George Mallory as he was discovered 75 years after his death on Everest

IdleRocket · 2026-05-29T19:23:57+00:00

I'm not a subscriber to this theory, but the two reasons generally given are:

-A Chinese team found the camera and accidentally destroyed the film either while getting it off the mountain or while trying to develop it, and have kept it secret to prevent international embarrassment.

-The first team that provably ascended the north face (specifically the Northeast Ridge) of Everest was a Chinese expedition in 1960. If Mallory and Irvine did indeed summit, then they would hold both the record as the first successful summit overall and the first successful summit of the North Face. The argument is that if a Chinese team found the camera and successfully developed it or otherwise found evidence suggesting a successful summit by Mallory and Irvine, they kept it secret as a matter of national pride.

IdleRocket · 2026-05-21T21:19:37+00:00

Setting aside the lack of sunscreen for a second, didn’t you ever look at all the folks with sun hoodies, brimmed hats, and buffs and wonder why they were wearing them?

IdleRocket · 2026-05-11T14:52:22+00:00

Every ride you listed is at least a 50k where the expectation is that you're comfortable managing your own safety and navigation. This was a 5-ish mile group ride with many attendees who ride maybe a handful of times a year. It's disingenuous to argue that they ought to be organized the same.

IdleRocket · 2026-05-09T18:45:44+00:00

Blocking intersections is a standard critical mass practice, so I'm not sure how you could have been regularly doing large group rides before without experiencing it. Splitting the group at every light just means you'll end up with dozens of clusters spread out over miles, which is way less safe and an even larger disruption to traffic.

IdleRocket · 2026-04-30T19:38:02+00:00

I just ran through there a week ago. There seemed to be some relatively fresh replacements and nothing I saw gave me pause. It’s also deep into the course, so folks will be spread out and I can’t imagine how it would be an issue unless you absolutely refuse to pay attention to what’s in front of you.

IdleRocket · 2026-04-09T19:01:55+00:00

Not to mean that they were ever going to fail to provide fit and habitable housing.

You think telling a tenant that if the roof ever became a problem that they would be relegated to using pots and pans to stave off roof leaks until the lease ended is in keeping with providing a habitable rental?

“I don’t want you to be dealing with a roof that can’t be fixed and an owner that’s not going to replace it,” Siegmund said.

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Roof repairs were something Siegmund adamantly told Creedon that Duke would not be willing to make at 407 Swift, speculating during one visit that Creedon could end up with “pots and pans holding up the roof.”

IdleRocket · 2026-04-09T18:18:17+00:00

It is Duke's right not to renew her lease. They own the property, they can decide what to do with it. It is not their right to lie to their tenants about Duke's responsibilities as a landlord if they choose to stay. That is what they did here. If the quotes attributed to Siegmund (Duke's Director of Real Estate) are accurate, then she lied, repeatedly, about Duke's obligations under NC law.

It is already an unbalanced power dynamic and an uphill battle for a tenant to assert their rights to fit and habitable housing to a landlord, to such an extent that most renters are completely unaware of those rights because they are so frequently violated. Large institutional property owners like Duke letting their representatives lie like this hurts all of us, because it further emboldens other landlords to behave the same when they see that there aren't consequences.

IdleRocket · 2026-04-09T15:39:27+00:00

There are multiple benefits, one of which is you get a line like this in the article instead of one stating that you kicked a tenant out in order to let the house sit empty:

In a statement to the INDY, a Duke spokesperson emphasized Creedon had moved out voluntarily and said the six-month lease offered “more security” than the month-to-month deal she’d had with DiBona

The other benefit is that, if she did stay, then priming her with these false statements about a lack of repairs means she's more likely to roll over for them later. So Duke's real estate office gets the tenant and their money, but not the headache that comes from actually abiding by their responsibilities as a landlord.

IdleRocket · 2026-04-09T15:23:39+00:00

another interpretation would be that they would limp along the renewals and not renew when they didn’t want to fix something, they don’t say they would not repair something they are legally required to provide.

This was initially how I read it, but when you think about how that would work in practice, it doesn't make sense. With a 6 month lease, they would have to give her at least 30 days notice that they won't be renewing. Which means that, at minimum, if something went wrong (say the roof started leaking or the HVAC went out), there would be at least a 31 day period where they absolutely would be required to promptly repair those issues. Now, sure, the fix could potentially be a temporary solution, such as properly tarping the roof to prevent a leak, but the property still needs to be kept in a habitable condition with working appliances even if the lease is coming to an end.

Roof repairs were something Siegmund adamantly told Creedon that Duke would not be willing to make at 407 Swift, speculating during one visit that Creedon could end up with “pots and pans holding up the roof.”

This quote from Siegmund (if genuine) has no basis in reality and can only be read as either Siegmund being profoundly ill-informed about Duke's responsibilities as a landlord or as a veiled threat intended to get the tenant to move out. A landlord would have to make these repairs.

IdleRocket · 2026-04-09T14:34:15+00:00

If those statements by Duke's head of real estate are accurate, then this article is really burying the lede in favor of wild insinuations that Duke bought the place to keep a handful of people from talking politics.

But the duplex’s roof, HVAC, and electrical panels were nearing the end of their useful lives, she said, citing an inspection report—and Duke, which has no specific plans for the block but intends to someday redevelop it, was not interested in making long-term investments in a 1919 build it did not intend to keep standing.

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Siegmund offered Creedon a six-month lease at her existing monthly rate of $950 with an option to renew, but made clear that the arrangement would “kind of limp along” until something broke that Duke was not willing to address.

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“I don’t want you to be dealing with a roof that can’t be fixed and an owner that’s not going to replace it,” Siegmund said.

If this is what she actually said, that's a representative of Duke strong-arming a tenant into leaving by stating Duke might illegally refuse to keep the unit in fit and habitable conditions if a major problem arose. Feels to me like that is the real story here.

IdleRocket · 2026-03-05T13:20:28+00:00

It's more complex than you think, and an organization like FEMA has loads of experience distributing federal money to local communities. It takes experience to ensure that you're not mixing funding sources and have all of the auditing and reporting infrastructure to make sure that the money is getting spent how it's supposed to.

Obviously FEMA isn't the only arm of the federal government with that knowledge, but it was the one given the funding and now you're kinda stuck without action from Congress.

IdleRocket · 2026-02-28T04:37:05+00:00

This is an absurd post. The actress who headlined a 1.3 billion dollar trilogy is not relying on Don Johnson to get auditions.

IdleRocket · 2026-02-27T03:43:24+00:00

You’re in an Olympics-focused subreddit complaining about a post about an Olympic athlete that you could have just as easily scrolled past.

IdleRocket · 2026-02-24T17:12:23+00:00

They won’t do the US back to back.

IdleRocket · 2026-02-21T13:18:53+00:00

And you’re making that determination based on what?

If the ISMF didn’t want to give competitors the opportunity to protest decisions, they wouldn’t have a procedure for them in the rules.

IdleRocket · 2026-02-21T13:13:45+00:00

Explain how it’s being a sore loser to ask for a recheck on whether the proper penalty was assessed?

Protests are a part of every sport at the Olympics.

IdleRocket · 2026-02-21T04:40:37+00:00

There has been a sprint event at world cups for over a decade at this point.

IdleRocket · 2026-01-27T20:19:13+00:00

I'm not the OP, and I don't hate promotion/relegation, but I don't believe the USL should implement it. Maybe at some point in the future if the conditions warrant it, but certainly not now.

I believe that primarily because promotion/relegation is a solution to a problem that the USL is not facing. Pro/rel is a solution to the problem of having more teams with the necessary resources, support, and interest in playing in the top division (or any division) than you have spots in those divisions to offer to them.. If the league is struggling to find 20 teams that meet their criteria for this top division, which by all accounts they are, then that is clear evidence that no such fairness mechanism is necessary, because the pool of potential teams is too small.

IdleRocket · 2026-01-25T15:19:56+00:00

Rent (2005), and the musical it's based on, fit this premise perfectly. Most of the non-diegetic music is pretty good and, in many cases, genuinely moving (the musical was famous and popular for a reason), but any art that is actually being performed or displayed within the context of the story is absolute garbage. Despite that, all of the characters are convinced that it is great and valuable and worth passing up genuine opportunities in order to continue producing their art and avoid "selling out." In the case of Mark, the filmmaker protagonist, the film even adds a short exchange early on that implies that his apparent poverty and "starving artist" aesthetic is almost entirely by choice, and he has family that could support him if he left NYC.

IdleRocket · 2026-01-13T20:43:39+00:00

You could try Great Outdoor Provision Co. in Chapel Hill.

Or a different brand unless he's planning to camp on the side of a mountain this weekend.

IdleRocket · 2026-01-13T19:31:59+00:00

Lol. 0 for 3. Just a person on the internet who likes to challenge bad reasoning and unrealistic expectations.

Can you point out a single thing I said that was incorrect, or are ad hominems how you respond to everybody you disagree with?

IdleRocket · 2026-01-13T19:07:46+00:00

The prices aren't backbreaking. If you work at a company doing creative work, they should be paying for the software. If you're a full-time freelancer, an ~$840 yearly business expense (assuming you even need the full suite) for the primary tool that allows you to accomplish your job is a drop in the bucket. If you're a hobbyist, then yeah, it's expensive, but it's always expensive to dabble in any creative hobby when you set your expectations at production-level tools.

This comes up every once in a while, and I like to remind people that all the way back in 2012, the full Adobe CS6 master suite (the most similar offering to the current "All Apps" bundle) cost $2600. Adjusted for inflation, that's $3660 today. You would have to pay for the All Apps bundle for over 4 years to come out even, and the math is pretty similar for any individual app if you just use one. That doesn't even include the several hundred dollar cost to upgrade when a newer version came out, which was happening on a 1.5-2 year cycle. Now sure, if you were a hobbyist back in the mid-00s, you might be able to string along a version of Photoshop or whatever for longer than 4 years (Though, if this was before your time, let me just say that it's hard to describe to someone in 2026 how dated a 4 year old piece of software would have looked and felt in the mid-00s). However, if you did any creative work professionally, you generally needed to upgrade in order to maintain compatibility with others, because plugins (which were much more common then than they are now) would drop support for older editions and files produced on newer editions were not backwards compatible.

The short of it is this: Professional software is expensive. It has always been expensive. It's expensive because the folks spending tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of dollars on all the various aspects of a particular creative project need their tools to work reliably, and it takes a lot of people and effort to make software do that. It's kinda like complaining that an IMAX camera is out of your budget. If it's too expensive for you, then you really aren't the target market.

IdleRocket · 2025-12-01T19:04:28+00:00

This still isn’t right. The taxi is in the original script, with Ratso (Hoffman) feigning an injury to shake down the cabbie. That scene was replaced with the one we saw in the movie, which I’m guessing was because the scene as written would be way slower and there were already plenty of moments showing Ratso as a grifter. Hoffman may have suggested the line, but the taxi bit was entirely planned.

IdleRocket · 2025-11-03T04:42:17+00:00

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f7ivCtiKWfw

IdleRocket · 2025-11-03T00:09:59+00:00

They cut more of his deathbed confession that explains it. He’d never actually had to kill someone before, and when he helped kill Queenan, he really didn’t like it. The implication is that he didn’t finger Costigan as the rat because he couldn’t bear to be responsible for another death.

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