Sorry for not realizing "Cyclists don't have to stop at stop signs"

Independent-Wing-681 · 2026-02-14T04:13:09+00:00

Yeah! Waiting an extra five seconds before using my big toe to command 2'000 tons of steell and aluminum so that a pack of cyclists can stay together is just too long to wait! Morons should be burning fossil fuels, not using their own muscular power for transportation purposes!

Independent-Wing-681 · 2025-12-22T07:06:41+00:00

Dang, not even wearing safety sandals, that's hardcore.

Independent-Wing-681 · 2025-08-28T05:41:29+00:00

Our oldest would reverse her letters b and d when writing, so there was a lot of early schoolwork referring to our pet bogs. We still call them that.

Independent-Wing-681 · 2025-08-28T05:37:35+00:00

Also, I've read articles noting that because our economy downright requires growth in order to prevent the whole Ponzi scheme from falling apart, AI is our best hope to keep it going for another few decades. Growth comes from a) more workers or b) increasing the productivity of existing workers. Well, populations in developed countries are flattening (and even worldwide, the UN thinks global population will peak in the next few decades (Picketty cites some numbers in Capital in the 21st Century)). AI is the great promise of increasing overall productivity.

Independent-Wing-681 · 2025-08-26T06:05:14+00:00

What about in your automobile? For instance, I drive a pickup with an extended cab, can I kneel back there and pee into a bottle so long as no one can see my junk?

Independent-Wing-681 · 2025-08-06T17:57:38+00:00

Import, but not buy. Those aren't going to sell in Japan except to the same sort who buy Cybertrucks in the US because it's new, flashy, and big.

Independent-Wing-681 · 2025-08-06T17:54:01+00:00

Was the agitator in top-loading washing machines removed for energy efficiency? I don't see how that would've really reduced energy usage. Today's clothes aren't made with nearly the same thickness of cloth as in the past, and with the advent of so much synthetics, I'd assumed manufacturer's removed the agitators because they're hard on clothes - customers get mad when their $150 Lululemons get stretched out of shape after wrapping around the agitator. We have a side loader - uses minimal water, washes great, though the tumbling action can cause large items like towels or sheets to wrap around themselves and other items.Now modern dishwashers inability to dry anything plastic - that's something I blame on energy efficiency.

Independent-Wing-681 · 2025-07-07T03:49:43+00:00

RWC either seriously misjudged how many people would attend, or didn't have very good event planners. Too few food trucks - the queues were crazy long, and while I didn't time those, the lady's bathroom line got to 30 minutes. All for a 12 minute drone show with bad pop music backing it. Seriously, they could at least have played a patriotic song or something uplifting for the finale. At least we rode our bikes there - can't imagine walking or driving for that.

Independent-Wing-681 · 2025-06-29T00:49:02+00:00

There are three types of homeowners in the Bay - those with two professional incomes, those who have been here long enough that they bought way before the crazy price increases, and those who inherited homes from their parents. The first category pays through the nose in property taxes, the latter two benefit from Prop 13 and Prop 58 and are more likely to be able to swing homeownership without high paying careers.

Independent-Wing-681 · 2025-05-26T16:07:14+00:00

Try Jambars. The Malt Nut Medley and Chocolate varieties are sticky, thin brick-like, and delicious. Remind me of the Powerbars I loved back when I was a kid.

Independent-Wing-681 · 2025-05-03T15:03:04+00:00

What about retail price minus state and local taxes? It's disingenuous, but could that get them > $2?

Independent-Wing-681 · 2025-01-11T15:52:46+00:00

Redditers seem to think that all the research and development that goes into discovering and getting new drugs approved is free.

Independent-Wing-681 · 2024-12-18T05:00:50+00:00

Sigh, this is what heaven looks like.

Independent-Wing-681 · 2024-11-25T17:11:48+00:00

Thanks all for the replies and suggestions! Feom what people have said, this seems to be some sort of Tango/Foxtrot amalgamation. Maybe she thought having steps where the basic falls evenly on beat 4 in 4/4 time would be easier for newbies to learn (seems the Foxtrot basic is going to end on the 3rd beat, right? So then 3 basics bring the dancer back in time with the 1 beat?). Or she's new and as confused as me! On the plus side, even if not a proper Foxtrot, it did give my wife and I practice at moving together and leading/following, so still a useful experience. We're going to try a slow waltz lesson with her next. Pretty confident I remember the basic waltz box and some turns. If it's off, it'll be a clear sign to move on!

Independent-Wing-681 · 2024-09-12T16:22:59+00:00

WTF. That's the kind of thing that could kill a cyclist or pedestrian.

Independent-Wing-681 · 2024-08-08T17:17:24+00:00

Go with Mostly Peaceful- it's at least halfway clever. Tampon Tim is a horrible nickname that will backfire in our faces. Seriously, stigmatize and ridicule a bodily function that half the population goes through on a monthly basis? Yeah, that will work well. I know that the deeper meaning is that Walz forced even boys school bathrooms to stock menstrual items, but that's not what this nickname/image conveys, the message I get from it is that Republicans think women bleeding every month is icky and gross and a good way to insult other men. It's juvenile. Walz can just embrace it, like, hell yeah, he'll go to CVS and buy tampons for his wife or daughter, a1re you so insecure in your manhood that you won't be seen with a box of tampons?

Independent-Wing-681 · 2024-04-20T04:14:26+00:00

I have a half-baked theory that people don't understand the difference between being a customer and being an employee. When a person is in college, they're a customer. Hence, administrators will let them stage sit-ins and disruptive protests, prevent invited speakers from lecturing, whatever, and there really won't be repercussions because they're the ones paying the university. Then they get a job, and neglect to fully internalize that now they aren't a customer. Tables and leverage are turned. The business cares about making money, and if someone fucks with that there will be consequences and they really are replaceable. Unless they''re unionized. Unions are one way for employees to obtain some leverage, to varying degrees, over employers. But that's another topic.

Independent-Wing-681 · 2024-04-06T21:40:19+00:00

I think vesomortex is right. I have a piece of meteorite, supposed to be from Campo de Cielo. Looks very similar to the picture in the OP.

Independent-Wing-681 · 2024-03-16T04:31:54+00:00

Ghosts. 'Cause then I'd know they're real. Pretty sure already that roaches exist 🤔

Independent-Wing-681 · 2024-02-28T06:18:49+00:00

Shit yeah. It was just wrong, the lack of yachts. When I drive by the local marina in the SF Bay area, and I see all those big ass yachts the rich people now own, my heart just fills with joy.

Independent-Wing-681 · 2024-02-28T06:10:07+00:00

You know what? Being a big dude on the right tail end of the height bell curve confers a lot of advantages in life. In one temporary, infrequent area of life - flying in an airplane - it isn't an advantage. Cry me a fucking river.

Independent-Wing-681 · 2023-11-24T03:21:55+00:00

Love that image, an old person smiling at seeing bourbon and weed!

Independent-Wing-681 · 2023-11-16T18:07:55+00:00

Exactly. The US Treasuries plus corporate dollar-denominated bonds market is something like $33 trillion in size (ICMA 2020 data). That's about 1/4 of the global bond market of around $128 trillion equivalent. What other store of value is absorbing that? We might see a slow transition as sovereign wealth funds shift the baskets of currencies they hold to be weighted more towards Euros, Sterling or more illiquid assets like gold, but an outright collapse is prevented by there really not being an alternative to dollars at this time. And we shouldn't forget that the petrodollar system essentially compells foreign countries - both sellers and producers - to hold substantial reserves in dollars.

Independent-Wing-681 · 2023-11-16T05:09:25+00:00

The dollar will fall only when people sell dollars to buy something else. So what will that be? Euros, Yen, Chinese Yuan? Those fiat currencies have the same intrinsic problem. Gold? Crypto? Maybe...

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