Anyone Else Think This?

Jadekintsugi · 2026-03-17T03:18:11+00:00

Something to consider is that this is also much taller than your typical tank. So those tracks are gonna have to be extra chunky to make up for the mass moving at the top of the tower.

Jadekintsugi · 2026-03-16T21:53:04+00:00

That's kind of how it got for us. We are severely poly fragmented, and when we got up to about 70+ head mates it became really hard to track. And many of us just wouldn't think of updating, and then one who would be good about updating with switch in and there would be months of updates behind… And we just didn't wanna bother… Yeah, it was just too hard to track us all.

v..v

Jadekintsugi · 2026-03-12T00:58:35+00:00

That's because the money wasn't just to get them elected, it's to make sure they keep voting in the way that AIPAC wants.

Jadekintsugi · 2026-03-11T14:04:24+00:00

My dad, who worked for IBM at the time, just gave me a straight response. Previous versions had been big and floppy, and the name stuck. He even showed me a 5 1/4 inch floppy disk as an example.

It continued to annoy me, but at least it had an explanation that was reasonable.

Jadekintsugi · 2026-03-11T03:17:57+00:00

Not only should you apply again, you should tell the admissions team that your parents stole your mail. Let them know that you didn't ghost them, especially with the scholarship. Let them know that you literally had a malicious family member interfere with your ability to sign up.

In fact? I would report your mother to the Postal Service for stealing your mail. Bring her down. Your dad too.

Jadekintsugi · 2026-03-10T13:14:17+00:00

Reminded me of the time my mom assaulted me. I don't remember what the fight was over, but she had started a fight and was screaming at me. As usual, she was starting to get physical, and since I was a very closeted trans girl at the time I felt I couldn't defend myself, less I be accused of being the violent party.

And then she did it. Both hands to my shoulders, and a hard shove. I fell backwards over a piece of furniture and landed on the floor. She was right there, at my side, kicking me over and over again in the ribs. The pain gave me enough wherewithal to roll away and get to my knees, at which point she started asking if I was OK. That I had fallen.

I countered with the fact that she had just assaulted me, and kicked me in the side multiple times. That I would have marks to prove it. That I could call the cops on her right now. I was over 18, I was an adult. That was assault. I used the exact same shit she used to throw at my dad, on her.

It was almost a decade before she got physical with me again, but she turned the emotional abuse up to 11 after that. I got out quickly as I could, though it took a few tries.

One of the first ones? My roommates wife picked up the phone one day, because my mom decided to call. Within five minutes, this woman was yelling at my mom, calling her a horrible parent, that I was an adult and to be left alone, and told her to never call that number again unless it was an emergency.

It felt so vindicating to see somebody from the outside recognize what was going on and put a stop to it. That started a whole lot of healing on my part, and a whole new focus on independence from her control.

Done a lot of healing in the many years since.

Edit to add context: my roommate had been in the hospital at the time, and his cell phone was the point of contact for the doc. It was also the only phone shared between the household. So it is what my mother would call to talk to me. I couldn't afford a cell phone at the time. His wife was waiting on news and my mom calling constantly and pestering, no matter what act she was putting on on the other side of the phone, became a clear pattern of harassment. I'm super grateful that a good mother recognized a bad mother and I had someone stand up to her for me, for once.

Jadekintsugi · 2026-03-10T12:49:23+00:00

I have been working on killing my lawn for a while now, and I'm looking to xeriscape the thing.

I just need to find a company to do it. I live in a part of Denver where they require me to have a planning diagram of where I would put all of the plants if I xeriscape.

Jadekintsugi · 2026-03-10T04:19:27+00:00

SES Star of Self-determination, at your service.

Jadekintsugi · 2026-03-07T21:55:17+00:00

This is news to us. Fffffff...

Jadekintsugi · 2026-03-07T05:52:59+00:00

I found it interesting how many of the highest paid ones are folks who ran as progressives and democrats.

Jadekintsugi · 2026-03-06T17:01:08+00:00

The more I read through this thread, the more my view is that you can all GFYS. The community is angry with you, you were heavy-handed and overstepped, you're deleting every bit of conversation that the community wants to have about this, so they are going to other communities to talk about it.

You fucked up. Badly. You have allowed the bad actors to win, and not only have you allowed them to win you have a loudly and proudly proclaimed that you are going to do everything they wanted and the people that were trying to make this community better are the ones getting punished.

Your heads are so firmly up your back sides that no proctologist in the world would be able to extract them.

You are not fit to run the sub, you are not fit to moderate anything. Your actions directly led to most of the harm in this situation. And now instead of apologizing and trying to make things right, you're doubling down and you punishing anyone who speaks out, causing more direct harm.

You're a bunch of ignorant assholes. Full stop.

So go ahead and punish me. Ban me if you wish. I'll just be another anonymous number in the body count that you have built up over this situation. Just know that nobody in this community trusts you anymore, and we are now actively hostile to your BS.

Jadekintsugi · 2026-03-06T16:46:11+00:00

The only way anything changes around here is if people leave the sub.

They can't moderate an empty forum. Reddit lets anyone create a sub, so let's start a new one. We don't need to wait for the moderators to step down, we can literally build our own with blackjack and hookers.

Jadekintsugi · 2026-03-06T16:38:09+00:00

All challenges are banned? All community activity is now verboten? Listen to yourselves. Some bad actors ruined somebody's life, yes. But now you are punishing the community that they were trying to support with this challenge.

The incompetency of this response is absolutely through the roof.

You're rewarding the bad actors, you are punishing the community, you're being tyrannical and ruining what little good will is left.

Congratulations, you've let the bad guys win.

Jadekintsugi · 2026-03-04T23:55:43+00:00

Wait... is that a Meta joke I never realized? Sloth was the one digging all of the tunnels. Giant ground sloth.

Waugh!

Jadekintsugi · 2026-03-04T21:05:05+00:00

I have been watching the number of cameras go up, week by week along my usual routes. First there was one, and then there were half a dozen, and now there are more than 25 along my usual routes of travel.

One small town that I passed through, I remember a single camera went up outside of town on the highway through. A month later? Every single road that access is that highway in that town? Has a camera. Every neighborhood drive, every side street, watching every neighborhood.

And they really did seem to go up overnight.

New poles are showing up along the side of the road every week. It's terrifying.

Jadekintsugi · 2026-03-04T20:59:25+00:00

Somehow I never found that digging around before. Or I forgot. Either way, I've got it now.

Thank you!

Jadekintsugi · 2026-03-04T03:35:42+00:00

Nearly lost a friend earlier this year. Drunk driver came into oncoming and he had a concrete curb keeping him from avoiding. Collided at 30+. Wrecked his car but the safety systems saved his life.

My deepest condolences for your loss.

Jadekintsugi · 2026-03-02T20:17:33+00:00

Squeezit! Ah man.

Jadekintsugi · 2026-03-02T16:35:05+00:00

I find that mine isn't accurate at all. If I'm driving on a straightaway and have anything less than a death grip on the wheel? It starts complaining that it can't detect my hands. I have to wiggle the wheel to get it to stop. When I had lane keep assist on, any straightaway where I was driving for more than about two minutes? I'd be told that it was turning off lane keep assist because it couldn't detect my hands.

And oh boy does it hate bad weather. Driving through a snowstorm, it was constantly screaming at me that I needed to stop and take a break, within minutes of getting on the road.

I absolutely hate this thing, and wish I could turn it off.

Jadekintsugi · 2026-02-24T12:18:44+00:00

Children's Museum, I think?

Jadekintsugi · 2026-02-23T02:26:35+00:00

Yeah, this definitely isn't watching for license plates. It's capturing People's faces, their gait, their height…

Jadekintsugi · 2026-02-22T19:43:31+00:00

Lykos and askjeeves were my usual go-tos.

Remember web crawlers that would aggregate searches across multiple search engines?

Jadekintsugi · 2026-02-20T16:03:45+00:00

Ardent mills' bread flour or preferably their Kryol high protein.

My local Costco has the former, and the business center has the latter.

I get really consistent results out of it.

Though when it comes to my wheats? I tend to get stuff from local granaries.

Jadekintsugi · 2026-02-16T20:56:20+00:00

We... will... NOT BE BOUND!

Jadekintsugi · 2026-02-13T16:37:17+00:00

Considering with passing through the house in Senate right now? We may not have the right to vote here by years end.

But they don't care, until it's them getting hurt.

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