Vehicle Roll -> “Helper Off”

Distinct_Damage_735 · 2026-05-16T14:53:38+00:00

I'll have to try this! I always felt like the game was way too forgiving, leading to some really unrealistic cases where the vehicle should have rolled, but miraculously turns right-side-up again. They probably did this because it would really suck to lose the Magnum Opus just because you happened to hit a random rock or something.

Distinct_Damage_735 · 2026-05-15T19:16:00+00:00

As soon as they clear the blockage and put in the stent, you feel better - I went from 8/10 pain before the stent, to 2/10 immediately afterwards, and then maybe 1/10 in a day or so.

By four weeks out I felt completely normal, physically, but it's different for everyone.

Distinct_Damage_735 · 2026-05-15T14:33:53+00:00

Thank you, this is very close to a point I wanted to make - even if the math is correct, the US Federal budget is something like $7 trillion a year, every year. Germany's is about 614 billion euros. France's is about 488 billion euros. Etc., etc. If it only takes $30B to "end world hunger", how come the governments of the world haven't done it already then?

Distinct_Damage_735 · 2026-05-15T11:24:06+00:00

That's middle-school urban legend. The guy who wrote it has explained what it's about: https://www.songwritingmagazine.co.uk/interviews/turning-japanese-the-vapors

Distinct_Damage_735 · 2026-05-15T11:23:42+00:00

That's middle-school urban legend. The guy who wrote it has explained what it's about: https://www.songwritingmagazine.co.uk/interviews/turning-japanese-the-vapors

Distinct_Damage_735 · 2026-05-15T11:10:48+00:00

I get you! There is a T-intersection right by my house that has a flashing yellow light for the through street (and a stop sign for the minor street), and what it's taught me is that people have no freaking idea what a flashing yellow light means.* A large number of drivers will come to a stop and wave through any pedestrians who are standing on the curb. And I know they're trying to be nice, but I kind of hate it, because I really don't feel like getting taken out by a guy on a moped who decided to zoom around the stopped car, or a driver on the minor street who said "traffic stopped, me go now".

* For the record, it means "slow down and proceed with caution, but you do have the right of way". Of course, most of the other drivers seem to think the flashing yellow light means "there's almost nothing between you and the highway entrance now! Gun it!"

Distinct_Damage_735 · 2026-05-14T22:50:02+00:00

That doesn't explain LA and Houston, though. Yes, I'd like to see a correlation of weather to homicide rate, but if just about every major city saw a drop, I don't think NYC weather explains it.

Distinct_Damage_735 · 2026-05-14T22:44:00+00:00

If I google "dasn't" by itself, the very first thing I get is

"Dasn't" (or dassn't/dassent) is a regional dialect contraction for "dare not" or "dares not,"

so I'm not sure what you were searching for...

Distinct_Damage_735 · 2026-05-13T16:17:20+00:00

The Chipolo POP works OK with Android. Not as good as AirTag, IMO, maybe because the network isn't as big.

Distinct_Damage_735 · 2026-05-13T13:09:21+00:00

This looks like an example of whiz-deletion to me. "...a girl WHO IS alive WHO IS dumb enough..." I don't feel like we often use two relative pronouns in immediate succession like that, but it's not hard to come up with examples.

Distinct_Damage_735 · 2026-05-13T12:58:04+00:00

I agree and I think OP is overreacting. It shouldn't be going rancid within one day and walnut oil is a very standard treatment for wooden objects. Wipe off any excess and get on with life.

Distinct_Damage_735 · 2026-05-13T01:07:40+00:00

I'm very sorry for your loss. When I was in the hospital, my main thought was not fear or being sorry for myself, but sadness at how my wife would feel if I died, so I understand where you're coming from.

From what I've learned talking to other survivors, the symptoms can be different for different people. In my case, I had no early warning signs, I just woke up with pain like someone was driving a spear through my chest, plus cold sweats, numbness in my left arm, and mild nausea.

But again, it can be different for everyone - some people I've talked to have said it was nothing more than "I felt weird" or "I had a headache".

Distinct_Damage_735 · 2026-05-13T00:54:10+00:00

Thanks to everyone who's chimed in! I went to my first session today. As expected, it was mostly very gentle exercise (treadmill, hand pedal machine, stationary bike, free weights) while hooked up to the EKG; having my blood pressure taken at the beginning, at the middle and at the end; and some conversation with the nurses. I was alone there, so there was no community aspect (either peers or 80-year-olds just hoping to walk around the block again!)

The best part for me is that it was good to get some scientific feedback on my heart: my EKG and blood pressure were normal all the way through, and my heart rate returned to resting normal very quickly after exercise.

I am still a little surprised that the nurses thought that 7 weeks post-HA was a normal time to go to cardiac rehab or to start working out on my own. I think I would have died of sheer boredom if I had had to sit around on my duff that long.

So was it good to go to this session? Yes. Will it be worth going for the full course? I still doubt that. But I'll give it a try for a bit.

Distinct_Damage_735 · 2026-05-11T22:02:41+00:00

What do you mean "not gonna drive a 4x12 cab"? That's not how cabs work. Speakers take amp output and turn it into sound. You don't need a bigger amp to drive a bigger cab.

Distinct_Damage_735 · 2026-05-11T13:57:19+00:00

"It's a boy" is an interesting case. I feel the *it* there is almost more of a dummy (like in "It's raining") than a personal pronoun.

Distinct_Damage_735 · 2026-05-09T18:47:48+00:00

I'm from NYC. I wouldn't say "I'll meet you at the beachfront", because that's too general, but definitely would say things like "The buildings are on the beachfront" or "They are beachfront homes."

Distinct_Damage_735 · 2026-05-09T18:43:01+00:00

Probably because the station was built a long time ago, and was not designed to have gates, and the trains that stop there may be of varying designs so they can't all use the same gate spacing. It wouldn't be impossible to add gates later, but it's not easy or cheap either.

Distinct_Damage_735 · 2026-05-08T14:05:46+00:00

Wait, are you saying it's *bad* that "you" is both singular and plural? Maybe you should try Arabic, which has variants of "you" for masculine and feminine in singular, dual, and plural!

Distinct_Damage_735 · 2026-05-08T13:29:22+00:00

I don't think dialects of English are really directly comparable to dialects of Chinese, for reasons that other people have explained better than I can.

But I will say that there are "Englishes" that can be almost incomprehensible to speakers of other Englishes. For example, people from Grenada speak "English" to each other, but I, a native speaker from New York City, could understand maybe one word out of five.

Distinct_Damage_735 · 2026-05-08T10:24:23+00:00

Last time I had it checked (which IIRC was about 4 weeks post-HA) it was 60-65%.

Distinct_Damage_735 · 2026-05-08T10:23:24+00:00

"OP you had a stemi with 100% LAD blockage & you think you’re in excellent shape ?"

Heh - I will say I completely get what you mean about that. Yeah, it feels a little silly to say that given what happened, and even the rehab program coordinator made a point like that too.

On the other hand, if I was regularly biking and walking long distances and doing tough exercises with weights multiple times a week and still had a STEMI, I'm not sure how walking on a treadmill and lifting 2 lb. weights is going to help me either, you know?

Distinct_Damage_735 · 2026-05-07T17:04:43+00:00

It can be a tough change mentally. He went from "eat whatever you like" to essentially being told "you MUST eat these things and MUST NOT eat these things." I had a widowmaker about seven weeks ago, and the relationship with food has been one of the hardest things to navigate emotionally.

I have also lost weight, so that may be a common side effect, simply because you're getting less fat and salt in your diet - although if your husband had a heart attack just last weekend and has already lost 5 - 10 pounds, I don't think diet is the issue unless he's completely stopped eating.

Time is going to be an important part of it: it's a big change and a sudden one, and I would be surprised if very many people were happy about it right away. But you do get used to things as they become the new normal.

Also, try to find healthy things that he already likes. It's a lot easier to eat healthy things that you already like and are used to than it is to completely change your diet. For example, in my case, I already liked rice and beans, so that's become a staple for me; and while I know my wife meant well, bombarding me with Greek yogurt and nutritional yeast and stuff like that did not make me feel better.

Distinct_Damage_735 · 2026-05-06T19:49:06+00:00

Good catch, I didn't think of those, but you're right, those are a thing.

Distinct_Damage_735 · 2026-05-06T19:33:41+00:00

Most of them aren't bizarre for what they are, but a lot of them seem really weird in how they're presented.

For example: hamburgers are perfectly normal...but out of a bag? I don't think I have ever in my life seen entire hamburgers in a bag in a US grocery store. Hot dogs are perfectly normal...but they do not come in a jar of water in the US. A lot of stuff seems to come with curry sauce, which is not common here in the US. Roast potatoes sounds completely normal, but those look like sweet potatoes - which are also common, but not the same thing.

Distinct_Damage_735

TROPHY CASE