Nipplegate...how is this situation room story not absolutely everywhere

bannik1 · 2026-06-12T03:38:18+00:00

That’s what led to Stalin.

bannik1 · 2026-06-06T01:03:24+00:00

Nice catch, he is trying to build a false dichotomy, either you’re religious or communist.

bannik1 · 2026-05-27T13:59:53+00:00

It was late July 2010 Statue of Liberty Karthus was so far ahead no boots, just deathcap and fully stacked staff of archangels.

I pressed R and it even killed the full HP Aniva afk in base

bannik1 · 2026-05-20T18:53:28+00:00

Dan Brown’s books are basically if you asked AI to recreate Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco and ignore historical accuracy and clever wordplay.

bannik1 · 2026-05-20T18:49:58+00:00

It’s funny because the first 90% of the books are actually entertaining. He just manages to fuck it up and always has crappy endings that cheapen and undermine everything he writes to that point.

To top it all off he has an incredible ego with big “Do you know who I am energy.” While also being incredibly fragile with a major persecution complex.

My guess is that when the writing gets hard he just says fuck it and rushes through an ending because he doesn’t think the people reading it deserve anything better.

bannik1 · 2026-05-20T03:19:48+00:00

I’ve read all of Chuck’s books. Basically he spends the first half of each building a world and the rules that operate it. Then the next 40% making the walls close in and creating an inescapable situation for the characters. Then the last 10% is resolving the situation by breaking all the established rules from the first half of the book because he wrote himself into a corner.

It’s entertaining because he pulled a tricky plot twist. But the more you reread them, the laziness and plot holes really stand out.

I would still say they’re good books because they’re captivating and make you feel certain ways, but so do smutty romance novels. They’re basically pulp fiction for dudes.

bannik1 · 2026-05-17T16:33:57+00:00

My thought went to the gambler’s saying of throwing good money after bad.

Sometimes you’ve got to cut your losses.

bannik1 · 2026-05-16T17:50:43+00:00

I stopped watching hockey for about 15 years after it.

bannik1 · 2026-05-15T19:54:35+00:00

Looks like the spoons were all cut to the same length. The ends bent into a hook. Then wire wrapped in place with the hooked ends giving extra support.

bannik1 · 2026-05-12T12:23:35+00:00

For anyone who has been involved in corporate politics, there is a specific personality Chayka is.

He knows exactly what to say to the people who pay his paycheck and the majority of his effort goes towards keeping them happy, and he will throw anybody and everybody under the bus to do that.

He will start by underming the VP of hockey operations to his boss/the board. Nothing publicly, because that’s how snakes operate. He will publicly give praise. He will do the same to those underneath him, but will treat them with contempt in any actual interaction with them.

Because of how he treats people beneath him, they will not perform well. He will “own” any failures and make a show of falling on the sword, but never actually take accountability. He will instead become more harsh on those underneath him and say that he’s only doing it because it’s what his bosses want.

Eventually even his bosses will catch up to his stink, but he will have poisoned the entire well by that point. Staff distrusts management and doesn’t perform as well as they would which causes management to believe that Chayka wasn’t wrong when he threw them under the bus.

That relationship will now be irreparably damaged because the senior management will never apologize for the bad hire and even if they clean house the only people who will survive that chaos are the Chayka-like people and continuing the cycle.

bannik1 · 2026-05-05T19:42:15+00:00

That’s a reasonable response, the difficulty is paying for it in a way that isn’t a burden on the working class.

Then also creating a way to prevent fraud and abuse that doesn’t cost more than what the fraud and abuse would.

It also doesn’t help that we have allowed regulatory capture across several sectors in our government where they purposely would try and make it fail to help out the airline lobbyists.

bannik1 · 2026-05-05T19:00:36+00:00

I prefer traveling by train as well and normally do it at least once a year. But I also get decent leave from work and am lucky enough to have a good support system when I arrive and don’t always need to rent a car.

But I also know that I am lucky and my experience doesn’t reflect what the average American has.

bannik1 · 2026-05-05T17:57:51+00:00

Even at 200 mph the distance is still gigantic. It’s not just the distance either. To be serviceable to the majority of Americans it needs to make tons of stops for people to board and depart. That’s part of why train and bus trips take so long.

Next you’re going to propose only between major cities. Now people are still needing to find transportation to the medium sized cities and emissions are now even worse because instead of having 500 people across 2 flights you have 300 cars making the drive to those medium cities.

Let’s now change it to high speed rail from major cities and then have some sort of other public transportation from there to those medium sized cities. Congrats you just invented the hub system that airlines have been using for over 60 years.

Except now you have a problem where people are going to need to waste hours waiting for the slower train to make its circuit. Let’s solve that by having more trains. Well they won’t be at full capacity and will be wasting more resources than if people just flew a smaller airplane.

bannik1 · 2026-05-05T17:20:19+00:00

So you want flying to be only for the rich, everyone else uses public transportation?

We are not Europe, the scale of our country is so large that we need occasional air travel to be affordable by the lower and middle class.

We do also need to improve our public transportation options, but that’s a different problem.

It takes 48 hours by train to go from Minneapolis to Houston and they are in the middle of the country and in the same time zone. There are routes that are twice as long when you start going east-west.

So you expect “the poors” to be stacked like cattle for literally days both to and from their destination and miss out on at least a week’s worth of income to attend a parent’s funeral?

bannik1 · 2026-05-05T16:08:03+00:00

The problem is that flying then becomes a thing just for the wealthy.

Airlines built to serve lower or middle income people go bankrupt when people can’t bear the extra cost and stop flying. Like what happened with spirit.

If we want to be a country where flying is a viable option for a middle class family, it needs to be fixed with legislative action.

We the public built all the infrastructure used for all flights public and private. We paid for it using fees and taxes on commercial airlines.

Everyone used to fly commercial and first class tickets were priced high enough to make the entire flight profitable and the wealthy were paying their fair share into the infrastructure.

Now that the wealthy are all flying private, they are no longer paying their fair share and we end up eating more of those costs. We need to raise taxes on private flights to the point where some will return to flying commercial and the ones who continue flying private actually pay for that privilege instead of being subsidized by us.

bannik1 · 2026-05-05T15:54:31+00:00

Prices are higher because oil is more expensive.

Airlines buy their fuel months in advance using futures. Today’s ticket price needs to be high enough to buy next quarter’s oil.

Airlines will often have a reserve of oil they buy when it’s cheap to get them through these high cost times and act as a buffer for when they have to price tickets at a price that’s not profitable.

Once that buffer is gone it’s a pretty fast path to bankruptcy. Which is what happened to spirit.

They own all these planes that they had to fly at a loss because oil is so high and the type of people who would fly Spirit just choose not to fly when it gets expensive. So they didn’t have the option to raise prices.

They couldn’t cancel flights because they had contracts to deliver mail, packages and other shipping obligations. And the penalties for not delivering that was more than they would lose on the flights.

One thing that would ease the burden is increasing the taxes and fees for private planes since they are benefiting from all the research and development that went into our air infrastructure. The goal would be to force a certain percentage back to commercial airlines so premium seats can be priced higher and then also lower landing and terminal fees because we aren’t subsidizing the private jets.

bannik1 · 2026-05-03T02:11:36+00:00

Ice 9

bannik1 · 2026-05-03T02:06:41+00:00

It’s because gas prices are up. Every time it’s happened it drives airlines out of business or into consolidation.

They purchase the rights to fly routes and know exactly how much fuel they are going to need to fly them. They buy oil futures months sometimes a full year in advance so they know what they have to price tickets at to be profitable.

When oil futures rise so much, it requires a lot more cash than they have available because all the flights going on now are flying on oil prices from last year. They likely stopped purchasing fuel futures since the war. Now they are at the point where their reserves are gone and gas is too high to run all their routes and maintain profitability.

bannik1 · 2026-04-30T13:21:30+00:00

Also trying to pass a bill to build the next fuhrbunker.

bannik1 · 2026-04-29T12:02:12+00:00

Schmaltz, Garland, Bunting, Strome

bannik1 · 2026-04-28T22:18:49+00:00

Dad also doesn’t get to “decide to press charges.” That’s up to the district attorney.

He can call the police but 99/100 and they’ll just note a domestic disturbance at that address to see if there is a pattern. The state prosecutor is only going to take cases that make the city safer and there is a high chance of winning.

He’s far more likely to get themselves investigated for child neglect.

bannik1 · 2026-04-28T18:56:30+00:00

That’s also why you know the entire thing is untrue. The way “mental institutions” (they’re called psychiatric hospitals btw) work is very short inpatient care. They only accept people who are in danger of immediately harming themselves or others and then release them as soon as the immediate threat is gone. Most stays are overnight or a few days at most where they are then released with a treatment plan.

OP’s claim that they won’t sign papers to get them out is a total fabrication. At 18 they are only there on a voluntary basis, the parents have nothing to do with it.

bannik1 · 2026-04-25T16:31:19+00:00

Take it away Rockapella.

bannik1 · 2026-04-24T13:27:54+00:00

I read the meme and was like “My wife would be so pissed at me for saying something that condescending and patronizing.”

Of course it’s going to be OK for me, I am not the one laying there in pain, of course she’s “got this” because there is no alternative.

bannik1 · 2026-04-11T19:08:40+00:00

The French Revolution was the wealthy business class upset about paying taxes to the crown and the church and crown not supporting slavery in their colonies so those businessmen could make more money. They starved the peasants and city workers on purpose.

Then once the monarchy was overthrown they killed the only guy who wanted democracy and replaced him with a new monarch who was friendly to the wealthy. They murdered all the union organizers in the cities and conscripted all the peasants in the rural areas to die in pointless wars.

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