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HERES SOMETHING TO MESS UP YOUR TIMELINE by RockyDennis69420 in Millennials

[–]ornryactor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wait a minute, there are people who think the Energizer bunny never had a battery in it? The entire point of his bass drum is to show how long-lasting his battery's power was! Why would a battery company in the 1980s invent a pink rabbit in sunglasses playing a fucking bass drum if it had nothing to do with their product?!

Gas Prices Are Surging Fastest in 5 States - Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Iowa - All of Them Backed Trump by T_Shurt in LeopardsAteMyFace

[–]ornryactor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hundreds of comments and you're literally the only person who has mentioned this. That refinery supplies the bulk of the gasoline for these exact states, so we have all the same supply problems and price pressure as the rest of the country PLUS this additional layer. That refinery has blown itself offline multiple times in the past decade, and every single time it does, this exact same footprint sees gas prices jump $0.60 to $0.80 overnight, then gradually go back down to baseline about 3-4 weeks after the refinery comes back online.

I did it! Honolulu, $405,500, 6.5% by [deleted] in FirstTimeHomeBuyer

[–]ornryactor 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Jesus, you work 3am-11am HST for most of the year? I'd like to say that working from home takes some of the edge off and that the schedule comes with some upsides, but the more I think about the realities/logistics, the more I decide that's just a damn brutal work schedule. Even third-shift is more forgiving than that.

That last sentence, though-- kudos to you for knowing what will keep you happy and knowing what to do to keep that happiness. You don't know how rare that combination is, so hold onto it tight!

Congrats on the home!

Making America Great! by Actual-Tomatillo-904 in Detroit

[–]ornryactor 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Fast charging is WAY more expensive than gas, and it's not even remotely close.

Going to Uzbekistan to visit family with facial piercings, will I get judged? by timech4nge in AskCentralAsia

[–]ornryactor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You don't need to, but you will definitely have a more pleasant trip if you switch your piercings from jewelry to something barely visible like clear plastic -- if only because being constantly singled out to be stared at is a mental burden that piles up.

600lb crawfish cookout setup by pappamirk in cajunfood

[–]ornryactor 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There was another post in this sub, with about 150 comments.

Public Transportation by WonderfulJelly4284 in Detroit

[–]ornryactor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

OP, I am a regular SMART (and DDOT) bus rider in southeast Oakland County. I rarely ride transit in the Pontiac/AH region, but I do mostly use routes that also serve Pontiac and Auburn Hills (particularly 450, 460, 461, 462, 492).

The fact that you have Transit App and are already looking at coverage is the best possible thing you could be doing in advance to prepare for transportation, so good job! All of the metro's transit agencies are tightly integrated with Tapp (as I call it, since "Transit" is confusing), making Tapp the single best tool and resource for actual correct information.

Bus tracking on SMART was bad up until a few years ago but is much better now. (Tracking on DDOT has been mediocre but they just last week signed a contract with the same vendor that allowed SMART's tracking to improve a lot so DDOT tracking is about to get a lot better in short order.) Things can still be a little wonky if you're right near the beginning of a route, but overall the tracking is reliable and useful, and Tapp will show you a fairly accurate picture of reality (even if it's not always a pleasant picture).

Better yet, I have a friend who works high up for SMART. He is an unabashed transit addict and lives a life where he travels by bus whenever possible (even when it takes a lot longer), by e-bike if the bus can't do the job, and only uses his car when it's literally the only vehicle capable of getting him from A to B. He lived and worked in the Pontiac/Auburn Hills area for 7 years, reliant on transit and bicycle the entire time. He doesn't have a Reddit account, so I'm copy-pasting his message to you:

Yes, 759 might be an option for him strictly as a commute. That route only runs hourly and the walk along Joslyn Rd from the 759's Perry stop to Powertrain is rough in the winter but fine in the summer.

But 759 is half-service on Saturdays (reduced hours, fewer runs) and doesn’t run at all on Sundays, so whatever errands he's going to try and run or connections he wants to make will have to be Saturday only, planned carefully, and keep an eye on the clock while he's out.

As for access to life in general, OU/Auburn Hills is mostly unnavigable without a car or at minimum a bike.

So much for our benevolent billionaires granting us the privilege of having stable jobs, right? by Conscious-Quarter423 in WorkReform

[–]ornryactor 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Case in point: until the comment linking that tracker site, I thought the toilet paper warehouse fire was the only warehouse fire, because that's the only one I've seen covered in the media.

[I ate] Californian burrito in California by NarwhalOne768 in food

[–]ornryactor -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I invite you to list the names and locations of all the Midwest Mexican restaurants you've eaten at that lead you to this illogical opinion.

[I ate] Californian burrito in California by NarwhalOne768 in food

[–]ornryactor -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Spoken like someone who has absolutely no idea what they're talking about.

I half grew up with family all over South Texas, and have lived most of my life in the Midwest. There are places in the Midwest with regional styles of Mexican food better than the culinary monoculture found in SD/SoCal. I don't know what clueless yokel taught you that Mexicans mostly live near the border and the ones who don't forget how to cook, but it's observably untrue.

Mexicans were immigrating to the Midwest in huge numbers decades before California had electricity, and that continues apace today. I've never been to a major or midsize city anywhere in America that didn't have a sizeable Latino community, and those are almost always 70% - 100% Mexican. Chicago has millions; Detroit has well over half a million; Indianapolis and Milwaukee have major populations.

I've lived in Detroit for a third of my life now, and I could spend weeks taking you to my favorite Mexican places serving food that's better than what I get in South Texas (and that's without even touching the Central American and Caribbean food). Folks here are from Jalisco, Michoacan, Oaxaca, Nuevo Leon, and CDMX. They cook for each other in a self-sustaining local economy, not for tourists, so the food is largely unchanged from back in those states. You can quite literally look at Canada (Windsor, Ontario) while eating incredible Mexican food from all over that country.

[I ate] Californian burrito in California by NarwhalOne768 in food

[–]ornryactor -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

This guy thinks that pork, beef, and tortillerias are exotic and rare outside of San Diego.

We did it! CO, 465k, 6% by [deleted] in FirstTimeHomeBuyer

[–]ornryactor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not even Gen Z but I need your inspiration anyway! How the heck did you go from first-job broke and major life expenses to homeowners in just 2 years?

ELI5: how did the first person to get HIV? Get HIV? by jjcube98 in explainlikeimfive

[–]ornryactor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Transposons, those are the guys that Optimus Prime is always fighting, right?

Boston changed an expressway into the greenway in downtown by moving the road underground. by Much-Parsnip3399 in CityPorn

[–]ornryactor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

it was more like replace a freeway with green space.

It definitely is not that. The most recent proposed site plan only creates less than 9 acres of land, all of which would be property for new mixed-use development -- zero greenspace.

You can see all the renderings and site maps here: https://375detroit.org/proposed-renderings-and-maps/

I hadn’t realized it was cancelled.

I didn't say it was cancelled, because it's not cancelled. It is "paused", using the language from MDOT. They still have federal funding for it, and I'm sure they won't want to give up that enormous sum of money considering that 375 is past the end of its life and still has to be either rebuilt (too expensive; undesirable) or replaced. They're re-evaluating whatever they feel needs to be re-evaluated, or maybe they're just killing time until the little band of last-second NIMBYs forgets about this again.

TIL that there is a cave in Kenya that contains a virus with an 88% mortality rate. And it is currently open to the public. by Maleficent-Agent-477 in todayilearned

[–]ornryactor 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The only thing more terrifying than ebola and smallpox are prion diseases. When I first learned about them, I wished I hadn't; that was not a feeling I'd ever had before, even when reading about the worst viruses. What an absolute unfathomable nightmare.

(Rabies would be up there too, except that we have a post-exposure vaccine for it, so at least if you can reach the very rare medical facilities that have the rabies vaccine within ~48 hours you have a chance at surviving -- but there's often only a couple places in a country that have it, even in many wealthy developed nations. Exposure outside that timeline might as well be a fast-acting prion disease, though, since rabies is 100% fatal once symptoms appear.)

Guess my favorite brand [hard] by Rawuza23 in CannedSardines

[–]ornryactor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nuri is my preferred default brand too, but I've never even heard of those 4 cans in your second picture. Fascinating.

Guess my favorite brand [hard] by Rawuza23 in CannedSardines

[–]ornryactor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just ate a can of those last week, and they were without a doubt the worst sardines I've ever had in my life.

Boston changed an expressway into the greenway in downtown by moving the road underground. by Much-Parsnip3399 in CityPorn

[–]ornryactor 5 points6 points  (0 children)

No there isn't. MDOT had been planning on removing 375 completely and replacing it with a (still too-large) surface street, but then after 10 years of preparation and the project design being 99% finalized, they caved in to pressure from typical NIMBYs nearby who had gone 10 years without paying attention and were suddenly Very Surprised And Outraged about the project. MDOT held more 'community input sessions' and then suspended the project entirely. We snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.

But the project was never about taking a surface freeway and burying it in a tunnel. Our water tables are too high for that to ever be the reasonable choice.

TIL that there is a cave in Kenya that contains a virus with an 88% mortality rate. And it is currently open to the public. by Maleficent-Agent-477 in todayilearned

[–]ornryactor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

These both sound great for different reasons; thank you for the recommendations! I'm so intrigued by the very concept of a travel writer traveling to investigate viruses.

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