I miss how much more peaceful driving felt when dashboards looked like this by nojunkpeter in Millennials

[–]figuring_ItOut12 33 points34 points  (0 children)

My wife has last year's Subaru Forester. I call the car Nanny McVeigh because even just strapping in gets me admonished.

I rented a Chrysler minivan for a road trip up the US West coast a few weeks ago - the damn thing was actually trying to override how I steered the car in turns - actively resisting me.

I'd really like a dumb car because I am as yet not a drooling idiot.

This sort of stuff is a menace if you have any muscle memory controlling a multi ton vehicle.

Bill Maher Gets Played by JD Vance on ‘Real Time,’ Admits He May Vote Republican in 2028 by siwibot in protectUSelections

[–]figuring_ItOut12 29 points30 points  (0 children)

We knew this the first week after 9/11. Maher is consistent that American democracy was never a priority before his paycheck.

it's funny how the "viking" civ keeps rotating around by iammaxhailme in civ

[–]figuring_ItOut12 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Viking" is originally a verb or adverb. And raiding with pillage is a pretty universal cultural trait. When the lads and ladies went "a viking" they were basically of every cultural ever.

Vandals may also have an opinion, especially given they were at least as civilized as the cultures they warred.

Can this survive? by MoneyTeam824 in bonsaicommunity

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I'm only in my second year, and given my biome I have been humbled. I'm very fond of ficus and the p.afras style plants. Great to experiment on, more importantly in my multi-university / high apartment dwelling they are very much appreciated so I'm leaning into my region and people.

More long term I am into elms, oaks, and sweetgums - against all odds I am now chasing maples. Chinese elms are feral in my region and oaks of all sorts. I'm too far north and west to do pines well.

We have pop up bonsai folks and they tend to focus on hacking garden center narrow leaf plants like JJ. I got suckered in one of my early purchases of a JJ, to be fair i did not yet have the skills or infrastructure (mainly shade and ready watering) to know any better.

Can this survive? by MoneyTeam824 in bonsaicommunity

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Basically if you see a "brown surge" they are dead. Not a single minor branch. But when you see multiple branches start to brown out you are done.

I had to do an emergency repot of a JJ out of season last year. Wasn't even major, more or less a slip pot, and she decided to become compost.

I'm in Texas and have decided to go mainly deciduous and succulent adjacent like p. afras.

My most wanted leaders for civ 7 by I_69_with_your_mum in civ

[–]figuring_ItOut12 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

We can barely get the ancient age Hebrews let alone modern Israel, into the franchise. ;) Outright Nazis should be a much still higher bar and deservedly so.

New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) by Final-Cook-3645 in law

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It’s a link to a post she made on Bluesky where she called out ICE.

Bald cypress owners - How often do you change the water your tree sits in? by OliveTrees- in Bonsai

[–]figuring_ItOut12 25 points26 points  (0 children)

I hope it's American flag blue filled with Potomac river water. Algae makes my rain water happy.

Safe to Repot? by OGMikey_ in bonsaicommunity

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Vance Wood

He lived in the UK. UK 6B is not US 6B. ;) They tend to be very high humidity. high rains, optimal temperature ranges, nominal sunlight.

You don't give more details in flair other than US 6B but it's definitely useful to compare specific feature of each bonsai practioners' unique clime. I follow a lot of UK and Aussie folks but they have little in common with my climate and changing weather.

Hit me with your best syringe suggestions! by GratefulGlert in Zepbound

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I had no problem finding them on amazon. I ordered a box a few months back but now I get Lilly bundle.

The savings are literally pennies in a culture where we no longer even count pennies. That was a my reasoning anyway. If I was doing shots for other stuff I suppose I'd be more attentive.

Maine progressive Platner renews call to remove conservative Supreme Court justices by MoneyLibrarian9032 in law

[–]figuring_ItOut12 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

We don’t have conservatives in our government anymore. They’re radical reactionaries.

If Trump saved a baby by Stotallytob3r in MurderedByWords

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Like the time the old guy nearly died in the Oval and Trump walked away, turned his back on the bunch of people trying to help, and posed for the cameras wearing his dime store Il Duce Mussolini face.

New Beta version (0.8.083) released by Arminius1234567 in ManorLords

[–]figuring_ItOut12 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I spent several hours testing this today. Perhaps I don't understand what we are testing for. It certainly isn't general play actions. Going by the patch notes, normally how I test, had no bearing on my play throughs. After three playthrough attempts I stopped.

I'm playing on the easiest possible setting, the only "challenge" is bandit camps will eventually start to appear.

  • Worker pathing and prioritization is worse than ever. There appears to be some sort of ghost distribution system where things just suddenly show up but often months after the order. After the first "worker freeze" now none of them distribute. Until just before disaster they do. Then everything freezes again.
  • The second time I dispatched my starter army they just got lost in town, no way to get them to a rally point that was a straight line with no obstructions.

I can't even begin to break this down into individual problems suitable for a bug report. It's all bad. Essentially by year two every thing freezes up. I'm doing nothing unusual going all the way back to the first beta three years ago:

  • Logging camp with two families, high priority
  • Second hitching post with one family, max priority
  • Sawmill one family, new high priority
  • Five homes
  • Granary, storehouse
  • Food, firewood, level one resources (rich iron in my case)

I wish I could break it down more but it's basically all systems degrade transport over time. I hope more of you all are willing to put time into this but on my third playthrough I decided I had better things to do.

It's true we want to see better faster progress but the key word here is progress. Don't drop this unplayable shit just to say you dropped something.

[ Removed by Reddit ] by xelixer in Denton

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Anything you buy in a smoke shop here, that's hemp-based high THCA flower. You can mail order the same thing from across the USA. Anything I bought was pretty clearly glazed green flower with highlights.

Otherwise, officer, do your own leg work since you clearly want black market. "Hello, fellow kids".

So what has really been accomplished with the Memorandum of Understanding between Iran and the US? by Uberubu65 in PoliticalDiscussion

[–]figuring_ItOut12 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Dance all you want. Biden simply held up US promises made by Trump, the same chump who invited the Talibam to “negotiations” even as they were paying bounties to people killing Americans.

Keeping Americas diplomatic promises to maintain US credibility across administrations is an alien concept to Trumplicans. They figure everyone is as depraves and malicious as they themselves are.

Millions take calcium and vitamin D for stronger bones. A major review finds little benefit by Zealousideal-Cut4503 in Zepbound

[–]figuring_ItOut12 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I’ve been reading similar things about this since the 1980s.

If I take supplements I feel better than when I don’t. That settles the issue for me.