread across 2021 and 2022 have all been failures leading to a loss of payload. This flight however was a complete success, its second ever successful flight, so fingers crossed, actual payloads can fly on top soon. Departing Site-95 at the GKwan Satellite Launch Center at 0400 Universal Time on Friday, this ice base is not to be confused with the Japanese ice base. The Chinese company has a dash in the name, the Japanese company doesn't. Next up, and the last launch for this week at least, is Intel Sat 40e and Tempo, which was launched on this Falcon 9 from Slick 40 at the Cape. It left the pad just 30 minutes after Hyperbola 1 at 0430 UTC also on Friday and successfully delivered the dual-purpose payload to a geostationary transfer orbit. Firstly, Intel Sat 40e is a communication satellite designed to increase coast-to-coast bandwidth for Intel Sat's customers. Being hosted on this satellite is Tempo, NASA's tropospheric emissions monitoring of pollution payload. It's a spectrometer in the ultraviolet to visible range that will measure pollution over North America. The booster supporting this flight, zero number B107-6 landed on a shortfall of Gravitas stationed in the Atlantic Ocean. Coming up over the next seven days are some pretty high profile missions. First of all, it's Transwater 7, the seventh dedicated rideshare flight from SpaceX. It's departing from Slick 40e at Vandenberg. We also have Juice, East's Jupiter IC Moons Explorer launching on an Ariane 5 from Kuro on Thursday, you won't want to miss that one. And to start off next week, we could have the Starship orbital test flight, but that still remains slightly unlikely. And in terms of tomorrow's shows, on Wednesday Dr. Tamethas Gove will be back with SpaceWeather. On Friday we'll be back with a live show and I'll be back next Monday with a potential new rocket to talk about. But for now, happy Easter. Thanks for watching and goodbye.


Welcome everyone, today we're making meatball enchiladas, that's right. So what we have here are some meatballs in a casserole, we're going to have some enchilada sauce in there with cheese and onions and spices and all kinds of good stuff. You can actually serve this up either with some Spanish rice and beans, which of course I have videos for you to make that, or you can just take a tortilla and fill a tortilla with the meatballs and the sauce and the corn and everything that's in it, and it's delicious. So I'm Rockin' Robin and I can't wait to show you how to make it right after this. I'm calling these juggling meatball enchiladas and stay tuned to find out why. Before we go over the ingredients I just want to mention that you can make this gluten-free or not, that's up to you. But today I'm going to show you the gluten-free version and the products that I'm using. Okay, so first up is we're going to need some enchilada sauce. So instead of using canned stuff, which really isn't very good, I've got two recipes for you, one's gluten-free, one's not, I'll leave links down below in the description of this video, and you can make it, it takes just 15 minutes, very simple and very delicious. We'll need some ground beef, now I'm using 100% grass-fed ground beef here. I have some grated cheddar cheese, breadcrumbs, now this is the brand that I'm using that's gluten-free and hopefully I'll have a link for you down below in the description where you can pick that up if you want to do it online. Next up is some corn, whole kernel corn here that's been drained, one egg, I've got a half of an onion that's finely diced. For our spices, I'm using some ground cumin, some oregano, garlic powder and some salt. And the last ingredient for inside the meatballs is some chopped cilantro. Now to garnish up our dish, I'm going to be using some avocado, I'll cut that up into chunks. I've got some green onion, sour cream and some tortilla chips that we can just put right on top. All right, we're going to start making our meatballs. So I've got my ground beef in a large bowl right here and then we're going to add and I like to sprinkle things in, so we're going to sprinkle in our onions and get them distributed throughout. Next goes our breadcrumbs, same thing, we'll add our spices and really sprinkle those around so they, you know, aren't in one big clump in one spot. We'll add our egg and work that in and then our cilantro. And if you don't like cilantro, you can use parsley. Okay, so now it's time to rock and roll our meatballs. That means we're going to roll these into probably one and a half inch balls before we fry them on the stove. Baby, on to cooking. All right, so we're going to start cooking our meatballs. We're done with our playing and I've got a large frying pan here over medium heat and I'm going to place, I'm going to use avocado oil. You could use olive oil, those would be the only two I'd really recommend. Just the, they're just a good oil. Let that heat up. All right, the oil looks like it's getting hot. I'm going to start placing these meatballs into the pan. Now we want to cook them obviously until they're done. I'm going to be rotating them. We're going to cook them maybe two minutes on the side, two to three minutes. And then I'll flip them around. We want to make sure the internal temperature is, you know, really like to be up to about 160. But we will be putting these in the oven for maybe 15 minutes or so. So they'll get a little more cooking time that way as well. But let's make sure that we get the temperature up. And I've got my instant read thermometer right here. We'll be checking that later. All right, let's have a look here. You can see they're starting to get a little crispy there. So I'm going to flip them over, get nice and brown. And I might even cover these. You can cover them, you know, that'll help cook them through quicker. But I like to get that nice little golden brown crust on the outside of them that makes it for, you know, makes it taste really good. So I've turned my temperature down just a smidgen. I'm on medium low now. Kind of having a hard time keeping them on their sides to cook. So I think at this point I'm going to put the lid on it because they are not done yet. I can see that. Place the lid on that and let those cook another five minutes or so. All right, let's test these little rascals and see how they're doing. They've been cooking, you know, five, six minutes or so. Like with the lid on, they're going to cook quicker. You can see they're nice and, you know, caramelized. There's like a little crust going on, which is wonderful. Let's get our instant read thermometer. These things are awesome, guys. They work so well and you just, you know where you're at. Okay. All right, this one's one still climbing, 160. Perfect. So these are done. Okay, so I have my oven preheating to 375 degrees. I have an 8x8 dish here that we're going to use to go in the oven. I have my enchilada sauce over here.  Heat it up if you do that and then it's ready to go. Everything's pretty similar, you know, in terms of temperature. So I'm going to pour some of this enchilada sauce into my dish. So I'm just going to pour enough to cover the bottom of the dish. Something like, that's about half of what I have in here. And then I'm going to add some corn to that. And I'm going to just kind of mix it up a little bit. And then we're going to take our meatballs and I'm going to just place them in the casserole. And I'm just kind of pushing these meatballs down into the sauce. Now we're going to take some more sauce and I'm going to just kind of, you know, ladle it over the top so we cover those meatballs. It's always the sauce that makes the dish, guys. And this is really going to be good.  I just pulled our casserole out of the oven after about 15 minutes, that was about what it took. You want everything to be, like I said, nice and bubbly, that cheese is really melted. And it's nice and hot throughout. OK, so to garnish it up, do it any way you like. I happen to really love avocado.  This dish would be a great dish to serve at a party. And, you know, it'd be fantastic with some Spanish rice and some refried beans to go with it. Or cilantro lime rice. I have all those recipes for you guys. Leave them down below in the description of this video and you can find them there. You know, this just would be so awesome.  Everybody gets a little bit. Sprinkle on a few green onions. You can stick in some chips, you know, just wherever you want. And then, of course, our sour cream. You can put little dollops if you want. I love using the squeeze bottle because, you know, you have really good control over where the sour cream goes. And chip. And I'm gonna dig in. This is really delicious, guys. I hope you try it. That inch a lot of sauce. It's always about the sauce, right? I mean, the sauce is really what makes the dish and this sauce makes this dish. Perfect with rice and beans. Like I said, check out those links. Try this recipe. Let me know how you like it down below in the comments. I'd love to hear from you. If you'd like to subscribe to my channel, please click the subscribe button right up here at the end of the video or down below. Click the bell and you'll be notified when my new videos come out every week. That's what that bell sport tells you that. And we'll see you next time. Thanks for watching.


Hi, YouTube family. Welcome into today's video, which is going to be a pretty quick go through my trash and find out what in here I loved and what I am not going to repurchase. I do have quite a few things in here, so I kind of want to go through this pretty fast. Let's get into it right after I tell you if you're new to my channel, please subscribe by hitting the red button below. And if you wouldn't mind everybody just stop for a second and give me a thumbs up that really does help me out so much. And I do appreciate it. So let's get into it. My Big Mac Daddy of Marine Collagen Peptides. This is the third one that I've ever been through and I continue to purchase these. I already had one in backup before I ever ran out of this one. This is from Andrew Lessman, your vitamins. This is for healthy everything. Collagen is what Retin-A goes down in and stimulates inner skin in order to make our skin look better. So that's what Retin-A is trying to do when it goes in. So if you want to attack it from the inside, get yourself a really good collagen and not all collagens are created equal. So I suggest that you just do a little bit of your own research and try to find. I know that this one seems like it costs a lot and yes it is very pricey but you have to keep in mind that this one will last me more than a year. So definitely worth the money on that one for me. It's something I will continue to repurchase. So there are definitely some things that I actually have in almost every one of my empties video that I show you guys that I'm going to continue to repurchase. This is the Kirkland Monoxadil formula. This is what I use to help my hair not fall out so much. I've been on this almost coming on a year now and I just have really enjoyed the results with it. Something that I will continue to repurchase and I really do love how good that does for me. The Juergens Natural Glow Wet Skin Moisturizer. This one is in the ferritin medium. That's the first time that I had tried that. I really like how good and hydrating this is and I do like the tan that you get it. However I would suggest that you get the darker one. I think it's medium to dark because this fair one unless you're like super porcelain super white it really doesn't show up really well. And the other thing is I don't necessarily use this on my wet skin. I actually will completely towel off and then I'll put it on and it just seems to be that much more hydrating and it also seems to be that much more of a tan that you get. It's a gradual thing so it's something that you need to use over and over again. This is another one that I have a couple of backups in the smaller ones that I love using this. This is so good for a body lotion. I actually use this for a long time as a nighttime extra creamy lotion during the summer and this is from First Aid Beauty. This is their Ultra Repair Cream. When you buy it in this huge tub it is a lot more cost-effective. But I would say that this is a good moisturizer for just about anybody and also if you have sensitive skin but you need a lot of hydration this is really good for that too. So this is one that I can highly recommend to you. This is one that I did not want to like because look how tiny that little jar is. I wanted to hate this. I got this as a perk from I think it was the Allure Beauty Box and that you know it's like the tiniest little thing in the universe. It's like how could I ever even figure out whether or not that's something that I liked but I did. This cream is so nice and so emollient and I only used it on my eyes because I have super dry under eyes super crinkly under eyes. So I used this and I ended up liking it so much.  I also ended up really liking this Bioescent Squalane Antioxidant Cleansing Oil. Really really liked this. It took off any you know waterproof makeup that I had on at all. I did after you use this I have to do another cleanse with it so with something that's not an oil. I find that that's the case with just about any oil that I use as a cleansing oil or a makeup remover but this was a good one as far as it being like extra wonderful for the money. I personally would use something like olive oil or coconut oil to take my makeup off and I think it would be every bit as good as that one. This one is the Dr. Jart Water Fuse and it's again it's just a cream. It was very light and very airy. It was a little bit too light and airy though for my dry skin and this was touted as a Hydra Sleep Mask. So as far as keeping my skin hydrated throughout the night it did not do that. So this is one that I would say that I would have to pass on personally. Another one that I would probably pass on that I used up is a sample of the Sunday Riley Ceramic Slip Cleanser. It was a good cleanser but for the price I know how expensive Sunday Riley is and for the price I just would get something that isn't so much cheaper. I use Purity Made Simple from Philosophy which I absolutely love and you can buy a humongous one of those that will last you more than a year and if I'm really looking towards drugstore I love the CeraVe Hydrating Cleanser. It's way better than this. So this is something that it was just it was just a cleanser. It wasn't anything that cleaned my face better than anything I'd ever had or anything like that. So I would have to say I would probably skip on that one too. You guys know that I'm a frugal mama so that's that. Here is another moisture cream. This is say as moisturizing sorbet from Cota Lee. I am not a huge Cota Lee fan and I will just say that maybe my experience with some of the way that some of their products have smelled has kind of turned me off to the brand. The other thing is I just think that it's way overpriced for what you get and you guys I hope that none of you are taking offense to that because you have to know that I am the ordinary I'm I tout the ordinary because I love that skincare line so much. So please don't take offense if any of these are ones that you like a lot. They're not ones that were bad by any means but for me because of the cost effectiveness and I am on a budget because I'm disabled so I have to be careful there. So when I find something like this that was a good product but I know that there's something else that I can use I don't really gravitate towards it. The ExfoliCate from Kate Somerville same thing here. I did like this actually I'd like the cooling effect that this gave and the little microspheres that are in there. They're really fine and so I did like that about them and you did have to use just a little tiny bit. So I would say that if I ever found this on a sale or if I was ever gifted it I would enjoy this product again. One of my Maybelline Master Camo Pans in green. This is what I use for my redness on my cheeks before I do my actual foundation and I love this and I have two as backups. So that one's definitely going to stay in my rotation. This is from Dr. Dennis Gross. This is the Freulik Retinol Triple Corrector Eye Serum. This did nothing. This did really nothing and I used this whole entire bottle. This is a full size bottle and it really did nothing for my under eyes. So even though it was supposed to be you know a really great retinol product I find that you can't beat my retin A and speaking of my retin A here's my tube completely flattened and yes there usually is one of these in every single one of my empties. A tube of this lasts me about a month maybe sometimes a month and a half.  This is from Kristoff and Robin and this is a scalp scrub. Inside of this little jar were rocks and that is not an exaggeration. They were rocks and you scoped them out and you put them on your head and then you kind of you know cleansed your scalp with them and started to work it into your scalp and the rocks would melt but you were cleansing your scalp with rocks kind of I think that was the scrub part of it but it turned into a really nice lather that turned into a really good cleanse for my scalp. So I really did actually like this one and if I have the chance to I probably will purchase it again. I go through all different kinds of hair things so but this was a good one. I really did like that one. So you guys I know you don't think that I probably ever say anything bad about the ordinary but I do and here it is. The ordinary hair care this is their multi peptide serum for hair density. This is a super greasy thing and I used it all up but it was super duper greasy. Now the monoxidil that I just showed you that can get your hair a little bit greasy like I have to wash my hair like every third day when I'm using that but this I had to wash it if I put this in at night I had to wash it tomorrow because it was just straight oils as far as I could tell it made my hair so dirty and I just really did not find any difference as far as using it and making my hair feel denser. This isn't a product that says that it will make your hair grow by any means it just says hair density. So it is they're talking about more of a conditioning thickening product but I find some of my thickening products from Living Proof are so much better than this one. So this one didn't work out for me at all. This one is the buffet with copper peptides and I actually do have about this much left in here. I don't like this product the biggest reason is it's double what the buffet is normally from the ordinary and you cannot when you're using it you can't use any other active serums or anything when you're using it and every single night when I use serums or the buffet I was using my glycolic acid and I was using my Retin A you know later in my skincare routine and you can't do that when you're using this. So this is a hard pass for me I'm going back to my regular buffet from the ordinary. This one is another one from BioSense. You guys I got a whole bunch of these. So this is just the end of it. This is the Squalane with C and rose oil. Vitamin C in an oil is really good actually and so I did really enjoy this one. Did I enjoy it to the point where I felt like I need to go repurchase it again? No because I do use a vitamin C product already that is already in an oil. It's a little bit more stabilizing when you can do that. That brings me to my next one which is the Timeless 20% C plus E plus Ferulic Acid Serum. This is a really good vitamin C but I was getting a lot of stinging with it because I've really amped up my Retin A usage so I was kind of you know shying away from using vitamin C which you should use vitamin C every time that you use Retin A. So I've kind of found another one that isn't quite so harsh on my skin that seems to be getting more sensitive as the days go by. So this is probably one that I will not purchase again but if you don't have sensitive skin this is really good from Timeless. This is a really good vitamin C product and so many of you had recommended it to me and it would have worked if my skin hadn't turned really sensitive and just really angry. The only makeup thing that I really have in here to show you guys is the It. This is the Brow Power Brow Pencil. I like this because it has the spoolie on one end and then I liked the little oval shape. You guys probably aren't going to be able to see it but it's a little oval shape right there that it dispenses the pencil out in. Why I don't like this is because this shade is supposed to be good for everybody and I found that it was too light even for me and if I find that something's too light for me then you know that deeper skin tones are going to find that it's a way too light for them. So how in the world can it be universal when somebody needs to have deep brown or even almost black in their eyebrows? So not really happy with that so I'm probably not going to purchase that one again. I found ones that I like a little bit better than that. And I think that will do it for today's video. My empties I feel like I'm talking a million miles an hour. I hope that you guys did enjoy this. Please give this video a thumbs up if you do like seeing empties. Sometimes I feel like empties kind of get repetitive for everybody and in my empties I really only put things that I really feel would be valuable to pass on to you as far as you know what I'm using and if it's something that's kind of funky and I might be using it too then I'm going to put it in my empties as well. But I try to be really particular about what I throw in my empties bag. I don't like to just throw in whatever I use up for the month because I know you guys don't like to see my tic-tacs. So that's everything for the video today. I hope that you guys did enjoy it. Please give it a thumbs up. Hope that you are having a wonderful week or weekend and I will see you all in my very next video. Love you guys. Bye-bye.


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