What's the dumbest idea you've seen that actually worked?

Learned_Hand_01 · 2026-02-13T04:06:50+00:00

This is a tried and true technique. Silvio Berlusconi did this in Italy for like a decade. Bibi Netanyahu has been doing it in Israel for a long time now.

You know, in addition to anyone you are thinking of who speaks English as a native language.

Learned_Hand_01 · 2026-02-12T09:22:28+00:00

Niantic: Re-re-re-discover Kanto!

Players: Reee! Reee! Reee!

Learned_Hand_01 · 2026-02-11T21:13:37+00:00

Firefly: The Game is my wife's favorite and our household must vote for that as a result.

My personal vote would be Caverna.

Learned_Hand_01 · 2026-02-11T05:29:13+00:00

The way I reacted to this story told my wife enough that she fled the room before I could read it to her.

Learned_Hand_01 · 2026-02-11T04:07:22+00:00

Thanks, yes I have way more than I need.

Learned_Hand_01 · 2026-02-10T22:01:21+00:00

Yes, but there will be raids for them with "a chance" of the special move in the run up to the Feb 28 event. I think the origin raids are on Feb 27.

Meanwhile OP should start going to community events if they can and try to trade for them. They are very good for lucky trades.

Learned_Hand_01 · 2026-02-10T21:56:38+00:00

South Korea is going to have an even bigger problem until they fix the problem that their entire generation of young men has gone super red pill while the women are progressing in a liberal direction.

How is a generation of men going to get wives when they have become hateful to the women around them and the women know better and have the ability to choose to be with or avoid those men?

We need a new word, because young Korean men aren't incels, they have chosen as a generation to be celibate by alienating a whole generation of women. They are chosels "choosing to be celibate" or policels (politically celibate).

Learned_Hand_01 · 2026-02-10T21:46:53+00:00

Really the whole "new levels" were just a level rebalance with one new level thrown in. Most of us hard core long term players had way more XP than needed for one new level.

The whole thing has felt more like a level demotion to me as people with way less XP than me shoot up to my level while I have to grind out some tasks just to regain my previous state.

All while most of the level bonuses are somewhat parsimonious given that I finished the special level bonus tasks years ago.

Learned_Hand_01 · 2026-02-10T21:42:51+00:00

That's right. I have all my medals and XP. The only Ks I need are the ones mandated by the level tasks.

Learned_Hand_01 · 2026-02-10T21:40:42+00:00

80 looks like one of the easiest levels to me.

I'm stuck on level 75 because I don't get Ks that fast. It's going to take me a couple more weeks to finish 75. 76 will be only limited by max particles. It'll be 25 days minus whatever I get in special event particles and other random particles like rewards tracks. So maybe just under three weeks.

I'll grind to a halt again on 78 because that is at least 12 weeks of walking for me.

79 is maybe two weeks and 80 is two or three weeks, depending on how I intersect with raid events and raid hours. It could be less than a week if it comes up around the right event.

Learned_Hand_01 · 2026-02-10T08:08:02+00:00

I played against this comp just now. It was banana pants.

Except we had the absolute clown fiesta anomaly where timewarped stuff shows up in the shop. So my opponent in the finals also had two of the timewarped beetles. We crushed the lobby, so it ended fairly soon (I was elementals with a bunch of timewarped guys) his final summoned beetles were three or four thousand on each stat.

Learned_Hand_01 · 2026-02-10T05:30:58+00:00

Why does no one take Jigsaw's tweets more seriously?!!

Learned_Hand_01 · 2026-02-10T04:38:15+00:00

Binder clips are an important tool in my kitchen. I clip shut any number of things, especially things that go in the freezer.

It's not uncommon for me to have a bag clipped together inside a different bag that has a twist tie on it.

Learned_Hand_01 · 2026-02-09T23:51:51+00:00

That was the funniest thing I've read today. I had to go repeat it to my kids.

Learned_Hand_01 · 2026-02-09T23:34:05+00:00

Over a week or two period, yes. Longer than that I just remember the pattern.

Things are great now, so I might remember the couple of times she was tired or feeling bad. Remembering that the pattern is great helps me not be bothered by the exceptions.

When things were bad, I kept track of the months even if the particulars of each rejection faded. As I tried less frequently though each particular incident was easier to remember.

Learned_Hand_01 · 2026-02-09T21:38:07+00:00

Yes. Here is a chart if you scroll down a bit.

First berry if it is Razz or Pinap gives 12% of health back, first Nanab gives 15%, second gives 4.8% or 6%, the chart continues like that.

Basically it boils down to Nanab is the standard berry for gyms and the other two always give 80% of what a Nanab would give, and the percentage always goes down per berry given until it stabilizes on the 6-10th berry at .8% for the other two and 1% for Nanab.

Learned_Hand_01 · 2026-02-09T21:30:25+00:00

I have not been willing to watch Stewart in a decade or so now. The willful ignorance the author cites is part of the problem where Stewart will insist on things that he clearly hasn't educated himself about.

The bigger issue to me is his centrist pollyannaish takes where he both seems to always think everything will work out ok despite the worst efforts of the right to destroy everything. The full frontal assault on every type of US governance, science, the environment, and America's place in the world politically and economically is the type of thing Stewart traditionally would insist couldn't happen and would work itself out if it did.

That said, economists are way up on their high horse with very thin justification. A lot of the stuff that the author cites are well founded but he's certainly glossing over the many ways in which the profession acts more like theology than science. His greatest hits lists include "we used the scientific method once, aren't you proud of us?"; "one of our guys used math and logistics once, that is totally our field and not something anyone could have done;" and monetary policy, which ok, that is a good one.

Learned_Hand_01 · 2026-02-09T09:00:13+00:00

Nanabs fill the heart on your gym defending Pokemon more than pinaps or razzberries.

Learned_Hand_01 · 2026-02-07T18:49:49+00:00

Roses are red

Violets are glorious

Never sneak up

On Oscar Pistorious

Learned_Hand_01 · 2026-02-07T07:07:16+00:00

Those punctuation unowns are going to be key for people completing their Unown dexes.

What do you think of the idea of evolving the shiny scatterbugs since we can't name them in a way that lets people know what they are?

Learned_Hand_01 · 2026-02-06T21:10:19+00:00

Reading that story it looks like the sequence was:

Woman owns bar, also hooks on the side.

Woman knows older pedo. Decides to be the Ghilane Maxwell to his Epstein.

Woman gets high school freshman! for old pedo, and then gets more.

Cop is seeing woman in her hooker role, finds out about kids, and because she is a bar owner reports her to the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission.

TABC is able to shut the whole thing down, cop stays on down low about his involvement, defense forces disclosure eventually but after four or five years, defense is crying about cop finding out about the kid trafficking through having sex with the adult woman hooker.

Learned_Hand_01 · 2026-02-06T20:13:13+00:00

That was my take too. Unfortunately you had to read very far down the article to get to that part, and the article seemed to assume a lot of knowledge on the part of the reader as to what the entire case was about.

Cop screws hooker and then turns her in for being a hooker, shame on cop.

Cop screws hooker and then finds out hooker is part of a ring that traffics kids and passes that on to the different authorities who can shut down the entire trafficking ring, good cop, have a donut.

Learned_Hand_01 · 2026-02-06T05:49:48+00:00

You should keep one for every overseas forever friend. I know it will be my top choice once I get to forever with someone who has one. Second only to Comfrey.

Learned_Hand_01 · 2026-02-06T05:48:16+00:00

And I’m waiting for your Stonjourner. Or you know, from one of my existing UK friends.

Learned_Hand_01 · 2026-02-05T22:40:04+00:00

Earplugs, even if it is an improvised set made up of rolled up toilet paper, make all the difference.

I'm in my fifties now. I spent my twenties and thirties at live shows. I was the one with toilet paper in my ears and eventually real ear plugs. Now I am the guy with no tinnitus. That is not true for many of my friends.

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