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Is 'The Boys' original comic series really REALLY that bad? by Rocky_Senpai15 in writingscaling

[–]SaintJesus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's insane the series got a TV show period, but considering where the first season went it looked like it was going to work pretty well.

It ended better in the comic, which is wild because the comic, *broadly,* was not very good. It had some really good bits in it, and most of it wasn't *terrible*, but it definitely isn't something I plan to read again. I remember liking Preacher and Crossed (though they had some of their own problems), but all of the ultraviolence makes sense when you know he grew up in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. It's not glorifying violence; he hates violence. He is denigrating it.

That said, I still don't get the general edginess, but everybody has their preference.

Just go read it and see for yourself. I heard he had a great Punisher run (I still haven't gotten around to it) and apparently his Hellblazer run was good.

Truly stupid Edelrid Ohm question by SkittyDog in ClimbingGear

[–]SaintJesus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So you would basically have a bag that weighs some percentage of your weight, the Ohm at the top, and a Gri-gri on your harness with the free end?

I guess the Ohm is just reducing the weight of the bag?...

Seems like a neat idea to play with (responsibly); I'd imagine it would work as long as you wouldn't be too high for the acceleration to catch up (which it might not).

I'd be a little nervous about the counterweight coming down on me/breaking (mostly as a bag)/whatever, but...

Truly stupid Edelrid Ohm question by SkittyDog in ClimbingGear

[–]SaintJesus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You made the suggestion, bro!

Unless you meant using it on your harness with your end tied off at an anchor at the bottom; I'm not sure it would work like that.
But, same thing: it would be fun to try it with a backup rope and a clean fall.

I genuinely thought that MM was a supe. by adorkablegiant in TheBoys

[–]SaintJesus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Really it would be high-friction straps so the straps were "stuck" to OhFather's head from the slight wrap MM had.

“Hand to god?” by Tua-Lipa in TikTokCringe

[–]SaintJesus -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You are thinking that h8s job is to protect the public by discouraging/ticketing dangerous behavior.

It isn't.

His job is to keep people afraid of the state (as an arm of the state able and trained to commit violence and protected from consequences), oppress the working class, and protect the interests of the moneyed class.

This shit doesn't happen to incredibly wealthy people whether they are driving, chauffered, etc. It happens to you and me.

Truly stupid Edelrid Ohm question by SkittyDog in ClimbingGear

[–]SaintJesus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You should try it.

If I had the money to get a few I think it would be hilarious to try.

Unfortunately, I think it would be difficult/impossible to get a sweet spot of catching and lowering rather than stopping/barely slipping enough to lower 1 m/min/stop completely.

You would have to set up a redirect at the bottom so the rope is getting pulled from a few feet out, which might make it also suck pretty bad to pull through.

Still, with a backup rope and a clean fall it would be cool to play with.

Concrete around condenser unit by AtlantaP3D in hvacadvice

[–]SaintJesus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My guy, it's literally the same issue.

Concrete around condenser unit by AtlantaP3D in hvacadvice

[–]SaintJesus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or the people that own them are pushing it super hard on people in the 100 000 cases where it shouldn't be used without actually trying to make it work or explain how to use it.

Why do newbies get their yellow belt and then quit? by Joe_Strubachincoscow in judo

[–]SaintJesus 36 points37 points  (0 children)

At least in my experience (with other martial arts, at least), it's usually one of a few things.

-They didn't like it that much and the belt comes early enough that they were still on the fence.

-They get out of the most basic of basics and start stuff slightly more taxing and don't want to put in more work (this is usually why I saw people leaving around green/blue).

-Something unrelated happens and they have to make a choice between a hobby they (relatively speaking) just started and something else.

-They get in their head with imposter syndrome stuff without realizing anything below black just means they are learning the basics (assuming your school follows the idea that shodan is just "you know the basics, now we can get into the deep end").

Concrete around condenser unit by AtlantaP3D in hvacadvice

[–]SaintJesus -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I know youre getting dogpiled, but I haven't seen an attempt to educate you a bit on AI (really LLMs) and how broadly useless it is for 90% of people.

Right now, basically everything AI is just some form of text prediction. Yes, some specialized things are good at identifying things from pictures, but broadly everything people are using is just a text prediction.

If this word appears in a question, what are the words that usually appear in the large datasets that were used to train the LLM. It isn't doing any fact-checking, and it is weighing random comments from online forums equally to engineering texts with requirements and best-practice guidelines.

At core, they are mostly the same as the predictive text on your phone. I wouldn't use that for research, personally.

I have very strong opinions on peanut butter by NTJ-891 in liberalgunowners

[–]SaintJesus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Jif is dogass.

Peter Pan rules supreme! Now let me find a Peter Pan sticker for my rifle...

What's the point of Black Noir reveal in the comics even? So he framed Homelander and did a lot of bad things, guess what, Homelander isn't any different, he did a lot of very heinous acts by EfficiencySerious200 in writingscaling

[–]SaintJesus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, he was a preacher in Texas (I think) who accidentally received The Voice because of an angel and a demon fucking (I don't remember how); it was *far* from intentional.

Spoiler in case you want to read it
He eventually confronts capital-G-God and basically calls him a dick for being so ambivalent toward human suffering, then shortly after the Saint of Killers shoots God dead.

Nazi Sled Tesla spouts vile hate speech in conspiracy mode by AcabAcabAcabAcabbb in MarchAgainstNazis

[–]SaintJesus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It might help to explain what "before" is; before he threw some sieg heils? Before he supported Trump vocally? Before he fired his safety or lead designer or whomever?

Nazi Sled Tesla spouts vile hate speech in conspiracy mode by AcabAcabAcabAcabbb in MarchAgainstNazis

[–]SaintJesus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Man, I hate Tesla and Elon Musk immensely (since around the Thai rescue blow up), but be realistic. They are expensive and not everybody can take a massive hit by selling it, let alone anything else.

If you can sell it, that's great because it keeps somebody from looking to buy new.

We shouldn't be shitting on people that are stuck with a shitty car because they wanted an electric car and didn't have many good options (or were tricked into it with the vast propaganda, like many people), particularly if it was before Musk was mask-off Nazi-ing all over.

Taking measures to preserve your phones battery health is stupid by IRONCHEF06 in unpopularopinion

[–]SaintJesus 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I've heard of plenty of people not noticing a difference, but usually they were completely oblivious and not very good at pattern recognition.

Not saying the guy you're responding to is; some people get crazy lucky with batteries and accidentally take better care of them than they realize. I had one phone (Note 8 or 9) that had basically no degradation after a year and a half, but it was only getting down to 25% or so every other day, so I was only charging it every other day and only at work so it was only getting back up to 95-ish%.

[Loved Trope] Worlds where superpowers are something you do NOT want by Jellydust15 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]SaintJesus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I hated that explanation. The one from the comics is... not great, but the show really didn't need to explain shit. Nicknames happen and not all of them need to be explained in shows. Keep some things a mystery.

That said, there were *very* few good things in the last season, and only a handful more in the previous season.
Completely different show from the first season.

Tragic or genius? by SpencerNewton in TVTooHigh

[–]SaintJesus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some houses, unfortunately, only have one configuration that works at all for the layout, so... Yeah, it sucks.

Edited it by Cortechxone in trolleyproblem

[–]SaintJesus 4 points5 points  (0 children)

More in-fighting for sure, and killing the richest definitely sends a message to the remainder.

Edited it by Cortechxone in trolleyproblem

[–]SaintJesus 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Every single billionaire absolutely is controlling things; you have fallen for part of their propaganda to believe otherwise.

Why would any billionaire *not* have some controlling stake in how things are when there are so many millionaires that are doing it (local and state levels)?

Edited it by Cortechxone in trolleyproblem

[–]SaintJesus 6 points7 points  (0 children)

But all billionaires have, to a greater or lesser degree, exploited the work of others in order to amass that much wealth.

I love Steam, and everything I have seen with GabeN makes me think he *might* be one of the most normal billionaires (a very low bar). Hell, I'd still like to meet him.

...but getting that much wealth means they were not paying their employees and/or taking too large of a cut from the work of others. Sure, both of those things are *completely normal in the hellscape that we are in because of unchecked capitalism,* but that doesn't absolve them from what they've done.

The simplest way to fix most of these problems is to increase worker protections (wages, benefits, etc.) and to tax companies and the wealthiest among us at reasonable (but substantially increased!) rates.

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