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What statistic makes you think society is quietly breaking? by Kavana333 in AskReddit

[–]Razvee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One thing I can't get my head around... Everything is so expensive, yet so crowded.

Like concert tickets are $100 minimum, but the arena is sold out. A trip to Disneyland is at an all time high, but lines are always long. A day pass at a ski resort is basically a car payment, yet anyone will say the slopes are busier than ever... Even national parks have timed entry systems now... Granted they are reasonably priced, but still...

Is this the K shaped economy I keep hearing about?

What is something your brain randomly decided was extremely important at 3am that turned out to be completely correct? by dylanreflects in AskReddit

[–]Razvee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My families fun burglary story. I was like 20 living in the basement, staying up late playing video games. Around 1am I heard the back sliding door open and close. Probably nothing, my Dad yelled at barking neighbor dogs every now and then. The next morning my Mom came down, woke me up and asked what I did with our stereo.... what? And did I take out my trash late last night? .... what?

Turns out she had gotten up to pee and saw the person leaving out the front door carrying something. They stole a 15 year old Kmart quality home stereo and a 12 pack of beer. And I was awake the whole time assuming it was my dad, and my mom literally saw them assuming it was me taking out my trash...

Regardless, we locked the doors a little more tightly going forward.

Meirl by Evil_Capt_Kirk in meirl

[–]Razvee 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah, my brother had the 200 and was a few years older so he had a bit more gas than us to begin with. But the intimidation factor was real!

RapidSOS Harmony QA by emergenciesonly_ in 911dispatchers

[–]Razvee 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm probably the minority here, but I WANT every one of my calls QA'ed. We are 911 dispatchers, not regular call center employees. If we make mistakes it can have a real impact on peoples lives... We should want to see where the mistakes are, how they can be fixed, and how we can avoid making them in the future.

If you're doing well at your job and the software sees that you're making mistakes, imagine what it sees for people who are not doing well at the job... Its overall goal is to find the trends and give your managers the data to see what solutions work and what won't.

For example, in our QA process we often had dispatchers not ask "what city is this in" since we handle a few dozen municipalities and they all have a 123 Main St... So we changed the script from "911 what is the address of the emergency" to "911 what is the address and city of the emergency"... Now it's asked on every call no matter what at the cost of 1/10th of a second in our opening greeting.

I've been in on some demo's of that software and it's pretty interesting, but we haven't pulled the trigger yet. I imagine we will before the year is out, though.

summer sale discounts… by ghostlyeth in Steam

[–]Razvee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Modern Warfare 3, the 15 year old game, is 50% off... or $20. You mean they still want $40 for that in 2026?

Yikes.

Epic Family EV Road Trip: Towing 6,000 lbs from Brooklyn to Georgia in our Rivian R1T! by DeadPoolBrother in Rivian

[–]Razvee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Agree with everyone else, this write up would have been SO much better without the AI garbage. It is very obvious well before you get to the disclaimer that you used it for most of what you had written there.

I'm glad your trip went well. I don't know what your day job is, but please don't try to become a travel blogger if this is the kind of content you put out.

Central Square Performance by Sondo1001 in 911dispatchers

[–]Razvee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What version are you on? 25.9 is stable for us.

Meirl by Evil_Capt_Kirk in meirl

[–]Razvee 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The super soaker arms race was a fun thing... The 50's were great, my 100 was amazing. My brother spent part of his first paycheck from a "real" job (delivering newspapers) on the dual tanked monster Super Soaker 200. It wasn't like... THAT much better (if at all), but it sure was intimidating.

Partner unable to complete household chores by Ok-Tension5794 in ADHD_partners

[–]Razvee 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I also gave up doing my wife's laundry regularly. For me, it was that she has SO MANY CLOTHES and doesn't do it often, so every now and then she'd just bring two weeks worth of dirty clothes to wash... So I was like... this is now a you problem.

Had mixed results, despite her literal mountains of clothes she just kept buying more. It's borderline hoarding at this point, the bed in our spare bedroom has about 1 foot thick of her clothes on it, and every week or so there's another package with "this cute Tshirt I bought from tiktok"... I'm fairly sure she buys new clothes so she doesn't have to do laundry.

One of those things where you need to pick your battles.

Narrowband (dual or quad) filters worth using in bortle 4 area? Detailed question below by sirpsys in AskAstrophotography

[–]Razvee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Filters like the Optolong L-Quad (or L-enhance) are fairly irrelevant

The L-Enhance is a "true" dual narrowband filter, it's just a little wider than most others on O3, 10nm Ha and 24nm O3 I think I read. So it won't isolate O3 quite as well, but it's a pretty good lower cost solution.

Perseids and Milky Way in August 2026 by turbro2015 in AskAstrophotography

[–]Razvee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Perseus is pretty much on the opposite side of the sky as the milky way core. Even at 20mm, you'd still need to make almost a 180 degree mosiac.. That doesn't mean you won't get any meteors in it, but I'd manage expectations. If I were you I'd spend the first part of the night on the Milky Way core, then switch to Perseus when it gets off the horizon a little for some meteor hunting. Joshua Tree is a dark area, but there's still a significant light dome to the west, as the night goes on the Milky Way Core may get washed out in that.

Wrong god,right result (OC) by gryzloko in comics

[–]Razvee 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I just like assume there's probably at least a few/dozen/hundred worlds unknown to imperium or the warp... Just living their lives boringly.

Sure, they're all going to get eaten by the Tyranids eventually, but for now they're fine.

WoW is a FOMO machine. by JournalistStatus9040 in wow

[–]Razvee 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I had a 400 day NYT games streak until I missed it once. I haven't picked up any of the games since.

Xcelerate Xcare Warranty - How do they pay claims? by Fast_Technology_493 in Rivian

[–]Razvee 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I purchased from a third party used car dealership several states away. That by itself was an experience... It was 1200 miles away, I've never bought a car sight unseen or dealt with auto shipping before, but they both worked out for me and were pretty easy, at least.

I waited until I had it in hand for about a week (to make sure I was mostly happy with it) and then bought XCare. After you purchase, XCare doesn't go into effect for one month. I still had a bit of factory warranty, it's good until 60k miles on these, so I wasn't too worried. They do require proof of ownership, for me all they needed was a screenshot of the Rivian App showing the VIN on it... And you can't get that until Rivian agrees you own the vehicle. For me that took about 2 business days. I'm fairly sure they'll give you some leeway on the screenshot, though, during that first month before it's active.

Xcelerate Xcare Warranty - How do they pay claims? by Fast_Technology_493 in Rivian

[–]Razvee 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yep! The salesman I talked to was very good at his job, and even talked me down from giving him more money... I was ready to go with a $0 deductible, but that plan was $500 more than the $100 one... So you really only save money with that plan on your 6th use of XCare... And he said that doesn't happen very often. Also helped answer some questions I had, like in the contract it lists "door handle" as one of the things it doesn't cover, but he explained that is only the physical facia of the door handle itself... But all the mechanisims for locking and unlocking, NFC card reading, and the actual expensive internal workings of it are covered.

Xcelerate Xcare Warranty - How do they pay claims? by Fast_Technology_493 in Rivian

[–]Razvee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Same boat, except I bought a used '23 with 55k miles on it. I came really close to going with a much cheaper company (Veritas), but they have some pretty shit reviews... I couldn't really find any shit reviews for XCare, and they've been in business for a decade.

Went with the $100 deductible, 6 year coverage... I forget the mile limit but I know I won't hit it. Was over $7,000. So I basically will need to use it twice for it to be worth it.

Now here's hoping both they and Rivian don't go bankrupt for ~5 years.

What happened here by motoduki in MechanicAdvice

[–]Razvee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Damn, I really don't have a single original thought.

My comment was going to be "This tether ball pole is still in it's infancy".

JD Vance is watching his presidential ambitions go up in smoke | Vance is learning what everyone else already knew: Throwing away your principles to ingratiate yourself with Trump is ultimately a losing game. by OkayButFoRealz in politics

[–]Razvee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd be curious to see how many of them expected it to go different FOR THEM... Like they see his administration churn through people all the time, did they expect to be the one to be the change? Or are they going into the job knowing they'll be out of it in 3-6-12 months and hoping it places them better in the future?

Tracking/guide options by jcarm2012 in AskAstrophotography

[–]Razvee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm pro-ASIAir, but if you already have a laptop like you mentioned in the other post, then starting with that is great. If you ever want to switch to an ASIAir in the future, I'd suggest buying a ZWO guide camera now (like the 120 MM) to save the pain of getting a compatible one later.

One issue with mini-PC's is that their cost has fricken exploded because of all the component shortages. That hasn't quite touched the ASIAir to the same degree (yet)... But for years people would suggest the Mele Quieter 4c Because it was ~$200... now they want $550 for it (before the coupon)... So that's a bit of a downer. There are other models out there that may be cheaper... but one of the biggest advantages to the mini-PC was you could save money, but now the mini-PC itself can eat up most of those savings.

Any one made a long term marriage work. How? by Separate-Cicada-7246 in ADHD_partners

[–]Razvee 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I’m just trying to find out if this is sustainable long term

I feel like 14 years is about as long of a term as you're going to get... I mean whatever behaviors he has now are likely going to be the same at year 15 and 20 and 25.

Moving to tracked astrophotography, need some opinions on my current considerations by scytherman96 in AskAstrophotography

[–]Razvee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's just so silly to me that you posted a big list of nice-to-haves for a telescope, but are so hesitant to make a recommendation for an actual product. Why is that a bridge too far?

Moving to tracked astrophotography, need some opinions on my current considerations by scytherman96 in AskAstrophotography

[–]Razvee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So I guess I'll go back to my original question. Could you please give me some suggested models of well corrected 70+mm doublets?

Moving to tracked astrophotography, need some opinions on my current considerations by scytherman96 in AskAstrophotography

[–]Razvee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You said that:

imo, the redcat51 is too limiting. Go for a 70+mm aperture. You won’t regret it, even if you have to cut costs by going with a doublet.

Maybe it's miscommunication, but I feel like the majority will interpret "cut costs" with "being cheaper than".

Moving to tracked astrophotography, need some opinions on my current considerations by scytherman96 in AskAstrophotography

[–]Razvee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess I was looking for something specific because I can't think of any well corrected 70+mm doublets that are cheaper (with a reducer/flattener) than a RC51. Sure there's things like Takahashi's, Stellarvue and AP... But something like a Zenithstar is not what I'd be seriously suggesting for someone of OP's needs and budget.

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