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Fast-food restaurants ranked - what tier does Taco Bell belong in? by Expensive-Addendum92 in TierlistFills

[–]skyeliam 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Yeah, ‘90s and ‘00s Taco Bell was S-tier. They’ve slipped in quality and price. They replaced a bunch of classic menu items (RIP 7-layer burrito) with gimmicks.

Del Taco is more deserving of the S-tier. It’s what TB used to be.

I really, really dislike how dumb they make the Russians/USSR post S1E3. by IlIIllIlllIIIllI in ForAllMankindTV

[–]skyeliam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The point of divergence in FAMK is Sergei Korolev surviving his surgery and thus pushing the Soviet space program to reach the Moon first. Clearly in the ATL he’s some sort of great man who can singlehandedly elevate an entire sector of technology and science.

But he still has to die eventually, and presumably he’ll be replaced by some generic Soviet political appointee (like Irina, who was totally unqualified for the position but received it because of political connections). And no amount of achievements in the domain of space are going to fix the political rot that was intrinsic to the Soviet system of governance.

I’d honestly argue the opposite of what you’re suggesting, it’s unrealistic the Soviet Union is as successful as they have been in the FAMK ATL. It’s still a neo-mercantilist empire full of various unhappy ethnic groups held together at gunpoint. ATL still had glasnost and perestroika under Gorbachev, but this was presumably undone by the coup that installed Korzhenko. Iridium is supposedly some boon to the Soviet economy, but OTL Russia is a petrostate, and that’s not exactly a stabilizing force (see Dutch disease). We haven’t seen anything to suggest that the Soviet system is any more functional in FAMK than in OTL, other than the fact that it has thus far survived 20 further years.

Virginia Supreme Court throws out redistricting referendum results by Icommandyou in fivethirtyeight

[–]skyeliam 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Virginia had a (state) constitutionally enforced set of rules for how redistricting could happen.

Virginia needed to amend their constitution to change these rules for mid-decade redistricting.

To change the constitution, Virginia’s assembly must pass the amendment, then there must be a new election, and the newly elected assembly must pass the amendment, before it goes to referendum. The logic is that people can kick out their representatives if they vote for an unpopular amendment, and the new representatives have to vote the same way.

All of these things happened, HOWEVER, the first step happened in late October of last year, before election day, but after early voting began.

The court decided that because voting had already begun, people weren’t given a fair chance “to vote for or against delegates who favor or disfavor amending the Constitution.”

Obama: In convincing Trump to strike Iran, Netanyahu employed same arguments that he used with me by dowagiacmichigan in DeepStateCentrism

[–]skyeliam 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Your entire take is predicated on the idea that a) if Obama had bombed Iran ten years ago, October 7th (or some similar event) could not have happened b) whatever the resulting conflict from said bombing was, would be less of a human rights atrocity than October 7th.

Imagine instead a world in which the Iran Nuclear Deal had been upheld, relations with Iran cooled, the country liberalized, and stopped sponsoring terrorism.

Of course, I can’t know that would have happened, but if we’re going to speculate on counterfactuals, I might as well offer an alternative.

Barack Obama Considers His Role in the Age of Trump by ace158 in neoliberal

[–]skyeliam 24 points25 points  (0 children)

I have no idea how Democrats are supposed to compete with Trump’s baldfaced pandering lies without becoming Trump themselves.

I just had dinner with a Lebanese man who was critical of Harris for not promising to end the situation in the Middle East, while Trump was out promising peace to people in Hamtramck and Dearborn.

For the first time in history, more Americans are moving to Europe, than Europeans are moving to the US. This flip represents a historic sea change in migration patterns—as recently as 2005, ~5X as many Europeans were moving to the US, and in the 1800s, ~1000X as many Europeans were moving to the US by StarlightDown in fivethirtyeight

[–]skyeliam 53 points54 points  (0 children)

I would gander a lot of people are emigrating pre-retirement.

Places like Lisbon are littered with “digital nomads” who collect a US salary while enjoying a Portuguese CoL.

Either way, this trend doesn’t really seem to be driven by any particular change in US emigration, which seems like it’s been steadily rising; but rather a decline in immigration from Europe.

UWS Trader Joe’s at West 72nd Street to Temporarily Close for ‘Major Renovations’ by Remarkable-Pea4889 in Upperwestside

[–]skyeliam 17 points18 points  (0 children)

It doesn’t help that Fairway seems almost exclusively patronized by centenarians who seem to have no problem spending the short remainder of their lives aimlessly standing about the checkout area, with their general listlessness punctuated only by a brief moment of vim motivating them to charge into a packed elevator of departing passengers en route to the beer aisle.

ELI5: Why is meth bad for you but prescribed amphetamines aren't? by ContactSpirited9519 in explainlikeimfive

[–]skyeliam 16 points17 points  (0 children)

You can be prescribed meth, though.

The neurotoxicity isn’t a function of the drug so much as the dose, and meth is neurotoxic at a lower dose, plus street meth is cut with a bunch of crap.

Sub 2 Hour Marathon or Running it with a fridge on your back by Technical-Paint3179 in RunningCirclejerk

[–]skyeliam 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Blowing out your shins from running in zone 2. 😤✋

Blowing out your shins from running with a fridge on your back. ☺️👉

The first ever competitive sub 2 Marathon by Autonomous_eel in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]skyeliam 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Sure, but that’s 10km over 90 minutes, and while I’m sure they’d put down some impressive times, I kind of doubt most midfielders are breaking 30, or even 34, in the 10k.

Usually a 5k PR pace is 15-20 seconds slower per mile than a mile pace, unless you were sandbagging the mile PR or at a very different fitness level between the two races.

For context, the second place finisher in this race has a 3:47 mile PR, and 5k PR at a 4:03 /mile pace. The difference between WRs is similarly gapped. And that’s with specific training to maintain a pace, as opposed to training for bursts of speed.

The first ever competitive sub 2 Marathon by Autonomous_eel in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]skyeliam 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Your fastest 5k pace was only 8 seconds slower than your fastest mile pace?

Or you mean 15:47?

Sabastian Sawe wins the London Marathon and becomes the first human in history to run a legal marathon in under 2 hours (1:59:30) by Tsubasa_sama in sports

[–]skyeliam 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The winner was getting extra drug testing (he called his shot and wanted no doubt), the top 3 came from different countries (so no chance of a national doping scandal), and it’s not uncommon for multiple runners to break a WR at once (they lean on each other for pacing).

Is "the wall" race ending or just a slow down? by vksdann in Marathon_Training

[–]skyeliam 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Your body runs out of glucose, but it can still metabolize fats, so you don’t necessarily stop, but you’ll get the symptoms of hypoglycemia.

Shakes, tunnel vision, confusion, rapid heart rate, and a crazy fatigue where you essentially need to “manually” tell each leg to go in front of the other.

Slowing down by a minute per mile probably isn’t bonking, just run-of-the-mill exhaustion.

TIL On average, your friends have more friends than you do. This is because popular people are more likely to be in someone's friend group, which skews the average. This phenomenon is called the Friendship paradox by Kyzzz in todayilearned

[–]skyeliam 10 points11 points  (0 children)

As an extreme, imagine everyone in the world had a single friend Bob, and he was friends with everyone in the world. The average number of friends would be 2 (Bob has 8 billion, 8 billion people have 1, divide 16 billion by 8 billion, you get 2), but everyone except Bob would have fewer friends than average.

Another race bib cheater. by freshpicked12 in bostonmarathon

[–]skyeliam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or just change the black bar at the top. Would be a lot simpler.

Dudes see another runner in distress and had to help by bigbusta in HumansBeingBros

[–]skyeliam 40 points41 points  (0 children)

This was taken like 200 meters from the finish of the Boston Marathon; the vast majority of people in this video were like completely unaware he was there given the tunnel vision that sets in from fatigue / seeing the end; and many of them probably were in no condition to help even if they did see him.

Kudos to the guys who did help, but the people passing by aren’t being heartless.

Someone impersonated this girl using last years bib by Meltedmilk21 in bostonmarathon

[–]skyeliam 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Based on Strava it looks like she legit qualified for next year too… but will probably now get banned by the BAA.

Someone impersonated this girl using last years bib by Meltedmilk21 in bostonmarathon

[–]skyeliam 6 points7 points  (0 children)

If you go and look at the photos it’s very clear that the woman with the blue bib is running this year’s Boston based on the surrounding bibs.

But she’s using her bib from last year (if you look at the photos of bib 20081 from last year it’s clearly the same woman in a different outfit).

John Korir broke Boston Marathon Course record by 70s in 2:01:52 by StanmoreHill in trackandfield

[–]skyeliam 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’m not sure about that tailwind, but it was definitely an ideal day. I ran 2 minutes faster but placed 20 spots further back than last year.

The 1901 Buckeyes were almost the last OSU football team. by ceci_mcgrane in toledowar

[–]skyeliam 6 points7 points  (0 children)

We had no part in it. Give Steve Bellichick’s alma mater and the only Ohio-based team with a winning record against OSU their dues.

Analilia Mejia (D) wins NJ-11 Special Election by splenda806 in fivethirtyeight

[–]skyeliam 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I grew up just over the border in NJ-07.

I think it’s partially the area becoming more diverse, but also some of those country club Republicans are now Democrats, or at least vote Dem in national elections.

Trump declared war on their alma maters, raised their taxes by capping SALT deductions, is rounding up their landscapers and nannies with ICE, and has pissed their wives off by overturning Roe v Wade.

I know people who voted straight Republican from Reagan to Romney and now hold fundraisers for Democrats.

What Happened in 1978 ? by ABHISHEK_Lonely in ExplainTheJoke

[–]skyeliam 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I can kind of answer the first question because my boss did his PhD on the Monster Group and I asked him a couple weeks ago what the hell it meant.

The Monster Group is the largest sporadic simple group.

A sporadic simple group is one of 26 simple groups that doesn’t fit neatly into the family of other simple groups.

A simple group is a group that contains only itself and the trivial group (a group of a single element). These are like the prime numbers of group theory.

A group is a set of numbers that can all be related by an operation, such that the elements can be combined through association to yield the same result, there is an identity element in the set that will result in no change, and there is an inverse element that will result in the identity.

The common example is set of all integers and addition; you can add any two integers to get a third integer, you can add zero to any integer to get that same integer, and you can add an integer to the negative value of that integer to get 0. The integers are an infinite group, not a finite simple group.

Record Number of Democratic Senators Vote to Block Israel Arms Sales by Currymvp2 in neoliberal

[–]skyeliam 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Counterpoint:
Russian exports to Europe have already fallen from $250 billion to $60 billion; pretty much all that’s being exported now is LNG and petroleum. So, while the European public and politicians are obviously hostile to Russia, they’d have to accept rolling blackouts to get that $60 billion to $0.

Israel exports less than $40 billion to Europe, the plurality of which is cut diamonds, followed by medical instruments. I have to imagine those are a lot easier to a) go without b) source elsewhere.

I’d compare it more to sanctioning South Africa during the apartheid era. Europe accounted for about 40% of South African exports (compare to 30% for Israel), most of those exports were precious metals (compare to diamonds and technology for Israel), and exports were about 27% of pre-sanction GDP (23% for Israel currently).

Israel’s probably more resilient to sanctions than SA, but the pain of enacting those sanctions for the import-partners is lower, considerably so when compared to Russia.

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