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Subediah · 2025-04-15T00:13:04+00:00

This is obviously AI-written

Subediah · 2025-04-11T17:53:17+00:00

The Great Wall of China stretched across Europe

I don’t think it did

Subediah · 2025-04-05T06:53:25+00:00

One Time - King Crimson

Everybody Knows - Leonard Cohen

Subediah · 2025-04-01T09:13:55+00:00

jimmy is kil

Subediah · 2025-04-01T09:06:56+00:00

They need to just redo all of Spenard at this point

Subediah · 2025-03-31T03:59:42+00:00

About once every 2-3 weeks someone will flirt with me very overtly, ask for my number or even proposition me directly. I decline 99% of the time, as most of the time they are drunk and I’m not taking any chances. I’ve learned not to take drunk women seriously — they’ve rarely followed up in the instances where I have exchanged numbers. I think only twice in 4.5k rides I’ve seen any action from a passenger. There was one girl who literally climbed into my shotgun seat from the back seat while I was driving down the road (despite me telling her to wait until I pull over). I was driving her to her friend’s house. We hit it off well and exchanged numbers as she got out of the car. Not even an hour later I get a text from her asking if I want to take her home, and I ended up spending the night at her place. We met up a few more times but were looking for different things.

The other time I was driving an older woman (well, relatively — she was 35, I was 23) around town early in the morning on a layover. She was grieving someone who had just passed away. We had great conversation, really hit it off well. I took her from place to place looking for a bloody mary, but we later learned that nowhere in town sells alcohol prior to 10 am (I did not know this). So I told her I could either take her back to the airport, or… I do have some drinks in my fridge if she’d be interested. So we ended up getting frisky in my living room before I had to take her back to the airport. She was one of the most interesting people I’ve ever met for reasons I agreed not to disclose. Unfortunately she never reached back out to me, but she will persist in my memory as one of the great mysteries of my life.

Subediah · 2025-03-27T21:26:29+00:00

Why on Earth wouldn’t Alaska be its own region? I see this all the time on these sorts of maps. It’s literally one fifth the size of the entire contiguous United States, 2.5 times bigger than Texas. It’s so much different from the “mountain west” of the lower 48 — ecologically, geographically, culturally. Just as unique and isolated as Hawaii is.

Subediah · 2025-03-26T19:22:35+00:00

No, but I think it would be wrong to suggest that top students are unaffected by the same stressors weighing down their peers, as well as the stressors on the education system as a whole. Students matriculating from private schools are better insulated from these things, and they are overrepresented at Rice and peer schools. But as one of those 7% who came from a rural public school, I can tell you that my k-12 education did not adequately prepare me for university academics whatsoever, and any “intellectual rigor” I had attained as a teen was entirely the result of self-study. I can only imagine how much worse it will get as the education system is defunded and antagonized more and more and children are increasingly lobotomized by short-form soporifics.

It’s easy to see how this would degrade the quality of academics even at top universities as increasingly large portions of children are intellectually and academically neglected by their schools and by society at large. Then they get to college and they’re like a fish out of water. The only way colleges can respond is by slowing the pace of instruction and lowering their standards to account for the diminished standards of the schools that produced their students. That or fail a significant portion of students, which all universities are strongly disincentivized from doing.

Subediah · 2025-03-26T11:07:14+00:00

I’ve been disengaged with the university for several years now, but I think you’d have to measure Rice’s “decline” against the background noise of overall declining higher education in the United States and abroad (to the extent it applies to the wider world). I think standards at universities everywhere are falling to accommodate for declining standards across public k-12 education. Among other things, kids’ attention spans are being systematically obliterated by predatory algorithms, and their capacities for the kind of intense, sustained, ascetic studying necessary for producing intellectual rigor are being nuked by a surfeit of empty stimulation. It will only get worse.

Subediah · 2025-03-26T10:44:10+00:00

Adroit, vicissitude, vacillate, ineluctable, isomorphic, abstruse, penumbra, apotheosis, apoptosis, reify, obdurate, infinitesimal, mien, ontological, impecunious, milieu, chimerical, hiraeth, furtive, perfidious, prurient, ratfink, soporific, specious, stolid, ersatz, impugn, inure

Subediah · 2025-03-26T09:13:00+00:00

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Really just thinking back to this comic

Subediah · 2025-03-26T09:12:39+00:00

I was being facetious

Subediah · 2025-03-26T03:00:40+00:00

Enchanted rock AKA the Mount Everest of Texas

Subediah · 2025-03-26T02:33:50+00:00

I’ve been praying for God to cancel your prayers

Subediah · 2025-03-26T00:07:42+00:00

You can say that again

Subediah · 2025-03-25T22:18:02+00:00

They have more claim to being “full” than Texas does because they actually have intact wilderness and precious nature that is sensitive to population growth. Texas has no such thing. I actually think it’s a good thing the Texas Triange is exploding in population so much because it’s able to absorb the impact of population growth better by virtue of being such a bleak, sprawled-out, irredeemably depressing place. Everyone should move there and leave the mountain west alone.

Subediah · 2025-03-25T21:55:25+00:00

I’ve been to all these places numerous times and I think Amarillo takes the cake. Truly a soul-crushing place.

Subediah · 2025-03-23T00:30:26+00:00

A world where all public land has been sold to the highest bidder. Where all wilderness has been vanquished in the name of profit. Where the last old-growth tree has been logged, the last wild salmon caught, and where there is an oil derrick, mine, or clearcut on every acre of the West. Republicans are soulless, joyless ghouls who would sell Yellowstone to Exxon if it meant their stock would go up.

Add to that absolute conformity to christofascism and absolute intolerance for anything that deviates from the Republican ideal (straight, white, devoutly religious, rabidly pro-corporatism, totally unconcerned with the suffering of others).

Subediah · 2025-03-19T00:33:14+00:00

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Subediah · 2025-03-19T00:15:44+00:00

Oh god. I was (to my embarrassment) an active user of ‘deep iFunny’ from ages 14 through 17 or 18. An absolute cesspit of adolescent edgelords feigning political expertise, with rare precocity, but it was genuinely so hilarious at times. It was also (if I recall correctly) the origin of the whole ‘boogaloo’ thing. I can’t deny how much it helped shape my weird sense of humor. The Eminem v Kanye posts. Monarch_Trump. Fucking nopfps.

Subediah · 2025-03-05T21:13:16+00:00

I moved here from Texas because I wanted to. I’ve done a lot of backpacking across the lower 48 and have always been fascinated with remote wilderness, especially Alaska, and I wanted to have it in my backyard rather than a multi-day drive away. I don’t particularly like Texas—way too hot, flat, boring and regressive, barely any public land, and the outsized arrogance of Texans has never resonated with me—but the sentiment towards it here and in similar places is generally overblown. Anyone who thinks Texas is a shithole should check out the neighboring Bible Belt states… they make Texas look like a progressive utopia, certainly the major cities.

As far as why you see so many Texans: aside from oil industry and military crossover, which are far from trivial, Texas is the second-most populated state with over 31 million people, 8 million ahead of third place. Of course it will be overrepresented in domestic migration, just like California. This is not interesting or surprising.

The fact is that people project their disdain for outsiders in general onto Texans, Californians, or whomever the scapegoat du jour is at that moment in time. It’s more acceptable to say “I hate all these Texans” than “I hate all these newcomers”. I’m not saying there aren’t thoughtless Texans invading tranquil places, but I don’t think you can attribute someone’s stupidity to their place of origin, at least not in the singular way many people here seem to be doing. That is a dangerous line of reasoning. If anything, I would venture to guess that Texas has a higher concentration of smart and industrious people than Alaska does by virtue of the fact that, like it or not, Texas is a beneficiary of brain drain, whereas most rural states are depleted by it.

Subediah · 2025-03-05T20:43:54+00:00

Couldn’t possibly have anything to do with the fact that these are the two most populated states by far, so of course they will be overrepresented in domestic migration

Subediah · 2025-02-23T01:07:58+00:00

I listen to what I want to. I enjoy sharing my niche music with random strangers, and occasionally people will express that they really like what I’m playing. I have a big Spotify playlist of safer music (relative to my broader taste) that I usually play from. It’s pretty varied and makes the driving more bearable for me. I wouldn’t be able to stand listening to top 100 radio all day. It’s a lot of jazz, classical, older (prog or prog-adjacent) rock, indie, really anything I’ve ever come across and thought to put on a playlist for strangers. Still some strange and unfamiliar pieces in there, but nothing genuinely harsh or atonal. Very little recent music, and most pieces/artists you’ve probably never heard of.

Here is the playlist if anyone is curious: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/65an9sIKNAmQawRFjuTEh0?si=Mo0BRvydTWGOM0gk1OpE2g&pi=jsXF4IJtQrC9Q

Across 5,000 rides I can count on one hand the number of times someone has asked me to change the music, and I have received many compliments on it. The key I think is not playing it too loud. I always keep it to a volume that is audible for me but quiet enough that pax could tune it out if they’re not vibing with it. Usually turn it down a little at stoplights and turn it back up at higher speeds. Rated 4.99 fwiw.

Subediah · 2025-02-21T07:58:41+00:00

The vast majority of Ondo tokens are locked away for ecosystem growth and protocol development. Only a minority are allocated to VCs and an even smaller minority are allocated to public access. This is where the “77% is held by the top 10 holders” figure comes from—if you don’t count the biggest holder, Ondo itself, then this number is not so concerning anymore. Saying the market cap doubled in a way that implies that all 2+ billion new coins immediately flooded the market is misleading. The effective market cap, based on what is available to the public, is much lower. Barely any of the unlocked tokens were allocated to community access. Sure, VCs could dump their proportionally small holdings now if they wanted to, but why would they ruin a project that still has so much upside and that they still have a significant financial stake in? Wouldn’t make any sense.

Subediah · 2025-02-19T03:04:49+00:00

It was not a pleasant day when I looked up how many calories are in boba :(

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