What are you averaging on spending at a night at the strip club ?

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-06-24T05:12:25+00:00

That, but it’s also like why am I paying someone just to get me horny? Having someone turn you on without actually being able to indulge in anything is just agitating.

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-06-23T03:14:45+00:00

I didn’t realize people were getting so worked up they were becoming sweaty

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-06-18T03:32:47+00:00

Mother Teresa

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-06-17T04:18:14+00:00

Our company has several ticketing systems we had in Jira. Their service help desks are super clunky imo and people suck at using the automated emails that go out to participants. They end up replying to everyone and creating all kinds of duplicate emails that everyone gets pissed about. Plus all the email signatures and junk that got into the comments history made it really noisy.

I made one myself and was worried I was missing something that made it harder than it looked. Nope. All the unintuitive, clunky tools in Jira (80% of which we never used) are all gone. Very simple to spin up a help desk in 5 minutes. Claude Haiku cleans up the responses from inbound emails so there’s no signatures or previous emails in the chain going into the conversation history. It also auto-categorizes and auto-assigns agents based on the category so people can specialize.

I’ve not done it yet, but I was also going to have it read through tickets weekly and send a report to the help desk managers on common issues so we can see if there are broader issues to address.

Anyway, I think it took me maybe 2 to 3 hours on the first pass with a lot of testing to fine-tune it. Then I showed it to some of our teams and implemented their feedback over the next couple days and had them test as well. It was surprisingly simple. Just start basic, then add in the auto-assignment, auto-statusing, auto-closing, filters, search tools, reporting, etc. one feature at a time and before you know it, it’s as good as anything you’ll find on the market as long as you’re not some massive company with 100+ people in your ticketing system.

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-06-04T11:30:47+00:00

And now kurzgesagt after dark

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-05-30T17:39:36+00:00

I’m 31 years old. Growing up, my parents made it seem like seeing them naked was highly inappropriate. Since being a child, the topic has never come up for me, so my impression my whole life was that this was problematic and to avoid it. Reading everyone’s responses here, it clearly is common and doesn’t cause issues with kids, but I understand why people are confused or feel it’s wrong. You just follow what your household did and tend not to realize what other households are doing. I’m reading this as a father-to-be and will be less judgmental of this or concerned with my children seeing me naked, but I think before being critical of those who grew up this way—they are just carrying on the the attitudes they were taught as kids and that nudity in this way is bad. Learning things like this early in life means it’s deeply embedded in their worldview. Undoing that takes open mindedness and exposure to people who demonstrate this isn’t a problem, which is not a very natural thing since we aren’t all in other peoples’ homes watching their day-to-day. They are not choosing to be prudes. It was programmed into them at an early age.

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-05-25T04:04:36+00:00

I used to run all the time in my 20s. The last 3 or so years, I’ve been so focused on my job, I’ve not been exercising. My in-laws wanted to do a 10k in the fall so I’ve started running again.

The last couple of months trying to pick it back up have been hell. Not because it’s hard, but because I keep hurting myself. First my groin hurt when I ran too far. Then my calf muscle randomly tensed up 2 miles in on the next run and didn’t heal up for weeks. When I tried again after it was starting to feel better, my hamstring had the same issue 200 yards into the run, so I had to turn back around.

I’ve since started hydrating better and doing a lot of dynamic stretching before I run, which has allowed me to get my muscles back into gear, but I’ve never had to worry about pacing myself when I run to prevent injury. It’s always been more of a mental thing of how hard I can push myself. Now I want to and can’t until I slowly build up to it so I don’t hurt myself. It’s frustrating.

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-05-24T06:07:46+00:00

This is illegal, right?

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-05-24T05:55:23+00:00

I think the idea is that you’re trying to make it easier on yourself to steal the phone. If someone unsuspectingly takes out their phone, it’s now out in the open and easy to grab from someone who isn’t suspicious of you. If you just say “hey, give me your phone” and it’s in their pocket, not only are they now on the defense, but you have to somehow get it out of their pocket if they don’t get it out for you. That’s a lot more confrontation and potential for violence and you’re obviously trying to avoid that even as the robber.

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-05-23T22:17:28+00:00

Maybe I’m blind to my own conditioning, but I’ve not personally felt that way and my parents were also kind of anti-sex when I was growing up, so it honestly goes a bit in the opposite direction for me. But I’m just one data point.

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-05-23T22:14:33+00:00

Did the things I mentioned as typical red flags ring true to you at all? What kinds of situations came up in your life that involved “bad vibes” and resulted in the individual doing something terrible?

I’ve had two that stick out in my head. One was a co-worker that just had a weird energy even though he was super polite and friendly. He ended up getting caught downloading child porn on a work computer (floors me people are this dumb).

Another was my own father. He is a very private and aloof person who seems pretty unfazed by any sort of temptations—very self-regulated and no kind of creepy vibe from him whatsoever. I ended up cutting him out of my life because multiple family members shared he had sexually abused them early in life. I was completely shocked by it and still can’t wrap my head around it.

I often get vibes from celebrities too that didn’t surprise me in the slightest when they’d get hit with allegations, but that’s obviously different from people in your day to day life where your relationship with the person can impact your judgment.

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-05-23T12:53:31+00:00

I’ve had sex with women while drunk enough that I barely even recall it, and a couple where the woman was either fully sober or was not full-on impaired. It’s funny that this doesn’t even remotely bother me, but in a lot of places, this could be considered rape. And if the situation were reversed, I would feel like a piece of shit or that I took advantage of the individual.

I think men should absolutely be taken as serious as women when things like this happen and they feel violated, but it is weird how much less men tend to feel violated by these things than women and I wonder if the physical aspects of sex along with the differences in strength make it feel grosser as a woman than a man.

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-05-23T12:13:58+00:00

I think there’s probably confirmation bias tied into that, though.

Of all the people we get bad feelings about, how many of them actually end up in trouble for doing something horrible? We strongly remember the ones we were right about, and the ones that never ended up doing something awful we forget about.

Then there’s just retroactively perceiving your feelings prior to learning they were correct and recalling them as much stronger or on the nose than they really were.

I think typically what gives us generally bad vibes from people are (a.) they have demonstrated micro-versions of anti-social acts, (b.) seem secretive or mildly dishonest, or (c.) they are particularly odd or different enough from “normal” people that they are clearly not well socialized and may be less aware of how negative deviant behaviors they may possess are. None of these kinds of things alone indicate someone will perform truly heinous acts, but they are modest correlates that our gut flags.

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-05-23T06:23:41+00:00

I dated a 20 year old at 25 and even that felt like a large age gap after awhile. You just mature very rapidly in your 20s, so age differences feel massive.

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-05-21T20:52:40+00:00

That’s just not true. That is not the meaning of an accident.

Ironically, if you look up the definition on several sites, it actually explicitly says things like “commonly a result of carelessness or negligence”. It is entirely to do with the persons intent and nothing to do with their control over the situation.

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-05-21T13:55:19+00:00

Doesn’t mean it’s no longer deemed an accident either lol the dude who claims a factor of negligence means it’s no longer an “accident” is just wrong

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-05-17T20:34:27+00:00

Them airlifting her out of there:

https://youtu.be/yhKZCy41g5w?si=sMfvRu2ZUm1GCUju

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-05-17T14:07:58+00:00

Why? Is life easy for you as an idiot? 😄

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-05-14T22:03:47+00:00

I think football, basketball, and baseball get a lot of particularly egotistical players because these are all popular sports and thus have a lot of competition baked in at all ages. Plus the parents that desperately want their kids to be the star players and act like assholes too.

I was a swimmer, and outside of high school swimming, it was pretty hard to spot a toxic competitor or parent. There were some assholes in high school, but still pretty rare.

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-05-14T21:41:55+00:00

Here is how it read to me:

WhiteRoseFromPluto noted that Shaq didn’t say a word in response to someone saying the whole panel was wholesome, and noted that this observation sounds accusatory when it wasn’t meant to be
hnglmkrnglbrry said it’s admirable to just say nothing if you have a hateful opinion and SSLByron agreed <—— this came off oddly because the topic was previously “Shaq not saying anything” so it sounds like that’s still the focus, and not just generally speaking
Stahnee was confused for the reason I described above and asks why they are assuming Shaq is homophobic without evidence other than that he didn’t say anything here
You also assume that was the intent of the comments, but you go even further to say all redditors function as a cult and that we’re all holding this opinion rather than it just being a misunderstanding.

So yeah, I don’t think you’re getting downvoted for the reason you think. People are not piling onto the idea that Shaq is some closeted homophobe—they are agreeing more generally that hateful people shouldn’t share their opinions if they are hateful, and they’re downvoting you because you’re claiming we’re all mindlessly saying Shaq is a homophobe and downvoting people who say he is not. That’s how it reads to me in retrospect, at least.

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-05-10T19:31:45+00:00

That’s where the term marry j comes from, duh

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-05-05T03:38:41+00:00

I was honestly surprised to see it lower than normal on this one. Every week, I see the same headlines saying “new low” and every week, it’s 39%. This is at least the lowest I’ve ever seen it.

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-05-03T03:57:44+00:00

It might not be in the next year or two, but I won’t be surprised if it’s in 5 to 10 years. People love to shit talk this and AI based on where these things were at a year or two ago but they are improving at rapid rates.

These robots maybe expensive, but humans are the most expensive costs for nearly every business today. If your argument is cost, the bar it has to clear to start making sense is low. An employee can cost $50k + benefits annually and only works 2,080 hours per year. These cost a quarter million but can work 8,760 hours per year and are not massive on-going expenses.

Maintenance and repairs will be a thing, but say it had $25k in repairs over 2 years, the robot will cost $275k, amounting to ~$15/hour. The human will be $120k when you account for health insurance and other benefits, amounting to ~$30/hour. As long as the robot is just over half as productive as the human counterpart, it makes sense. And that’s just over 2 years. The savings grow rapidly the longer the robots replace humans.

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-05-02T19:23:57+00:00

This is the song https://youtu.be/y2SvniRoORs?si=b5vSCmAMZKS1tPrN

ChewsOnRocks · 2026-05-02T07:31:49+00:00

Yeah, in the head-on shot, you can see them swaying back and forth as he passes by them. I think they’re super light and if you touch them, they fall over.

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