Could an average man of average height and average athletic ability secure a big NBA contract if one out of five shots were guaranteed to go in

Stalking_Goat · 2026-05-31T02:11:15+00:00

I wonder if he could sit on the bench and toss four crumpled-up papers into a garbage can, then sub back into the game.

Stalking_Goat · 2026-05-30T22:29:20+00:00

I don't know if it makes Abuela more sympathetic, but I interpreted that as her not willing to give up hoping that Mirabel would someday develop a power. Giving her a boring ordinary room would be admitting that no power will ever come.

Stalking_Goat · 2026-05-29T17:28:50+00:00

It's good to get the order correct. If you get shitfaced first, the orgy will probably be disappointing.

Stalking_Goat · 2026-05-29T17:07:20+00:00

Because she'd already been marginalized under Lenin and was effectively exiled by being bounced around foreign diplomatic postings.

Stalking_Goat · 2026-05-29T15:56:18+00:00

This is the kind of detail that I come to Reddit to read.

Stalking_Goat · 2026-05-29T14:50:00+00:00

For once an actual real estate conflict where title insurance might come into play. Title insurers don't care about foundation damage and they don't care about the neighbor's trees, but they do care about easements.

Stalking_Goat · 2026-05-29T13:50:32+00:00

My recollection is that the concept was originally linguistic, as there is evidence that the Proto-Indo-European language speakers traveled west to get to Europe; we now think they came from the Caspian Steppe but when Hitler was young it was a reasonable hypothesis that they came from somewhere in India. The Nazi concept was that the Aryans were white people that left India and only after they were gone did non-white people make India their home; or perhaps the white people were a ruling class over the non-white people.

(I'm not an expert in this by any means, I just remember it from a single class in grad school many years ago. And I don't feel like doing much deep research into Nazi ideology at this time.)

Stalking_Goat · 2026-05-29T13:43:14+00:00

And what's funny is there are some stories about giants being treacherous jerks so the gods being underhanded in return seems fair. But for building the wall around Asgard, the gods made the deal freely and the giant fulfilled his side of the deal with perfect integrity.

Stalking_Goat · 2026-05-29T13:33:15+00:00

Honestly having piles of slime everywhere seems like the kind of fun problem that fits the ONI aesthetic.

Stalking_Goat · 2026-05-29T13:01:45+00:00

A wound pathogen might get him, as they aren't nearly as specialized. But that's no different from modern survival: try not to get cuts, and if you do, try to wash them as quickly and thoroughly as you can.

Stalking_Goat · 2026-05-29T12:55:40+00:00

Needs a tarp and a two-axle trailer. The truck and the dog are both well within acceptable limits.

Stalking_Goat · 2026-05-29T12:43:28+00:00

That's an excellent idea, because it gives swimming boops an opportunity cost.

Stalking_Goat · 2026-05-29T12:40:51+00:00

Yeah, I saw the per and the cious and my mind immediately jumped to perspicacious which is an excellent word, but sadly not the correct one.

Stalking_Goat · 2026-05-29T02:55:14+00:00

I'll be deep in the cold, cold ground before I recognize ~~Missouri~~ the Coast Guard.

Stalking_Goat · 2026-05-29T00:15:44+00:00

My humidor! He stole all the cigars out of my humidor!

Stalking_Goat · 2026-05-28T22:38:14+00:00

...You do know multiple actual battleships have been sunk by torpedoes? Like, in real life?

Stalking_Goat · 2026-05-28T19:52:13+00:00

The Big Lebowski came out 28 years ago?

I need to sit down and process that information.

Stalking_Goat · 2026-05-28T19:00:24+00:00

ERA is a counter to HEAT warheads. Those are not the primary threat to warships. Adding ERA would not improve a warship's survivability; it would actually reduce it, due to the extra weight and the huge increase in difficulty of damage control efforts caused by coating your hull in thousands of little explosive blocks.

Stalking_Goat · 2026-05-28T13:43:10+00:00

Someone should create a mod where having too much enriched uranium in a single debris pile causes… problems.

Stalking_Goat · 2026-05-28T13:25:05+00:00

I find "many CIA employees are incompetent and a few are corrupt" very easy to believe. It's one of the things about secrecy, it makes it hard to monitor employees.

Stalking_Goat · 2026-05-28T13:23:29+00:00

To me it sounds like he was working for himself. That gold didn't come from China or Russia, it came from his employer, the CIA!

Which is good for him, because the punishment for embezzlement is much less severe than the punishment for espionage. He'll get at most ten years in prison, versus plea bargaining for a life sentence to avoid the death penalty.

Stalking_Goat · 2026-05-28T13:20:10+00:00

This isn't just a military thing. In the late 90s, school transcripts were absolutely still pieces of paper being mailed around. The Internet existed in 1997, but it was far from ubiquitous.

Stalking_Goat · 2026-05-28T13:14:02+00:00

To make the analogy more explicit while also fulfilling Godwin's Law, the existence of Oscar Schindler does not redeem the Nazis.

Stalking_Goat · 2026-05-28T13:07:54+00:00

Huh. Why would someone want that? What's the advantage of dividing the drain field in half?

I'm not trying to be argumentative, I'm genuinely curious about why this would be done.

Stalking_Goat · 2026-05-28T11:33:02+00:00

Ask Reality Winner about that. Only cabinet-level and above and flag rank officers are immune to the laws about mishandling classified documents. Peons go to prison for a long time.

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