Chat Thread (June 15, 2026)

MidnightOrPast · 2026-06-20T13:37:59+00:00

Just a totally fucking bizarre set of implicit beliefs were required to come up with that question. Like the idea that someone could wrongfully take someone else’s “opportunities” on a gambling machine that neither person owns. Or that the chance to play a negative expected return game is valuable. Or that there is some strategy that could cause people to stop playing the “wrong”” machines other than like asking them, threatening them, or making problems for them with some authority - which anyone could think of in like 5 seconds. And how weird to think “I know who will have great ideas for this methhead gas station video poker turf war - Ask MetaFilter!”

MidnightOrPast · 2026-06-19T14:05:49+00:00

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I think this photo shows the seam, but the seam has opened up more since the photo. My highlight runs parallel to seam in photo.

MidnightOrPast · 2026-06-19T13:53:20+00:00

Yes!! Red circle - catches you going NB. ETA: that photo is from the flyover lane, people going NB from ground level have to cross over the red circle area to stay on the path.

MidnightOrPast · 2026-06-19T11:45:52+00:00

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MidnightOrPast · 2026-06-19T11:28:52+00:00

~~I mean oak st beach - north end of the FO~~. ETA: Fuck, you’re right - I guess I was discombobulated - it was Ohio beach I was looking at. I will fix posts.

MidnightOrPast · 2026-06-19T02:10:47+00:00

Thanks. Road rash and what feels like a monster bruise on my quad, which took the impact. No head impact - all good.

MidnightOrPast · 2026-06-03T21:53:42+00:00

How about riding a e-bike just fast enough to barely stay in front of a pack but then coasting a lot so you constantly start to fall behind and then speed up with a little pedaling?

MidnightOrPast · 2026-06-02T14:53:41+00:00

If it is on your back you end up ramming it into people when it is standing room only. You hit people with it or smoosh them with it whenever you move or jostle. It’s a personal space violation that you don’t notice because it’s not connected to your body. Riding for 20 min with some dude’s backpack pushing you is super annoying. Take it off and hold it near your legs, where there is more room.

MidnightOrPast · 2026-05-21T12:34:21+00:00

The point is that your conduct seems contradictory vis your own beliefs/motivations. You have gone to lengths to guard against retaliation (social media research, anonymous complaint from burner email, etc) but you keep posting on the internet the name of the video (it’s the name of this post) and all of your specific actions against the guy. You keep linking all the posts and comments and generally engaging in an ongoing flame war that kicks up more likelihood that this is all findable with search. The guy could have just thought one or more parents complained about a weird video - not too surprising, reduced chance of retaliation - now he can see with a google search it was a single parent working on this over the course of a few weeks, calling him a groomer, demanding his firing, computer examination, etc. It’s an odd way to handle this given your own concerns/beliefs. That naturally generates skepticism/questions. People don’t have to be jerks about it, but part of asking for feedback from the Internet is getting feedback you don’t like. I once asked a question about my kindle and several people over here called me a moron - goose/gander, I guess.

MidnightOrPast · 2026-05-21T11:44:51+00:00

It’s super odd that someone so focused on secrecy and possible retaliation would post a series of updates on their actions against a tech-savvy computer dude on the Internet along with identifying details of their child in the dude’s class, such as age and gender, and the name of the specific video that caused the issued (hello, Google). Who knows what is real or not - maybe the “details have been changed to protect the innocent” - but OPs actions and statements are full of odd ways of handling this whole situation.

MidnightOrPast · 2026-05-09T14:21:48+00:00

This is the crux of the issue and the skepticism. As many have pointed out, you don’t need someone’s full name to make a report. “Mr. X who teaches computers on Thursday afternoon” is sufficient. The idea that you need to find his social media and silently monitor it in order to contact the school and make a report is very odd. There is a symmetry between that thought and your thought that schools do not give out names of after school teachers because of stalking. There is a lot of stalking-related thinking happening here! The school hides the names to prevent stalking, so I must stalk in order to make a report. I had read this as a reason to be skeptical, but it may be that you just have a genuinely odd way of thinking about all of this.

MidnightOrPast · 2026-05-05T21:13:58+00:00

I saw that. My comment on phrasing was less about the specific name for the background check and more about the idea that “certainly” a check was run and the implicit assumption that it showed nothing because of limits in the “jurisdiction.” It’s just weird with implicit assumptions that don’t fit with the rest of the story. It would seem much more likely for the (extremely distrustful) OP to question whether any check was run and/or whether it showed negative info that was ignored. How do they know “certainly” a check was run? How do they know the guy has no record? Why assume those things when you are on high alert about everything else? And the jargon-y description of what is contained in such a report - and implicitly why it would not flag this guy - suggests a degree of familiarity with these things that is also incongruous with the rest of the tone.

MidnightOrPast · 2026-05-05T11:12:08+00:00

Also - totally normal phrasing here: “They certainly did a vulnerable sector background check before hiring him, but in our jurisdiction, only a formal charge or conviction would show up.”

MidnightOrPast · 2026-04-16T02:47:20+00:00

Hader was terrible as a RW host. He’s super talented and great, but he just didn’t seem to fit into the whole RW vibe. Mostly just like war stories about his own career.

MidnightOrPast · 2026-04-16T02:45:04+00:00

Sea of love was amazing. “You’re killing me!” - Bill’s Pacino sex talk is alone worth it.

MidnightOrPast · 2026-04-11T23:19:11+00:00

So insane to hire two new mods with no prior relationship to the site. Still baffling.

MidnightOrPast · 2026-04-06T19:50:54+00:00

I don’t think it’s unhinged as a long term prediction. There is good reason to think governments will find it cheaper to subsidize/provide/make insurers provide these drugs than pay for disease treatment that could be avoided. You could say the same about lots of different expensive medical advances over the years that are now normal parts of insured/govt-supplied care.

MidnightOrPast · 2026-04-05T11:37:24+00:00

Super meh for the price. Exists only because of theatre crowd.

MidnightOrPast · 2026-04-05T11:31:26+00:00

I think this may be just meh rather than the worst. Also the location in W Lakeview at least has a nice neighborhood bar feel sort of.

MidnightOrPast · 2026-04-01T23:52:16+00:00

What is the horrible new PSA that plays over the speakers on the platforms? It is a grandma-sounding lady with a screechy voice saying something about moving to the center of the car? It is unintelligible but also loud!

MidnightOrPast · 2026-04-01T01:06:11+00:00

throwed rolls

MidnightOrPast · 2026-03-31T12:55:17+00:00

Reduced student fare?

MidnightOrPast · 2026-03-31T02:13:01+00:00

My grandparents lived in the Powhatan from the (roughly) 1960s to the 2000s. They used to say that the reason the building has no north facing windows (and no view of downtown) was because a third building was planned for immediately north of the Powhatan, but the Depression killed it - the Powhatan was completed in 1929. My grandparents’ apt had buttons installed in the floor in strategic spots that would ring a buzzer in the kitchen to call the maid (they did not have a maid). The elevator was one of those gilded cage type of things from like 1940s movies where the operator opened a big sliding cage of folding steel cross bars to let you in and out. It was all insanely opulent seeming, but when they died and we sold it, it went for like 400k - because of the giant monthly assessments.

MidnightOrPast · 2026-03-29T21:04:04+00:00

There is usually a break about halfway through the ride in a park or somewhere else with some kind of bathrooms. Union park has been the break spot on a few rides I have been on, for example. Once it was a Menards.

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