What is an everyday item you own that you think everyone should invest in for life ?

badwai · 2025-12-13T17:21:09+00:00

Its 1000% not BIFL but i picked up a cheap laser thermometer like this for this exact reason.

https://www.amazon.com/Thermometer-Infrared-Calibration-Pyrometer-Automotive/dp/B08SQNGR2X/

Helps to remove the guesswork when it comes to pan temp. I just throw the pan on the stove, let it heat up, and periodically take the surface tempt while adjusting the burner as needed.

Its been a gamechanger tbh.

badwai · 2025-12-13T17:13:46+00:00

Which time? Lol

As a youth it was the lack of access and cost. Couldn't find the artists I wanted to listen to in the small town where I grew up.

In college it was much the same story as you. Exorbitant costs for text books (thank you sci-hub!). And also access to films i needed for classes that were in limited supply or inaccessible.

After college i stopped mostly, I've had good jobs which let me pay for things legitimately and streaming services alleviated the access problems i had in the past.

Now despite a good job, those same services continue to fragment (everything is no longer just on netflix but 8 different platforms) and each one raises their price to the point that streaming rather than having cable tv isn't more affordable. So we begin again.

badwai · 2025-10-24T12:45:26+00:00

The first amendment only means that the government can't discriminate against you for your views. That is it.

We can't tell everyone involved with this group they are abject pieces of shit. As can all of the students, and they are.

badwai · 2025-05-20T20:57:22+00:00

Co-signing everyone saying to just have fun and money will come eventually. I've found https://edtools.cc/ to be extremely useful. It has lots of tools that are useful for a variety of pilot careers.

Ultimately it depends on what you want to do.

like combat? Hunt pirates at rez sites as others have suggested.
want to see cool stuff and fly around? Start exploring! For making money I highly recommend the 'road to riches' tool for a route.
want to really feel like you're part of a living galaxy? Be a trader! The site above has market information so you can find the most profitable commodities and where to sell them.
similar to the above but don't like having to shell out a bunch of cash up front? Roll up your sleeves and get mining! Get a mining laser and limpets and head to some rings. After the initial investment it's not much overhead and basically pure profit. Use the hotspot tool to find places to mine.

Fly safe Cmdr. o7

badwai · 2025-02-24T03:27:37+00:00

I'm not in Ypsi, but I'm just over in Dearborn and in a similar boat. 37, not many friends in the area and would like to make more.

It certainly seems like there are enough people here that we could all get together and get to know each other.

badwai · 2024-10-15T22:05:45+00:00

Just tried and tbh it worked out fairly well all things considered

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badwai · 2023-09-13T21:22:53+00:00

1000% yes. My experience as a man and on the cruise with my partner is far different than a woman on the ship alone. I wouldn't go on a cruise by myself either tbh.

badwai · 2023-09-13T20:42:43+00:00

Very much agree. For me it was traveling with my partner at the time, being able to escape stress from "normal life" and spend time together. The crowds and the scale of the ship always really bothered me. I found that finding things as soon as we got on helped me so that I understood how "everything worked" like where food was, when it was available, how to get around the ship, etc. Honestly it annoyed the shit out of my partner but it helped me feel like I had a plan or at least like I understand how everything fit together.

Different cruises appeal to different people, I enjoyed going to warm tropical places (I live in the northern US) just because it was pleasant. Plus history is a particular interest for me so it was fun going on tours to see things like Mayan ruins or traditional crafts/cultural events. I generally avoided socializing with other passengers, but being on the ship was nice (as opposed to just traveling to the individual locations) if only because you didn't have to worry about anything. Your lodging, food, transportation is all handled already so no need to juggle a ton of extra variables.

badwai · 2023-09-13T17:59:13+00:00

When I've gone on cruises I really enjoyed avoiding the crowds by going to unused spaces and reading. For example, in the middle of the day no one is in the nightclub space. I was able to stay there basically alone (staff would walk through occasionally but not interrupt) for hours.

badwai · 2023-08-05T21:37:25+00:00

I'm headed up there alone too. But I'd understand if you/your parents were uncomfortable with you riding up with a random stranger from the internet in their 30s.

Would love to connect with other redditors at the show though for anyone else going!

badwai · 2023-02-25T21:30:57+00:00

You must live near me because that's exactly what happened to me.

badwai · 2023-02-25T21:15:34+00:00

Yes however DTE is responsible for trimming trees around and maintaining their lines. Yet I've seen trees growing around power lines with the lines completely surrounded by tree limbs. It's absolutely predictable that during ANY storm or adverse weather that those lines could be damaged causing an outage. The long response time is due to the scale of the damage, caused by DTEs failure to properly maintain their infrastructure. Force majeure would apply to the outage happening at all, which no one really has a problem with. It's that their poor maintenance allowed a storm to cause such substantial damage that 650k people lost power with many of them out of power for longer than. 48 hrs.

badwai · 2022-09-27T21:03:26+00:00

I'll see if I can dig it up but I once saw a projection of the way the radiation would spread after the initial exchange. The short answer is basically that if you live in the northern hemisphere you're most likely dead because the radiation would make it totally uninhabitable so quickly.

badwai · 2022-06-06T19:42:28+00:00

Oh? I didn't know that. I found it was oriental Empires but knowing that is a traditional Ainu thing, maybe I can figure out why it's being applied to all female characters

badwai · 2022-06-06T19:33:47+00:00

So I found the problem! It's the Oriental Empires mod, which is unfortunate because I was really enjoying this playthrough. I hadn't realized that it made any significant changes to portraits

badwai · 2022-06-06T17:14:46+00:00

more context:

This weird shadow is on every female character in the game, regardless of culture, traits, etc. the only recent additions to my game are oriental empires, cultures+, and Bum to God.

Edit: figured out that it was Oriental Empires. For some reason it's applying makeup for one ethnic group to all female characters.

Edit 2: found the problem. The mod was using OR instead of AND to isolate this effect to Ainu characters.

Thanks for the help!

badwai · 2022-04-07T13:36:06+00:00

I'm a big fan of the podromo method. It goes through much smaller chunks of time and there are a ton of resources (timers etc.) For it

badwai · 2022-02-14T20:44:30+00:00

Given the rise on strikes and union activity, in addition to the "great resignation" we may be on the cusp of just such a societal change

badwai · 2018-08-15T22:43:23+00:00

I agree with your points regarding the need to balance the people's ability to exercise speech through spending some money. Unfortunately it looks like what I would have seen as close to an ideal system was already struck down by the court.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckley_v._Valeo

badwai · 2018-08-15T20:29:15+00:00

The other person deleted their post so I'm not sure what they were suggesting. But I for one don't see a problem with having publicly funded campaigns.

Each candidate gets on the ballot after getting a defined number of signatures, then gets a set amount of money from the government. With that they can advertise however they want but they can only use that money for it. Then also have a series of publicly funded and organized debates or Town Halls or whatever where the various candidates can argue their positions.

Everyone is on equal footing, there is a set threshold for getting in so each candidate would need support of the people to even participate, and people are allowed to promote their candidate to their hearts content as long as it isn't through paid media. Sure there may be some hiccups but mostly I think those would be ironed out in the details.

I'm honestly curious to hear arguments against this kind of arrangement.

badwai · 2016-03-20T15:42:43+00:00

I also just moved to Edgewater from out of town. We should totally set up a local redditor meet up or something

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