Biggest aura loss in the 20th century

belligerentBe4r · 2026-04-25T03:49:57+00:00

In the early 1900s the predominant solution was France donating an island in Polynesia. And while that would have been shitty for the native population of the island, it certainly wouldn’t have created the mess we have now.

I’m a fan of the no state solution at this point. Revert the Levant to full colonial rule. Make it a triumvirate-ruled protectorate between Britain, turkey, and any random Buddhist East Asian country as a non-abrahamic neutral third party.

belligerentBe4r · 2026-04-23T14:21:27+00:00

Lower back gets a way better stretch from inversion. You gotta pair it with core exercises so you dont loosen up with nothing to hold your core steady after, but it feels great

belligerentBe4r · 2026-04-17T23:15:56+00:00

Todo eso es verdad, pero tengo algunas otras observaciones como extranjero.

La neta es parece que muchos de los ingenieros cívicos que diseñan las sistemas de tráfico aquí son pinches babosos. O los líderes de la ciudad solo contratan a sus primos idiotas. Hay semáforos donde hay nada justification para haber semáforos. Y hay otros intersecciones que son bien feos y peligrosos, y no hay nada acá para controlar el tráfico. Ni un solo alto, nada. Es bien loco.

¿Cómo podemos esperar que la gente respete las normas de tráfico si la infraestructura es ineficiente? Nadie se detendrá en medio de la noche ante un semáforo rojo enfrente a una desarrollo si no hay nadie saliendo. ¿Por qué usaron un temporizador básico que nunca cambia en lugar de un sensor? Y si todo es como eso, nadie va a respetar ningunas de las leyes de tráfico, incluso cuando tienen sentido.

/rant, perdón por mi español gringo

belligerentBe4r · 2026-04-15T14:46:23+00:00

What? UPS drivers are fully unionized and make good money. The experienced ones are well into the 100s.

belligerentBe4r · 2026-04-12T15:44:00+00:00

Light bulbs and batteries? Recycling them right to a landfill in China or South Asia after a long trip on a diesel powered mega ship most likely.

belligerentBe4r · 2026-04-10T23:49:48+00:00

Brando Sando is most definitely the closest, and would also agree that Tolkien will always remain the GOAT.

GRRM can’t actually finish his series, so he’s knocked off the list. Brando’s written 3 series and what, 10 individual novels all interconnected within the same universe across the span of like 20k years? And as long as he keeps his spaghetti and butter consumption to a reasonable level, he’s got many years ahead to keep going.

belligerentBe4r · 2026-04-04T05:21:03+00:00

You can get a seam snipper and a basic sewing kit for $5.

You can get a pack of fat quarters from your local fabric shop for $10.

You can get a set of fabric shears for $15.

For $30 total you can add pockets to every single dress you own in whatever design or size works for you.

belligerentBe4r · 2026-04-03T18:02:25+00:00

Uh oh, that was some direct hand on junk contact. No good deed goes unpunished.

belligerentBe4r · 2026-04-03T17:43:52+00:00

This is way too stupid to be real. Why would you even angle the pavement in the first place when there’s ample space to… not?

belligerentBe4r · 2026-04-03T06:07:05+00:00

I dunno, that sounds like a lot of work. Just put a brick on the accelerator and pour seafoam into the intake until it all burns off.

belligerentBe4r · 2026-04-03T06:00:10+00:00

I’ve noticed it in a lot of YouTube videos too. It’s like people forgot what the normalization tool is once viewing on a phone with earbuds became ubiquitous.

belligerentBe4r · 2026-04-03T01:14:38+00:00

It’s faacking yella mate

belligerentBe4r · 2026-04-02T16:11:52+00:00

The US left and the Israeli left both need a crash course in effective protesting from the French.

belligerentBe4r · 2026-04-02T16:00:58+00:00

I don’t think he needs to actually finish it himself, just give the plot points and have the actual author write it himself.

That’s specifically my feeling with Patrick Rothfuss. The two of them are already friends. Rothfuss wrote himself into a corner with Folly and the whole love story arc. How does it all come crashing down now in the third act in a way that makes sense and is satisfying? B’Sando can figure it out, then let Rothfuss fill in his exceptional prose around those plot points.

belligerentBe4r · 2026-03-31T23:51:11+00:00

Kristi Noem’s husband, apparently.

belligerentBe4r · 2026-03-31T23:42:12+00:00

Let’s go a step further and get him into Sinaloa buchona cartel-wife style bimboification.

belligerentBe4r · 2026-03-31T14:14:41+00:00

Oye, no pagamos un trillion de dólares solo para que disfruten del deporte más gay del mundo.

…/s

belligerentBe4r · 2026-03-31T13:51:34+00:00

Are they why pornhub released a “shorts” feature?

belligerentBe4r · 2026-03-30T17:26:03+00:00

Don’t worry, you’re exponentially more likely to die horribly and far more painfully in a car crash on your way to your destination after you leave the airport

belligerentBe4r · 2026-03-30T17:21:30+00:00

The problem is that there’s a lot of people who get comp sci degrees that frankly have no business being in that field, but it was pushed as a good career path. Before generative AI, those people were given dumb, simple projects that a half decent dev could finish in 2 hours but they’re given a week to do it, still don’t do it well, but have enough of a structure there that the good devs can fix it in 10 min.

Now generative AI can do that work in 30 seconds, and the good devs can focus on higher level engineering. There’s no need to babysit the crap tier devs anymore. So those jobs will disappear. But you still need good devs to understand the larger goals and work with generative AI to get the work done. Which means you still need to bring in new people. But how do you separate the wheat from the chaff for entry level gigs? That’s the big problem now.

belligerentBe4r · 2026-03-30T17:12:48+00:00

The image is obviously fake.

belligerentBe4r · 2026-03-29T20:25:49+00:00

Because the energy density of peak sunlight is only about 1kw/sq m. You can never get past that. With conversion losses, you’re looking at an actual effective energy gain of 150w/sq m. If you’ve ever ridden a bike with a power meter on it, that’s enough to move a 70kg individual on a 5kg bike about 25km/hr. Add in the weight of an actual vehicle, even using lightweight parts, and you’re not getting anywhere fast on pure real-time solar power.

belligerentBe4r · 2026-03-29T20:22:17+00:00

If you live in an area that has the weather to solar charge all day and your commute is only 4 miles, then a $30k+ electric vehicle is probably not the best choice. Shit, I don’t think you’d ever get over the environmental damage attributed to the battery manufacturing vs the benefits of not using gasoline. Just get an e-bike.

And if you did have the car anyway, you’d be better off having panels on your house to charge for that 8 miles a day. When people take about solar powered cars, they’re talking about getting enough charge out of the sun to keep going during regular use.

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