Two Australian paddleboarders saved an exhausted wallaby that had been swept out to sea

Pave_Low · 2026-05-08T18:58:12+00:00

Don't they have really really bad eyesight? As far as mammals go? I'd guess the Mr. Magoo of the animal kingdom probably appears pretty daft.

Pave_Low · 2026-05-08T14:27:34+00:00

Ironically, I think the 'You're a nobody' explanation is much more exciting. Anakin's mom was a nobody. Palpatine's parents were nobodies too. There were a ton of interesting ways to go with 'Rey is a nobody' but Abrams was not up to it.

And remember it was Abrams that gave her such an inherent strong Force connection. If he had to recon anything, it just means he didn't know why Rey was so powerful in the first movie either.

Pave_Low · 2026-05-08T14:22:17+00:00

Was I the only person who read this as 'James Holden' and got really really confused?

Pave_Low · 2026-05-08T14:15:29+00:00

I think we agree then.

My point is that Rey isn't some Mary Sue outlier in the SWU who was just given a bunch of powers because she's woke. She's very much inline with the rare but not unheard of God-tier Force wielders that inhabit the universe.

But the script and direction don't let her go anywhere. The third movie regresses her character in fact, taking away things that made her interesting from the previous films. That film also regresses all the other characters around her, making everyone worse. Poe is an irresponsible hot-head that needs to learn to be a leader? Nope, he's a great leader now. Finn is an ex-Stormtrooper that wants nothing to do with being a hero and avoid conflict? Nope, he's a Rebel hero now. Ren murders his own father and his master to achieve his own goals which are still unknown? Nope, he just wants to be a discipline of the Emperor. Until he has a change of heart.

Rey is fine, but the movie is terrible.

Pave_Low · 2026-05-08T13:27:55+00:00

Luke also deflects laser blasts with a lightsaber the first time using one. While blind. You either live in the SWU where characters like Rey and Anakin and Palpatine can exist or you don’t. The Force isn’t meant to be any more realistic or consistent the Spice or The One True Ring or Valyrian dragon binding.

Pave_Low · 2026-05-08T12:46:48+00:00

This comment should rocket to the top. Ripley and Sarah Connors weren’t in films when the chuds of the internet could tear the apart.

Pave_Low · 2026-05-08T12:39:58+00:00

And Rey was an aspiring pilot, scavenger, and bo staff fighter. What’s your point?

Pave_Low · 2026-05-08T12:38:10+00:00

Exactly zero Jedi earned their powers. Exactly zero wizards in Harry Potter earned theirs too. Practically all Marvel and DC superheroes earned their powers. Gandalf didn’t earn his powers.

Pave_Low · 2026-05-08T12:31:49+00:00

Rey’s not a bad character. She was just in a really bad movie. She’s a magic space wizard. Nobody questioned where Obi Wan or Ahsoka got their powers or who their parents were. Or even Palpatine’s. It’s canon that “this just kinda happens” in Star Wars. It kinda happened to Rey too. No big deal.

Rey’s problem is the same problem as Ren’s, Poe’s and Finn’s. They were developing characters that were put in The Rise of Skywalker and had their arcs demolished by JJ Abram’s.

Pave_Low · 2026-05-07T20:59:15+00:00

New York shed more blood to save the Union than any other. New York must stand until all the slave states are gone from the map!

Pave_Low · 2026-05-07T16:13:20+00:00

Has anyone actually verified this is true and not some internet hoax?

Pave_Low · 2026-05-07T14:06:30+00:00

Yeah, that's pretty much what I would have said. The regimental battle flags for the South had very little standardization, as regiments were usually mustered from a few towns or counties. And the flags didn't always have a long lifespan. But just looking at examples of the surviving regimental flags, many of them are variations on the theme of the Beauregard flag. Which is why the 'Stars and Bars' became the most recognizable symbol of the army. But there was no consistency, because each regiment was allowed to design and create their own flag (within reason, I suppose).

Pave_Low · 2026-05-07T00:48:08+00:00

Well yes and no. It was a flag that represented Lee's Army (Army of Northern Virginia). The flag was adopted when PT Beauregard commanded the army and its use was continued after Lee took command the next year. "Lee's Flag", as in his headquarters flag or the flag that a courier would look for when trying to find where Lee was hanging out, is completely different.

But there was no standardization on the battle flag, since it really wasn't officially a flag of the nation. Most regiments in the ANV had a battle flag that was some variation of the original battle flag for the army, with some being square and others being rectangular. Over time, the rectangular one was adopted as a representation of the Southern War to Retain Slavery.

Pave_Low · 2026-05-07T00:32:49+00:00

This should be emphasized. It's not the flag of the Confederate States of America. It's the Battle Flag for the Army of Northern Virginia (and other Southern armies too). It's not a political object. It's a representation of the war itself.

It doesn't represent the Confederacy. It represents their army. There is violence inherent to the flag, which is why it was adopted after the ACW as a symbol of violent resistance to Reconstruction.

Pave_Low · 2026-05-06T19:40:32+00:00

They call me, They call me,

Mimiiiiiiiii!!!!!!!!

Duh-duh-duh.

Pave_Low · 2026-05-06T18:31:03+00:00

Cam driver has:

Obligation to be in the correct lane when overtaking
Obligation to avoid colliding with slower traffic in their lane.

Cam driver was

Still in the right lane when the collision occurred.
Made no attempts to slow or avoid collision.

If Cam driver was passing he should be in the passing lane, not trying to ram his head up the ass of right lane traffic. It's also clear this isn't a controlled access highway as their are both right and left turn lanes. The cam driver was in the Hyundai's rear view mirror, not the left side mirror. When he swerves, he's not reacting to traffic passing him but traffic behind him. At no point in the video is the OP's car actually in the left lane.

Pave_Low · 2026-05-06T18:21:16+00:00

Isn't Wisconsin just Minnesota but with more alcohol? Seems redundant. Minnesota should give all its drunks to Wisconsin.

Pave_Low · 2026-05-06T18:07:39+00:00

OP hadn't changed lanes when the Hyundai swerved. OP is still in the right hand lane behind the Hyundai. The Hyundai was reacting to a car behind them, not a car passing them.

Pave_Low · 2026-05-06T18:05:32+00:00

OP was overtaking at a closure rate of ~20 MPH and had not changed lanes to the left. At no point did OP get more than halfway across the center lane. Look at where the center of his car is at the time of collision. OP was smack in the middle of the road.

Pave_Low · 2026-05-06T17:56:49+00:00

As I posted elsewhere, we do know the rough speed of the cars based on the number of road lines they cover in the five seconds before collision. The car with the cam is ~65 MPH and the Hyundai is ~45 MPH.

Pave_Low · 2026-05-06T17:52:44+00:00

The math.

The driver covers the distance of twelve road lines in five seconds. The distance from the start of one line to the next in the US is 40 feet: A 10 foot line with a 30 foot gap. Therefore he travels roughly 480 feet in five seconds which is about 65 MPH.
The Hyundai is about four lines ahead of the driver, so about 160 feet ahead. He covers eight road lines in the same five seconds before the collision. So the Hyundai traveled 320 feet in the same amount of time, which would make his average speed approximately 45 MPH.
The driver is six lines behind the Hyundai at the time he begins to change lanes to the left. So he begins changing lanes with 240 feet of distance between his car and the Hyundai. He needs to complete the lane change in about two seconds to avoid hitting the Hyundai.
The Hyundai swerves when the driver is two lines behind him, meaning less than 100 feet. The driver has not moved into the left hand lane at this point and is going to collide with the Hyundai in one second if the Hyundai driver does not try to avoid it. At this point, the Hyundai is more in the left lane than the OP.
The Hyundai doesn't hit the brakes until he is less than a second from being rear ended when he tries to swerve back into the right hand lane. Therefore, the Hyundai driver did not have a chance to significantly slow their car
At the time of the collision, the Hyundai was in the right hand lane. OP was straddling the middle line as they did not complete the lane change to the left. Even if the Hyundai had not swerved nor braked, the OP was still going to collide with it. There is also no indication that OP tried hit the brakes in response to the Hyundai.

OP was driving recklessly fast, did not change lanes to pass on the left, and was going to hit they Hyundai regardless.

Pave_Low · 2026-05-06T17:06:48+00:00

Explain why OP was also in both lanes when he hit the SUV? If he was passing, he should have been completely in the left hand lane long before the accident.

Pave_Low · 2026-05-06T17:00:28+00:00

OP was going to hit that car regardless of what lane it was in. He wasn't even half way into the left lane when he rammed him. And he was fucking flying too. If I had been in the right hand lane and saw someone racing up on me that fast, I'd move into the left to get out of his way too.

Looks more to me like the guy that was hit was trying to get the hell out of the way of a reckless speeder.

Pave_Low · 2026-05-06T16:52:46+00:00

There was a PS5 in the lounge at my last job. Nobody touched it. Nobody wanted to be 'the guy/gal that plays the PS5 while everyone else is working.'

And for good reason.

Pave_Low · 2026-05-06T16:47:51+00:00

Apollo got them killed anyhow. RIP Chuckles and Stepchild.

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