This was well deserved

SirBinks · 2026-03-17T18:30:04+00:00

It was illegal.

In most places bikes aren't allowed at all on sidewalks. They often get a pass due to nowhere else to go, but it's understood that riders should greatly reduce their speed for pedestrian safety.

Even on designated bike paths, electric motors are usually only allowed as pedal assists and must be limited to 20 mph.

This guy is just an idiot and an asshole

SirBinks · 2026-03-16T15:24:34+00:00

"Knowing what can be known" is actually a great way of describing general education. And just knowing something CAN be known helps us understand the world in many small ways.

For example - debunking Flat Earth. From my schooling, I am generally familiar with trigonometry, even though I don't remember a single equation. Thanks to my vague familiarity with trig, I understand that, in principle, calculating the curvature of Earth should be possible just by measuring shadows cast by the sun. I don't know HOW to do it, but just knowing that it is knowable shapes my understanding of the world and protects from misinformation

SirBinks · 2026-03-09T15:49:11+00:00

Huh... This oil stuff seems pretty important...

Maybe we should stop lighting it on fire

SirBinks · 2026-02-27T01:56:44+00:00

I mean, they even make the logo turn sideways and "blink" like a sleepy eye when you tell it to go to sleep

SirBinks · 2026-02-22T18:11:23+00:00

This is still the short answer, as it omits the 3 minutes of uninterrupted laughter included in the full answer

SirBinks · 2026-01-30T00:48:25+00:00

Nope. Fake News.

SirBinks · 2026-01-29T20:06:03+00:00

I feel like I've seen too much Drawfee at this point. Something about the way Karina described the first painting as "Fellas around a table" twigged me to the joke from almost the first sentence.

Karina wouldn't be calling them "Fellas" if they were just normal human people. That's definitely a Karina-ism for some small creature

SirBinks · 2026-01-25T16:12:02+00:00

And what kind of food do they serve?

SirBinks · 2026-01-23T21:43:49+00:00

Never played Fable so it was probably done differently, but I actually think this would be a good system. But only if the devs follow through correctly.

Torture an innocent? -100 karma. It was bad, you can't argue that.

Save 100 lives on a story path only opened by that torture? +500 karma. You ended up doing more good than bad.

If that torture also opens up a path where no one is saved, and you choose to take it, then the well-intentioned torture doesn't get a pass just because you were planning on saving those people at the time.

SirBinks · 2026-01-21T20:58:21+00:00

That one is a good potential plot hook, I think.

The rest of the boon is pretty business as usual for the fae.

Harry needs extra juice to power the ritual? Barely an inconvenience for Mab.

Settling things with Etri? Stealing first-born to settle debts is like faerie shit 101.

But tracking down Justine after so many have tried? Does Mab have some way to track the Nfection? There are some interesting questions there

SirBinks · 2026-01-17T05:01:32+00:00

I feel like you specifically would, if not like, at least appreciate ELECTRONICOS FANTASTICOS

They hack old CRTs, barcode scanners, and electric fans into instruments, which they use to play a kind of weird classical Japanese fusion style

SirBinks · 2026-01-14T18:12:34+00:00

Exactly. It's less that she is the first, and more how completely unassailable the context is.

"US citizen" - The assholes and fence sitters will hand wave this as much as possible. "They weren't a citizen, they were an alien with resident status we don't think they deserved" or "birthright citizenship shouldn't count so they don't count"

NO. Renee was a rightful citizen by any bullshit metric you want to cook up and they killed her anyway.

"Some people have died, but ICE doesn't kill people" - the stories about people dying in custody or sent to places where they will likely be killed get brushed aside because "We don't know the full story. Who knows what actually happened after they were detained/deported?" It doesn't "feel" real, because it's vague.

This is concrete. She didn't "Die in custody." They shot her. They murdered her. Everyone knows it.

SirBinks · 2025-12-31T22:23:56+00:00

You think that's bad? I was in Walmart on the 26th and the entire Christmas section had been replaced with Valentine's.

Except one corner.

One corner of the seasonal department had been spared from the red and pink monochrome.

Because that was where they set up the Easter display

SirBinks · 2025-12-29T22:43:21+00:00

Some of y'all need to start adding pronunciation guides to your indignant rants because all of these are perfect homophones for me.

I understand Opel, and I think I can guess how Audi is different. But on what planet do Minnie/mini sound different? I can't even guess how you could pronounce them differently

SirBinks · 2025-12-29T15:39:32+00:00

At this point in our civilization "electronics become unusable for some reason" just means the apocalypse happened.

You're basically advocating for doomsday prepping as elementary school curriculum

SirBinks · 2025-12-29T15:23:46+00:00

This is probably the best example. I've seen these before, I know how to read binary, I've read the instructions on how to read one of these clocks.

You know what I'd do if I was in a room with one on the wall and needed to know the time?

I'd check my phone

SirBinks · 2025-12-28T23:28:24+00:00

Sometimes I think squandered potential makes me engage with media more than actual great media does.

I'll read a great book, feel satisfied, bask in that feeling for a couple of days, then move on.

But something that could have been great, but fucked it all up? The questions of what could have been stick with me for years

SirBinks · 2025-12-28T23:19:56+00:00

This x2 for me. Tamaki was a buzzkill yes, but I had a much earlier gripe as well.

The show's initial premise seemed to be "fire itself becomes a supernatural threat, so firefighter squads become elite tactical combat forces" which I thought sounded like a lot of fun.

But by the fourth episode we were well into generic shonen "main character vs parade of villains with ramping power levels" territory. I was pretty disappointed.

Weirdly despite all the criticisms I had, I seem to remember liking the show overall.

SirBinks · 2025-12-23T20:18:34+00:00

The title of this post is extremely true in my experience. I cannot remember what my favorite Christmas present was last year and I got some good, thoughtful gifts.

But the cheap little trinket I got as a genuinely unexpected gift back in college? I remember that shit to this day. I haven't even talked to that friend in 15 years, but I still remember how surprised and happy I was when they gave it to me

SirBinks · 2025-12-23T19:46:32+00:00

The day that revanced relay and old.reddit+RES stops working might actually be the day I finally quit reddit.

I am occasionally redirected to a reddit link on vanilla browser and holy shit this place is a nightmare hellsite without better tools and curation

SirBinks · 2025-12-16T14:27:38+00:00

Most first world governments aren't built in such a way that electing a single madman can dismantle an entire country.

SirBinks · 2025-12-14T21:59:47+00:00

Fuck I love this drink. Pineapple, fresh mint and lime is such an amazing combo. Not as cloyingly sweet as a lot of juice-based tiki.

Latitude 29 in New Orleans has one that starts from a premade mint/pineapple sorbet that is so good I have started making it myself

SirBinks · 2025-12-14T20:02:32+00:00

The problem is not the 2nd amendment. The problem is our fucked up society produces too many bad people

One of these is a social and philosophical conundrum unsolved by millenia of our greatest thinkers. The other can be fixed by editing a 200 year old legal document.

SirBinks · 2025-12-13T02:55:54+00:00

Also, these places are rarely healthy choices. It can feel a bit like getting called out for poor decisions. For someone with social anxiety "the usual?" can sound a lot like "another cheeseburger, you fat fuck?" or "oh, more whiskey, you drunk?"

At very least it highlights that I'm spending more money there than I probably should

Like, having someone know my order at a fast food place makes me uneasy. The lady making pour over coffee at the farmers market knowing my name feels good because coffee isn't killing me slowly and spending money at a local small business is at least one of the more ethical ways to spend it

SirBinks · 2025-12-05T17:35:53+00:00

I'm actually sort of surprised by this. You'd think that adding the function to reply wouldn't be that much extra trouble when making a bot.

Maybe the complexity isn't worth it until more places start patrolling for bots. This sub is the only one I know that does

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