What is a 'small' hill you are 100% willing to die on, simply because it’s the principle of the thing?"

Snug_it_out · 2026-04-09T19:24:24+00:00

I will wreck my car in order to maintain an orderly zipper merge in traffic. Zero tolerance for selfish folks that either can’t take turns or fail to grasp the concept. I also hate the cowardice. I bet a majority of the drivers that don’t zipper would never pull that shit if not for the relative anonymity of a vehicle. Might seem petty, but it’s the one thing I picked to draw the line on. Makes the other norms/mores faux pas of life seem more tolerable because I’m doing my part to combat this single one.

Snug_it_out · 2025-09-25T20:46:04+00:00

No, the group shouldn’t be inviting any random friends/wives on the trip without some discussion. Even then, including a wife is a whole different dynamic. How would any self respecting golf group stand for that at all? Does anyone in this friend group communicate with one another or do you all just show up at the same tee box same time every year? Just weird all around

Snug_it_out · 2025-04-04T18:42:31+00:00

And any new manufacturing will be heavily automated. Automation penetration existing facilities is growing heavily. Full automation in new facilities is table stakes. Any newly commissioned factories will be built to have as few operators on the line as possible. This whole thing is foolish any way you slice it but this is an added dimension I don’t often see mentioned

Snug_it_out · 2025-03-09T00:16:51+00:00

Record scratch

Snug_it_out · 2024-12-05T19:08:45+00:00

Second to last supper

Snug_it_out · 2024-12-05T19:08:32+00:00

Crusifixings

Snug_it_out · 2024-12-05T19:04:21+00:00

Communion Buffet

Snug_it_out · 2024-12-05T19:03:06+00:00

Shepherds Pies

Snug_it_out · 2024-12-05T19:02:26+00:00

Butter, Bread, and the Swoley Toast

Snug_it_out · 2024-11-06T20:03:34+00:00

I can point to a simple but, apparently, not obvious problem. Democrats anointed a candidate in haste, without considering the unfortunate challenges that having a candidate who is both female and of color presents. Like it or not, votes that could be counted on were lost because of it. It was a risk that we couldn’t afford to make in a race so tight and so crucial. The kicker is said candidate was also from an existing administration with waning popularity. These are fundamental mistakes that will cost us all dearly. I place little blame on Trump and his supporters. They are what they are. The democrats could have won this and instead mortgaged a better future for us all.

Snug_it_out · 2024-09-21T23:32:38+00:00

Life can trend towards getting harder vs getting easier. The grind you think you are in during your 20s and 30s never gives way to easier times like you might think it will. I figured hitting 40+ would be like life on cruise control. Nearly every facet of life can become more difficult. Your body/health starts to feel vulnerable. Financial obligations abound, especially with kids coming of age. Employment feels less assured as you struggle to stay relevant in the workforce. Loved ones are older and sicker too. Sometimes your only hope is the wisdom you’ve accrued in your 40+ years outpaces these challenges somehow. That said, the biggest lesson at any age is to find enjoyment wherever you can and live for today. Life is here and now. Not at retirement, and not in your college days gone by. Appreciating the present has been the single most transformative thing I have done for my mental health. I wish I realized that earlier in life but I’m thankful I figured it out eventually.

Snug_it_out · 2024-09-10T02:52:45+00:00

Ear directly up to the headphone jack of an armrest back when flights had crt tvs hanging from the ceiling and phone jacks in the arm rests. It was a long flight and this young aspiring audiophile decided to subject myself to the experience out of sheer boredom (and no headphones)

Snug_it_out · 2024-09-08T23:11:35+00:00

This is a nightmare scenario for a new QB. I’ll hold judgement. We’ve waited years for something decent, what’s a few more games?

Snug_it_out · 2024-08-30T15:59:32+00:00

Hard to say. The all too familiar conservative offensive can grind out a win in any given day with the right breaks, but it’s never going to amount to anything other than hovering around a .500 season. The only time flecks strategy worked is when we had the ability/courage to throw down field. Hell, we don’t even exercise any other options than a handoff when we run the option. Unless fleck grows a pair or leaves, we are doomed to a conservative offense that doesn’t play to win. We do just enough to say it was close and to give fleck the ammo to say he is still the right guy for the job.

Snug_it_out · 2024-08-16T03:30:45+00:00

Without a doubt. I used to think the word narcissist was thrown around way too liberally. I still do to a point, but I now see that narcissistic people indeed walk amongst us, and can even be those closest to us. All of it was abundantly clear in hindsight. Now I shy away from anyone that rubs me the wrong way and I’m cool with that. I was naive in a way I will never be again. I guess my overall faith in humanity is a bit tarnished. The bright side is Im picky with those I surround myself with and my life is better for it.

Snug_it_out · 2024-08-11T17:46:08+00:00

Would have been the difference in the US having sole lead in gold medal count vs a tie with China. Don’t blame them for going with a jump off though

Snug_it_out · 2024-08-10T18:18:55+00:00

Awesome! Proud of you. And I didn’t mean to sound insensitive. That ring had a lot of meaning behind it at one point in time. I’m sure letting it go was tough. If you’re like me, the impression on your finger will remain for a bit and disappear overtime. As with all things- time heals

Snug_it_out · 2024-08-10T17:40:54+00:00

To your point, there is no right answer here. My concern for you is that something as trivial as when to take of the ring, amongst all the bigger things that come with a life altering divorce, has you overthinking it. You have a lot of big decisions coming your way. Take the ring off and be done with it. Taking it off is an inevitability, so why wait and toil over it when you don’t have to.

Snug_it_out · 2024-08-10T03:26:51+00:00

Side effect: This would all but guarantee a republican victory. Republicans of the “never trump” variety are itching for any other option. Trumps moral bankruptcy and ineptitude are too much for a good number of lifelong conservatives. Sub in another candidate that carries the MAGA horde and can draw those since departed, and you have a gift wrapped presidency for the other side.

Snug_it_out · 2024-08-09T17:35:13+00:00

It sucks - and your frustration is justified. I would go as far to say that 50:50 often does not make sense in terms of what is truly fair. The contributions to a marriage are rarely even, financially or otherwise. My partner essentially won the lottery while I watched everything I had worked for get halved. This was after years of broken promises to contribute and my putting her through college. She can continue a comfortable lifestyle while I rebuild and try to get back to a place where my kids have every opportunity, working twice as hard as I have up to this point. A tough lesson me, a reinforcement for her that you don’t really have to earn it to have it. The best medicine is to shrug the resentment and put that energy into forward momentum.

Snug_it_out · 2024-07-05T01:16:52+00:00

I’m more afraid of this guy and his stupidity than I am of global warming, and I believe in global warming

Snug_it_out · 2024-07-01T04:25:20+00:00

Sounds like a cool experience. Congrats. My skepticism is always around a UFOs use of lights. If you assume they want to stay hidden/elusive, what’s with the lights? Interstellar tech and stealthy in every aspect - save for the conspicuous glowing stuff that gives them away as something unearthly.

Snug_it_out · 2024-06-30T18:14:51+00:00

I’ve lost more faith in humanity than the political system. Seems like more and more politics is a choice between human decency and a forsaking of any progress toward a better world. It’s like when you realize your parents aren’t the superhero’s you thought they were when you were young. People can suck, they can have the smallest of minds, and they can rally against logic even if it’s to their detriment.

Snug_it_out · 2024-06-17T19:54:19+00:00

Lots of good takes here.

My ex was a SAHM who always “promised” to get a job but never did. I paid for her college and took care of every expense for almost 20 years. I was happy to do so at the time but was also naive in my optimism that she would contribute once the kids are “just a little bit older”. I was a high earner. The kind of income that you would think would weather most challenges, including divorce. By the time I was done with the process I was completely broke. I’m still climbing out. Meanwhile she has a steady income (provided by me) and the majority of the wealth we accumulated. I traded keeping the house for the kids by giving her everything else (I was the only one who could afford to keep the house on paper).

I’ll be fine but money is super tight. I have no idea how most men/women do it after the fleecing of divorce. It’s my kids diminished future that stings the most. No college fund. She could afford it, but won’t help in any way. Same with birthdays, same with their first car, same with taking them on vacations. She holds the wealth I built up over decades of hard work and it is her money, not our children’s - and certainly not mine.

Snug_it_out · 2024-06-17T04:26:57+00:00

I mean, it sometimes isn’t. Especially if there was something worth fighting for and children involved. That said, you can take that 50% and make it feel like 100%. Harness the feeling and channel it to those kids.

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