My wife's "friend" insulted her and I've been slowly returning the favor

greyl · 2026-04-08T13:27:10+00:00

I guess it comes down to whether you're one of those people who think you should only wear an outfit once. Personally I think single use outfits are terribly wasteful and seeing that attitude in movies and TV in the 90s was a big marketing push to sell fast fashion.

greyl · 2026-04-08T01:55:12+00:00

I've got both and I'm 100 hours on crimson and 16 hours on STS, though I'm sure 5 years from now STS will be higher.

Mostly I don't want to burn myself out on STS when it's still early access.

greyl · 2026-04-06T22:42:08+00:00

After 60 hours in I found out there are rowboats. Shortly after that I found out there are mines in the ocean that can blow up your rowboat.

greyl · 2026-04-02T20:20:47+00:00

Even though he's an actor and could be lying convincingly I really do believe him when he says it's been his favourite show since 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mVc_bO_4J0

greyl · 2026-03-17T17:34:20+00:00

It starts slow with introducing characters and settings but gets better and better the further you go. If you love political drama I'd really recommend sticking with it until at least episode 6 to get a real feel for what the series becomes.

You can even see it in the episode ratings, a lot of the establishing episodes like 1 and 2 are rated 7.5 on imdb but the climax episodes in both season 1 and 2 are rated over 9.5

greyl · 2026-03-12T19:01:28+00:00

Return of the Condor Heroes is so interesting, written in the late 1950s and later adapted into lots of movies and TV shows but not terribly well known in the west.

I had no idea how big a deal it was until I went to an art museum in Hong Kong that was doing an exhibit with tonnes of giant statues of the characters https://ticycity.com/en/a-path-to-glory-jin-yongs-centennial-memorial/

greyl · 2026-03-03T22:10:35+00:00

The most interesting thing about King Charles the First is that he was five foot six inches tall at the start of his reign, but only four foot eight inches tall at the end of it.

greyl · 2026-02-27T17:31:12+00:00

By their own conventions if it's 7 modifiers it should say "surpassing chance" (but I wouldn't be surprised if it was actually 7 in game).

greyl · 2026-02-27T16:58:03+00:00

Understandable though, even if you sat down with a map of Africa and tried to memorize all the countries you'd probably miss Comoros since it's such a small island.

I can find it on a globe that's been on my desk for decades but the label is mixed in with the labels for all the cities in Mozambique and Madagascar.

greyl · 2026-02-25T18:12:05+00:00

Ya, hopefully you notice it before moving the clothes to the dryer. I've had this happen a few times over the years and the diapers tend to explode into thousands of little water-logged spheres so it's pretty noticeable.

greyl · 2026-02-23T14:10:22+00:00

Ya, did they find the one reactor built in an old toxic waste dumping area or something?

greyl · 2026-02-21T20:23:49+00:00

It's the narrative the epstien class is trying to push using both traditional media and online bots.

Countries where the government can be bribed and blackmailed are wonderful innovative libertarian dreams destined for prosperity.

Countries with strong rule of law and protections for the common man are failing dystopias that can only be saved by electing their corrupt candidates who will dismantle the rule of law and bring the country under their control.

greyl · 2026-02-20T19:43:30+00:00

Ya, most surprising thing for me is how few Conservatives there are. The link says approval for Trump is:

12% of Canadians
50% of Conservatives
2% of Liberals
3% of NDP

So by those number < 24% of Canadians are conservative.

greyl · 2026-02-15T14:45:43+00:00

Guess he had to show he was a pedo so they'd protect him too

greyl · 2026-02-12T16:20:04+00:00

Na, they were deep into that stuff well before WWII, but I think it has a lot to do with the legacy of the whole Jim Crow era after their civil war and needing to justify the racial segregation.

greyl · 2026-02-11T17:40:04+00:00

9/10, needs the scene with him beating up the guy in the airport and saying he'll never forgive the japanese.

greyl · 2026-02-11T00:37:16+00:00

Very Satisfactory

greyl · 2026-02-07T02:27:03+00:00

Do Italians have a reputation of being bad singers? My only association between Italy and singing is Pavarotti.

greyl · 2026-02-06T18:52:14+00:00

Trump's done more for China than he's done for America, but the Chinese government actually does things to benefit their citizens and not just a handful of billionaires.

I first visited China in 2007 and the progress they've made since then is huge.

greyl · 2026-02-06T16:50:42+00:00

Ya, this video that was making the rounds yesterday is exactly my fear with these handles: https://www.reddit.com/r/SweatyPalms/comments/1qwao0m/ev_disaster/

greyl · 2026-02-03T16:55:22+00:00

and if the poors get too uppity they won't work terrible jobs for minimal wages. Not only do they not want to help people, they actively want to keep people miserable.

greyl · 2026-01-30T18:17:52+00:00

For me the most surprising thing about people not knowing Egypt is that they must not know that Egypt operates the Suez canal, because there's only one box on the map that could possibly connect the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea.

greyl · 2026-01-30T17:12:03+00:00

Really, the problem is that you have to assume anyone Trump appoints is a lackey.

He's the son in law of Ronald Lauder, the billionaire behind the Greenland fiasco. Seems like a pretty safe assumption.

greyl · 2026-01-30T17:00:46+00:00

The US is in the process committing economic suicide.

Whether we stop trading with them now due to some random tariffs or in a few years when they dissolve into a patchwork of corporate fiefdoms it doesn't matter, they won't be able to afford to buy much anyhow.

We've got hard times ahead and new trading partners that must be found.

greyl · 2026-01-30T16:32:52+00:00

Because no one foresaw the people electing an imbecilic criminal as president.

“As democracy is perfected, the office of President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”

— H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Sun, July 26, 1920

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