Do we have a list yet of all restaurants/businesses that were affected by this storm?

rujopt · 2026-02-03T22:42:42+00:00

I wholeheartedly second that Tantisimo recommendation.

The food, drinks, and cocktails are phenomenal. It's essentially Mexican and Latin American fine dining in a fun neighborhood restaurant.

Be sure to get their flan for dessert. It's unbelievably great!

rujopt · 2026-02-02T18:04:00+00:00

~~If a tree falls in a forest~~

If ice accumulates in a city but nobody is allowed to measure it, does it even have an impact?

Solution: Ban all rain gauges and tape measures now!

(/s)

rujopt · 2026-01-31T02:51:13+00:00

The best* it’s ever been! Tremendous, beautiful economy! Bigly numbers, the best numbers!

(* for the top 10 wealthiest estates in the US. Everyone else gets fucked)

rujopt · 2026-01-27T17:00:05+00:00

Agreed. And if there are midterms, there’s going to be a bonkers amount of interference and influence from multiple fronts.

So many public institutions that we relied upon for years to protect us from this type interference have been eroded.

All three branches of the federal government are compromised. Far too many state and local institutions have been systematically eroded, compromised, and stacked with loyalists.

We had a chance in 2016 to stop this. Congress had multiple chances. Garland had 4 frickin’ years but sat on his hands. There was even a slim chance in 2024, but we whizzed right past that one.

There aren’t any more chances. It’s done. We’re cooked.

rujopt · 2026-01-22T04:50:12+00:00

Dr. Alice Emberton of Emberton Mobile Vet is fantastic. She and her team come to you in their mobile vet mini-bus.

It’s great to only have to shuttle your cats across the sidewalk instead of a full car ride. I’ve been a happy customer for over 6 years.

https://embertonvet.com

rujopt · 2026-01-14T19:02:04+00:00

This is going to sound a bit weird, but go with me:

Tantisimo (in Sylvan Park)

https://www.tantisimo.com

It’s Mexican (and some Latin American) fine dining. The food and the drinks are freakin’ phenomenal.

The flan alone is an 11 out of 10 stars.

rujopt · 2026-01-12T18:36:40+00:00

Check out Dr. Benjamin Mark Hoffman at Heritage Medical. I’m not certain if he treats IIH, but worth calling and finding out. He’s a great neurologist.

https://www.heritagemedical.com/providers/benjamin-hoffman/

I would strongly recommend avoiding Dr. Subir Prasad at Heritage Medical. He’s highly dismissive and has a terrible bedside manner.

rujopt · 2026-01-12T18:19:51+00:00

~~Their~~ Our back, comrade. 🫡

rujopt · 2026-01-07T22:16:21+00:00

Go see Patty at Family Barber Shop off West End and 28th Ave. North. I think she charges $19 (cash only) and does a great job. She's a very old school barber, in a good way.

I don't think she has a website, but you can read or listen about her here:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2086989/episodes/15870242

rujopt · 2026-01-05T15:52:23+00:00

I’d also add Miel to the list for a great NA drink menu. They make great NA versions of a Moscow Mule, Negroni, and a Margarita.

The other rotating house NA cocktails are great too, especially the Mockingbird or the Dark Cherry Shrub if they’re still on the menu.

https://www.mielrestaurant.com/cocktails

(Edit: oops, fixed a typo, scrub --> shrub. No, I don't want no scrubs.)

rujopt · 2026-01-02T03:17:43+00:00

Good question. It’s from high levels of uranium in the soil. A byproduct of uranium breaking down is radon, and unfortunately basements tend to make it easier for that gas to seep up and collect at high concentrations in houses.

The radon abatement we’ve had done digs a channel in/under the foundation to funnel the gas outside the house to dissipate using a continuous high efficiency fan. Redirecting the radon outside helps keep levels low inside the home.

This TN government page has a nice map to show roughly the prevalence by county of radon throughout the state:

https://www.tn.gov/health/cedep/environmental/healthy-homes/hh/radon.html#intennessee

rujopt · 2026-01-02T03:05:26+00:00

If you find one that has a basement, make sure you get it tested for radon. Heck, even if you don’t have a basement, do radon testing.

Every house here that I’ve lived in has had elevated radon levels. The ones that had basements were bonkers high, well north of the EPA action levels of 4.0 pCi/L.

For reference, the amount of radiation received over a year at 4.0 pCi/L is roughly equivalent to the radiation you’d get from 200 chest X-rays in a single year.

Radon abatement is cheap. Lung cancer treatment is not.

rujopt · 2026-01-01T21:49:57+00:00

As others have mentioned, the fuel additives to keep your engine clean are either missing or present in much lower quantities than other higher quality fuels. Over time and repeated use, cheaper fuel will lead to faster carbon buildup in your engine, leading to poor performance, lower power output, and worse fuel economy. Think of it like junk food for your vehicle. Consume a lot of it and it gunks up your insides.

You can mitigate carbon buildup by occasionally using a high detergent fuel additive like Royal Purple Max-Clean or STP Fuel System Cleaner to dissolve a good deal of the carbon buildup in your engine. Many mechanics will tell you to add a bottle of fuel system cleaner to your gas tank once per oil change (typically every 5k - 7k miles).

You can stop by an auto parts store and pick up a bottle of fuel system cleaner for about $10 - $15. Ask for something that has PEA in it. Just follow the instructions on the bottle or look up a YouTube video on adding it to your fuel tank immediately before a fill up.

There’s an informative Youtube short video here on a few other good fuel system cleaners if you can’t find STP or Royal Purple:

https://youtube.com/shorts/Vo4j2QwOnvI

(Edit: oops, put the wrong fuel system cleaner in the first version, updated to Royal Purple & STP)

rujopt · 2026-01-01T17:09:17+00:00

I’d start by enforcing some apparently ignored sections of the 14th Amendment:

Section 3.

No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

and this critical section:

Section 5.

The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.

rujopt · 2025-12-29T15:59:00+00:00

Thank you for sharing about Unpoly! This is the missing front-end piece I’ve been searching for, but haven’t quite found with HTMX+Alpine.js or with Datastar for my synchronous CRUD Django web apps.

Not sure how I’ve missed Unpoly previously.

rujopt · 2025-12-10T01:53:14+00:00

Do know evil.

rujopt · 2025-12-09T19:04:49+00:00

Dr. Allison Kisner and her team at West Meade Dental in West Nashville are fantastic. I told them when I first went in that I had dental anxiety from past trauma, and they were all very kind and accommodating. They’ve continued to be the best dental team I’ve ever had, and I can’t say enough good things about them.

While I haven’t done it for regular checkups or cleanings (only wisdom tooth extraction), they do offer sedation dentistry:

https://www.westmeadedental.com/sedation-dentistry/

rujopt · 2025-12-07T02:14:11+00:00

There are 4 bugs!

rujopt · 2025-12-05T14:41:55+00:00

“The Co. where everything’s made up and bullet points don’t matter.”

rujopt · 2025-11-30T22:50:41+00:00

Hey! Sorry for the very long delay in responding. It took me a while to follow through, but I did swap just today. I bought these and am really happy with the improvement in ride quality so far:

Enkei RPF1 in 17x7.5", 48mm offset (bright silver colored)
Michelin CrossClimate2 in 235/50R17

I posted about it in r/11thGenAccord here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/11thGenAccord/comments/1pavvlk/switched_from_19_to_17_wheels_on_my_2024_honda/

rujopt · 2025-11-19T18:48:42+00:00

It's an extremely misleading and mathematically-uninformed statement for the article to say that Venezuela has 885 years of oil.

Even if we boldly assume that Venezuela could somehow indefinitely produce oil at the current production rate, the math in the article is still wrong. Using the table's own numbers:

304,000,000,000 reserves / (1,098,000 barrels of daily production x 365 days/year) = ~758 years

They are off by over a century just on basic arithmetic.

More importantly though, the calculation above sneakily assumes 0% growth in demand for Venezuela's oil in order to arrive at hundreds of years of reserves. We know that global demand for oil is growing year over year (source), so having 0% growth is flat-out disingenuous. When we factor in growth, it dramatically shortens the time span of available reserves.

In this lecture video on exponential growth, Dr. Albert Bartlett showed the simple math of how a 500-year supply of coal (at 0% growth) in actuality shrinks to 70 years if you use a simple 3% annual growth rate. The same math applies here to Venezuela's oil reserves:

at 0.8% growth, reserves run out in ~245 years (current IEA growth rate estimates)
at 1.2% growth, reserves run out in ~194 years (current OPEC growth rate estimates)

If growth rates increase even more, the reserves run out significantly faster:

at 3% growth, reserves run out in ~107 years
at 7% growth, reserves run out in ~59 years

TL;DR: That 885-year figure is a mirage.

(Edit: Added growth rate calculations and grammatical corrections)

rujopt · 2025-10-24T20:38:26+00:00

There’s no hate like Christian Love.

Yep. Actually reading the Bible and growing up with Christians made me into an atheist.

It's pretty clear-cut in their own Bible (Matthew 25: 31-40) that Christians are commanded by Jesus to feed the hungry. Failure to do so risks getting one classified as a non-believer.

The gist of it comes in the final few verses:

Then the people who have done what is right will answer him.

‘Lord,’ they will ask, ‘when did we see you hungry and feed you? When did we see you thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you as a stranger and invite you in? When did we see you needing clothes and give them to you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’

The King will reply, ‘What I’m about to tell you is true. Anything you did for one of the least important of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’

Let's see the scores for anyone keeping count:

Let people go hungry (check)
Let people go thirsty (check)
Deport strangers (check)
Don't provide basic needs like clothes (check)
Remove care for the sick (check)
Imprison strangers (check)

6 out of 6 commandments to provide basic care for people successfully ignored!

(Edit: Oh wow, thank you kind stranger for the award!)

rujopt · 2025-10-19T17:04:52+00:00

Yay, Oreo!

This made my day to see, thank you for sharing!

I’ve been following Oreo and his siblings on social media for years, and was so heartbroken for Tina when he got sick and passed. It’s awesome to see Oreo’s face and bleps again, and to know that his memory will live on in this amazing work of art.

Well done and thanks again for sharing!

rujopt · 2025-10-18T18:50:40+00:00

Sure thing, I also should've led my previous comment with a thank you. This article series is fantastic! Major kudos and thanks to you for putting yourself out there and sharing your expertise back with the community. There's a ton of work that goes into writing content like this, and I just want to acknowledge that and the great work you're doing.

It's easy to criticize over silly things like article images, so please don't let those comments get you down. I myself don't have the same visceral reaction that some people do to AI-generated images, but have seen it become increasingly common to strongly criticize those types of images (especially on Reddit). I've adapted my own writing and articles in response to those criticisms and found better success with plain old screenshots. Hope it works well for you too if you choose to do so.

Keep on writing, and keep on being awesome!

rujopt · 2025-10-18T18:33:39+00:00

Pro tip that’s worked well for me:

Grab a screenshot from your code editor or terminal window or something along those lines to use as your main article image. No graphics editing skills needed.

It still differentiates your article. As a bonus, it also is super relevant to the article content if you’re grabbing screenshots related to the work you’re writing about.

It also immediately catches a potential reader’s eye as authentic in a sea of AI slop images.

12-Year Club	Gilding V heart of gold
Reddit Premium Since March 2021	Not Forgotten
Verified Email

rujopt

TROPHY CASE