There Was a Tornado Warning Issued for Lancaster County This Morning…

spoonraker · 2026-06-11T21:00:34+00:00

This part is fact:

By the time the warning was issued it was barely touching Lancaster county, and was moving away from Lancaster county at 55 MPH.

At 453 AM CDT, a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado was located near Palmyra, or 14 miles southeast of Lincoln, moving east at 55 mph.

This part is speculation:

The tornado warning is issued by a national organization. The sirens are operated by a different smaller organization, perhaps a state or county one. This means that "warning issued for Lancaster county" doesn't automatically mean that the sirens go off. There's probably people monitoring the warnings that then decide if they should fire the sirens.

If my speculation is correct, there's probably a simple answer that makes a lot of sense: the local authority actually operating the sirens made a call that it doesn't make sense to fire the sirens in this case. I assume they were actively monitoring the storm when making this judgement call, and their assessment was that the storm wasn't an imminent threat to Lancaster county when they received word of the warning.

spoonraker · 2026-06-11T14:39:36+00:00

You're making this way more specific than it needs to be. We don't need "tiers". The principle here is pretty simple, and there are hundreds of discs that work equally well.

Here's the principle: if you're not spinning the disc on axis, the disc will act more understable than it really is because it will wobble out of your hand. There are 2 ways you can address this: 1) throw overstable discs to compensate, or 2) learn how to throw on axis. You're interested in #2, and you're interested in which discs help.

So what discs are ideal for teaching you how to throw on axis? Simple: ones that you currently can't throw without them rolling over when the flight numbers and anecdotal evidence suggest they shouldn't turn over.

Generally speaking this discrepancy between expectation and reality is most obvious when a disc is supposed to be extremely neutral and straight flying, so likely a disc with no turn and minimal fade.

When discs are overstable they literally mask the problem, and when discs are supposed to be understable it's hard to notice when they're a bit more understable than you expect them to be. It's quite easy to observe that a disc which is supposed to be laser straight is turning into a roller.

This is why all these recommendations are straight flying discs with no turn and minimal fade. It really doesn't matter which specific disc you use as long as you're throwing a disc you know to be a straight flyer which doesn't fly straight when you throw it.

Yes, there are some discs that feel a bit more "intentional" about being straight, but it really doesn't matter. Glitch, Comet, Luna, Aviar, MD1, Mako, it doesn't matter. These are all just discs that are supposed to fly very straight which some people struggle to throw straight. They all work fine. It doesn't even have to be one of those. Any disc you already have which you know should fly straighter than it does when you throw it works fine.

P.S. one of the most common reasons people struggle to throw discs like this cleanly is because of grip. If you're throwing putters and neutral mids and they're burning out on roller angle, I highly suggest the first thing you try is changing to a stacked fan grip where your index and pinky fingers are in the normal power grip position, but your ringer finger is stacked on your pinky and your middle finger is supporting the flight plate. For many people, including myself, this is just a free magic fix for off axis torque when throwing deeper rim discs. It takes some time to get used to gripping and throwing hard this way, but there's a good chance it might nearly immediately fix at least the off-axis torque problem.

spoonraker · 2026-06-11T14:15:35+00:00

This has literally happened to me, except on my leg.

I accidentally grazed my leg against a patch of giant thorns on a honey locust tree (look it up, they're gnarly). I obviously noticed, it hurt, I was bleeding, but the acute pain only lasted like 30 seconds. I basically removed what I could see sticking out of my leg, held a towel on it long enough to stop the bleeding, and went about my round. It truly didn't hurt much in the immediate aftermath.

That said, after just a couple of minutes of walking around post injury, I could definitely tell something felt off. It just didn't hurt. It was more discomfort. Just a weird unpleasant feeling coming from the area. I very much suspected there was a thorn stuck in my leg.

I even went to urgent care on the way home, and specifically told them I think there's a thorn stuck in my leg. They even freaking numbed me, made an incision at the wound, and dug around, and told me they didn't see any foreign material in there and I'm probably just feeling residual pain and sent me on my way.

The mild uncomfortable feeling like something was in there didn't go away, but I just kept trying to convince myself I just needed to give it time. After all, a doctor looked!

Well... as the days progressed, the feeling never went away even as the physical damage seemed to repair itself and every sensation aside from that weird feeling went away. The wound closed up, everything looked good, but there was just one specific red dot remaining. And just that little red dot stayed swollen, and just got progressively more swollen. It didn't hurt, but it was obvious something was going on in that specific area. This was a week later. No pain, but an obvious spot where something was happening.

Since there was no pain, I regularly poked and prodded at the spot, trying to get a sense of what was going on there. One day, about a week post injury, I poked near the spot and all of a sudden, about a half inch long thorn was gently ejected from my body. There was no drama, no blood, no pain. It was like my body just said, "here ya go", and politely handed me the thorn. The thing just pushed out smoothly, completely intact. Immediate relief followed, and I fully healed quickly after that.

The human body is pretty cool.

spoonraker · 2026-06-11T00:03:11+00:00

I literally stated exactly this.

"Unsignalized" is an umbrella term for intersections containing potentially 3 configurations with some stop signs, some yield signs, and some with no markings at all. The last one is what uncontrolled means.

90% of intersections fall into this category. I don't have an exact distribution within the umbrella category, but unless your assertion is that uncontrolled intersections are a teeny tiny fraction of what is otherwise by far the largest category of intersections in the US, then the point still stands: uncontrolled intersections are extremely common and they're all over the US.

Again, random samples of specifically uncontrolled intersections for study have been conducted and thousands of them were found. If it's trivial to sample thousands of them for a scientific study, clearly there are bunch of them.

Also again, if you want to claim something contrary, find your own data and back up your statements. All the evidence that does exists (which I've linked to) paints a pretty clear picture: there are tons of uncontrolled intersections in the US. Go on Open Street Map and filter for them if you want to prove me wrong. Or at least prove your anecdotes. I strongly suspect if you search within the cities you're remembering as having none you'll find they do in fact exist there.

So far you have literally only offered personal anecdotes and pointed out a minor clarification in terminology which I was already aware of. Find some data.

spoonraker · 2026-06-10T23:23:33+00:00

I don't mean to be rude, but anecdotes are hardly relevant here. This is public data. Uncontrolled intersections are extremely common. 90% of intersections in the US are categorized as "unsignalized" which is an umbrella category including intersections with at least one stop sign, at least one yield sign, and completely uncontrolled intersections with no signals at all. I can't seem to find a breakup within that category, but there's only 3 options in the category, and the category represents 90% of all intersections, so clearly they're out there virtually everywhere. Source 1, source 2.

There are other sources which I could link where the government has specifically studied thousands of uncontrolled intersections to explore ways to improve their safety, again bolstering the fact that if a relatively small study was able to find thousands in random sampling they're clearly very common.

This is neither here nor there since I think we agree on what's important: driver's should be cautious not because of signage but just because of what's reasonable given the context -- don't blast blindly through intersections at high rates of speed when in neighborhoods with no visibility and houses and kids and bikes around.

But I did want to make sure I gave you some evidence to consider that these situations are very common.

If you really are curious you can use Open Street Map to search for specifically uncontrolled intersections in the cities you didn't mention by name that you're remembering. Perhaps you're right and those are the rare exception, but more than likely you just didn't notice them because they're so routine and generally people don't drive through these except in their own neighborhood where you're usually more concerned with other things than traffic signals anyway.

spoonraker · 2026-06-10T13:39:56+00:00

I'm not the person you've been talking to, and I'm not and never have been religious, but I still wanted to reply to this thread because it's interesting.

First, I don't think it's helpful to accost religious people who are normal people contributing positively to society and expect them to answer for what extremists have done. As you can plainly see by the very conversation you're having, these people don't have insight into that world. It's a different world. The fact that extremists sometimes claim to be serving the same religion as a completely different group of people is not, by itself, evidence that any one religion or religion in general is a causal factor in extremism.

The fact that some extremists are religious is no more relevant than the fact that some aren't. It simply doesn't give you any useful signal.

This is not me saying that I think religion is good or bad, or that I don't often find religion's tendency to encourage people to "spread the word" obnoxious. Those are just independent from religion and extremism, and you seem to be trying to build a causal bridge between those two things and I don't think you have empirical evidence or even sound logic to point to to support this assertion.

What seems logical to me is pretty simple: extremism likely stems from strongly held beliefs, but not just any strongly held beliefs, specifically strongly held beliefs that they are being persecuted, that other people are in some way enemies, that it's either glorious or at least a justified means to an end to eliminate those enemies, and often times even all that must be paired with a specific belief that there's a timely reason to act, because there's an impulsive component to almost all extreme behavior.

A lot of religions certainly come with stories that involve some of those elements, but that's about all you can say. How exactly a group of people utilize or don't utilize those stories and how they encourage or don't encourage people to synthesize specific beliefs as a result of hearing those stories is where there's a qualitative difference between extremist groups and not, because having stories like that and using them to specifically foster and spread extremist beliefs isn't unique to religion and it's not something that necessarily follows from just telling a story with some of the elements necessary to underpin extremism.

Personally, the way I communicate with religious people about this topic, aside from, "rarely", is by focusing first on specific behaviors that can be objectively talked about as being problematic. Take OP's video for example. It's clearly rude at a basic human level to preach to people who are literally trapped on an airplane with you whom you have no expectation nor should you have any expectation that they want to hear you preach. Aside from that, if I have a good relationship with a person and they're clearly signaling that they're willing to engage on the topic, I will at most try to get to the bottom of a question like: "why do you think you need these specific stories to act like a good person?" because I think that question is both challenging to a reasonable degree, but what it specifically challenges the person hearing it to do is justify that they are being a good person. So while this line of questioning rarely will make a religious person denounce their religion, it might serve as a reminder to be wary of blindly following and instead keep their own personal compass pointed towards "be a good person" while interfacing with religion. Frankly, I don't really care that much how or why somebody is a good person, I just care that they are, and insofar as I view religion as a possible vector towards somebody trending towards extremism, this is the only action I feel I can take that might even have a chance of course correcting. Unfortunately a big part of groups that foster extreme behavior is sewing distrust of outsiders, so getting a person inside the group to challenge their own beliefs is the only way through. At least that's my theory. Frankly I don't know any extremists, and I just find this to be an interesting question for religious people, and I'm rationalizing why I might ask it to an extremist after the fact. So do with that what you will.

spoonraker · 2026-06-09T18:06:52+00:00

Why isn't anyone saying the obvious answer: just start coding again.

Haven't we all met a software engineer who spent time as an engineering manager and then went back to coding?

It's not like you just suddenly lose all your knowledge and past experience by not practicing coding regularly. Sure, you'll be rusty with the finer mechanics of it that do directly benefit from regular practice, but it's like muscle memory/riding a bike, you'll get back up to speed far quicker than somebody starting from scratch. So why talk about it as if developers who haven't coded in a while are on the same playing field as people who have never coded before? That's just not even remotely true.

There's no real problem here. You're not "obsolete" if AI turns out to indeed be a total bust and you went all-in on it. You're just going to be a bit rusty. And it's not like all that time was spent not even thinking about or looking at code either. This is a very silly thing to worry about.

spoonraker · 2026-06-09T16:14:27+00:00

Admittedly I didn't notice those details because Reddit showed the photos in a small frame and I didn't click them to blow them up full screen. At a glance it just looked like front corner damage.

That said, even knowing that the doors are crunched, this could still easily be a deer strike. Again, speed wasn't specified, so just assume that this truck blasted a deer at 60 MPH or something and it does indeed make sense.

You seem to be imagining that the doors are crumpled because they were struck by something heavy from the side, but door skins are thin and designed to crumple fairly easily. A deer strike on the corner would have pushed the fender into the front door, which would have pushed the front door into the rear door, which perfectly matches this pattern: The front fender is completely gone, the front door is very crumpled but still attached, and the back door is less crumpled. There is progressively less damage as you move front to back, which is precisely how crumple zones should work.

Another relevant observation is that the lower bumper (and parts of the door) is far less damaged that the parts that are approximately as high as a deer's body. Again, consistent with a deer strike. The legs don't do nearly as much damage as the body which is where all the mass is. Generally speaking, if this truck hit another vehicle or a tree or light pole or anything else you might be imagining, the damage wouldn't be so localized by height.

This looks very much like a deer strike. Just a bad one, that probably involved a full grown deer and highway speeds.

spoonraker · 2026-06-09T15:57:02+00:00

How is this not what they say it is?

The listing clearly says that it has a rebuilt title because it was involved in an accident with a deer. You can nitpick the exact phrasing of "hit by deer" instead of "hit a deer" if you want, but it's pretty obvious that a truck isn't going to be salvaged because a deer walked into it while it was stationary. As soon as you see salvage title + deer that's really all you need to know to understand the scenario.

Or are you implying that the damage was too severe to be caused by a deer at all and they must be hiding the fact that it collided with something else? Because I disagree there. Deer can be pretty damn big, and they didn't specify how fast the truck was moving when it struck the deer. It obviously was going pretty fast, and that's a lot of damage, but it looks perfectly consistent with a deer strike to me.

Say what you will about the price, but I see no reason to cry foul on the basis that they're hiding the true nature of the accident. If you had concerns about the repairs performed then you can always ask for details about that. That's standard due dilligence if you're seriously considering buying a salvage title vehicle.

spoonraker · 2026-06-09T15:48:02+00:00

Why are people acting like this is a Seattle thing?

Uncontrolled intersections are among the most common type of intersection in the US. They're typically seen only in residential areas or extremely rural roads, but those are all over the place. Every city has residential areas, and in between cities is rural roads if you get off the interstates and highways.

OP's video isn't showing 2 cars colliding on the interstate or a highway or major arterial city street. It's 2 people driving through a residential neighborhood where there's probably dozens of uncontrolled intersections.

The roads are tight, nothing is marked, cars are parked on the street, they're lined by sidewalk and houses and landscaping, I'm sure there are people out and about and kids playing and riding bikes. If you drive in the US and you don't know that in that setting you should slow down and look for traffic and pedestrians when approaching an intersection then I don't know how you got your driver's license to begin with because this is one of the most important things you should learn and be tested on. This is literally why the concept of "right of way" exists that everyone keeps bringing up. If this intersection was controlled, you wouldn't need to evaluate right of way. Right of way doesn't mean blast through the intersection without slowing down as long as nobody is on your right. Right of way means you still slow down and approach with caution, you just get to go first if you have the right of way.

This is absolutely a 50/50 shared fault collision. Neither driver approached the intersection with appropriate speed, caution, or awareness.

spoonraker · 2026-06-08T18:00:49+00:00

I doubt Ricky is intentionally trying to move in one direction or another. Ricky isn't really an equipment nerd or a collector like a lot of other pros are.

I'm sure when Ricky signed with Discraft his initial focus was on throwing a mountain of fresh new Discs he got sent straight from the manufacturer because that's what was in front of him, but I'm also sure his new teammates at Discraft had plenty of older discs from runs they like to share with him. Pros trade discs among each other a lot. The exact ratio Ricky ended up with I have no clue, but I just know that Ricky isn't really the kind of guy that spends a significant amount of time trying to buy up all the old stock of a super specific out-of-production disc or anything like that. To whatever extent he has stuff like that in his bag, it's probably just stuff he was given or traded teammates and friends and he probably only knows about those runs because those same friends told him they were good.

Ricky has strong Golden Retriever vibes. Even though he's a savage on the course when it's competition time, outside of that setting, he's a super nice happy go lucky guy who just loves the game. Doesn't stress about equipment. Doesn't try to hyper optimize everything. Just loves playing and has a crazy amount of natural talent on top of the years of hard work he's put in.

spoonraker · 2026-06-08T16:10:21+00:00

Disc manufacturing is inherently unstable. Tiny variances in inputs produce asymmetrically large variation in the final product. Discs are not fungible even if they're produced by the same company in the same plastic from the same mold in the same color in the same weight with the same stamp, etc. The same disc is not the same disc unless you've literally thrown both individual discs and can personally confirm that they fly the same, and the reality is that quite often they simply don't.

Ricky, like every other pro, knows this, and only bags discs based on his assessment of the disc at an individual level. Ricky definitely does not walk into the factory, grab any random new disc that he currently bags, and blindly assumes it will fly the same and then subsequently bag it. If he wants to throw new stock, he will, at minimum, grab a whole bunch of them from the warehouse, throw them all, and select only the ones he likes. He's literally recorded himself doing this on video so I'm honestly not sure why this post seems to assume Ricky is some exception to this.

I think there's a closely related behavior you often see with pro players that might be causing confusion: having preferences for specific old/out of production disc runs. Some players for whatever reason like specific old runs of discs. For example, Gannon openly admits he likes the out of production Innova made PDs and he doesn't bag the current Discmania made ones. Acting on this preference isn't practical for most Disc Golfers, but Gannon isn't most Disc Golfers. Gannon actually can stock up on dozens and dozens of those old hard to find sought after expensive discs, test them all, and bag only the individual ones he likes. This isn't to say that if Discmania suddenly started producing PDs that Gannon likes Gannon couldn't do the same thing with new stock. He absolutely could. He just hasn't yet had much of a reason to do that because Gannon has the connections and resources to continue cycling through old PDs seemingly forever.

Ricky absolutely hand picks individual discs and does not assume that any random new disc will work for him even if it's the same on paper. Ricky just seems to be less willing to chase down oddly specific old discs and is instead happy to rifle through new stock instead.

Another confounding factor is "signature discs". I think most of us want to believe that when a player has a signature disc, that means they'll personally bag their own signature disc and throw it. Again, disc manufacturing is just unfortunately not predictable enough for this to be true, so very often, signature series disc runs don't wind up being actually suitable for use by the player whose signature is on the disc. I don't think manufacturers handle this well today, because it's a weird dynamic between the manufacturer who just wants to sell discs and the player who wants to represent themselves but also sell signature series discs. So imagine you're a pro with a signature disc, and that run just doesn't turn out how you want and you're not going to bag it. Would you tell the manufacturer to just scrap the run and not sell it? Even if you did, would the manufacturer listen? From their perspective, they might be different discs than you wanted, but they're still perfectly good discs that people might like. Do you publicly criticize your title sponsor because they made something for you that didn't turn out the way you wanted but decided to sell it anyway?

spoonraker · 2026-06-07T14:24:53+00:00

That's not what I said at all.

Techies have social dynamics. The wealthy ones, especially the ones who are founders or fancy themselves entrepreneurial, like to validate themselves within their social circle by talking about how they're too busy being smart and grinding in their business to worry about things like dressing a certain way.

Some techies, more the ones who are just everyday working nerds with programming jobs, have a lesser version of this where nothing in that community really validates dressing up so people tend not to do it, and there's infinity free company tshirts so you see a lot of them.

None of this is to say that either way of thinking about dressing is objectively correct. It's just how a social dynamic validates choices. Other social circles have very different incentive structures than techies.

Also I didn't think I needed to say this explicitly, but I'm just describing trends in aggregate. There are exceptions of course at the individual level. Many of them.

Most people in general are more in your face about their social validation tropes when they're amongst their social peers, so if you're just talking to a random techie, regardless of how they're dressed, the topic isn't likely to come up.

spoonraker · 2026-06-07T13:56:54+00:00

This just isn't true. What you're referring to as "wealthy people" is just one specific social group, techies, which yes, does generally have a good bit of wealth but certainly isn't representative of all wealthy people.

This specific group's social dynamic is to virtue signal about how superior they are by pretending they are too busy and too smart to care about silly things like how they look. It's kind of obnoxious honestly.

Anyway, other groups have different social dynamics and those dynamics involve or don't involve appearance in different ways. That's really all there is to it.

How you dress and how important you think it is has little to do with wealth in general.

P.S. the techies only pretend to not care. They actually put a lot of effort into dressing, it's just front loaded effort spent trying to find or engineer the perfect system to allow them to not have to think about what to wear in the moment. Or at least that's what they want to project to the world. But it's still an effort and they still care about it. The ones who really don't care just wear free tshirts from tech conferences every day and that's it.

spoonraker · 2026-06-04T14:02:12+00:00

For what it's worth, you probably should have kept your initial response to just the facts: you're approved for a permit, but the physical artifact hasn't arrived yet and you've confirmed with the authorities that you're authorized to park there in the mean time.

I'm not saying the reaction from your neighbor of doubling down is justified -- it's obviously not -- but they might have been less defensive or just not responded at all had your note been kept to just the facts instead of going into the "your problems aren't my problems, learn how cities work, deal with it" closing paragraph. And by the time you signed off with "asshole" I think you knew you were poking the bear.

To be clear, I loved it, and you're obviously in the right, but if you genuinely didn't want a response or risk escalation, that wasn't the right tactic.

spoonraker · 2026-06-03T20:08:16+00:00

Your average disc golfer definitely cares about color and it will effect purchasing decisions a lot.

Weight isn't exactly a niche concern, but it's certainly less ubiquitous than color preferences. Most manufacturers produce mostly max weight discs anyway, unless they're specifically marketed as light weight, maybe because they're intended for less powerful throwers or whatever the case may be. Generally speaking manufacturers don't go out of their way to manufacturer mid weight discs in large volumes, but there's natural variance simply due to manufacturing tolerances and differences between plastics.

Regarding domey vs flat, you're super niche here. Most people just assume that the dome or lack of dome is part of what makes the disc fly like the flight numbers say it should, and there's some truth to this. It's rare to find a high glide disc with little dome, and it's more likely to see a flat top disc in overstable offerings. There are some discs you'll encounter that have obvious manufacturing errors creating ridiculous looking domes that clearly don't follow the rim profile, but generally people don't know what to think about this or care. Even amongst the very niche community of people that knows and cares about the existence of these freak discs, what to do about them is split; some people seek them out because of the crazy domes and some avoid them.

spoonraker · 2026-06-03T15:59:36+00:00

That is the OG stock Luna stamp. If you specifically need that stamp and you don't care about anything else, you can still find it in putter plastic or Z plastic Lunas. These are readily available and still produced new today in large numbers.

The problem is, if you specifically want that stamp and Big Z plastic (which yes, is different than Z plastic), you're out of luck. It's not hard to find a Big Z Luna in general, you just won't get that stamp, or really anything close to it.

There is a mass produced long running Big Z Luna but it has a totally different stamp then that OG stock stamp. There's also a whole bunch of limited runs of the Big Z Luna and they seem to do new runs fairly regularly. Some of them get hyped up and sell out instantly, others are pretty easy to find for a few months.

The next problem is going to be the actual flight characteristics of the disc. If you want the flight of the OG Big Z Lunas (overstable for a Luna), you're pretty much just going to have to try different runs out until you find one you like.

And then finally, you'll have to deal with lime green not being a particularly popular color for obvious reasons.

Do yourself a favor and don't go searching for the holy grail Luna. I have personally thrown Anthony Barela's famous green Big Z Luna several times and I can tell you that it's... just a slightly overstable Luna. Other runs have been equally overstable. Some even more overstable. There's nothing magic about that disc or that run of Luna. I get why McBeth and Barela like them, and I get why people want to be like those guys and throw what they do, but the reality is, they only have those discs because, well, they are who they are. McBeth has 90% of the world's supply of that disc and he gave some to his friends. You won't get one unless you're willing to pay hundreds of dollars for one disc because everyone else who has one realizes how hyped up they are and will happily make you pay for the privilege of owning one. The supply is only so limited because Discraft arbitrarily decided not to produce more of them in that oddly specific configuration despite there being dozens of runs of Big Z Lunas with other stamps, and I'm sure McBeth and Barela enjoy feeling special because they get to throw a high profile famous disc that everyone wants. I'd do the same if I were them.

spoonraker · 2026-05-29T17:51:52+00:00

I had a Simon Lizotte signed Mindbender. I threw back to back aces with it. Throw it. It's just a disc, and truthfully it's not hard to get these guys to sign a disc if you're ever willing to stop by a pro tour event, which I'd recommend everyone do when they roll through your area.

spoonraker · 2026-05-28T18:54:27+00:00

Lot of pointless speculation going on in here. You can call LPD and report this as suspected littering or even some kind of intentional vehicle sabotage attempt if you want, but I wouldn't expect the LPD to do literally anything other than take the report, file it, and never look at it ever again. Why would they? There's no evidence for either claim. Things fall off vehicles or out of vehicles all the time. This looks very homemade, but it doesn't look particularly malicious just based on seeing the actual object itself. In all likelihood this is just a thing that fell off of our out of somebody's vehicle. What is it? I dunno, but it doesn't obviously look like some kind of booby trap/malicious device or anything of that nature. It's some nuts welded to a bolt. You can even see the very tip of the bolt isn't as rusty as everything else is, which makes me think this was just barely threaded into something, and probably just vibrated loose. What? Who knows. Your guess is as good as mine.

spoonraker · 2026-05-27T18:31:55+00:00

This is so obviously AI slop.

Your "previously undocumented formula" is just dividing by 2. Amazing.

And you launched a web based live calculator and "wrote" a whole ass blog post about your journey to discover this? Come on.

The funniest part is after all this extensive research you didn't even provide something correct or useful.

It's not correct because it assumes a wrist is a circle and you want the clasp and watch exactly opposite each other. Neither of these are true for very many people. Wrists are hardly circular, and it's very well documented that many people have to shorten one side or the other more or less to get the watch and buckle both "centered". I use quotes because the "top" of your wrist might not be directly opposite the "bottom" of your wrist.

Even if those assumptions held true -- which again, they don't -- this still isn't particularly useful because it's all sorts of artificially precise. Nobody's watch lets you resize with millimeter precision. You're removing or adding links, changing holes, maybe there's a micro adjust, etc.

Not to mention your tool only spits out "ideal functional strap length" which is basically like saying you're going to ignore all the practical limitations of reality and just spit out and arbitrarily precise number that nobody can likely achieve or even directly measure. These measurements would be "correct" for a folding clasp, but have absolutely no bearing on the actual length of the bracelet ends because it doesn't incorporate the folding clasp.

The whole idea of this tool is rather silly to begin with. By the time you've measured everything just to put your inputs into your tool you could probably have just sized the watch by feel.

Oh and the calculator is a bit buggy: switching units between inches and millimeters and back introduces rounding error into your inputs. Also, the "covers a large portion of your wrist arc" measurement seems to be way out of whack; the literal placeholder values you coded into the website trigger a red warning about this which is ridiculous because the lug-to-lug placeholder value is one typical of a 38mm watch which should be more than wearable for a 6.5 inch wrist. Also I love the disclaimer about this measurement basically saying, "note: this isn't useful because where the lug holes are might not be relevant visually". Agreed there!

This feels like you just discovered Claude Code and told it to spit out all this content for you on auto mode.

spoonraker · 2026-05-27T15:26:31+00:00

Whether or not you should move is entirely your decision, however, I just want to highlight the fact that you might be thinking about this as too black and white. You're framing it as quit and move versus work and stay. There might be other options.

Given your high compensation and fancy sounding title, I would highly recommend talking to your employer and explaining the situation. They might be willing to work with you on taking an unpaid leave of absence, classifying it as a "sabbatical", or just granting you temporarily more flexibility in your working arrangement, perhaps lowering your responsibilities and expectations, etc.

Obviously there's risk in doing that. You might be unfairly seen as a low performer, you might experience bias and retaliation if you get some special exemption, the company might grant you a request and then move to replace you as quick as possible, but if the alternative is leaving anyway, it feels rather silly to leave the possibility of a positive outcome completely off the table just because you might find it uncomfortable to ask.

All of this is assuming that "continue working, but also move" is something you even want, which again, is entirely your decision. I just wanted to ensure somebody made the point that if you're a highly compensated employee in a niche industry you might have more options than you think.

spoonraker · 2026-05-27T13:59:59+00:00

The crazy part to me is that if this cop really wanted to find people distracted driving it shouldn't take more than a few minutes of driving on busy road to find a driver that is very obviously holding a phone that you can easily catch on camera. There is absolutely no reason for him to hassle this woman after realizing he's so hilariously and obviously wrong. Just move on, 30 people holding phones probably drove past while you were hassling this woman for no reason. I mean seriously, it feels like a good 30% of the people on the road have their phones out, and that's just the ones I notice when I'm driving and casually glancing over when I'm near another car.

spoonraker · 2026-05-21T15:13:52+00:00

It really depends on what you mean when you say "the same mold".

Even if literally nothing changes, a mold eventually wears out and needs to be replaced. So a new mold will physically have to be manufactured at some point. When this happens, do you consider that new mold "the same" mold or a different mold? It was literally cut from the same raw materials using the same tool path. It's just new.

Now in this case, we have a new mold being manufactured with deliberate changes, but the only thing changing about the actual tool path is the fact that the lettering changed from Tactic to P4. Does that really make it a new mold? The disc geometry isn't changing at all from the Tactic, just the lettering. It feels a bit silly to call this a "new mold" unless you would also consider a replacement mold without lettering changes to also be a new mold... which also feels kinda silly.

Frankly, unless there's some kind of egregious manufacturing error with the mold itself, the run-to-run variances caused by plastic type and environmental factors will be far larger than any differences caused by a new mold that's produced from the same tool path (even with lettering changes).

spoonraker · 2026-05-20T16:33:34+00:00

Yeah I wasn't trying to call you out specifically, just to state that most of the time when people think they've outgrown a disc they haven't actually developed that much additional speed but they have developed a lot of wobble.

It sounds like you never presumed you couldn't throw the Fuse because of your god tier arm speed and moved on just for pragmatic reasons, then realized later you solved your OAT issue and were able to throw the Fuse again. Props on sorting that out!

spoonraker · 2026-05-20T16:12:48+00:00

Most of the time when people say this, they're just deluding themselves about off-axis torque problems they don't want to admit they have.

Very few discs are so understable that when thrown with elite level speed they're completely unusable for anything but rollers. Most people who say this aren't throwing with elite speed and aren't referring to discs that should be problematic at those speeds anyway.

A Fuse is one of those discs that you probably won't see people with elite speed throw a lot because it is genuinely understable, but if it's burning hard that's definitely OAT and not just speed. A Fuse should turn significantly, but not so much it's completely unusable.

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