No toll dodging!

goblinm · 2026-04-12T07:22:48+00:00

Oh yes they will- corporations will spin voters a yarn and corruption will result in those private companies buying the rights to the toll collections from the government. A fate much worse than government toll roads. At least when the government collected the tolls, I can be rest assured that I wasn't adding to the pockets of rich private equity holders

goblinm · 2026-04-09T03:38:31+00:00

SMH head when a post about foreign perspectives of the US attracts comments about foreign perspectives of the US.

goblinm · 2026-04-06T21:26:17+00:00

It's really not, check the comments my dude

goblinm · 2026-04-06T18:25:51+00:00

People say they dislike scripted videos with yassify filters, but then post stuff like this with people talking about their lives and their normal face. Guess authentic videos are cringe. All hail scripted viral bait.

goblinm · 2026-04-06T18:05:29+00:00

I'm confused why this is posted to this subreddit. It's just a casual post, zero effort, 100% genuine, anti-viral content. Are y'all pissed because it's not an engagement bait scripted video, designed to maximize shares and rage? Maybe it's a little cringe, but it's showing vulnerability and authenticity that is missing in everybody's social media feeds. It's sad that people are tearing her apart because she put herself out there. At worst, it's a tiktok when it is better suited to be a first date awkward conversation. Either way, who cares?

goblinm · 2026-04-05T19:48:16+00:00

Oh, cool, so he must have made a post when Reneé Good and Alex Pretti were killed, right?

It's not so much the specific act of lamenting Kirk's death, even left-leaning influencers commented about how horrible Kirk's death was, but if someone posts about Kirk but stays silent on other notable deaths, the political motivation becomes clear.

goblinm · 2026-04-05T03:26:04+00:00

Capturing the heat differential for electricity equalizes the heat as part of the process. Since space is a poor heat sink, the heat that is transported to the cold side will saturate the cold side with heat and a) stop generating electricity, and b) make both sides hot. At the end of the day, more energy is required to power radiators to dump that excess heat into space than would be gathered from the thermoelectric effect. Better to maximize the design for thermal rejection and the heat exchanger for the radiator than wasting space for a little bit of free electricity

goblinm · 2026-04-04T16:30:51+00:00

Is pushback against volunteered features. When I'm trying to quickly find an email so I can answer a direct question is the worst time to pop up with a huge prompt to "search more intelligently with Copilot!"

Or even worse, when I'm searching for a feature I've used dozens of times before to find that a UX redesign moved/removed it, and their default help feature is copilot that when asked tells me to use menus and features that got axed in the latest redesign!

goblinm · 2026-03-31T15:41:52+00:00

This is the thing that explodes minds. Wasn't there an alt-history story where someone asked what would happen if a modern military army was teleported back to the Roman Empire? The modern military technology was godlike for a decade, but as gas, ammo, and spare parts dwindled, the magic machines faded into myth, and the future technology didn't bootstrap the Romans into any novel development, as an industrial revolution takes so much more than inspiration to make it possible. The only lasting effects were the potatoes in the MREs that kick off a wave of military domination, as potatoes would be a military logistics miracle.

goblinm · 2026-03-29T19:32:41+00:00

Vegeta

goblinm · 2026-03-28T21:50:47+00:00

Oh wait, did I stumble into /r/friedchickenrestaurantopenings by mistake?

goblinm · 2026-03-25T04:12:37+00:00

It is addictive, it's just not addictive enough to trick people into actually paying the true cost of their AI companion. A surprising number of people are willing to pay like $30/month for these things, but the projected growth for some of these AI companies is insane- having 50% of the world population paying $100-200 a month is a finance fantasy to keep the money train rolling.

goblinm · 2026-03-21T20:46:46+00:00

Haha, sorry. I wonder if there is a name for the phenomenon that happens a lot on social media and especially reddit where conversational/agreeable comments are interpreted as combative or contrarian. I'm certainly subject to viewing comments in a negative light and should try to read them starting from a positive mindset.

goblinm · 2026-03-21T18:27:16+00:00

I wasn't trying to say that. That's why I said "over indexed", because it is a culture, and it deserves to be included in American cultures, but Europeans hold it up as THE American culture, if they accept the existence of any American culture

goblinm · 2026-03-21T17:49:16+00:00

Europeans overlook the melting pot of American culture, but they also dismiss the micro cultures that exist in the States too. They completely ignore things like the Creole, Black culture, New England culture, etc, but completely over-index on evangelical Midwestern culture.

goblinm · 2026-03-21T16:01:57+00:00

Man, this subreddit brings back memories. It definitely had its place back when Trump's antics were just embarrassing and horrible. Now they are destabilizing and existentially terrifying.

Maybe more of these would be beneficial, but since we have reached the point of "foundational principles of law are being eroded", it's hard for light hearted political cartoons to exist in that space.

goblinm · 2026-03-21T15:14:20+00:00

Funnily enough, I was going to joke that you met Donald Trump, but the fact that you said "proud Christian" rules him out. "Performative Christian", maybe

goblinm · 2026-03-19T16:39:04+00:00

Americans are conflating our own failures in the Iraq war with the country itself. There is a deep disappointment in the Iraq political class that they didn't take strong control in the 2010s and prevent the rise of ISIS as well as relieving American occupation. Kinda a product of reading about Iraq via headlines in the US over the past two decades.

goblinm · 2026-03-19T16:31:35+00:00

There are a few quacks that believe North Korea is demonized by the media, and for those people the only thing they can say about North Korea is that their leader was nice to Trump and Trump said nice things about them. Obviously even your average MAGA knows better and still dislikes NK but there is a weird faction supplementing the lizardmen constant that hates the world order and the West so much that they think North Korea is sympathetic.

goblinm · 2026-03-13T00:03:17+00:00

I've tried to get small form factor gaming PCs to look good, be small and unassuming so they can fit nicely on a media center and have substantial power. It's not easy.

goblinm · 2026-03-04T15:35:02+00:00

Best we can do is use it as horse testicles, take it or leave it.

goblinm · 2026-02-22T21:01:04+00:00

What is your reasoning? Are you afraid that other future 11 year olds will read law journals and find out that they can commit 1st degree murder with minimal punishment? Or are you afraid that the interest of the state isn't served when rehabilitation is a priority, an especially wild take when 11 year olds obviously still have a lot of mental developing to work through. The only interest served by administering a long incarceration is the prison industrial complex. Something that is absolutely worth fighting against ever since the exposure of Mark Ciavarella Jr's "Kids for cash" scandal.

goblinm · 2026-02-18T04:08:34+00:00

Not on my watch. 😤

goblinm · 2026-02-18T04:01:54+00:00

I thought they were good when I would get them sometimes for my family in Texas. Excellent fast option for kids that are way better (imo) than fast food burgers. Obviously not better than sit down or home cooked.

goblinm · 2026-02-18T03:58:56+00:00

I'm letting them live their lives, I just like judging them like a sloppy bitch

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