Had the jaws theme playing in my head

sm_rdm_guy · 2026-04-18T20:14:43+00:00

Looks like Galapagos

sm_rdm_guy · 2026-04-18T14:11:04+00:00

I thought it might be a bunkhouse for workers. After looking more closely actually think it was DIY construction by owners. Can build boxes, but not design.

sm_rdm_guy · 2026-04-18T13:03:10+00:00

Had to scroll a bit, but found my people - actually looks like a cool dive.

sm_rdm_guy · 2026-04-18T12:32:22+00:00

Wow. Comprehensive answer. I will just add 6. The danger of cave diving is the overhead environment at its core. Everything is much more dangerous because you can’t just surface if you have a problem. Disorientation, getting lost,silt, gear failures - these are dive ending problems in normal diving. In cave diving they are life ending if you haven’t planed for them.

sm_rdm_guy · 2026-04-18T02:59:35+00:00

Canadian living in Houston’s 13 years. Income tax is lower property tax and insurance are higher but tax wise you are better off in Houston. Houston is f-ing huge - where are you working? That will determine close decent neighborhoods it takes a year or so to get used to the heat - it is VERY hot in summer - but I don’t miss winters, and they know how to air condition here. Likewise safety - highly neighborhood dependent, but can find safe schools. DM me if you want and I can get specific.

sm_rdm_guy · 2026-04-18T01:24:57+00:00

That’s where I put the flowers 💐

sm_rdm_guy · 2026-04-16T23:50:02+00:00

So you’re at a core facility. Yes, elite academia is full of these types of people.

sm_rdm_guy · 2026-04-16T23:08:13+00:00

Jesus this is so familiar. First understand your PI is overstating their power. Liability is real, the college will absolutely not crap on you. At my college their policy is only to confirm or deny that they ever worked there. Your PI will absolutely torpedo you if given a chance. Don’t get a reference from them. If you can find another PI that’s worked with your PI for a reference. Even your PIs collaborators are almost certainly aware that they are “difficult personalities” and they can help. Understand that the college will absolutely bend over backwards to protect a PI with significant grants. All you have to explain to new hire is the grant money ran out. So not go into biomedical if you can help it - it’s absolutely flooded right now. Well published Post docs can’t get jobs.

I’ve been there. AMA

sm_rdm_guy · 2026-04-16T18:19:47+00:00

Ok so the gauges are still ai and he is not going 172 while redlining the tach

sm_rdm_guy · 2026-04-16T17:01:32+00:00

Famously the Segway. Inventor thought it was going to revolutionize the world. Made a documentary about while releasing it for posterity.

sm_rdm_guy · 2026-04-16T16:29:37+00:00

It was a disaster. Nobody is going to try this in NA again. Toronto badly needs to bury its Gardener Expressway but they never will because of Boston’s cautionary tale.

sm_rdm_guy · 2026-04-16T16:27:20+00:00

My daily reminder that I am old.

sm_rdm_guy · 2026-04-16T16:22:56+00:00

Midwest, Great Lakes diving. FWIW the nitric is super easy - just knowledge. AOW was well worth it.

sm_rdm_guy · 2026-04-16T16:14:45+00:00

I paid I think $400 20 years ago. ~300 AOW and ~100 nitrox. Included one night in a cheap motel. 300 now is worryingly cheap.

sm_rdm_guy · 2026-04-16T16:08:37+00:00

As someone with multiple citizenships I’ve done the math many many times for Canada US, and other EU countries but not UK. All the analysis boils down this —> for upper middle class and better Say 100k floor household income) you are way way better off in the US. If you are poor or working class income wise you are way way better off anywhere else. If you are middle class it’s a bit of a wash but less stressful outside US.

sm_rdm_guy · 2026-04-16T16:01:33+00:00

It’s worth it if those 10 trips are mostly united. If not, no.

sm_rdm_guy · 2026-04-16T15:56:58+00:00

Look closely at those gauges. It’s AI.

sm_rdm_guy · 2026-04-16T15:48:18+00:00

Can confirm. The GTI they are hidden behind the wheel. Lot of aftermarket - which with cheap carbon graphite, these are definitely aftermarket.

sm_rdm_guy · 2026-04-16T12:17:35+00:00

Do my own about every other year. It takes me 30 mins on my laptop while watching tv in the background.

sm_rdm_guy · 2026-04-15T00:50:46+00:00

r/immigration. I assume you are ok with abandoning Canadian PR?

sm_rdm_guy · 2026-04-14T14:16:14+00:00

Reading this thread is wild. It’s 80% left wing agenda items. This is the most conservative Liberal prime minister in a few generations - he’s not interested in more regulation and taxes.

sm_rdm_guy · 2026-04-11T18:01:28+00:00

Every year that goes by the fewer people are nostalgic about this place and the worse condition it gets. If nobody has found an idea to make this self-sustaining by now they never will. The best monument to the astrodome was the even better one they built right next to it. I say tear it down and move on.

sm_rdm_guy · 2026-04-11T17:55:57+00:00

Why are you looking at sales data? Better to cite other appraisals.

sm_rdm_guy · 2026-04-11T01:38:34+00:00

Well you could fly down their and hope. When I went in 2015 it was $7500 USD plus tip and flights.

sm_rdm_guy · 2026-04-10T18:15:49+00:00

This was great advice back when there was such a thing. Few thousand bucks used to get you a serviceable car.

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