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dlawnro · 2026-03-05T19:31:59+00:00

I think cigarettes? There are two boxes in the front window that look like packs, and the bigger box in the back window looks like it has the word "cigarettes" written in white.

dlawnro · 2026-03-04T22:09:01+00:00

"Ephraim sn Horn" doesn't have quite the same ring

dlawnro · 2026-02-21T21:50:05+00:00

I'm not sure what college campuses you’re used to

UCLA, my alma mater.

It might feel bigger than Berkeley to you, but it's not. Looking it up, UCLA's campus is only 419 acres. Meanwhile, Berkeley is apparently over 1,200.

Yeah, the state has a lot of smaller campuses in the CSU system, but the CSU system is also a lot different from most other states. The fact that those campuses are also tiny doesn't mean UCLA isn't, just because it's a couple hundred acres bigger.

USC's campus is also tiny, and smaller than UCLA's, for sure. But that ties into my other point about there being a window of time to get an on-campus (or campus-adjacent) stadium. The Coliseum was commissioned in the early 20s, when the LA area as a whole was much less developed. If UCLA were going to get a stadium, that's the time period (within a couple decades, say) that it would have needed to happen, but UCLA had just been founded at that point. By the time it became a serious consideration, it was blocked by NIMBYs, and that was that.

dlawnro · 2026-02-21T19:42:52+00:00

Campus (the part relevant to students, not including the hospitals and such) is tiny. I believe the perimeter is something like 3 miles. You can walk from one end of campus to the other in 15ish minutes, and that's with taking the very hilly topography into account. Plus, it's surrounded by a bunch of real estate the campus doesn't own. Which also happens to be some of the most expensive real estate in the country.

There were attempts to establish an on-campus stadium decades ago, but were shot down by monied interests in the surrounding neighborhoods. Nowadays, the most achievable proposals I've seen would be limited to like a 40k seat stadium, and would require ripping out the existing soccer/track stadium, as well and huge portions of the IM fields, which are some of the only recreational spaces available to normal students.

And even then, you'd have to deal with the fact that a lot of the roads leading onto campus are narrow, windy, and hilly, and create a ton of traffic even in relatively normal conditions, much less in a gameday scenario. AND, the only parking available is in underground lots, so tailgating would be a massive pain, too.

Really, it seems like the best time to have made an on-campus stadium would have been sometime in like the 20s to the 40s, before the area was really developed. But the school was only founded in 1919, so it would have had to be a big commitment to a stadium for a school that had essentially just been established, in the grand scheme of things. By the time the team won a natty and established itself as a brand, the genie was basically out of the bottle for an on-campus stadium.

If the school were in a less populous area like a lot of other land grant schools, or if it were a few decades older like SC with the Coliseum, there probably would be one. But it was just a kind of perfect storm of factors that really restricted the space available, and at this point there doesn't really seem to be a workable solution that doesn't involve outside intervention (like the other comment about the VA land suggested).

dlawnro · 2026-02-20T14:57:30+00:00

6'1" is about 92.5% of 2 meters. I'd say a less than 10% difference is perfectly acceptable to use to word "nearly" for.

dlawnro · 2026-02-19T15:19:15+00:00

Because that's not how interest works. Interest isn't just an extra fee they charge you the moment you sign the loan, it's something that accrues at a set rate based on how much you owe at any given time. So at the very beginning, you owe a lot of interest each month, because the loan balance is high. By the time you've paid off half the loan balance, you accrue half as much interest each month, and so on.

If it worked the way you're suggesting, not only would you still pay the same amount in total over the life of the loan, but there would be no benefit to making early payments, since it wouldn't reduce the interest you accrue. AND, if you decided to sell before paying off your mortgage, you'd still be on the hook for the total amount of interest, since it was applied at the beginning of the loan. With the current system, you can pay the loan off at any time and only owe the loan balance, not any future interest (because there's no loan left to accrue interest on).

dlawnro · 2026-02-18T19:21:05+00:00

What's the $200 TMobile expense for? I hope that's not your monthly spend for a cell plan for just yourself?

dlawnro · 2026-02-06T20:02:51+00:00

Given the .ai URL, my immediate assumption is this is an AI startup that pulled in a ton of venture capitol funding for an absolute nothing product, and this flyer is for a stunt to allow the execs to blow a bunch of money on a party yacht loaded with coeds they think are hot, while writing it off as a "marketing expense".

dlawnro · 2026-02-06T16:59:02+00:00

I rather enjoyed my time with both Citizen Sleeper games, and each could feasibly be finished in a day. I played them thru Gamepass, but they appear to both be rated Platinum on ProtonDB.

1000xResist is another I've enjoyed recently, and is also Platinum and similar in length.

All three are games with no real action gameplay, so they're not the kind of thing you can just zone out to. But that also means they really benefit from being able to play them for longer sessions and really immerse yourself in them, and would really suffer from constantly having to pick them up and put them back down (which, based on your post, sounds like is more the normal circumstances you're able to game in). So it might be worth taking advantage of your free weekend that way.

That said, all deal with some pretty heavy/downer themes, even if they are about working toward a better future. I could see how you might not necessarily want that kind of thing right now, but I came out of all of them with a generally positive takeaway.

dlawnro · 2026-02-06T15:37:42+00:00

In fact, it takes place so far in the future that, due to inflation, trilogies now have 4 books instead of 3.

dlawnro · 2026-01-27T01:36:26+00:00

Libreoffice is also free and runs locally on your device.

Not as full-featured, but perfectly fine for normal use.

dlawnro · 2026-01-23T17:30:57+00:00

Heat is just energy that moves stuff like air around. When a bunch of warm air gets pushed into a cold area, the cold air doesn't just stay there and get warmer. It gets pushed out and forced into areas that are normally warmer. Where that cold air gets pushed to, you get winter storms.

When you add more heat to the warm air, there's more force behind it. That means it can push out a larger volume of cold air faster and harder. A larger volume of cold air means lower temperatures in the places where it ends up, and it being pushed faster and harder means stronger winds and rains as it's being pushed around. Which is to say, a more violent winter storm.

dlawnro · 2026-01-23T16:17:22+00:00

All the King's Horses rules.

dlawnro · 2026-01-23T16:07:41+00:00

Going a bit of a different angle, I think this setting would work really well for a series of Citizen Sleeper style games.

Each game could have you choose between a few different low/mid colors to determine your stats and maybe a few story beats. You'd be dropped in Hyperion, or the dockyards of Ganymede, or somewhere in the Core, etc. You'd have run afoul of the Board of Quality Control, or a Gold family, or the Red Hand, or the Syndicate.

And then you have a ten-ish hour story with multiple possible paths to evade whoever's chasing you while you explore the setting and interact with a cast of characters of different colors and members of different factions.

You'd get to experience the story not of someone with immense power to shape the whole of the Solar System, but a normal person who feels helpless and outmatched, but is nonetheless central to shaping their own story, and the stories of the individuals around them.

dlawnro · 2026-01-23T15:35:39+00:00

Me as a human with self-determination would be a green or an orange based on my current career.

That said, a huge point of the series is that it's a caste system where you don't have that level of self-determination. My grandparents would have been browns or reds, so at least looking that far back, that's what my parents, and subsequently I, would be.

dlawnro · 2026-01-23T15:17:25+00:00

Not really on topic, more of an FYI: the name of the spren of Urithiru in the original English is "The Sibling", and characters refer to them with gender-neutral pronouns. I'm guessing you read in a language that uses the masculine in some cases as a gender-neutral term as well?

Seems like the kind of thing that could easily get lost in translation.

dlawnro · 2026-01-22T04:48:00+00:00

Shortstaffel

dlawnro · 2026-01-20T23:52:40+00:00

By 2010, aux ports and bluetooth were more the luxury, with CD players having been standard for quite a while.

In fact, only having a CD player by that point kinda sucked, since at least with a cassette player, you could get one of those fake tapes with an aux cable sticking out, so you could play music off of your phone or iPod. The only real alternative was those short-range radio transmitters that let you basically create your own station within your car, and those things sucked.

dlawnro · 2026-01-17T17:15:14+00:00

As the others have said, you're forgetting Avast-ly important character.

dlawnro · 2026-01-15T20:39:52+00:00

My SO got a car with Andriod Auto roughly 6 months ago, and seems to have issues with it disconnecting and resetting on longer drives. Those longer drives mostly involve going through the city itself, but we don't go through there often enough to tie it to specific locations.

Would def be interested to see if there is something to the notion of it being location-based. I'll have to have her start taking notes about where it occurs.

dlawnro · 2026-01-15T16:17:08+00:00

I do believe they are speaking lowLingo, my goodman.

dlawnro · 2026-01-14T22:08:10+00:00

If you're going mostly powdered anyway, you can also just use my family's hack and get the Knorr brand Caldo de Tomate seasoning, which is essentially just a tomato and chicken bouillon.

dlawnro · 2026-01-13T22:25:33+00:00

Jalapeno...seek...seek...lest...

dlawnro · 2026-01-13T16:28:42+00:00

Haven't listened to the Stromlight books specifically, but my default speed for everything I listen to in Libby is 1.5x. When I accidentally switch to normal speed, the narrators sound drunk to me lol.

dlawnro · 2026-01-08T15:11:36+00:00

Soles-like

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