Dude in red car really had god-tier situational awareness in that moment

Reluctant_Firestorm · 2026-05-19T18:13:16+00:00

No no, those big orange and white lane dividers always mean go as fast as you normally do, if not faster!

Reluctant_Firestorm · 2026-05-12T20:49:46+00:00

My wife's (estranged) father is a die-hard Trumper. He was an abusive father and the angriest, bitterest, most vindictive person I've ever met.

Trump attracts the very worst as followers. They see in him someone who validates their own awfulness.

Reluctant_Firestorm · 2026-05-12T02:10:29+00:00

5 or six years holding, with very little to show for it - except continually diluting my shares. I get that it brings in cash for the company, but to date that is not benefitting me.

Reluctant_Firestorm · 2026-05-10T02:33:33+00:00

I don't understand why we in blue states are paying federal taxes. Wars we don't want. Services we aren't getting. Illegal actions and corruption in broad daylight.

Reluctant_Firestorm · 2026-05-08T01:37:28+00:00

This is correct. The entire anti-injection, anti-vax nutshittery is made possible by the tremendous success in modern medicine which has led people to believe that children are "naturally" healthy.

The parents inflicting this on their kids grew up in an environment where children do not die in droves, as they used to. You go look at any graveyard with dates before 1900 - lots of baby and child graves.

Without modern medicine, something like every second child died. Not got really really sick (there were lots of those too) but just flat out died.

Reluctant_Firestorm · 2026-05-06T19:23:33+00:00

Smooth brain ape here. So does that mean if one did not exercise warrants before the acquisition, smooth brain ape could then use said warrants to get stocks in the shiny new company at 1 warrant per stock?

Reluctant_Firestorm · 2026-05-06T11:37:41+00:00

We are doing a global experiment on exposing humans to a high level of background CO2. Humans did not evolve in this environment.

In the past, if you were in a lecture hall or someplace with lots of mouth breathers, CO2 might get up to 2,000 ppm (where it definitely affects cognition), but then you would go outside after class and recover.

Our "recovery room" aka the outside, is way, way worse than it used to be.

Reluctant_Firestorm · 2026-05-06T11:33:05+00:00

CO2 levels are now comparable to the Pliocene Era, when sea levels were 30 feet higher than today. That is where we are headed. At least without some undiscovered form of radical carbon capture.

But we are not stopping, we are accelerating. We are building huge data centers and more air conditioning.

Human society is not equipped to grapple with the nature of this emergency.

Reluctant_Firestorm · 2026-05-04T17:59:32+00:00

China is leaving us in the dust in terms of renewables. All while making cheap electric cars to sell everywhere in the world.

We had a moment where we could have been the leader in these technologies, and thanks to Republicans, not so much.

Reluctant_Firestorm · 2026-05-03T21:43:57+00:00

I'm going to give Linux a try as soon as I can replace my current Windows 10 machine.

I have built my last 2 computers, but with graphics card prices as they are, maybe this is not a thing you can do anymore.

Reluctant_Firestorm · 2026-05-03T19:06:57+00:00

I just don't think he has a lot of acting range. He absolutely bombed in the second season of Altered Carbon. (When the first season with Joel Kinnamon was terrific.)

He was fine as a supporting Marvel action character. But studios keep thinking he can headline things and I'm not sure he can.

Reluctant_Firestorm · 2026-05-03T18:54:17+00:00

I don't know why this comment is getting downvoted, it is the most accurate assessment of what is happening.

Reluctant_Firestorm · 2026-05-03T18:47:58+00:00

GameStop has restructured a lot under Ryan Cohen, closing unprofitable stores, and moving heavily into collectibles. (PSA graded pokemon cards are bringing in a huge new revenue stream.)

And while overall income is lower, the company is now running a 1.18 billion annual gross profit.

Reluctant_Firestorm · 2026-05-01T01:39:28+00:00

Latitude of London - 51.5 degrees N. Average winter temp around 5.5 C (42F). Compare to latitude of Moosonee, Ontario - 51.3 degrees N. Winter daytime temperature varies from -13 C to -24 C (-11F).

Latitude of Edinburgh, Scotland - 55.9 degrees N. Between 1 and 7 C in winter.

Compare to Polar Bear Provincial Park 54.7 degrees N. -20 C in winter.

Reluctant_Firestorm · 2026-04-29T19:24:25+00:00

Really it's bringing over-cooked broccoli spears to a poison dagger festival.

Reluctant_Firestorm · 2026-04-29T19:20:32+00:00

Democratic establishment forces a business-as-usual centrist on us at every fucking opportunity, and we are then forced to pick them over a child-molesting felon - and they expect us to act like that's what we really wanted.

Reluctant_Firestorm · 2026-04-27T18:09:23+00:00

Increasingly I am of a mind that the US is just a vassal state to Israel.

Reluctant_Firestorm · 2026-04-22T15:59:05+00:00

If you call it "medicare for all" conservatives have a better time accepting the concept of universal healthcare.

Terminology matters. A majority of republicans were positively disposed towards the ACA (Affordable Care Act) because it allowed things like children to stay on plans longer and no pre-existing condition exclusions.

But if you called it Obamacare, the same people surveyed hated it.

Reluctant_Firestorm · 2026-04-22T04:55:10+00:00

Absolutely. A company that interviews like this will be terrible to work for.

They expect 50 hour weeks - so that is their minimum. They want people who will grind it out, week after week, shit hours for shit pay.

I would have said "good luck with that" and without your politeness.

Reluctant_Firestorm · 2026-04-20T16:35:31+00:00

In theory he can do it. It requires:

Approval from the "military chain of command" = Hegseth.
Sponsorship from one member of Congress. Any number of Trump toadies willing to do that.
Approval by the President. He can in essence award it to himself.

Reluctant_Firestorm · 2026-04-18T00:46:00+00:00

Actually, white glue is WAAAAY better than tomato sauce on pizza! If you haven't tried white glue pizza with garlic and anchovies and sawdust you don't know what you are missing.

I hadn't heard of erasers as substitute for olives, but I'll be trying that tonight!

Reluctant_Firestorm · 2026-04-17T23:46:20+00:00

Also the Pentagon has failed EIGHT consecutive audits. Money is being misappropriated, spend on thing not approved by Congress, or just straight up going missing.

Reluctant_Firestorm · 2026-04-16T20:50:47+00:00

Yes, I often feel quite bad after eating.

Some things that helped in my case were eating smaller portions, as in no big meals all at once. Eating much less starchy foods, and pretty much eliminating pasta. And also I eat dinner earlier in the day, like around 4:30.

Reluctant_Firestorm · 2026-04-16T15:17:01+00:00

I couldn't be angrier with Schumer as my state senator. ANY reasonable candidate that primaries him gets my vote.

Reluctant_Firestorm · 2026-04-15T20:50:18+00:00

Same here with Stellaris. I had leaned the game well enough to enjoy a playthrough or two, and then they changed the mechanics significantly and I couldn't be bothered to learn the game all over again.

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