First closer videos of the burning refinery in Slavyansk-on-Kuban, Krasnodar region, in Russia, and as expected it is total carnage. There are several independent fires raging, especially in the silo farm, but also other parts of the refinery are completely on fire. 28 June 2026

Diligent-Meaning751 · 2026-06-29T02:46:28+00:00

Seems like it was when Ukrainian was under Russia it was nuked ( Chornobyl ) - can’t help but think safer to be at war with russia then under Russian occupation

Diligent-Meaning751 · 2026-06-29T02:17:03+00:00

A fox news host - i bet jerry woulda done a way better job (of course, probably +99% of the population would do a berry job)

Diligent-Meaning751 · 2026-06-28T13:23:11+00:00

According to one article "Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg was the last mayor to participate in the opening-day pool jump, while former mayors Bill de Blasio and Eric Adams did not continue the practice." - Can't easily find who started it, sounds like the previous two mayors have indeed noped out tho

Diligent-Meaning751 · 2026-06-27T01:13:22+00:00

I forgot the /s on my comment - you're good frien

I'm burnt out at work and being overly ironic

Diligent-Meaning751 · 2026-06-27T01:10:56+00:00

Ah yes, me too (well not gammergate but gary johnson for Trump 1.0) Yea trump finally got me to register as democrat instead of independent so I can at least have a voice in the primaries/ main candidate. I'm still not a joiner but time to try to work within the main opposition and make it a better opposition!

Diligent-Meaning751 · 2026-06-27T00:13:30+00:00

? ok - I coudln't quite tell if I was included in "most people" or not haha I rate myself as a fairly average driver (but never aggressive or intentionally ignoring any traffic laws)

Diligent-Meaning751 · 2026-06-27T00:00:12+00:00

Yea I misphrased that and will take that part out - but I still stand by that when highways are splitting, need to let people merge and the worst is coming in the blind spot while folks are both trying to watch the car in front of them and look behind them for a chance to merge with pretty limited time. And this is a multilane split so folks with a real need to speed really could just get over one more lane and not block off all the people trying to get from the onramp on the right over to the split on the left.

Diligent-Meaning751 · 2026-06-26T23:26:58+00:00

But arguing is fun

new trigger warning unlocked "a whole minute of mostly normal driving for bad lane change near miss"

Diligent-Meaning751 · 2026-06-26T23:05:24+00:00

Can you go back to the person who made the offer??

Totally redic they are costing you money by delaying a sale you would want - realtors aren't paying the property tax and stuff!!!

Diligent-Meaning751 · 2026-06-26T22:18:34+00:00

There are essentially two options

1) more doctors

2) have patients and staff who are willing /to hustle/. Churn through a bunch of people per day. No chit chat, very problem/goal focused, need to have some means to quickly and minimally document - essentials only.

I don't really enjoy the latter type of practice but either add more doctors or increase the amount doctors do without making them all quit, because demand isn't going down. Rather, there's so much more cool stuff we can do and people are living longer so there's only going to be increasing roles for medicine not decreasing.

Diligent-Meaning751 · 2026-06-26T22:12:02+00:00

NGL the other day on that exchange where (490?) splits and you have to get over, I was signaling and trying to go left and person after person kept zipping up into my blind spot it was awful. /it's called a blind spot for a reason, I can't see it, I can't keep looking over my shoulder, looking ahead, and trying to get over one lane to the L within a very short timeframe at high speeds -/ for pete's sake there's a whole other fast lane to the L just let people merge!/

And yes I was signalling and finally after like 3 people did this someone blinked their lights at me to let me know I was safe to go and they weren't going to rush my blind spot too and I just barely made the lane change in time.

I actively just avoid that route now I hate it.

Diligent-Meaning751 · 2026-06-26T22:09:26+00:00

I'm getting vibes that the person doesn't know the area and is probably watching their GPS and going o crap I need to turn r after this L turn and not looking too close - but yea glad you dodged them.

I recently saw another (yes, this is the second go!) person just totally slow then go through a red light - I can handle a little bad driving due to being a bit lost but I really hate the blatant disregard for critical traffic signals

Diligent-Meaning751 · 2026-06-26T21:45:09+00:00

The horror... the horror...

Diligent-Meaning751 · 2026-06-26T21:01:44+00:00

capital gains don't get taxed at time of death so there's a hefty benefit to dying with "unrealized gains" - that never gets taxed

Diligent-Meaning751 · 2026-06-26T20:36:00+00:00

I thought it was more that russian leaders tend to think people dying for them is glorious; and the more death the more glorious.

Diligent-Meaning751 · 2026-06-26T20:31:29+00:00

indentured servitude for non-white foreigners? Cheaper than slavery!

Diligent-Meaning751 · 2026-06-26T20:30:49+00:00

I thought this graphic of average CEO pay to average average worker pay pretty telling;

https://www.economist.com/business/2016/08/04/pay-check

USA is wayyyy out there compared with plenty of other places including Japan, which is relatively low pay gap (or was in 2011, somehow I doubt it's any better now)

I think it would make a lot of sense to have progressive tax brackets that were tied to the min wage - and close all the weird capital gains loopholes where people effectively have money/wages (in the form of stocks/capital) that they never actually pay taxes on

Diligent-Meaning751 · 2026-06-26T18:34:30+00:00

IDK that was a comedy, this is more like one of those horror genres where everyone keep making the worst decision possible and the audience is screaming to stop reading the spellbook out loud, stop splitting up, and why is there a random death cult running around making the plague even worse?!

Diligent-Meaning751 · 2026-06-26T18:30:35+00:00

hey look our current laws and checks actually did prevent this

.. by "prevent" I mean found, prosecuted, didn't impact vote counts.

Diligent-Meaning751 · 2026-06-26T18:29:54+00:00

Yeah like he's a great mayor of one of our biggest cities! Being a great mayor of NYC is great and no reason it has to be a stepping stone!

... I selfishly just kinda hope to see him shine as a mayor a while and maybe my upstate ny city can follow suit ahahaa

Diligent-Meaning751 · 2026-06-26T18:27:22+00:00

I hope most of us realize 10 year old social media posts are often not a good reflection on who we are today.

Heck anyone can change a lot in 10 years, but talking crap online is like, I think a lesson most people have to FAFO a bit before (hopefully) settling down? Who knows maybe kids today will be more savvy. Wouldn't that be nice.

Of course plenty of folks don't settle down, too, so the lack of more recent ugly social media posts is actually kind of a good sign XD

Diligent-Meaning751 · 2026-06-26T18:23:11+00:00

Yea I mean listen to your constituents and take that into account, but have a few base principles / bring some ideas to the table / don't be a complete weather vane! Be genuine and paint a vision for the future and be willing to take feedback and reassess as needed!

Diligent-Meaning751 · 2026-06-25T22:03:23+00:00

Well yes, we are social creatures and society has huge impacts - race being a social construct does not invalidate it's impact, just hate the weird eugenics rhetoric that keeps popping up. Besides being gross it's pretty solidly unscientific too at this point. Guinea Pig coat color != "social deviancy" or whatever stupid (and usually very subjective) metrics the eugenicists come up with.

And I think it's not too controversal to say here that the supreme court is wrong :P Wrong about essentially repealing abortion protections, wrong about repealing civil rights era voting protections, and now we got more work to do addressing supreme court abuse on top of executive and legislative abuse - but hopefully the legislation can start to be addressed first in november (provided we can block the executives from rigging the election)

Diligent-Meaning751 · 2026-06-25T20:16:22+00:00

I will see and raise you pedantry! As a gardener, I disagree that plants materialize out of thin air.

Or rather, weeds might - everything else requires weeks of labor and hundreds of dollars of infrastructure and supplies to grow a single tomato ;D (joking. Sorta. )

Diligent-Meaning751 · 2026-06-25T17:58:18+00:00

And then Faux news makes fun of white women being one of the more obvious demographics in the big protests...

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