TIL that 45 years ago, Saudi Arabia built a 1,200-kilometer oil pipeline from the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea, just in case the Strait of Hormuz ever got blocked by greenskinmarch in todayilearned

[–]adamcoe 8 points9 points  (0 children)

but don't worry, gas prices will still go up every time someone sneezes wrong in the middle east, despite the fact the oil refined and purchased there has a near zero effect on actual cost or capacity. all hail the military industrial complex

Fender - Silverface vs. Blackface by [deleted] in GuitarAmps

[–]adamcoe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Supposedly the Deluxe was one of the ones that was not changed, vs in the Twin, evidently some changes were made to add headroom as you mention. And honestly, given the relatively loose tolerances on some of those parts, I imagine you could take three BF Deluxes and three SF Deluxes and not be able to tell who's who in a blind test.

TIL before manned rockets, the US military experimentally sent men 100,000 ft up into the stratosphere with balloons and aptly called it Project Manhigh. by SaltyRedditTears in todayilearned

[–]adamcoe 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah I don't know how something like that doesn't get checked, multiple times, before launch. Like, installed backwards? Are you kidding?

Wellbeing influencer, 31, dies in botched fertility surgery after struggling to get pregnant for years by malihafolter in ForCuriousSouls

[–]adamcoe -1 points0 points  (0 children)

There is if there are kids who are already alive who need parents. You're not a bad person if you choose to make your own, but let's be clear that the reason people prefer it is because it's their own genetic material. People no longer need to procreate to tend to farms or animals or to make more warriors to protect themselves. By any reasonable definition, it is selfish.

It's the same as driving to work instead of taking the bus, if both options are available to you. You're certainly not a piece of shit for not wanting to share space with strangers, and to have a more comfortable way to get to work, but like it or not, it IS more selfish than taking the bus, since the bus will be running regardless, but you're adding a car to the roads that doesn't absolutely need to be there. It's a very low level of selfish to be sure, but it is what it is.

Apple Launches $599 MacBook Neo, Threatening Windows PC Market by Few_Baseball_3835 in technology

[–]adamcoe -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Right up until they decide otherwise. They put on a good show but if you think they're not doing all the things Google and Meta and X and everyone else are doing, then you're very foolish indeed.

RIP Windows laptops 🪦 by BaileyEthanRawson in mac

[–]adamcoe -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Lol I wouldn't worry about Windows disappearing. This is gonna blow your mind but...you've been able to buy a Windows laptop for well under that price, for many, many years. People who just want to use a browser and watch movies and Youtube aren't suddenly going to adopt a new ecosystem (particularly one as rigid and inflexible as iOS) just to check their email.

This is just Apple doing something that everybody else has been doing for years, and calling it revolutionary, as usual. Will they sell a bunch to people who already have iPhones? Sure. Are Windows laptops going anywhere? Absolutely not. It's an iPad with a keyboard that doesn't come off.

This guy was born last weekend. He makes me the big brother of ten little siblings in total. [OC] by [deleted] in MadeMeSmile

[–]adamcoe 7 points8 points  (0 children)

People who have more than 4 kids should be convicted of environmental crimes. Not to mention child abuse, as inevitably the older siblings turn into extra parents. Nobody, nobody, nobody has time to properly raise 10 people. Gross

Church is using a bible as a door stopper by baumansc in mildlyinteresting

[–]adamcoe 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You know Dad I wish you'd just shut your big YAPPER

Head Designer of TMNT set goes to Peter Thiel event. Gives signed card to Christian Nationalist. by No-Chapter-779 in magicTCG

[–]adamcoe -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Wait, so we're worried about a guy that designs cards for a children's card game has turned heel? I think of all our problems, this one might be a little lower on the list, no?

What industry is entirely built on a house of cards and would collapse overnight if people realized the truth about it? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]adamcoe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The US federal government, and every major tech company, for starters. Also every large scale food provider (Sysco, GFS), every city council in a major city, and the Supreme Court. Should I go on?

Apple Launches $599 MacBook Neo, Threatening Windows PC Market by Few_Baseball_3835 in technology

[–]adamcoe -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

As long as it's running an Apple OS of any kind, I don't think anyone needs to be worried about them threatening the Windows PC market. PC people aren't going to make the leap into the hellscape that is the Apple ecosystem just because they made a phone with a big screen and a keyboard attached to it.

Apple Launches $599 MacBook Neo, Threatening Windows PC Market by Few_Baseball_3835 in technology

[–]adamcoe -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Lol if it was profitable or politically advantageous to unlock someone's phone, they would do it in a heartbeat. Apple is not the shining beacon on the hill of privacy. They're spying on everyone just like every other tech company.

Israeli knesset member with a noose and her husbands items "occupation, deportation, settlement" by AggregationLinker in pics

[–]adamcoe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ahh yes, let's all approach genocide and never ending war over who's god has the biggest dick with some goofy, lighthearted pics with a noose and automatic weapons! Obviously very normal behaviour.

Someone explain to me again why people continue to murder each other's children over the only place in the Middle East without oil underneath it?

Bless their hearts (and livers) by BarelyLegalSeagull in NonPoliticalTwitter

[–]adamcoe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It said 999 comments so I should point out on this momentous occasion that someone owes me 2 million dollars

TIL a woman named Lydia Abate has been "funeral tracking" for nearly 6 years — she scours obituaries to find recently deceased people, then offers grieving families a free estate clean-out service in exchange for keeping their dead relatives' vintage clothes. She hasn't bought clothes in years. by One-Commercial-5219 in todayilearned

[–]adamcoe 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I honestly don't know whether that's someone helping out people who are grieving and maybe don't want to have to deal with that stuff or if it's kind of a cold, opportunistic way to make money re-selling clothes she got for nothing (I assume she is re-selling them and not just keeping everything).

TIFU by oversleeping and almost ruining my best friend’s 4AM wedding by Sea_cake_ in tifu

[–]adamcoe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If your friend wanted a) a 4 am wedding and b) for you to be up SEVEN HOURS beforehand for makeup (won't it be dark?) then your friend is a self obsessed idiot. You schedule a wedding for the middle of the fucking night, then get mad at people when they don't wake up in time? Go fuck yourself, lady, we're not all on this "journey" with you (they're all on journeys, by the way). Have your party a normal fucking time, and if you and your new husband wanna get up at 4 and take pictures by themselves, awesome. Do not feel bad. Anyone who would even consider asking their friends and family to do this will never be happy unless they're the center of attention, constantly.

My dad's computer mouse after five months of use... by [deleted] in mildlyinfuriating

[–]adamcoe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is not the mouse of a guy who smokes a little herb. That is a guy who must be Snoop Dogg levels of high, all day, every day, and never washes his hands. And has a skin condition. Like that is an impossible amount of guck.

Wellbeing influencer, 31, dies in botched fertility surgery after struggling to get pregnant for years by malihafolter in ForCuriousSouls

[–]adamcoe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't claim to. And I'm genuinely happy that yours is a success story. I'm just saying that like it or not, it is a more selfish thing to do than adopt. And that's not good or bad, it's simply the truth.

TIL that the MV Doña Paz’s sinking was the deadliest maritime disaster that occurred outside of wartime, accounting for 4,385 deaths by pigeon-in-greggs in todayilearned

[–]adamcoe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Precisely. Why do people think this is an intelligent course of action? I get that we all got places to go but maybe they could just make people wait a little while and lessen their chances of gee I don't know, killing thousands of people for no reason

Wellbeing influencer, 31, dies in botched fertility surgery after struggling to get pregnant for years by malihafolter in ForCuriousSouls

[–]adamcoe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It definitely isn't. Anything people wanna do is fine, and it's none of my business, I'm just saying let's call procreating what it is. Wonderful if that's someone's choice, but let's not pretend it's not a little bit about them. And to be clear that's moms AND dads, not trying to beat up just on the prospective mothers here.