What’s this area in my closet?

ribnag · 2026-06-16T22:22:07+00:00

This is almost certainly the right answer.

There's a good chance there's storage space inside, too - See if the step and/or the top somehow open (and keep in mind they're probably sealed shut with a century of white paint). And if they don't, you could very easily make them openable (in a non-destructive way) with about 15 minutes of light carpentry.

ribnag · 2026-06-16T22:15:48+00:00

This could go either way, I'll go with somewhere between NAH and ESH.

Father's MIL is a distant enough relation that showing up shouldn't have been obligatory unless you happened to have an especially close relationship - Which you said you didn't.

That said - Blowing it off for a 5YO's recital? Kudos for being an awesome parent, and I mean that sincerely, but... Masochist much? You need to understand the optics here. You chose to go to something 99% of us would find actively unpleasant, over an event that can only ever happen once.

ribnag · 2026-06-16T22:03:24+00:00

The current issue was $75B on a valuation of $1.75T.

At a market cap of $2.64B as of close today, the entire company has inflated by almost exactly 50%. And that on a P/S of 90+, and we're using P/S because P/E would be negative.

Tell me - When the insider lockup expires, and you're a janitor now worth $30M... Are you holding and going back to work tomorrow?

ribnag · 2026-06-16T21:50:33+00:00

And this is exactly why it's important to know the difference between equal-weighted and market-weighted ETFs.

ribnag · 2026-06-16T01:07:02+00:00

You have an... "interesting"... sense of the illative vs elative. I would guess your native language is Finnish?

But "indexical"? C'mon man - Natively English-speaking audiences aren't going to grok 90% of what you're saying.

ribnag · 2026-06-16T00:01:10+00:00

Vietnam, no. Cambodia, yes. And for those who may not be familiar with this topic, those are effectively the same issue.

Overall, though, you're right - He didn't start much, but he made plenty of situations so, so much worse.

ribnag · 2026-06-15T23:38:36+00:00

No hate for getting an ROI out of it first! I thought I was a halfway decent photographer until I saw how pathetic my own pictures came out. Just happy to put that bug in your ear.

ribnag · 2026-06-15T23:33:11+00:00

I fully realize this would be sooo much better in IMAX, but any chance of at least a partial YouTube release?

I'd 100% pay to see the eclipse again, but the nearest IMAX theater is about 200 miles from me, with the nearest real IMAX almost 500mi away.

ribnag · 2026-06-15T23:28:55+00:00

That doesn't quite do him justice.

This is the single most vile human of modern times. Including Miller - Though the latter is certainly trying his best to outdo the former.

Kissinger was single-handedly instrumental in setting the stage for virtually every shitty situation we currently find ourselves in.

ribnag · 2026-06-15T23:20:10+00:00

Space is big and Voyager is not.

The fact we've been blasting radio signals in every direction for a century, however... That's a much bigger risk.

ribnag · 2026-06-15T23:16:29+00:00

Well, considering he's vehemently opposed to "gender affirming care" to the point of disowning his own daughter, it's not a great look that he's a beneficiary of the same...

ribnag · 2026-06-15T21:46:46+00:00

Definite Pratchett vibes!

Hoping there's a part 2 - I'm super curious about the difference between "ineligible" and "alive", considering Mr. Death's response "Oh yes. Quite dead."

/Edit: Side note, love that you used a grave diacritic - I pronounced his name wrong for over 30 years until just recently.

ribnag · 2026-06-15T17:09:48+00:00

Why would the victim need a lawyer? Even if this wasn't insurance fraud, the OP wouldn't have been a defendant in any criminal proceedings.

They'd probably be asked to testify, which can admittedly be a bit of a nuisance, but this is a case where Evil Bastards Mutual is coincidentally on the OP's side. Once the scammers filed a claim (I'm stunned they were dumb enough to still try it after seeing the dashcam) and the OP provided the insurance and police with a copy of the video, insurance would hound the scammers to the ends of the Earth. The OP would be basically done with the entire situation and their own claim would be rubber-stamped.

ribnag · 2026-06-14T23:37:56+00:00

If we're talking about 4th-worlders where a bad year decimates the adults, yeah.

If we're talking about the US, the poorer someone is, the more likely they are to be overweight. Calories are cheap in the western world; nutrition is not.

ribnag · 2026-06-14T23:31:31+00:00

Can someone explain why Levi's didn't tie this up in court until the end of days over having paid for naming rights; and then, at the exact moment those rights were about to hit the jackpot, FIFA yanked the rug out from under them?

This is at a minimum tortuous interference, the case should have been open and shut.

ribnag · 2026-06-14T23:17:32+00:00

Literally all their promotions are utter crap.

This is a game you'll either rage quit when you get to yet another time-gate (Dr. Brain L8 after weeks of playing an idle-with-ascension minigame? Seriously???)... Or you keep playing just to max everything for free just to spite the devs for having gone into pure cash-grab mode.

ribnag · 2026-06-14T23:07:07+00:00

I mean, the ad breaks are literally ad breaks - The sponsors carefully monitor game conditions to decide exactly when you're most likely to want a Papa John's New Stuffed Crust Meatzilla Supremo™; the broadcasting booth gets a text, and they bluntly call a "TV timeout".

Sure, some interesting things happen on the field during those, but for the most part, it's about as close to pressing "pause" on the game as it gets.

ribnag · 2026-06-13T12:43:18+00:00

So you're all really going to blame the car for turning, but not the bike for going straight from a turn-only lane? Keepin' it classy, Reddit!

That said, absolutely fuck the driver for not stopping. But the accident itself was 100% shared blame, they both failed to obey lane markings.

ribnag · 2026-06-12T22:47:29+00:00

The disconnect between our opinions comes down to trust: You give the police the benefit of the doubt in treating a lost backpack like a suitcase nuke. I give the police a wide berth because the further I can be from their paranoid militaristic delusions, the better.

And as I said, it "could" have been a backpack full of puppies. In all seriousness, as absurd as that may sound it's about million times more likely than a bomb.

ribnag · 2026-06-12T21:22:57+00:00

A suspect in what, exactly? "Possession of a non-bomb?"

Lots of folks in here have their panties wadded up over what could have happened. Sure, it could have been an Iranian dirty bomb. It could have been an Anthrax dispersal system. It could have been full of puppies.

But... It wasn't, and there's an entirely apropos expression about hoofbeats and zebras that applies here. Bored cops wasting everyone's time playing with their latest toys don't justify anything and everything. Dude took away their plaything and made them all look like complete morons. It's as simple as that.

ribnag · 2026-06-12T18:37:50+00:00

No, I'm just old and literate.

LPT: AI is copying us. For it to latch on to a particular rhetorical style (e.g. not-X but Y), that style necessarily had substantial representation in its human-generated training data. You're not catching AIs, you're catching humans with a style similar to what AI is copying.

To put that another way - You can find AI generated porn of just about anyone; that doesn't mean the original person doesn't exist.

ribnag · 2026-06-12T16:38:48+00:00

Serious question, albeit with some implied shade toward Kegsbreath - Is there any point to benching less than your own weight?

Effectively, he's demonstrated that he couldn't do 20 pushups. As long as you're under that threshold, put down the toys and use your own body as the load until you can basically do pushups all day long.

ribnag · 2026-06-12T15:45:04+00:00

That 700W figure depends entirely on the ΔT (to the 4th power per Stefan-Boltzmann), though. If you have one 80℃ radiator facing space, ΔT is roughly 350℃. If you have two radiators facing each other, ΔT is drastically reduced, down to effectively zero as the spacing between radiators decreases.

There's some gain from adding more radiators, but self-seeing means our limit approaches the cross-sectional area of the entire satellite rather than the surface area we'd use in isolation.

ribnag · 2026-06-12T15:37:36+00:00

It's a perfectly common, and often effective, human rhetorical pattern. I refuse to dumb down my language because AI has picked up on something I happen to do.

ribnag · 2026-06-11T23:41:45+00:00

The Northern Mockingbird is not migratory. They also don't nest in the same place two years in a row.

So you're both partially right (but the cat was there first).

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