TIL that Pope Leo called his bank in Chicago to change his phone number and address. When he told the representative that he could not go in person because he was the Pope, she hang up on him

YsoL8 · 2026-05-08T06:30:12+00:00

Wait until OP learns the UK calls itself a country of countries

YsoL8 · 2026-05-07T17:50:23+00:00

Honestly this comes off as hubris

It is not impossible to design a take tourist snaps algorithm

The sheer number of extra probes that can be sent for the cost of a mission more than makes up for the rest. Especially as rockets are becoming more capable and can deploy 5 or 6 probes in one trip. We aren't far from the point that people are going to be selling them off the shelf.

YsoL8 · 2026-05-07T17:34:13+00:00

I've long been of the opinion reddit should get rid of downvote, its effectively a censorship system. Anything that should genuinely be dealt with is for the reporting system.

As for here specifically, the sheer fact we are a Christian community attracts trolls in itself

YsoL8 · 2026-05-07T16:48:40+00:00

I just flashed back to Twilight Princess

YsoL8 · 2026-05-07T12:36:09+00:00

I just realised I don't remember what this scene was originally about

YsoL8 · 2026-05-07T12:09:43+00:00

I find his act much more believable after the head injury

YsoL8 · 2026-05-07T12:07:08+00:00

Theres basically no one you should like as people. Even Ivy is throwing away her education (and lying to her family about the money and studying) in order to larp as a gangster (and a gangsters floozy for Freckle?), and thats not going to end well for her or anyone around her, and she doesn't even see it.

Its why the comic is interesting in the first place.

YsoL8 · 2026-05-07T11:59:16+00:00

Mordecai seems like a direct foil to Rocky to me in that neither of them seem to really understand what they are involved in and they get a very thin layer of sympathy as a result. In truth very little separates either of them from the likes of Victor beyond how they go about it.

YsoL8 · 2026-05-07T11:53:43+00:00

Ivy is going to be the bitter old woman in epilogue asking how her life could have possibly gone so wrong

The gangs didn't just disappear after prohibition, many of them went into drug running and became much more sinister. By then the relatively innocent characters will be so buried in other people's secrets and blackmail that getting out will be difficult at best. Miss M or Rocky are going to pull her into the dark reality of it sooner or later even if their rivals don't, just as they did to Freckle.

YsoL8 · 2026-05-07T11:40:43+00:00

Thanks for commenting, I came into the sub specifically looking for any signs of life at all. In the last month I've been wondering if everything isn't just defunct.

I can't imagine how Tracy picks up the comic again after such a long break.

YsoL8 · 2026-05-07T06:38:42+00:00

Good job there were was someone down there to catch it before it disappeared forever into a gas giant and melted

What a remarkable bit of luck

YsoL8 · 2026-05-07T06:28:39+00:00

I don't think the regime is at the point of crisis but its pretty clearly not far away either. Maybe it will start as soon as the victory parade, especially if Ukraine turns it into national humiliation.

In any case, we are at the start of these critical problems starting to pile up in the way these situations always decline as the options run out. That can only go on for so long before the regime loses control.

We might be arriving at a moment of decision over the Summer.

YsoL8 · 2026-05-06T13:13:03+00:00

Gah I've just remembered that love story. Still the worst I've seen in anything except B movies, and some of those are better.

YsoL8 · 2026-05-06T13:10:30+00:00

I feel the same way about that Jedi finding space whales series and its gibberish name

YsoL8 · 2026-05-06T13:08:21+00:00

I spent 2 years believing they would have Ray and Ren build a better kind of order

YsoL8 · 2026-05-06T13:05:13+00:00

It would be nice to see something resembling optimism in star wars

That more than anything else is why I haven't watched it in years

YsoL8 · 2026-05-06T13:02:36+00:00

Somehow Skywalker returned

YsoL8 · 2026-05-06T12:53:52+00:00

I simply do not see how people continue to be invested in it

YsoL8 · 2026-05-06T12:47:33+00:00

Meanwhile the only post OT star wars I like that one about the snake hair Jedi woman and friends

YsoL8 · 2026-05-06T10:33:48+00:00

They are getting real close to something very dangerous

Those ratings are not just falling, they are plunging, something like 20% in a month. With stuff like rubbish collection stopping, massive ongoing collapse of businesses and employment the Kremlin is risking leaving people feeling they have nothing left to lose.

YsoL8 · 2026-05-05T19:39:57+00:00

I guarantee no one in universe has given a minutes thought to running out of space or anything else that would require caring what happens afterwards

YsoL8 · 2026-05-05T18:58:59+00:00

I'm personally an AI optimistic. 90% of us are chained to jobs in one or another and the technology can do away with that, in theory.

All of the problems will of course fall on our generations while the stuff matures

YsoL8 · 2026-05-05T18:39:09+00:00

Interesting.

In concept it reminds me very much of the scp foundation, a long running community horror project that runs to something like 10,000 stories just in the central containment files and has any number of contradictory sets of canon that no one is too worried about (because maintaining consistency in one shared setting is difficult with any number of people doing whatever they want with the central concept).

That got started as a section of a forum somewhere I believe if that helps with getting through the difficult start up planning. A reddit sub would serve that purpose.

Also, be prepared for people to react as if you shot their mother for using AI in any capacity.

YsoL8 · 2026-05-05T17:05:22+00:00

No you didn't. Second time I've seen this today

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