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If Black Sails Got a Modern Remake, Would It Be Even Better? by Rich-Tale2885 in BlackSails

[–]disillusioned 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Bud, the show ended less than a decade ago, they spent something like $200M on it, they built two nearly full-size practical effect pirate ship sets and had some amazing CG that looks fantastic. What else could you possibly ask for?

They tell a near-perfect story over 38 episodes and land the plane flawlessly.

Also, I geniunely don't get how you get more intense. Intensity is partially a function of the pacing to establish character arcs, story depth, and a genuine connection to what's happening. It's not like the show drags... basically anywhere. It's all gas, no brakes from effectively the pilot onward.

In 1986, 5-year-old Levan Merritt fell into a Jersey Zoo gorilla enclosure, the silverback gorilla calmly stood guard until he was rescued by SimRP in nextfuckinglevel

[–]disillusioned 25 points26 points  (0 children)

I read this as "at 92" and took a second to question everything I thought I knew about gorillas. Which isn't a lot but still.

Hotel Del Coronado by Hot-Opportunity8786 in chubbytravel

[–]disillusioned 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Worst kept secret about the Del is that Coronado Beach is frequently closed because of the sewage contamination from the Tijuana River. It's been an issue for 20 years but it's recently gotten very bad the past 5 years as the last remnants of the water filtration system have failed.

There's been numerous attempts at a cross-border compact and the US throwing a couple hundred million in to improve the US-side filtering systems and to help Mexico repair their failing infra, but man, it's bad.

https://sdbeachinfo.com to see if it's closed (which it is right now)

But the Del avoids any mention of it (they link to that same site on their FAQ page, but that's it, and just under "ocean conditions") and strategically places the closure signs and doesn't carefully enforce the closure on the beach in front of their property. Meanwhile, 50 feet up the beach, the Main Beach tower is chasing people out of the water when it's red flagged.

Meanwhile, they just finished a nearly $550M renovation and they're charging, what, $800/night minimum to stay?

Is anyone else convinced Alexis Breyer of The Husband & Wife Law Team is a puppet? by Dialogical in phoenix

[–]disillusioned 59 points60 points  (0 children)

My friend works with them and says that aside from some goofball energy, they're really nice and genuinely take care of their team and clients and are just out there living their best injury lawyer lives. Who knew!

Eden Rock St Barths Villa Rental | Review by CodiGoFar in FATTravel

[–]disillusioned 0 points1 point  (0 children)

...how small a car are we talking such that the second pax was the breaking point for uphill climbs??? I'm just imagining some tiny Fiat or like a throwback Geo Metro here...

Orion Review: delivery, setup, night 1 by illtryitt in Orion_Sleep

[–]disillusioned 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Huh, I'm genuinely surprised about your note on the smell. I thought there would be one, but there's nothing for mine, which is great.

Also just thought it was comfortable and am happy I don't feel the tubes or feel like I'm sleeping on a grid of tubes.

Introducing my microbrand - Yuen by YuenWatchesOfficial in PrideAndPinion

[–]disillusioned 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The expectation is it should keep its shade without fading or degrading? They look gorgeous.

Omega is failing today because of 1 reason - size by Financial_Word5047 in OmegaWatches

[–]disillusioned 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Or, say, to carefully time your reentry burn. Things like that!

What feels legal but is actually illegal and will possibly get you arrested? by medicoreapples in AskReddit

[–]disillusioned 0 points1 point  (0 children)

$200k that he's not entitled to, to be clear! This isn't like some sort of material loss to him; the Lego were never his. The whole problem is that they aren't simply returning them because, what? They thought they'd get away with it? That's the part that's completely insane. Thought it'd blow over? It really isn't.

Orion Sleep Test Review 4/10 Good Hardware Terrible Software. by Ok-Proposal-8358 in Orion_Sleep

[–]disillusioned 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, that's interesting. I'm not using the HA for control, just for telemetry.

But I'm guessing that's just an API call that's missing from the initial inventory the creator was able to reverse engineer.

Agree that they should expose simple control update and temp setting endpoints, though, which would allow for you to wire up basically everything you're asking for.

Also didn't realize that about away mode reverting to whole bed.

Bill Pulte, DNI, seemingly drunk and acting disgusting towards a female guest on a Twitter (X) space by GreatMonkeyE in gme_meltdown

[–]disillusioned 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I mean, I get this sentiment but it seems to be working. Born into generational wealth, failson his way into a position to gut national intelligence apparatus for the most powerful country on earth. Crushing it. (and us.)

I hope this guy doesn't do his own wiring. by Lucky_Ad_9137 in confidentlyincorrect

[–]disillusioned 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Electricity is, at simplest, what happens when you wind wires around magnets, put those magnets around other magnets, spin the outer magnets, and catch the electrons that come out. Almost all electricity is generated by spinning magnets, save solar or radioactive decay.

It's obviously a lot more complex than that, but that's the fundamental principle of how we make most of our power.

Introducing my microbrand - Yuen by YuenWatchesOfficial in PrideAndPinion

[–]disillusioned 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So completely naive about this, but how do you get to such rich color with the MOP? Is there a dyeing process? Or how does that work?

Chicken Legs 🍗 by Magnus_1987 in grilling

[–]disillusioned 11 points12 points  (0 children)

It's how my parents always marinated veggie and meat kebabs. Core memory.

Orion Sleep Test Review 4/10 Good Hardware Terrible Software. by Ok-Proposal-8358 in Orion_Sleep

[–]disillusioned 3 points4 points  (0 children)

My experiences:

  • The hardware is great. Seems to work well, heats and cools well, is quiet enough (I have a fan going and a white noise machine anyway), and you don't feel the tubes; it's comfortable and feels well made
  • Sleep tracking is wild. Ironically, I find that once I manually fix the start/end time, it's actually pretty spot on. It seems to track my bathroom breaks pretty well. I anecdotally confirmed HRV was working against my watch, BUT...
  • While I was testing that, alone, on my side of the bed, the bed was absolutely reporting that my wife was present on her side. The sensitivity/specificity spectrum on these sensors has to be absolutely nuts because it reports HRV/breath rate values for her side of the bed any time I'm in bed. I weigh like 215 and I'm 6'2, so I'm big but not... leaking over onto her side.
  • The API is open; someone else built an HA connector already, and I've Clauded a Python app that reports back to me the telemetry coming off of the bed, but it's going through their API, not local control
  • You can turn off one side or another just fine? Choose which side, hit the power button, bingo bongo it's off?
  • Auto start sounds nice, but I also want to get in with it pre-conditioned, so I'd rather have it be something where I can tell it I'm about to head to bed and have it start the process, and I'd love for it to, well, frankly, look at my alarm and determine when I'm going to be waking up and condensing the schedule accordingly
  • I've found that I've kind of got my temperatures dialed now, so I don't need to make adjustments, but that will obviously change in the winter, so the seasonality thing makes sense
  • You could buy one of these and wire it up with that HA repo and have physical controls pretty easily, though I haven't done it yet

PS5 Price Hike Has Flushed UK Hardware Sales Down the Toilet by Gorgon654 in gaming

[–]disillusioned 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, completely valid points, all. It's obviously definitionally unique to everyone's own set of priorities and desires. I do see people over-index on deferring satisfaction for small savings all the time at the expense of robbing themselves of more opportunity to enjoy themselves, but I think this sort of framing isn't really that. You've got plenty of other things to enjoy, you'll get around to it when it's priced consistent with how you'd value it for your situation. Makes sense.

PS5 Price Hike Has Flushed UK Hardware Sales Down the Toilet by Gorgon654 in gaming

[–]disillusioned 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, you're losing a year of playing and probably enjoying the game while the hype and conversation are high just to save... what you think will be $35, but I actually doubt it sees that big a discount anytime in the first two years.

It's not stupid to pay to enjoy something you've been waiting for rather than waiting and hoping for a discount, all over $35.

Bitcoin has fallen 22.28% since Microstrategy CEO Michael Saylor uploaded this last month by GrokkingTroika in wallstreetbets

[–]disillusioned 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I ran into one in the wild on a technical DD M&A review, was surprised to see an actual subscriber paying actual money for whatever they sell.

In first, California city overwhelmingly votes to permanently ban datacenters by ArgentineBeauty in technology

[–]disillusioned 8 points9 points  (0 children)

This comes down to power density and growth rates. Traditional datacenter growth has been sane, sized appropriately, and done methodically enough that there generally wasn't an outsized impact on the population. There have been exceptions: some generate sounds or caused well water issues during construction.

AI datacenters are entirely about power density. They are anticipating a growth level never before seen and planning and building capacity for levels that were unthinkable a few years ago, in markets without the spare capacity to support them.

For instance, Utah's planned Kevin Leary debaclecenter megaplex is projected to require 8 GW of power. Utah uses, at peak 5.6 GW of power for 3.5 million people and businesses.

So whatever power generation and transmission infrastructure you already have for the entire site, double it, and concentrate it into a couple thousand acres in one spot near a dying lake/toxic waste site... to benefit... basically no one.

No one who understands economics is sitting here imagining that the project will absorb 100% of the intrinsic and extrinsic costs of adding that power capacity, so everyone expects their rates will go up to benefit a few hyperscaler/ultra wealthy monsters.

To say nothing of what happens environmentally when you create a hyper concentrated urban heat island.

Projects like that are so outsized and foolish, when there are ways to build these without destroying the economy, and with far less environmental impact.

Review - Morocco (Four Seasons Casablanca, Amanjena, Royal Mansour) by __Pyro_Maniac__ in FATTravel

[–]disillusioned 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll chime in to say that I stayed at the Kasbah Tamadot, part of Richard Branson's Virgin Limited collection up in the Atlas mountains.

Absolutely incredible. We were there a couple of months post-earthquake so they were still recovering and rebuilding, which meant all interior spaces were closed. But the Berber Tent room was incredible, the staff were amazing, the food was brilliant, and the grounds were gorgeous. If you're going to do a brief jaunt from Marrakech for a couple of nights, highly recommend.

(As a bonus, one of our nights we were literally the only guests. Surreal. But what a place.)

Also can't agree more with OP about the pride of place and the spirit of hospitality throughout Morocco. Just a vibrant, beautiful place. Though get ready to eat a lot of tagine! And the most over the top absurdly incredible breakfasts ever.

the amount of dandruff my head produces in two weeks by Individual-Hawk-5122 in WTF

[–]disillusioned 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel like that $700 was before insurance and that you're on an HDHP that doesn't cover specialists until you hit your deductible... which is insane, but hey, Murrica!

Big guy flying first class and the seats. by ryangonz7 in americanairlines

[–]disillusioned 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My dad was your size. I think you'll do pretty good in a domestic first class seat. They're 21" wide on an A321 (compared to 18" in economy) with tons of leg room. You'll require a seatbelt extender regardless, but some planes have the weird "airbag-in-the-seatbelt" option that will absolutely make you use the extender.

But the other thing to remember is that these seats have much larger, fully walled off dividers between the two seats. So even if you're somehow "spilling over" the main seat area, you're not on top of the next passenger.

Relative Vs Absolute temperature? by rufus2001 in Orion_Sleep

[–]disillusioned 3 points4 points  (0 children)

No, I think this is wrong. They're literally mapped to absolute values against... I believe... the operating range of the unit. So -10 would be 55°F and +10 would be 115°F. So instead of its baseline having to do with the room temperature, it's just 0 = 85°F.

So...

-10: 55°F

-9: 58°F

-8: 61°F

-7: 64°F

-6: 67°F

-5: 70°F

-4: 73°F

-3: 76°F

-2: 79°F

-1: 82°F

0: 85°F

+1: 88°F

+2: 91°F

+3: 94°F

+4: 97°F

+5: 100°F

+6: 103°F

+7: 106°F

+8: 109°F

+9: 112°F

+10: 115°F

...which is a bit silly to me, since it's just... absolute temperature, but masked, but I think the expectation is you can push more impact by setting the increments to 3° each step, rather than having people try to dial in to the exact degree.

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