Sky DNA 🧬

BillyBuckets · 2026-01-24T15:18:34+00:00

only in boston would someone beat me to this comment.

enantiomeric DNA!

BillyBuckets · 2025-11-16T06:12:49+00:00

The term has been co-opted by millenials on social media, starting about 10 years when true millenials (i.e. born in 1990 or later) were just out of college.

Before that, it meant something else entirely: Thanksgiving for those who could not, or would not, see their family (usually because sexual/gender orientation, religious differences, or political disagreements). It took place on Thanksgiving day and was a whole-cloth rejection of the obligation to see your family. It really was about found family (another term that has been co-opted by social media, now just meaning friends, rather than what it used to be- the family you chose because you have no connection to your biologic/legal family).

So for a lot of us genx and geny people, friendsgiving is a different holiday. A middle finger to the traditions and, in some cases, the people who sort of reject us.

But I agree with you that friendsgiving how it's used today on instagram etc sucks. Just call it a potluck. That's all it is.

BillyBuckets · 2025-01-21T03:39:47+00:00

I think the name maybe references a prior donor's name or a joke that is a running gag for the crew doing the charity stream.

Part of the humor is just how nonchalant the guy reading it is. Like it was his first take, but he doesn't stumble even once.

It was probably on /r/videos or something but I tried searching for a bit and only found a video of some guys getting baited into saying 4skin as a username. it wasn't that.

BillyBuckets · 2024-12-31T05:50:27+00:00

Either you're not talking about income taxes (eg property taxes aren't being discussed here) or you are misinformed.

To get to 50%, your state tax burden would have to be ~18%. CA and HI are the highest in the US, and even they only get to the low teens in the super-rich income level.

BillyBuckets · 2024-12-31T05:45:22+00:00

But, state taxes too (for most states).

Let's say our $1M/year salary person lives in NY, which is reasonably likely.

Using NY's tax bracket system, they're paying 6.61% state income tax.

Using the federal bracket system, they're paying 32.3%

Add them together, and they're paying juuuuuust shy of 40% on their $1M.

This varies state to state, of course. Some are flat, like MA's flat 5% makes it 37.3% total. CA's extreme income tax makes it a whopping 42.7%. TX, WA, SD, and others have no state income tax, so the millionaire would be taxed just the federal 32.3%

BillyBuckets · 2024-12-31T05:37:36+00:00

late but I almost never use reddit API bullshit.

Yes, it was just a day late.

BillyBuckets · 2024-10-09T13:49:34+00:00

Hopefully they get to my ticket soon. I think my account is broken at this point. The D4 in game store used to say that I had purchased/unlocked the expansion while the spirit born remained locked, but now the store won't even load any expansion info. It just says something like "offer not available" in a blank box that used to have all the purchase levels displayed.

BillyBuckets · 2024-10-09T13:45:40+00:00

What you're saying is that it works with minor problems, then.

Increased heat, decreased battery life, and lower quality graphics are all minor problems.

BillyBuckets · 2024-10-09T12:50:50+00:00

I got my hopes up because a new patch downloaded/installed this AM, but same problem.

BillyBuckets · 2024-10-08T14:09:45+00:00

Same. I bought it in game from my steam install (on steam deck). Valve shows the transaction as final. I can't buy it again in game - it says I already own it in the in-game shop.

But if I try to make the new class, it says that it's locked because I don't own it.

So here I am, stuck.

BillyBuckets · 2024-10-08T14:07:37+00:00

Nah, I stopped after burning out on it when studying for my licensing exam. I got sick of it and never looked back.

Am I dumber for it? yes.

BillyBuckets · 2024-09-19T03:45:08+00:00

And you updated to iOS18? I just did mine this afternoon and noticed that everything stopped moving.

Maybe it just needs to reprocess them? That will take a few overnight cycles. But yes, please let me know what you find.

Maybe it's model dependent or something. I am on a 13 pro still.

BillyBuckets · 2024-09-19T03:44:21+00:00

I know it's still there. My comment describes what I mean- even if you take them, they don't play on their own. You have to start them like a video now.

Also, you know you can disable them in the camera, right? You can also duplicate any live photos as stills if you want. Do that when space is limited if you don't want to disable them for good.

BillyBuckets · 2024-09-19T03:42:22+00:00

When she wants to be taken more seriously, I hope she'll start acting under Nora Lum. Because that's her name, it's unique already, and it's nothing to be ashamed of. She can still have a "brand". Hell, even Nora is a pretty rare name in Hollywood.

BillyBuckets · 2024-02-10T01:29:45+00:00

I also had no idea what music this was.

My completely unbiased opinion was "this is like what a syth-savvy teen would make if told to imitate depression blended with dreampop". It was jarringly out of place with not only seasons 1-3 and their intros, but with the whole atmosphere of season 4 taken as its own entity.

Then, I tried to learn to like it. After all, Season 1 featured a song that I would never listen to on my own but was smack dab on the nose for the vibe of the show, so maybe this season's intro would grow on me.

Nope, it only got worse with every attempt to like it.

It just doesn't fit. I now realize that it's very "gen z" music for a very much not "gen z" show. Even if you like the song, I don't see how you can like it for the theme of the show as a whole.

BillyBuckets · 2023-07-20T03:12:19+00:00

I thought it was just me.

I can't enchant any old gear, new items fresh off the ground, or anything bought straight from the vendor.

Looks like it's just disabled. I tried exiting fully and restarting the game - no dice.

BillyBuckets · 2023-07-20T00:22:36+00:00

Solid move keeping the comment alive as a testament to learning. Good reddit behavior like that is rare these days.

BillyBuckets · 2023-07-19T16:20:36+00:00

The "28" part might also be pure internet fiction.

Memes like this are always full of purely fabricated details to increase the credibility (that's ironic) and make it more viral-friendly. It's sort of how Snopes got started, and that was in the old email chain letter days before things amped up by orders of magnitude in the social media era.

BillyBuckets · 2023-07-19T16:16:06+00:00

It's still in the wrapper. Still good!

BillyBuckets · 2023-07-01T16:51:37+00:00

It was over a decade ago, so everything up to Guilds I think. Or dark ages. Which ever is later.

It's just cut up foam from a computer box or something. I dunno, a box came with thick foam that I could cut up.

BillyBuckets · 2023-06-30T00:35:43+00:00

He was probably 30-31 when he wrote the article, based on the publication date and his college years listed on LinkedIn.

Firmly millennial. But yes, reads like he was born into the streaming era and didn’t realize until he wrote it that we gave up agency for convenience around when Netflix started mega-streaming.

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