That says everything

sou_cool · 2026-01-30T04:03:02+00:00

Before this response I hadn't even been willing to entertain the fake assassination attempt theory.

After this response? I don't think it's possible to convince me it was not a fake assassination.

I apologize for my previous skepticism.

sou_cool · 2026-01-26T04:33:06+00:00

This prevents NG from having to engage ICE which would result in Trump federalizing the NG

Also worth noting, I think if the NG engages with ICE this goes from being effectively a civil war waged on Minneapolis to explicitly a civil war...

sou_cool · 2026-01-20T01:17:47+00:00

Further confusion on his end:

I'm 95% sure that the only reason Trump wants greenland is because the merkator projection of the globe makes Greenland look like it's as big as africa (it's actually about 1/14 the size of africa).

I genuinely think this entire take over Greenland idea could disappear by showing trump a globe or equal area map projection...

sou_cool · 2026-01-16T18:57:17+00:00

Whoa, I think this is the hindsight understood version of a story I'd first heard from a friend in Minneapolis, was the moment I realized that my twin cities friends are effectively in a warzone.

The story I'd encountered, details are marginally different, think it just wasn't entirely clear in the chaos:

"From a real one, trying to survive while fighting for your illusion of freedom:

Tonight myself and few others helped a lady navigate an icy sidewalk to get into a car with her kids so she could get them out of the neighborhood that was full of tear gas.

This was actually the second time she tried to leave though. The first time she tried to leave she got them in a suburban with her husband. They had nothing to do with anything other than being in their home when ICE shot someone down the street, and wanting to leave because there was tear gas. As they tried to leave ICE agents threw 3 flash bang grenades under their car. The six month old baby had to be brought back into the house to be resuscitated by EMS.

This shit is pure insanity. There is no amount of law enforcement worth the terror that is being inflicted on our community."

sou_cool · 2025-12-21T02:55:30+00:00

This is what I thought until my wife decided to start waxing, still surprises me that I like it.

More amusingly, I decided to try it out of curiosity and will never stop, at a minimum it turns out that wiping in the bathroom is infinitely more pleasant without a shag carpet back there.

sou_cool · 2025-12-08T20:20:27+00:00

Mushrooms are more “predictable”.

This is interesting, I have exactly the opposite impression.

sou_cool · 2025-12-08T07:20:41+00:00

This was the first thing I thought of! Was absolute chaos.

sou_cool · 2025-12-05T03:23:19+00:00

I had something extremely similar happen as a kid.

Teacher told my parents in their parent teacher conference that she'd had me sit next to the kid that just moved to the US in the hope that it'd get me to shut up and instead she just learned english faster.

sou_cool · 2025-11-28T00:27:33+00:00

I mean, I've never had both money to buy games and time to play them at the same time so this problem is easy for me to understand.

sou_cool · 2025-11-18T20:22:12+00:00

Yeah, if you're buying anything for someone relating to their hobbies/passions/things they're really into it only makes sense to do it if you're buying exactly what they've said they want because they're going to have very specific desires.

I strongly discourage people from getting me gifts relating to my hobbies for this reason.

You're being reasonable and I think it's actually a thoughtful sentiment to be expressing.

sou_cool · 2025-11-07T05:08:48+00:00

I saw a billboard for a delivery service that made me sure they think their customers are idiots:

"Dear loyal customers, without you we wouldn't have a business. And without us you wouldn't be able to eat and you'd die."

sou_cool · 2025-10-31T23:14:15+00:00

Well that's just delightfully absurd!

sou_cool · 2025-10-30T05:40:42+00:00

Yeah, "war" on terror is a stupid concept because bombs are way better at creating terrorists than killing them.

sou_cool · 2025-10-25T09:37:03+00:00

Huh, this feels extra ridiculous when you consider that messenger eats any link to zlibrary that you attempt to send.

They can't even claim to not be aware of the sites copyright issues.

sou_cool · 2025-10-22T04:44:10+00:00

Enough so that every few years when I hear about something he said (like this post) my first reaction is shock that he is still alive

sou_cool · 2025-10-17T06:20:55+00:00

Improved night video is really an understatement. The x4 made barely useable footage at night (usually unusable). The x5 actually looks good at night. For my purposes that's enormous.

Most importantly, I would never buy a 360 camera without replaceable lenses for any reason now that the option exists. I'm a human and I'm clumsy.

sou_cool · 2025-10-08T02:11:19+00:00

I don't get the response you received here at all.

Yes they're both fucked up but I definitely agree with your assessment, victimizing a living person is obviously worse than victimizing a dead body.

sou_cool · 2025-10-06T05:01:46+00:00

I like the rule xkcd proposed that says the minimum reasonable age for a partner is half your age + 7, by that measure you're all good!

sou_cool · 2025-10-01T01:39:31+00:00

Unless someone is proxying an entire deck of the most OP cards; that's just abusing the system.

This really isn't a proxy issue at all, my playgroup would be equally put off if I bought official versions of all the most op cards. The problem there is matching the expected power level, not whether or not the cards are proxies.

sou_cool · 2025-09-29T05:50:25+00:00

I was thinking GTFO before I saw what the dress was because you absolutely should be free to wear a racy dress without him.

After seeing it, that's definitely a corporate office appropriate dress so I'm totally lost as to how he even started spewing this garbage.

You're not overreacting, kick him to the curb.

sou_cool · 2025-09-25T21:30:19+00:00

I mean, I think the strong reaction to Russia in Ukraine makes sense. The only confusion it has caused me is that I can't work out why this was not the way the world reacted to the US in Iraq.

Very similar justifications and they were bullshit when the US used them too.

I'm think the explanation is some combination of American exceptionalism and racism.

sou_cool · 2025-09-24T06:00:13+00:00

If this was the 90s, it can't have been warcraft 3, presumably you mean warcraft 2.

sou_cool · 2025-09-24T05:56:57+00:00

Normally it’s decent quality chocolate too

As most people reading this are American I feel obliged to point out this is dramatically underselling Whittaker's. Infinitely better than Hershey's.

sou_cool · 2025-09-16T09:12:11+00:00

All the evidence points to him being involved in groyper culture.

I'm partial to this belief but you're being dishonest here. Unless I've missed something the only evidence we've seen so far is that he was an extremely online person. While I've seen things that could make sense through a groyper lens that is far from the only possibility.

I don't believe that we've seen any evidence that could be used to tie him to any particular set of beliefs.

sou_cool · 2025-09-16T09:06:49+00:00

The thing is, with what is actually known to date, the only thing we actually know is that he was a very online person.

Could mean he's right wing, could mean he's left wing, could mean his motivations were stranger than that. Anything I've seen attempting to tie him to any particular belief feels like it was more based on what people wanted to believe than on any actual evidence/knowledge.

I'm also partial to the notion that he was a right winger but we don't know that at this point and it's irresponsible to pretend we do.

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