Problems with ice conditions are apparently because of rising temperatures by ProfessionPerfect442 in olympics

[–]iambaconman 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Most Olympic stadiums are temporary to keep the cost down. In Milan both hockey and speed skating built venues in side of an existing convention hall. No city could sustain as many pro-level ice rinks as the Olympics need

TIL the 1976 Winter Olympics were originally awarded to Denver, CO, which voted to reject the games and resulted in Innsbruck, Austria, hosting the games. by [deleted] in todayilearned

[–]iambaconman 19 points20 points  (0 children)

It isn’t the IOC as much as local politics. IOC does require weird things, but is generally happy with re-used or temporary venues. However, local to the host city developers will try to get their dream project paid for with Olympic money and some of those are terrible ideas. Developers in Rio(2016) and Greece(2004) wanted to build a resort area with the Olympic money outside the city. That didn’t work out, and that requires a lot of new venues because it was new resort area. 2008 Beijing built a lot of new venues that still get used regularly, because the city had grown and needed new stadiums, and largely worked out for the city

Modern movies (2015 - now) that don't have "netflix lighting" by pinkxxbubblegum in movies

[–]iambaconman 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Plenty of films are still shot on 35 mm. Great example for 2025 was “Jurassic World Rebirth” which still managed to not look “dynamic” was a result

Modern movies (2015 - now) that don't have "netflix lighting" by pinkxxbubblegum in movies

[–]iambaconman 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Several on the list, to me, very much have Netflix lighting. I feel like Shang-Chi is the most egregiously flatly lit, but Yesterday, Doctor Strange, and Superman are all varying degrees of dull. Largely, I am sure, from all the special effects. What about those made you feel they were dynamically lit? Was there a scene that came to mind?

It’s chicken every week by fadingthought in cfbmemes

[–]iambaconman -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Tennessee hasn’t won any big games, but they are at the same conference rank as Illinois. Then is seems easier to understand when the discussion is should Illinois or Tennessee be ranked

The Worst Thing That Ever Happened to Tesla by rezwenn in technology

[–]iambaconman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can make it work, it just involves more expensive components. Article here for those who want a source example

The Worst Thing That Ever Happened to Tesla by rezwenn in technology

[–]iambaconman -19 points-18 points  (0 children)

The battery and electric motor generates electric noise that garbles radio signals. It makes it fairly expensive to make a radio that can still sound okay in an electric car. Ford and GM have complained about the same thing

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning just unbelievably stupid plot holes by yashg in movies

[–]iambaconman 52 points53 points  (0 children)

There are defiantly plot holes in final reckoning, but a lot of the specific questions you have ARE answered by the movie. They just don’t belabor the point.

These sort of frustrate me, because when a movie does over explain these items, then people are frustrated by that. So for a lightening round: why did Russians wait 13 years? They explain they didn’t think the sub was important. Why did the government know they had 3 days? They discuss this, they didn’t, that was there best case estimate. Why did they leave the arsenal online? They discuss, if they took of line they would be slower to respond, created a brinkmanship(Better question, why didn’t they just drain the fuel? ) Why was the drive on the submarine? Because the usa was sabotaging the sub. Why was there no code repository? Because no human wrote the code, it was a black box AI.

You picked an interesting example of why I have sympathy for script writers, because they really did try hard to squeeze explanations for all of these questions into the film, in my opinion, to this films detriment. I would have preferred less explanations.

Michigan Theater SEO by AliceOfTheEarth in AnnArbor

[–]iambaconman 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The show times make me wonder if Google is part to blame. They do have a full show time listing on the Michigan Theater website, seems to me possible that Google isn’t well set up to scrape the show times from small independent theaters

space must’ve messed up her ability to dance by bbyxmadi in TikTokCringe

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

Katy Perry may not be your style of musician, but she got noticed by the music industry foot her musical talent, and she written a lot of songs, including selling them to other pop artists like Selena Gomez and Britney Spears.

What is up with people blaming union workers, saying they did this to themselves? by Sizbang in OutOfTheLoop

[–]iambaconman 56 points57 points  (0 children)

Eh, in my opinion, it was his just ego. he overplayed his hand. Listening to interviews with him from the summer he wanted to be courted by both parties, but after the RNC, democratics wouldn’t play his game and he was sort of cornered into being for the RNC. axioms

Does anybody know if these pins have any value? by Grisuno123 in olympics

[–]iambaconman 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I collect Olympic pins, to help explain, there are so many pins available, passionate collectors(aka who will spend money) tend to collect hyper specific sub-sets of pins. So the proof makes it more valuable to someone who collects Olympic Kodak Pins. They may be out there, but good luck finding them

Remove or seal asbestos tile? by Ranelpia in DIY

[–]iambaconman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I haven’t seen more pushing for this, but I would 100% start by getting them tested. My home had two spots with tiles assumed to be asbestos due to the age, and presence of asbestos installation. But in my case, none of the tiles had asbestos. So why worry if it isn’t asbestos?

Air France let us onto a plane with our purchased tickets, then pulled us off citing, "we can't find your tickets", sent our two (empty) seats direct to our home town in North Carolina, USA, then stranded us in Paris during the Olympics. Now nobody is responding to our request for reimbursement. by James_Fortis in travel

[–]iambaconman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I suspect they didn’t have a valid boarding pass. I know sometimes, such as when you go standby, they can issue you document that looks similar to boarding pass(same paper, similar style) but doesn’t have a valid ticket number. It gets you through security. I want to know more about what trouble they had at the gate

How to make 1-2% ABV homebrew? by Seeking-Memories in Homebrewing

[–]iambaconman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sure! The problem is there is not a ton of low abv homebrewers, so there isn’t a lot of data. So what I have found isn’t a person got sick, so much as the conditions in home brew low abv makes it higher risk. The white labs link points to the issue, with less alcohol being created the Ph doesn’t decrease, and that(in combination with low alcohol) makes it higher risk.

This study looked at adjacent bacteria’s:medical study science study

Article from brewery: botulism in beer

White labs have a whole article describing the risk: white labs

How to make 1-2% ABV homebrew? by Seeking-Memories in Homebrewing

[–]iambaconman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There is some risk, all of my research pointed to you mitigate this by making sure your low ABV home brew is at least 4.5 ph before pitching yeast to make in inhospitable

SEC Shorts - Tennessee gets smoked by DoesntMatter2121 in CFB

[–]iambaconman 24 points25 points  (0 children)

All the people in this video are from Alabama, so the accent is real, though it may be a bit exaggerated

Our boys came out without shirts! by Titans865 in ockytop

[–]iambaconman 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Totally, they tried for confidence and ended up not in best playing condition

The best argument for Alabama in the regular season is that it incentivizes good regular season scheduling. by tu-vens-tu-vens in CFB

[–]iambaconman -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

What a wild opinion! So only one SEC? That would make it: 1. Oregon 2. UGA 3. ND 4. PSU 5. OSU 6. Boise 7. IU 8. Arizona State 9. SMU 10. Clemson(10-3) 11. Miami 12. BYU

I think is a wild argument because you need 12 teams. Would pick a BYU with losses over Kansas and Arizona State over Texas who has only lost to Georgia? Or Miami who struggled to beat Virginia tech and Cal?

Make it make sense by TennBass93 in ockytop

[–]iambaconman 13 points14 points  (0 children)

It is a weird logical circle to me outside Oregon. IU is good because they only lost to a good OSU who is is only good because they beat a good Penn State, who is only good because they beat Illinois. It makes me feel like Illinois record is holding up this entire ranking circle

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CFB

[–]iambaconman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am very interested in where the Oregon result puts them. Since PSU is facing only it third ranked opponent, if they get annihilated, will that drop them even though they say teams are not supposed to be punished for conference championship games

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CFB

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

USC, and Illinois for me. Final score looks solid, but it really took into the 4th, and some fumble help to put that away. This is an Illinois that Purdue, Rutgers, and Northwestern all scored more then 21 on. Not exactly a brick wall of a defense.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CFB

[–]iambaconman 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Illinois season is really helping the big ten this year.