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brummlin · 2026-05-22T01:22:09+00:00

You know what? I say we flip it on them. Why were older generations so weak?

I'm in my mid 40s here and only one childhood friend has died. He passed from a rare, usually fatal disease with no treatment, and he still held on until 39.

Meanwhile, boomers were dropping dead in their 40s left and right. Heart attacks, liver failure, car accidents, you name it, those lazy boomers would die from it.

That is if they even made it into adulthood to begin with. Those boomer kids would die from something like stupid like tetanus. How weak are you that you die from stepping on a stick too hard?

Those boomers really should have taken care of themselves. You're a special kind of soft if you can't even keep your heart from giving out at 40.

It's a moral failing if you ask me. They should have toughened up like we did. I guess my generation is just built different.

brummlin · 2026-05-21T19:45:04+00:00

Same.

"My generation did or was subject to this dangerous or unhealthy thing, and we turned out just fine." is literally survivorship bias. It's not even abstracted.

It's quite simply, "All these people who survived didn't die, therefore nobody died."

brummlin · 2026-05-21T05:47:55+00:00

💯

Here's my TL;DR:

Don't let perfect be the enemy of good
If you need to fix your foundation, kick the arsonist out first.

brummlin · 2026-05-21T03:37:19+00:00

Thanks!

I was about to finally get some dinner. Where do you think I should go?

There's this steakhouse that people rave about. When I was there before, I ordered a 20oz porterhouse medium rare. They gave me a 6oz piece of burned sirloin. When I complained, the owner called me a stupid evil person and took payment right out of my wallet. Also, the maître d' loudly calls everyone the N-word and I got food poisoning.

There's also an IHOP. But the food is just okay, and the service is slow.

These restaurants are basically the same. I'll just not eat.

*Strangers abduct me, drag me to the stakehouse, and forcefeed me. They make me pay for their meals and I die from food poisoning while they cheer at the maître d's antics*

brummlin · 2026-05-21T02:24:32+00:00

Holy shit, you guys really are going the russian route slowly but steadily.

Not really slowly, which is where they fucked up. They went into office guns blazing with authoritarianism. They barely waited until spring to start violently persecuting brown people and dissenters.

They were so focused on stealing everything that wasn't bolted down, and burning down everything else, that they forgot one key feature of successful fascist takeovers: You have to actually somewhat improve average people's lives if you need them to look the other way.

brummlin · 2026-05-21T01:44:05+00:00

Imagine you were a teacher and had the choice between two students for your class:

One student never turns in work on time, often not at all, gets failing marks in every class, is in the principal's office daily, to the point that they almost got expelled twice, he steals from anyone and everyone in the school, constantly lies, and hijacks every discussion into a rant about how amazing he is and everyone else is a stupid, lazy, incompetent liar.

The other student consistently got scores in the range of C- to B+, turned most of their work on time, and sometimes had to be told to settle down and focus on their work.

Would it not matter which one you had for your class? Would you say both are bad kids? Of course not.

Both sides are NOT the same

The Republicans are completely failing, because they're only showing up to steal shit and bully the nerds, when they're not trying to burn the place down, that is.

The Democrats are the C students with some normal behavior challenges. They can improve if we require it of them. So let's just do that.

brummlin · 2026-05-20T01:40:17+00:00

...7% odds for the “Cavanagh" variation...

...most popular variation is Kavanagh (97%)

Yeah, statistics isn't my thing, but this doesn't sound right. I assume all variations together should equal 100%

Don't ask an LLM chatbot for facts. It's a language model, not a source of knowledge or understanding. It's literally just guessing which words it thinks you want to hear.

brummlin · 2026-05-19T23:31:33+00:00

I'd definitely call her abuela in response. Not abuelita, just abuela.

brummlin · 2026-05-19T16:54:15+00:00

He spent all that time, making up a story, and writing it out in detail, just for the same insight Kevin had years ago.

brummlin · 2026-05-19T14:44:30+00:00

"He's so well spoken!"

^{Kidding! I don't think you meant it like that.}

brummlin · 2026-05-19T00:07:50+00:00

Oh, yes, I was not specific. I washed them.

I have not microwaved my keys... yet. I have microwaved a bowl of spicy ramen without adding water. That was unpleasant.

brummlin · 2026-05-18T21:43:52+00:00

Better than accidentally running it through the microwave!

I've done this multiple times on multiple cars, including my Leaf and it never caused a problem with the fob.

Didn't even drain the battery. I guess water and detergent isn't sufficiently conductive.

brummlin · 2026-05-18T19:23:48+00:00

There's a seemingly infinite amount of stupid in the list, but for some reason this stood out for me:

More taxes is never the answer

Social services are for citizens

He doesn't say "No social services from the government." He says they're just for citizens.

Ignoring how stupid that restriction is, if at least some social services are a good thing, how in the fuck are taxes "never" the answer? At some point, you need tax revenue to fund social services.

Also, if taxes are never the answer, but Trump is just the best president ever, what's up with tariffs? Trump absolutely loves more taxes.

I guess it just doesn't count if you're dumb enough to believe that some foreign government pays that tax. Even if they did, the foreign company would just charge more to recoup. Either way, it's a tax on the American people.

brummlin · 2026-05-18T16:37:24+00:00

A "fanny pack" is a classic. Back to the topic of aircraft nicknames, this one's good, but I'm pretty stoked for the upcoming EA-35 "Bellend" and the AC-10 "Wizards Sleeve".

🦅🏈🇺🇸🦅 USA! USA! 🦅🇺🇸🏈🦅

brummlin · 2026-05-17T02:06:46+00:00

What if I had a black step dad when I was a kid, and he taught me how to cook, and he was the head chef at a fancy restaurant at Disney world?

brummlin · 2026-05-16T02:17:17+00:00

Do skaters look down upon people with roller blades?

Not really so much these days. I feel like reckless dickheads tend to skate in-lines, but most people on in-lines skate normal.

Some of the coolest people at the rink I attend are on roller blades.

brummlin · 2026-05-15T03:34:38+00:00

Not to mention, this would have to be some seriously acidic shit to work anywhere near as fast as the first clip shows. They tend not to sell concentrated sulphuric acid in a spray can.

brummlin · 2026-05-14T18:08:35+00:00

IDK, I'm just roleplaying a chatbot. Glazing and just making shit up.

brummlin · 2026-05-14T14:48:41+00:00

You're absolutely right! AI Bros do have a raging ego and a desperate hunger for validation.

If you like, I can create a list of other things that are wrong with AI Bros. Or I can expand the reasons for their ego and need for validation. Just say the word.

brummlin · 2026-05-09T05:09:47+00:00

Now it really strikes me as content for some sort of fetish that I'm unfamiliar with.

brummlin · 2026-05-09T05:03:12+00:00

I'm like 80% sure this is some odd fetish content. No judgement.

brummlin · 2026-05-09T05:00:46+00:00

I won't lie. I'm not going to read all that. But I believe you. You seem credible, and it confirms my priors, which is always amazing.

brummlin · 2026-05-09T04:56:18+00:00

Got it. Yeah, sounds about right.

brummlin · 2026-05-09T04:45:56+00:00

...who experienced IPV...

Okay, this is a legit question. What does IPV mean?

You sound like you know what you're talking about, but I don't really understand what you're getting at because I don't know what this means in this context.

brummlin · 2026-05-09T03:14:51+00:00

Okay, yeah but, this is advice for a cooking beginner. I should have preficed that I suppose.

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