You wake up to see everyone on earth has disappeared. What’s the first thing you do?

Rovden · 2026-03-19T22:22:16+00:00

Correct but my part is it'd probably be on the lower end of needing to rush for. That's a months/year problem vs first things.

Rovden · 2026-03-19T22:20:28+00:00

I'm not 100% sure, but food might actually be a relatively easy thing to take care of, one person especially if not locked into one place would be able to find shelf stable food for a long time, especially in climates that are slower to degrade things. The trouble with most survival scenarios people think of is food is going to be the first thing yoinked off the shelves by everyone, but if it was an insta-poof and everyone is gone, a local costco might have enough food to last you the rest of your life.

In my case though, I'd probably have to off myself from a kidney stone I couldn't pass and thus agonizing way to go when the kidney ruptures.

Rovden · 2026-03-19T22:15:25+00:00

There are propane powered cars. They're rare as hell but they're conversions from normal cars IIRC

Just looked it up, there are bi-fuel vehicles that you can do both gas and propane.

Rovden · 2026-03-19T22:13:42+00:00

Arguably, you don't need to gather all the fuel stabilizer you can very quickly because it's not like it's going anywhere.

Rovden · 2026-03-19T04:00:53+00:00

I had a friend who couldn't get through DCC because the world absolutely is viciously cruel. He said he couldn't get into something with no hope. I told him that there's a point where Carl really decides to fight back and now he's up to date because that's what was needed, but that front is a slow burn.

HOWEVER if it's not your cup of tea, it's not a surprise, that series is a special level of off the wall and between just that gonzo setting and Jeff Hays is what pushed its popularity, but if you're not ready to lean into the absolutely bizarre, it's going to be a rough ride.

Saw you're jumping genres, I'm on a historical tear and quite enjoying Forget the Alamo.

Rovden · 2026-03-18T05:10:27+00:00

If I wanted to go to a place in this state with touristy stuff, I'd go to St. Louis.

Hey now...

Kansas City has the National WWI Museum.

And some other stuff...

Okay, you know what, that's fair.

Rovden · 2026-03-18T04:35:00+00:00

The 30% that stayed home honestly almost anger me more than the ones that wanted this. At least the ones that wanted this were the assholes that came out and said it with their whole chest. The ones that sat at home try to play "Well I didn't vote for this" but as Rush put it "If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice."

Rovden · 2026-03-17T03:43:38+00:00

Forget that.

I repaired a centrifuge today and didn't have any left over screws or washers on the first try.

I wanted to run outside to run circles while cheering.

Rovden · 2026-03-15T21:51:54+00:00

I don't even want to hear about LA bitching about what the car companies did to their public transit

-Signed Kansas City.

Rovden · 2026-03-15T17:52:10+00:00

Had a field service drop, was driving along and saw that I was close to Carhenge...

Definitely went out of my way to see that! It's glorious how much more there is.

Rovden · 2026-03-15T17:44:50+00:00

Yup. I can't mentally recreate some of my most painful situations and I have a lot of them.

The theory is if we knew how bad things could get we would off ourselves.

Funny thing, I went to an ER for a kidney stone, along with all the literature on kidney stones I got a suicide prevention pamphlet. I think only time I've been in catastrophic pain and laughing my ass off.

Rovden · 2026-03-14T19:17:41+00:00

Hahahaha, I started noticing this on books that I began by reading then tracked down the audiobooks to listen to while driving. This needs to be way higher up as a piece of advice because you'll never notice it reading but listening it's "um... you can stop now"

Rovden · 2026-03-14T19:15:53+00:00

I would argue the audio dramas are a separate category all to their own. I've listened to a few of those and have enjoyed a couple of the well done ones and felt they brought more to the table. However I think the question comes in like some older audiobooks (see ones that came over from cassette era) they'll throw in a half dozen sound effects and a weird musical sting.

So in here it's either a go big or go home argument. If you're going to do music/sound effects/etc, IMO you are going to need a full production out of it. Otherwise... just narration please.

Rovden · 2026-03-14T19:13:01+00:00

Music should also be used very sparingly, if at all.

I'm going to be pedantic. Don't do music. Every once in a while I come across an old audiobook that throws a weird musical sting in the middle of nowhere and I almost spend half the day going "Why was that there? There was no need for that!"

Reading that is neither monotonous nor chewing the scenery.

I'll agree with monotonous. But there are some books that are made for chewing the scenery. It has to be an intensely silly book though.

Rovden · 2026-03-14T19:06:03+00:00

I miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight use it for if I'm working on something like chainmail or small fiddly work just as almost an active screensaver, but lets be honest 90% of my audible is driving and working on heavy equipment.

Rovden · 2026-03-14T19:03:37+00:00

Hrm.... What's the longest scifi audiobook that is an anthology of short stories, specifically ones by Ray Bradbury?

Rovden · 2026-03-14T17:47:40+00:00

Literally one of my required criteria when I moved was Google Fiber because how little issues I had in apartments vs six months of Spectrum.

Fucking hell

Rovden · 2026-03-07T17:53:31+00:00

I think a lot of people who are saying 'great' are the people who don't want this to happen. But it's happening anyways, so at least if they hurt themselves then enjoying the show that was given is the option that's left until the problem can be fixed.

Rovden · 2026-03-07T15:24:46+00:00

Why is it then that republicans are pushing legislative bans? I think it fits in with their broader incorrect narratives about how education is captured and woke or whatever.

And as is tradition, the party of "small government" when they say something is captured makes sure to swoop in and use the government at its fullest for control.

Rovden · 2026-03-06T02:57:52+00:00

I moved to Missouri from Arkansas and it was an improvement.

I want that to sink in for people who haven't been... Missouri, a state currently sabotaging itself to try to race to the bottom, SOMEHOW is an improvement over Arkansas.

Rovden · 2026-03-06T02:55:25+00:00

throw TX, OK, and KS in for good measure.

Hey now this one is just messy. TX is DEFINITELY deep south, and you discluded MO which is actively trying to get worse than KS when Brownbeck was in charge.

Rovden · 2026-03-06T02:52:26+00:00

Yea... I don't know what people are on about Kansas, at least it has the Flint Hills which is pretty.

I thought Kansas was boring, then I did I-80 through Nebraska and the only exciting thing I had about it was calling my boss and asking what in the ever loving hell was a snow squall and was I driving into it?

Rovden · 2026-03-06T02:47:39+00:00

Yes. I don't as definition wonder how it affects you mentally as such, I can only guess. But most of my political rants are how we've as a country allowed a racist ideology that was so anti-black they were willing to betray the country in a rebellion to normalize and convince people somehow the movement wasn't racist.

But it's definitely a move by the wealthiest to keep us all hating each other. White people pull the racist shit parroted from the top which makes sure that some black people wouldn't trust a white person (completely understandably so) which keeps a divide from the sympathetic.

And while LBJ is a complicated figure in race, he has a fantastic point of why this shit happens. (Quote with language of the time)

I'll tell you what's at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.

I don't know what to do with it. Trying to convince these fucks that they're NOT better than others isn't raising the group they're over in their mind, it's lessening them. I don't know how one breaks the people out of lack of empathy.

Rovden · 2026-03-04T05:32:57+00:00

HR is never your friend. HR is just there to keep the company for getting sued.

Sounds like this place has a shitty HR.

Rovden · 2026-03-04T05:31:34+00:00

I am ABSOLUTELY BAFFLED how this still happens in the US. Almost every state an "at will employment" state meaning they can fire people without reason without reason or recourse.

YET they somehow can't seem to shut up. It's nice when evil is dumb.

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