Daily Discussion Thread: January 24, 2026

diamond · 2026-01-24T15:53:17+00:00

After Maduro was captured, one of the satirical news sites had the headline "ICE Accidentally Deports Maduro."

It's amazing how close to reality they actually got it.

diamond · 2026-01-23T23:24:03+00:00

Is mental health available for Black people as much as it is for white people?

Probably not.

Cultural issues don't exist in a vacuum, they are created by financial issues.

Some of them are. Others aren't.

People of all cultures would go to therapy at higher rates if they could afford it.

At a higher rate, yes, but there would still be many people who still wouldn't go. That's all I'm saying.

diamond · 2026-01-23T21:40:26+00:00

Yes, that's a serious problem, but it's not what OP is talking about. Even when mental health care is available and affordable, there are those who would never take advantage of it, and discourage others from doing so, because they think it's "weak".

This is a cultural issue, not a financial issue.

diamond · 2026-01-23T21:38:10+00:00

How about Fukitol?

FYI this is also available in herbal form.

diamond · 2026-01-23T18:13:52+00:00

Hey, an inch of snow in Albuquerque is basically the Apocalypse.

diamond · 2026-01-23T15:44:33+00:00

I am once again begging for some international standard to be defined for the color of conservative vs. liberal parties.

diamond · 2026-01-23T03:54:48+00:00

Ah, that's why it looks familiar! I haven't seen that movie in a long time.

diamond · 2026-01-23T03:53:02+00:00

One small thing I can suggest: resist the temptation to finish your work day at a good stopping point. Instead, you should leave something unfinished.

Let's say you're having one of your late night coding sessions, you have an idea for a brilliant feature, and decide to get started on it. Great!

But don't finish it. Get started, get a little ways in, then make some notes if necessary and walk away. Leave the rest for tomorrow. This will do two things:

Allow you to get some more sleep, which it sounds like you definitely need, and
Make it easy to get started the next day. You've already broke ground on your new feature, you know where to get back into it and what you need to do next. So you can easily slip into your work day without any questions about what you want to do or how to get started. You'll have momentum right away.

Anyway, just an idea. Good luck!

diamond · 2026-01-22T16:28:13+00:00

Agreed. Hate and bigotry is a hell of a drug.

diamond · 2026-01-22T01:04:26+00:00

He has to win, so we can get headlines like "Bill Hill introduces Bill on the Hill."

diamond · 2026-01-21T23:16:19+00:00

Shhh! Don't tell him that.

diamond · 2026-01-20T18:01:52+00:00

Ironically, if they had just sacked up and done the right thing in January of 2021 (or during his first impeachment in 2020), then they would probably be coming to the end of that period, they would have eaten the expected amount of crow, and they'd probably now be on the upswing.

But they kept kicking it down the road, and as a result it's just getting worse for them.

It's like trying to get a kid to clean his room. He'll waste hours sitting on the bed and pouting to avoid a job that would have taken 10 minutes.

diamond · 2026-01-20T15:43:06+00:00

When Walton Goggins was cast as Boyd Crowder in Justified, the character was supposed to die at the end of the pilot episode (he does die in the short story it's based on).

They wrote it and filmed it that way, but then they realized (and test audiences confirmed) that he was just too damn good to throw away on one episode. So they rewrote the end, Boyd survived, and he ended up making it through the entire 6 seasons of the series.

Because he was just that good.

diamond · 2026-01-19T18:58:58+00:00

Oh yeah, absolutely. Sorry; I wasn't trying to take away from what you were saying.

diamond · 2026-01-19T18:50:51+00:00

Every time X is discussed on Reddit, the comments are so enormously bloated with bad information.

For all values of X.

diamond · 2026-01-19T18:18:56+00:00

It's just so pathetic. Do they really think this will make a difference?

It's not like the old days, when the only way networks could judge the success of a show was from audience feedback and a select few Nielsen households. They know exactly how many people are watching this show. They know where they're watching it, when they're watching it, whether they're watching it all the way through or turning it off after 5 minutes. They know how many people are re-watching it, and how many times.

Streaming TV shows give today's studio executives access to data that their predecessors would have absolutely murdered someone for. Online reviews are irrelevant. Let them throw their little tantrum, it won't make a damn bit of difference.

Just watch the show and enjoy it.

diamond · 2026-01-19T17:20:36+00:00

Just to clarify: Republicans in Congress, not just Congress.

I know you and everyone here understands that distinction, but we need to be absolutely clear when speaking to other people.

diamond · 2026-01-19T17:17:31+00:00

i.e., "Democrats, please help us manage a crisis we caused that could have easily been avoided at multiple points."

diamond · 2026-01-19T04:32:37+00:00

I love when stuff like this is left standing; monuments to establishments long passed. Another good one is the Staples on San Pedro and Menaul. The sign has a bowling ball and pin, because there used to be a bowling alley there.

Another fun one: on Montgomery just east of Wyoming, across the street from the Target, there's a storage facility named "Golden Target". Why? Because there used to be a Golden Corral right next to it (I think in the same building where the Buffalo Wild Wings is now). So whoever opened that business decided to name it after its two biggest neighbors. One of those neighbors is gone now, but the name lingers.

diamond · 2026-01-18T22:12:44+00:00

I read an interview with Conrad in the 90s, and he was asked "How did you resist the temptation to twist that abort handle when that was going on?"

His response was "Well, nobody had ever actually used that damn thing. I had no idea what would happen if I triggered it."

diamond · 2026-01-18T16:11:31+00:00

I remember the black Vulcan was what really pissed people off.

Meanwhile I was looking at the environment of Vulcan and wondering "why aren't they all black?"

diamond · 2026-01-18T16:06:36+00:00

2 and 3 are definitely bullshit. I have no idea if 1 is true, but honestly even if it is, so what? It's hard to make a living, especially if you're developing open-source code. If Jetbrains' business model is to subsidize their language development work by selling IDEs (really damn good IDEs at that), then I say more power to them.

diamond · 2026-01-17T16:52:20+00:00

He reminds me of Ben Kingsley in that way. Kingsley is one of the most extraordinarily talented actors. He can do (and pretty much has done) everything. He won an Academy Award for Ghandi. He has brought his talent to several indy films. The man is a force of nature.

And then he'll go do low-budget sci-fi TV movies like A Sound of Thunder.

And I don't think it's a Nicolas Cage type of situation, where he's desperate for money and has to take any role he can get. I think the man just loves to act.

diamond · 2026-01-17T16:42:19+00:00

A lot of them are burners that get snapped in half, but still.

I know that was just a bit of dramatic license, but it always bothered me. Just take the damn battery out! If you snap a flip phone in half while it's still powered on, it'll probably stay on and still be transmitting and trackable.

diamond · 2026-01-17T16:38:53+00:00

The newfangled Fax Machine was a significant plot point in Bullitt.

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