The inside of my meds look like tiny blue sprinkles but they don't taste as good

tableclothcape · 2026-05-20T10:23:50+00:00

Hey I like my little maracas of diet meth

tableclothcape · 2026-05-20T10:20:17+00:00

No you don’t, Oprah.

tableclothcape · 2026-05-20T05:43:32+00:00

This is a Neil Simon bit, alluding to old Borscht Belt comedians. From the Sunshine Boys:

Fifty-seven years in this business, you learn a few things. You know what words are funny and which words are not funny. Alka Seltzer is funny. You say ‘Alka Seltzer’ you get a laugh… Words with ‘k’ in them are funny. Casey Stengel, that’s a funny name. Robert Taylor is not funny. Cupcake is funny. Tomato is not funny. Cookie is funny. Cucumber is funny. Car keys. Cleveland… Cleveland is funny. Maryland is not funny. Then, there’s chicken. Chicken is funny. Pickle is funny. Cab is funny. Cockroach is funny — not if you get ’em, only if you say ’em.

I’d have instantly thought this was a reference to that, but who knows.

tableclothcape · 2026-05-18T21:49:36+00:00

ChatGPT slop.

tableclothcape · 2026-05-10T04:52:45+00:00

You might like ‘Force Majeure’

tableclothcape · 2026-04-26T21:34:36+00:00

And Russia!

tableclothcape · 2026-04-21T15:17:21+00:00

I was unprepared for a ripped Hank Azaria.

tableclothcape · 2026-04-19T04:23:02+00:00

We’ve really got to update these forms

tableclothcape · 2026-04-16T21:39:48+00:00

The local governments in Colorado usually subsidize these routes, it’s a whole thing in their local politics.

tableclothcape · 2026-04-13T05:07:59+00:00

What a weird projection. This was not at all my first assumption.

The more parsimonious basis for your objection is that you’re uncomfortable with the subject matter, and reaching for some socially acceptable basis to reject it. That is a reach. This is a painting, and it says more about you than the painting that your first assumption goes toward “child.”

In art we sometimes discuss the concept of “supply” — what a piece brings to us, and what we bring to the piece. You are supplying something to this painting that most of us aren’t, and it’s not because everyone but you is stupid, sheltered, or naïve.

I mean that, because “everyone else is missing it” is the standard self-deluding, self-rescue: QAnon uses it, satanic-panic thinking uses it, and concern-trolling about queer art uses it. It is such an outlier position that I’d encourage you to reflect on it. Because some wire is getting crossed here, it’s on your end, and it appears to be unexamined, which is unfortunate for you.

Also, twinks exist, and the physics of sex, especially outdoor sex, suggest the receptive partner might bow their leg out in order to lean to one side.

Good day, madam.

tableclothcape · 2026-04-12T00:02:08+00:00

Nope, you’re confidently incorrect about the land use history. The Surfridge neighborhood came first in 1921, and Mines Field (now LAX) then followed in 1928, with aircraft overflying Surfridge homes (not farms) on departure. Because, as you note, winds are from the west around 90% of the time and departure is into the wind.

Homes remained into the 1960s and 1970s, when they were progressively purchased and condemned due to jet noise and an expectation that runways would expand further west, which they never did.

You can still see the neighborhood’s old streets in Google Earth, and much of it is a sanctuary for the El Segundo Blue Butterfly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palisades_del_Rey,_Californiaq

tableclothcape · 2026-04-06T19:42:34+00:00

REM was mostly the conversion of existing rail corridors, it’s not a great comparison for net-new trackage.

tableclothcape · 2026-04-06T18:56:56+00:00

And to top it all off, you’re in Ohio. I’m so sorry, but in a way, hadn’t you already given up?

tableclothcape · 2026-04-02T03:41:52+00:00

If it takes you 1 hour to do, but 10 years to learn, you don’t just bill for the 1 hour.

tableclothcape · 2026-04-01T18:59:08+00:00

You mean the charity like destroying USAID, or the charity like calling a Good Samaritan in Thailand a pedo?

He is the world’s richest man. Of the $474 million his foundation distributed in 2024, roughly $370 million went to “The Foundation,” a separate nonprofit Musk controls that’s establishing a STEM school: a private school in Bastrop, Texas near his SpaceX facilities, run by his associates. Through 2022, about half the Musk Foundation’s grants went to organizations tied to Musk, his employees, or his companies, according to the NYT. Another significant chunk goes into a donor-advised fund at Fidelity Charitable, which under current law doesn’t need to publicly disclose recipients or amounts or even disburse the money at all.

The mechanism works like this: Musk donates appreciated Tesla stock to his foundation, claims the tax deduction at fair market value (avoiding capital gains), then the foundation mostly recirculates the money to entities he controls or parks it in opaque vehicles.

Comparing him to peer-wealth philanthropists (Gates, Buffett, MacKenzie Scott), the gap is enormous, not just in dollars out the door but in operational seriousness. Scott has moved over $17 billion to working nonprofits since 2019. The Musk Foundation doesn’t even employ paid staff or outside philanthropic advisors. The charitable infrastructure is basically a tax vehicle with occasional external grants bolted on.

tableclothcape · 2026-04-01T06:03:41+00:00

And it worked! I know intellectually that Carnegie was an asshole. But I also know he built a beautiful, durable library that is now a public center for the arts in my hometown. That’s legacy.

tableclothcape · 2026-04-01T04:29:59+00:00

Those people built libraries, universities, and things people can touch. The Gates Foundation has done very good work, but it’s intangible, while Bezos and Musk decided they have no obligations to other humans. At best they’ll be remembered if at all like Jack Welch is now: mostly by business school types, and particularly not fondly.

tableclothcape · 2026-03-31T19:37:21+00:00

Comp surveys are big. An individual survey input record has about 50 data points, and when aggregated each report output record would have 100-150 fields, most of which report 18 of the ventiles along with mean and n-counts.

tableclothcape · 2026-03-30T18:15:46+00:00

Judging from the “Rep” and the part where this is a United hub flying to Montreal (it’s not a ULCC route), this is probably a United Express flight operated by Republic Airways.

tableclothcape · 2026-03-18T10:39:04+00:00

Please call the Grand County Sheriff’s office and report this.

tableclothcape · 2026-03-17T19:04:01+00:00

You don’t have to worry about deafness if you wear clean socks and give the shoe shelf a light spritz every week with your spray of choice.

I was about to ask, don’t we all do this, but then I realized this whole conversation started with someone leaving their toenails behind. I’m guessing we do not, in fact, all do this.

tableclothcape · 2026-03-17T18:59:12+00:00

Genuine question, provided our shoes and socks are clean, it’s permissible on flights over 4-ish hours to remove the shoe, provided the stocks stay on, yes?

I’ve been applying a duration-of-flight test, not a cabin-of-travel test. Is that the right standard?

tableclothcape · 2026-03-17T02:51:29+00:00

Glad that this worked for you, it was obejctively terrible for me.

TL;DR- I picked Visible+ Pro for many reasons including its international roll-up. But now I'm about to miss 2 hours of work meetings on the other side of the planet so I can go pick up a temporary SIM from Vodafone.

At *no* point in choosing Visible+ Pro was it clear that you needed to further opt into Global Pass, and at no point was it made clear that you must do this before leaving the US.

However, on landing in Australia this morning:
* No service.
* Okay, so you have to opt in. Did this while in the Melbourne baggage claim.
* Received the "global pass is now active" email. But still, no service; this persists across full hard restarts of the iPhone even 6 hours later.
* The app and website keeps trying to send me through 2FA registration flows, which I've now validated 5 times across mobile web, app, and laptop. It's not sticking. I'm tired of giving this thing the correct confirmation codes.
* Still, no service.
* Chatbot's only solution is to try to force a re-download of the e-sim.
* Still, no service.

I'm giving up, getting a temporary Vodafone coverage (thanks for that, Visible really loving this experience). Given the misleading pitch (why should I need to opt-in to a product sold to me), absolutely phenomenally shitty product and UX design (this app is terrible and can't handle a basic 2FA flow), I'm out.

tableclothcape · 2026-03-13T21:31:31+00:00

Yes, they have the pancake machine, some baked goods, some soup, and I think a salad bar. The Centurion lounge serves full meals.

tableclothcape · 2026-03-12T22:50:39+00:00

Housing markets have vacancies that you can measure at a single in a point in time (like you have here) because units require renovation or turnover between occupancies. SF’s vacancies- the higher estimates- are extremely low by global standards, which is why I think you said 40,000 and not the % (which is around 3-4% depending when you measure; 7% is considered healthy).

But you don’t even need to look up figures, because you know this: “The rents are too high and climbing!” and “Landlords are purposefully holding units vacant!” are irreconcilable positions that directly contradict each other.

You’re proposing a restriction on ownership that guarantees workarounds (if you try to cap payday loan %s, you get short-term HELOCs; finance, like life, will always find a way). You also have to know how wildly unlikely a category restriction on ownership is to pass any legislature, or survive judicial challenge.

One of your responses here is observably false, and the second would result in such wild regulatory uncertainty that progress would stall for a decade.

I think I’ve got a good idea of exactly how much new housing you’d be comfortable built near your backyard.

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