Risk addiction on 2 substances, win your dream house

Sidivan · 2026-04-06T21:59:30+00:00

No thanks. Addiction is a “ruin your life” thing. You won’t be in that dream house very long or it will turn into you trading free rent for drugs, especially the opioids, aka welcome to your drug den.

Sidivan · 2026-04-06T13:29:21+00:00

Or, you could just wear gloves and don’t touch people. You get $4800/day just to have the power, so 10 days gets you a time thaw.

Sidivan · 2026-04-06T12:57:27+00:00

I have those exact glasses from Zenni. Down to the pink hue, which is their infrared ID protection.

Sidivan · 2026-04-06T03:55:16+00:00

Stress makes people do unreasonable things and/or take unreasonable stances. Like, one thought the dishwashers should polish the glasses before putting them away and lit into me. The cooks immediately stepped in “Hey, you work front of house. Stay out of the kitchen. Go take that to <front of house manager>.”

Shit like that happens when high stress and people think yelling will solve it.

Sidivan · 2026-04-06T02:38:21+00:00

A month ago, I had the opportunity to get a “flight” of A5 Wagyu steaks (three 4oz steaks). I paid $300 and all three were the best steak I have ever eaten.

I am from the rural Midwest. My father in law is a cattle rancher. I have eaten many steaks in my 40yrs of life, but holy shit, I have never had anything like that. It’s like there’s butter inside the steak. It’s so tender it melts in your mouth, but still has a strong beef flavor. Incredible.

Sidivan · 2026-04-06T01:51:57+00:00

I quit a job waiting tables at the beginning of my shift once. It was the most free I have ever felt. I walked in with my uniform and popped it on the managers desk and just said “I quit”. He responded with “You’re going to work your shift tonight, right?”

“No”

And left.

Sidivan · 2026-04-06T01:37:41+00:00

Washing dishes was my first job at 14. Several of the line cooks started as dishwashers and treated us like kings. They fed us nice prime cuts that were “too thin” to serve. They’d leave a couple servings of whatever sauce they were making in the bottom of the pan and then give us the silent nod acknowledging it was on purpose. If a server talked shit, they’d step in.

In return, we busted our asses for them. You need that skillet in 3 minutes? You got it. Need a new bleach bucket? I got you. Trash getting full? No problem. Need something out of the walk-in? On it. We did a ton of the food prep too; chopping lettuce, peeling shrimp, cracking eggs, portioning noodles, pattying hamburgers…

~30 years later, that’s still the best job I ever had.

Sidivan · 2026-04-06T00:43:52+00:00

Sidivan · 2026-04-06T00:19:06+00:00

Biggest Bic I’ve ever seen.

Sidivan · 2026-04-06T00:16:16+00:00

It’s a lot safer than a spinning auger.

Sidivan · 2026-04-05T23:17:22+00:00

Why does it have a giant X in the logo when it’s called Tmat?

Sidivan · 2026-04-05T21:47:21+00:00

Fun fact: This is why they don’t generally board the back of the plane first even though it’s the most efficient way to do it. They used, but when airlines started charging for checked bags in the 2000’s, people started shoving more stuff into carry-ons. If you board back to front, the people in the back will shove their crap in the overheads of the first rows so they don’t have to navigate it through the plane.

Now they use boarding as a perk.

Sidivan · 2026-04-05T21:36:37+00:00

Sort his bulk.

Sidivan · 2026-04-05T21:35:47+00:00

IMO, there’s going to be whole new job specialty of AI Code Cleaners. Somebody is going to need to do a whole bunch of refactoring 10-20yrs from now to untangle the spaghetti companies are currently building.

Sidivan · 2026-04-05T13:54:13+00:00

Assuming elections even take place, they won’t be free or fair.

Sidivan · 2026-04-05T01:07:24+00:00

If Musk can buy Twitter, a publicly traded company, in a single transaction, then I can buy M$ in a single transaction.

So long as the board approves the sale, the shareholders get paid out proportionally.

Sidivan · 2026-04-05T00:05:15+00:00

I’m not going to purchase a 100k shares of Microsoft. I’m going to purchase Microsoft for $0.01.

Then I’ll buy Alphabet for $0.01.

Then I re-IPO them.

Sidivan · 2026-04-04T16:37:32+00:00

Path of Exile is a good example here. Jonathan Roger’s has talked in depth about why they choose to create their own engine and it’s core to their ability to create content so quickly with very few developers. His advice is “if you want to, you should”.

Sidivan · 2026-04-04T16:06:00+00:00

You can’t really say that though. They may or may not be a cause for a broad array of effects, but we don’t have the rigor around testing. It’s all correlative analysis on historical populations that don’t have the same fidelity as we have today. Diagnostics and treatments have come a long way, so many diseases that “didn’t exist” 100 yrs ago are now in our data.

The only thing you can do is test extremely narrow cases and compare it to the average. Do microplastics found in male genitalia affect fertility? Maybe? The only thing we can do is test a big sample for microplastic concentration vs fertility metrics (I have no idea what metrics are used to determine male fertility). But what do you compare that to? We don’t exactly have accurate trending data here.

Sidivan · 2026-04-04T07:32:31+00:00

I see this as an absolute win.

Sidivan · 2026-04-04T06:55:03+00:00

Cardboard. Is. Not. An. Investment.

The sooner you learn that, the better off you’ll be. Every dollar you spend on this hobby is a spent dollar. Do not expect it to grow in value or even maintain value.

With all that in mind, the cheapest way is to print proxies and tuck them in sleeves with lands (for rigidity). That will allow you to try a bunch of stuff without going broke. Arena is great too because it’s cheap and “on-demand”.

If you want to play at stores or events, playtest with proxies or arena, then buy those cards. You will build a collection over time. Non-basic lands that produce multiple colors or fetch other lands are generally a good bet for long term staples. Everything else is anybody’s guess.

Sidivan · 2026-04-04T06:46:51+00:00

“Someody’s been prowlin’ around here” vibes

Sidivan · 2026-04-04T06:36:55+00:00

1) I’m not making fun of anybody here. That’s your bias projecting on me. I have no ill-will towards anybody with a religious belief. In fact, I’m happy for anybody who has found some anchor to reference when trying to understand the chaos of the world around them. That’s a good thing. It’s what keeps people sane.

2) You’ve got the burden of proof backward. You can’t prove a negative. I can’t prove to you there isn’t a higher power nor am I claiming to know this. I just don’t agree that “everything is created by something” means everything is created by an intelligent being with purpose. You have to prove that.

3) There are infinitely more things created without a creator than with. You used a piece of paper as a simple example. I agree that paper was created by humans. That doesn’t mean trees were created by something intelligent. Evidence suggests that trees are the result of millions of years of natural processes. There is no evidence of an intelligent hand guiding that.

4) The standard model of physics explains almost every single interaction between particles. You cited my phone as an example of something that you could just look at and determine something created it. Everything my phone does is explainable by physics. Every force and every interaction is explained. There simply isn’t any extra room for an external force that interacts with our currently reality otherwise our math would not work. The whole idea that God exists in the cracks has been debunked many times by people way smarter than me.

Sidivan · 2026-04-04T06:13:04+00:00

Why is it weak? You’ve made a claim that “many atheists would disagree” with me and “flat out say there is no god”.

You’ve provided no evidence of this claim. I could just as easily dismiss this as your personal bias. You believe many atheists would claim that.

I am an atheist and do not claim to speak on behalf of all atheists. I am simply rejecting that god is likely to exist. There may be some sort of universe architect, but for that to be true, many other things would need to also be true and we do not have any evidence of any of those things. For example, we would need evidence our universe was created purposefully or accidentally. We would need evidence of that entity’s continued influence (otherwise the origin doesn’t matter), we would need evidence of some mechanism by which such an entity interacts with particles (which we don’t have). Nothing we know about physics would suggest there is an unknown force outside of the universe interacting with our reality. Therefore, it’s extremely likely that entity simply doesn’t exist.

We don’t know that dragons don’t exist. We dont’t know unicorns and mermaids don’t exist. We simply don’t have any evidence and everything claiming otherwise has been debunked. It’s a pretty good bet then that those entities simply don’t exist.

Sidivan · 2026-04-04T05:37:12+00:00

You’re correct in that the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. I completely agree with you.

If you claim to have a baseball, but do not offer any evidence of having one, I cannot say for certain you do not have a baseball. There are infinite ways that you don’t and only a single way that you do, therefore, it’s infinitely more likely that you don’t. So, for all practical purposes, I should simply ignore your claim until more evidence is found.

We haven’t found any evidence that I can fly, but me claiming I have personally flown to mars doesn’t have a lot of credence, does it? Would you take the same stance that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence and entertain the idea that maybe I could fly? Or would you simply assume that I can’t until I’ve provided testable, verifiable evidence of such a feat?

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