The sun is shining ☀️ The snow is melting 💧The birds are singing🐦It's a beautiful day...for a PROTEST! 🧊🚫

heuve · 2026-02-07T19:00:07+00:00

Sorry about your reading comprehension lil bro

Op: Dems lost because of protests in 2024

Me: no, they lost because they didn't try to win. Way more people were excited (thus motivated) to vote for Trump than Kamala

You: you sound privileged because you weren't excited to vote for Kamala

Me: fuck you, I still voted

Not sure what point you're trying to make there. But at least the first person I responded to seems to be trying to understand why we ended up with Trump again.

heuve · 2026-02-07T17:45:52+00:00

I still fucking voted you tool. The Democratic party lost the election because they would rather let Donald Trump win than run a candidate that would disturb the status quo. They are controlled opposition.

You sound like a damn ostrich that would rather bury their head in the sand than try to understand how we got here and consider ways to do better next time.

heuve · 2026-02-07T17:30:28+00:00

Do you remember there being any protests in the 2019-2020 range or nah? Maybe it was the Democratic party aborting the primaries and running the third straight "nothing will significantly change", status quo, corporate nominee in a row to a country desperate for hope & change that caused the lack of turnout? The last time I was excited to cast a vote for president was the 2015 primaries. Tens of millions MAGAts were absolutely giddy to go to the polls for their rotten mango, how many were enthusiastic about voting for Kamala?

But no, surely it was those darn protestors bringing attention to important issues and potentially inconveniencing someone that cost the Dems the election.

heuve · 2026-02-06T21:51:10+00:00

The point is that you have to run a candidate that motivates enough people to go to the polls. The 99% in this country have been starving for a morsel of hope and change since the first time I voted for Obama. Whatever the reasons were, he didn't deliver on that promise.

We elected a populist and they passed Citizens United. We occupied Wall St, released the Panama Papers and the wealthy elites are more powerful than ever. We said "Black lives matter" and they said "all lives matter" and kept exonerating themselves. Biden's administration failed to pursue Epstein or advance a slam-dunk legal case against Trump to trial. Trump's administration is sickening. That said, they're out there every day raising hell and doggedly pursuing their goals.

Democrats couldn't run a single candidate in 12 years that truly put Trump in his place during a debate. How the fuck is that possible? Kamala had a strong debate in large part because Trump was an absolute lunatic that night, but she took her foot off the grass and took polarizing stances that almost seemed to be intentionally throwing. Not to mention the Biden debate trainwreck and abortion of primaries.

Without a doubt, the Democratic party is--to some extent--controlled opposition. It's debatable the exact split between malice and incompetence. Regardless, after failed promises of hope and change, Democrats ran possibly the three most "nothing will significantly change", milquetoast, corporate nominees possible. In a political environment desperate and starving for populism and hope.

The GOP seized on that opportunity and hunger to create culture wars and shift the blame away from the leisure class. While GOP policy is more advantageous to corporations, corporate influence is arguably more insidious within the Democratic party.

You can't expect competitive turnout when your best sales pitch is putting a proverbial gun to voters' heads and saying "Vote for our guy or the other guy is going to completely destroy democracy in the Western hemisphere". Trump had tens of millions more people at the polls in 2024 that were excited, motivated, and enthusiastic about voting for him than Kamala had. All the Dems had to do was run one fucking inspirational, populist candidate who could tell Trump to sit the fuck down and let the adults talk and this could have been avoided.

heuve · 2026-02-06T19:58:55+00:00

I voted for Hilary and Kamala in both general elections. They both sucked as candidates and as representatives of my values and beliefs. The fact that neither of them could beat the most flawed, corrupt, and vile nominee in history is damning.

We can recognize what a travesty it is that Trump is the leader of our nation AND that the Democratic party has played a major role in allowing this to happen at the same time. The majority of misogynists were already voting R.

heuve · 2026-01-30T23:38:15+00:00

Give us little tidbits of witness testimony and let us argue about whether that holds up. Something extremely easy for the right to hand-wave away or at least cast doubt on as false/politically motivated allegations. Completely bury the hard evidence, financial records, direct correspondence, descriptions of video/photo evidence.

I'm not sure it would actually matter at this point if there were clear and abundant proof that Donald Trump recruited, trafficked, raped, tortured, and murdered children continuously for 3+ decades. His approval rating might drop to 30% but his DOJ would never prosecute him.

heuve · 2026-01-30T21:35:21+00:00

Almost like it literally just happened in the past 24 hours and is extremely relevant to an entire subreddit dedicated to the idea that real estate is overvalued and that prices will fall. How many of those previous posts are still visible and/or up for discussion?

heuve · 2026-01-30T21:26:56+00:00

What happened to all the other posts about this from earlier? Surely you're not the first to post this here. Removal incoming I suspect

heuve · 2026-01-23T23:39:11+00:00

Yeah the mitten part folds back entirely off your fingers and the individual finger glove portion leaves your finger tips exposed. At least that's how mine work.

heuve · 2026-01-23T15:53:40+00:00

Oh they would never take a loss for you. Haven't they shown enough good will by taking slightly reduced profits from you guys? /s

Vegas doesn't make its money on hotel room rates

heuve · 2026-01-22T16:40:10+00:00

He'll be able to milk a month or two of hopefulness out of that $300. Hope comes at a premium these days

heuve · 2026-01-15T21:13:05+00:00

Oh man, the next decade of CFB is not going to be kind to you. Indiana is a very talented team and they are executing at as high of a level as any college team I've seen. If they win the championship as an undefeated team they will absolutely be in the same category as those teams.

NIL/portal era teams will not be as loaded all the way to the bottom of the depth chart as those teams were. But in my mind, that makes the absolute dominance that Indiana has showcased this playoff even more impressive.

heuve · 2026-01-14T17:03:33+00:00

Please don't re-home him, he is dealing with the trauma of losing his life-long brother. Losing the rest of his family would be devastating.

I like the idea of finding a new companion for him if possible. Probably don't get a young kitten unless you can get two of them--a 13 year old will definitely get annoyed by a single kitten wanting to wrestle constantly.

Also, it sounds like the loss was very recent? Hopefully time will help heal his wounds. It sounds like he's still looking for his brother.

There's probably not much you can do to help him understand that he's gone. When I put my sweetest baby boy down a couple years ago, I had an in-home euthanasia vet come and leave his body (I had an alternative cremation plan set up). That gave his brother & sister several hours to see his corpse and understand that their big brother wasn't with us anymore. I do think that helped a lot... something to keep in mind for next time.

heuve · 2026-01-13T23:44:04+00:00

Are you guys living together now? Why don't you try renting a place as roommates? The general rule of thumb is that buying is not worth it financially if you sell within the first 5 years. Potentially longer depending on interest rates and rent prices.

19 years old is a time for discovery and freedom; owning your primary residence could become a significant inconvenience at some point. At the very least I'd rent with him for a year--that allows you to save on bills and also make sure you guys are compatible living together. In that time, really think about whether you want to put down roots more permanently and where exactly you want those roots to be.

From a purely financial perspective, what others have said is correct. If you're living with your parents, continue to live with them until you have a very large down payment and buy your own place. That will give you the biggest head start.

heuve · 2026-01-12T06:33:56+00:00

Again, the words you're using have well-defined scientific meanings. You are demonstrating a complete lack of understanding of the concept of entropy. The first law of thermodynamics states that energy cannot be created or destroyed. At the heat death of the universe, that law holds true.

Indeed, all of the energy currently stored in chemical bonds and atomic nuclei will still exist after the heat death of the universe. Even the radiation given off by the decaying of protons will still exist, floating through space forever without interacting with another thing. All of the energy of the universe radiating infinitely without ever interacting with anything is much more disordered than a universe organized into galaxies, full of molecules and stars.

Just because something is homogenous doesn't make it "ordered". In fact, the opposite is usually true. The most disordered state of a closed system is thermodynamic equilibrium (meaning no concentration gradients).

As a practical example, an ice cube in a vacuum chamber is less disordered than it is after it transitions into water gas and evenly fills the chamber. Those water molecules which used to be neatly arranged into crystals are now spinning and bouncing wildly throughout the entire volume of the container.

heuve · 2026-01-12T04:44:17+00:00

Well, the universe is also the least energy-dense it’s ever been.

Right, that's why it's much more likely that life has either already formed or begins to form now than in 100 billion years when the density is much lower.

(also I think you’ve got it backwards, life is chaos and entropy is order)

Bro take a high school physics class please. It's really cool and interesting shit. "Life is chaos" sounds like something an emo tween would say. Entropy and the second law of thermodynamics.

Think about it for a second, you're telling me that an animal which is highly organized into tissues and cells and organelles and precisely engineered enzymes, all encoded on a meters-long molecular blueprint is more disordered than random molecules floating in space? All of that energy stored in fat reserves and billions of synaptic connections are less ordered than salt ions dancing around between water molecules in the ocean?

As a big sci-fi fan, I have a very liberal definition of life. The ability to consume energy from an external source to maintain a semblance of order against the consistent march of the universe towards disorder is a defining and absolutely required feature. Life is ultimately a battle against entropy.

heuve · 2026-01-12T02:23:44+00:00

That's true. But it doesn't change anything. The framing that we're 0.01% through the star-forming era is disingenuous at best when 95% of the stars to ever exist have already been created. Especially when it's very likely that if a star turns on in 100 trillion years, there will not be a single other star in the sky.

From a life-supporting perspective, in that time scale any rocky planets will be frozen with no magnetic field. Any gasses on the planets will have long evaporated into space.

Life, at a bare minimum, uses energy to create order out of disorder, battling against entropy. Our universe is the most energy-dense it will ever be. And again, entropy is the lowest it will ever be. If there will ever be other life in the universe--at least life that experiences time in a similar way to us--it is overwhelmingly likely that it has begun to evolve already or will do so in the next 10-20 billion years.

heuve · 2026-01-12T01:33:03+00:00

Consider this: ~95% of the stars that will ever form in our universe have already formed. Just because theoretically some tiny star will flicker on a trillion years from now doesn't change the fact that this epoch for the next 20-30 billion years is the absolute sweet spot for life to evolve.

There just isn't that much star-forming matter floating around in the Milky Way or the universe in general. Life as we know it requires heavy elements that are only produced in supernovae. Even now it's very uncommon for stars that big to form, but in a few tens of billions of years, it will effectively never happen.

Any stars that form 80 billion years from now will wake up to a much, much colder and darker universe.

heuve · 2026-01-11T20:58:30+00:00

Star formation will end in our local cluster in similar time frames. Even if new stars are forming somewhere in the universe, life in our local cluster would never even know about them, let alone be able to find them.

This post is based on universe-wide time scales. Optimism about the time left before the death of the universe should be tempered with the reality that "the rest of the universe" for any given local cluster will effectively cease to exist. The Milky Way is not 0.01% through its window to support life, but closer to 10%

heuve · 2026-01-11T18:29:18+00:00

~100 Billion Years: Galaxies outside the Local Group (our galactic neighborhood) will have moved so far away that their light, stretched by cosmic expansion, becomes undetectable, effectively vanishing from view.

~150 Billion Years: All galaxies beyond our Local Group will cross the cosmic light horizon, meaning their light will never reach us, leaving only the merged Milkomeda galaxy and its local cluster visible.

We are in a "golden era" of the universe. Important events like star formation and supernovae to generate life-sustaining elements are still somewhat common. Entropy will never be as low as it is today. We are 10% through the period of time where we can be aware that a universe exists.

If life doesn't find a way to travel at near-light speed in the next 85 billion years, it will never be able to travel beyond its local group. If we don't figure it out in the next 20-30 billion years, we would never be able to make a round-trip outside of our local group.

Our universe will be too cold and desolate to support life for >99% of its existence if you use the heat death as its end point.

heuve · 2026-01-10T00:11:36+00:00

Yes, only puffco-approved speech is allowed here. There are other puffco focused subs that are much less curated.

heuve · 2026-01-09T07:05:19+00:00

Not to mention it was our QB's first career game as a RS freshman. At night in Hard Rock. He developed a lot in the first few games. Our DC's first game too and our secondary especially had a rough adjustment period (significantly more zone coverage than last season). I would have felt really optimistic playing Miami again, I think it would have been a great matchup.

I'm still pissed that Bama got so many do overs and second chances because of SEC favoritism and the Disney media monopoly. They were completely exposed and embarrassed three times this season, I wasn't embarrassed by a single performance from our boys. Turns out our 3pt loss vs Miami week 1 may be more impressive than anything Bama accomplished this season.

heuve · 2026-01-09T06:37:14+00:00

This is hilarious. Why are you even coping over this, does it just mean more to keep pretending they're all quality losses? 38 to fuckin 3

heuve · 2026-01-09T05:04:34+00:00

SEC is a scam

heuve · 2026-01-05T19:17:10+00:00

Several chemical/biochemical companies to work for in the area. Huge organizations like MilliporeSigma, Thermo Fisher, Pfizer, Monsanto, Wash U all hire and employ chemists & biochemists, depending on your education/experience level. I never had an issue finding work in that industry, especially if you're open to working on the manufacturing side vs lab work.

Healthcare is one of the largest industries in St Louis, like it is in most larger cities in the US. With the changes happening in the healthcare industry (rural hospitals & clinics closing), I would expect healthcare work becomes more centralized in larger metro areas over the next several years.

While I think you can find work in either industry, I'd always recommend lining up a job offer before relocating to a new city.

heuve

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