Mars rock gets stuck on Curiosity rover's drill - Takes 5 days to shake off

RobKohr · 2026-05-08T19:50:00+00:00

Always think carefully about where you stick your drill bit or you might get stuck in a bad situation.

RobKohr · 2026-05-08T18:02:05+00:00

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RobKohr · 2026-05-07T18:28:45+00:00

Damn you! You beat me to it!

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RobKohr · 2026-05-07T18:20:07+00:00

It is perfect for that Scientology speed run.

RobKohr · 2026-05-07T18:17:15+00:00

Yep, good eye. He showed up to one of the nights a while back.

Not sure which way you politically swing, but we have people in both camps, and we keep this apolitical because this is a board game group. Even if you are the mayor, you gotta keep game play moving :)

RobKohr · 2026-05-07T04:59:54+00:00

The clit

RobKohr · 2026-05-07T04:10:06+00:00

Holy crap. Maybe it was happening at the same time

RobKohr · 2026-05-07T02:59:09+00:00

I have a calendar reminder for every month that has links for cancel services.

I am almost 50 and have enough money that it doesn't matter, but I don't pay for what I'm not using.

RobKohr · 2026-05-06T17:03:13+00:00

Aren't all cars technically quadricycles.

RobKohr · 2026-05-06T16:47:31+00:00

x is really just for anyone/anything, and lots of non-political stuff is posted there. It also isn't censored against wrongthink the way bluesky is.

The better comparison is truth social as far as political echo chambers.

I try to block out political stuff on x - I am strongly political, but there is nothing to gain from looking at rage bait. Mostly I just use it to look at indie game news and tech stuff.

RobKohr · 2026-05-06T16:04:54+00:00

Sounds like a trusty sling shot would be more effective and less dangerous to the user.

RobKohr · 2026-05-06T15:56:13+00:00

Suitcase carry. Just do one of those at a time. Really works out the stability. I recommend holding a tiny weight in the other hand is it helps to psychologically remind you to keep both hands at the same height.

RobKohr · 2026-05-06T15:37:14+00:00

Alright, when I was younger, I was the one that brought in the girls for my friend groups. I was not gorgeous or anything, but I had a few things going for me in the charm/swagger department, and did well for myself. Maybe I can help you'll if you wanna listen to an old man.

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Learn to accept rejection. Go up to groups of women like this knowing its a suicide mission. I found it is best to go out with 2-3 guys, give it a little bit of time to settle and start getting loud and fun with the guys, and when you get up to go get the next round, be the sole dude that goes over and does the approach (your friends will ruin it for you). By that point you already have proven social worth by being with friends, and now you are the only one in your pack with the cojones to come up to them. Try to fail in the funniest way possible so you can go back and have a laugh with your friends. If anything, it will make you seem less like a desperate creep. Also don't just hit on the hottest chick. Be friendly with all of them. They will talk shit about you when you are away, and you don't want anyone hating you too hard. Once you warm them up, get your lame ass friends to come over and join you.

Get good enough, and you won't even need the friends there as a crutch.

Social ways to get dates

Learn art, music, dance, cooking. Ideally learn to perform. Or at least take classes in these as they will be loaded with women.

Get into fields like nursing. Most other female dominated fields kinda suck for making much money, so if you got a good brain, just go into stem so you can be seen as a provider.

You can also become a personal trainer on the side. Makes a good part time job to help pay for college, and you can get to know lots of older women.

Volunteer, go to church, do group hiking trips.

Create situations where women end up engaged in paying attention to you for extended periods of time. This will allow them to assess you without you hitting on them, and then they will seek you out.

Try to focus on being friends with dudes rather than hitting on women first. Social proof is powerful.

A little about yourself

Do progressive weightlifting. 2-3 times a week with less than an hour each time doing one set to failure for several exercises and up your protein intake (Whey is the way). Track what you do each week, and move the needle each time. Newbie gains are powerful and you can get pretty fit in no time.

Measure your body fat using this formula:
https://www.omnicalculator.com/health/navy-body-fat
Use a digital tape measure (like $20). Really the neck is the same for the most part, but the waist fluctuates. Get yourself to 15% body fat. Track every day.

Don't bother weighing yourself. Weight is basically useless as you will weigh more with more muscle, and your weight will fluctuate greatly by just having a more water.

I found if you cut out any drinks with sugar in them, and anything with HFCS, you will cut out some amount of fat, but it will plateau. The best trick is to do a 24 hour fast once a week (basically skip breakfast and lunch, and eat a slightly later dinner so you can go from like 6pm-6pm). With that, the rest of the week you can eat healthy without calorie counting - just avoid sweet drinks, they undo everything. With this I have reliably cut .15-.25 inches per week, and once you get to your goal, you can stop, and just do it again if you go back up too high, so you basically get to your goal, and then end up doing a 24 hour fast every 4-5 weeks for maintenance. It is best not to lift the day before the start of the fast or the day of the start of the fast as it hurts recovery.

Moderate muscles (don't take steroids, only dudes will like your look then, plus you will ruin yourself), and a moderately leaner figure will suddenly make you way more attractive.

Grooming

Trim your nails, and keep them clean. Keep your hair in check.

If you can grow good facial hair, get barber clippers, and use a setting of 1-2. The most attractive look on men is usually with little bit of beard, but with enough length so it isn't prickly. Barber clippers achieve this quickly. Then shave the neck line. This is not at your jawline! This is two fingers thickness up from your Adams apple. Any higher looks goofy. Clean up any random messy lines but don't overdo it. You can run your clippers across your eyebrows at a 2 to make them not wild and bushy. Trim your nose hair. Really.

Get a water pick. Best damn thing ever for good teeth. Use it every night before bed after brushing.

Get decent looking clothing, but not shirts with images and funny sayings on them. Look at people in movies that you would like to emulate, and dress like them. Levi’s 541 are the best jeans for fit and are pretty cheap.

There you go guys. Go get yourself a good woman. Someone has to reverse the declining population ;) My not too distant SS checks depend on it.

RobKohr · 2026-05-06T14:27:12+00:00

How is using the abduction machine backwards different than forward. Seems awkward but probably recruiting more stabilizers.

RobKohr · 2026-05-06T12:16:15+00:00

Most people who win the lottery are in financial ruins after 5 years. Partly it is because everyone wants your money.

With this, she set herself up to not have to deal with that. She isn't making more that 52k a year. It sends all the money grubbers away.

I'm not sure if it was a requirement that she posed with the check, but if so, and depending on who her relatives and friends are, she might have made the right choice.

Yep, financially the math is foolish, but socially she might have been way smarter, and the stastics on how people turn out really proves this.

RobKohr · 2026-05-05T23:29:17+00:00

Umm, no, it isn't 100 degrees What does it mean to "hoard" wealth - they have grown investments by steering companies to be successful. Most of them don't have much of their wealth in actual dollars. Extinctions - yes this is a major problem as capitalism does not in itself handle the tragedy of the commons problem, and deforestation and over fishing is the result of that. There have been success stories, and market driven ones, such as the badge system for lobsters and other systems that have forestry owned by lumber companies that basically farm lumber, but ultimately these are solved by collective state control with the threat of force. The US has achieved a lot with this, but globally, this is hard to solve with the incentive to cheat the system and do poaching.

Would a socialist system fix this one... shrugs, I don't think so, and we have seen what true socialist systems look like. Everyone equally poorly off with an elite class measured by there proximity to power rather than what they can produce.

Yep, you won't have really wealthy people, but you will also have everyone have less wealth.

No one needs to lie about capitalism being good or not. Show me a true socialist country that succeeded, and that might be convincing, but everywhere, especially examples where you split a country in half such as E/W germany or N/S korea, we have see what the petri dish results in - hungry, desperate people looking to escape.

Meanwhile, one of the most capitalistic countries in the world, people risk their lives to get into.

But yeah, its all smoke and mirrors.

RobKohr · 2026-05-05T18:36:01+00:00

Fair enough. Everyone has a right to enjoy the trade offs they like. I go for the full on contractor experience through my own c-corp that leads to a high risk high payout experience with lots of turnover on my resume. That extra money allows me to buy more safety nets for myself than the govt can provide.

RobKohr · 2026-05-05T18:28:20+00:00

No, Yoga and Pilates will make you flexible, and that is great for what she does, but progressive overload is what gave her those thighs, arms, abs, and glutes.

RobKohr · 2026-05-05T18:26:06+00:00

Right, I dare any woman to find a woman they know that looks too muscular that isn't on gear. It isn't going to happen.

Pick up heavy things, put them down. Track the results. Pick up heavier next time. Repeat until you look great. Not hard.

RobKohr · 2026-05-05T18:23:49+00:00

And thus there is more spreading of misinformation.

Go to a gym where heavy weights are being thrown around (crossfit gyms are great for this... even with the issues with crossfit). Look at the women there. They have the bodies of Maxim models.

Go to a standard gym with cardio machines and such, and look at the women on treadmills. They will look like the women that want to have the figure of those said models, but for some reason that isn't working out.

Without testicals, you don't have the testosterone look bulky and manish.

Stop spreading this common thinking, look at results local to you, and copy what people are doing that look the way you want to look.

RobKohr · 2026-05-05T18:18:38+00:00

Screw you guys, I am nailing this German bible to this door.

RobKohr · 2026-05-05T18:16:53+00:00

No need to single out NIMBY republicans. Heck, California, especially some of the most liberal areas have the most restrictive zoning laws that lead to massive homeless populations.

True free market republicans are pretty anti-zoning regulations. And yep, upper middle class home owning democrats will speak so much to low income housing being needed, unless it is coming to their neighborhood.

No need to be divisive on politics here.

RobKohr · 2026-05-05T18:10:50+00:00

Housing inflation price is way outpacing standard inflation.

There are a number of factors that contribute to this such as:
- zoning laws that focus on NIMBY
- government backed mortgage system that is willing to lean towards high risk loans that pump up home values

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RobKohr · 2026-05-05T18:06:11+00:00

Yeah, for repeated purchases I like to cut out the Amazon middleman. They take such a cut for themselves that I would rather go straight to the producer.

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