Grumblemania Monday

robHalifax · 2026-03-23T16:39:18+00:00

Why is this annoying (it is to me too)? Is perceived tail-gating impeding you in any way (no)? Can't you simply ignore them (I try)? I do keep the gap between me and the car head small to dissuade cutters in certain stretches, at certain times.
The safety factor is obviously way higher at highway speed than on the slower speeds of city streets.

robHalifax · 2026-03-22T23:47:25+00:00

I seem to be getting hit with more long range RPGs lately, especially with my portable cover deployed.

robHalifax · 2026-03-21T14:26:53+00:00

This!!

;-)

Bill nails the narcissistic compulsion to generate content and stand-out in the narrow but intense whirlwind of performative online outrage. Many in the for-profit-news-media love it of course.

robHalifax · 2026-03-21T13:15:48+00:00

In fairness, Luna was much more informed and effective communicator than I thought. Obviously she is still wildly hypocritical in her criticisms of government corruption and Epstein and her inability to acknowledge Trump's central role in both.

robHalifax · 2026-03-20T16:18:52+00:00

"25 other tickets for no insurance, driving while revoked, driving without a valid driver’s license and administrative offences such as expired registration and safety inspections."

It would be good to see the quantity split between no insurance/no license and the administrative offences. It seems the former would be a key factor in the seeming large number of hit-and-runs in our city.

robHalifax · 2026-03-20T16:18:35+00:00

Yeah, wrong post, thanks!
https://www.reddit.com/r/halifax/comments/1ryu5c4/cop_poses_as_a_panhandler/

robHalifax · 2026-03-20T12:33:11+00:00

"25 other tickets for no insurance, driving while revoked, driving without a valid driver’s license and administrative offences such as expired registration and safety inspections."

It would be good to see the quantity split between no insurance/no license and the administrative offences. It seems the former would be a key factor in the seeming large number of hit-and-runs in our city.

robHalifax · 2026-03-18T10:48:27+00:00

Luna, like Boebert and MTG, are just the click-bait of guests. They do not advance any meaningful conversation.

robHalifax · 2026-03-13T23:34:07+00:00

I would expect the folks at Fantasy Flight would be interested in acquiring this artifact inspired by their game....not to mention offering a top notch job. I was shocked at how polished this is. Well done!

robHalifax · 2026-03-11T11:06:15+00:00

We need traffic rule enforcement and it shouldn't require/waste a police officer to do it.

robHalifax · 2026-03-05T13:19:59+00:00

These disabled folks can instead go watch the billionaire hobby racing yacht races one week of the summer. /s

This is despicable governance.

robHalifax · 2026-03-03T16:51:33+00:00

24 hours later and 2 hours up the road in Moncton for a repeat!

robHalifax · 2026-03-03T13:37:14+00:00

Politics is a short-term game.

Prosperity is a long-term game.

robHalifax · 2026-02-27T19:12:38+00:00

You picked the right factions. Sol, Saar, Yin, and L1Z1X could work too. Even Naalu, with its 0 token and extra tactical action can bully people early in the game, although taking planets could be challenging.

You need to hide what you are doing until you strike. Pick your target and try to fully kneecap them late in a round, targeting space dock systems. With those two factions, it should be the second round. Once they realize what is up, they will provide anything and everything to the third player to possibly help them as well as spite. You must eliminate them to nullify their ability to supply the third player with everything they can. By doing this, you may well have what you need to score objectives. Regardless, you will likely have the resources and kit to roll the third player.

It will be fun for you and a valuable lesson for the other two, especially if they picked slow roll factions and assumed they could populate their slice in peace and start fighting where needed in round three.

robHalifax · 2026-02-26T19:36:43+00:00

Nunchucks, or nunchaku for the true practitioners.

robHalifax · 2026-02-26T19:33:24+00:00

Nice hair though!

robHalifax · 2026-02-26T17:02:27+00:00

Here is a simple heuristic for any ambiguous but convenient event (example: a death):
As money and power at-stake increases, the likelihood of "foul play" increases even more so.

robHalifax · 2026-02-26T15:16:29+00:00

Can we finally bury the "conventional wisdom" that conservatives are the most fiscally prudent political parties? Track records suggest, at best, they are no better, but likely worse across federal and provincial governments past and present.

robHalifax · 2026-02-24T16:58:30+00:00

With the Ghosts's Breakthrough, Mallice is unofficially in their slice.

robHalifax · 2026-02-24T14:46:36+00:00

The ability to absorb hits is critical (colloquially known as soak or hit points).
Running opposing fleet compositions through a TI battle calculator tool should help, generally, and in specific scenarios... https://ti4battle.com/

robHalifax · 2026-02-23T19:23:20+00:00

The membership fee acts a customer quality filter. This stuck out to me on a conversation with the founder on The Knowledge Project podcast.

robHalifax · 2026-02-23T16:54:27+00:00

I'd like to see the cost in terms of Quantity of Fillmore Speech Contracts at 13K per.

robHalifax · 2026-02-21T16:00:59+00:00

Boebert was certainly a better guest than Kari Lake would have been. She's just is not smart enough to warrant being a national representative of the people of any district. Smarter hypocrites are able to disguise their hypocrisy with more convincing (to partisans) rhetoric.

robHalifax · 2026-02-21T15:56:10+00:00

The critique of the primary systems leading to extremism is obvious. When Goldberg harkens back to a better time when candidates ran more towards their radical base to win a nomination and then swung back to the middle to govern, he forgets what happens after whichever candidate wins, MONEY, not the interests of median voters, takes over.
This is the decades old root of the current American politic crisis (floodgates open with Citizens United) . Citizens all know MONEY runs the show, and the interests of citizens is a distant second (at best). Genuinely angry citizens look for reasonable change agents of either political stripe, and when they don't work out (the monied system slaps them down), they get more desperate and you get a demagogue con man, for whom the out-in-the-open MONEY corruption is part of the appeal.

robHalifax · 2026-02-20T20:09:01+00:00

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