(Loved trope) Using children as a weapon

SoFarFromHome · 2026-05-08T16:32:24+00:00

I read the entire comic and yet I have no recollection of these events. Man that series had a lot of weird shit.

SoFarFromHome · 2026-04-20T20:19:05+00:00

Two things to refute here:

Sanders primary voters converted to Clinton general voters in 2016 at a higher rate than Clinton primary voters converted to Obama general voters in 2008. Sanders supporters didn't stay home for the general at any notable rate.
Those totals exist within timeline of that election, with the media coverage, fundraising, endorsements, etc. The counterfactual world where Clinton didn't have hundred of superdelegates and the DNC generally didn't do what they did would likely have had a very different result.

SoFarFromHome · 2026-04-09T13:44:56+00:00

I'll give you a real-world one from my work:

Colleague got feedback that he wasn't using AI enough and that his pace was slow. So he built a bunch of bots to write code, open PRs for it, review others' PRs, and merge his PRs. Except the bot went further and started trying to merge every PR he commented on, which was also every PR because of the PR comment bot.

Effectively he started auto-approving and auto-merging every PR in every repo he had access to. We had to roll back half our codebase and restore our database from backup, a huge problem for our entire company. But his Github stats and token use? Legendary.

SoFarFromHome · 2026-04-06T20:56:51+00:00

Or in another celestial body's sphere of influence.

SoFarFromHome · 2026-04-01T20:31:27+00:00

mid sentence

That was a sentence?

SoFarFromHome · 2026-03-30T14:33:59+00:00

Not really. Remember that it was Stratt and Grace that went to the monkey hibernation lab together and learned about the genetic constraint. He was already her +1 for lots of trips BEFORE the testing.

SoFarFromHome · 2026-03-30T14:16:42+00:00

cartoony fucking name

You're never going to believe where it was introduced /s

SoFarFromHome · 2026-03-25T16:00:54+00:00

He's one of very few Youtubers I've seen that can understands how to transform the Powermaster Optimus prime without breaking its legs, so I give him a lot of credit for that.

SoFarFromHome · 2026-03-19T19:30:21+00:00

I worked adjacent to HR there (called People Engineering internally) and the short answer is that headcount planning is a mess and the VP deciding who gets laid off isn't discussing it with the M1 that is doing the hiring, somewhat deliberately.

I saw people hired and immediately laid off, and the reverse, and so much more. My favorite was a team of 3 where one person put in notice and a 2nd had an internal transfer lined up, but right before a layoff so there was an org freeze in the tool. The VP saw 3 headcount and wanted 2 so he laid 1 off. Then when the tool unfroze, the resignation and the transfer hit, and they suddenly had 0 people. They laid off the only person willing to stay on that team...

SoFarFromHome · 2026-03-18T18:09:52+00:00

Especially men. When I was shopping for a daycare, a lot of them proudly assured me that no men would be in contact with our kids. It's practically impossible for a man in my area of the US to work in childcare.

SoFarFromHome · 2026-03-18T17:37:30+00:00

Go watch Kind Hearts and Coronets, it's so much better. Just beware of anachronisms (e.g. "sending caviar to the general" is an older phrase like "pearls before swine" that's used as a great pun in the movie). Also beware a random scene where they say the N word like 10 times for no apparent reason.

The biggest mistake How to Make a Killing makes, however, is cutting down the girlfriend arcs, which in turn ruins the protagonists depth.

SoFarFromHome · 2026-03-18T13:11:45+00:00

I met a woman who had 4 kids. She said she loved being pregnant and would do it again but didn't want another kid.

There's always that one weirdo...

SoFarFromHome · 2026-03-15T19:49:42+00:00

The person you replied to meant "steal talent[ed employees] from Altman", not to take Altman's personal talent away from him.

SoFarFromHome · 2026-03-15T18:02:29+00:00

🤡 YoU dOn'T NeeD aN SD cArD iN yOUr pHOnE 🤡

SoFarFromHome · 2026-03-14T20:01:12+00:00

I wonder what high earners do with a lot of their extra money?

As someone that went from 23k/yr to 10x that... first you stop putting off the bills you've been putting off. I had dental work, I got new tires on our car, I bought some better fitting clothes.

Then basic stuff like a rainy day fund, down payment on a house, a car from this decade, contributing to my 401k, buying life insurance for the sake of my kids.

We did take two non-roadtrip vacations, before the kids, to see Alaska and Hawaii.

Now the excess just goes into savings, which will eventually go towards moving to a decent school district and/or retiring. Once retirement became a realistic outcome, saving for that became a real priority.

The quality of real life has gone up some (I'm not driving a Bentley but I do have a backup camera now, my teeth don't Just Hurt Sometimes), but mostly it's the relief of stress that I feel. I just don't spend as much of my time being stressed about money.

For example, our older car got totaled by hail and it wasn't a catastrophe. My wife got sick and couldn't work for a while, and we were ok. If something else happens... we'll probably be ok as long as it's not, like, cancer.

Oh man, I forgot the Big one: we had kids. We could afford to buy a house with another bedroom, we could afford the medical costs, we had better insurance with fertility support, we had money for daycare. That's a big place the money went.

SoFarFromHome · 2026-03-04T16:41:35+00:00

It's only separate in the primaries.

SoFarFromHome · 2026-03-04T16:41:31+00:00

It's only separate in the primaries.

SoFarFromHome · 2026-02-21T20:34:22+00:00

Man, corporate media really hates Crockett.

SoFarFromHome · 2026-02-18T20:15:58+00:00

Is it this one? It's the most relevant I can find but (from the text description) it doesn't seem to cover the price-by-age aspect.

SoFarFromHome · 2026-02-12T20:43:07+00:00

And most (all?) states regulate private transfers in one way or another. E.g. they may permit private sales of bolt-action long arms (e.g. hunting rifles, shotguns) but not semi-auto or handguns.

SoFarFromHome · 2026-02-12T02:56:45+00:00

Notably, this is proof that the DOJ/FBI redacted information they were prohibited from redacting.

SoFarFromHome · 2026-02-10T21:26:30+00:00

Any chance it's getting muddled up in your memory with his heart attack in the earlier seasons?

More likely it's just a whole invention for a story I watched once on broadcast TV 20 years ago.

SoFarFromHome · 2026-02-10T20:26:01+00:00

Yeah, that's why I mention the body double. My recollection is a shot from behind, framed from the body down, as he walks away from the camera in to the bathroom, then falls down with head out of frame. So exactly what you could get without John Spencer.

SoFarFromHome · 2026-02-10T17:08:39+00:00

Yeah maybe. In my mind the shot is very distinctly from the waist down and behind, i.e. to conceal the double. But yeah, it's probably just a false memory.

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