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- Comment on no eggs were harmed in the making of this video 1 week ago:
Well, it’s likely the DOGE cuts haven’t shown their impact just yet.
Of roughly 30 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration workers dismissed in February as part of Musk’s campaign to shrink the federal workforce, many were in the “office of vehicle automation safety,” — Car safety experts at NHTSA, which regulates Tesla, axed by DOGE
Personally, I’m sort of hoping for the same karma as when Elaine Chao was secretary of transportation and let Tesla roll out an untested and confusing shifting system, which later helped kill her sister.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Having just read a comment about someone who actually went through the process of having a kid by employing stuff like cycle and fertility tracking, scheduling both sex and abstinence, as well as other not-fun stuff, your comment made me think of taking the kink to an extreme, where instead of lots of rambunctious boning, it was a couple nerds doing intense and fruitless science to find the optimal way to impregnate someone that was impossible to impregnate. (Unless they start looking at the mating habits of bedbugs, but that’s a third, separate, entirely unhinged thing.)
I mean, I’m pretty sure I know which interpretation you meant. But brains are weird and I’m sleep deprived.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
As someone who isn’t going to have kids and doesn’t want them, I still get the growing old alone concern.
It’s not that I would have wanted children to take care of me, but that I don’t trust the social safety system in the U.S.
Even if things are going well, it’s still a terrifying proposition. My first job ever was as a dietary aid at a mid-level retirement home, and while some of the people there were thriving (namely the folks who somehow managed to go into the home with their partners), the majority were a study of what happens when the ability to live exceeds the will. It was a formative experience.And why I’m in therapy and desperately scared that between neurodivergence and trauma, that I’m not going to be one of those really social old people with friends everywhere that care for them and keep them company. Although I think it’s not a given that kids will automatically be there for you as you age, I can see the appeal of doing what you can to hedge your bets. It’s a terrifying world out there, and we only have each other.
- Comment on Anon thinks about wheat 2 weeks ago:
I thought cats domesticated themselves
- Comment on Anon thinks about wheat 2 weeks ago:
To be fair, I’m one of the 10,000, so it was novel to me!
- Comment on Anon thinks about wheat 2 weeks ago:
Are you saying wheat domesticated early man?
- Comment on They are German, of course. 3 weeks ago:
Science vs religion, baby.
- Comment on Pizza styles 3 weeks ago:
It’s too socialistic by the standards of capitalists and has been run out of most cooking schools. It’s occasionally taught as an ‘alternative’ recipe, but for some reason, despite rendering a better pizza, it’s never widely adopted.
- Comment on Pizza styles 3 weeks ago:
I think the joke is that might be AP style pizza.
- Comment on I need to vent about plastic milk jugs 3 weeks ago:
In the U.S. milk comes in half gallon and gallon measures, which look like your 2L and 3L containers, respectively.
Sometimes you will find milk in waxed paper cartons, but that is not the norm. (It’s very common, however, for dairy products that are often bought by pint and quart — typically half and half, heavy cream, or coffee creamers.) Our fancier non-dairy creamers tend to be in tetrapaks, with less expensive (or at least distributed in higher volumes) creamers in plastic bottles.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 4 weeks ago:
In another comment, someone mentioned that it’s not just repayment of interest that profits credit card companies.
Even if you pay all debts monthly before interest can compound, the CC companies still charge processing fees to merchants on a per-transaction basis (which merchants either pass directly to consumers or indirectly through higher prices). They still get their cut, even if you don’t see it on a line item.Recently I had house work done. The contractor offered to charge me 5% less if I paid with cash or check instead of credit card.
- Comment on The 2025 Hater’s Guide To The Williams-Sonoma Catalog | Defector 4 weeks ago:
It’s okay! You can buy an upgrade to use a stainless steel milk tube! 😒
- Comment on The 2025 Hater’s Guide To The Williams-Sonoma Catalog | Defector 4 weeks ago:
It also has you pour coffee syrups into a little plastic dispenser so you have to clean that, too.
It appears there’s some sort of cleaning mode where you let the machine heat water into to a specially shaped tub that fits across the drip tray, where you also stick the siphon end of the milk tube. But it looks like the dirty milk water is ejected into the drip tray tub, so your wash starts off with clean boiling water before beginning to reuse cooled, dirty water.
Also, what’s the wisdom on encouraging customers to keep dairy at room temperature? You know people are just going to forget the dairy container on their counter. It’s like they tried to stand out but all their features add more complexity and failure points than solved problems.
- Comment on Diced Giant Steak 4 weeks ago:
My local fancy grocer has bins of loose spices, including salts of various colors and descriptions. A few years ago I was curious and did a bit of a deep dive on their supplier, to be disappointed when I learned that all their special salts were artificially colored. Their salts, reflecting geographic names, were named so because the company named the colors after the location – not because the salts came from those locations.
- Comment on Haha yes yes 5 weeks ago:
When asked a question.
Interesting idea! I’ve CC’d 2 additional people for their thoughts and linked to a reference page on the intranet that no one will read.
Everyone nods at one another until their heads fall off. No one does any work or makes any decisions.
- Comment on The shop app says my package will arrive tomorrow but it hasn't even moved from its start point in Hong Kong yet 1 month ago:
Misleading post. OP bought a teleporter.
- Comment on The shop app says my package will arrive tomorrow but it hasn't even moved from its start point in Hong Kong yet 1 month ago:
I’ve long humored the idea of ballistic fried chicken.
Fired from a giant cannon, friction cooks it to perfection on its way to you. Sadly, the math and materials science just aren’t on my side. You’d need to be very precise to avoid overcooking, or accidentally pulping the chicken with too high of a muzzle velocity (because then you just have a soup gun). And like, you’d have to have some sort of sabot that disintegrates into edible spices.Even if you could figure out delivery (and not wind up with it arriving embedded with smog or STARLINK satellites) there’s still the matter of receipt without destroying homes.
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 1 month ago:
Well, don’t join the mob blindly. Do your own research. The above information was gathered from one internet search using the available context clues from this post.
It did not take very long and was easy. - Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 1 month ago:
The sources for this video indicate the person wearing the armband:
- Harassed a black man on a bus.
- Walked around downtown Seattle for an hour dressed that way.
- Had several verbal confrontations with passerby who commented on his clothing.
Source 1
- Several 911 calls were placed about this man attempting to instigate fights.
- The man declined to file a police report after the police did appear.
Source 2
For at least an hour at any point leading up to this, the person wearing the armband could have taken it off and stopped interacting with others. To my knowledge, the person who was punched has never spoken to media to explain why they were dressed as such, despite the massive internet fame of the video.
Do you still feel uncomfortable? Do you know in your bones if the person deserved it?
- Comment on What can you tell from this photo alone? 1 month ago:
Tiny Batman is not taking the divorce well. At first he thought losing the tiny mansion and being forced to downsize from Twayne Manor (Tiny Wayne Manor) out in the burbs to this high-rise apartment would put him closer to the action downtown. A refreshing life change after all that’s happened.
However, his neighbors yell at each other all day long while he’s trying to sleep, and seem to have even more sensitive hearing than him during the nighttime quiet periods. He can’t rush out the door because every slam or even loud footfalls seems to trigger a call to building management. He’s even gotten calls about his scanner radio being too loud, no matter how softly he plays it.
Most nights he just sits on the balcony, quietly listening to the scanner and drinking. Anti-suicide netting makes it impossible to just glide down to street level with his bat wings and the elevator takes so long that by the time he gets to the Tiny Bat Mobile, most vics are dead and the perps are long gone. More and more, he just turns the radio off, drinks until he staggers over to his pee spot, and then stumbles over to fall asleep with his back against a stack of bottles - he knows they’ll keep him safe from the memories that are trying to sneak up on him. - Comment on FACTS 1 month ago:
Can gay people still be gay, or is this like a colonizer situation where the straights realized the gay identity is valuable, so now the gay people lose access to the gay identity and have to become Oklahoman?
- Comment on I’ll just be over here… 1 month ago:
Well first, I was on drugs at the time.
But second, you don’t think that wide nose with the flared nostrils, the hooded eyelids, and the smarmy smile that screams “I have no respect for humanity” makes them resemble each other? - Comment on I’ll just be over here… 1 month ago:
- Comment on Happy DB Cooper Day to those who celebrate! 1 month ago:
Huh.
Here’s a Popular Mechanics article that’s exactly one year old: A Secret Parachute in the FBI’s Possession May Have Finally Solved D.B. Cooper’s Identity
And here’s the FBI’s web page over it, which notes they diverted resources to other investigations in 2016, but specifically names McCoy as a suspect: D.B. Cooper Hijacking
As far as updates go? I only have sardonic comments about what the FBI is to these days. But I don’t think they are going to work on this one anytime soon.
- Comment on monumentale 2 months ago:
I have no memory of this place.
- Comment on Anon shops for diamonds 3 months ago:
Yeah. Both of us depart from our families, and didn’t want to be in a position where we could have a parent or sibling try to “pull rank” about some medical decision, or have to worry about assets.
- Comment on Anon shops for diamonds 3 months ago:
Same philosophy, but we did get married after we realized the legal protections and tax benefits were worth it. We just saw too much opportunity for our very dissimilar families to pull some nonsense.
We snuck into a park (that requires reservations for ceremonies) with some friends and that was that.
The rings are simple and inexpensive, and also rarely worn. We know what we’re about. - Comment on Are Street Racers "bad people"? 3 months ago:
In my community, street racing seems to be the entertainment du jour for people with nothing better to do. I live about a half mile (800m) from a major roadway, and very often am jarred by the noise of people racing full tilt. There are a few people who even have modified their cars to be louder, and you can distinctly pick out the sound of their cars.
I’m a light sleeper, and these people will wake me up in the middle of the night with their ‘shotgun exhausts,’ racing down the street. They kill about 5 people a year. Earlier this year, a street race injured over a dozen people, and killed a kid.As a result, the city has re-timed the lights so that when traveling at normal speeds, traffic is stopped at every stoplight, which means that most drivers now just wontonly disregard speed limits to beat the light timing and not get trapped in a frustrating cycle where a 2-mile drive down the road takes upwards of 15 minutes instead of 5. This just causes the street racers to race later, when they can run the lights and wake everyone up. Plus the increase in speeding by normal drivers decreases safety on the road.
Both the direct and network effects of their stupidity are pretty significant.
So - yes. Street racers are bad people. They are callous, immature, and both actively and passively endanger other motorists. Also, I’m fucking tired, and my dogs are traumatized. - Comment on Halloween is coming up, folks. So here's your first idea for a group costume 3 months ago:
I bought a pair of overalls, a long-sleeved green shirt, and a pair of sunglasses with an attached Luigi hat and mustache.
Not a group outfit, but I get a feeling it’ll be a pretty solid way to gauge people this year.
- Comment on Fuck you in particular 4 months ago:
Amen to that. I thought about having a serious look around, but I’d rather not deal with their nonsense.
