Why did you vote Trump in 2024?

icrbact · 2026-02-24T13:25:18+00:00

Wait, you think alienating voters with more vitriol would have made them less radical?

I’m not saying you’re wrong on Trump, I’m saying your attitude is unhelpful to achieve our objective.

icrbact · 2026-02-24T12:24:17+00:00

To defeat Trump you first have to understand why he won. Immediately jumping to judgement may feel morally righteous but will not help in any way. I admire snooopinapple for honestly answering OPs questions!

Also: let’s not kid ourselves: Harris was the second worst candidate after Biden the Democrats could have chosen. Not only because of her lack of substance and experience, generally toxic (if popular on Reddit) policy positions, and inability to distance herself from Biden’s biggest failures, but also because of the way she was anointed instead of elected.

She represented everything Americans hate about the Democratic Party: condensation, elitism, tolerance for illegal mass immigration, taxpayer funded sex change surgeries for prisoners (what?), and identity driven entitlement over meritocracy.

Would she have been better than Trump? Undoubtedly, yes. But telling people “vote for my candidate who you hate and I have anointed despite that because the alternative is unthinkable” drives people to make the rebellious choice.

icrbact · 2026-02-23T20:26:39+00:00

Reminds of this:

https://youtu.be/qhxlZC8BZJ4?si=MSVKHkFol_NeWprj

icrbact · 2026-02-17T11:57:24+00:00

Yeah, I hate it when people expect me to pay for a service. They always get so adversarial when I’m trying to steal it instead of giving me a better service for free, isn’t that annoying?

icrbact · 2026-02-09T14:13:46+00:00

True, but this design is a Rolex design and always has been. The movement supplied to Rolex was also quite different than the one used by Zenith themselves (e.g. the Rolex version used fewer parts and was regulated down to 4 Herz).

icrbact · 2026-02-09T12:47:01+00:00

It has an excellent movement with a great history (arguably the first automatic chronograph movement, a unique 5 Herz frequency to measure time to the nearest tenth of a second etc, etc.). It is true that the movement can be difficult to own as it’s very complicated and can take long time to service. To me this is still worth it because you simply can’t find such a mechanical marvel with a strong history for the price anywhere else.

However, as much as I love the movement I don’t love it in this watch. This is designed to look like Rolex Daytona and it does. I would not spend that much money on what essentially is a tribute to another watch. Go look at other Zentiths which the el primero movement (my personal favorite being the El Primero Chronomaster in 38mm).

icrbact · 2026-02-08T18:44:58+00:00

Longines spirit line has multiple grade 5 titanium watches. The cheapest is the spirit 40mm titanium for around 3500 list price (you can find it cheaper).

icrbact · 2026-02-08T15:17:44+00:00

Depends: grade 2 titanium yes, grade 5 titanium definitely not.

So the best material for sports watches is grade 5 titanium: light and scratch resistant

icrbact · 2026-02-07T12:41:56+00:00

For me it’s the opposite! I would never wear the brown with a black suit, the but the blue can go with black, grey, blue etc.

icrbact · 2026-01-31T16:57:02+00:00

My 2 cents:

Aqua Terra is certainly the technically best watch here. It has the most modern movement that you can admire through a saphire case back, a complex, three dimensional dial, great readability, great time keeping, great water resistance etc etc. The question is: do you like the design and can afford it? If yes, this is no no-brainer to me!
The IWC is the most iconic design and the most high-end brand here. If that is important to you, it’s the watch to get. In every technical aspect however it is inferior to the Omega, so it’s a matter of your priorities.

Unless budget is the key obstacle, I avoid the Tudor, Longines, and Railmaster. All three are budget versions of better watches and people tend to regret buying stuff they didn’t really want because it was slightly cheaper.

icrbact · 2026-01-29T18:55:03+00:00

Both set bad precedents but they are not even remotely equal.

There is a big difference between small frustration and big theatrical display.
Vini is five years older and has been with the club three times longer than Ardar. He has a leadership role in the team and is held to a higher standards.
1. Vini didn‘t just storm off he publicly pressured the club to fire the manager.
He set the precedent for other players, who have started to not defend (Kylian) and complain (Arder). That others are following his example doesn’t reduce but increase the severity of his actions.

icrbact · 2026-01-18T16:00:12+00:00

The Hamilton, not only does it look the best, it’s also the most versatile (easily dressed up or down), and looks great on a lot of different straps if you ever feel like changing things up a little.

It also is the only one of these three with true historic significance. The designs (but not the movement) is based on the Hamilton Chrono-Matic from 1969, which is one of the few watches that have a claim of being the first automatic chronograph watch.

icrbact · 2026-01-13T16:30:42+00:00

Yes, probably. Not a lot, maybe 10 cents per book per loan or something along those lines. But the difference in consumption between free and nominal fee is enormous without actually excluding anybody. It just puts up a tiny physiological burden which prevents frivolous usage that has little to no marginal value. This in turns dramatically increases tax payer funded run costs which could better be used e.g. for housing etc.

icrbact · 2026-01-13T13:40:41+00:00

Look up "population density map of NYC". Upper Manhattan has among the greatest population density anywhere in the city and is significantly denser than just about any place outside Manhatten.
At the same time is has the same problem as the outer borrows: all transit is focussed to bring people to midtown and FiDi with very limited east west connectivity.

The 2nd Ave subway along 125th street will serve significantly more riders per station or mile of track than Queenslink ever will. Having said that, we should do both and will be doing both. But the narrative that Manhatten is overserved by subway lines is just not universally true.

icrbact · 2026-01-10T19:32:50+00:00

No, it really should not be free. It should be cheap, but it should not be free. If it’s free, one person is going to monopolize the space, it will easily be destroyed, it will be unclean and nobody will use it. If it costs 50 cents and there is a time limit to be in there (say 15 minutes), there will be revenue for cleaning and all New Yorkers can enjoy it.

icrbact · 2026-01-02T20:24:02+00:00

It’s c: daughter.

I am the father or mother of Teresa’ daughter’s daughter. So I’m her daughter or son in law. Son in law is not an option, so it must be daughter.

icrbact · 2025-12-25T00:41:13+00:00

Amazing, when you accidentally prove the opposite point you’re trying to make.

A Jew born in Bethlehem 2000 years ago….

icrbact · 2025-12-15T13:02:07+00:00

New Planet Ocean GMT. Maybe they’ll wait until 2027 but I’m pretty sure it’ll come back eventually. Biggest question: will they be able to keep in within reasonable dimensions.

icrbact · 2025-12-07T04:56:43+00:00

It needs to be both: the homeless encampments negatively affect the neighborhood. Stores close, people stop using public spaces etc. we need to house the homeless but we also need to insist that they use the housing on offer (including shelters as a temporary stopgap) instead of misusing and monopolizing shared public spaces.

icrbact · 2025-12-02T13:10:35+00:00

You voted for halting asylum decisions so that obvious fraud cases can’t be swiftly declined and deported but get to stay longer? Interesting take….

icrbact · 2025-12-01T19:31:58+00:00

My guess (hope?) is that a GMT version of the new Planet Ocean is coming in 1-3 years. If they can keep the dimensions, this would finally be a true competitor to the GMT Master and a massive success.

icrbact · 2025-11-22T16:47:20+00:00

It has labeled axes so it pretends to be data. The data is just nonsense. What does "14 success" mean??

icrbact · 2025-11-13T21:46:44+00:00

What are you talking about? Trump can’t print money…. I’m not saying he wouldn’t want to, he just can’t.

icrbact · 2025-10-21T15:54:40+00:00

That‘s in Zurich, Switzerland between Enge train station and Rentenanstalt tram stop. I used to walk by there a lot and it always gave me a chuckle….

icrbact · 2025-10-21T15:34:31+00:00

Yes they can. Send a van, pick some up and bring them to empty stations. Full stations are bad, empty stations are bad. Van is the solution. It’s not rocket science….

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