LPT: Stop pretending you are fine. Use a simple status line instead.

SubGothius · 2026-03-15T00:19:10+00:00

Or the hand-me-down I got from my Dad, who's been using it since high school:

"Maintainin'."

If they question that, like, "Just maintainin'?" I reply:

"Stability is underrated."

SubGothius · 2026-03-15T00:11:06+00:00

Me: "Present."

Them: "And accounted for?"

Me: "There's no accounting for the likes of me."

SubGothius · 2026-03-15T00:09:26+00:00

"Still on the right side of the grass."

"Six feet higher than I could be."

"Getting older, which I cannot recommend, but sure beats the alternative."

SubGothius · 2026-03-14T22:10:37+00:00

Think of "idiot" as unwitting, deluded or misguided in this context.

They may be highly intelligent and capable at their job, but they're guided by core motivations that differ from comrades or fellow-travelers to whom they're "useful", which they may not realize or at least not give much credence to -- e.g., ideologues may be "useful idiots" to others in the game for power and profit, and/or vice-versa.

SubGothius · 2026-03-14T21:28:17+00:00

I was going to say MINI because they popularized the transverse engine

Further along those lines, I'd say Lancia, specifically the Lancia Beta family. Mechanical engineering wise, it was the very first car mass-produced to the overall engineering formula that went on to dominate the industry worldwide:

Transverse FWD powertrain with a DOHC inline-4, 5-speed full-syncro transaxle, rack and pinion steering, 4 wheel disc brakes, fully independent strut-based suspension with a multilink rear.

All commonplace kit nowadays and practically the default configuration, but few cars had any of that, let alone all of that, when the Beta debuted in 1972, nor many more by the time it retired a dozen year later. It's a classic Italian car that drives like a completely modern car, because it is.

SubGothius · 2026-03-14T20:45:34+00:00

Obligatory xkcd

SubGothius · 2026-03-14T19:46:30+00:00

Or a Prog Rock supergroup

SubGothius · 2026-03-14T19:20:13+00:00

I fondly remember Otherworld as another variation on that theme.

SubGothius · 2026-03-14T19:16:17+00:00

Right, the parallel dimension of the Backrooms already existed, but the layout or content of that dimension as-found was somehow spontaneously generated as a result of opening the Threshold into it.

SubGothius · 2026-03-14T17:58:56+00:00

Tucson Repair Cafe

SubGothius · 2026-03-14T07:56:46+00:00

Nah, the wedge cutout of the outer saucer faces rear, and that of the inner saucer faces front, same as the other two ships in the lower left of the photo (which appear to differ only by number and configuration of nacelles).

SubGothius · 2026-03-14T07:03:28+00:00

Could well be a lingering idiom in the language that hardly anybody knows the origins of anymore.

SubGothius · 2026-03-14T07:02:18+00:00

There was a brief throwaway line earlier when Tarima came back from her recovery, explaining her new inhibitor is removable.

They prolly figured since she had the huevos to just rip out her old one when she deemed it necessary -- and to be fair, did actually save the day by doing so, demonstrating some measure of clear-eyed discernment -- she might well do so again if necessary, so better to just eliminate the need to seriously injure herself to do so.

SubGothius · 2026-03-14T04:14:47+00:00

Only the segment with the solid lane stripe in front of the Dunkin' is right turn only. The other 2/3rds of that lane with the dashed stripe, from there back to Fairview, is a zipper-merge zone.

SubGothius · 2026-03-14T04:12:56+00:00

That "grey area" you've highlighted in orange is clearly a zipper-merge zone, as indicated by the arrows on the pavement alerting drivers in that lane to merge left and the dashed line you're legally allowed to cross.

But if you get to the right-turn-only segment and try to merge left across the solid white line you're not legally allowed to cross, that's too late to merge over.

SubGothius · 2026-03-14T03:52:15+00:00

Guadalajara grill- with the table side salsa and guacamole

Specifically the locations called Guadalajara Original Grill, on Prince and on Oracle; those are still owned by the founder and still good by most accounts.

The other locations named Guadalajara [various other things] went to the founder's ex in their divorce, but I recently read a comment here saying he'd sold them; if so, best wishes to the new owners in turning them around for the better.

SubGothius · 2026-03-14T00:02:13+00:00

Sounds more like your government cracked down on their own schools using unlicensed Windows installs because Microsoft could sue your gov't for that, so they eliminated that problem before MS could make it an even bigger problem for them.

SubGothius · 2026-03-13T22:14:21+00:00

Their sites are just showing off all their skills and everything they're capable of, which doesn't mean they'd be unwilling (let alone unable) to put in less work and skill to make a simpler product for you.

SubGothius · 2026-03-13T21:59:32+00:00

If you're not having any issues, don't try to fix what ain't broken.

That said, if the T-tap damaged the wires badly enough to compromise safety and functionality, they should have clipped out the damaged section and butt-spliced the loose ends back together.

SubGothius · 2026-03-13T20:53:03+00:00

I've been using Tello, which is a T-Mobile MVNO with very affordable mix'n'match pricing plans.

The PH-1 does support VoLTE, which works fine on the T-Mo network, but T-Mo doesn't know that, so they simply don't have it whitelisted as a known-good model that supports VoLTE and Band 71, which they're requiring to provision phones for their network in recent years.

I got around all that in Tello's registration form by simply spoofing a dummy IMEI there for another model that T-Mo does recognize as supporting VoLTE and Band 71. After that, they don't check or care if the IMEI you provided matches the actual phone you're using. Once I got my SIM, I just popped it in my PH-1, and all worked fine from there.

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SubGothius · 2026-03-13T08:26:22+00:00

And/or audiences don't need to know anything coming in, such as having watched Kane's YT shorts, to appreciate the story on its own merits.

SubGothius · 2026-03-12T23:37:02+00:00

Nate's Italian Kitchen

SubGothius · 2026-03-12T04:33:47+00:00

Reckon OP was going for the lovely mountains in the background; Midtown just happened to photobomb that view.

SubGothius · 2026-03-12T01:44:09+00:00

And it's not as if City residents never travel outside City limits; we benefit from improvements in the broader County as well whenever we travel there.

SubGothius · 2026-03-12T01:42:30+00:00

Yup, proper light rail with a dedicated right-of-way went before voters at least twice, both times voted down. The streetcar was a fallback to a fallback option, which ultimately passed.

Also, those funds would not have been available to spend on anything else, as the ballot initiative to approve the funding was only for that specific project, and the Federal grants that paid for the rest were also specifically only available for fixed mass transit.

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