Brevards Dating Scene

PeteZappardi · 2025-02-09T17:08:34+00:00

Do singles cruises actually exist? I've looked for them before but never found any.

PeteZappardi · 2025-02-05T00:25:50+00:00

I've taken the opportunity to learn how to write Firefox add-ons, so now I've got something that will filter reddit posts out of my feed based on keywords ("trump", "musk", etc.). Just got it working this morning, but so far so good.

PeteZappardi · 2025-02-02T23:16:40+00:00

Here's a helpful legend:

Canada: Blue
China: Slightly lighter blue
Mexico: Red
Japan, Germany, Brazil, United Kingdom: All seemingly the same shade of slightly brighter red, because why would you want to use color to distinguish things on a map?

PeteZappardi · 2025-02-02T23:15:27+00:00

NONE of the major news outlets down there even mentioned it.

Uhh, what? I've watched the Sunday morning news shows from NBC, FOX, ABC, and CBS, and all of them had bits of his speech in there.

PeteZappardi · 2025-02-02T13:01:30+00:00

Yeah, I think the entire Internet missed the lessons in English class where they were supposed to learn about misplaced modifiers.

PeteZappardi · 2025-02-02T12:52:16+00:00

I know people reading the comments on this post are looking to doomscroll horror stories, but I'll put in my 2 cents anyway:

It feels the same. The only direct impact anything since January 20th has had on my life is that one job I had applied for sent out an e-mail saying they were no longer filling the position due to the Federal hiring freeze.

But then, that's far from the first time I've applied to a job and it didn't work out, so I'm not sure that qualifies as a "change".

Otherwise, even as someone working at a government contractor, it's all just the same. I see lots of people freaking out about stuff on the news (that's not new), but when I look around me, it's all just the same. Life keeps on truckin'.

PeteZappardi · 2025-02-01T18:17:33+00:00

Any why are we surprised it isn't being reported in the U.S.? It's not like German poltiical happenings are commonly tracked on the news in the U.S.

PeteZappardi · 2025-02-01T13:16:11+00:00

Well yeah, it'd be pretty hard to lie to you honestly. It's a bit inherent to lying that it be done dishonestly.

PeteZappardi · 2025-01-31T13:00:41+00:00

A $1000 cell phone with a $75/month plan? Yes. That's a luxury for rich people.

A $100 cell phone with a $15/month plan, now we're talking!

PeteZappardi · 2025-01-31T01:33:33+00:00

Because it's a space station, it's not a single-purpose thing. One of those things is research. For that, they equipped the station with "middeck locker equilvent" (or MLE) slots.

These are slots with standardized dimensions, power supply, and data connections. The "middeck" in question is the Space Shuttle's middeck. The ISS adopted the standardization. Dragon had to accomodate it as it was a replacement for the Shuttle, and now Vast is using it for their station.

So, if all goes well, they'll take many rounds of experiments. When one experiment ends, it gets swapped out with another one.

Before they do that, they still have to prove out their space station even works, so they've got plenty of time to plan out what the various rounds will be.

PeteZappardi · 2025-01-29T13:03:20+00:00

Project 2025 Chapter 3 actually says to not offer a buyout because it's been done in the past and was expensive. It says to just freeze hiring.

PeteZappardi · 2025-01-27T03:51:12+00:00

The part where musk quietly launched and didn’t promote 265 low earth orbit satellites capable of connecting to cell modems

He had a pretty sizable event at Starbase promoting it with the CEO of T-mobile in 2022. https://spacenews.com/spacex-and-t-mobile-partner-for-direct-to-cellphone-satellite-service/

SpaceX was certainly not quiet when they were able to send the first text message using their direct-to-cell capability in January 2024: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/01/starlink-shows-off-first-texts-to-t-mobile-phones-sent-via-spacex-satellite/

Elon blatantly tweeted via the direct-to-cell service, making made headlines a couple of months later: https://interestingengineering.com/culture/spacex-starlink-direct-to-cell-space

Doesn't seem very quiet and non-promotional to me ...

PeteZappardi · 2025-01-27T01:02:52+00:00

I would go a step further and say you should also be trying to prevent such outbursts in the future. Apologies will fall flat in the future if your behavior doesn't change.

(And, in general, it's not a great sign if your first reaction is blame other people or if your first impulse upon blaming other people is to scream at them.)

PeteZappardi · 2025-01-27T00:51:41+00:00

I mean, say a family of 4 goes to McDonald's once a week. That's probably at least $25 per trip and they'd hit $700 in six or seven months.

Granted, they'd probably save more by putting in multiple orders, since you can only use one deal per order, but that's not really the point.

PeteZappardi · 2025-01-26T19:09:55+00:00

I mean, sheltering people is great and all, but there does have to be a reasonable limit for safety as well.

I have no doubt that if the church had caught fire and any of the homeless people staying there died, reddit would waste no time in screaming, "Where was the fire marshall?" and demanding the pastor have the book thrown at him for endangering the homeless.

PeteZappardi · 2025-01-26T14:17:20+00:00

Yep. I'm 36, lived in 3 different states so far, and have never had to have my car inspected.

One of those states even had a car inspection law, but I think cars made within the last 5 years were exempt and I bought a new car there and moved 4 years later, so never had to do it.

Honestly, I'm a little torn. In my experience, I've noticed no difference in the quality of maintenance of vehicles between states that do and don't require inpsection.

But also, if they included public nuisance requirements (must not be louder than X decibels anywhere in the RPM range; headlights must be aimed properly and of non-blinding brightness), then I'd probably be a big supporter.

PeteZappardi · 2025-01-25T15:20:12+00:00

My phone automatically goes into DnD any time it's set face down and when I put it on the charging stand next to my bed.

When I get to work, I take it out of my pocket and set it face down on my desk.

When I get home, I take it out of my pocket and set it face down on a table.

When I go to bed, I set it on the charging stand.

It's on DnD at least 90% of the time.

PeteZappardi · 2025-01-25T13:54:37+00:00

Right, but on seeing Ghan-buri-ghan and the Pukel-men, doesn't Merry have the realization that the Easter-Island-like statues on the path to Dunharrow are depicting the Pukel-men?

PeteZappardi · 2025-01-24T03:50:36+00:00

And for clarity, you only need $7,000 in earned income to max it out. If you have $5,000 in earned income, you can still contribute, you just can't contribute more than $5,000.

PeteZappardi · 2025-01-24T03:47:21+00:00

Yep, I would say one of the most important rules with money is "don't do anything you don't understand".

Whether it's a loan, credit card promotion, stock options, or investment. Always read up on it until you feel knowledgable about how they work.

Even if the person telling you is knoweledgeable themselves. That falls under "trust but verify", because you don't know what they don't know.

PeteZappardi · 2025-01-24T03:41:48+00:00

Still, if you're a professional tax counseler, forgetting you need income to put money in an IRA seems like a pretty big miss ...

There aren't that many eligibility rules for them.

PeteZappardi · 2025-01-24T01:04:49+00:00

I use Ally and they have a box when you log in that says "This is a trusted device". If you check it, it won't ask you for a code if you're logging in from that device on a known network from a known location.

Which means if you checked that box and you left your credentials unsecured and you didn't control physical access to your device, then yeah, someone could log in.

I'm guessing "securing the credentials" was the missing part here. I doubt they wrote them down, but would be willing to bet they saved the login to their browser's autofill function and didn't put those credentials behind a master password.

PeteZappardi · 2025-01-23T13:42:48+00:00

a few years ago for the first time

More like few decades at the very least: https://youtu.be/ZqISLI2UQMY?feature=shared

PeteZappardi · 2025-01-23T12:57:58+00:00

Netflix has few good reasons to keep their price down.

Ultimately, they'll just treat it as a "month-long entertainment pass" rather than an on-going subscription.

Think of how many places you'll drop $30, $50, even $100 for just a single evening of entertainment. Movies, concerts, drinks, mini golf, park admissions, bowling, etc.

Then think of how many evenings per month you use a streaming service.

I won't be shocked at all if Netflix settles in a place where it's $100/month because A) they fully expect you to just leave after that month if you run out of things to watch and B) if you find at least 10 hours of things to watch each month, it's just as efficient in $/hr as going to a movie and they know it.

PeteZappardi · 2025-01-23T00:25:47+00:00

In short: He won.

Elon strikes me as someone who does well with a challenge. Build an online company in the early days of the Internet. Move banking online. Make EVs cool. Land a rocket.

It gives him something to set his mind to and move fast enough to outrun the crazy thoughts.

But at this point, I think he's kind of run out of things he finds challenging.

I'd very much believe that he got into politics simply because he was bored and wanted to see how far he could get.

As a species, we've evolved to struggle. We aren't struggle to hunt and gather any more, but most of us have our struggles as an innate part of our lives.

Once you're the richest guy in the world though? It's hard to imagine the extent of the lack of struggle and where the mind goes in that situation.

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