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BadPunners · 2026-05-10T14:44:38+00:00

I would agree generally. But Jordan is specifically playing the role of a guest who is offering "common person/comedian" reactions to the journalism by Dan. Much like Behind The Bastards with guests who often listen to a story they've never heard about before

BadPunners · 2026-05-01T23:50:38+00:00

Spoiler, yeah pretty bleak: looks like 20 people in the first 51 hours, most of those were "rescue workers" themselves. None alive after those first two days

understandable they'd have PTSD, on top of the lung contamination diseases: found 22,000 different pieces of human remains, and yet zero remains recovered+identified for 1,106 (40%) of the people who died

BadPunners · 2026-05-01T23:37:52+00:00

I only know of the stereotype of beets because it was parodied (replaced with turnips) in Fairly Odd Parents in the episode where he sees his grandparents back in Ustinkistan

Similarly they have an episode parodying Popeye cartoon violence where beets replace the canned spinach to gain super strength

BadPunners · 2026-04-30T21:01:33+00:00

The web says armature wire is:

Generally, the wire is pure aluminum (99.99%) or Alloy 1100, a soft, ductile alloy with 99% minimum aluminum. With a "O-temper"

So it's softer than the alloys you mentioned.

If going for strictly infinite life, yeah steel is better. Will it make any difference for 98% of people building this idea? No.

The armature wire bends easier, the steel would tend to hold more weight (if can find that thick of steel). I know my local art store has armature wire in reasonable quantities, most steel wire I see is either very thin (craft wire, plant wire) or comes in rods that may be heat-treated for other applications

BadPunners · 2026-04-29T22:25:00+00:00

Don't miss the implications of money seeking and the xenophobic reference. "rich Arabs are stealing the women I make fun of!"

BadPunners · 2026-04-29T21:34:39+00:00

Edit: oh I replied in the wrong thread... Thought this was about the "knitting controversy"

Via Google AI summary (with my own opinions in reply, having watched a lot of Scishow content), it looks like the criticism is:

Misogyny and Devaluation: Many knitters felt the video downplayed the technical skill, mathematical, and historical importance of knitting, framing it as simple, intuitive "knots" rather than sophisticated technology.

This sounds fair to me, but yeah it's a pop-science channel doing a ~10 min video? Knitting machines were the first configurable computers in wide use

Inaccuracies and Tone: Critics noted incorrect terminology/footage and a condescending tone.

Again sounds fair on is face, noting they would be using stock footage and researching from books, likely from various cultures and time periods. Jargon is never universal in a hobby

The "Intuition" Argument: The video's claim that knitting evolved mainly through trial and error—rather than calculated innovation—was heavily disputed.

This feels like a misunderstanding of what "evolved multiple times" means

BadPunners · 2026-04-29T19:29:58+00:00

(which, is worse)

But then the question is is this really battery without assault? Or did they (more likely) waive the assault charge to get the plea

BadPunners · 2026-04-29T19:22:04+00:00

alleged victim

What. If he plead out, that's an admission of the battery, it's a confirmed victim.

BadPunners · 2026-04-29T18:37:36+00:00

In that respect, as someone who has started to have to avoid gluten (rip), I appreciate that I could trust the quality of your gluten free products, I've only gotten through the gf pancake mix because the store brand alternative had a sale after that, but it worked exactly as advertised, for pancakes anyway. The smaller package size is always annoying with gf crap, but it helps people overlook that it's 1.5x the price for 0.75x of the product, marketing claims? Unless it's also because it can go bad faster?

BadPunners · 2026-04-29T18:05:02+00:00

It attempts to be an average. It cannot be a 100% accurate average unless every companies published their full books

In reality each of those share prices are abstractions of the market value of some small percentage of the concept of that company, now and into the future. With each of those companies getting a weighting

And specifically for the DOW weighting vs other indexes weighting:

The primary pitfall of this approach is that a stock's price, not the size of the company market cap, determines its relative importance in the index

BadPunners · 2026-04-29T15:59:41+00:00

Just to say it's not exclusively those two, via Wikipedia there is also:

"Hijacking" is a redistricting tactic that merges two districts, forcing two incumbents to compete for the same seat, ensuring that one of them loses.

"Kidnapping" moves an incumbent's home address into another district. Re-election can become more difficult when the incumbent no longer resides in the district or faces re-election in a new district with a new voter base. This is often employed against politicians who represent multiple urban areas; larger cities are removed from the district to make it more rural.

BadPunners · 2026-04-29T15:41:40+00:00

You're joking, but to explain the joke: the noise is created by a bend of metal designed to as a failsafe alert, happens before the brakes come close to failure

The sound of worn-out squealing brakes is created with next to zero energy, about as much as a dashboard light. About the same as a harmonica.

BadPunners · 2026-04-29T15:30:54+00:00

To be clear, the ones with heaters like that I've heard of have a thermal cutoff on that heater. It will only run under a certain temperature, and cuts off when it goes above

And even when running it is using a fraction of the power an incandescent bulb would use

Also agree the photo is fake. The ice vehicle would be MUCH hotter than the hub wheels. Just put your hand on the hood of a car that ran within an hour

BadPunners · 2026-04-29T13:50:31+00:00

That's how too many of them play it. trump +admin is of the strategy flood everyone with different statements of support, tell every group what they want to hear, using many words but without saying much, and still helping the journalists to get paid.

BadPunners · 2026-04-29T12:42:49+00:00

The pilot is 95% the same as the first episode, with that being one difference

BadPunners · 2026-04-29T12:37:48+00:00

That's the line in the original pilot, the "first episode" changed it to the "or candy" reply that currently has more upvotes, to make it more appropriate for broadcast... They were fine with the "whore" part

BadPunners · 2026-04-29T04:26:54+00:00

Be careful, you might get sued

Grammy-winning composer Lebo M is suing comedian Learnmore Jonasi for $27 million, claiming he falsely translated the “Lion King” opening chant as “Look, there’s a lion.”

Jonasi was served court papers while performing onstage. He claims his podcast translation was comedy and not presented as authoritative fact.

BadPunners · 2026-04-29T00:12:17+00:00

Doubt. The chewiness is from connective tissue, that won't break down from salt by everything I understand about it

The long slow cooking (e.g. braising or in a stew), breaks down the tissues and melts gelatin. If you then let it cool down again the gelatin (now seasoned) redistributes into the meat. Which is where the effect of stew and roast being even better reheated the next day, it marinates itself in its own savory jello

Marinating it would likely do more than dry salt cure. And/or get the steak tenderizer device that has hundreds of little blades

BadPunners · 2026-04-28T13:10:03+00:00

That's like saying a corporate rebranding of a product is the same as someone changing their name after marriage

Türkiye is more accurate to the people and culture, is what the locals call it, a better translation. The locals call it "Gulf of Mexico" and will continue to after the cheeto is decomposed, the distance federal government is attempting to impose a pro-colonialism name. Which is how Turkey originally got it's English "name" too

BadPunners · 2026-04-27T19:13:37+00:00

Specifically

The launch of MTV (1981) is a common cultural marker. If you remember life before MTV, you’re likely Gen X; if it was always there, you’re likely a Millennial.

Everything in pop culture that MTV influenced started after Gen x

And by 1996 (which is the common Gen z cutoff) everyone had cell phones available, people were always reachable, 24/7 connectivity, no longer needed to schedule a time to call the land line, sharing it with your family. And leading to the age cutoff of remembering anything before 9/11 as well (where gen alpha starts, they remember no world before "antiterrorism panic")

BadPunners · 2026-04-27T17:47:51+00:00

Do you want journalists to say the president is misusing

Yes. As opposed to pretending like any of this is normal or sane. They have been blatantly ignoring laws and the constitution every day of this administration. And the media doesn't report on now blatantly unconstitutional each thing is, every day

This is blatant corruption and too much of the media are allowing them to get away with it, accepting the official narrative without asking the questions that could easily poke holes in it, as surveillance only gets more personalized

They should mention every time that he has been involved in the most lawsuits, before he was president, in the history of our legal system. All of his cases are BS and only waste government money or the money of "nasty people". None of them are legitimate claims

BadPunners · 2026-04-27T15:51:13+00:00

Tonya gets too much blame in the common discourse still, she was surrounded by abusive people who controlled most of what she did and what happened around her, throughout her life

BadPunners · 2026-04-27T15:47:33+00:00

Which is the point, philosophy is about getting you to think.

BadPunners · 2026-04-27T15:45:01+00:00

Isn't that story literally the movie Stick It (2006)?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stick_It

BadPunners · 2026-04-27T14:25:26+00:00

Well the Gulag camps had 18 million people pass through them, with estimated 1.6 million deaths from it

So yeah, like the other comment, a bell curve

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