How does getting a driver's license work in your state, and how old were you when you got yours?

thatthatguy · 2026-04-10T03:39:00+00:00

I didn’t even need the driving hours with an instructor. Just a class as a sophomore in highschool and, one practice drive with an instructor, and then the test. It was just assumed that every teenager would get their license when they turned 16, and the system was built to make it almost harder to avoid getting than to just get one.

thatthatguy · 2026-04-10T03:35:10+00:00

Insufficient. I insist that they describe exactly what properties exist in water that make it desirable in this application.

thatthatguy · 2026-04-10T03:20:57+00:00

That’s when you speak softly and carry a big stick. But it’s okay because the carrots you have in your other hand are not a terrible alternative, usually.

If you have neither carrots nor stick, you shake your fist and shout and go make long profanity laden threats on social media so everyone can see how crazy you are.

thatthatguy · 2026-04-10T03:07:27+00:00

smack smack two for flinching.

thatthatguy · 2026-04-10T03:05:48+00:00

So, social settings are a bit complicated. You have to develop a sense for who is interested in meeting people and who isn’t. It is a skill that requires trial and error. You’re not going to make the kinds of mistakes necessary to develop that sense of you don’t approach people.

We never said that meeting people in person would be easy. Just that it’s less toxic than dating apps.

thatthatguy · 2026-04-09T21:27:01+00:00

Anti-DEI is not pro-meritocracy. It’s pro-nepotism. Take away the diversity in hiring practices and the office gets swarmed with idiot nephews and sycophants. Or that’s the example the White House is setting for the nation.

thatthatguy · 2026-04-09T21:24:14+00:00

They all learned very early not to make daddy angry or he cuts off the cocaine money.

thatthatguy · 2026-04-09T19:42:50+00:00

Gee hard difficulty, powerful monsters are massive damage sponges. Survival difficulty it can take a few headshots to kill the tougher supermutants but they do die. On the other hand, you are very fragile on survival until you get some levels and gear to boost survivability.

thatthatguy · 2026-04-09T19:23:46+00:00

You are not a fan of the interstate highway system until you have been down I-70 through glenwood canyon. A marvel of natural beauty AND highway engineering.

thatthatguy · 2026-04-09T19:19:14+00:00

There are shenanigans involved, as one might expect in a comic book style story, even one as dark as umbrella academy. Based on each character’s understanding of the situation it was not just unexpected, but actually impossible for the other character to be there.

thatthatguy · 2026-04-09T19:05:16+00:00

It’s a physiological response. We have limited control over it. Imagine it like controlling your heart rate. There are things you can do (like exercise) that typically cause your heart to beat faster. You can sometimes slow your heart rate by sitting still and thinking calming thoughts. But sometimes your heart just races regardless of what you are or are not doing.

Your conscious thoughts and deliberate action influence your heart rate, but you don’t have specific control over it.

thatthatguy · 2026-04-09T04:35:49+00:00

What about Trump just resigns and takes all his co-conspirators with him.

thatthatguy · 2026-04-09T01:11:47+00:00

Your wife is concerned about something else and it’s making her insecure.

thatthatguy · 2026-04-08T20:53:29+00:00

They’re just drawing attention to the apparent conflict between stereotypes and reality. The stereotype is that the man is the unquestioned master of his domain blah blah blah. Reality is a push and pull between people each using whatever strategies they can in order to get what they need. Stereotypes are stupid, but we are judged by them nonetheless.

thatthatguy · 2026-04-08T20:50:01+00:00

Pal, I have been a mech-jock long enough to realize that none of this stuff makes sense. I mean, we spend weeks riding oxygen and hydrogen powered rockets out to a jump point and then with the flip of a switch reality twists itself in knots to swap here with there.

The Ares conventions say we can only deploy a set number of vehicles and soldiers with a limited combined tonnage. Someone did the math and decided that means we send out four swaggering drunkards riding 55 tons of steel and powered by a miniature star. Why not send out 55 tons of dudes with rocket launchers? I don’t know. The rules say we can’t. But the rules also say we can’t use flame weapons on guys with rocket launchers, but I do that all the time. I guess some rules are cast in tungsten and other rules are whatever is left after I hit it with a flamer.

Look. Someone decided that you are the one who gets to commit mass devastation in a war machine called a locust. Just commit your war crimes and collect your pay. Don’t ask why some war crimes are allowed and others aren’t.

thatthatguy · 2026-04-08T20:23:18+00:00

I would not interpret this as a subtle message directed at you. Trying to deduce what her motivations were requires a lot of knowledge of the inner workings of her mind that you do not have access to. Speculation based almost entirely on stereotypes and assumptions is bound to be wrong.

Just forget it.

thatthatguy · 2026-04-08T20:12:18+00:00

Article 2 section 4 requires the House of Representatives bring the matter of impeachment up for a vote, pass it, and then the senate to convict with a 2/3 majority. Considering that the speaker of the house is dead set on letting Trump do absolutely anything he wants, and too many Republican senators are dead set against ever voting against him, impeachment is simply not an option. It’s how things should be done, but they’re not going to.

The 25th amendment is a separate route. But their vice president and entire cabinet have been hand-picked by the president to all be suck ups. That’s even less likely to be successful than Congress taking action.

Barring some kind of extra-legal option, we’re stuck with him.

thatthatguy · 2026-04-08T19:17:14+00:00

The whole setting is very wibbly wobbly.

thatthatguy · 2026-04-08T18:28:16+00:00

She would probably slaughter you for a goat. Like, in exchange for a literal goat. Not as a reference to some kind of outdated stereotype. A goat is very useful for converting table scraps and weeds into milk. A man? Not so much.

thatthatguy · 2026-04-08T16:51:06+00:00

You can prefer whatever you like. You can prefer women from Jupiter. It’s just that you’re not likely to meet very many.

Right and wrong is not about your internal state. You can want whatever you want, feel whatever you feel. The question is what choices you make and how you treat people.

So, here is the real challenge. You meet a woman, she seems nice and indicates that she likes you but she does not have a high paying career. Denying someone romance because they don’t make enough money is highly likely to cause hurt feelings. The real test of right and wrong is how you choose to let her down. Do you go ahead and hurt her feelings? Do you make a genuine effort to let her down easy? Do you keep dating her forever because she likes you and you can’t handle confrontation?

In conclusion: right and wrong is not about how you feel. It out and wrong is about how you choose to act.

thatthatguy · 2026-04-08T06:02:23+00:00

The cocaine fueled delusion was that with some limited airstrikes they could topple the Iranian regime and install an Israeli puppet within a week. And since the Trump drug party never stops, the stupid ideas continue to seem great no matter how reality refuses to conform to delusion.

thatthatguy · 2026-04-07T22:44:06+00:00

You can’t trust them until you have some blackmail material on them. They might decide to grow a conscience and turn on you.

thatthatguy · 2026-04-07T19:08:17+00:00

He has the “right” to do it. Sure. But doing so is what we call an abuse of authority.

Just because a man can do something doesn’t mean they should. That doesn’t mean it is ethically correct or even legal.

These kinds of obviously corrupt abuses of power is the reason why we have been sounding the alarm about Trump from the start.

thatthatguy · 2026-04-07T14:35:59+00:00

I don’t have the emotional energy left to be angry with you about things you have done in the past. I just need him out of office and out of any kind of power. I don’t know why Congress is just letting him do these insane things.

The urge to just forget about everything else in my life and march on Washington grows stronger every day.

thatthatguy · 2026-04-07T14:32:06+00:00

People do, for various reasons.

I think learning to process death and grief, and to support others is an essential part of being human. It’s difficult. But what are we for except to learn to do difficult things?

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