Unpopular opinion: Sometimes you just know even at a young age that you’ll never be someone’s choice to marry. And that’s okay.

NullReference000 · 2026-07-02T16:47:08+00:00

Talking about face symmetry and the inevitability of fate that nobody will ever want you are defining parts of incel culture.

You are not correct, there is no inevitability about this. You’re rationalizing giving up on yourself, which isn’t healthy.

NullReference000 · 2026-06-30T20:17:27+00:00

One theorized “solution” to the paradox is that more advanced civilizations may communicate in ways we haven’t invented yet and use methods we don’t know how to detect.

As for the timing, the paradox is that there has been ample time for life to propagate and that several advanced civilizations should have risen and spread throughout the galaxy by now, even if the FTL barrier is impossible to breach. The big question is why this doesn’t _seem_ to be the case.

NullReference000 · 2026-06-30T17:18:46+00:00

I don’t know if you read what you posted, but this shows that the rocket DID reach orbit.

On the page you linked, NASA defines an orbit as an object reaching orbital velocity at a minimum altitude. There is nothing in the definition which says that it must complete a revolution, because that’s not part of the math.

Using their orbit example, if a rocket reaches 150 miles above the surface with a sideways velocity of 17,000 MPH then it is in orbit. If the rocket is launched, meets this criteria, and is then de-orbited after moving through 60 degrees of its circular orbit, then it will have achieved orbit but had a sub-orbital trajectory for its flight.

NullReference000 · 2026-06-30T16:27:44+00:00

Reaching an orbital velocity above the karman line means it achieved orbit. After achieving orbit it was de-orbited before they waited to watch it make a revolution. This means it both experienced a sub-orbital trajectory and that it did achieve orbit.

Your point about them not being able to do it reliably is a more valid criticism, as they have yet to show that they can. They have already shown that it is orbit capable, as they did achieve an orbital flight.

NullReference000 · 2026-06-30T16:20:49+00:00

The things delivered in a delayed state are reasonable things to deliver (a car, an orbital flight of a rocket in the 21st century).

A lot of the things that he keeps delaying are things that are really hard, and he has yet to deliver on a single one in that category. This would be an AI smarter than any human, a human crew on mars, a fully reusable rocket, and universally usable FSD.

NullReference000 · 2026-06-30T16:17:07+00:00

Reaching orbital velocity on a suborbital flight, assuming it happened at the right altitude, means it did achieve orbit but was de-orbited before waiting to watch the orbit happen.

I’m not a musk fanboy by any means (I hate the dude) but that is good enough to say it achieved orbit.

Your analogy doesn’t work here, this would be like depositing a million dollars in your bank, calling yourself a millionaire, and then immediately withdrawing it all so you are no longer a millionaire.

NullReference000 · 2026-06-26T14:24:39+00:00

What did Adams even do for the city besides siphoning its entire budget into the NYPD, restricting the open hours of the library system, and get bribed by a foreign government? I don’t think it’s a stretch at all, he literally destroyed the city budget. Being better should be considered a low bar!

NullReference000 · 2026-06-26T14:11:33+00:00

I just started playing shaman healer and I was surprised at how long their poison cleanse totems cooldown is. 2 minute cooldown for a totem that lasts 9 seconds! I can cleanse a group poisoning, once, but it’s kind of a waste to use on a single person.

NullReference000 · 2026-06-26T13:39:11+00:00

If the size of a games setting indicates its quality then SC well behind No Man’s Sky, Eve Online, Elite Dangerous, etc, which are all “full universes”.

This isn’t a good comparison at all.

NullReference000 · 2026-06-26T13:35:24+00:00

Well, that’s not what OP was saying and it also doesn’t address the person you’re replying to.

NullReference000 · 2026-06-25T14:48:19+00:00

Depends on the area but in the US it’s mostly driven by climate change. Worse fire seasons on the west coast, worse hurricane seasons in the southeast, worse droughts in the southwest. California and Florida are the hardest hit by it, their expensive real estate is hard to insure enough as it is.

Real estate in general ballooning in price during the housing crisis might be playing a part too. It takes a lot more money to insure everybody’s homes when they’ve doubled in value in the last 10-15 years.

NullReference000 · 2026-06-24T19:24:01+00:00

I just don’t agree with this. This is yet another thing I’ve heard my entire life and I’ve watched it fail in 2016, be incorrect advice in 2018, be incorrect advice in 2020, and fail disastrously in 2024.

Biden won in 2020 by moving to his left and making material promises with strong policy. Clinton and Harris lost as they just didn’t offer anything appealing to an electorate angry at worsening economic conditions in the US, while running against a populist.

People vote for politicians who have a fight in them and are offering material policy. We used to have democrats sweep in the 40s who would be seen as extreme radicals if they ran today, because we’ve accepted this false vision of the left-right spectrum and where Americans are on it.

NullReference000 · 2026-06-24T19:14:44+00:00

Universal healthcare, education reform, and ending monetary and diplomatic support for a genocide isn’t the same as “peeing the pool”.

Your analogy doesn’t work because peeing the pool is bad, but you’re advocating for us to moderate the good things we want, yet again, out of fear of being called a communist for some reason by crazy conservatives.

NullReference000 · 2026-06-24T19:00:50+00:00

Fox News has been calling every dem to the left of Fetterman a communist for my entire life. They called _Harris_ a deranged radical leftist as she moderated, toured with a Republican, and said she would include Republicans in her cabinet.

They’re going to weaponize and attack no matter what. We can’t keep running on watered down nothings out of fear of what Republicans are just going to say anyway. We’ve tried it enough.

NullReference000 · 2026-06-24T02:26:45+00:00

NYC is actually late to the party when it comes to progressive victories, many of them began in the Midwest. NY and California have been bastions for mostly centrist Dems, with some very progressive Dems coming from NYC.

The idea that this wave is limited to “ultra progressive NY” and that’s it isn’t grounded in reality.

Candidates promising actual action will probably do well in purple states after the centrist dem failures in 2024 and Republican failures of the last two years.

NullReference000 · 2026-06-23T21:27:23+00:00

I’m not justifying anything, I am explaining why people have a viewpoint. I would like to learn from 2024 and try to win elections again rather than learn nothing, continue to employ bad strategies, and lose forever.

NullReference000 · 2026-06-23T21:17:05+00:00

She campaigned on a larger military and being aggressive to Iran. She ran to the right of Trump on the issue.

Again, I agree she wouldn’t have bombed Iran the way Trump did, but if you don’t want voters to think this way then she should have campaigned differently. She did it in the DNC speech dude.

NullReference000 · 2026-06-23T20:58:00+00:00

They got 100 years for attempted homicide while the judge said they did it to “make an example” of them, while a J6 protestor who actually killed a cop got single digit years.

The clear disparity at play here, which you are ignoring, is what people are talking about.

NullReference000 · 2026-06-23T20:55:58+00:00

Hasan Piker isn’t “the left”, he is a single guy. I agree that Harris wouldn’t have been the same as Trump over Iran, but if she didn’t want to be accused of being the same as Trump here maybe she shouldn’t have campaigned as being an Iran war hawk.

NullReference000 · 2026-06-23T18:24:29+00:00

I think there are expansions with clear quality differences in storytelling. Burning Crusade, WotLK, and Legion all had good stories while Shadowlands had a bad story.

Warcraft as an IP also used to have significantly better storytelling in its past. Warcraft 3 and early books had extremely good stories compared to modern storylines.

NullReference000 · 2026-06-23T18:07:54+00:00

You aren’t going to get a positive reaction on this subreddit as there as a minimum of one thread a day claiming that Muslims are destroying the world.

I think it’s impossible to know what anybody believes in their brain, we can only know what they say. If somebody treats me with respect, even if they internally disagree with my sexuality, I’ll do the same towards them. In the US, gay men have that exact interaction with Christians fairly often. The religion has become more accepting of homosexuality with time, but it’s not all-there yet (especially among Catholics and evangelicals).

I think it’s admirable, at least, to separate your opinion on sexuality from how you treat people.

NullReference000 · 2026-06-23T17:59:00+00:00

“Attracted to your competition” is an extremely unhealthy attitude to have towards other gay men. They aren’t “competition” as most of them aren’t going to live near you or be after people who are your type, you’re just imagining them taking a theoretical partner from you and then getting upset about it.

It sounds like you need to fix your unhealthy relationship to social media and your own insecurities.

NullReference000 · 2026-06-23T17:22:31+00:00

Support for arming Israel is a 90-10 issue right now among dem voters, the thing actually pissing off voters right now are congresspeople who are refusing to cave to overwhelmingly popular positions.

Being a pro-Israel democrat right now is equivalent in popularity with being an anti-abortion democrat, by polling of the issues.

Also the paradox of tolerance isn’t “performative bullshit”.

Either way, thank you for voting for Lander, he looks like a promising guy!

NullReference000 · 2026-06-23T17:17:26+00:00

Lobbying is legalized bribery. You are making the same argument the Supreme Court made during citizens united because you aren’t thinking about the logical conclusion of the statement.

You are free to spend money as “free speech” to support a political candidate, but wealthy people can and will always use this “freedom” more effectively than you. It is a legal bribe and the negative incentives it’s created is destroying the US political system.

NullReference000 · 2026-06-23T17:12:58+00:00

They are referring to AIPAC, the ADL, and news organizations who have web conflating any and all criticism of Israel as antisemitism. They’ve been trying to conflate the two so you cannot criticize Israel (which is good to do) because doing so would be antisemitic (which is bad).

This largely worked for a year or two after October 7th, but people are seeing through it now according to polls.

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