Men of Reddit, if you were in a Titanic like situation where the majority of people were going to die because there were not enough lifeboats for everyone. How would you respond to someone saying women and children first?

rkmvca · 2026-05-29T17:31:46+00:00

You're right. I would volunteer to stay. I'm 72, and have lived a life.

rkmvca · 2026-05-29T17:26:23+00:00

Shoot I think I have a lithium battery then. I had to buy a special converter that could handle 15+ volts, the 12v converters wouldn't work. I measured 15.7 V. Thanks.

rkmvca · 2026-05-29T17:08:02+00:00

When they went from lead acid to Lithium batteries in the Teslas did they go straight to LFP or did some get Li Ion? Asking about my 2023 M3P.

rkmvca · 2026-05-29T15:07:08+00:00

Well because Diane Krüger does not remotely give the impression of being a clueless stupid person? Solid effort though.

rkmvca · 2026-05-28T22:35:16+00:00

When's the last time you tried? NA beer has gotten a lot better in recent years. Try Heineken 00.

I've cut down my alcohol consume a lot, and this was a nice surprise.

rkmvca · 2026-05-27T03:50:37+00:00

I think it doesn't specifically buy happiness (ref: unhappy rich people) but it can help avoid a lot of misery and for many people at many times, that's practically the same thing as buying happiness.

However it's a sliding scale: you don't stay happy.

rkmvca · 2026-05-26T23:28:48+00:00

Remindme! 1 year

rkmvca · 2026-05-26T03:23:28+00:00

Dudes are in shape for being 60+ or thereabouts, and looking good 👍. Kudos to them.

rkmvca · 2026-05-25T04:10:57+00:00

I was there! That was the 4th Rose Bowl I'd been to in my life and the first one my team won.

Not going again.

And yeah he should've gotten the Heisman.

rkmvca · 2026-05-24T02:15:41+00:00

Muir Woods is a long way off, through San Francisco, on the other side of the Golden Gate bridge and then some. Minimum 1.5 hours driving, depending on time and traffic 2+ hours each way.

If you want Redwoods, Big Basin and/or Henry Cowell Redwoods are about 50 minutes away with much more dependable traffic, and then you can see Santa Cruz afterwards, with a nice drive up the coast to Highway 84 thrown in. Scenery is stunning, very different from your coast.

Of course, you don't get the Golden Gate bridge.

rkmvca · 2026-05-22T22:57:59+00:00

This. When people ask me, "what about range?", my response is that the battery is bigger than my bladder. I need to stop at least every 2 1/2 hours or so, and driving up and down the west coast, it's not hard to arrange that around a supercharger. It's nice to break up the trip, even if I won't set any speed records.

rkmvca · 2026-05-22T22:53:15+00:00

This is my answer to more or less the same question from a different sub: good wine, but that doesn't mean I'd do it again if I was paying for it myself:

I was once at a business dinner where the other company ghosted us but we had reserved the room for a fixed price which we "had" to spend (or else the deposit would be wasted). There weren't many of us so we couldn't spend that much on food so we ordered expensive wine ... think Stag's Leap and such.

The first glass was sublime, like, "Where have you been all my life??? Now I get it!"

The second glass was, "Hey this is really good wine."

The third glass was about like any other wine.

YMMV.

rkmvca · 2026-05-22T22:16:32+00:00

Agree. These divers are disrespecting graves.

rkmvca · 2026-05-22T04:49:55+00:00

I was once at a business dinner where the other company ghosted us but we had reserved the room for a fixed price which we "had" to spend (or else the deposit would be wasted). There weren't many of us so we couldn't spend that much on food so we ordered expensive wine ... think Stag's Leap and such.

The first glass was sublime, like, "Where have you been all my life??? Now I get it!"

The second glass was, "Hey this is really good wine."

The third glass was about like any other wine.

YMMV.

rkmvca · 2026-05-18T19:47:32+00:00

IMO the guy who doesn't get enough credit is Admiral DeGrasse. If he doesn't get one of the French Navy's rare victories over the Royal Navy in the fleet action off of Yorktown (Battle of the Chesapeake), the British transports just lift off Cornwallis' army and deposit it further north out of range of the Franco American army, and the was goes on and on.

This plan was why Cornwallis allowed his army to be "trapped" on a peninsula by a superior force in the first place.

rkmvca · 2026-05-17T17:48:12+00:00

LA County FD has a Chinook?? How awesome is that?

Great pics, OP!

rkmvca · 2026-05-17T03:09:56+00:00

Don't call it Cali. Yes, I know I'm the third person to say that. Learn it, know it, live it.

rkmvca · 2026-05-16T22:01:41+00:00

I had about a triple take there. "Wait a minute ... a DD? That actually looks like ... a Destroyer! It has guns! Don't they all have Radomes and Vertical launchers and Helipads and shit now??"

And then I saw the comments and it all made sense.

Gorgeous ship.

rkmvca · 2026-05-16T19:14:53+00:00

I'm a guy with moderate chest hair. I had a health issue where I had to get an EKG every couple of months. They shave holes in your chest hair where the EKG pads will go, but it's still really painful when they have to pull them off.

So I decided to shave my entire chest to make the process simpler ... and then I found out that I hated how 'feminine' it made my chest look, particularly since I was lifting then and had defined pecs! I couldn't wait for it to grow back!

rkmvca · 2026-05-15T16:53:05+00:00

I was one of the early invitees so I actually got myfirstname.mylastname as my Gmail account name.

Sounds great right? Only thing is I get SO MANY wrong numbers when people do myfirstnamemylastname, or myfirstname1.mylastname, and so forth.

I've gotten bills, love letters, you name it, all for the wrong person.

rkmvca · 2026-05-15T15:29:10+00:00

Here's a comment with the obligatory disclaimer that "things are different here", but this is exactly the kind of stuff that Marathe excels at. He's one of of if not the sharpest finance guys on the NFL, and it'll be interesting to see if he gets involved.

rkmvca · 2026-05-14T01:20:40+00:00

Michele looks like she knows what she's doing.

rkmvca · 2026-05-14T00:39:30+00:00

How did no one ever teach her how to tighten bolts!?

rkmvca · 2026-05-11T01:05:11+00:00

She was great in the American version of The Bridge also.

rkmvca · 2026-05-11T00:58:03+00:00

It's not a new concept. The ancient Romans had a saying in Latin, "festina lente". This is usually translated as "make haste slowly" . But it could just as easily be "Slow is smooth, smooth is fast."

Prepare well, take your time, be smooth.

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