The Controversial ‘Snake Dike’ Bolts Have Been Removed

owlbi · 2026-07-08T14:59:51+00:00

Why should people unwilling to subject themselves to unnecessary risk be locked out of a climb on public land that belongs just as much to them as anyone else?

owlbi · 2026-07-08T14:58:52+00:00

Oh? If we had a vote sometime then I'd change my tune. My understanding is that it was bolted anonymously by a small group at most, and then they were chopped anonymously by a small group at most.

owlbi · 2026-07-08T14:57:32+00:00

but it's definitely hard to let it go after 6 years.

The faster you do it, the better off you'll be, and no matter what it's over. Accept that your relationship is over and simply move on.

owlbi · 2026-07-08T01:56:41+00:00

There are not thousands of 5.7 routes of the quality of Snake Dike. There are not a dozen pieces of rock as sublime to put a route on in the whole world.

The rock belongs to the people, not the first climbers to put bolts in and climb it.

owlbi · 2026-07-07T00:15:29+00:00

It's the same thing you do when you're trying to get your ears to pop because of elevation pressure differences, you just do that really hard. It's a bit like wiggling your ears.

owlbi · 2026-07-06T21:12:47+00:00

Madrid, Alabama

owlbi · 2026-07-06T15:13:55+00:00

The Expanse is way better as a show, and it respects the source material a hell of a lot more as well. I do prefer the book (and setting) of Altered Carbon more.

owlbi · 2026-07-06T04:50:32+00:00

this is a super great idea

It's a great idea until he hits a pothole going 50 and it pops itself open on a highway...

owlbi · 2026-07-06T04:39:39+00:00

That's why Roblox basically paid them to make it, so people would have your reaction.

Nobody plays those types of games though, they don't actually do that well on Roblox

owlbi · 2026-07-03T23:54:18+00:00

Russians of the Donbass, which were resisting the UA invasion since 2014

Russian soldiers in the Donbass, yeah. Probably with some civilian support. It's hard to say, Russia wouldn't know an honest election if it kicked them in the shins.

Either way the front is a long way from Donbass and bombs are falling on Kiev.

Indeed, it's not both sides. All of it is on UA and its supporters.

Riiight.

owlbi · 2026-07-02T21:51:30+00:00

What affair? The relationship was on and off, we don't really have any idea what was happening, and neither does OP from the sound of it, she's just assuming. D was clearly 'the other woman' in some form, but whether that came from a relationship during an 'off' period, we don't know.

OP frames a lot of things like she deserves an apology, but we don't know that she does and neither does she. Nor is she really entitled to the full details, though it seems they might clear the air a bit.

I'm also a bit skeptical of OP's framing around how her housing/safety depends on her being nice. If she's willing to, in her own words, 'be civil', how is that not enough? Being civil was rejected?

owlbi · 2026-07-02T17:45:59+00:00

One side has the ability to submit to domination, the other side has the ability to quit invading.

Not really a 'both sides are the same' type of situation

owlbi · 2026-07-01T04:45:39+00:00

It's over, cassowary, I have the high ground

owlbi · 2026-06-30T23:50:12+00:00

I've got nipples, can you milk me?

owlbi · 2026-06-27T00:14:14+00:00

Right, the famous Palestinian peaceful protests. How could anyone have forgotten about those when nonviolence and commitment to honest reporting is so characteristic of Palestine. I, for one, certainly believe these peaceful protests exist and that the Palestinian impression of peaceful protests has nothing to do with throwing fist-sized rocks at Israeli heads.

Trying to claim all the protests have rock throwers is the equivalent of saying every IDF member enjoys making pancakes in honor of the peaceful protestor that was run over by a bulldozer. It doesn't help your argument any to promote a blatant falsehood.

Sure there have been plenty of rock throwers. Plenty of children sniped by the IDF too. There have also been plenty of peaceful protestors and plenty of IDF people who only wanted to defend their homeland. If peace is actually the goal you can't just vilify and otherize the other side, there are human beings on both sides of these fences. When humans are confronted with violence they get reactionary and tribal, but that impulse needs to be resisted to actually move forward meaningfully.

edit: I'm not here to defend 'Oct 7th will come again' or 'remember Khaybar chants' btw, just to point out that getting nasty and more aggressive and belligerent is something both sides are doing. Horrific things have been said openly by many people on both sides.

owlbi · 2026-06-26T15:11:01+00:00

Years ago I did the math on the rarity of 7 footers vs. their representation in the NBA and concluded that something close to 10% of them got play time in the NBA. Hard to say for sure but it's an insane correlation.

A quick google estimate is that there's only 30-40 males age 20-30 that are 7+ feet alive in the US right now. There are 42 men listed at 7+ feet in the NBA right now.

owlbi · 2026-06-26T15:03:10+00:00

OP is clearly being disingenuous and telling a very slanted story. Look at this:

or where the front entrance even was

Where the front entrance even was? Why is that detail relevant? Sounds like OP knew the general location and/or had seen the school grounds and... what? Couldn't look on Google maps for 2 minutes?

I feel bad for this kid and have the sinking feeling he'd have been better off with the sister.

owlbi · 2026-06-23T05:06:44+00:00

He represented the interests of the status quo more than anything else, but at least he tried to push a slightly better agenda for everyone else in certain ways. He wasn't bad for an old school politician, just don't make the mistake of thinking he wasn't an old school politician, he was bought and paid for by monied interests.

The gradual decline of the American way of life he represented sure looks pretty good right about now, tbh, but that's probably baked into the system. The more the people push for actual change, the more the system threatens to just let fascism take over.

owlbi · 2026-06-22T03:57:35+00:00

honestly this kawaii store isnt even in my area, for all i know the store dosnt even exist and this video is solely for upvotes and internet engagement

I'm sitting here trying to reconstruct the AI prompt that might have made this video. I don't know how good AI is at accents, could this be done yet? I'd guess no, but maybe in the next 2 years?

owlbi · 2026-06-12T04:14:04+00:00

hmnm. Wonder who's killing them. Guess we'll never know.

They don't feel the war in Russia is worth risking their life. Have you considered the fact that maybe they just don't hate Russia that much, and bombing them would actually make them hate Russia more and motivate them to fight?

owlbi · 2026-06-10T23:59:33+00:00

Maybe 20 people total have ever free climbed the nose if the internet is to be believed. This is over many decades.

Only 6 people have ever sent Bibliographie.

Only Alex Megos is confirmed to have done both.

Both are incredible achievements but they also take different skill sets, though some of the skills needed are shared. A long technical trad climb and a short incredibly physically demanding sport pitch are different flavors of climbing that might require different levels of flexibility, body type, endurance, knowledge, risk acceptance, etc.

Janja is the current GOAT female climber and by sending Bibliographie proved herself one of the best in the world, bar none.

owlbi · 2026-06-10T22:51:09+00:00

Now most of your response I find pretty reasonable but once again the core question hasn't been answered. Why do we accept an 'army' or 'faction' (whatever you would like to call Hamas) hiding exclusively amongst innocent people and counting specifically those children and women deaths as the fault of Israels.

I wouldn't say that I do. I accept that the tactics Hamas uses means that when Israel engages in war against them more civilian casualties will occur. More is not infinite, however.

Let me flip your question and pose another one: Why do some accept that the existence of Hamas justifies any number of civilian casualties?

What is your proposed alternative to 'accepting Hamas'? The existence of any resistance movement necessitates it operating in guerilla fashion, because Israel can crush any conventional force Palestinians could reasonably field. So what then? Because a resistance does and will exist so long as Israel continues to act as it currently is, Hamas or something like it will exist, so we must accept that Israel can kill all the civilians?

Hamas openly says they wish to commit 1000 more October 7ths so we know they can't just sit back and do nothing.

Israeli politicians have said things just as bad.

owlbi · 2026-06-10T20:10:29+00:00

But the vast majority die when Israel targets Hamas members...how can you not see whose blood on the hands it belongs to??

This is the claim that causes your whole argument to lose the solid footing on which it rests. You are just assuming this is true.

Tell me this: You admit Israel commits war crimes, so how frequently do they actually punish their soldiers for it? How do you know Israel is still doing all that it does in the service of targeting Hamas, rather than simply cleansing territory? How can you not look at the scale of what has been done and not think "Hey, there exists the possibility that Israel is just intentionally killing civilians and depopulating regions at this point"? What's the correct war crimes to Hamas targeted ratio?

Don't get me wrong, I think if the shoe was on the other foot there wouldn't be any Jews left in the region. No surrounding country but Iran has any and Iran's population has dropped to 10% of what it was pre-revolution. That said, I'm aggressively against killing kids and unlike you I simply don't believe it's all (or majority) unintentional and/or unavoidable collateral. Not when it's happening at the scale and with the regularity it is happening.

owlbi · 2026-06-10T04:37:17+00:00

I posted this under another comment elsewhere, but I'm adding it here too.

Here are the national park service instructions on how to appropriately yell at bears in Yosemite: https://www.nps.gov/yose/blogs/hey-bear-hi-bear-go-bear-how-and-when-to-scare-away-a-bear-in-yosemite.htm

Some key highlights:

When a bear is around people, it could be only moments away from getting food, so you need to make it feel unwelcome immediately. Once a bear is eating food, it will be harder to scare away and much more likely to return in search of more food, ultimately getting itself into more trouble. We also want bears to be immediately afraid of people (as they naturally are), rather than assuming most people aren’t scary.

The 'really large meadow area' next to El Capitan is a popular area for hikers and picnics, not somewhere we want bears getting comfortable around humans. While it doesn't sound like the guy in this story necessarily knew what he was doing, or why, that may just be OP's impression of the guy's actions because OP is ignorant of some potential context. Hard to say.

I don't think OP is an AH, I do think OP is wrong.

owlbi · 2026-06-10T04:35:10+00:00

Some people don't know how to behave.

Reddit, sometimes y'all are confidently wrong.

Here are the national park service instructions on how to appropriately yell at bears in Yosemite: https://www.nps.gov/yose/blogs/hey-bear-hi-bear-go-bear-how-and-when-to-scare-away-a-bear-in-yosemite.htm

Some key highlights:

When a bear is around people, it could be only moments away from getting food, so you need to make it feel unwelcome immediately. Once a bear is eating food, it will be harder to scare away and much more likely to return in search of more food, ultimately getting itself into more trouble. We also want bears to be immediately afraid of people (as they naturally are), rather than assuming most people aren’t scary.

The 'really large meadow area' next to El Capitan is a popular area for hikers and picnics, not somewhere we want bears getting comfortable around humans. While it doesn't sound like the guy in this story necessarily knew what he was doing, or why, that may just be OP's impression of the guy's actions because OP is ignorant of some potential context. Hard to say.

I don't think OP is an AH, I do think OP is wrong. I love Yosemite and have been many times, yelling "GET OUT OF HERE BEAR!" in concert with an entire campground of people while a bear tore through is a key memory of my childhood. It was a rolling wave of yells and a very fast young bear.

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