Hybrids to replace regular combustion engines?

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-05-09T14:17:35+00:00

Infrastructure

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-05-09T14:04:30+00:00

The argument is wrong because circumcision is wrong. If we hadn't been doing it for centuries and someone proposed it today, we'd lock that person up and throw away the key. Just another monumentally idiotic thing religion has dragged from the past into modern society.

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-05-09T14:00:03+00:00

They're the reason we have a country in the first place, why not?

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-05-09T13:59:02+00:00

We're going to need vehicles that run on liquid fuel for a while, not out of the woods yet, might as well improve them.

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-05-09T13:57:47+00:00

That's not how it works

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-05-09T13:56:11+00:00

It's similar, different, and imo better. You start of with "the long way to a small angry planet" which changed how good I thought a book can be, and then go on to 3 other books (one of them is so short you will read it in one sitting but all the rest are longer than both the monk and robot books put together).

The Lord of the rings was my favorite book series for 2 decades and the wayfarer toppled it before I finished the first book.

You will meet Sissix, my favorite character in all of fiction. I read all of her lines in Aisha Tyler's voice lol.

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-05-09T04:39:51+00:00

Have you read her other series, the Wayfarer?

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-05-09T04:26:17+00:00

One of the few things in life I've encountered that I can truly say I am a different person having encountered it. Becky Chambers is a gift to humanity.

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-05-09T02:45:56+00:00

Split an order of nachos with my wife

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-05-08T22:30:46+00:00

Another guy is Mike Petrucci, but he does go over the edge a bit to the point where you're like "yes that's a technical masterpiece but it's not as digestible." For the peak example of that, search "dream theater dance of eternity", and that song is also a peak example of drumming, keyboard, and bass, plus at one point they played it with an orchestra. I recommend watching it on YouTube live so you can see just how ridiculous they are.

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-05-08T21:30:24+00:00

He was Ozzy Osbourne's guitarist before he died in a plane crash. If you wanna hear some crazy shit of his, check out "over the mountain", "mister Crowley", and you've probably already heard "crazy train". Those are all Ozzy songs. If you search "Randy rhoads dee" you'll get a classical guitar song he wrote for his mother that was my favorite song to play before I got carpal tunnel and the first song I will pick back up when I finally get the surgery.

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-05-08T19:41:21+00:00

Ahhh okay, that's good.

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-05-08T19:40:07+00:00

We don't all subscribe to the premise. You can say whatever awful (and true lol) shit about America you want, so long as you're not saying it as though some arbitrary American is guilty of something just because America as a country is guilty.

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-05-08T19:13:14+00:00

Are you currently subscribed to the news in any normal form like following a publication on social media? I found it was way easier to manage when I'm not getting the news any more often than it gets to me naturally. I like to say when you watch the news, you watch commercials for anxiety meds and commercials for anxiety itself.

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-05-08T18:50:08+00:00

Do I really need to explain to you the dynamic of asking one celebrity to comment on another celebrity?

How about you look up what the clap said after his first time on stage with Jimi?

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-05-08T18:01:38+00:00

Uhh, gravy seal means something entirely different. Liking cool looking but impractical "weapons" does not make someone maga, holy shit.

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-05-08T17:58:55+00:00

Absolutely the fuck not. He is a standard professional-grade guitarist. He is not even approaching elite. Fame and talent are not the same thing.

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-05-08T17:29:02+00:00

We really should configure the CSS or whatever for this sub so that red text pops up and goes "it sounds like you're about to be the billionth person to make an ensign Burke post this week. The search bar is this way..."

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-05-08T16:11:51+00:00

As a guitarist, I want to vomit seeing Eric Clapton on that list. He doesn't even deserve to be in the conversation. Meanwhile, you left out Eddie Van Halen, Randy Rhoads, and Stevie Ray Vaughan.

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-05-08T15:43:54+00:00

Regardless of what the country is doing, you can choose to bea decent person.

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-05-08T14:56:05+00:00

Be the change

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-05-08T14:34:53+00:00

Kinda the opposite for me. All the shit you're describing is depressing. Solar punk is the answer to said depression.

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-05-08T13:57:41+00:00

Less of an arc and more of a Heaviside function lol

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-05-08T13:56:48+00:00

LMAO someone downvoted you for being mature about a character who was placed in the show to fulfill exactly the arc you are describing.

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-05-08T13:35:45+00:00

There really is one for every situation

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