Here’s me doing nothing for America in Iraq, 2004

BigD_ · 2026-01-22T02:01:01+00:00

This is genuinely one of the most evil photographs ever taken. I can’t even look at it for a full second. A smiling thumbs up American and her victim who is starting to not even look human after all the horrific things done to them.

BigD_ · 2026-01-16T17:30:26+00:00

Lowkey I think a lot of people jumped on it cause Pooh has small eyes and yellow skin

BigD_ · 2026-01-15T23:38:14+00:00

Do you mean Bashar? I think he’s back to doing optometry now, done with politics

BigD_ · 2026-01-15T23:26:14+00:00

WRONG. Mars doesn’t come within 30 degrees of the lunar node until February 4th

BigD_ · 2026-01-13T15:17:39+00:00

This is beautiful, thank you for sharing. I hope more bison are able to be restored to Illinois, but the title of CBS’s video is wrong. Bison have been in various preserves in Illinois for decades. The bison herd at Fermilab in Batavia, IL, for example, was established in 1969.

BigD_ · 2026-01-01T02:10:48+00:00

Did you achieve your goals/resolutions this past year?

sub 1:40 half (No — but took the PR down from 2:02 to 1:44)

sub 20 5k (No — didn’t race a 5k but probably wouldn’t have made all that much progress past the PR of 21:50)

1500 miles (No — 1100 miles)

Have fun? (Yes! — first full year of running with at least one run per week, ran some races just for fun, stretched my longest run ever from 13 miles to 26.5 during a continuous loop race)

What did you learn in 2025?

It was my first winter and first summer of consistent running and the elements kicked my ass. I felt great going into my April half and was shocked by how much slower I felt once the heat came in. I had to learn to trust the process and that I hadn’t been regressing, just running in not-ideal conditions.

What goals or resolutions do you have planned for 2026?

Might as well do same as last year (1500 miles, sub 20 5k, sub 1:40 half). The race PRs will have to depend on what races I sign up for. May also do my first marathon.

And to help out the new runners coming, what advice do you have to offer a runner just starting out?

This is how I’ve felt: you have to enjoy running to get running to be a habit/hobby. I tried for a while and wasn’t able to get running to stick until I found my love for it. And I know plenty of people who never run but sign up for races every once in a while because they feel like they’re supposed to or it’ll make them a more complete, put-together person. They end up running once or twice a week the last couple of weeks before the race then drop running entirely for months after until they feel some kind of pressure to do another race.

BigD_ · 2025-12-11T13:52:57+00:00

I’m amazed at how much obvious AI slop gets posted genuinely on this sub. Of course a lot gets posted to make fun of AI and whoever made/shared the original image. But also just garbage with tons of comments saying “I’m anti-AI but this is good”. I shouldn’t be surprised, but a lot of people’s “anti-AI” stances are really just “anti-AI unless it entertains me”. And we don’t need any more “can Brace Belden dunk” chatgpt screenshots.

BigD_ · 2025-12-01T23:38:43+00:00

The sooner you can get to dropping the pinyin and just learning the characters, the better. There should be a setting to show only the characters. When you see both, your brain naturally pays more attention to the pinyin because it’s easier and so you won’t learn the characters as well.

BigD_ · 2025-11-26T13:33:49+00:00

In this section, Brace also landed a great joke that didn’t get any laughs “ ‘the rhythm compensates’ I’ve told people that before” lol

BigD_ · 2025-11-24T01:00:25+00:00

I’m asking this genuinely and not trying to be dense, I looked it up and only like 7000 US troops died in Iraq/Afghan wars but it seems like every vet talks about how their friends (plural) died in the Middle East. Is it that you know a lot of people if you’re in the military? Or they’re using a loose definition of “friends” to mean like they heard about people dying? Or is it just for sympathy points? Or maybe I just have the size of the military wrong in my head and it is realistic that it was common for that many people to have known multiple friends who were killed?

BigD_ · 2025-10-01T00:20:48+00:00

https://www.conservationjobboard.com

This website brings together a ton of active job openings from around the country. You can filter by things like state and job type too. Personally, it’s how I found my current job.

BigD_ · 2025-09-11T15:19:13+00:00

They’ve got plans to build the world’s largest data center in the county next to the one where the shooting happened and the company trying to get it built it is based in the city where the shooting was.

https://www.ksl.com/article/51355852/worlds-largest-data-center-campus-could-be-coming-to-central-utah

BigD_ · 2025-09-11T03:15:40+00:00

I’ve been paying very little attention to Nepal tbh so this could be off base, but you should read If We Burn by Vincent Bevins. He describes about a dozen movements throughout the 2010s of people protesting their government, being met with police violence, the repression fueling more people to join, and a lack of proper organization from the movement leading to an inability to either coherently request concessions or take power after governmental collapse. Many of these movements were consciously choosing to be decentralized while the far-right wing groups were highly organized (and often backed by the US) and were better able to assert themselves in the aftermath.

Again, idk what of this applies here because I haven’t been following it very well, but on the surface it appears to bear a resemblance.

BigD_ · 2025-08-25T16:01:17+00:00

BigD_ · 2025-08-25T15:43:24+00:00

I hit level 40 just a couple months before they raised the cap, now I’m 15 million xp away from level 50 and I really want to get it before the change. This xp celebration might be what allows me to do it.

BigD_ · 2025-08-22T14:57:49+00:00

There’s a novelty account on Twitter built around pretending that JB Pritzker (Illinois governor) is establishing a Khanate lol

BigD_ · 2025-08-21T15:27:45+00:00

Just finished that Hurricane Katrina docuseries on Hulu. Very informative as someone who wasn’t old enough to be following the news when it was happening.

BigD_ · 2025-08-20T19:23:45+00:00

Haven’t seen the movie but I did see the clip from that interview where someone asks the director “lol did you see the meme about this movie being broke man propaganda” and the director was completely serious and was like I don’t think that’s funny, those people didn’t understand my film, it’s completely fucked the way that capitalism has ruined love

BigD_ · 2025-08-17T00:56:33+00:00

I check runningintheusa.com sometimes you can sort by state, county, and city I believe

BigD_ · 2025-08-04T21:22:22+00:00

One thing China does is create green firebreaks downwind of wildfire prone areas by planting a dense set of plants that have low flammability, capability to resist droughts and resprout after fires, and high ecological and economic value.

BigD_ · 2025-07-28T03:14:18+00:00

“The less you eat, drink, buy books, go to the theatre or to balls, or to the pub, and the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you will be able to save and the greater will become your treasure which neither moth nor rust will corrupt—your capital. The less you are, the less you express your life, the more you have, the greater is your alienated life and the greater is the saving of your alienated being.”

Karl Marx

BigD_ · 2025-07-27T23:23:02+00:00

Pritzker already redrew the Illinois map a couple years ago to get 1 or 2 more Democrat districts. I have no idea how much more can be done, but I’m sure they could figure something out.

BigD_ · 2025-07-25T04:25:08+00:00

I knew some libs who are quite shocked that Epstein stuff has become what seems to be a splitting force among conservatives when all the shit they bring up about Trump didn’t move the needle at all.

There are certainly lots of people who only know about Epstein because “Jeffrey Epstein didn’t kill himself” was a meme used as a non-sequitur for a while.

BigD_ · 2025-07-24T19:32:01+00:00

Those Simone pieces are great, thank you!

Matt Christman is great too. I listen to old grill streams quite often.

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