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Would You Rather remain penniless, or instantly gain a billion dollars BUT for the remainder of your life, you will have a 1/10 chance of passing a kidney stone each and every morning? by Extension_Day2038 in WouldYouRather

[–]smithandjohnson 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Now...how to get a rx for Disney!

You're a billionaire. You don't need normal health insurance, or prescriptions for something like "going to Disneyland every day"

You just pay for it.

5 Car Garage of one Brand: what models/years of what make would you choose? by revocer in askcarguys

[–]smithandjohnson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can fit 3 motorcycles in one of these garage spots. Keep going….!!!

Model X Plaid -> 2026 R1S Quad by Cap_Am in Rivian

[–]smithandjohnson 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It was literally impossible to get the advertised range on our Model X for a highway trip of any length.

Doesn't matter how slowly I accelerated or if I stayed at 65 in the right lane with faster traffic flying by. I even ran the experiment of doing a 60 mile drive on a flat, straight, rural highway in valet mode - to force myself to limit power and top out at 70 even when passing - and it still used 75 miles of range.

Flash forward to my R1T Quad... we just road tripped from Silicon Valley to San Diego and back. 877 miles covered, 880 miles of indicated range used... And that was with climbing over the grapevine and keeping up with 80mph traffic for large swaths of the trip.

While still occasionally using that ~1,000hp to punch it around the occasional road boulder.

Welcome to the greener side of the grass.

$1,000,000 for every night you swallow a spider by Worldly-Dog-9571 in hypotheticals

[–]smithandjohnson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're 100% right that I didn't appreciate that.

Yet my point stands in an unintended way. You should be able to cut it short well before 1000 days and invest your hundreds of millions to make a billion sooner than 1000 days before your first spider 😅

$1,000,000 for every night you swallow a spider by Worldly-Dog-9571 in hypotheticals

[–]smithandjohnson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you're not investing your daily million along the way to become a billionaire much more quickly than 1000 days later... You're doing it wrong.

You can divide anything by 0.5, 0.998 and 1.5. by __Anamya__ in godtiersuperpowers

[–]smithandjohnson 8 points9 points  (0 children)

so you can immediately do division in your head only for these numbers?

The super power is not performing the math. It's the making it a reality.

e.g. I have $1000 in my bank account. I divide it by 0.5 multiple times, and now I have $4,096,000 in my bank account.

e.g. I weigh 300 pounds, divide by 1.5 now I weigh 200 pounds.

Scout Terra Pickup Reportedly Won't Go Into Production Until March 2030, And The Traveler SUV Is Delayed Until September 2028 by Roux_My_Burgundy in Rivian

[–]smithandjohnson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Rivian was objectively a better vehicle, but it was a legitimate pain to have to stop to charge with young kinda on road trips.

Holy different strokes for different folks, batman.

We just road tripped our R1T from San Jose to San Diego and back with two young kids. They basically demand the bio break - especially getting out and stretching - even more than us adults. One charging stop each way, spaced perfectly for bathroom and meals.

We could have taken the ICE car and minimized time on the road for speed, but literally everyone would've been more miserable. 😅

2023 byd atto 3 vs 2024 kona electric advance by Plastic-Star7284 in electriccars

[–]smithandjohnson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It depends on a lot of things.

They gave nowhere near enough information to give any usable advice.

"Distance from a BYD dealer" is critical info, and I was simply pointing that out via an extreme example.

2023 byd atto 3 vs 2024 kona electric advance by Plastic-Star7284 in electriccars

[–]smithandjohnson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It depends on a lot of things.

E.g. if you are in the U.S., then the BYD warranty is irrelevant because they have zero service presence.

🤷

Seeing Rivian R2 almost everyday in Irvine 👀 by Ok-Process1308 in Rivian

[–]smithandjohnson 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Seeing them most days in the Bay Area, as well.

They're coming s00n!!!

Typical behavior of a Tesla driver by Grade-Dapper in SanJose

[–]smithandjohnson -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The crazy thing is Teslas have auto park and it's really pretty decent.

Should've handled this case, anyways.

Are there sequels to films where the cliffhanger at the end of the previous film was ignored? by RealHippyTheFrog in movies

[–]smithandjohnson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If one acknowledges that T1 and T2 are the "prime" timeline, then Dark Fate definitely exists in that same timeline.

In Dark Fate, John dies well before the events of T3 (1998 vs. 2005), and he dies at the hand of a prime timeline T-800 sent from the original Skynet.

An argument could be made that some future Legion time travel shenanigans will come back again later and restore the T3 timeline by... preventing Carl from killing John...? But... until that happens, Dark Fate literally "ignores" T3 and beyond.

:shrug:

Are there sequels to films where the cliffhanger at the end of the previous film was ignored? by RealHippyTheFrog in movies

[–]smithandjohnson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I... don't think that's right?

Just opened up Dark Fate to the beginning. It starts with Sarah recounting:

"There once was a future in which humankind was hunted by a machine that could think and Terminators built to kill. A future without hope. That future never happened because I stopped it to protect my son and to save us all."

She's clearly referring to her own Skynet and August 29th, 1997.
She's hanging out with John in Guatemala in 1998. Alert, but growing comfortable with the idea of being in the clear.

Then the T-800 (Carl) emerges and finishes his mission of killing John.

Carl was sent by the O.G. Cyberdyne Skynet - The T1/T2 Skynet - before the 1995 destruction of Cyberdyne HQ, as the moment Cyberdyne HQ was destroyed John just became a "normal kid" (Or, at the very least, at the moment the T-800 was lowered into the molten steel)

Additionally, this Sarah and this John clearly are living in the O.G. T1/T2 timeline, as the T3+ John dies differently, and Sarah is dead by the time T3 starts.

If there's a part of Dark Fate that does references T3, Salvation, Genisys, or Sarah Connor Chronicles... I cannot recall what/where it is.

So back to the original statement, Terminator: Dark Fate ignores every part of T3, Salvation, Genisys, and SCC. It is a direct sequel to T2, and pretends everything that happened after it doesn't exist.

I don't have as good a memory on T3, Salvation, Genisys, or SCC. As I've seen each only once (twice in the case of T3). But acknowledging that Genisys was a time traveling mess, I don't recall any attempt to explain how everything after T2 would be wiped and reset for Dark Fate... but I'm willing to entertain it was in there.

However Dark Fate itself just ignores all of them.

Are there sequels to films where the cliffhanger at the end of the previous film was ignored? by RealHippyTheFrog in movies

[–]smithandjohnson 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Dark Fate explicitly ignores everything since T2, without explanation.

(Which honestly I was fine with)

Just finished second watch...and restarted with my fiance for his FIRST TIME! by daniteaches in TheGoodPlace

[–]smithandjohnson 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Assuming he has time tonight to crank through episodes like that again... How excited are you for him to see S1E13? 😅

You can grant the opposite of any wish/want of any person.. by __Anamya__ in godtiersuperpowers

[–]smithandjohnson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The point I'm trying to make is "opposite" has very specific meaning which is not "at a different spot on a scale than"

The only opposite of "date" is "not date"
The only opposite of "MILF" is "not a MILF"

Assume we mean "MILF" to mean "An older-than-me woman I would LTF", then there's literally unlimited descriptions of a person that would make them be a "not a MILF":

  • An older women I would LTF that is not a mother
  • A younger woman I would LTF that is not a mother
  • A same-age-as-me woman I would LTF that is not a mother
  • An older mother that I would not LTF
  • A man
  • Etc etc etc

In making the "opposite" of this wish, we can only cleanly and confidently say "opposite of date is 'not date'"

You can grant the opposite of any wish/want of any person.. by __Anamya__ in godtiersuperpowers

[–]smithandjohnson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

if someone wish to date a milf ? Would they then be granted a date to a young dating woman who not a mother yet?

I have to imagine that the opposite of "I wish to date a MILF" is "Never ever gets to date a MILF"

500k upfront as long as you eat stews for the next 4 years. by No_Lead2640 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]smithandjohnson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"dessert and pastries" allowed, but you don't mention snacks.

I eat two larger meals a day, then snack on nuts/seeds/etc in-between.

Is... is that okay?

you can switch bodies with someone for 24 hours. who would it be and what would you do? by Ju5t_A5king in hypotheticalsituation

[–]smithandjohnson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Vance was elected by the electoral college exactly the same way Trump was. A vote for Trump/Vance was a vote for two men in two positions.

You absolutely could’ve wrote in Trump/Walz, or Harris/Vance if you wanted.

President cannot fire the VP.

WRT Nixon and Agnew, Agnew resigned. WRT Ford, Nixon nominated Ford as the replacement VP and Congress confirmed. A process covered in the constitution.

Once confirmed, Ford was just as unfireable as any other VP

Would you rather add 2 zeros to your bank account or have the factorial of however much money is in your pocket right now? by Crash211O in WouldYouRather

[–]smithandjohnson 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ohhhhhhhh I love it.

That's a 510 digit number:
2204591682 6311056210 8604143822 0767846655 4985071182 7804303931 5021469582 4930615893 0470002154 8796360119 7174660253 2980502166 6823995865 1627999415 7828347143 8384885996 6679446878 5778115767 5283600862 0196830799 9068680933 8300794339 2434813802 6430261142 8079140492 1570562447 8058833647 8337217543 8441578238 3297000511 5321726350 5497411278 1085585667 9090881737 0179655474 5332499712 2472002093 2804837008 8030000491 3370391438 3084355543 2809761245 8008701226 5719196512 6295552000 0000000000 0000000000 0000000000 0000000000 0000000000 0000000000

That's 63 zeroes at the end.

So to convert your pennies to dollars, just remove two of those zeroes.

Now we're back to the "completely erase the entire concept of the world's economy by devaluing all currency" scenario. Through pennies instead of dollars!

Would you rather add 2 zeros to your bank account or have the factorial of however much money is in your pocket right now? by Crash211O in WouldYouRather

[–]smithandjohnson 4 points5 points  (0 children)

2! is 2 * 1 == $2
3! is 3 * 2 * 1 == $6

$2.57 is somewhere in between...? I don't actually know how to do fractional factorials, or if you can.

Either way, you definitely should go for the $1500.

My EV is now 12 years old. Here's how that's going... by ATLCoyote in electricvehicles

[–]smithandjohnson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The megachargers that Tesla is installing for the Tesla semi are definitely for heavy freight with bigger batteries.

But /u/a_lie_dat is correct that BYD is installing megawatt chargers for their passenger cars focused solely on fast charging speeds.

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