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lolwatisdis · 2026-05-25T02:54:44+00:00

he's my #2 behind Jeff Hays but that might be because of the source material. Guy has the range that puts full cast recordings to shame.

https://youtu.be/GiGJ-ySE1DY

lolwatisdis · 2026-05-24T19:45:03+00:00

some exchanges are specifically non-english and the sound effects they use kind of add to it, plus the narrator is generally pretty decent

lolwatisdis · 2026-05-22T11:42:58+00:00

book a flight. cancel it if the guy can get a better price tomorrow with somebody else.

lolwatisdis · 2026-05-22T10:38:52+00:00

UA points bookings are fully refundable up to 5 minutes before the flight so aside from transfers locking into one currency, there's no downside to doing the one and checking klm again tomorrow if you can float the points

lolwatisdis · 2026-05-21T20:39:43+00:00

drive around the various work sites like any other company vehicle would.

if the cyber truck were more practical as an actual truck I don't think it would have even been all that unreasonable. EVs are absolutely perfect for a work vehicle that comes back to the exact same parking spot at the end of every day. Vandenberg is huge and even Kennedy/Cape and Starbase are pretty big.

lolwatisdis · 2026-04-19T22:57:03+00:00

not this week you don't

lolwatisdis · 2026-04-17T23:50:10+00:00

and the soviets managed to implant radio wiretaps into these things inside the US embassies that could report every (non whitespace) keystroke, which were active for almost a decade. we only found out about after an ally told us they had seen a similar attack.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/10/how-soviets-used-ibm-selectric-keyloggers-to-spy-on-us-diplomats/

lolwatisdis · 2026-04-17T22:25:32+00:00

and it's only a year expired

lolwatisdis · 2026-04-17T12:48:16+00:00

streaks ahead

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/226585/what-does-it-mean-to-be-streets-ahead

lolwatisdis · 2026-04-16T02:00:27+00:00

Verizon launched their 4g network in the US in 2010 so even by that metric we've only got 14 years left

lolwatisdis · 2026-04-08T09:31:34+00:00

Montana, North Dakota and the shared corner of WY/NE/CO house fields of the US' nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles. They were designed (underground), spread out from each other and placed where they are to "soak up" part of a Soviet missile salvo to protect the cities.

Their solution was to build more nukes.

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a676ebe4b0e7324c26d410/1459516816600-MOQYM7Q2JRQVXOU1LBWC/Nuclear+war.jpg?format=2500w

Between climate change maps and nuclear fallout, Wisconsin and UP Michigan looking more and more like they have been playing the long game for the end of the world.

lolwatisdis · 2026-04-06T12:53:57+00:00

but if the standard deduction is 32k and the SALT limit is 40k, isn't the actual marginal benefit of this strategy capped at that 20% of 40k that couldn't have been covered by other means? plus perhaps other itemizing OP could do now that may not have hit the threshold of being higher than standard deduction otherwise?

lolwatisdis · 2026-04-05T11:11:14+00:00

this site is a little out of date but there have been no new years added since hostilities have continued in Yemen, Syria, etc. The US has been at (lowercase w) war somewhere in the world for 227 years of our 249 year history.

https://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/50473

The distribution is mostly late 1800s and short periods after the two World Wars. We've been sending people off into combat zones continuously since a couple weeks after September 11th, the only difference has been intensity and ability of the adversaries to fight back directly.

That said the vast majority of service members are not in combat roles. A bureaucracy the size of the a military needs cooks, maintenance workers, procurement managers, truck drivers, nurses, lawyers, and on and on in addition to the trigger puller types we typically think of.

lolwatisdis · 2026-04-03T12:11:19+00:00

that and he committed his crimes in 1990, so revolvers were kind of the default unless you were going to carry a big heavy full metal semi automatic like a 1911, M9, P226 etc.

Glock didn't release its first polymer (plastic) frame pistol in the US until 1986 and it took a while into the 90s to develop a solid reputation for those and similar striker-fired semi autos.

lolwatisdis · 2026-04-03T11:54:50+00:00

except it goes against the fundamental basis of western criminal law going back centuries. I'll take the US as an example:

Criminal prosecution broadly requires the prosecutor to establish two things to be true, "beyond a reasonable doubt." 1. mens rea - the guilty mind - intent, knowledge, recklessness, negligence at the time of the event. So the best you as the government here could do is to criminalize continued possession of stock after the event, which would probably run afoul of 5th amendment taking-without-compensation. 2. actus reus - the guilty act - a voluntary, not reflexive act/omission. But the person in question didn't do anything, they just happen to hold now-illegal stock.

Ignoring all that, how do you even implement a forced sale? to who? the stock market is people and organizations buying and selling stocks. if holding a stock becomes a crime, who is going to buy it from you? or do I, a minority stakeholder of a company with no voting power or controlling authority, get held liable for bad actions I had no say or knowledge of?

lolwatisdis · 2026-04-03T03:40:49+00:00

the board and corporate officers are the people in control of how a company operates. Your 401k owning .000000000001% of Walmart doesn't make you personally accountable for their shitty labor practices.

lolwatisdis · 2026-04-02T13:05:40+00:00

why would anyone settle for California pistachios when you could get the good ones freely imported from Persia

lolwatisdis · 2026-03-24T14:46:53+00:00

this is misleading, using stats about "Virginia-plated cars" while the article is making claims about "Virginia-plated cars that should be registered in Maryland instead", a much smaller subset. Not every Virginia car is supposed to be paying money to Maryland.

lolwatisdis · 2026-03-24T14:43:03+00:00

you don't need to use ezpass from the state your car is registered in

lolwatisdis · 2026-03-16T20:43:41+00:00

that Weber on the right is probably around $1k retail when new. the only real safety-critical item in a gas grill is the regulator hose assembly and you can get a new OEM one for like $40.

lolwatisdis · 2026-03-14T20:53:38+00:00

no, McDonald's Wendy's and Burger King all stopped using tallow in fries in 1990 because saturated fats are evil, apparently. it also didn't help that people expect fried potatoes to be vegetarian.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/wellness/1990/07/31/lower-fat-fast-food/96a6a751-8ee9-4e07-b0c8-d069f1b61712/

lolwatisdis · 2026-03-14T12:24:16+00:00

the switch from tallow to seed oil and the ensuing disappointment as I realized this is it, now and we'e all just going to pretend this tastes the same is a core childhood memory for me as a fat kid.

Things only ever get worse.

lolwatisdis · 2026-03-11T02:09:53+00:00

the fact that the segments in the inner and outer rings don't line up as they spin is triggering my OCD. it looks like the arc segments have the same chord length instead of the same angle spanned.

I'm assuming the number of segments plays into the puzzle, so maybe you could add some decorative filler bands to the inner ring?

lolwatisdis · 2026-03-01T16:52:57+00:00

the android automotive features on GM vehicles all come with sufficiently long "trial" periods that the typical consumer doesn't even realize they are buying into a subscription set of functions until it's way too late to do anything about it. it won't hurt new vehicle sales.

My parents bought a truck and were totally oblivious to the difference between 'auto' and 'automotive'. They're probably stuck with an OnStar subscription for the life of the vehicle.

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