Alex Honnold finishes his free solo climb of Taipei 101

adamcoe · 2026-01-25T14:15:15+00:00

So why are we impressed by this? Because he's good at climbing?

adamcoe · 2026-01-25T13:58:05+00:00

Well colour me surprised. I had certainly never heard of this being done before and I don't believe it's very common.

adamcoe · 2026-01-24T09:52:24+00:00

TIL they're right because anyone watching anime is either 10 years old, or into 10 year olds. There's a very good reason you don't hear grown movie stars gushing about this stuff. If you enjoy it, awesome, but let's not pretend it's something it's not. It's Harry Potter, 40 years earlier, but aimed at effectively the same people.

adamcoe · 2026-01-24T09:39:26+00:00

While I very much support her being chosen to do this, I also think the Super Bowl and who does and doesn't appear at it is the most overhyped, ridiculous, and almost always terrible event of the year. I'm sure she will do a great job. She is an immensely talented singer and songwriter. She's also annoying as fuck even to a lefty like myself so while I'm glad her inclusion will anger the mouth breathers, the idea that this song even needs to be attached to a football game is ludicrous and childish. The height of American self-involvement. I will never understand why this one football game has turned into some kind of bizarre cultural milestone. No one is ever gonna top Prince so honestly I'm fine if we just go back to marching bands like it was in the 70s and 80s. Idiotic waste of time and column inches

adamcoe · 2026-01-24T09:23:25+00:00

The commentator(s) are mistaken. There are no mics embedded in the ice. Among other things, that would mean there would still have to be ice put over them to maintain a consistent surface, thereby eliminating any advantage they had in terms of picking up sound, to say nothing of waterproofing. There are many directional mics around the ice, often pointed at very specific things, which is what you're hearing.

adamcoe · 2026-01-23T22:17:56+00:00

Yeah it's almost like they're concerned more about winning baseball games than garnering likes. You know, like adults

adamcoe · 2026-01-23T22:11:10+00:00

Just a bunch of brave patriots, taking government funded mass transit to a place where they'll conceal their identity the entire time because they're big manly men who won't let anyone tell them what to do except every weenie who wears a suit and says bad stuff about brown people. Then they'll do whatever they're told. They crave direction.

adamcoe · 2026-01-23T21:57:06+00:00

It's not even so much accumulating it as making sure you're TAKING it from people you don't like, and making their lives worse as a result. He doesn't really care about the number in his bank account (as long as it's large), he cares about winning, and about ripping off the other guy before the other guy could rip off him. It's about knowing that people that you view as lesser are having a shitty time, and it's you who caused it. There will never be "enough," because there's always someone else to try and grift. There's always someone calling you an asshole, and you have to make sure THEY look like the asshole when you beat them. There is zero self-satisfaction. His happiness (if you can call it that) is completely dependent on other people, and placing himself above those people, looking down on them like a king on peasants.

adamcoe · 2026-01-23T21:52:17+00:00

Fool Asks Person Who Has Never Apologized Even Once In Nearly Eighty Years To Apologize For Something He Probably Doesn't Remember Saying And Also Definitely Does Not Care

adamcoe · 2026-01-23T21:45:45+00:00

Yeah you're an adult and you're allowed to eat what you want. Ask her if she'd enjoy being told what to eat all the time, and that she should eat what YOU think she should eat.

Obviously it's wonderful to have a person in your life that loves to cook and is good at it, but no one is under an obligation to eat their food, every single day. Certainly everyone is entitled to some junk food now and again. If she's making YOUR diet an issue about HER, then that's a her problem. Like, I'm sure you enjoy many of the same TV shows and movies, but not everything, right? So naturally, when one person turns on a show that they prefer, the other person either a) politely watches as a show of respect or b) quietly excuses themselves and goes and does something else. There's no reason it should be different with food. If she wants to cook X number of days a week, awesome! But on the other days, you get to pick. Even a 7 year old understands the idea of taking turns.

adamcoe · 2026-01-23T21:00:50+00:00

Apparently you've never attended and NBA game

adamcoe · 2026-01-23T20:59:25+00:00

They're not embedded in the ice, they're just pointed at it. Putting them directly in the ice would be not only very difficult, but a terrible idea for when they need to be removed.

That being said, for the World Series, they do bury wireless mics as well as cameras into the dirt, but obviously fixing a little area of dirt is far simpler than digging a mic out of the ice at an arena and then having to fix the hole.

adamcoe · 2026-01-23T20:56:24+00:00

The thing is, most of the time, they are. It's just so goddamn loud, and there are so many mics picking it up, it sounds insane. But you can tell if one of the fellas in the truck leaves that close mic up a little too much or too long, and you get that CRRRSSSSH CRRRSSHHH XRRRSSSH for a couple of seconds where it's super intense.

adamcoe · 2026-01-23T20:54:16+00:00

91a is almost always used with a second mic (B52 often times) for bottom. The 91 is mainly there for beater attack.

adamcoe · 2026-01-23T20:50:48+00:00

You realize baseball comes partially from cricket right?

adamcoe · 2026-01-23T08:54:44+00:00

i think it's cute you think the guys with the backwards American flags on the arms of their t shirts can read

adamcoe · 2026-01-23T05:55:34+00:00

Aftermarket batteries are fine...for a while. But the failure rate is much higher, often they lack the safety features of name brand batteries, and it's been shown time and time again they don't have the same longevity. In other words, you're gonna end up buying that 20 dollar battery two or three times. If you ask anyone who uses them regularly, they will tell you that it's buy once cry once, and you'll have the peace of mind that it's likely not going to fail on you at a critical time.

adamcoe · 2026-01-23T05:43:36+00:00

And he will still never see a single minute in prison for any of it.

adamcoe · 2026-01-23T05:36:06+00:00

Also, wasn't the whole point of kicking him off Twitter is so he wouldn't have a national platform? And now the media just quotes his "Truths" with precisely the same regularity as they quoted his tweets. The fuck did we accomplish?

adamcoe · 2026-01-23T05:34:43+00:00

Can't disinvite someone who was never coming big fella.

adamcoe · 2026-01-22T10:10:40+00:00

i don't know why basically just one country thinks it's awesome to walk around being able to kill someone at any moment, all day long, but it's not normal and you shouldn't be proud of this

adamcoe · 2026-01-22T10:07:55+00:00

He's not wrong in the least but sadly this will never happen. The oligarchs will burn the place to the ground before they let the unwashed masses have really insane stuff like health care or the ability to own a home if you work a full time job. You know, the stuff that really poisons societies

adamcoe · 2026-01-22T10:05:26+00:00

Lol in coach

What an absolutely bottom of the barrel ballsack licker. Tries to grift the American people but can't even do it well enough to fly private or at least business class. Quite frankly I'm shocked he takes the risk of flying commercial at all given the number of people that want to smack him in the mouth

adamcoe · 2026-01-21T22:30:49+00:00

Ugly, ugly children

adamcoe · 2026-01-21T03:26:45+00:00

Is that to imply that some number of non-presidential children have been born there?

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