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- Comment on Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident? 16 hours ago:
If maga successfully tigs the election to perfect a democratic takeover in November there will be tiananmen level event every week.
- Comment on I'm not so sure those are "foot" steps 4 days ago:
You win
- Comment on Thanks 🙏🏻 1 week ago:
Cheers brother. I was once a minor local celebrity in Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania because of my beer knowledge. I used to be a home brewer and was involved in brewing clubs and had a lot of brewing friends. Before covid I was a bar manager for a craft beer store/restaurant/bar called Kreugels Beer and Deli. We were regularly featured on a local TV show called “Wine Hops and Road Stops”- think of a low rent version of “Diners, Dives, and Drive-ins”. The host, Jeff Bonomo, still does it. The episodes are all on YouTube im in a lot of season 3 and 4. I would do segments where I would talk about craft beer and the history of brewing. With my Irish hat and my red beard i’m kind of recognizable. For a little while every time I went out I’d hear “hey you’re that beer guy!” Lol.
Literally the day before covid shutdown jeff told me the bosses at the TV station wanted to make me a paid co-host for the show. I was RIGHT there… Fame money women… Or actually none of that. Lol. But seriously, they did want to bring me in but then shutdown happened and everything changed. My bar closed it’s doors permanently not long after. I miss those days
- Comment on Thanks 🙏🏻 1 week ago:
3- lol no. I can barely make enough to meet our monthly delivery goals. But, we don’t put the electronics in them. A areospace company does that. I make the carbon fiber housing. You wouldn’t believe the tolerances; “difficult to make” isn’t even close. I work 7 days/65+hrs per week. I’m the only one who can make it.
- Comment on Thanks 🙏🏻 1 week ago:
2- I guess Egypt was the Sahara? I didn’t really see the dunes beyond what was around the great pyramids in Giza. But there were lots of guys with camels offering pictures and rides. Actually kind of scammy though because they would stand behind you with their camel and their kid would snap a Polaroid without asking and demand money. We were told just to pay everyone. Something like that would be like $0.50.
I DID however spend 3 days with the bedouins in Southern Israel. I went to a fancy English speaking high school called The Anglican School International. You should look it up. It’s a beautiful campus. There were like 20 people in my graduating class in '97. They organized a few trips for us every year. Some of them were really amazing. I got to ride through a scrubby desert in military jeeps driven by teenage soldiers once.
The bedouin trip was amazing though. They are a nomadic Arab tribe that live in tents like they have for thousands of years. They are basically the middle Eastern version of the Amish. So I’ve of the days we went on a 12 hour camel ride through the Negev. My camel was such an asshole that a little boy had to lead him the whole way. Did you know that a camel’s neck is flexible enough to bite you while you are sitting on them? Yeah neither did I. Guess how I learned.
So on the way back my friend and I decided we were done with the camels and would rather walk. As the supreme confident 16 year olds we were, we lagged far behind the group lifting rocks to find creatures. All we found were little yellow scorpions, but we found TONS of them. We picked then up by their tails and the them at each other. Fun stuff.
Months later we were in study hall in the library just flipping through interesting books like the Guinness world records and stuff. 90’s version of doom scrolling. On one page we saw that scorpion we were playing with. The “yellow Palestine scorpion” also know as a “death stalker”. Yep. One of the most venomous creatures on earth. We were throwing them. Guaranteed death. Nervous system shutdown. The only thing that saved us was that truly dangerous creatures tend to be chill. Fun times.
- Comment on Thanks 🙏🏻 1 week ago:
I met zahi hawass in 1995 before he was anything other than an egyptologist and a university professor. The charisma you see on TV is 100% the real him. At the time my family was living in Jerusalem Israel. My dad was an engineer for Intel helping set up a new chip manufacturing facility on the outskirts of town.
In the 90’s there were a lot of improved relationships between Israel and its neighbors. In 1973 there was the 6 day war where Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and a could other countries I can’t remember, all attacked Israel simultaneously. At which time Israel kicked all of their asses back to their deserts of origin in less than a week.
Anywho… In 1995 Israel opened its southern border into Egypt for tourism. I think they called it the Tabla crossing. I was 15. We drove across the Saini desert in kind of a tour bus. We were the first Americans to make the trip. Long fucking drive too. I think it took something like 5 hours just to cross the endless wastes.
I think Egypt was trying to lay out the red carpet for us. We stayed as a hotel that was unbelievably lavish. Lol, we were told we must stay in our rooms or be off grounds between 5pm and 7pm because they sprayed for mosquitoes. These guys are wearing these gas powered foggers full of DDT that spread a haze you couldn’t see through.
We met Dr Hawass at our hotel and he rode with us to Giza. In pictures the pyramids look like they’re in the middle of the desert but in reality there’s a densely populated neighborhood right next to it. He walked through all of them with us. We walked through every interior room and walkway privately. He showed us his personal dig sites and I saw, with own eyes, heiroglyphs of a kangaroo. There’s debate about this but I know what I saw. He took us through the museum and we bought some little statue figurines from a street before that Dr Hawass authenticated. He said they were legit middle kingdom artifacts. It was unreal. I boldly drank tap water because I wanted to develop an immunity to the local pathogens, anticipating a return. I never did visit Egypt again but I did suffer through amoebic dissentary for 3 weeks.
It was years later when I started seeing Dr Hawass on TV. At first I was like… wait I recognize that voice… Then the holy shit moment when I realized what a true gift it had been to get a private tour. It was me, my parents and my 5 year old younger brothers; 5 days in Egypt, I’m pretty sure the whole things didn’t cost $4000 at the time.
- Comment on How long would it take a black Hole to fully absorb a person from event horizon to center of the earth style? 1 week ago:
They are classified by mass. Some are definitely bigger than others. The one in our Galaxy called Sagittarius A has as much mass as over 4 million if our suns. If it were in our solar system it would be physically as big as the orbit of Venus.
The mass of black holes is typically measured in multiples of our sun, or stellar masses. A supermassive is measured in the millions to billions of our sun, while a “small” black hole is just a few dozen suns big. The small ones, or stellar mass black holes can hang around like stars and over a galaxy but the supermassive ones are the things that create or hold the galaxy together.
“How can time end” is more complicated. Without getting too complicated with it imagine putting a drop of red food coloring in a pool. Imagine it in slow motion. The big bang is the moment the food coloring hits the water. Then the food coloring spreads out but for a while you can clearly see the red. We are at the point in the age of the universe where the red is still visible in the water. At some point the red will spread out so much you can’t see it anymore. Without getting too dramatic that would be called the heat death of the universe. At that point time effectively stops because there is nothing left to change, meaning the red itself carries time with it. This is also called entropy.
So to travel into a black hole would be to fast forward to the point where the universe has become so spread out that atoms and the bits inside that make up the atoms fall apart, effectively ending time. Time itself is a measure of change. Nothing left to change means no more time. So that’s when the black hole ends. It’s a little more complicated than that but if you can understand what I just said you are about 90% of the way to understand everything we currently think we know about black holes.
- Comment on How long would it take a black Hole to fully absorb a person from event horizon to center of the earth style? 1 week ago:
The singularity of a black hole is measured in time, not distance. The center exists at the end of time so that’s where you go. So how long? -all of the time remaining in the universe.
- Comment on conditional soap 3 weeks ago:
Let me introduce you to Dr bronners miracle soap. I literally brush my teeth with it, and use it for laundry.
- Comment on Be fabulous 3 weeks ago:
Sloppy Joe slop sloppy Joe… Me and sloppy Joe got married… We have two kids and we’re doing just fine…
- Comment on Rockstar still hasn't offered a convincing reason for firing over 30 GTA 6 developers 3 weeks ago:
So you think that 90-100% of programming jobs WON’T be replaced by AI within a decade? I realize there are limitations but I think exponential growth is difficult to see within the first three years. We are currently in year three.
- Comment on Rockstar still hasn't offered a convincing reason for firing over 30 GTA 6 developers 3 weeks ago:
Because GTAV made over $700 million last year on 12 year old ip. They are in absolutely zero rush to release a sequel that may or may not flop in an era when it’s clear that 90-100% of programming jobs will be eliminated within a decade.
Every programmer they replace with ai now is one less bonus to pay out after release.
- Comment on If God (or any creator of the universe) exists would he be made out of atoms? 4 weeks ago:
The great thing about your imagination is that anything can become true if you believe it.
- Comment on The Warbussy 1 month ago:
Imagine how disappointed I was the first time I saw a picture of a titmouse.
- Comment on I'm in a hotel in America with no kettle in my room, if I want tea I have to microwave it. 2 months ago:
I honestly don’t understand the preference for how the molecules in your water start moving.
- Comment on Radon 2 months ago:
I didn’t make the targeting systems. I make the carbon fiberhousing for the targeting systems. Deep blue collar job in the bluest collar town you can imagine.
- Comment on Radon 2 months ago:
Make missiles hit.
- Comment on 🤔 Interesting Theory. 2 months ago:
Only bubba had good taste.
- Comment on Screw your zodiac sign, tell me.. 2 months ago:
Lol 7&8. Nothing broke like those plates.
- Comment on Psychedelic Truth 2 months ago:
A bad trip is just an anxiety attack while you are too vulnerable to understand reality.
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 2 months ago:
9 times per day… So ok. You know how women love to give men shit for having a poor understanding is basic female biology? This is that.
- Comment on I'm so goddamn sick of this fat, orange, narcissistic asshole and I will celebrate when he dies 3 months ago:
Much like how Trump’s second term makes us wish for the innocence of his first term, what comes after Trump will be worse. Nothing ever gets better. All things deteriorate until they break and are replaced.
Even though things are worse than they have ever been, America today is the best it’s ever going to be again. When the history books are written about this era we will see the 2020’s as America’s second great antebellum.
- Comment on Banana 3 months ago:
Bad thing: banana Republic. Other than that… 100% legit.
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 3 months ago:
What is the word for laughing and crying at the same time?
- Comment on How does he do it??? 3 months ago:
Spiral out. Keep going. Spiral out.
- Comment on Buffalo chicken 3 months ago:
That’s a bison chicken
- Comment on I don't care if you can't provide for your family! You WILL provide for me! 3 months ago:
GC, BWR, NW Princess Donut the Queen Anne Chonk.
Goddamnit donut. No one here gets the reference.
- Comment on Caption this. 4 months ago:
Nature, uh… Finds a way
- Comment on GTA V was released on this day, 12 years ago 4 months ago:
I’ve lived in the same GTA house longer than I’ve lived in any real home.
- Comment on spidermanpointing.jpg 4 months ago:
Spider giving Borderlands vibes