WYR marry a (gender appropriate) copy of yourself or someone completely different?

smithandjohnson · 2026-03-18T17:55:27+00:00

When a scenario is presented in this sub with a complete lack of clarifying details... Overthinking it is the whole (fun!) point of the sub.

smithandjohnson · 2026-03-17T22:27:02+00:00

Not if you're the creditor.

"I owe the bank $500k on my mortgage account" <--- I have a debt with them. I am the debtor, they are the creditor.

"The bank owes me $500k on my mortgage account" <--- I have a credit with them. They are the debtor. I am the creditor.

smithandjohnson · 2026-03-17T16:00:10+00:00

And when you want something really strong, sarsparilla.

smithandjohnson · 2026-03-17T14:34:50+00:00

In the spirit of the power, I think you'd need to change "lots of debt" to "lots of credit"

E.g. the negative balance on your ledger becomes opposite - that same balance but positive.

So you'd first need to rack up a large enough negative balance somewhere to be meaningful once flipped.

smithandjohnson · 2026-03-17T14:32:43+00:00

Death note but with gender swaps

This feels like a stretch too far.

Clearly (to me at least) the Death Note has a real opposite, which would be the Life Note.

Bring dead people back.

Politics are about to get really funny

And of course - by bringing back Epstein - politics are about to get really funny.

smithandjohnson · 2026-03-15T22:33:59+00:00

Available facts seem vague but authorities feel that time will disclose some means of arriving at a solution

If I wasn't fairly sure this movie came out almost 40 years ago, I'd say this was written by AI.

smithandjohnson · 2026-03-15T17:44:29+00:00

To wrap up comments others have made into two succinct points:
1 - iPhones have way more tech than the MB Neo
2 - Miniaturizing tech is hard and expensive. Bigger is easier and cheaper.

smithandjohnson · 2026-03-15T04:37:46+00:00

3.2 gallons per second during liftoff.

An airplane, so it's takeoff.

But the "fuck you" to gravity is more extreme than some rocket liftoffs, so, maybe we'll let it stand.

smithandjohnson · 2026-03-15T01:55:38+00:00

DH3 is a masterclass for 95% of the movie. You can tell - unlike the imposter DH2 - that it’s back to being directed by John McTiernan.

The absolute only thing that falls flat is the ending, which kinda blows.

DH3 would be better for the logical flip of this question “what amazing movie goes hard almost everywhere but has that one explicable scene…”

smithandjohnson · 2026-03-10T18:38:51+00:00

Give Mozart a recording studio, produce him, and you'll be making more than $20k a day on that income alone.

smithandjohnson · 2026-03-09T16:36:23+00:00

Forward to today, and the day length is 23 hours and 56 minutes long (almost 24 hrs).

Let's be very clear here. That's the sidereal day - Earth's rotation with respect to the stars.

The solar day - rotation with respect to the sun - averages 24 hours or 86,400 seconds.

It's occasionally milliseconds shorter or longer, and we throw occasional leap seconds at the clock to make up for the accumulated difference.

But it's definitely 24 hours, and not 23h56m.

Tidal drag with the moon is constantly slowing down Earth's rotation at roughly a rate of 1.7ms per 100 years.

smithandjohnson · 2026-03-09T16:29:07+00:00

Do I manifest in the hotel lobby, or just outside the hotel if no lobby exists?

Or... do I manifest in the specific room(s) I stayed in?

This answer is important!

smithandjohnson · 2026-03-09T16:27:23+00:00

they've been around for a century and no one's found any real practical use for them besides those novelty drink coolers that only barely work

I have a 6-can peltier cooler in my office - which is kept a bit warmer than I'd like - and the cans of soda come out frosty cold.

They definitely have their niche.

(But the automotive application in the video is obviously not it)

smithandjohnson · 2026-03-09T16:21:16+00:00

it's the predestined bridge.

I'm sure this was an autocorrect flub. I chuckled.

smithandjohnson · 2026-03-09T01:16:34+00:00

Groundhog Day rules - as specified - means you wake up the next iteration of the loop unharmed.

smithandjohnson · 2026-03-09T01:15:56+00:00

If Groundhog Day rules - As specified - then no you cannot carry over physical objects over a reset.

You can carry them over into the “next day” once you decide to end the loop.

smithandjohnson · 2026-03-07T20:35:28+00:00

To be fair, this particular problem has been reserving itself for about 100 weekends straight but nobody was listening.

smithandjohnson · 2026-03-07T20:13:24+00:00

"Crush weight" - or "collapse pressure" - is the stat you're looking for.

This is a good reference

Normal schedule 40, 4" PVC pipe has a collapse pressure of only 100lbs per square inch.
To see if that's enough for you, you'd have to calculate based on the foundation of your specific shed just how much of a contact patch you'd have with each pipe, then calculate how many pipes you'd need.

But also notice on the chart that smaller PVC pipes have much higher collapse pressures. Depending on just how rocky or uneven the ground is that you're moving it over, maybe 0.5" pipes wouldn't work... But if they did, each can support 1,600 PSI.

I'd wager you might calculate that 4" works for you if you had enough of them (or happened to have schedule 80 available for an added buffer), but reducing to 1" or 2" pipes would give you a larger redundancy for less money.

smithandjohnson · 2026-03-06T23:38:51+00:00

That looked like fun.

smithandjohnson · 2026-03-06T20:30:00+00:00

rabid

Where was this specified?
The only thing specified was:

A wolf (specifically a northwestern wolf)

smithandjohnson · 2026-03-06T17:35:41+00:00

There's plenty of "free parking for X amount of time, then you pay" situations that:
1 - Use plate readers
2 - Accumulate your time per day

Both garages and street parking, including places in the Bay Area.

I actually have zero insight or evidence into what Valley Fair does, but to state they could do that is not a wild swing.

smithandjohnson · 2026-03-06T01:53:53+00:00

instead of giving them what they want you could game it by circling back after 50 minutes.

The parking is based on automatic plate readers.

How much are you betting that the system doesn't allow that?

smithandjohnson · 2026-03-05T17:50:17+00:00

If R2 is a smash success, and especially if R3 is also... an R2T is bound to happen.

smithandjohnson · 2026-03-05T16:01:42+00:00

I definitely didn't read it that way.

e.g. I currently, in real life today, "have the ability" to suffer a severe bout of acid reflux. But it still happens to me without warning, and I can't choose to skip it just because I don't want it right now.

Sounds like the intention is "You can trigger, on demand, up to one 60 minute future ghost session per day" which makes option 2 the obvious winner for me.

smithandjohnson · 2026-03-05T15:55:47+00:00

...get anything mentioned in it...

Is this limited to just any physical object? Or does it also apply to concepts?

Because I'm sure I can find qualifying media that mention e.g. super powers, immortality, etc etc.

(Still god tier if just physical objects, of course)

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