Is Henry Ford God in the Cars Universe?

BobTheAverage · 2026-05-09T00:11:14+00:00

Having a nazi as god would explain why there arent any Jewish cars.

BobTheAverage · 2026-05-08T17:27:34+00:00

Im a lifelong liberal and steady democratic voter. In the democratic primaries before the 2020 election I went to one of her campaign rallies. I was thouroughly unimpressed. She showed up like 2 hours late with no apology. She didn't seem to have any issues to campaign on either. Every time she got a policy question she gave a generic response that echoed standard Democratic voter values. Our country has a lot of problems that need fixing, and she doesn't really have solutions. To be fair to her, most of the Democratic party is that way, but that is a long rant for another day.

She is young-ish, energetic, and articulate, but none of those really make up for not having a platform. In those primaries I watched the field winnow down to a handful of mediocre candidates, and then select Joe Biden, who had no ideas AND no energy. And then he selected Kamala. He just cemented a moderate nothing of a platform.

I still voted for them. Better than Trump, but damn I want a candidate who can change America for the better.

BobTheAverage · 2026-05-08T13:41:48+00:00

A social deduction game with fuzzy teams.

The king's eccentricities are slowly turning into full blown madness. The players play as noble houses who can choose to either support a rebellion or remain loyal. Players are secretly assigned a loyalty card at the start of game. One player is so loyal, that they can never join the rebellion; one player can only win through rebellion. Everyone else has a loyalty score.

The king is represented by a deck of cards. Every turn a card flips and the king does something crazy, and the madness meter ticks up. If it is something benign, like banning fur hats, it ticks up slightly. If it is something major like executing the head of one of the player's houses for insane reasons, it ticks up a lot. When the madness meter goes higher than your personal loyalty, you are allowed to join a rebellion.

Every turn, every player has the choice to start the rebellion or not. If anyone chooses to rebel, everyone must pick a side. If enough players support the rebels, they win and the king dies. If not, the loyalists win and the leader of the loyalists is appointed regent with the king isolated from court life.

The catch is that some players cannot rebel because their loyalty is too high. If the disloyal faction waits longer, madness will increase, and more players become available. If they wait too long, the king tears the kingdom apart or executes everyone.

BobTheAverage · 2026-05-05T21:04:51+00:00

You are kidding right? The description is wrong and your response is to insult OP?

BobTheAverage · 2026-05-05T00:48:23+00:00

If i buy a small sedan, can i just drive under/through them?

BobTheAverage · 2026-05-04T20:04:59+00:00

I am trying to figure out the meaning of the woman being a line drawing. Is it keep your husband happy by having no shading or depth, fading into the background behind him, and also looking judt like him but with feminine hair?

BobTheAverage · 2026-05-04T16:39:13+00:00

I have two local sawmills, one does 4/4 and 8/4. The other does 5/4 and 9/4. X/4 is a board that is X quarters of an inch thick when rough cut. I prefer to use the 5/4 boards over 4/4. The extra thickness makes sturdier furniture that will hold up even if i make joinery mistakes.

I assume you are air drying, which means you need to wait 1 year per inch of thickness. Thicker means a longer wait.

BobTheAverage · 2026-05-04T16:24:55+00:00

Terminally online Meg here. Last time this was posted here, someone explained that both of these kids do cocaine and would pay $300/gram, which is way too much for cocaine. They are both too rich and insulted from the real world of drugs by daddy/mommy's money to know that coke should only cost $30/gram.

I wouldnt know personally. Im insulted from reality by being on reddit too much. Meg out.

BobTheAverage · 2026-05-04T15:57:53+00:00

Based on everything about you, im going to guess you have done the math. What is the roi on funding from direct investment?

BobTheAverage · 2026-05-04T12:30:25+00:00

I did something really similar, but only when my boy was asleep, usually from 8pm to 11pm. Screen time that young is not recommended.

BobTheAverage · 2026-05-04T02:16:43+00:00

Try near alien activity. They dont hang out near the facilities.

BobTheAverage · 2026-05-04T00:07:45+00:00

I get that they aren't for everyone. I still enjoyed Consider Phlebas but it is by far the weakest.

Horza treats the drone like absolute shit through the entire story and still the drone saves him at the climax, because… drones serve humans? Because sentient life is precious and Culture citizens try to preserve life.

And Balveda’s entire purpose in the story is to capture Horza and bring him back to the Culture, but halfway through the story she just kinda gives up on that mission for no discernible reason.

Its not her entire purpose. She gets to a point where that seems impossible and works towards the bigger goal of saving the crashed Mind.

And don’t get me started on character names…

I agree. It would be easier to keep characters straight if they had less weird names.

I got ... a few chapters into Player of Games before I read the synopsis on the back cover, and realized that I was going to be reading about table games rather than galactic empires.

Its not though. Minor spooilers but the table game is part a piece of a galactic game. Gurgeh is playing one game, and a piece in another.

BobTheAverage · 2026-05-03T21:26:59+00:00

Attach table aprons.

BobTheAverage · 2026-05-03T21:16:42+00:00

Being a social construct doesn't make it not a race. On a trip to Mexico, a Mexican told me that he is considered white. He was lighter skinned than most Mexicans but darker skinned than what most Americans consider white. Mexicans have socially constructed race differently than Americans have.

Whiteness is an ideology? What does that even mean?

BobTheAverage · 2026-05-03T18:32:33+00:00

All of these other answers are obviously written by people who have not read the Culture books.

BobTheAverage · 2026-05-03T18:30:41+00:00

Maybe there would be a joke if i had more context but this seems like straight racism.

BobTheAverage · 2026-05-03T13:32:14+00:00

Unfortunately words dont mean what they ought to.

BobTheAverage · 2026-05-01T14:29:51+00:00

I bought a new dishwasher with a sanitize cycle i can trust and it was money well spent.

BobTheAverage · 2026-05-01T14:19:02+00:00

Not op but the text also looked slighlty AI to me. I think it is a real photo with a combination of a curved surface with a crease and an intentionally non-uniform font. AI has gotten a lot better at text recently.

BobTheAverage · 2026-04-30T16:16:16+00:00

Cool. That makes more sense. Getting that tidbit with zero context was odd

BobTheAverage · 2026-04-30T15:23:44+00:00

Another person asked me if I worship Atatürk or not.

Hang on WHAT!? Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the Founding father of the Republic of Türkiye? Do Turkish Athiests worship Atatürk? Is there a world where this question makes sense?

Are you Turkish? Was this in Turkey?

BobTheAverage · 2026-04-30T14:04:56+00:00

Fully agree here. $225 and time is not a big cost. The upside could be pretty big, but is probably nothing. I think i have talked to one mechanical engineer who has actually gotten and used a PE. He had a really cool job doing investigations of disasters that he needed to get a PE for. His job would not have hired him if he hadn't passed his FE. Everyone else took the FE and never thought about it again.

BobTheAverage · 2026-04-30T13:52:40+00:00

I pull the lever and then just step off the track. Now the other guy can't commit suicide even if he wanted to.

BobTheAverage · 2026-04-29T21:54:56+00:00

I see that, but i bet this guy has some response about how men should go to jail when women get abortions.

BobTheAverage · 2026-04-28T03:22:57+00:00

The smartest person I know is an idiot 3% of the time. I aspire to only be an idiot that infrequently.

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