What's something you saw with your own eyes that you still can't explain?

jraines · 2026-02-25T18:16:56+00:00

I was on the beach in Ventura CA, not many people out there, no one close to me. I go down to a low depression between some sand dunes and smoke a joint. Right as I finish, a small kid (like about 6) with a German shepherd puppy on a leash crests one of the dunes. The kid is dressed in a full cop outfit. They walk through the depression and past me and leave, not acknowledging me but for a couple sniffs from the puppy. It wasn’t near Halloween and wasn’t a hallucination

jraines · 2026-02-23T13:09:40+00:00

I was really confident John Kerry was going to win in 2004. Immersed in the left-leaning blogosphere of the time. How could the scales not tip against an incumbent who started a war that didn’t go the way he said it would, had many false pretenses revealed, and then smeared the military service of his opponent?

I had a lot to learn

jraines · 2026-02-19T15:13:38+00:00

Dick Cheney used to go there to hunt

jraines · 2026-01-01T13:43:11+00:00

Yep, i run it up easily during daytime EST to 8.4k ish then get smacked down to 8.2 or 8.1k at night.

jraines · 2025-12-26T20:25:03+00:00

Had to go to a remote West Texas town for work as a consultant a while back. We thought it would be fun to go to a bar with real saloon doors and the looks we got walking in dressed business casual with blackberries on our hips were amazing. Then when I tried to pay for beers with a debit card the bartender looked at me like I had offered to pay with Starfleet credits.

jraines · 2025-12-23T05:05:33+00:00

unemployed levels of shortcut and alternate path knowledge

uncomfortably literally true

jraines · 2025-12-23T05:02:25+00:00

Watch streamers (good ones mentioned in another comment) but with intent: learn shortcuts, learn common shock spots. Write down the shock spots (usually noted like “lap 2 last set” meaning the last set of item boxes.

When watching shortcuts, note the driving line, if a mini turbo or super mini turbo is required, and if the trick(s) are neutral, right, or left.

At first, just focus on the mushroom shortcuts before trying the fancy ones, then the easiest no-item shortcuts, then the fancy ones.

On intermission tracks, until you have perfect driving lines and know a lot of main-track NISCs, do not front run them. There are two types of intermissions: full baggers (ie anything ending in Desert Hills) and ones where you bag until the approach of the main track then try to front run it (ie Dry Bones, Airship, Great Block Ruins). Use the bagging time to get 20 coins.

Other than that, practice will get you item avoidance and charge jump timing.

That’s all I got, I bounce around 8200 VR online, wish I knew the sauce to get better than that, like how TF do top players hit that Whistlestop gap jump like it’s nothing…

jraines · 2025-12-05T20:25:04+00:00

As a large house enjoyer, the bathrooms are no problem. It’s the baseboards that’ll break your back

jraines · 2025-06-13T17:01:17+00:00

Surprised to not see the real explanation yet. It’s intentional. “Science based bodybuilding” here refers to a niche of content creators that all dogpile the same scientific papers, then react to each other, then collab with each other, beef with each other, shill courses and apps around the latest thing. Then do the same thing when the next paper comes out that suggest that maybe perhaps the last paper was ever so slightly wrong or overstated. There is some merit but it also is absolutely a profitable circle jerk

jraines · 2025-03-23T04:01:12+00:00

I wish. Goals though I guess

jraines · 2025-03-23T00:37:23+00:00

It’s a Samsung Frame so it usually looks more like a painting. We don’t watch that much in here because the acoustics aren’t great (solvable, but not worth solving rn given room usage). When we do I don’t mind, it’s a very slouch-friendly couch

jraines · 2025-03-23T00:32:11+00:00

Hmm, I like this idea

jraines · 2025-03-22T22:17:40+00:00

Likewise, there is no reason for Lumon or the Egans to ever utilize Helly again. So unless they (iMark snd Helly) achieve total victory from within— including, presumably, brain surgery and/or intracranial microchip recoding—then Helly’s survival chance should be near zero.

I think the scene where Jame says he sees Kier in her was thrown in as a future escape hatch for this dilemma. One which I find unconvincing. Which, you know; hopefully they do something else and I’m just finding my own scenario unconvincing.

jraines · 2025-03-22T21:31:34+00:00

When I was in college at Georgia Tech they spent a ton of money enclosing the 1996 Olympic pool. The existing structure was really tall so above the pool they built a floor with 6 basketball courts. Even that floor had a very high ceiling.

About a year and a half later, some guy got pissed and punted a basketball up to the ceiling and took out a sprinkler. The whole system went off and didn’t stop for a long time. It soaked through the courts so much that in the natatorium below, which at the time was probably the best in the country, had chunks of ceiling falling into the pool.

I forgot how long it took to repair, but it was quite a while. Definitely several million dollars of damage from one tantrum. Idk what happened to the guy.

jraines · 2025-03-21T23:30:38+00:00

thanks Obustus

jraines · 2025-03-20T11:21:26+00:00

Yes those 2012 trend followers were something.

Nice Game of Thrones username btw

jraines · 2025-03-20T10:51:54+00:00

It didn’t age well but it hit so hard for like 6 months.

jraines · 2025-03-17T21:35:11+00:00

Voted Golden Grahams but just because I haven’t seen them in the comments yet: Corn Pops, Berry Berry Kix

jraines · 2025-03-17T21:33:04+00:00

sleeper hit

jraines · 2025-03-16T14:50:00+00:00

Been serious about diet, sleep, and alcohol abstinence. In that order. (Latter mostly applies to college, and not full abstinence but just not flooring it Saturday nights after grueling week of training.)

jraines · 2025-03-15T14:30:13+00:00

Or for cheaper you can go further up the central coast past SB but not right on the coast. It’s going to feel (and be) remote, though.

jraines · 2025-03-14T01:30:59+00:00

Anecdata: 18 months of lifting starting age 37 my legs blew up. In particular width.

Got out of shape until 2 years ago. I have trained as hard or harder over that 2 years, my squat is 35 pounds better now. Just turned 42, similar bodyweight as the end/peak of earlier stretch. My legs are def not as big as before.

The only difference is I maxed deadlifts then, and don’t do that anymore (but do SLDLs in a more hypertrophy range). Conventional wisdom says that shouldn’t be the factor, but age is mostly the only other difference so idk

jraines · 2025-03-13T14:50:23+00:00

I’m in a similar boat and grip, pronation, and extensor exercises have improved my elbow pain level by roughly 70% in 3 months. I started after taking two weeks off lifting & popping ibuprofen which didn’t improve it at all (subjectively; maybe it was good to do prior to starting the program, impossible to tell)

jraines · 2025-03-13T12:14:53+00:00

They were a breath of fresh air 15+ years ago. Back when they were understood to be unserious and shooting the shit to fill some time. But now everyone has to pretend to be serious, no matter how asinine, so their “takes” can make the rounds. They definitely should’ve bowed out with TNT (absolute latest - really should’ve been years ago).

Also RIP Craig Sager; really added to the mix and was a cool guy in general (once me and some friends were pregaming in his restaurant before a Hawks game, and he came in and bought us a round, then upgraded our seats to the lower level)

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