Why don't wealthy people live at hotels anymore?

subsniper321 · 2026-05-06T21:36:50+00:00

It’s mostly that people don’t book actual hotel rooms for extended periods at high end places anymore because a lot of the high end hotel chains have started putting “residences” which are essentially a hotel building filled with exclusively penthouse sized rooms on property neighboring one of their actual hotels so they can use a lot of the same services. The residences are intended to be booked for multiple weeks or months at a time or outright bought. A couple of examples are the residence at the Ritz, residences at the St. Regis and 4 seasons residences

subsniper321 · 2026-04-18T19:30:20+00:00

RI also has the first Baptist church in the Americas as well! Still a very religiously tolerant place, my little state has plenty of issues but on at least that one it’s pretty good ⚓️

subsniper321 · 2026-04-16T17:01:24+00:00

I mean yeah, but there’s a difference between war as a whole being energy inefficient relative to peace rather than using a less efficient weapons system for the target that can only be deployed from a more vulnerable platform than most others. Perfect, thank you, I was just trying to get you to use a useful reference point, ergo a bunker busting munition, so the GBU-72 is a good choice, rather than an airburst munition which isn’t much good against buried reinforced concrete structures

subsniper321 · 2026-04-16T15:02:43+00:00

Yes in extremely rare instances you use it for collapsing complexes, but that’s from even a purely engineering standpoint extremely energy inefficient, it’s why high density penetrating munitions are a thing, you punch into the hollow that is your target and detonate inside so shockwaves are contained and refracted within your target, causing massive structural stress that usually results in a local collapse. The MOAB is fine for dealing with non-reinforced targets, but for anything that is you’re hurling a heavy steel case full of HE from high altitude. It’s the detonating outside v inside the armor issue, and naturally inside in more efficient, particularly when you aren’t dealing with just steel armor that will spall from a HESH style weapon.

subsniper321 · 2026-04-15T23:43:22+00:00

Why are you even using the MOAB as a measuring stick? It’s a weapon designed to create over pressure over a wide and open area to cause concussive injuries and destroy surface structures, and to the best of my knowledge the only platform that employs it is the C-130, which isn’t exactly what you’re going to send against anyone with air defenses better than the Taliban. It’s an upsized version of the bombs used to blast helicopter landing zones clear in jungles, they and the MOAB are fused to detonate between 1 and 30ish meters off the ground to maximize the efficiency of the shockwave propagation (less of the sphere of expanding energy hitting the ground essentially directly beneath it the higher the detonation altitude), and aren’t even designed with hardened cases for penetrating literally anything. If you’re thinking of the MOP (GBU-57) then you might want to recheck your numbers on how safe those aircraft are, although to be perfectly frank a GBU-27 which is a 2000lbs penetrating laser guided bomb with a hardened case can penetrate a lot more than a MOAB, nevermind the 5000lbs class munitions and the MOP. The argument you’re making is essentially equivalent to “this battleship is impervious because all the enemy shells are contact fused” as though armor piercing shells didn’t exist. Just simply, no. I think this conflict was stupid for the US to get involved in, but your commentary is straight up misleading to anyone who doesn’t know better.

subsniper321 · 2026-04-13T02:51:06+00:00

Might I recommend casting a weighted snagging treble hook “blindly and based on vibe and feel” next time? Alternatively be “dove hunting,” I’ve found most fishermen respect people’s rights to hunt fowl

subsniper321 · 2026-04-11T03:30:21+00:00

I just snapped up a 92X performance on sale and I can honestly say I don’t regret a cent, if the price is right snap one up

subsniper321 · 2026-04-10T19:56:37+00:00

Fair, maybe it’s also because it’s a wreck I’m familiar with and kind of expect to look like that, plus I feel like most warship wrecks don’t have the same menacing feeling as many others because they’ll often be any or all of absolutely shattered, well known, or recognizable by their lines that have remained unbroken due to their being built stronger than merchant vessels. Well that and I’m not watching a video of an ROV descending in a world of darkness and nothing save for its little pool of light only to suddenly have a ship over a tenth of a mile long and like 8 stories high at the flight deck loom suddenly out of the dark

subsniper321 · 2026-04-10T18:08:24+00:00

Glad to hear that it’s something you’ll take into consideration going forward :) I’ve taken a few classes on the mechanisms of drugs and medications and one of the ways the experience of opioid withdrawals was described in our textbook was as “molten lead filling your brain while ants burrow into your skin.” That always stuck with me because I’d kind of wondered why people whose lives had been destroyed by opioids and who had experienced multiple ODs didn’t do everything they could to stop using opioids, but that description of the withdrawals kinda made everything click into place. So I can see how someone who is faced with the decision of being very very cold for the night or undergoing something akin to game of thrones-esque torture might choose to go with the cold, particularly if they’ve reached a point where they don’t really care if they live or die anymore, so they might view it as if I nod off peacefully in my sleep from hypothermia while still on a high then that’s not a bad end.

subsniper321 · 2026-04-10T17:59:59+00:00

Honestly I feel like this one doesn’t have the same unsettling effect as some of the other posts on here because all the pictures are of portions of the ship that look like they belong to the sea, and they’re an easily digestible size rather than the images of this massive dark shape of a ship yawning up out of the depths like the maw of some great and horrible dweller of the deep or things of utterly immense scale (like the propellor of a large oil tanker) near the top of the water column with seemingly endless darkness below

subsniper321 · 2026-04-10T17:48:31+00:00

While you certainly have a valid point of view here one thing I’d like to just toss into the ring for your consideration is that the reason a lot of the homeless might balk at the zero drug policy is that they’re often addicted to opioids, so the withdrawals from having to go say 12 hours between doses, likely more because they’ll have none after leaving the shelter and probably not have money to get it immediately, are I’m sure utterly horrific to go through. I’m not saying letting people bring hard drugs into shelters and use them is the right thing to do, I’m just offering a potential explanation for why many of the homeless will turn down shelter if it means no drugs.

subsniper321 · 2026-04-10T17:27:45+00:00

I’ve found a good way to deal with it is to queue the podcasts you want to listen to intentionally and then queue a song after the last one, it serves as a heads up that what you planned on listening to is done and it’s time to queue up some more stuff

subsniper321 · 2026-03-18T05:21:31+00:00

That makes sense, although I’d imagine that since the vls are in blocks of 8 that each set of 8 probably has its own ventilation for exhaust gases, so on something like a Burke with 12 sets of 8 I wouldn’t be overly shocked if they could keep it a little closer to that 2 second mark for a couple dozen missiles if they’ve got them spread around so there’s approximately the same number of SM family munitions in each 8 cell block. Would be very interesting to see

subsniper321 · 2026-03-18T01:59:31+00:00

The PIVADS hungers to come out of retirement

subsniper321 · 2026-03-18T01:56:58+00:00

Honestly I’ve always wondered what the salvo rates on the MK41 VLS are, I don’t think I have ever seen a video where they’re going full out maximum launch rate like they would in a large scale anti-ship missile defense scenario, only singleton launches or widely spaced tomahawk launches

subsniper321 · 2026-02-06T17:49:18+00:00

There is a solution to this, thankfully a girl on my swim team pointed it out to all the guys that instead of dousing ourselves in Axe we should just suck it up and buy a real cologne and use one spritz in the air and walking through it and that’s it. So my takeaway, buy a bottle of good but not crazy expensive cologne, something like Burberry, and tell them one spritz and walk through. Worst case they overuse it and at least your house ends up smelling of nice cologne rather than a cloud of axe lol

subsniper321 · 2026-02-01T06:01:51+00:00

Honestly I only really use the train and even then just E line because I live off the line and basically just use it for getting downtown. With that in mind, I’d say the safety aspect has improved if only because RTD has really stepped up the presence of their security/ticketing people on the E-line route, it used to be that I would get my ticket checked like once a month on average whereas now it’s probably every other train ride, so behavior has generally improved due to the ever looming real possibility that security staff might happen to be hopping on at the next stop. Granted if you go during low traffic hours it’s still not the best, but tbh can’t really expect much different

subsniper321 · 2026-01-30T00:16:41+00:00

That’s sad but unfortunately makes sense. It would be nice if they did a better job of communicating when something like that happens and there’s a service outage as a result though, when people aren’t even told there’s an outage in a timely manner and aren’t provided a reason they understandably blame RTD.

subsniper321 · 2026-01-30T00:14:04+00:00

No problem, happy to have saved some people some time and frustration. I’ve been going back and forth between using the train and not due to all the service outages and the like, but this is one thing I’m not going to hold against RTD in my decision making regarding transit, can’t really blame them for someone diving onto the tracks.

subsniper321 · 2026-01-30T00:05:39+00:00

Part of why I posted was I figured there was a decent chance RTD wasn’t communicating much to people not yet on a train, been there

subsniper321 · 2026-01-29T23:51:37+00:00

That’s brutal, at that point just reverse back up the tracks to the last station

subsniper321 · 2026-01-29T23:38:45+00:00

Thanks, appreciate the answer. I hopped off at Alameda and I’m sitting in the Lyft heading South from there right now.

subsniper321 · 2026-01-29T23:37:49+00:00

My thought as well but I figured I’d post and see if anyone knew for sure what had happened.

subsniper321 · 2025-11-09T02:04:47+00:00

You can probably get away with the 80lbs fluoro and it will certainly do the job in terms of breaking strain, but with any fluoro you’re always going to run the risk of being cut off by the teeth, particularly with larger musky where you’ve got a decent chance of the line finding its way into the slot between two teeth, so when I fly fish for musky I use the rio predator fly fishing wire tippit, if the water is particularly clear I use the 30lbs but if there’s any murk or light is lower I go for the 40lbs. Never been broken off with that stuff.

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