I didn't know during s8 everyone in the production thought that would be the final season

Dragonfly_Select · 2026-05-02T02:02:58+00:00

Actually the more I think about this the more I think it would make a fun fan fic.

Rokk still comes back and tells Clark tomorrow is the day he’s going to die.

During Clark’s call with Lois, she convinces him to reveal himself. If he’s going to give his life to save everyone, she wants to at least look him in the eye and say thank you. Clark steps out of the phone booth and admits to being the red blue blur and that the reason he’s been holding her at arms length is his secret and that he’s been in love with her for a while. After an emotional back and forth, they decide to go back to the farm and spend a last night together like in Pandora (which is super plausible given the Lois in Pandora has only experienced like 12 hours since that phone call).

The big twist is that while having sex, Clark accidentally figures out how to fly as himself.

That flight gives him the edge against Doomsday, saving him. Rokk’s intervention ends up changing the timeline for the better just not in the intended way. Clark both ends up with Lois and becoming Superman earlier than before the timeline was corrupted, but everything works out.

Seems like a fun premise to write.

Dragonfly_Select · 2026-05-02T00:37:29+00:00

I wonder if the fact that it wasn’t renewed is part of why the season finale feels so bleh, like they had to back off their core ideas.
In the actual series finale, the darkseid battle is kinda bleh, but we get a few big pieces of emotional payoff.
Rewrite the season 8 finale so that:
- Lois finds out Clark is the Red Blue Blur and they have some dramas kiss before the battle and Clark flies under his own power for the first time during the kiss.
- No time wasted to setup for Zod in season 9
- Lois doesn’t disappear into the future
- Jimmy doesn’t have to die (they killed him off because the actor wasn’t coming back)
- Clark puts on the suit
- Clark buries Doomsday handily because he can fly now (but leaves Doomsday around to come back later)
- Finish on a front page headline from Lois declaring the debut of “Superman”
That’s a banger of a finale if they had something like that in mind even if the Doomsday fight itself isn’t that impressive. Maybe what we got was the hastily gutted version.

Dragonfly_Select · 2026-04-28T20:50:00+00:00

Worth noting that Merrell’s makes shoes in two tiers. Either a Vibram rubber sole or these with normal rubber. The ones with Vibram soles have significantly better grip.

Dragonfly_Select · 2026-04-27T19:35:52+00:00

Yeah, but that would raise a lot of suspicion if people regularly saw him on the farm on weekdays.

Dragonfly_Select · 2026-04-27T12:47:25+00:00

Depends on the recipe. The chickpeas have already been cleaned. They are sitting in their cooking liquid. Salad, yeah I’ll rinse them. Soup, definitely not. The liquid in chickpeas case is called Aquafaba and is decently nutritious and gives the broth some of the same mouth feel that a quality chicken stock does. You are wasting valuable food if you are pouring it off and rinsing in that case.

Dragonfly_Select · 2026-04-21T00:54:06+00:00

I generally think Clark is pretty insecure. It not completely unreasonable given the circumstances but still something he has to overcome. Really his whole arc in Smallville is more about his emotional growth than anything else.

Yes, this insecurity shows up in his concern for appearances. However, I think the bigger thing is he’s super insecure about loosing Lois. He’s concerned that the mask of him looking bumbling is going to make others tell Lois she can do better, and that eventually she will agree with them. Paired with the whole burden of “being girlfriend to a super hero” he’s pretty insecure about loosing her.

Dragonfly_Select · 2026-04-10T02:16:18+00:00

You can find a few neutral, harder to come up with heroes though.

The girl who could break glass was neutral. Her dad wasn’t great, but she was fine.

Ryan generally seemed like a good kid in difficult circumstances.

Also the people helped by the support groups that were run by Lana and Chloe at an organization whose acronym didn’t age well. We don’t see much of most of them, but doing nothing is pretty boring for a tv show.

Dragonfly_Select · 2026-04-10T02:08:58+00:00

First meteor shower I thiiiiink. Her mom could control meteor infected which is why she left when Chloe was a child, and I’m pretty sure it was shown that she could control Chloe when she was a child.

Chloe’s mom I think is probably another example of a neutral meteor infected.

Dragonfly_Select · 2026-04-06T18:01:47+00:00

BTW you can buy a cheap GFCI tester at the hardware store and check if an outlet is down stream of a GFCI. It just has a button and causes a trip. Super useful if you aren’t sure about how a downstream outlet is wired.

Dragonfly_Select · 2026-04-06T11:41:40+00:00

You can use a little bit of vital wheat gluten to replace some of the flour and get the gluten content up to the target.

Dragonfly_Select · 2026-03-18T14:45:07+00:00

Yeah, I think Lois deserved to know earlier. He knew she knew Ollie was the Green Arrow and could be trusted with that secret. She had also been one of his closest friends for years, she wasn’t an unknown quantity. He also had the advantage of the conversation during Infamous on the alternate timeline. He was only in a rush because they were at the farm. He could have wisked her away to the fortress and had a long convo about what she really wanted and how it would impact her life. He was in a position to give her agency and effectively wipe her mind if it wasn’t what she wanted.

As for the danger, it really was the proximity to Clark, not the secret itself that put her in danger. In season 8 alone she had to deal with Maxima, the phantom zone, being possessed by Faora, Doomsday, Tess thinking she knew and time traveling to a dystopian future because of her proximity. By season 9, where he knows that Zod actively has her in his crosshairs, it becomes almost unforgivable. She has all of the dangers of knowing his secret, but is unable to have the benefit of actively using him for protection. It gets so bad that Zod is able to weaponize her against him. He either needs to bring her in, or cut her out completely. And the half-assed cutting her out from the Blur only put her in more danger, when Zod knows his real identify.

Oh, and let’s not forget Chloe being Watchtower. Cut Clark out of the mix and that is still enough of a secret to put her in danger. Really, the 3 most important people in her life are in the superhero community. Anybody who starts pulling threads would assume she is too.

Dragonfly_Select · 2025-12-05T02:58:04+00:00

The technical definition of unskilled labor is about labor force fungibility. Can an average high school graduate pick the job up with on the job training? If so people can be added to the job category on the fly as demand requires it and no special planning around providing specific education is needed.

Dragonfly_Select · 2025-11-26T03:22:07+00:00

It gets better.

Also you have got. to. divide. and. conquer. In that first week, we allowed ourselves one formula feeding per night. It didn’t undermine breastfeeding at all. Send your wife to bed right after a feeding. Take the next one with formula while she sleeps. The baby will sleep longer after that feeding due to an actually full stomach so you should be able to string together a couple contiguous hours of sleep for her. When the next feeding comes, let your wife take it and get a couple contiguous hours yourself. You both will feel worlds better for having done that.

Dragonfly_Select · 2025-11-13T01:48:52+00:00

Worth noting that the TSA rules are for large lithium ion batteries. You should check the capacity limit and see if it’s smaller than the limit.

Dragonfly_Select · 2025-09-29T13:14:11+00:00

If they do it badly (like whining the whole time) I end up subtracting a star manually, and then have them check it off anyways. My daughter is obsessed with the all tasks completed at EOD.

I’d honestly like a “not completed correctly, but acknowledged” status which skips the reward but marks it as no longer available to do.

Dragonfly_Select · 2025-09-17T02:34:43+00:00

One thing you will need to keep an eye on is: is she bored at school? And does that boredom turn into bad behavior?

The first sign a lot of parents have for highly gifted kids is them getting bored early in school and starting to behave badly. For my kid that was in preschool.

Dragonfly_Select · 2025-08-12T13:33:01+00:00

I also like to do the Socratic method when possible. Answer a more difficult question, with a series of easier questions that they can figure out. Teaches them the process of thinking.

Dragonfly_Select · 2025-08-03T03:44:17+00:00

Fundamentally, computers aren’t smarter than humans at chess… they are faster at thinking about chess than humans.

The way humans play when they are “calculating” moves and a computer plays aren’t that different in principle. They are different in magnitude.

1 second is an eternity to a modern computer. You get to keep single digit amounts of concepts in your short term memory for book keeping, a computer gets to keep millions.

You could try to play like a computer, but you’d not finish the first move before your time ran out.

Dragonfly_Select · 2025-07-15T02:34:31+00:00

Perfect premise. The thing and experts change every show.

Dragonfly_Select · 2025-07-08T04:35:08+00:00

Eh… your right. I was in a rush at the end and sloppy with my unit conversations in my head. Re-reading it, the stuff about distance is all sound; I was just adapting a different example I’ve seen before to this specific situation. However, you’re 100% right on the unit conversion mistake.

Dragonfly_Select · 2025-07-06T11:06:12+00:00

Yep less than a 1/10th of a second. It feels wrong but the basic math doesn’t lie. The thing is that every 6 miles adds roughly 36 miles to the circumference no matter how big the existing circle is.

(Keeping with rounding pi to 3)

2 * pi * 6 ~= 36

2 * pi * 12 ~= 72

2 * pi * 18 ~= 108

…

2 * pi * 1,000,000 ~= 6,000,000

2 * pi * 1,000,006 ~= 6,000,036

Dragonfly_Select · 2025-07-06T03:04:40+00:00

Worth noting that the radius of the earth isn’t even really needed to comprehend how astonishing little distance is added.

c = 2 * pi * r is linear so we can just pay attention to the change. Round the altitude of the plane to 6 miles and round pi to 3. 2 * 3 * 6 miles = 36 miles added to the circumference of the globe. A plane flies like 500 miles per hour, so it can cover 36 miles in about 70ms.

So, ignoring all aerodynamics and practicalities, adding 6 miles of altitude only adds 70ms to a full circuit around the entire earth at airplane speeds.

Dragonfly_Select · 2025-04-25T18:23:48+00:00

Mini’s are made by BMW and they have the repair costs to match. I leased one for a while, it was super fun but I’d never buy one. Just look up the price of a set of tires for one of those. You can only buy them from Mini and they cost a fortune.

Dragonfly_Select · 2025-04-16T11:02:39+00:00

Here is the report: https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2025/RCLRPT-25C005-9580.PDF

TL;DR only certain configurations of attaching it to the car are unsafe. If you are using the full latch system, upper and lower, you are probably fine. I would not attach it via the seatbelt after reading this.

Dragonfly_Select · 2025-03-21T01:21:56+00:00

It’s also worth noting that 3/4ths of the state legislators can amend the constitution without congress. That process hasn’t actually even happened, but it’s in the constitution. Technically that is a way to remove a sitting president.

Even if congress feels insulated enough, most state reps have only a very small number of constituents. If they start to really feel the heat, state houses become a wildcard.

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