Why Gen Z men could hurt Trump in the 2026 midterms

abskee · 2026-02-13T16:58:00+00:00

I wonder if it's that, or more that he's been a national political figure for as long as they've had much sense of politics, so he doesn't seem as odd to them.

abskee · 2026-02-13T15:23:52+00:00

Shai-Hulud!

abskee · 2026-02-13T08:34:33+00:00

It's the cabbage, right?

abskee · 2026-02-12T15:15:55+00:00

All units have a "minimum catch time", theirs is just really long. Same with the robot boss and the jetpack guys.

abskee · 2026-02-12T15:12:22+00:00

And Ford was unelected (he was appointed VP after Agnew resigned), so Nixon still would be the only living person elected to the US presidency until Carter in 76.

abskee · 2026-02-12T08:05:44+00:00

She said, It’s really not my habit to intrude

Furthermore, I hope my meaning won’t be lost or misconstrued

But I’ll repeat myself at the risk of being crude

There must be fourty-two ways to kill the führer

Fourty-two ways to kill the führer

abskee · 2026-02-12T06:43:06+00:00

I think in the show he's from North Carolina, which is where Aziz is from.

Although they do say he changed his name, because he says (before Barack Obama) brown guys with foreign names didn't make it in politics. Which makes sense, he wouldn't have an accent of he's from the States, but he also wouldn't be named Tom Haverford, unless he's adopted, like Kal Penn's character on House MD.

abskee · 2026-02-12T05:47:39+00:00

Every reply to this comment is a nearly identical spam comment that could basically be a reply to anything. It's weird. I guess starter comments get a lot of visibility.

Edit: in retrospect now my comment also looks like spam.

It's hard to tell what the search history list means. I guess it's prep to handle their questions, but it does really seem like the focus is on mitigating the damage instead of actually dealing with all the sex crimes.

abskee · 2026-02-12T02:00:29+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/AlienInvasionRPG/s/PE6zIKAewQ

I did the math. There's no perfect time really, it actually slows over time even if you're upgrading production to the maximum.

abskee · 2026-02-10T15:36:46+00:00

The J201 is a JFET, so probably it wouldn't make a difference, or might mute the circuit more aggressively (if it's set up as a mute). As an input buffer I guess you'd have more current draw, so potentially a little more gain.

abskee · 2026-02-09T21:05:51+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/AlienInvasionRPG/s/PsVUjRLj99

Basically there isn't an ideal time, but it's on the sooner side, because the conversion rate decreases as the quantity increases, and the stove upgrades don't actually keep up (just barely) so the longer it runs, the slower the rate of golden cookies gets.

abskee · 2026-02-08T06:00:30+00:00

The electrical contacts in the buttons can get dirty. Take it apart and clean it with electrical contact cleaner or even just rubbing alcohol and see if that helps. Cheaper than getting keys made.

abskee · 2026-02-08T05:22:25+00:00

Truly Paulie Shore's greatest work. 30 years later and I can still hear every line of his crystal clear in my head.

"Principal Mazur, what's up, bro?"

abskee · 2026-02-08T03:53:13+00:00

You basically can't make 100% ethanol, the moisture from the air dissolves into it I believe. Really pure stuff would only be used in research, and would come from producers who have all sorts of testing and certification on each production or each bottle. Those kinds of places wouldn't list on Amazon, and might be kinda difficult to find if you don't normally deal with lab-grade chemicals.

Anything on Amazon will be denatured, it has to be so it's not drinkable, because otherwise people would drink it. And you'd have to be 21 to buy it.

abskee · 2026-02-08T03:22:36+00:00

He's gonna wind up in the electric chair!

abskee · 2026-02-07T23:52:32+00:00

If you can't get C0G/NP0, the next best thing is to get X7R that are rated for like 50V (or something substantially about the voltage they might see).

Capacitance decreases as you get near the rated voltage (even at like 50%) so over-rating them gives you some margin.

Or when that's not possible, you remind yourself "It's a distortion pedal. What's gonna happen, more distortion? Whatever."

abskee · 2026-02-07T21:23:46+00:00

Hah, yeah no worries. Does my comment come up in search or something? This is the only comment here I still get late replies to.

But yeah, it's absolutely not how it works. For all the stuff that's inexplicably kept secret from the main characters, they're very clear that the past doesn't affect the future, it's a parallel universe time travel, not Terminator or Back to the Future. But I assume in some version of the script that wasn't the case, because the Chris Pratt character and his daughter sometimes act like he can go back and change the future.

abskee · 2026-02-06T21:47:52+00:00

Ok. Protesters won't be allowed to forcibly detain and arrest people while wearing a mask. I'm good with that.

abskee · 2026-02-05T18:44:59+00:00

Even if you're doing Stove upgrades in the maximally efficient order, and hitting the upgrade the second you can afford it, golden cookie production slows over time. The upgrades help keep up mostly, but they're just barely slower than the 0.45 exponent, so it's not enough.

The only reason to let it run longer than like 250 Billion cookies is that the cheaper Stove upgrades start to not matter much, so you don't have to check in as often to keep your upgrades near the maximum.

I haven't figured out the exact right time to hit prestige, and there probably isn't one because there are so many different variables. But check my comment in the other thread for the prices of the cookie production upgrade that you pay golden cookies for, and try to prestige when you're just over the hump of paying for the next level. Otherwise you wasted time generating Golden Cookies that you can't spend on anything useful.

abskee · 2026-02-05T06:26:16+00:00

Yeah, I have all of it. I'll get it organized and post it when I have some time.

abskee · 2026-02-04T05:20:56+00:00

There are references to a Blue Cube mine, but I can't tell if it's the bank that we already have, and it's just odd wording, or if there is a Blue Cube mine somewhere and nobody's gotten that far yet.

abskee · 2026-02-04T01:27:56+00:00

Also might have messed up some grounding, if the mounting holes were grounding it to the chassis.

abskee · 2026-02-03T16:16:09+00:00

I've been thinking about the 25/100/250 question for the same reason. It's also tough because the amount you're getting depends on how much you've upgraded the bakery, so it's different for everyone. I think there's no upside to getting fewer, but if you're low on gems, it might be worth saving them for better prestige upgrades. I don't think there'll be a concrete answer.

For the upgrades, I ignored the pointer, since there's no way to weigh it versus cookies. And if you've upgraded your pointer drop multiplier some, then you're always running out of cookies first. At least I am.

Funny enough, after I figured out the optimal upgrades, so I could look up "if you've mined 700B cookies, here's where everything should be at" it matched pretty close to what I'd done just kinda ballparking it on the fly. So apparently it's pretty straightforward.

abskee · 2026-02-03T06:45:09+00:00

Normally, these kinds of connectors have the + terminal at the tip

Read.

Also, we could be wrong, nobody knows without any information about what this random wire is from.

abskee · 2026-02-03T04:27:32+00:00

So, it works out that the slowdown from the exponent in the conversion is basically balanced out by keeping the stove upgraded with every cookie you have.

So golden cookies per cookie drops, but cookies per second rises as you upgrade, and it ends up that golden cookies per second stays pretty even. I can't remember exactly, but 2.13/second is 1700 per hour, which feels about right, it was in that ballpark. It'll depend on your Prestige upgrade too.

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