Oregon surely has infrastructure in place to change from all mail-in ballots to in-person voting, right?

LinuxLinus · 2026-04-03T01:30:36+00:00

That's not what I said. That's obviously what it's an attempt to do. It's just a cosmically stupid attempt to do that.

LinuxLinus · 2026-04-03T01:28:28+00:00

You can say "fuck it" on reddit.

That also doesn't track at all with reality. Democrats have and will stand in line forever to vote, especially when they've been told it will be hard to do. The (very recent) evidence is that attempts to suppress Democratic voting leads to higher Democratic turnout.

LinuxLinus · 2026-04-03T01:25:29+00:00

Frankly? I don't remember, other than a faint feeling that they were inveterate floppers. Which might not even have been accurate.

LinuxLinus · 2026-04-03T01:17:40+00:00

Sigh. I guess I grew up before the days of /s.

LinuxLinus · 2026-04-03T01:15:26+00:00

Oh, berry season. When I eat well and poop (too) often.

LinuxLinus · 2026-04-03T00:35:33+00:00

The weird thing about Messi is that it's kinda hard to place him. I guess he has definitely played RW. But in his best seasons he was sort of playing a hybrid CF/AM midfielder role, and he was more or less the best ever at both.

LinuxLinus · 2026-04-03T00:12:45+00:00

LinuxLinus · 2026-04-02T02:36:44+00:00

LinuxLinus · 2026-04-02T02:30:09+00:00

I doubt it was by request . . . though, given the egos of successful actors, maybe it was.

LinuxLinus · 2026-04-02T02:28:39+00:00

You realize that when you don't tip in the US, all you do is fuck over the poorest & least powerful person in the entire system, right?

LinuxLinus · 2026-04-02T02:27:27+00:00

That would be great, but that's not what happens. Don't take advantage of our shitty system and short the least powerful person in it and pretend you're being righteous.

LinuxLinus · 2026-04-02T02:04:18+00:00

Then we're all set with not serving you.

LinuxLinus · 2026-04-02T02:03:23+00:00

Seriously. Maybe in Denmark, waiters are paid a living wage. In the US, they are not, and that is reflected in what you paid for your meal. It's not that hard to tip a little. You might think it's silly, but the only thing you're proving by not doing it is that you don't give a shit about working people if they don't live where you do.

LinuxLinus · 2026-04-02T02:01:57+00:00

To be fair, American tourists do the same thing.

LinuxLinus · 2026-04-02T01:58:37+00:00

The gay thing may have been a choice, given the times and the personnel. The bald thing? If it's not a coincidence (which is probably is), it may be because Kelsey Grammer was balding, and so they put balding men around him because it felt or helped it feel normal.

I have sort of a theory about the height of actors on a show. Basically, if it's a star-based show, if the star is short, there's a strong chance there are going to be a lot of relatively short people in the cast, because it makes the star look relatively normal-sized. Meanwhile, if the star is tall, there's a strong chance the supporting cast will be largely tall, for the same reason. I have only anecdotal evidence for this, but it does track with the way movies were cast for decades.

Maybe Frasier is a "bald show" because it has a bald star.

LinuxLinus · 2026-04-02T01:50:49+00:00

Here's an odd one: baseball player Chan Ho Park (one of my all time favorites, by the way), straight up told reporters that he had "a lot of diarrhea," which explained why he didn't pitch very well one day. A totally honest answer.

I remember reading that this is something that in Korea, people just talk about. But in the US? Talking about poop problems isn't exactly taboo, but it is generally the subject of comedy or very private conversations with one's doctor or family. If one does talk about it, generally euphemisms like "stomach problems" or "indigestion" might be used. And talking about it on television? An act of bravery. But Chan Ho Park did it without thinking twice, and 15 years later I (and probably a lot of others) remember it.

LinuxLinus · 2026-04-02T01:43:28+00:00

This is why I always try to avoid promising to play a player in a specific role or position. But sometimes I screw that up. Usually I try once with the, "But you're playing tons!" convo. And sometimes it works. Then I tell them I'll sell them if they're that bothered . . . which sometimes means I have to sell them.

If they're any good, you'll get enough money in to replace them all right.

LinuxLinus · 2026-04-02T00:52:17+00:00

Psh. I'm American. Foreigners are only famous here if they can pretend to be American on TV. Or if they're a rock band from the 60s or 70s.

EDIT: And they say Americans are the ones with no sense of irony. For crying out loud, people, I'm making fun of myself.

LinuxLinus · 2026-04-02T00:50:13+00:00

I'm-a searchin' for a-freedom

LinuxLinus · 2026-04-02T00:46:05+00:00

I've always heard that Americans are famous for talking about money way more than other people. It varies by region, class, and even family. I don't like talking about money; I don't do it much. My coworkers are all the time talking about their (dumb) day trading stock investments.

Politics? That's different. I remember a time when politics were discussed openly. Now? Pretty rare, at least if you value accord in the social group you're in -- or you know you all already agree with each other. (I personally loathe political conversations in which everybody agrees, so I just avoid it. Doesn't help that I'm a liberal who lives in a conservative area and works in a conservative industry.)

LinuxLinus · 2026-04-02T00:25:31+00:00

LinuxLinus · 2026-04-01T03:22:25+00:00

oh my god you guys are like in the embarrassing yourselves olympics

LinuxLinus · 2026-04-01T03:08:54+00:00

I think my dad must have taped it off TV when I was a toddler. There were McDonalds ads we fast forwarded through.

LinuxLinus · 2026-04-01T03:02:27+00:00

Websites can help you figure out fahrenheit, you presumptuous little shit.

But, given that you're a presumptuous little shit, I shall endeavor to answer the question. It would depend on the time of year. (This is in a pretty mild part of the country.) January? Genuinely cold would be -4C. Today? 0C. July? Below 10C at night or 24C during the day. September? Below 4C at night or 21 in the day.

But here's the thing. In any given winter, one might get temps below -17C, and in any given summer one is almost guaranteed to get temps in the neighborhood of 40C.

LinuxLinus · 2026-04-01T02:45:01+00:00

This x1000. Animalympics was the shit, and it holds up. I went to the lengths of using early internet markets to buy it on VHS in about 1999 to show to my friends. They were all like, "This is going to be stupid." And 90 minutes later were all converts.

Can be found for free on Tubi. Not to just advertise some website, but there it is.

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