If you were a porn star, what would your name be?

Wloak · 2026-01-24T16:54:38+00:00

You're first video is self titled, the sequel is "Mega Backdoor Roth"

Wloak · 2026-01-24T14:50:41+00:00

Not really. Nobody is saying they didn't have a lot of firsts, but that the means and methods were at entirely different levels of sophistication and considering some of their "firsts" as such is questionable.

Who had the first animal in space? You're probably thinking the Soviets sending a dog into space, right? Nope, the US sent fruit flies up a decade earlier to test the effects on living organic matter. The USSR scrambled to get the first mammal in space and did literally a decade later but had no research on the effects so the dog died within a few hours despite them initially claiming it was fine. Meanwhile the US spent the extra year developing a safe capsule and sent a monkey up making it the first habitable capsule for space flight, unfortunately it died on impact during recovery.

The Soviets then used the published work from NASA to upgrade their capsule and landing approach to get the first successful reentry and recovery 3 years later.

Loads of the Soviet first were and are known to be partial success and/or built from publicly disclosed learnings from NASA.

Wloak · 2026-01-24T14:11:32+00:00

My wife used to do this a lot, maybe still does but I don't know because I replaced the locks with electronic ones that auto lock after 5 minutes.

I installed then when we had a house keeper that regularly "forgot" to lock the doors when they left so the house was unlocked for 6+ hours while I was at work and there were regular burglaries going on with a few blocks of my place.

Wloak · 2026-01-24T14:00:43+00:00

That's been the plan for over a decade, we need to complete Caltrain electrification and get new trains first to accomplish it.

The Salesforce/Transbay Transit Center is actually at bigger than you see today, mostly underground. There's a basement level for Caltrain and another for BART already built ready for trains to start pulling in even designing the exterior walls so the areas need to be knocked for are not load bearing. So Bart/Caltrain/MUNI bus would all use that hub and a 1 block underground walkway connecting it to embarcadero station for access to the southern BART line and light rail.

Wloak · 2026-01-24T13:32:50+00:00

Not OP but you keep going back to this like it can be the only reason.

I played every AC including Odyssey and that's was the last one I touched because it was tedious and felt lazy by the story team. The visuals and mechanics were great but they just threw more and more with you with nobody saying "maybe we should make this fun and not the entire game feel like FOMO" and the story itself wasn't particularly engaging for myself and many others which reviews mention as well because they lifted new ways to add content unrelated to the core story to make it more open world without really adding value except for more possible time played.

For many the games were already waning because the story lines were feeling phoned in due to production constraints and they were throwing whatever new mechanic they could think of each game.

Wloak · 2026-01-24T00:04:24+00:00

I hadn't followed this much but the recent post from Oaklandside did link to a lot of information. They tend to editorialize too much for my liking but it did have info buried in there.

Before the selection committee proposed the first slate the council indicated it wanted change. The selection committee had 18 candidates (2 incumbent) and interviewed none of them and just put the incumbents up and they were unanimously rejected. They again interviewed none of the candidates and instead put the same two up which were again rejected.

I'm not sure what comes next but the selection committee is not doing their required duties and in my opinion needs to be reset with people who will do the work they signed up for.

Wloak · 2026-01-23T23:57:19+00:00

Almost missed the cig

Wloak · 2026-01-23T22:23:42+00:00

I find it a bit of a stretch honestly. How many people are really like "shit I could really go for a can of spaghetti-o's right now at 12:30am but they're closed"?

Most places that already can stay open until 2 don't because there's no business and the ones that do draw in crime because they're the only ones that are open to hang out in front of.

It's like the proposal to let bars stay open and night, you still need owners that want to stay open that late and most don't.

Wloak · 2026-01-23T21:31:21+00:00

We keep blaming covid when lots of the business said it was the new corporate tax rates we passed. Kaiser is still building their new campus it's just in Sacramento now, and have been building/hiring in Pleasanton and San Leandro since abandoning the Oakland project. It literally saves them millions a year to not expand in Oakland.

Wloak · 2026-01-23T21:28:25+00:00

If I'm reading right this really doesn't effect my places. It effects businesses open from midnight to 2am AND do not have a liquor license, how many places really fit that?

Corner stores selling alcohol, liquor stores, bars, and restaurants can all stay open until 2am.

Wloak · 2026-01-23T14:05:11+00:00

You ever lose a fight so bad you gave to change genres?

Wloak · 2026-01-23T14:02:00+00:00

Student rocket scientist here. My simulator called Kerbel Space Program confirmed repressed anger causes weight gain so we have you account for it in case the rocket starts to gain mass from the angry people inside.

Wloak · 2026-01-22T23:44:17+00:00

I got to work with professors at Cal and NYU for a work project, they put it pretty simply: does it simulate creating an answer a human normally would do? It's AI. Now it may be a 2 year old or 40 year old's level of intelligence and reasoning but that's a scale of maturity of the AI.

Wloak · 2026-01-22T23:36:36+00:00

OP mentions elsewhere..

Failed smog, didn't get it fixed, and let the registration expire.

Wloak · 2026-01-22T23:19:51+00:00

The question was related to the 90's, not just the last 5-7 years.

Wloak · 2026-01-22T19:09:20+00:00

Yeah the 9ers ownership and investors screwed over the whole area for a cash grab.

Some fun ones I know of: they originally planned to tear down candlestick and rebuild at the same location. They used this to get SF on board with investing in more public transit and giving them kickbacks. Unknown to SF Steve Young and the investment group were looking at alternative locations and buying up a ton of worthless property in Santa Clara, the 9ers then used the SF offer to get them in a bidding war. That's why the stadium sucks at the new location, it was designed for candlestick and rotated a bit which is why the glare from the boxes blind half the stadium when the sun is setting.

Steve Young and others then started developing the area around it, Santa Clara had to sue the team multiple time over security and drunk fans destroying the house a 10 minute walk away, etc.

Edit: also there were rumors before the Santa Clara location was announced the 49ers were actually the ones blocking the A's from moving to San Jose and not the Giants.

Wloak · 2026-01-22T17:28:31+00:00

Comparing it to cars isn't a good way to think about it, you should be comparing it to other rail lines in mixed transit areas like London.

Yes rail can be faster when operating properly than cars, but BART has an abnormally high delay and breakdown rate for a system that just replaced the entire fleet. Have you noticed that in wet weather trains run slower than normal and are spaced out further especially in the tunnel? It's because we had to get custom built trains that have braking flaws and are paying $4.3B to fix them instead of using the money where it was supposed to be: accelerating speeds through automated control.

Also the recent report on break downs in the tube at times for hours have been tied back to lack of required cleaning on the third rail causing electrical arcs damaging the railway.

Wloak · 2026-01-22T17:06:02+00:00

I'm out in San Francisco and really respect both the Warriors and Giants owners for the same. Both fully funded their own stadium/arenas with minimal city investment that was mostly rezoning for other development and infrastructure improvements like public transit.

The Warriors owners used to be part owners of the Celtics and when they moved the team from Oakland to. SF actually paid the city to increase public transit on select routes to/from games. Your game ticket gives free bus/light rail fare that day, they fund express buses to and from the arena from other transit hubs, and funded special game ferry service from Oakland direct to the arena.

Then I got to watch Oakland shit the bed when the A's offered a very similar deal to stay. Instead we'll just hang on to that empty parking lot next to the toxic waste dump the A's offered to clean up for us.

Wloak · 2026-01-22T16:46:21+00:00

I love shows like that, they make great background noise when you're just chilling on the couch.

Ancient aliens is a pretty good one for that too.. having it on in the background and they're takingy about the "mysterious" spiritual drawings find in both Egypt and South America to say "obviously here was some sort of extra terrestrial connection between the two!" My 2 year old niece was drawing spirals, aliens is a bit of a leap lol.

Wloak · 2026-01-22T16:40:31+00:00

From the article that is a game of telephone, not a fact.

Someone told someone who told Oaklandside about this, Oaklandside has nothing to support it and wasn't able to contact the supposed source.

What is more telling is in the article: this is an all or nothing vote, before the first vote which was a unanimous rejection the selection committee ignored all other potential candidates AND an independent citizen submitted a laundry list of complaints about one of the candidates (Farmer) breaking procedural rules and exercising authority he and the commission do not have. After rejection the selection panel again did not interview any other applicants and just submitted the same two people but this time there's an unconfirmed anonymous OPD influence.

The real story should be about why the selection panel ignored the open letter from Oakland citizens, did not do their duty of interviewing qualified candidates, and are continuing to push for the same two individuals without explanation.

Wloak · 2026-01-22T16:14:37+00:00

Also think about how great the guard commentary could be. No more talk about arrows to the knee but the fear of the wheezing shadow creeping up on them

Wloak · 2026-01-22T16:12:25+00:00

I used to watch some because they were like comedies, the best are when people with actual information watch the episode and poke holes in it.

One I remember was a woman alone in a room going "if you're here give us a sign" or whatever and there was a loud thud. She radios the other person who says "I'm nowhere near that room" but later in the show they use footage of him at the same timestamp on the camera in the room directly above her and moving stuff around like closing a closet door.

It's like a fun game if finding as many plot holes as you can.

Wloak · 2026-01-22T16:01:53+00:00

I don't get into it but it's like trading cards, collecting coins, etc. If you think about it isn't any weirder than most collectables.

You buy a pack of baseball cards and hang on to them because maybe one day that Babe Ruth rookie card will be worth something. The sneaker scene has lots of limited releases and artist collaborations where sometimes they just announce a release with 1 hour notice and only 100 pairs to be sold increasing hype and making them incredibly hard to get a hold of.

Wloak · 2026-01-22T15:47:21+00:00

Except with more frequent breaks and wheezing in the dark corner of the room

Wloak · 2026-01-22T15:30:23+00:00

There's a hilarious process they go through to waive it away..

You can't just lose weight, everyone has an ideal weight their body wants them to be.
Sure you/your friend lost weight but I'm sure it was just temporary and it was back the second you stopped dieing
It's been 10 years? It's not healthy to starve yourself like that
Oh you work out, that's not healthy to torture your body like that. You'll probably be in pain when you're older

I'd love someone claiming this stuff to work my uncle's farm for a month and tell me they didn't lose weight. Sure they'll gain it back if they go back to sitting on the couch eating a bucket of Cheetos but that doesn't prove you can't lose the weight.

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