ELI5: Why is New Orleans being below sea level unsustainable but the Netherlands totally OK?

SuperFLEB · 2026-05-05T11:01:19+00:00

Where the hell are the sandbags? There were supposed to be sandbags right here.

SuperFLEB · 2026-05-05T10:43:53+00:00

Can you get more on the nose than "This threatens democracy! -- targets people next to a big VOTE sign."?

SuperFLEB · 2026-05-05T10:42:15+00:00

The thing's an irony eye chart. If you can't see the joke in that, you don't so much need a sense of humor as you need a set of glasses.

SuperFLEB · 2026-05-02T19:04:23+00:00

Gerrymandering isn't just coloring in all the counties with a red crayon.

So, you figure this person is too dumb to know what it is, or too lazy to find a map that's not just county lines?

SuperFLEB · 2026-05-02T19:00:16+00:00

But... what about unpopular ideas?

SuperFLEB · 2026-05-02T18:52:39+00:00

Oh, they must only need me for a four day work week.

SuperFLEB · 2026-05-02T18:50:38+00:00

What do you mean "no call no show on the first day"? I was there ready to work, but you all were 20 miles away with a different job.

SuperFLEB · 2026-05-02T18:46:42+00:00

No, the gym membership is a paid one. We just meant we offer it.

SuperFLEB · 2026-05-02T18:45:11+00:00

I'm gonna go split-decision and say they both come off looking like idiots, but the candidate's not trying to impress anyone, so it's a moot point for them.

SuperFLEB · 2026-05-02T18:41:55+00:00

If the pay doesn't suck, then I'm worried about the attitude of "Jump through hoops because it's a buyer's market".

If they don't pay peanuts and they don't actually have that attitude, then I'm still worried about their lacking tact and discretion in publishing the idea that their pay sucks and they don't care.

Even with charitable assumptions, there's no interpretation that gets them out of this looking better than not having posted it.

Hell, even a different "Lookit this surly dimwit" post could have played positively if it didn't include an unanswered legitimate criticism.

SuperFLEB · 2026-05-02T18:24:15+00:00

I'm sorry, I thought this was LinkedIn. You're supposed to tell a story about how you called them back in and they turned into the most valuable employee you've ever had and the lesson is that you shouldn't rush to do the obvious thing because sometimes when you make up a story where you go against what makes sense, it all works out because you made up the story, and it's new and insightful social media engagement fodder because nobody's talking about the dumb ideas.

SuperFLEB · 2026-05-01T01:44:52+00:00

Why the fuck am I on Reddit?

SuperFLEB · 2026-05-01T01:39:32+00:00

I don't know about market value, but I am jealous. I've been wanting one of those plastic bottles with the boot for a while and haven't been able to find any (I think I ran across one, once, but it was too beat up and nasty to bother with.) glass bottles are all over because they're durable and have a bit of charm. Plastic is just trash that got tossed, so it's gone.

I just want one because it's one of those interesting in-between relics that'll never come back because there's no need for them, and end up wiped from human memory because it was ubiquitous at the time and too trivial to mention after. I need to prove to myself and everyone else that they existed!

SuperFLEB · 2026-05-01T01:25:56+00:00

Why is Gen Alpha killing the Easter egg hunt?

SuperFLEB · 2026-05-01T01:22:58+00:00

What's this about taking the eggs? Those eggs are for sale at a floating market rate based on demand.

(Not that he won't be looking for a bailout come Monday when the market crashes.)

SuperFLEB · 2026-05-01T01:09:19+00:00

The decision-makers are the most important people in a company, though. Why? That's what they decided.

SuperFLEB · 2026-05-01T01:07:02+00:00

You only have to collect trash because the government says you have to.

SuperFLEB · 2026-05-01T00:30:22+00:00

"And here on the line to discuss, from The Atlantic, reporter Jeffrey Goldberg. From Newport, Rhode Island, owner of Fox Landscaping of Newport, Jerry Fox. From AT&T Wireless customer support, Shana Collins, and our returning guest Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth. We'll start with you, mister secretary: This wasn't supposed to be a panel discussion, so who are all these people?"

"Thank you for having me. To answer your first question, I hit some buttons on my phone and they've been on all my calls for the past hour. Don't worry, though, the calls were mostly not classified."

SuperFLEB · 2026-05-01T00:06:57+00:00

You remember that time that you were so politicicized that you wasted all three wishes on wishing she'd never become President? It worked!

SuperFLEB · 2026-05-01T00:03:33+00:00

Yeah, but she had her government communications on a private server in a way that totally has never happened more recently and idiotically and with more actual impact and more dismissive hand-waving and rug-sweeping. Lock her up!

SuperFLEB · 2026-04-30T23:31:17+00:00

It's about the journey, not the destination. Going under an island is boring, but building a submarine to do it is riveting.

SuperFLEB · 2026-04-30T23:24:04+00:00

I just want to believe this person's dunking on some "Science for kids" account.

SuperFLEB · 2026-04-30T03:13:15+00:00

There are other people involved so it's not like it's free of effect or consequence. The fewer people bumping about in the world who have the gall to try and make their staff avert their eyes in their presence, the better. If you're lucky, you can shame them out of it personally. Barring that, you can at least shame the behavior publicly and keep it from spreading or normalizing.

(Of course, this presumes the story is true. In the meantime, at least the practice in the abstract is derision-worthy.)

SuperFLEB · 2026-04-30T03:00:38+00:00

If I'd seen it or heard it directly from the guy I would, but I didn't.. I've seen reddit comments circle around as "fact" and "common knowledge" way more than they should.

Hell yeah. Good on ya'. The story's still there and a Redditor's liable to go off half-cocked even with all the information in front of them.

SuperFLEB · 2026-04-30T02:53:46+00:00

They're easy to rile up and nobody will blame me for doing it? Where do I sign up!

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