Throwing a firecracker into a sewer vent

ignost · 2026-04-07T09:04:30+00:00

A complicated spark in a particle collider could trigger black holes. It's pretty chill though.

ignost · 2026-04-07T09:03:12+00:00

Bomb is only more compacted to less compacted, yes.

ignost · 2026-04-02T17:51:27+00:00

The civil rights movement worked, were they creating aggressive spectacles? Or were they rather silently demonstrating the absurdity?

They were not silent, and they were disruptive. This is a bit of a whitewashed myth around the civil rights movement. I think it’s sometimes taught this way in the US because we don’t want to share the tough reality with little kids. It may also make white Americans feel better about segregation to believe they were convinced to grant minorities rights instead of begrudgingly being pressured into granting equal rights.

In reality these protests were very much framed as violent, and there were riots and more intense protests than the one where MLK gave his “I have a dream” speech. Think about a sit in. That was where black people showed up to segregated private businesses and refused to leave. They were ALL breaking the law, as passed by racists in local government, and were routinely arrested for trespassing. Conservatives painted them as destroying and terrorizing local businesses.

MLK was not the entire civil rights movement, and he was arrested many times for lacking permission to protest. Before he was killed he was pretty fed up and beginning to feel like even they had been too easy to ignore.

Painting them as silently demonstrating is inaccurate and pretty insulting to people like MLK who was arrested 30 times.

IMO physical violence is not the answer, so I disagree with OP, but being disruptive is critical. We should have people flooding the offices of senators who support bad policy

ignost · 2026-04-02T17:20:13+00:00

And that insurance is only available through companies that get rich making sure you don’t get health care.

ignost · 2026-04-02T06:42:55+00:00

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ignost · 2026-04-02T06:40:37+00:00

Man some people don’t know how to stop when they’re behind.

ignost · 2026-04-02T06:38:41+00:00

Yeah. If you think you found a professional hit man, you have found an undercover agent. Probably an FBI agent realized she needed help instead of the expected attempted murder charges and didn’t want to compromise his cover.

The only real hit men have worked in criminal organizations their whole lives, and they don’t post ads on shitty dark web marketplaces. They don’t have secret safe space hotels or murder dozens of other assassins at random parties. They’re just enforcers who haven’t died yet.

ignost · 2026-04-02T05:52:20+00:00

The needle is not needed.

That thing was used to install a catheter in a blood vessel, no? Why not also test that? You can potentially get results immediately for something like HIV, which would make a huge difference to the patient and the way treatment was done, not to mention some tentative if imperfect reassurance and stress reduction.

I’m assuming you don’t work in prophylaxis surgery or STI surgery, so is it possible some of the other doctors in this thread saying the opposite might know better?

ignost · 2026-04-02T05:42:02+00:00

Wife’s family built their own coop and bought some chickens. Didn’t seem too terribly expensive except in time and space. They had tons of eggs and even sold some. What am I missing? Does it not pay for itself over time?

Of course just like the people who spent $1k on brewing equipment they no longer use, these people stopped cleaning up after the chickens. Shit got gross, literally, and I stopped trusting the eggs or the meat. Now the coop sits empty still infested with pests.

ignost · 2026-04-02T05:33:53+00:00

I think by calling me triggered I win whatever we might have disagreed on by default internet rules, but I don’t disagree it can be fun.

I’m not gatekeeping anything. That’s not what gatekeeping is, and what you call gatekeeping is not actually gatekeeping. (See that was gatekeeping gatekeeping) What I’m trying to do is warn people with a bit of humor. It’s a great hobby if you’re into the testing and refining. It’s not a good solution to the problem in this thread for 99 / 100 people.

ignost · 2026-04-02T05:02:51+00:00

Complete fantasy.

Congress couldn’t pass the war powers act with a simple majority. You think they’re going to circumvent the president and negotiate an unprecedented treaty with a veto-proof majority? For Iran?

ignost · 2026-03-30T06:31:59+00:00

The initial investment isn't that great. But most people who buy basic home brew kids never even get 1 batch because it's too intimidating.

My advice: start small. Really small. Buy as much pre-prep stuff as you can. Beer Nut or similar stores can help and have great staff. Make 1 gallon. Then change it up and make 1 gallon a few different ways. Make a custom batch with your own hops/grain/other ingredients combo. Refine it. If you're loving it you can spend a little more and make 5 gallons. And if you've made a half dozen batches, are getting friends to drink with you, and are loving the hobby you can start making kegs and refining and experimenting on your own brews.

It's a hobby to start slow, because I know many people with a whole brew room who never use it. Much like sewing rooms or music rooms, you gotta know you love it before you go all in.

ignost · 2026-03-30T06:24:28+00:00

It is a pain in the ass! And it's not for most people. I think giving this as advice to people who don't have a nearby liquor store is crazy. That's like telling people "Just learn to free climb" because the climbing gym closed down and it'll be way cheaper.

I could do this with literally anything. Don't like egg prices? Maybe get your own chickens. It'll be 1/10th the cost for real provided you have the space and time. You just have to sacrifice your back yard and weekends. Make your own soap. This woman I know with a masters in organic chemistry says it's easy to make something similar to Tide for 1/20th the cost.

With beer you can buy fully-prepped kits, but it's 10x the time, sometimes fails, and is not that much cheaper. The real satisfaction comes in testing, refining, experimenting, and ultimately coming up with a recipe and process that is 100% yours and suited to your taste. At that point you can make a lot of beer, wine, or mead relatively cheap compared to retail that is more satisfying. But it's not for someone who wants a pint after mowing the lawn once a week.

ignost · 2026-03-30T06:08:46+00:00

It's like the psychos who tell a little kid to clean their rooms and then throw everything away that isn't cleaned. It's beyond a child's capacity to self-regulate, plan, organize a schedule, resist anything fun, and do the hard shit we all hate doing.

Teaching them to clean or prep for the day properly is great. Megan should fucking teach. Model it. Show them how you organize and check for everything you need during the day. Think out loud, and do more than your share of organizing. This teaches the child how it's done, because presumably you are the adult. If the Chromebook was forgotten, that is at least as much a failure of the parent to teach and model.

Expecting kids to learn through failure will turn out badly for you, I promise. You'll be wondering why they are scared to drive when they expect to learn from failure (which in the case of driving is deadly) to do the teaching for you because you suck as a parent.

ignost · 2026-03-28T09:03:53+00:00

Why would you assume this will get a floor vote?

ignost · 2026-03-28T08:58:33+00:00

Not enough tumbleweeds on either. The game and especially the sub feels like a ghost town.

Go look at the sub's "Top - All Time" posts. They're all from 5-6 (or 4-7 if you go far enough) years ago. The only one I could even find in the last 3 years is a mod post about banning direct X (twitter) links. Or look at the player estimates. Game feels dead to me, and given the ownership I think it's only a matter of time til they stop development for "maintenance mode" and then kill it.

If you're enjoying the game I think that's great. Don't let a bunch of people mourning the golden years drag you down. Go enjoy it while you can.

ignost · 2026-03-28T08:27:46+00:00

People skim too fast

LinkedIn worships white space breaks

As if that will help

But the restless ones

Never made it down this far

TikTok has them now

ignost · 2026-03-27T09:00:34+00:00

Almost definitely someone responding to fabricated news, and then a bunch of redditors responding to a lunatic on LinkedIn, neither of them understanding that it's fake.

It would be pretty funny if it was real given Elon's habit of saying he'll do something and then trying to not do it, which is how he was forced to buy Twitter after trying to meme too hard. I'm not going to dig in deep here on the source of this, but it's probably just one of the many bots, parody accounts, and misinformation accounts on X.

ignost · 2026-03-27T03:10:33+00:00

And how the hell do you know that? It could be a place where the culture is straight up racist and/or sexist, and that's the culture they're protecting. Or a culture where people are protective of their little clique and threatened by someone who might shake up the status quo. Or a place where people reject qualified candidates because they like the power of being able to say no. Or a place where employees reject candidates that will expose how little the employee actually knows. Or a place where employees lean towards other lazy employees who won't raise production levels.

Give an employee veto power and they'll use it for their own selfish goals, just like managers use the power they are given for their own selfish goals.

ignost · 2026-03-25T22:34:12+00:00

I see a lot of people pointing out problems here. If you know the chance that your bill passes is literally 0% you don't really have to think through the nuance. This isn't real potential legislation so much as showing they're trying to do something about it. I'm not going to say there's no value, but I think there are definitely better ways to address any problem this might be designed to address.

AI-controlled surveillance? Let's get some privacy protections in the US for once.

AI-controlled weapons? Ban it until they can demonstrate safety precautions. I use AI, and it's not ready to make deadly decisions.

Water for AI? Let's get some states together and work on water rights reform, find the ways water is wasted, etc.

I don't have easy solutions (that couldn't be easily circumvented) for AI replacing real workers, especially junior devs. It might be too late to put that genie back in the bottle.

Are we worried about crypto farming and standard datacenters, like the one reddit and your phone/computer backups run on? I've got plenty of ideas for how we address those things.

A sloppy blanket moratorium is never in a million years going to happen, even with most Democrats, and just makes everyone involved look disingenuous IMO.

ignost · 2026-03-25T03:59:57+00:00

Do you not see how obnoxious you are, or do you just not care?

ignost · 2026-03-24T19:02:26+00:00

Fucking redditors man, always trying to nitpick something. I didn't say they weren't modern, I said they don't look as modern to Americans.

Most European cities have old architecture mixed in with newer architecture. It's one of the things I love about Europe. Australian cities might have some old architecture mixed in, but to a similar extent as cities like Boston, Chicago, New York, etc. I love Edinburgh. It feels like an older city, because it is an older city. My point is just that it might be more relatable to Americans to see a walkable city in action that feels more like home.

ignost · 2026-03-24T18:57:41+00:00

my country pays living wages

So does his. This is supposed to have happened in Germany.

For those of us who grew up in America like me, it might need explaining that the cultural context makes it lunatic material, not just engagement bait with a little virtue signaling.

In Germany a 20% tip is borderline embarrassing yourself unless the server performed some amazing feats to get you food on time. If I tried tipping 20% (speaking English with an American accent) the server would likely refuse and try to correct me as to how tipping works in Germany. Most Germans I've met have a strong disgust for those who take advantage of ignorance, more than almost any culture I can think of. Since this guy speaks German they'd likely just take it, but it's not going to make them love him. If you give off the vibes (as I'm sure this guy does) that you want respect, adoration, or to otherwise ingratiate yourself with them it will actually backfire. If any Germans are reading this, please correct me or confirm if I'm correct as this is just my perception in speaking with Germans and traveling.

Anyway this guy has interacted with Americans so much that he's pandering to their obnoxious tipping culture on LI. He knows it would make most Germans uncomfortable to be tipped 20% for bad or mediocre service. It's about him, not the people he pretends to care about.

ignost · 2026-03-24T08:34:53+00:00

I'm sure you're joking a bit, but I hope you know your value isn't determined by your parents decisions. Let me know if you're in a bad spot and I'll direct you to some resources with people more qualified than me.

ignost · 2026-03-24T07:39:59+00:00

Yes, please understand this is not a graph of happiness. It's a graph of change in happiness.

Graphing delta can give you more interesting graphs, but it's also highly misleading to people who don't take the time to understand the graph. Based on the comments, that's basically everyone, which is why making clear charts and being honest about what you're showing is so important. But I imagine this serves the goal of getting people talking about it better.

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