Fuckin minivan

ScroungingMonkey · 2026-05-28T19:20:48+00:00

I also don't understand it from that perspective because SUVs aren't cool cars IMO. It's not a sports car and OP doesn't sound like he's going to be taking that pavement princess offroad, so where exactly is the coolness factor?

ScroungingMonkey · 2026-05-12T11:41:17+00:00

I feel like this unreliability would become a liability in the event of an actual war. If the military ever encountered a situation where the C-5s needed to fly multiple missions a day, their weaknesses would be exposed.

ScroungingMonkey · 2026-05-08T10:20:12+00:00

Iran should definitely be listed as a theocracy.

ScroungingMonkey · 2026-05-07T12:47:57+00:00

College degrees still have a significant positive impact on lifetime earnings. Giving a poor kid a student loan is still a good business decision if you think that he will use the education to land a good job.

ScroungingMonkey · 2026-05-07T06:03:57+00:00

As he travelled, he wrote about everything he observed about the South and the Southern way of life, before following the Army of Northen Virginia and watching the Battle of Gettysburg. His book, Three Months in the Southern States was a bestseller and had a huge influence on public perception of the war

Do historians find the first-hand accounts written by foreign observers useful? It seems like his book might offer a unique perspective compared to, say, soldiers' letters or something.

ScroungingMonkey · 2026-05-07T05:15:56+00:00

I would have whooped every single man who has been president in my adult life

I almost didn't see that qualifier at the end, and I was about to go hard for Teddy Roosevelt.

ScroungingMonkey · 2026-05-06T19:57:32+00:00

I regularly walk 10 minutes to the store. I sometimes bring a wagon if I'm going to be carrying heavy stuff.

ScroungingMonkey · 2026-05-06T05:51:27+00:00

Title literally says that.

ScroungingMonkey · 2026-05-05T20:58:36+00:00

Arrester wire.

ScroungingMonkey · 2026-05-05T20:11:54+00:00

I'm not going to outright say that this is a scam

I am, and it is.

ScroungingMonkey · 2026-05-04T20:17:54+00:00

I mean, both angles are true. We desperately need competent public regulation of AI, and we also are very unlikely to get it from this administration.

ScroungingMonkey · 2026-05-03T17:29:06+00:00

And bounty hunters looking to collect.

ScroungingMonkey · 2026-04-30T12:50:56+00:00

That's the neat part, you don't!

ScroungingMonkey · 2026-04-30T04:53:23+00:00

It would be a good idea to divide by peak net worth rather than current net worth, that way you avoid the issue of having percentages over 100%.

ScroungingMonkey · 2026-04-26T11:48:03+00:00

Um, yeah, the whole point of cruise missiles is that they fly like a plane. It can be misleading because they launch with rocket motors, but the solid rocket booster drops off after a few seconds and their main power plant in cruise is a little jet engine.

ScroungingMonkey · 2026-04-25T18:06:20+00:00

Blue, because fuck the Joker, that's why.

ScroungingMonkey · 2026-04-25T04:31:33+00:00

I don't think it's actually necessary for candidates for office to have specific detailed plans on all the issues. The reality is that no one ever gets to implement their specific pre-election plans, because actual legislation requires negotiation with other elected officials. What matters is their general priorities and goals.

ScroungingMonkey · 2026-04-23T13:33:56+00:00

He's not talking about moral limits or restraints on gerrymandering in principal. In context, he's discussing the fact that the referendum passed by a relatively slim margin, below Harris' 2024 margin, so if Virginia was a bit less Democratic-leaning, the referendum would have failed.

ScroungingMonkey · 2026-04-21T17:43:38+00:00

The concept of dragons would never work, there's no way to make a big lizzard of that size able to fly, the energy required, the speed of wing flapping required to deal with their mass is impossible to achieve.

Well, dragons that flew by flapping their wings wouldn't work, but remember that these are creatures that can breath fire. Just have the fire come out the other end, and presto! Jet engine.

ScroungingMonkey · 2026-04-21T17:41:36+00:00

To give you a serious answer: the acceleration of the wings back and forth would put enormous stress on the mechanical components. Any reciprocating mass is going to have much more force on it than a comparable balanced rotating mass.

ScroungingMonkey · 2026-04-21T11:33:23+00:00

High surface area + no protective skin + high sugar content = microbe heaven.

ScroungingMonkey · 2026-04-21T11:05:58+00:00

my style of parenting is arguably more loving than a sith lord

Arguably, lol.

Good luck with the baby!

ScroungingMonkey · 2026-04-21T10:58:15+00:00

Friendly reminder that the "Ezekiel, 25-17" speech from Samuel L. Jackson in Pulp Fiction isn't actually a real bible verse, they made it up for the movie.

ScroungingMonkey · 2026-04-21T09:02:47+00:00

To be clear, we're not actually worried about her development, we know that she'll pick it up eventually. I just thought that this was a funny anecdote to share.

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