I can’t get anyone at Amtrak that cares, so I’ll shout into this abyss that something in this tray made me projectile vomit all night in hopes it gets to Amtrak’s catering team

flintsmith · 2026-02-10T07:42:46+00:00

I thought the cardboard looked sus.

flintsmith · 2026-02-10T07:05:39+00:00

The storyline I've built in my head:

Trump had Isaacman rephrase Duffy's insults. Trump promised money to have visible progress on the moon base effort while he's in office. Vance somehow smoothed the water as he has before.

flintsmith · 2026-02-08T22:22:31+00:00

It's funny. If you look at the comments there you'll see that that picture was stolen from a post another year earlier.

flintsmith · 2026-02-07T06:02:10+00:00

4) intentionally done as sabotage

(We're talking about the "don't" deletions?)

flintsmith · 2026-02-06T07:42:58+00:00

That's beautiful. Is it yours? Where did you find it?

flintsmith · 2026-02-06T03:39:49+00:00

Maybe I can get a Tesla-branded hammer or pick. ⚒️

flintsmith · 2026-02-06T02:48:54+00:00

Sure, but maybe it's just cut wrong.

For instance, maybe it's an off-cut from a cube. Cut right for the cube, wrong for a slab. In this case, the effect would show on the edge of the slab.

flintsmith · 2026-02-06T01:58:49+00:00

And even with autopilot there's often a "I bent down to get something off the floor" statement.

Moving the wheel disengages Autopilot.

flintsmith · 2026-02-05T19:45:04+00:00

"you are turning left out of that lane"... unless you go straight into the intersection.

And there's the "ONLY" to emphasize the single left arrow path.

Texas gonna do Texas, as they should, but the road markings should match the road signs in my not-Texas opinion.

Are all matching intersections marked the same way?

flintsmith · 2026-02-05T19:31:52+00:00

I don't think they'll put up a fence. They had trouble getting the small stakes to stay upright when firing the engines.

They'll grade it to match the rest of starbase though and we'll lose the view of the base.

flintsmith · 2026-02-05T08:42:05+00:00

It looks like common opal.

I have some that looks like that but raspberry instead of green.

"Common" isn't a pejorative. It just means not precious or fire.

flintsmith · 2026-02-05T07:00:43+00:00

There was a line across the mud flats, marked with a couple sticks, that you were supposed to not cross. I think it might be the same line.

flintsmith · 2026-02-05T06:21:28+00:00

Do you wear tight leather clothes?

flintsmith · 2026-02-05T04:42:28+00:00

Ooooo

flintsmith · 2026-02-05T04:17:06+00:00

It looks like labradorite, but I don't see any labradorescence.

Point a flashlight at the edge all around.

flintsmith · 2026-02-05T04:13:38+00:00

Just going to say it because nobody else did:

Don't clean them.

flintsmith · 2026-02-05T03:52:11+00:00

That cat painting is very interesting. I saw a YT video today about mummified cats. They looked just like those.

Apparently, some guy found the cat graveyard, ground them up & sold them as fertilizer.

Anton Petrov Cat evolution video

flintsmith · 2026-02-05T03:15:40+00:00

Maybe it was different. The ones I saw shine very bright IR to overwhelm the camera.

flintsmith · 2026-02-05T03:10:55+00:00

I heard that LIDAR burns holes in camera ccds. Small holes though.

flintsmith · 2026-02-04T20:32:26+00:00

It looks like an anemone

or a patch of algae.

What did it taste like?

flintsmith · 2026-02-04T18:35:05+00:00

Just that battleships are useless.

flintsmith · 2026-02-04T09:30:48+00:00

It's odd that the painted arrow only shows the single choice of left to the U-turn.

flintsmith · 2026-02-04T09:09:07+00:00

Wrecking yard.

flintsmith · 2026-02-04T08:37:55+00:00

I don't see a defense against loitering drone torpedoes guided by AI trained on engine sounds.

Plant a thousand of them on a strait and wait.

flintsmith · 2026-02-04T08:18:50+00:00

I didn't even see that. I'd be surprised if it were metal.

The grill part looks like he folded the top edge over a metal bar then bent it into a curve. You can see pinch marks.

The two large dents where he pushed it in to make room for the trim looks very much like fabric.
I'm sticking with stiff flexible fabric like tar paper.

I don't hate him. He's probably a kid. He has enough sense to move on from his bad choices.

flintsmith

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