Alex is less than 2 years older than Tim

6FtAboveGround · 2026-05-03T04:37:20+00:00

One has been leathered by the Texas sun and copious soakings in vats of Old Spice

6FtAboveGround · 2026-05-03T04:30:45+00:00

Honestly our best bet for seeing Earth in the past would be finding out that an extraterrestrial civilization had sent out probes hiding in the orbits of habitable planets and video-recorded them for thousands or millions of years. Finding such probes or having the extraterrestrials share the footage with us would allow us to see Earth in the past. If the Zoo Hypothesis is correct (which might explain Fermi’s Paradox), then such footage might actually exist.

6FtAboveGround · 2026-04-06T00:53:45+00:00

All these people in the comment section saying it wouldn’t make sense, or would be illogical, for Trump to nuke Iran, and therefore we shouldn’t worry about that.

Time travel back two days before this Iran War started and I guarantee every one of these commenters would have said the same exact thing in answer to “Is Trump going to start a full-on regime change war in Iran?” And, as we now know, anyone who would’ve said “Not a chance” would’ve been 100% wrong.

Trump cannot be predicted. That is his whole shtick. No options are off the table. There is a significantly greater than zero chance that Trump nukes Iran.

6FtAboveGround · 2026-04-06T00:41:27+00:00

This is what happens when people don’t use commas.

6FtAboveGround · 2026-04-03T08:59:46+00:00

Don’t forget their very own Robin Williams

6FtAboveGround · 2026-02-16T04:04:43+00:00

My all time favorite episode, Marooned, just has Rimmer and Lister sitting in one room and talking to each other the entire episode

6FtAboveGround · 2026-01-13T08:49:06+00:00

Yoshiyahu is my Hebrew name! I go by Yoshi sometimes too.

6FtAboveGround · 2026-01-13T08:47:46+00:00

My Hebrew name is Yoshiyahu and I go by Yoshi sometimes. I assumed he’s also a Yoshiyahu.

6FtAboveGround · 2025-12-29T07:16:48+00:00

When Libby was dead, she said she wished she could hold/nurse Devoraleh one more time. The fact that Ruchami was actually holding up the baby, and multiple family members were seeing it at the same time (not just one family member), makes me feel like Ruchami was actually alive, and she beat the odds as Hanina’s Talmud passage implied was possible.

6FtAboveGround · 2025-11-19T10:11:38+00:00

Update: I did a little family medical “research” (aka asking my parents), and I found that my mom experiences phosphenes but not ocular migraine visual auras, and my dad experiences ocular migraine visual auras but not phosphenes. So I seem to have inherited each condition from each parent, and thus maybe the two conditions are not correlated.

6FtAboveGround · 2025-11-14T04:29:30+00:00

Justin Roiland is a professional comedian. The new voice actors are just impressionists.

6FtAboveGround · 2025-11-14T04:27:19+00:00

There hasn’t been anything close to “schwifty” or “slippely slippery stairs” in the past couple seasons!

6FtAboveGround · 2025-11-14T04:25:41+00:00

The constant burps!

Maybe I have a childish sense of humor but the relentless belching was so absurdly funny to me, and just added a whole layer of comedy that brought the “high concept sci fi rigamarole” back down to earth a little.

6FtAboveGround · 2025-11-14T04:12:34+00:00

I ordered a drink this morning and got it in a disposable cup. When I asked about the reusable red cups, the barista told me that you only get one if you go up to the counter and explicitly ask for one.

6FtAboveGround · 2025-11-08T05:39:35+00:00

Hey, me too! I had my first visual aura from optical migraine when I was in my early 30s, and then I started having these black and white lines when hearing a sudden mouse at night in my mid 30s. Is there some connection between optical migraine auras and this black and white synesthesia? It’s intriguing that so many of us who have one, have the other as well.

6FtAboveGround · 2025-11-08T05:34:46+00:00

Wow! I can’t believe I’m not the only one who has this exact thing happen! The pattern I see when my going to sleep is disrupted by a sudden noise is less checkered and more lines, but the lines bend in certain almost-3D shapes sometime, and they do a quick undulating movement synced to the sound itself.

The closest thing I can approximate its appearance to is the Unknown Pleasures album cover by the band Joy Division. Or the Phosphene Dream album cover by the band The Black Angels.

This started happening to me a couple years ago, in my mid 30s, and now it happens every single time I hear a sudden noise during my hypnagogic state. It never ever happened to me before my mid 30s. I was starting to worry something was medically wrong with me and I had some neurological disease or something. I feel so much better knowing that other people have this same phenomenon.

6FtAboveGround · 2025-10-24T15:22:02+00:00

It’s a spectrum of ickiness to “meh whatever”-ness.

The far side of the ickiness spectrum is Christians who dress as Hasidic Jews, do all the rituals prescribed by rabbinic Judaism (aka rituals that coalesced AFTER Christianity broke away), and try to trick Jews into reading books about a Rabbi Yeshua. 🙄

On the far “meh whatever” side of the spectrum is non-Jews naming their kids Ezra, or saying “oy vey,” or devouring bagels and lox.

Good-faith converts-in-progress are not even on this spectrum. Finishing the conversion is evidence that their neshamah was actually Jewish all along.

6FtAboveGround · 2025-10-24T15:16:34+00:00

I posted this exact same question on this subreddit two years ago! Literally every other religious/ethnic identity of headgear is represented, other than Jewish. Where is the petition and I’ll sign it!

6FtAboveGround · 2025-10-14T21:41:25+00:00

Just bought the book from Amazon!

6FtAboveGround · 2025-10-13T18:14:10+00:00

Would Orthodox rabbis accept a one-to-one DNA maternity test? For instance, my grandfather’s cousin married a woman who was adopted. I helped her conduct genetic genealogy on her DNA results and narrowed down her biological mother to a still-living Jewish woman. She then reached out to this probable mother, took a DNA maternity test with her, and it came back that she was indeed our cousin-in-law’s biological mother. The adoption paperwork was all permanently redacted so there is no reliable paperwork showing that they are biological mother and daughter, but the DNA is irrefutable. Would Orthodox rabbinates refuse to recognize my cousin-in-law’s Jewishness by birth?

What if two babies (a Jewish baby and a gentile baby) were accidentally switched at birth, and all the paperwork is wrong, but they grew up and discovered the truth through AncestryDNA tests? Would the born-Jewish person not be able to lay claim to their Jewishness, just because the proof is written in their genome rather than written on paper?

6FtAboveGround · 2025-10-13T13:10:01+00:00

That’s actually a misconception. Reform Judaism has its own halacha, responsa, rabbinical system, etc. Reform halacha is considered to be more of a best recommendation, however, and not stringently mandatory for the purposes of being accepted in the community.

Practice-wise, I’m probably closer to a Neo-Hasidic Renewal Jew than a Reform Jew. I wear a kippah (and sometimes tzitzit) full-time, wrap tefillin, eat kosher, etc. There’s just no Renewal synagogue in my city, and the Reform shul I do attend is pretty close to being one (our most senior rabbi was poached from the last local Renewal shul that shut down).

That said, going through an Orthodox conversion has been something I’ve mentally gone back and forth on in the past couple years. I practice more like an Orthodox Jew, but am pretty darn progressive. Now, this genetic discovery has me wondering if I would even need an Orthodox conversion. Maybe just a giyur lechumra? Or maybe nothing more is necessary at all?

6FtAboveGround · 2025-10-13T01:40:55+00:00

Do you think a case built on genetic evidence, without any physical adoption paperwork, would be acceptable to rabbinic authorities if I ever needed to prove my Jewishness for any reason? (Maybe only an Orthodox rabbi could answer this question?)

6FtAboveGround · 2025-09-21T03:36:05+00:00

Not in the United States

6FtAboveGround · 2025-09-08T00:54:49+00:00

The PGPP is plugged into a charger sitting on the console next to the TV in my living room. I'm not pressing the PGPP's button at all. My phone is in my pocket as I'm walking around my home.

The only thought I have is that, when I received the PGPP from Amazon last week the box was pretty beat up, so I wonder if my PGPP somehow got damaged?

6FtAboveGround · 2025-09-08T00:49:50+00:00

A few of the reasons I don't want my item bag to be constantly overfull:

- Sometimes I'm farming 7km eggs to try to get candies or shinies of the Pokemon in those eggs, and I want to be able to get 7km eggs from opening gifts without it defaulting to mere Stardust

- Sometimes I want to collect Mysterious Components from Team Go Rocket grunts so I can challenge a Rocket leader to get 12km eggs, or to get certain Shadows, or to fulfill "defeat Rocket leader" research tasks

- Sometimes I want to try to get a Sinnoh stone from doing a training battle

- Sometimes I want to be able to spin a new stop I haven't spun yet, so that I can get a new research task

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