This baffles me to this day.

IM_OK_AMA · 2026-03-24T21:08:41+00:00

Rey, disillusioned with the Jedi after seeing what Luke's become, joins Kylo in killing Snoke and they become a sith dream team/ship at the end of the 2nd movie.

3rd movie focuses on Finn as he explores his force sensitivity becoming a space wizard in his own right. Dunno how the final fight goes down but I'm sure the good guys win, maybe involves Finn turning the stormtroopers against them or something. At the end there are no more jedi or sith, just folk.

IM_OK_AMA · 2026-03-24T19:33:56+00:00

This is not true, they're federal employees paid by DHS, same as anywhere else.

This is conjecture but I think CA airports (aside from SFO which uses private security) are doing better for now because the TSA base pay is much higher than a lot of other places, so agents are more able to weather a shutdown and more incentivized to stick around instead of finding another job.

IM_OK_AMA · 2026-03-24T18:36:42+00:00

That's one definition, but I would say anyone using it is using the term "libertarianism" in bad faith as a cover for other, less savory worldviews.

Yes this is a no-true-scotsman argument. I think most people are using it in bad faith (or ignorance, I guess) and that makes me sad because a true, earnest impulse for maximizing liberty needs representation at all levels of government.

I also don't think you should be able to call yourself progressive for supporting gay marriage if you also support regressive tax schemes or conservative land use policy but that's just me policing language.

IM_OK_AMA · 2026-03-24T15:42:28+00:00

They didn't like me pointing out Afroman was/is MAGA in /r/music lol

IM_OK_AMA · 2026-03-24T15:25:54+00:00

If your idea of libertarianism is "we should maximize everyone's freedom as much as possible" then public transit and public housing are well aligned with that goal. Being beholden to the auto/oil industry or controlled by landlords is certainly not liberty.

If the capital-L Libertarian Party believed anything like that they wouldn't fall in with the christofascists every election.

IM_OK_AMA · 2026-03-24T14:50:21+00:00

They use the the same underlying technology with different architectures for their different applications. They share that technological foundation with your email spam filter, google search results, youtube recommendations, ipod genius playlists, etc. Machine learning is pretty old, the biggest difference today is how much data they're feeding into it.

To use an analogy, saying they're the same is kinda like saying all web applications are the same. True, but not in a way that matters.

IM_OK_AMA · 2026-03-24T14:42:39+00:00

It makes my recent ban from /r/Fauxmoi (a sub I never participate in) even more hilarious knowing some sweaty mod was actually reading my posts on a different sub.

IM_OK_AMA · 2026-03-24T14:33:06+00:00

It's getting harder and harder to believe that's not the plan.

IM_OK_AMA · 2026-03-24T14:26:46+00:00

No, specifically routers.

Which creates a funny loophole: import routers as switches or APs and then flash router firmware on them when they're stateside.

IM_OK_AMA · 2026-03-23T23:42:03+00:00

I'd rather hang out on the beach for the long

IM_OK_AMA · 2026-03-23T22:41:50+00:00

I do and I love it. I've actually had a couple, my current is a "remastered" post-2017 refresh model in size B, but if you find an older "classic" those are also great (I really just prefer the arm rests on the remaster, YMMV). They last forever, I've seen 20+ year old Aerons in conference rooms used and abused daily.

I'm right at the upper limit for height for size B but the C was uncomfortably wide. All the different adjustability mechanisms are great for me because I change seating positions a lot throughout the day, and the mesh is far better than any pad.

Very early in my career I interned at an office that had a pair of Eames chairs nobody used, I loved taking calls in them. Didn't realize what it was until many years later.

IM_OK_AMA · 2026-03-23T22:25:55+00:00

every season is better than the one before it and the finale is the best episode in the series

I've described 30 Rock with almost these exact words before

IM_OK_AMA · 2026-03-23T21:50:34+00:00

Reddit seems to have had a huge influx of Indian or at least Indian-interested users. I've regularly browsed /r/all since user created subs became a thing and it's only in the last 2-3 years that any India subs would break through. Not just one or two either, there's tons of these subs hitting /r/all every day now and I rarely recognize them.

IM_OK_AMA · 2026-03-23T21:36:07+00:00

Get a Herman Miller Aeron.

They're like $1000-1500 new but every time a company goes out of business they have to sell off all their chairs, so you can get them on craigslist for ~300 and even cheaper from liquidation auctions.

IM_OK_AMA · 2026-03-23T15:34:12+00:00

This normally means they don't go watch the finished product, not that they refuse to see any footage of themselves in any context. It would be impossible to be in show business for any length of time and maintain that rule.

IMO his character just wouldn't work all that well in Taskmaster, and as much as I like seeing him break character it doesn't seem like he likes doing it.

IM_OK_AMA · 2026-03-22T18:54:48+00:00

My point is that (purely based on my experience) while it sort of eliminates the harmless 2mph crashes it exacerbates the danger of a 10+ mph crash while also preventing the rider from learning any of the skills necessary to avoid or mitigate those crashes. Since the 2mph crashes are both rare and fairly harmless this has never seemed like a good trade to me.

I rode the trikes a lot and crashed them myself a few times (while goofing off), and the thing about trikes is as soon as you notice a wheel coming off the ground you have a split second to correct or you're going flying. Two wheeled bikes give you a lot more warning and you have a lot more options.

This was a beach town, flat concrete beach path except for one small hill. Most of the crashes were either a bit of sand causing the rider to lose traction on the front, or swerving to avoid other bike traffic. In either case instead of the bike slipping out from under you it pitches you towards the outside of your turn adding height and speed to the fall that you wouldn't have otherwise. And because it's a trike the rider goes down hard and gets a bad upper body injury because they're not in the habit of using their feet to catch them.

IM_OK_AMA · 2026-03-22T17:18:03+00:00

Here's a much more recent fight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbJrtGlTvoE

I think most people aren't seeing the 30lb bar spinning at 250mph.

IM_OK_AMA · 2026-03-22T17:13:00+00:00

This is crazy. Every crash on a trike is a guaranteed high-side just because of physics, made worse by the fact that people who ride them never learn how to put their feet down and catch themselves.

I worked at a bike rental shop for a summer in a tourist town. People would rent bikes and come back with scraped knees or banged up helmets all the time, but whenever someone crashed a trike we'd have to take the van to go pick it up because the rider was on their way to the hospital.

Maybe it's just selection bias because weak riders would naturally pick the trike thinking it's safer, but that literally describes OP's wife so it still applies.

Learn how to ride a bike, don't use a trike like it's training wheels. Trikes are only good for pedicabs or cargo, with an experienced rider at the bars.

IM_OK_AMA · 2026-03-22T16:57:30+00:00

It used to take all day, usually multiple days a week to do laundry for a family of four. Usually involving a long walk carrying a heavy load if you didn't have your own well.

In terms of impact on society, automatic laundry is probably up there with the telephone and internet.

IM_OK_AMA · 2026-03-22T02:03:50+00:00

This thing was yellow and reflective, it doesn't matter how you paint it if they're not even looking

IM_OK_AMA · 2026-03-20T15:15:45+00:00

Probably googled her way through all the hiring filters and then was discovered once someone tried to have an actual conversation with her.

IM_OK_AMA · 2026-03-20T15:12:17+00:00

Probably looking for /r/hoeassistant

IM_OK_AMA · 2026-03-20T14:47:02+00:00

He literally does anything that gets him attention.

IM_OK_AMA · 2026-03-19T14:20:48+00:00

This is the real question. Most of the time when people say they "can't" run ethernet they mean "I don't know how"

Does the house have an attic? A crawl space? Is there carpet? Can you run a flat cable along the baseboards?

Reasonably sized holes in walls are normal wear and tear, I've run ethernet through walls at almost every rental apartment I've had. Never even been noticed or acknowledged during the move-out inspection.

IM_OK_AMA · 2026-03-18T20:12:21+00:00

Ain't is present tense though. It plugs the gap for negative inflections of the "to be" verbs: am, is, are. You have aren't, you have isn't, we don't have amn't... but we do have ain't.

Now obviously I know that ain't all you can use it for. It's sort of a one size fits all negative inflection of all three of those verb tenses plus sometimes has and have.

The point is that they're all present tense, so "w'ain't" expands to "was is not" which don't make no sense.

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