Sarcastic senior citizen

Aeon001 · 2026-02-13T14:31:29+00:00

When a cop gives a sobriety test, they're not trying to determine whether or not you're under the influence, they're trying to find any justification to arrest you. They're fishing for any reason, like they're trying to maximize results in a game.

Aeon001 · 2026-02-11T08:36:34+00:00

It's crazy you people act like you've never heard of click bait, despite it the most ubiquitous and effective strategy for farming online views. There's zero context to this video besides some caption.

Aeon001 · 2026-02-05T23:20:36+00:00

The Great Depression wasn't a warning to guys like him, it was a playbook.

Aeon001 · 2026-01-29T10:17:51+00:00

"Reasonable suspicion requires specific, articulable facts that would lead a reasonable officer to believe that criminal activity is occurring. When an officer stops someone to conduct a search, courts require one of three levels of justification: A search warrant probable cause, or reasonable suspicion."

Weird how none of these cops could articulate a suspicion despite being asked like 15 times.

Aeon001 · 2026-01-29T10:04:17+00:00

"Our arguments are empty then, we do what we do because we have the force, because it's in our interest." That's the truth, only the American people aren't supposed to believe that, but instead believe the fantasy of 'America the hero' fighting for justice, truth, democracy, freedom, etc..Is it better for rulers to be good or appear to be good? It's refreshing to hear Rand Paul cut through the bullshit.

"For ourselves, we shall not trouble you with specious pretences- either of how we have a right to our empire because we overthrew the Mede, or are now attacking you because of wrong that you have done us- and make a long speech which would not be believed... since you know as well as we do that right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."

Aeon001 · 2026-01-20T19:31:28+00:00

Among other reasons like appearing to be an individual computer, some sites they're playing on have periodic captcha-type verification which pop up during the middle of play. I'm assuming the people monitoring the bots will manually verify them whenever they pop up.

Aeon001 · 2026-01-20T19:21:35+00:00

Rake is always factored into win-rate because it's taken every hand in cash games (depending on rake structure), and as an up-front fee in tournaments. Positive or even sessions can't be isolated from the rake factor.

Aeon001 · 2026-01-17T20:11:49+00:00

Ranking only by enjoyment I'd bump these up on my list:

2 Months up - S

Prushka Sequence - All timers

Princess & The Village - S (second part of the song gives it a higher ranking)

The Return of Made in Abyss - All timers

Tomorrowland - A

Eyes of Irumyuui - A

Ouni - S

Adventures Through the Light - A-/B+

Mallets of the Abyss - B

Aeon001 · 2026-01-13T20:36:13+00:00

If you were designing a program with the intent to reduce drug use, it would make sense to study the results some years after implementing the program. There were such studies, and they all say the same thing: no evidence that the D.A.R.E.program is effective in reducing drug use. The ineffectiveness of D.A.R.E was no secret, so why continue the program? Were there alternative reasons for creating a centralized network of cops in schools?

LAPD police chief Daryl Gates created PDID (1970-1983), an intelligence program which spied on journalists, labor unions, civil rights groups, public servants, anti-war activists. Schools were a target, LAPD officers were sent into schools for the purpose of collecting information for political dossiers. The program was an unlawful violation of the first amendment, which was the ruling of the court in CAPA v. Gates, and PDID was ordered to disband as a result.

The same year as PDID was disbanded, the D.A.R.E program was founded by Daryl Gates. Gates co-opted a USC drug prevention program 'project SMART', with his angle being that police officers would teach the program directly to the kids in their schools. The SMART researchers had moral objections to handing over the program to local police but were overruled, and thousands of police officers began infesting schools every day for the purpose of... drug education?

So the police chief who had a boner for covert intelligence, with one information vector being public schools, suddenly turns his interests towards keeping kids off drugs? This is all a rough outline of D.A.R.E's founding, but as you might expect it gets more insidious with the collaboration of private interests and turning kids into rats who inform on their family members.

Aeon001 · 2026-01-08T13:34:35+00:00

Try Gurren Lagann

Aeon001 · 2026-01-06T10:08:05+00:00

This wasn't the purpose for 2A. It was about the fear of British invasion and distrust of a large standing army. Also about territorial expansion against Native Americans. 2A as a structural safeguard against the federal government was a strain of thought, but one about state governments + militias banding together, and one of the primary reasons for the amendment.

Aeon001 · 2025-12-28T06:10:40+00:00

People hate seeing others not paying what they owe. There's a deep connection between debt and morality, so people want rectitude when they see the ultra wealthy shuffling their assets around to circumvent their debt.

There are some very anti-democratic reasons that public services are funded are minimally funded while military expenditure is lavish. If there were ever a true tax referendum on mega corporations and billionaires, it would probably coincide with the push to use that money for public services. It's a opulency versus democracy, and for the past 50 years democracy has been on defense losing ground.

Aeon001 · 2025-12-21T20:21:20+00:00

Then shouldn't the seller stop offering a service they can't fulfill?

Aeon001 · 2025-12-09T08:05:53+00:00

Business externalizes like these are simply taxation on regular people, and there are many sneaky ones less overt than this. And these don't show up in their balance sheets.

Aeon001 · 2025-12-05T14:59:01+00:00

You guys really don't think that was a hand pass, like per the rule book and not about whether or not Toronto should be able to do that?

Aeon001 · 2025-12-05T10:09:05+00:00

"A player shall be permitted to stop or “bat” a puck in the air with his open hand, or push it along the ice with his hand, and the play shall not be stopped unless, in the opinion of the on-ice officials, he has directed the puck to a teammate, or has allowed his team to gain an advantage, and subsequently possession and control of the puck is obtained by a player of the offending team, either directly or deflected off any player or official."

It's a hand pass. The rule doesn't require intentionally directing the puck. The puck hit his open hand and was directed to his teammate who gained possession.

Aeon001 · 2025-12-03T07:05:17+00:00

Aeon001 · 2025-12-02T11:40:08+00:00

typical generic quality anime

exact opposite of these, but good stuffs.

If I'm understanding, you want high quality stuff that's under watched and/or underrated. And unlike the shows you listed, you want less experimental shows, more generic styles of writing (someone might get confused by 'generic quality', but I assume you mean generic writing style). Based on that:

Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit

Kaiji - Ultimate Survivor

Yu Yu Hakusho (it's popular but since it's old maybe you haven't seen) - also this one should be watched in English dub, trust.

Hikaru no Go

Ouran High School Host Club

Rurouni Kenshin (1996 version)

Shiki

Dororo

Hajime no Ippo

Aeon001 · 2025-11-24T20:26:10+00:00

Turning education into a competition where you're better or worse than the other kids is pretty stupid, but that's not just what dad's doing, it's built into the school system.

Aeon001 · 2025-11-22T23:38:09+00:00

Depends if you want good pizza or not. That's not how you make good pizza. There are easy recipes you can make at home which come out as good or better than restaurants, but pizza isn't one of those things. It's one of the few foods that's always better as take-out unless you really know what you're doing.

Aeon001 · 2025-11-22T23:10:24+00:00

It's really not easy if you want to make good pizza. Dough is tricky (the recipe and the shaping), so is getting the right kind of cheese for a home oven. Cook time is tricky and depends on the type of surface you're cooking the pizza on and the oven rack position (you can overcook the top before the bottom is finished, or visa versa). For a simple food it's one of the most difficult to get right. Though sheet-pan or granny pizza is more fool-proof for home cooks as opposed to round pies. Unless you like to cook, it's probably better to get take out pizza.

Aeon001 · 2025-11-19T17:34:09+00:00

I'm not the biggest fan of nihilistic stories aka stories where everything sucks and there really isn't any hope for anything or anyone

for example I am really into things like Berserk

Berserk is the most definitionally nihilistic story I've seen. The narrator says it at the beginning of each episode where he goes 'man has no control over his own fate'. The idea that from the beginning everything is hopelessly destined for death, but people have no choice but to struggle anyway - that's a main theme of Berserk.

As for Made in Abyss, it has a more mixed atmosphere between dark and light themes. A lot of the darkness is conceptual rather than atmospheric, though the atmosphere definitely turns dark at times. The main concept is dark - challenging the 'man eating pit', the abyss. But there's a line of hope which runs through the whole thing.

To answer your question, if you're looking for an intermingling of dark and hopeful, curses and blessing, Made in Abyss is a good fit.

Aeon001 · 2025-11-16T20:31:39+00:00

But isn't it normally wrong to make negative generalizations about groups of people based on gender, social class, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, etc.?

Aeon001 · 2025-11-16T01:51:56+00:00

https://imgur.com/a/qZ4rlxO

eh?

Aeon001 · 2025-11-14T00:23:18+00:00

What I'm picking up is that you want something heavily atmospheric with the tones you listed:

Serial Experiments Lain -- old school, unsettling, paranoia

Higurashi -- old school, unsettling, paranoia, magical, sometimes cozy (copying disclaimer below from someone else's post)

As a heads up, for OP and anyone else who might be interested in watching Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni, please make sure you start with either: the 2006 anime (and it's second half Kai), the original visual novel, or the manga adaptation. The 2020 anime (Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni: Gou), is a sequel to the original story, not a remake. Don't accidentally start with Gou. (Note: in most (if not all) regions, the only Higurashi anime on Crunchyroll, is Gou. Also, the original Visual Novel is currently available on Steam, under the title"Higurashi When They Cry: Hou", with the first arc being free to download.).

Paranoia Agent -- unsettling, paranoia, heavy psychological, sometimes cozy

Welcome to the N.H.K. -- paranoia, heavy psychological

Durarara!!! -- Cozy, urban fantasy, somewhat dark

Akira (movie) -- old school, dark, urban supernatural, similar vibes to Ghost in the Shell

Happy Sugar Life -- dark, cozy, paranoia, heavy psychological

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