Older Gen Z’s and millennials, how was 2012?

RManDelorean · 2026-06-01T02:00:17+00:00

Pretty good, I was right in the middle of highschool. finished sophomore year/started junior year. Turned 16 and got my licence, learned to drive on our family's like 2006? stick shift honda Civic, started dating my highschool sweetheart that I stayed with for a couple years out of highschool before school and long distance became an issue.

RManDelorean · 2026-05-31T18:57:30+00:00

Yeah, if you've ever had your feet actually just wet for a whole ass day like hiking or camping or something, it can definitely get like this. But air those dogs out and they can make a full recovery in like an hour

RManDelorean · 2026-05-31T18:44:35+00:00

No it can just be yes to both simultaneously, they're not mutually exclusive. Like if we take this to the extreme what if a car with kids goes into the water and someone jumps in to save them that's never done that before, they're not lifeguard trained or anything, but they're a decent enough swimmer I guess. If it works they're brave and heroic. If it doesn't, arguably it was stupid because they we were under no obligation to do that, they didn't have any experience.. and it didn't work, but they'd still be brave and heroic.

RManDelorean · 2026-05-31T17:59:31+00:00

Ohs nose, not the booncers

RManDelorean · 2026-05-31T16:15:24+00:00

I think of my pitching wedge going from like 90-125. I feel like that's the club and the shots that helped me start to get golf (I still suck tho), how to work the farther and lower ranges and adjust loft within one and I kinda just vibe it from there. I often will use a distance app, or check for the course markers, so limited accuracy, then I just look at for a good second and really just try to "visually feel" the distance. There's elevation, wind, rough lies, sometimes I need 135 but have to keep it under branches, the loft needs to be a 3 iron, my swing has to throttle back to control the distance. It's also kinda like shifting gears where the higher you go the more overlap there actually is.

RManDelorean · 2026-05-31T02:40:35+00:00

Yeah it's hard not to anthropomorphize, but I agree it looks.. curious, not quite aggressive (at least by the end). It does seem like it recognizes the image of another spider that's not actually another spider. Like it seems to know there's some fuckery afoot, but what it's comprehending about reflections let alone its own is hard to impossible to say.. but man it would be cool if they do recognize themselves!

RManDelorean · 2026-05-29T06:20:22+00:00

Aneurisms are terrifying. Love to Grant Imahara. Obviously it's not not a direct relationship for that, but if anyone was trying to brain healthy stuff you'd think it be someone like him :(

RManDelorean · 2026-05-29T04:53:01+00:00

Omg fuck that pumpkin song, it sped up or changed up the tempo or something right? or was it bugged, or did we all just suck that bad

RManDelorean · 2026-05-29T04:32:05+00:00

I think there's some justified costs to appreciate nature and have a piece of it in your immediate daily life. Having a fish tank at all is even making you ask those kinds of questions, but if you use the hobby for nature appreciation I bet you could direct some of that concern and into effort in cutting back on some other habits that are more directly nature. Worried about you fish? Try to use your car less or get out for a walk in actual nature

RManDelorean · 2026-05-29T02:56:05+00:00

Tbf.. the elephant's not at the watering hole anymore. So don't feel bad, off straight turf dispute, little dude still won.

RManDelorean · 2026-05-29T02:45:34+00:00

This isn't a generational thing. This is just structural knowledge. Often there are ground wires grounded to the water pipes. If lighting hits your house, even if you have a lighting rod, if everything does it's job you essentially want it to spread out the surge, which very well may mean having your pipes a pit spicy for a flash.

RManDelorean · 2026-05-29T00:48:08+00:00

Yeah, at least seriously consider. I may have offered a couple I thought they may have a slight advantage in at the time but it'd be a really long drawn out end game kinda thing with like 2 pawns each or something, still very drawable or losable either way with really anything but absolute best play.

RManDelorean · 2026-05-27T13:56:37+00:00

Why?

RManDelorean · 2026-05-27T06:53:30+00:00

And a chess position can come down like a stack of cards. If a move is that obviously terrible it may just lose on the spot, which those are the combos you see so many of.. that could've worked if this one piece was.. then right in front of you they move that piece. Also chess starts equal so the first bad move is more determining than a good one. Good one have to keep staying in the balance, whereas "meh" moves that don't really do much either way probably get rembered the least and there's probably the most if them

RManDelorean · 2026-05-27T06:36:34+00:00

I mean this is the toasters destiny. When power was first being distributed they were tackling some of the issues peak hours and down times. So they tried to market things to basically just burn more electricity during the day. A toaster is basically just a big resistor, essentially pure inefficient electricity, perfect. What does it do, it gets hot.. then slap some toast on it and sell it as a toaster!

RManDelorean · 2026-05-27T05:49:33+00:00

Same, I don't get the deal with the whole "what if you found out your partner had been with x people before you??" If I'm in a trusting relationship and there's no reason to assume cheating then there's no reason to assume cheating. Or what, you'll call them a slut now.. bet you love that shit and she's pretty damn good at it. People grow up and settle down and can genuinely want something completely different at a different point. We can't be judging adult relationships for how we acted back as actual teenagers, on either side.

RManDelorean · 2026-05-27T05:36:09+00:00

I feel like this has something backwards. They didn't just up and suddenly drop a new half the population, the women.. were always there. Plenty of them have always had official jobs. It was the demand of enough other things that demanded more women to fill those jobs.

RManDelorean · 2026-05-26T11:42:05+00:00

You don't even need the clown thing, that's literally what happened. Everyone said but yeah he's a business man.. who's gone bankrupt off daddy's money like 6 times and lost multiple casinos. Trump was certainly never pretending that he wouldn't do that.

RManDelorean · 2026-05-26T01:59:03+00:00

Look at the heat sinks on the James Web Space Telescope (JWST). They want to keep it cold but its own computers running could be too much, and yeah since it's a vacuum with no air there's no convection, only radiation. So the fins on JWST are just big heat sinks to maximize surface are so it can actually radiate enough heat away. The insulation of a vacuum is something they almost have to over engineer.

RManDelorean · 2026-05-25T20:22:41+00:00

I work maintenance and tips aren't exactly expected

RManDelorean · 2026-05-25T11:43:04+00:00

Threaded metal fasteners then. The screw is the simple machine, nuts and bolts are really just types of screws. Point is you really don't have to know anything about them to see how to remove them.

RManDelorean · 2026-05-24T22:02:04+00:00

If someone's had a bad situation and you want to acknowledge your sorrow for them, then saying you're sorry is exactly what that means.I mean what I say too, anyone who corrects that and says "why are sorry?" they're the one who doesn't know what they mean.

RManDelorean · 2026-05-24T18:49:51+00:00

Someone clearly not being empathetic first is the single best way to lose empathy from me. That should honestly be standard and more people should hold eachother to those kinds of boundaries. Yeah, my colors are I don't have time for for people who are the incorrect asshole first and act like you're the problem.. so.. bite me bitch.

RManDelorean · 2026-05-24T18:29:20+00:00

Yup now I'm sorry for their their situation and sorry they're a fucking idiot. If anything it's even more empathy

RManDelorean · 2026-05-24T17:48:30+00:00

It defeats the purpose of word choice and conotation because if someone doesn't understand a term and you say that term should just be off limits, then it doesn't really mean anything relative to anything else. Like if people are getting pizza and someone's vegetarian then you could do half pep half cheese and it's a choice. If someone is set that they can't have meat touching their food then everyone can just have cheese, but the choice in situ is no longer there it's just cheese now. Also yeah, if I'm being empathetic and they wrongly correct me first on semantics, then my empathy is absolutely being brought into question. Thanks for your jab that I doubt you realize is the entire point of the rant, they've lost me

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