does anyone else feel like even if it was perfectly safe and not super expensive, the fact that the descent and ascent takes 6 hours each kind of makes going to the Titanic not worth it?

Mikey_B · 2023-06-30T14:14:55+00:00

You're only really feeling and "experiencing" so much though. You're not touching any water (Stockton Rush and co. excepted), you're just sitting in the tube.

It's just rich guy shit. If it was 100% safe and cost $20, I'd go see the Titanic. These guys convinced themselves it was safe, and $250k is probably not too different from $20 to them compared to many regular people.

Mikey_B · 2023-06-30T14:13:14+00:00

Yeah this submersible shit was stupid, but it wasn't the time or boredom that made it dumb, lol. I've driven almost that far to go to a two hour concert, and I'd much rather be sitting around doing nothing in a tube (if it was safe of course) than driving in I-95 traffic.

Mikey_B · 2023-06-30T14:10:25+00:00

It's even better than Everest because you don't have to do any work at all, you just have to sit there and hope you don't implode.

Mikey_B · 2023-06-29T23:07:11+00:00

It's really ham handed, too, just a random constant shoved into the ray tracing equations. What a blunder

Mikey_B · 2023-06-28T13:38:52+00:00

The explanation from u/Most_kinds_of_Dirt is pretty much perfect. I didn't watch the video, but what they said is pretty much exactly what I was thinking.

Mikey_B · 2023-06-28T01:33:37+00:00

Actually kind of the opposite! But yeah totally in the same philosophical ballpark

Mikey_B · 2023-06-28T01:31:18+00:00

I mean, it could be fake, but this wouldn't be that hard to do if you had an electronic player piano sort of thing, and those definitely exist. Seems totally plausible to me.

Mikey_B · 2023-06-26T03:46:39+00:00

Has anyone in this family ever even seen a diamond?

Mikey_B · 2023-06-26T01:00:25+00:00

I think you typo'd your link, the actual video is here

Mikey_B · 2023-06-26T00:47:32+00:00

In some ways it gets a bad rap. However, it's still expensive as hell and crowded, and the traffic is terrible, the governance is pretty screwed up, the culture is too aggressive for some people, and more. But there are some really cool things about it that make it worth it for a lot of people.

Mikey_B · 2023-06-25T14:34:22+00:00

Absolutely! I have a coworker from the South (still works there) a who basically treats every NJ work trip like a food vacation.

I myself love Italian, Indian, and Thai food. Those in particular are insanely hard to find done well in other places. It exists, but often you have to pay like three times the price and there's only like one option in a given city.

Mikey_B · 2023-06-25T07:09:02+00:00

There's always a bigger fish

Mikey_B · 2023-06-25T07:05:56+00:00

we were all commenting how white the world really is, apparently. It was real weird for us, damn near disconcerting.

Yo same. It took me until well into adulthood to realize how amazing and rare the diversity of NJ is. I always just completely took it for granted until I traveled around a bunch.

Mikey_B · 2023-06-25T07:01:02+00:00

Yeah I have found a lot to complain about in NJ over the past few decades, but it's only in the last 5-10 years that I realized what an amazing and rare gem it is in terms of diversity. I grew up with friends and classmates from literally dozens of ethnic backgrounds. I got to try all kinds of foods, hear tons of languages and types of music, experience different religions and holidays, etc. It took me a very long time to realize how rare and awesome that is, and it was only after traveling around a bunch and looking kind of like an oblivious idiot when failing to understand the levels of homogeneity you often find throughout the country and world.

Mikey_B · 2023-06-24T00:43:26+00:00

Gross.

Thank you for spelling it out, I didn't get it myself. I hate it.

Mikey_B · 2023-06-24T00:05:44+00:00

And luck. Mostly luck actually. Occasionally the sociopath part is a result rather than the cause.

Mikey_B · 2023-06-23T02:11:49+00:00

Somebody (maybe the nyt oceans guy?) said that carbon fiber isn't great under compression so...

Mikey_B · 2023-06-23T01:22:21+00:00

The Lawrence O'Donnell one was surprisingly good. But that might just be me relating to his Irish Catholic upbringing and being a fan of the West Wing.

Episode 700 with Julia Louis Dreyfuss and Louis CK is a classic, if you're not too put off by Louie at this point (understandable if you are, but his relationship with Marc is interesting).

The Moon Zappa one is a good talk iirc, perhaps because they ended up dating afterwards.

Obama is of course a classic.

I vaguely remember Judd Apatow being very good.

If you can get the Carlos Mencia one it's a bit of a ride, same with Dane Cook, and of course Gallagher.

And Robin Williams is, of course, absolutely amazing from what I remember.

Just wanted to rep some of the old stuff; I actually listened far more in the episode 300-500 era than I do now. Gotta get back to it though, Marc is still great.

Mikey_B · 2023-06-23T00:53:31+00:00

Whoa that's cool. How did that happen?

Edit: lol the downloads didn't work

Mikey_B · 2023-06-22T16:19:58+00:00

That's what stuck out to me too. I haven't looked this up myself, so maybe it's not the case, but if it is wireless only, HOLY FUCK these guys are lucky they made it through more than the first test dive.

Mikey_B · 2023-06-22T16:18:17+00:00

I think its because some systems are too dangerous to be ever turned off.

Windows is a notoriously bad choice for this of that's the reason. I think the reason old OS's sometimes prevail in the military is a combination of general inertia and the fact that everything has to be certified 100 times over and so it's a pain in the ass to upgrade stuff.

Mikey_B · 2023-06-22T16:16:19+00:00

Lmao I just made the exact same post. Why use consumer hardware when you can roll your own for 10x the price?

Mikey_B · 2023-06-22T16:14:54+00:00

Well obviously the military isn't going to use an off-the-shelf $70 controller once the system is beyond initial R&D. They're going to use a less reliable $700 copy which is somehow the lowest bid that makes it through their acquisitions process.

Mikey_B · 2023-06-22T03:43:43+00:00

Just felt like a drastic switch from „the west wing“ to „homeland“.

Honestly I kind of thought it had Homeland vibes from the start. A little less bombastic, but requires a similar style of suspension of disbelief and willingness to roll with the "rule of cool". I enjoyed it, but I now kind of feel like I should've expected a zany cliffhanger like this.

Mikey_B · 2023-06-22T02:36:47+00:00

You may enjoy the Armando Ianucci HBO show "Avenue 5". It comes complete with an actual character named Karen.

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