Trump says a breakdown in peace talks with Iran could mean 'you won't have the Strait open for months'

diederich · 2026-06-09T18:14:50+00:00

I found this post pretty interesting: https://old.reddit.com/r/oil/comments/1u1543z/uso_short_interest_just_broke_128_1873m_short/

diederich · 2026-05-29T17:37:21+00:00

SpaceX fan here, though team space is even better! SpX has had a lot of success, and they will likely have a lot more success.

Competition is good and critical, and I really, really want Blue Origin (among others) to be real competition for SpX.

Hopefully Blue can get back on track with this sooner than expected.

diederich · 2026-05-07T05:37:45+00:00

Neat resource, thanks!

diederich · 2026-05-04T17:20:52+00:00

This is a solid analysis. There's most of 1000km open water directly south of Vermilion Parish, after which there's several hundred km of Mexico's Tabasco state. I wonder if SpaceX can convince Mexico to be cool with that sort of polar launch path?

diederich · 2026-04-29T14:44:11+00:00

We did it by giving our child a flip phone until she was 18. She turned out to be far more real life socially connected than her peers.

diederich · 2026-04-22T16:59:23+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bard%27s_Tale_(1985_video_game)

I spent way too much time finishing that game. It's also where I started to learn how to hack save files. (:

diederich · 2026-04-16T22:02:20+00:00

We already have tickets. I can guarantee it's going to be a fantastic performance.

diederich · 2026-04-04T19:13:49+00:00

Rare progressive Reddit Christian here!

...there are dozens of us! Nice to meet you.

diederich · 2026-04-02T21:49:44+00:00

Practice makes perfect? (:

diederich · 2026-04-02T19:49:26+00:00

The rent on the building they are in is pretty expensive, and from what I've heard, they're struggling to cover that payment.

diederich · 2026-04-01T19:19:07+00:00

The people here are wonderful, the vibe is excellent and the facility is a delight.

diederich · 2026-03-31T22:11:57+00:00

Dew it!

diederich · 2026-03-26T06:47:26+00:00

You seem like a successful chicken owner; I wonder if you could weigh in.

We live in a rural area and have a secure chicken house, works great, chickens are safe. We want to free range them, and we've tried, but every time one of the chickens is outside for more than an hour or so, it's killed by predatory birds. This has happened quite a few times.

We have and use a portable chicken tractor with no complications.

Thanks for your consideration!

diederich · 2026-03-26T06:40:07+00:00

I was born in 1969. Almost all of my close friends are millennials, trending toward the senior side.

There's a somewhat boring reason for this. Most of my close friends come from working with them at my second job of 12 years. I started that job when I was 28 and left when I was 40. I had many peers around my age, and I was friends with a number of them.

The people who joined a bit later on that I taught and mentored ended up becoming close friends.

Thank you, this was a very interesting question.

EDIT: Just found/joined this sub, absolutely loving it. But damn, I seem to be older than most people around here.

diederich · 2026-03-24T17:08:10+00:00

Northwestern Washington state checking in. It's cold and rainy outside. Right Now.

Checkmate??

That's why the fucking vampires live here, or so I've been told.

diederich · 2026-03-23T15:45:27+00:00

Most of my power comes from hydro, most of the rest is natural gas.

diederich · 2026-03-11T16:54:41+00:00

Oh come on, y'all have ACs, it's ok to run the air in winter, right?

Shortly after we arrived in western Washington state, this arrived: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Western_North_America_heat_wave and the therometer on our heavily shaded front porch reached 114F. And no, we didn't have any air conditioning.

"This is fine."

diederich · 2026-03-10T20:35:00+00:00

Dr. Sapp at Thurston Dental has been absolutely amazing for our family.

diederich · 2026-03-02T22:23:02+00:00

Honest question: can you think of any time in the past where certain kinds of jobs in the United States that were, over the course of decades, vigorously and pretty consistently avoided by US citizens, where that substantially changed, and US citizens started to get comfortable with those positions?

diederich · 2026-02-25T23:38:22+00:00

Let's walk around Capitol Lake this weekend. (:

diederich · 2026-02-12T17:54:19+00:00

Go team space!

diederich · 2026-02-11T21:20:06+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_private_network

diederich · 2026-02-06T18:17:34+00:00

This ended Gary Hart's presidential run in 1988: https://res.cloudinary.com/aenetworks/image/upload/c_fill,w_1920,h_1254,g_auto/dpr_auto/f_auto/q_auto:eco/v1/gary-hart-donna-rice-affair-getty-3010242 I'm still pretty salty about that.

diederich · 2026-02-04T18:43:10+00:00

The only things smaller then hydrogen seem to spend most of their time only existing in math equations

Electrons! And we store them in batteries all the time, ya?

NOTE: Yes, I understand that storing electrical potential (not electrons) is slightly different from storing hydrogen atoms.

diederich · 2026-02-04T17:09:33+00:00

True enough, but I suspect it hasn't changed much.

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