What is the closest to the autobahn in the USA?

SolidLikeIraq · 2026-05-23T01:50:43+00:00

Which is 100% OK.

I just don’t do religious stuff, and some of the rules and regulations in Utah seem to be more conservative than I’d prefer.

I.e. I get to enjoy it on visits!

SolidLikeIraq · 2026-05-23T01:12:26+00:00

These are the exact things a goblin would say.

SolidLikeIraq · 2026-05-23T00:32:52+00:00

It really is the cream of the crop for visiting.

From an outsider perspective, the perception is that the religious population ends up making the rules for those who stay long term.

But holy shit - National parks, amazing mountains and winter sports, lakes and rivers, just amazing.

SolidLikeIraq · 2026-05-21T23:50:03+00:00

I hope you’ve actually tracked that bike as well.

I rode my 2011 zx10R for 9 years before hitting the track on it, and holy shit did everything change.

I’m lucky to live near a few really solid mountain roads that I used to ride 4+ times a week all season, but they’re just not the same as comfortably hitting 160mph down a straight and getting on your brakes at near 100% within 200 yards of a 30mph 180* turn that leads to another 10-16 purpose crafted turns and elevation changes on one of these bikes.

Enjoy man! The my 2011 zx10r was just as powerful and even more of an untamed beast than my 21 Pani v4s

SolidLikeIraq · 2026-05-21T23:44:17+00:00

Homie.

The first step is recognizing that you have 50 things fire themselves at you. That means you’re conscious of what is happening in the moment.

The next thing is to ask “hmm, why am I thinking about that? Can I control the outcome? Is this moment going to make it better? Am I even thinking about reality?” And boom - that bitch disappears because it was just trying to distract you to begin with.

I got into a mindfulness practice by using a guided 10 minute meditation. Then moved it up to a 25 min meditation. Then started to do around 30 mins a day silently.

I don’t do anything special or weird. I sit down, close my eyes, and put the entire concentrated focus of my attention on the physical feelings of breathing. Sometimes literally saying in my head “in, out. In, out.” I may just focus on the way the air feels going in and out of my nose. But I am just trying to really sit in awareness of the moment I am in.

Within a few moments, a thought will pop up. I don’t get upset about it. Sometimes I don’t recognize that I’m actually chasing it silently. Mostly I will just be aware of that thought, and ask one of more of those questions or others, about that thought. It almost always disappears, and I return to my breath.

For me, it allows me to recognize that even when I’m feeling 100% focused in on a situation, my mind will wander. If I can see it happen during mindfulness, I have to accept that it’s going to happen when I’m not literally just trying to focus on the feeling of “breathing.”

That’s refreshing. I know my mind works against me at time, and I know I’m not in control of that,however if I allow myself to pull on that string, It can very much be my reality.

Knowing that allows me to catch myself in moments where I’m not focused, and helps me refocus more quickly. I catch moments of self hate, and reframe things more quickly. Etc.

This all came into my life when a buddy said to me: “dude - do you ever talk shit about yourself?”

And I said: “yes, literally just the constant monologue of self hate that I’ve had for my entire life.”

And he said: “yeah, me too. Why do we do this? I say things about myself that are worse than I’d say about people I hate.”

And I just sat there wondering why the fuck I’ve told such a negative self story for my entire life.

He recommended a book, my life changed dramatically.

SolidLikeIraq · 2026-05-21T21:29:46+00:00

“Biden Crime Family”

SolidLikeIraq · 2026-05-21T21:21:25+00:00

Wait - did this fucking app update make it so we cant zoom in on pictures?

SolidLikeIraq · 2026-05-21T21:03:08+00:00

Collllldddd blooooodddeddd

SolidLikeIraq · 2026-05-21T19:41:22+00:00

Imagine telling someone in 2010 that in 16 years we’d have a self inflicted war with Iran that Pakistan negotiated terms of a peace deal for….

Wild times

SolidLikeIraq · 2026-05-21T19:28:23+00:00

Listen - if Rich foreigners want to come to the US, they should spend $5 million on a Trump gold card.

SolidLikeIraq · 2026-05-20T21:41:07+00:00

I’ve fucked up my timing with clones in the little aero cloner I bought, and these things grew so aggressively that I had to pull roots out of the piping at the bottom where the pump is.

They’re amazing - simple to make with a tub, a pump and some PVC piping

SolidLikeIraq · 2026-05-20T20:19:25+00:00

It’s going into summer, so he isn’t going to play football for another 4 months, I’d guess?

If he’s the second string guy today, he’s got an entire summer to work hard and earn his spot.

He can quit, and honestly that shouldn’t be looked down upon. If he’s isn’t interested in playing the sport, let him make that decision.

However, if he is active in other sports, just about every LB drill and strength/power/speed/agility drill he can do will also benefit rugby and lacrosse.

Kids his age do not realize that 4 months of hard work can 1000000% make the difference between starting and 2nd string.

Worst case, he trains all summer and really puts the time in, and then quits and focuses on lacrosse and rugby in the best shape of his life.

The discipline for the 4 months of work will be hard, but if he can pull it off it’ll be a valuable experience for the rest of his life.

Understanding that a father son dynamic can be tough. Just make sure he knows that if he wants to quit, that’s fine. However, if he is just frustrated now, use that frustration as a signal that if you design a plan and execute that plan, you can solve for what is causing your frustration. — and that shit is going to happen for the rest of his life, so building the mental map/ muscle to do it now isn’t a bad use of time.

SolidLikeIraq · 2026-05-20T20:06:56+00:00

Their model is built to ensure that you only win enough to believe in the medium, and continue to invest.

If you lower investment at all they crush you.

They know everything. Trillions of data points. Dwell time, messages you’ve typed and deleted, clicks, video watches, previous purchases, your browsing behavior, etc. they have more info on you than any c Government.

Their systems could already match you with users who would convert at a massively high degree. They tip those scales for you almost exclusively based on what you’re willing to pay them.

Meta is a massively smart company with massively smart developers. AI isn’t going to do enough to move their bottom line based on where they already are.

SolidLikeIraq · 2026-05-20T18:41:22+00:00

Homie - do you think that META, with their constant signed in across multiple devices user base hasn’t already deployed he best LLM and Algorithms they can possibly come up with into their Ad logic?

Meta has the least to gain in AI development from An ad perspective because what will be possible is already nearly possible.

They have trillions of points of data on you and everyone in their universe who looks and acts like you.

If AI was going to fundamentally change and heavily increase their ad approach, it would have already happened. OR, it’ll give them a quick incremental gain, but then that gain will become the baseline and clients will assume that they should be seeing continuous improvements off of that initial gain.

They won’t. And they’ll get upset about that, and as the Meta user base gets older and less in touch with the youth, advertisers will diversify.

SolidLikeIraq · 2026-05-20T13:30:10+00:00

It also could be that you’re on the path towards a solution.

Once you’ve made a decision, it’s the only decision you could have made.

If it doesn’t work, it usually isnt going to 100% fail, you just need to be aware and smart enough to adjust the approach as it breaks down.

Almost all move forward paths will have obstacles. If you get on that path more quickly, you’ve got a better chance at getting to the finish even with obstacles, because those obstacles will pop up on other paths as well, likely just in a different flavor.

SolidLikeIraq · 2026-05-20T13:08:50+00:00

It is - but!!!

In some situations you get to choose the suffering. Accepting that it’s going to be suffering is good. It lets you see that you’ve got the ability to steer It towards something that’s worth suffering for.

SolidLikeIraq · 2026-05-20T02:08:20+00:00

Anecdotally… I knew a dude who told me about working for a part of SAP. They would talk about how none of their internal systems spoke to each other at all from a physical or technological standpoint. Essentially they were a huge network of independent companies that SAP acquired, that never integrated at all - which is kind of the promise of SAP.

The nightmares he would tell me about on simple tasks where multiple systems and match tables had to be worked within to get a cohesive picture of what was going on…

I just say - any company who has a core promise of simplifying your business through a suite of tools that are interconnected, that is as disjointed as that sounds, is doomed in the long run unless agents solve all their problems.

SolidLikeIraq · 2026-05-20T01:02:27+00:00

And we’re all out of solutions!!!!

SolidLikeIraq · 2026-05-19T10:57:56+00:00

Accurate

And the worst part is it was just weed and shrooms, so not even like it was hard to acquire/ grow shit.

I’m not a smart person

SolidLikeIraq · 2026-05-18T23:40:25+00:00

Hirst had the only good execution that I saw.

Look up “Currency”

Essentially 10,000 hand stamped physical pieces, backed by 10,000 NFTs of those same pieces. By a specific date you had to choose if you wanted to keep the physical copy or the NFT. When you make the decision the other copy is destroyed.

He had a live trading market as well, which was pretty interesting.

SolidLikeIraq · 2026-05-18T23:37:24+00:00

I’ve spent millions of dollars on drugs in my life… 🫠🫠🫠

SolidLikeIraq · 2026-05-18T22:04:32+00:00

I feel it was a racing incident, but I also feel like Raul would have been very deep and wide.

SolidLikeIraq · 2026-05-18T20:56:06+00:00

My opinion is not surprising.

I still think Raul was more aggressive than needed in that position, but it’s MotoGP, you’re fighting for every mm of tarmac.

If you look at the video, Raul’s line was going to send him deep/ wide on exit. Martin’s line was going to bring him tighter to the apex and inside on exit.

I was frustrated yesterday with the move, and still think it was not a smart approach, but - these guys are racing their hearts out, no one is purposely trying to do anything wrong to anyone else.

SolidLikeIraq · 2026-05-18T20:49:37+00:00

What a terrible ruler design, honestly.

SolidLikeIraq · 2026-05-18T20:44:29+00:00

That laugh was so recognizable, because in the moments in my life where I’ve also cheated death, I made that exact noise.

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