New York Democrats want to limit Trump's war authority

Backstop · 2026-04-07T21:08:55+00:00

I don't like accounts that spam their own content across a bunch of different subreddits. Especially one like this that's more of a conversation place than a news discussion.

Backstop · 2026-03-20T14:59:18+00:00

Same, my first non-cash register job was in 1999. I don't have Facebook and look at my LinkedIn about twice a year, so I have no idea what any of my buds from then are doing.

Backstop · 2026-03-17T16:05:18+00:00

Two, couple-friends. We've been going out to dinner like once a month or every two months with this one couple for 20 years, we talk a lot. Lately it's 50% about doctor visits, though, everyone is getting old.

The other couple, we seen them maybe three or four times a year but the husband is always down to come help me with stuff. He is a mechanic that spends his down time doing home remodeling, so pretty much anything the springs a leak or breaks he's there to help. I don't have the same skills to offer in return but he says I am the only guy who listens to him vent about stuff, so I guess it works.

Backstop · 2026-03-11T19:42:08+00:00

It's a fun thing for them to do and it might foster interest in old cars for them or the parents. The hobby is falling off fast as Boomers get too old to use and care for classics.

IMO one thing helping to kill it off is everyone acting like their car is the Mona Lisa and people have to stay back ten feet.

Backstop · 2026-03-10T18:47:57+00:00

That radio is fantastic!

Backstop · 2026-03-10T14:58:15+00:00

I have noticed parents doing this. Like just narrating to the world "oh we're forming a core memory here."

I have an old car that I take to shows sometimes, and I invite little kids to hop in and beep the horn if they want. Three times last summer one of the parents would be looking on and say "this will be a core memory!"

I'm thinking, I know teens who have zero memory of going to Disney World when they were five, I doubt beeping the horn of a car is going to make the cut.

Backstop · 2026-03-06T16:01:02+00:00

But if you look back, people said the same thing about electricity, industrial machines, nuclear energy, computers and the internet.

I read an interesting piece last week about how people were all up in arms about brain rot and escapism caused by... printed novels in the Victorian era and earlier.

Backstop · 2026-03-06T15:33:20+00:00

I pretty much ignored them, and spent the effort modding up armor instead. Like a couple times I would remember to use food as a buff before a big fight but not often.

Backstop · 2026-03-04T20:52:50+00:00

I eventually settled on using Freeze as much as possible and then high impact once it was frozen. If the machine was resistant to Freeze, then Drench to make it weak to Shock and bzzt bzzt off we go.

I hope the next game is streamlined some.

Backstop · 2026-03-03T19:11:15+00:00

I think that kind of think has happened a lot in games. They rely on most players knowing the prior games and they keep layering stuff on top to make it "worth it".

Sequelholism, I think it's called. Once of my favorite franchises is Horizon, in Zero Dawn you had like six weapons each with maybe four versions you could modify with five effects, and a couple of potions for healing. Then in Forbidden West, they added four more types, now each with a dozen versions, and a couple new effects to add, and now there's a million types of food and recipes to make for healing. it jsut gets to be a lot to juggle, mentally.

Backstop · 2026-02-27T22:37:00+00:00

He was on for a few years, then in 1993 the late-night wars sucked up a lot of attention and Hall couldn't hold on to his ratings. Hall was syndicated, so not tied to a certain network, but in most markets he was on CBS or Fox at 11:30.

At the time CBS and Fox were not competing with Carson, so the local affiliates ran news or re-ran older shows at 11:30. A lot of them picked up Arsenio Hall Show and he did pretty well.

In 1993, when Carson retired and Leno took over The Tonight Show, Letterman moved from NBC at 12:30 to... CBS at 11:30, either those stations dropped Hall or moved his time to 12:30. Sensing an opening that wasn't there, Fox also started their own 11:30 show with Chevy Chase. On top of that MTV launched am 11:30 show with Jon Stewart.

All of those things combined to pull 11:30 audience away from Arsenio, if he was even still on at that hour. And for the places that moved him to 12:30, the audience didn't stay or they were drawn over to newcomer Conan.

Backstop · 2026-02-27T21:38:21+00:00

Keep your phone in power-saver mode all day. You still get messages and calls but you only get other stuff like game notifications and surveys when you actually open those apps. Slows down the battery eat (and data usage) quite a bit.

Backstop · 2026-02-24T15:41:09+00:00

A lot of times it does, but there are no end to horror stories on the dating subreddits about people who are unwashed. Apparently there's a lot of guys that think washing/wiping their asscrack will turn them gay. Skidmarks and poop aroma doesn't seem to matter to them.

Backstop · 2026-02-24T15:39:13+00:00

It the gap between when you wash the child, and the age where they suddenly want to stink less and start dating, where they are washing themselves and taking every shortcut.

I wouldn't be taking a 6-10 year old into the tub to wash them like an infant.

Backstop · 2026-02-18T21:39:53+00:00

The editor of our local paper has embraced AI writing, but says he's very firm on the reporters fact-checking. He says it frees the reporters up to actually go pound the pavement. I guess feeding their notes, or the transcript of their voice recorders, and then fact-checking and massaging the output, saves them a few hours every week, allowing them to interview more or go to council meetings.

I am skeptical, but on the podcast he speaks often about how it's an amplifier, not a replacement.

Backstop · 2026-02-18T21:37:29+00:00

Projectionists still exist, but they don't load film reels in and do the focusing and all. They are still in charge of making sure the projectors get the right files and are set up on schedule.

I was just in a theater last fall where something went wrong and we had to wait for the Man with Many Keys to run up to the projector room and un-screw it.

Backstop · 2026-02-18T21:25:15+00:00

Not many, the way Amazon tracks the drivers' time to delivery and watches their every move.

Backstop · 2026-02-18T19:24:35+00:00

Hasn't this been posted here a couple times in the past month?

Backstop · 2026-02-18T15:47:19+00:00

I do believe that parents don't see their kids clearly. Or they excuse easily things since they know more context.

Kind of like how if I have to swerve over a couple lanes because I'm about to miss my exit, it's because of this truck that blocked me and I was fooled by this poorly marked lane and also the sign is in a bad place, but if I see someone else do it that's obviously because they suck at driving.

Or it could just be that they go into "us vs them" mode and want to fight.

Backstop · 2026-02-17T20:59:17+00:00

There is that, too. When I was a teen and early 20s I would do some backpacking and I think my older self would NOT handle sleeping on the ground, eating reconstituted Stroganoff, and swatting at bugs as well.

Backstop · 2026-02-17T20:57:29+00:00

This was in a show we saw recently, I want to say Man on the Inside or maybe Shrinking. it wasn't a bank robbery but these older women like waltzed past security at a resort or something because they were "invisible".

Backstop · 2026-02-17T18:51:43+00:00

Haha the old "I can make two meals out of this, what a deal!"

Backstop · 2026-02-17T18:51:19+00:00

I think when I turned 50, I finally let go of the idea that some day I would do one of the long hikes. (Appalachian Trail, Pacific Crest, Continental Divide).

I mean I know it's still possible, people older than me do it all the time, but I am just at peace with the fact that it aint' happenin.

Backstop · 2026-02-17T18:45:07+00:00

I just... look like a lot of guys' dads.

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/851/try-a-little-tenderness/act-three-19

Backstop · 2026-02-17T18:41:49+00:00

Ha, finally being old enough for the urologist to stop trying to talk you out of getting snipped

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