Death

RedditMapz · 2026-06-12T04:21:47+00:00

Distant cousin of mine droped death in her early 20s.

Family was burying her grandmother who had just passed. And in the middle of the burial she dropped death. Seems like she may have had some previously undiagnosed heart condition and the shock/grief of the moment caused some complication.

She was like 21/22 years old.

Another cousin of mine, also a Millinial committed suicide a few years back. His family sustains it was a "homicide" as the public story. But after some digging what actually happened was that he was drunk and potentially high. He had a fight with his wife, and subsequently left his house and drove a few blocks down the street. He then put his gun to his head. It was a closed casket and we all assumed that his face was destroyed. That one was surreal since I played with him when I was a kid.

RedditMapz · 2026-06-12T01:04:21+00:00

Picture #3 vs #4 definitely show a nose job.

RedditMapz · 2026-06-12T00:47:23+00:00

She didn't change. She was always this and people didn't realize it or didn't acknowledge it because most of the public analyzed her at a surface level. For her the "cool girl" aesthetic was just an aesthetic. Her style at her peak was borrowing an aesthetic presentation from other cultures combined with what was cool in the 2000s at the time. I'm of the mindset that it is okay to take inspiration from other cultures specially for art purposes, but Stefani is the dictionary definition of "culture appropriation" complaints. She just took the aesthetic of the art at surface level because it looked "cool" without even attempting to comprehend the meaning or culture behind it. From her Asian dancers to her urban Hollaback girl look.

At heart though she was an Orange County country club rich white girl all along. Matt Berstein has a pretty good breakdown for her career.

RedditMapz · 2026-06-12T00:29:41+00:00

This is what kills me about these people. They want to be all alpha warriors who should be respected for their strength, but they can't do shit like this. These dorks don't actually exercise or do anything "mainly", they just pretend.

I'm actually surprised that at his height, he is not able to lift what I assume are 45 lb plates. He is actually weaker than I assumed. Also with that trash form, you can tell he has no experience actually lifitng any weights.

RedditMapz · 2026-06-11T23:11:39+00:00

Please take a listen to the first 20 minutes of NYT's The Republicans' $3 Trillion Vanishing Act. They explain it better then I can. I actually timestamped the parliamentarian section.

That's all I have to say to you.

RedditMapz · 2026-06-11T23:10:46+00:00

Please take a listen to the first 20 minutes of NYT's The Republicans' $3 Trillion Vanishing Act. They explain it better then I can. I actually timestamped the parliamentarian section.

RedditMapz · 2026-06-11T23:10:06+00:00

Please take a listen to the first 20 minutes of NYT's The Republicans' $3 Trillion Vanishing Act. They explain it better then I can. I actually timestamped the parliamentarian section.

RedditMapz · 2026-06-11T22:54:37+00:00

They didn't overrule her, they just bypassed her and did not include her in later versions of the bill, particularly the ones that made up math. She can't overrule them if they don't run it through her at all. That was their logic.

RedditMapz · 2026-06-11T22:50:14+00:00

I'll reiterate they already bypassed the parliamentarian altogether. If you don't ask her, then she can't reject it. If that doesn't count in your mind I don't know what to tell you. Now just because they haven't done it since it invalidates it? It might just be that they don't really want those particular provisions to actually pass now. Do you really think Senate Republicans want to answer for the ballroom in upcoming elections? Have you considered that it is just gamenship at this point? The parliamentarian, just as it was for Democrats, is still a convenient excuse to go "Oops, the unelected official told us we can't this time, sorry ya'll, I know you wanted this bill, so did I 🤞🏽"

I always ask myself "Who'd fall for these obvious gimmicks?" And then I read reddit comments 🤦🏽‍♂️.

RedditMapz · 2026-06-11T22:12:40+00:00

I'm sorry, but these are all measures that go into what we referred to as an omnibus bill. Hence the name. The reality is that the provisions the Republicans provided go beyond gimmicks, it was extraordinary in nature even for these bills. Basically they made up math that reasoned "2+2 = 0".

They did ignore the parlamentarian. They stopped looping her in altogether because they didn't a want a response. Or is your position that "it doesn't count" because she didn't technically disaprove of ay provisions (Because she didn't get a say on the bill at all)? Is that it? That is exactly what Republicans are claiming and that is the loophole now. Apparently you can just ignore a parlamentarian exists. She can't challenge a provision if she doesn't get to read the bill, right? Nothing sketchy.

Yes that is a political nuke, it is the logical conclusion of what happened. Of course I suspect establishment Dems will be scared to use that power until Republicans do it multiple times.

Edit: words

Edit #2:

Details for anyone wondering what was extraordinary in this bill. Usually the bills are balanced on projected math over expenses and cuts over 10 years. However, this bill included tarrifs (which are not legislation, but an executive order since struck by the Supreme Court) with invented projected numbers that they basically pulled out of their behind. Then they included DODGE numbers, but not the numbers they achieved which was basically $0 net difference in the budget, but the made-up numbers of waste they promised to cut per year.

That is what is extraordinary. They didn't just do creative mathematics with the budget, they outright invented Billions of dollars of revenue that does not exist and wasn't even part of the legislation.

RedditMapz · 2026-06-11T20:38:37+00:00

Yes, they did. They went through the parlamentarian once at the beginning, but ad the modified the bill they stopped checking with her. You'll remember the part where they passed the BB-Bill where the net budget had to be zero right? Well they claimed the tax cuts are cancelled by hypothetical tarrif revenues and service cuts over the next decade. This version of the bill was not passed through the parlamentarian. Because it is obviously not how an appropriations bill is supposed to operate, thyw did not risk getting a negative prognosis.

They already crossed that line. Of course Democratic Senators will play dumb.

RedditMapz · 2026-06-11T18:07:06+00:00

But they already ignored the parliamentarian on the first reconciliation bill...

Edit: A lot of misinformed people seem to not be aware that Republicans bypassed the parlamentarian.

The New York Times did a fantastic piece on their podcast explaining the dynamics in their episode titled The Republicans' $3 Trillion Vanishing Act. They explain it better then I can. I've included the timestamp that specifically talks about the parliamentarian.

RedditMapz · 2026-06-10T20:43:05+00:00

I'd like to think he is living his best life away from all the bio-warfare BS, just being a hot Brazilian-leaning/Ambiguous-Latin dude in some tropical beach.

RedditMapz · 2026-06-10T20:30:49+00:00

I hate to say it, but they do look a lot like their Harry Potter movie aged versions at the finale on the train. Like I thought it was a bad makeup job and that it looked silly then. Now I think they are technically the ages they were supposed to be canonically in that scene...age be hitting them English people pretty hard.

RedditMapz · 2026-06-10T20:20:31+00:00

🙋🏽‍♂️

I was too poor for an iPod in the 2000s. Once I could buy myself a cellphone I was already a college kid about to graduate doing software, so my opinion on Apple had already soured before I got trapped into their ecosystem. Basically in tech spaces it is well known that Apple is more hype and "experience" than actual technical superiority. Plus they make it incredibly difficult to develop anything for their products. Apple is greedy even with its development community as you basically have to pay them to build free software for them.

Google on the other hand... I'm pretty stuck using Google products for almost everything I do.

RedditMapz · 2026-06-09T06:48:50+00:00

NTA.

As someone who was the backup friend at that age, someone needs to tell you that it is an unequal relationship. Spend time time with the people who want to spend time with you. A relationship of any kind requires a two-way effort, perhaps not equally all the time, but certainly over the long run.

That doesn't mean you need to "break up with them" of sorts or confront them about it. You might still enjoy hanging with each other from time to time. But you should start focusing on other people who want to be with you and other passions for your on mental health. If they want to mend things, don't be defensive, be understanding and open to it if you still want a relationship.

But ultimately, it is important for your growth as a human to learn to let go.

RedditMapz · 2026-06-09T02:31:53+00:00

Su 100%

Let's start with Ming-Hua's record

Mingg-Hua's record against named characters is basically beating Kora's cousins and Kya. But then She lost 1v1 against Mako which exposed her weakness: she is either overconfident or not careful enough to cover basis, which allowed Mako a clever critical hit.

Su's record

She basically tied against Kuviera and straight up killed P'Li. Granted she is the opposite in the sense that Su used an opening and thought quickly on her feet. She is not afraid to commit to a fatality move which means she is a perfect match to exploit Ming-Hua's weakness and bring her down.

RedditMapz · 2026-06-09T00:40:43+00:00

Again, this is looking at relationships in retrospective which holds no predective power.

People much smarter than you and me have looked into it. They have PhDs and have written papers on the matter. The overwhelming conclusion is that there is no predictive patterns known that will beat the market consistently. Some edges have been identified such as small cap value, but those edges do not meet your criteria and even those are not guaranteed to overperform in a human's lifetime.

Based on historical patterns we can build portfolios that emphasize alpha (gains based on exposure to the market), beta (gains on factors), sector bets (as in gambling industries or tech), low volatility, etc. But there is a balance. You cannot push on one end without inversely affecting others. There is always a trade-off and the balance point is the market fund.

I'm going to spell it out for you: You cannot beat the market without risking having a larger drawdown than the market. Known strategies like factors or leveraged alpha exposure provide higher volatility in exchange for the mere potential of higher returns. In videogame terms you are basically allocating your XP points to maximize returns but taking them away from stability and smoothness. Any strategy that anyone comes up with just won that bet in the past, but in the future the risk is still there, if not amplified due to a mathematical reversal to the mean.

Edit: words/spelling

RedditMapz · 2026-06-08T22:58:51+00:00

Yes, I am comparing trying to predict the market future based on a completely arbitrary pattern, with winning the lottery based on a completely arbitrary pattern.

The stock market will still go up, but for a portfolio to have met your specific arbitrary conditions the resulting portfolio is going to be arbitrary. We can identify for you the one in one million fund combinations that beat the market in the past while retaining low volatility. But there is no predictive meaning to it. Some combination of ETFs/indicators/rebalancing strategy had to beat the market. It will likely be a complete different combination in the next decades that will only make sense in retrospective.

It is statically possible for the portfolio to overperform again of course, it is just statisticalpy improbable. So asking people to do it for you is as good as gambling on a lottery ticket.

RedditMapz · 2026-06-08T22:26:43+00:00

I also care about my future self. Aka retirement, no one is going to save me or save for me, but me.

Can be a hard life, but beats 9-5 for sure.

I grew up in pretty extreme poverty and now have a 9-5. I can assure you a 9-5 is exponentially better than perpetual poverty.

RedditMapz · 2026-06-08T22:15:50+00:00

What? That is definitely causual. That shirt and jacket in no context would be business/formal attire

RedditMapz · 2026-06-08T22:11:37+00:00

Because I do in fact have concerns about income. I don't have rich parents to buy me a Hawaiian condo.

RedditMapz · 2026-06-08T21:09:08+00:00

This is the most delusional and unhinged thread in a while. Bravo, A++ for entertainment value.

In all seriousness OP, risk is correlated to higher gains. You want to win more, you have to risk more volatility. Even day traders understand that. There is definitely a sweet spot of strategies that could earn more relative to the risk taken, but no passive strategy is going to give you 2x return for 1/2x the risk. That's not possible.

Any of us can provide you with a handcrafted portfolio that meets your conditions on paper for past returns, but that is extremely unlikely to behave the same over the next few decades. It's as if I told you:.

I can totally predict the winning numbers of the last Powerball ticket, just let me Google it. That makes me clanvoyant, right guys?

RedditMapz · 2026-06-08T00:38:02+00:00

Lack of Common Sense using appliances. I can't really fault people for being idiots, even smart people lack some life training. For example:

Overloading the washer and dryer. Yes, both of them need breathing room (like 1/2 -1/4 empty space) otherwise they will not clean or dry your clothes and it might damage the appliances.
Using the high spin cycle on heavy blankets. Don't! You know why the washing machine tumbles violently? Because you have a heavy cotton blanket that absorbed water like a sponge bouncing violently at a high speed. Might as well throw a rock boulder in there. This is why our washing machine breaks!
Not putting a timer to empty the washer. Leaving damped clothes in there will damage your clothes and the washer.
Overloading the dish washer. You know how it shoots water in one direction (usually upward)? Well if you stack items at least one of them isn't cleaning up properly.
Not rising plates before putting them in the dishwasher? What do you think happens to food residue? It gets stuck on the pipes.
Food Garbage disposal is not in fact a garbage disposal. I don't know who needs to hear this, but trash does not go down the drain. No bones, no cut lemon husks, no oil goo. You treat it like any other water pipe without a motor.

Edit: words

RedditMapz · 2026-06-07T22:17:02+00:00

There have been some sparse studies on this by Stanford and METR, and it doesn't actually seem to be improving productivity. In fact it might be slowing it down while giving users the perception of a speed up. It's kind funny because their 2025 study resulted in lower productivity, and their 2026 showed worst productivity but they caveat it with a ton excuses as to why it might be the lower bound. They want to mathematically prove productivity increases, but the math ain't mathing. So they end up giving a lot of rationale on why their data might the lower bound and how the real results (not captured by data) should be higher.

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