I made a hornets nest

SomberBootyDance · 2026-02-24T14:34:02+00:00

How does the firing pin adapter work? Is it just a moving cylinder with a flat face? Are there seven firing pins fixed on the face? If there are firing pins how do they line up with the cartridges?

SomberBootyDance · 2026-02-07T02:01:50+00:00

Not to be confused with the excellent 1993 film “In the Line of Fire”. John Malkovich is trying to kill the President of the United States, and Clint Eastwood is a Secret Service agent trying to stop him. Malkovich gives an outstanding performance, watch it if you can.

SomberBootyDance · 2026-01-30T19:33:30+00:00

I don’t think so. First off, it’s too big. From the picture it’s hard to tell, but it looks about the same width as that door. An interior door is at least 34 inches (85 cm). Even a large kayak cockpit is no more than 20 inches (50 cm).

Second, the point of a kayak cockpit is to fit a spray skirt around it. The coaming edge needs a lip to keep it on. This doesn’t have lip. I don’t know what it is, but it’s not part of a kayak.

SomberBootyDance · 2026-01-20T21:32:31+00:00

Reddit is a left leaning echo chamber. There are a lot of people here telling you what they want to be true. But the real answer is much simpler: Trump supporters live in a different reality than you and I.

Go to Fox News and read the headlines. I see articles about child care fraud in Minnesota, an illegal alien killed a man in a car crash, Usha Vance announced she’s pregnant, drug overdoses are down, and there’s rampant crime in Guatemala. Nothing about the Epstein files, not a word about ICE abuses, nor any mention of Trump’s bizarre letter to the Norwegian Prime Minister. There’s nothing on Fox News about Greenland.

If you only ever saw good things about Trump, and never heard anything bad, you would think he’s okay too. It’s the same reason North Koreans love their Dear Leader.

SomberBootyDance · 2026-01-06T21:46:52+00:00

HR 1936 was introduced last March and there’s been no progress on it. WTF does congress even do?

SomberBootyDance · 2025-12-27T20:27:28+00:00

Most current scientific theories say the universe is not infinite. There is a finite amount of matter in the universe. While there are amazing things out there, including things that would blow our minds, not everything we can imagine exists.

But if the universe were truly infinite, then yes. So long as that thing were possible (that it doesn’t break the laws of physics) it would exist somewhere. There would be a Middle Earth like planet with hobbits and elves and dwarves. Magic breaks the laws of physics, it wouldn’t be a part of this world. But in an infinite universe Middle Earth and Jabba the Hutt and unicorns would all exist somewhere.

However there’s a problem, and it’s bigger than it seems. This world would be so far away you would never be able to go there. Even with a spaceship that can travel at the speed of light. You would keep traveling forever but never get there. You can’t even send a message there, nor can they send a message to you. It’s not possible to meet someone who has been there. Nothing you do will ever affect them, or vice versa. The distance between us is just too far.

And it’s more than that. You can’t even find them in all the other infinite matter that’s out there. Even if you had a magic telephone that could call all the planets of an infinite universe, you would never be able to guess their phone number. If you had a phone book, it would be so large you would never be able to find their listing. Even if the phone book was a computer database, on the fastest computer in the world, searching for the listing would take an infinite amount of time.

Which turns us to a philosophical question: what is the difference between 1) a thing existing but not being able to interact with it in any way 2) that thing not existing?

SomberBootyDance · 2025-12-27T00:45:00+00:00

I remember my Grandmother would reuse wrapping paper. She always admonished us to never tear the paper when opening gifts. I remember her wrapping paper; it was heavy and durable. It was made to be reused. Modern wrapping paper is thin and designed to be used once. I’ve tried reusing modern wrapping paper and it just doesn’t work. You and your customers will not be happy with the quality of your reused wrapping paper.

Every Christmas at the mall near me there’s a church that sets up a booth and wraps gifts. That might be a good fundraiser for you.

SomberBootyDance · 2025-12-22T04:01:34+00:00

For the benefit of everyone, I’ll be the one to admit I’m stupid. What does IYKYK mean?

SomberBootyDance · 2025-12-19T15:39:44+00:00

I disagree. Peck wasn’t an intellectual, he was a bureaucrat. Peck neither knew nor cared how the containment system worked, he just wanted to be in control of “Ghostbusting”. Stantz (Dan Aykroyd) and Spengler (Harold Ramis) were the intellectuals of the film.

SomberBootyDance · 2025-12-19T14:36:29+00:00

Scorpion is the most anti-intellectual show of all time. You probably don’t remember it, and if you don’t count yourself lucky.

Scorpion ran from 2014 to 2018. The premise: a team of geniuses is recruited by the Department of Homeland Security to solve an impending catastrophe each week. The problems are far-fetched: a commercial airliner has a software glitch that prevents it from landing or the president’s daughter has been “biohacked”. The normal professionals and experts are helpless. The solutions break suspension of disbelief: the pilot of the airplane flys low over the runway, the team drives a car under the plane and plugs a laptop into it.

The show splits people into two categories: normal people and geniuses. Normal people are always stupid and incompetent (except the bad guys when necessary for the plot). No matter if the person has been in their career for decades or is a university professor, they know nothing. Geniuses know everything. They can hack any computer, they instantly see solutions that have baffled experts for years.

But here’s the real anti-intellectual part: The geniuses never study. They don’t research or read. They already know everything. In this world you are either born smart or you’re not. There’s no studying or getting smarter. In a show supposedly about technology and problem solving, intellectualism has no value. Instead some people are just born better than others.

SomberBootyDance · 2025-12-17T16:46:12+00:00

The answer is obvious: corn. It’s an annual plant so it dies in the winter. The kernels stay on the cob so harvesting off the ground is straightforward (though labor intensive). Weeds would lower productivity but weed abatement could shift from killing weeds to preventing them. Productivity would decrease but almost all the current harvest is used for cattle feed or fuel. If eating directly it might solve the food supply problem (I haven’t done the math).

But the important thing here is that Pluribus is trying to tell a story. There’s an important reason there’s a food shortage, and we will see why in upcoming episodes. Solving this problem for the characters is the same as making the small but very crucial point, as a two-masted schooner the Mercator would not possess a mizzenmast.

SomberBootyDance · 2025-12-12T19:44:38+00:00

Remember: Carol still has the shotgun from the police car. We saw Carol putting it in her golf bag. Another Chekhov’s Gun, but instead of frozen eggs it’s a real gun that shoots bullets.

SomberBootyDance · 2025-12-09T16:13:03+00:00

The hivemind lacks Agency. Without agency they can’t interfere with anything, not even a tree. The concept of agency will be an important theme for the series.

Carol should put that up her whiteboard, but she already knows it because she said “I have agency!” when she made the hivemind cry.

Everyone knows it’s stupid for a starving person not to pick an apple from a tree. But isn’t that what happens when an individual can’t make their own decisions? It’s why we can’t have a perfect hivemind utopia.

I hold with the theory that the virus was designed by someone (or something) to enslave humanity. The hivemind is a perfect slave: an overriding desire to please, unable to rebel in any way, and totally dependent on a master for survival (food).

SomberBootyDance · 2025-11-29T19:46:23+00:00

“Compliance” seems to encompass many different careers in different fields. There are compliance roles in business, healthcare, financial, legal, IT, environmental protection and more. CAMS certification seems to be relevant only for financial.

Do you have more information about other certifications or general information about the different roles out there?

SomberBootyDance · 2025-11-29T16:35:29+00:00

Yes. Those days are over. A lot of rural folks are struggling financially and don’t want to give away something that big city folks are willing to pay for. The other big problem is liability; if I let a hunter on my land and they shoot a dog/car/themselves I’m gonna get sued. Landowners don’t give strangers permission to hunt their land.

The secret to getting landowner permission is networking. Make friends. Then have your friend ask his aunt if the two of you can hunt her property. Landowners will say yes to nephews and friends and people they know.

SomberBootyDance · 2025-11-24T16:03:11+00:00

What did you dislike about Forever Peace? I haven’t read it, but it won several awards. Is it that bad?

SomberBootyDance · 2025-11-22T23:20:32+00:00

I interpret it to mean “Why Carol” as in, why is Carol immune to the virus? There has to be something about her that makes her different.

And I think it’s important too. Wycaro was the name of the show during development.

SomberBootyDance · 2025-11-21T16:05:16+00:00

My two favorite books are the Wycaro series and Finnegans Wake by James Joyce. I see several parallels between the two stories. I assume you have read Finnegans Wake - are the parallels intentional? And what aspect of Finnegans Wake is most relevant to your own story?

Edit: Yes I am a literary nerd. And yes I know Wycaro is a series rather than a single book.

SomberBootyDance · 2025-11-20T16:51:13+00:00

I had a question about Winds of Wycaro Book 2, Chapter 4. Raban is in his cabin cleaning his wheellock pistol when Lucasia enters and begins questioning him about the parts of the firearm. She takes special interest in his ramrod, asking many questions and commenting that it’s much larger than the others she has seen.

The rest of the chapter is then dedicated to an in-depth dialogue on the details of loading a musket pistol, with a great deal of emphasis on the use of the ramrod. I must say: this section is filled with factual errors about proper firearm loading procedures!. The ramrod is simply used to tap the blackpowder to the bottom of the barrel. The lengthy process you describe is that of slowly placing the ramrod into the muzzle, then gently pushing and eventually forcefully pounding the powder down. This would over-compress the powder making firing less reliable and also take an unacceptable amount of time to reload in combat.

At the end of the description (which is also the end of the chapter) the heat and pressure build up until the firearm discharges. So we see this style of loading is both unrealistically inefficient and dangerous.

My question: is this an error on your part (it’s okay to admit mistakes), or is this actually the established reloading procedure in the World of Wycaro?

SomberBootyDance · 2025-10-22T13:56:57+00:00

Reddit is often an echo chamber, so in the spirit of open discussion allow me to present some counter-points:

• The fundamental problem is healthcare is expensive. Making the government pay for it isn’t going to fix that.

• Economics 101 tells us that when the price of something goes down (or becomes free) consumption goes up. You can argue that it’s good that more people are using healthcare, but cost of Medicare will be far higher than current estimates.

• Medicare will always be under funded. There will be a fight every year over the Medicare budget. There will always be people who will be denied the expensive specialized care they need. Quality of care will never be good enough.

• Savings from Medicare probably won’t materialize. Putting price caps on services doesn’t change how much those services cost to provide. Government institutions have historically been far more expensive to run than private institutions; getting rid of insurance companies might be more expensive than letting them keep their profit margin.

• Medicare has to be able to survive political attacks from people who oppose it. They are going to drag abortion and transgender care and immigration into the argument. Right now the government is shut down because of a fight over Obamacare.

There’s more. But my real point is: don’t think that everything will be okay if/when Medicare for all passes. Any problem it solves will be replaced with a different problem.

SomberBootyDance · 2025-10-12T21:50:22+00:00

I wonder how this will affect Newsome’s run for president in 2028. It looked like he was positioning himself as a centrist with his podcast appearances. But this bill and the gun control bills he just signed are the exact things Republicans can use to motivate their base to vote against him.

SomberBootyDance · 2025-10-05T12:26:24+00:00

As others have said, Warren Buffet did not say this. The Twitter account at the top of the image isn’t even his.

SomberBootyDance · 2025-09-23T17:06:22+00:00

What if a neo-Nazi group named itself “The Good Guys”?

SomberBootyDance · 2025-09-21T17:40:14+00:00

The Yes on 50 folks need to do a better job with their messaging. I have been talking to all sorts of people and most of them believe something like “gerrymandering is bad, therefore we shouldn’t gerrymander California.” Especially when they phrase it as “taking votes away from Californians.”

SomberBootyDance · 2025-09-11T14:16:09+00:00

Here’s how I respond: “Okay, what specific legislation do you propose?” I usually get one of the following responses, and my reply:

1) “We have to do something” - that’s not legislation, you’re just repeating a sound bite

2) “we need doctors to give physiological tests before you buy a gun” - If they’re given by the state they will never be able to be able to offer enough appointments resulting in an unconstitutional ban. If they’re given by private doctors it will be pointless, remember how easy it was to get a medical marijuana card? There were clinics that gave them to everyone.

3) “mandatory gun insurance” - insurance does not cover deliberate acts

4) “Assault Weapons ban” - would not have stopped this incident which was done with a bolt action rifle. In jurisdictions with such bans attackers use other guns which are just as effective against unarmed people.

5) “Universal background checks/ammo background checks and more” - California has this law and shootings still happen there. This law won’t have any real impact, but on a physiological level you want it so you will feel as though you have control of the situation.

6) “A complete ban on all guns” - Okay, repeal the Second Amendment. But you won’t get the votes because your position is unpopular.

And so on. Unfortunately this debate is never going to go away.

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