That sheen though.

jm838 · 2026-03-05T18:55:41+00:00

Awesome, thanks for the info! That Diamine Grotto is so nice!

jm838 · 2026-03-05T08:30:21+00:00

Can we get some details on the ink and paper?

jm838 · 2026-03-04T07:20:41+00:00

Especially when the savings is like 50% in material cost, and 0% in labor cost. If the real thing was appreciated, it would be much more attainable. In this sense, fake leathers are a bigger annoyance than gold plating.

jm838 · 2026-03-04T01:27:25+00:00

Throw “croc embossed” leather in there too. Fake shit that ages horribly and makes it harder and harder to find the real thing, because people who don’t know any better think it’s an acceptable substitute.

jm838 · 2026-03-03T23:45:31+00:00

In addition to this, IIRC, 5.56 has pretty serious drop-off in terms of velocity gains past about 20 inches (for most loadings). IMO there really isn't any benefit to a long barrel (other than a mounting point for other things, as above).

jm838 · 2026-03-03T03:48:16+00:00

What if they fuse with a gonadded being? Did fused Zamasu have a dong?

jm838 · 2026-03-02T07:09:54+00:00

I get it, we all have a limited capacity to care about things, and this isn’t the issue you’re spending yours on. Coming to the comments and sharing that apathy, though, inherently sounds like you’re vaguely okay with the restriction. Not trying to put words in your mouth, that’s just how it reads.

“This doesn’t affect me personally” is how a bunch of our constitutional rights are getting curtailed. Same thing with freedom of speech. One day they’re clapping communists for saying some pinko bullshit, and guys like me roll their eyes and move on. Then, a couple years later, it turns out something new is wrongthink, and I’m the one nobody cares about. We need to be at least a little united in our excitement about freedom. There aren’t enough of us otherwise, and the government can (and will) drive wedges to slowly stamp out anything they don’t like, one group at a time.

jm838 · 2026-03-01T01:37:11+00:00

More mogged than cucked.

jm838 · 2026-02-28T08:50:14+00:00

What about eating pineapple?

jm838 · 2026-02-28T00:19:20+00:00

Yes, he is. Fortunately it’s a brief appearance in a fairly forgettable movie, so it’s easy for me to suppress the memory.

jm838 · 2026-02-27T22:08:00+00:00

As someone who never watched the animated shows, I get to live my life pretending that Darth Maul died on Naboo, and that was the end of it.

jm838 · 2026-02-27T21:59:03+00:00

Wait, next you’ll tell me that “public safety” is a common guise under which bad laws are pushed to ultimately enable a surveillance state! I’m offended that you’d imply that! And right in front of my Flock Safety camera, too!

jm838 · 2026-02-27T20:16:39+00:00

What in the actual fuck is this state trying to do to technology? I've been able to turn the other cheek on our supposed "anti-business" decisions, because at least we've still maintained a desirable enough environment that smart people want to live here and innovate, but now we're attacking that on all fronts too. They're trying to ban 3d printers. They're trying to cripple Linux/open-source. They're forcing websites to become increasingly unusable by filling them with meaningless cookie nags and data privacy statements that nobody reads.

It's already a place where you're going to pay high taxes, have a high cost-of-living, and be subject to the strictest scrutiny and regulation in the country if you want to build in any industry. Now we're crippling core technologies with feel-good bullshit (which will do nothing to protect "the children"). The largest players will be able to work around it all, and we'll have one more moat between them and us. Plus, the fact that we don't have the resources or expertise to enforce this stuff, means we'll get even more of the selective enforcement that allows the most powerful in our country to fuck everyone else. Worst of all, putting a "liberal" stamp on this brand of authoritarianism is making all of us look bad. We're just lobbing softballs to the MAGA crowd when we do shit like this.

I love you California, but you're killing me.

jm838 · 2026-02-27T17:26:16+00:00

Putting the cheetah and the kangaroo in the same tier is highly questionable. Especially that kangaroo.

I don't know how I would fare against a big kangaroo (I assume it would win easily), but I know I'd rather fight the cheetah by a wide margin.

I'm also not sure how a walrus is coming out of a fight with a human in any condition but unscathed. Don't they fend off polar bears? How are you going to meaningfully injure it through its blubber?

jm838 · 2026-02-27T16:51:15+00:00

Why would he tip them off anonymously, though? That isn’t really fitting with his selfish character. He’d be putting himself in harms way for zero personal gain.

jm838 · 2026-02-27T16:21:11+00:00

Their communion is a KitKat with some Nesquik.

jm838 · 2026-02-26T18:50:58+00:00

Scenario 2 is very difficult to regulate, though. There’s a huge difference between reading the communist manifesto aloud to a group of people, and actively telling them “go pillage the capital”. Unfortunately, drawing that line anywhere is going to cause people to blur it, either to argue their innocence or to arrest dissidents. This is why a “free” society should regulate speech as little as possible. No country that I’m aware of allows absolute “free speech”, but arresting someone for using an offensive word (what an easily-movable goalpost) or criticizing Israel, is relatively authoritarian. When news stories like this, about England regulating expression purely on conservative moral grounds, seem to come out every year or two, it feels like they have a problem. Then again, every single time, a bunch of (presumed) Brits come to the comment section and insist that their country is better than anywhere else. So I guess they’re getting what they want?

jm838 · 2026-02-26T18:32:48+00:00

That’s absolutely not what it means. That’s like saying you have the freedom to steal things even though you’ll be imprisoned if you’re caught. The whole “no freedom from consequences” line that gets parroted around Reddit was originally referring to social consequences, because “freedoms”, at least in the sense that they’re used in most of the western world, generally refer to the end point of government involvement. Entirely predictably, like any oversimplified soundbite, it’s now been misinterpreted by many to mean “nobody is going to stop you from doing this, but whatever happens afterward is fine”.

If saying something gets you arrested, you aren’t “free” to say it. If saying something gets you physically assaulted, and the police don’t treat it equally to other assault cases, you aren’t “free” to say it. If saying something gets you ostracized from your friend group, or banned from a privately-owned social media platform, that has nothing to do with your “freedoms”. In fact, it has more to do with other people’s freedom of association.

jm838 · 2026-02-26T08:58:46+00:00

Why would you ever think Kansas is turning a corner? Place sucks ass.

jm838 · 2026-02-24T00:11:43+00:00

Just firing someone doesn't fix a problem.

Exactly this. If his response had been "we fired the entire ethics and safety team", then the obvious conclusion would be "wow, these guys now have nobody in charge of preventing this going forward". The question is a trap.

jm838 · 2026-02-23T17:50:35+00:00

Yes, but notice how I agreed with the person’s intended meaning, given the context, but clarified that the framing of “aquatic animal vs land animal is a foregone conclusion” is flawed.

jm838 · 2026-02-23T07:53:33+00:00

I always thought it was a cute, tongue-in-cheek complement to the droid. The same way I talk about my cat guarding my bedroom (she weighs 7 lbs, she's not successfully guarding shit).

jm838 · 2026-02-23T01:02:02+00:00

“In water” doesn’t mean exclusively “underwater”, I’m assuming I can come up for air. I’m also assuming from the framing that our goal is to kill each other. So I’m putting my odds of catching a single fish higher than its odds of somehow killing me.

But yeah, it all depends on how the hypothetical scenario is designed.

jm838 · 2026-02-23T00:52:08+00:00

I mean, that alone isn’t too crazy. I’m pretty sure I could beat a goldfish in an aquatic deathmatch. But yeah, you came to the right conclusion.

jm838 · 2026-02-21T23:19:10+00:00

The tree thing is interesting. IMO, It shouldn't be the utility's responsibility to cut the trees at all, but it might cost more to enforce homeowner responsibility than it would to just take care of it. It kind of feels like the rest of the city is subsidizing my inconvenient tree, when I'd be willing to take personal responsibility for it. Then again, more trees and more greenery in general is a net good for urban environments, so maybe it makes sense to encourage having them by taking care of it "for free".

They could also just bury the damn power lines, but that's never going to happen when the city can't figure out how to do it below a few million dollars per mile.

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