yofuckreddit
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yofuckreddit
2hr ago
And yet: Beautiful people in a simple storyline is something apparently beyond the ability of Hollywood to produce nowadays.
yofuckreddit
4hr ago
I don't know the statistics about how Indians advocate for one another. I work in tech, so I see plenty of the ingroup preference there. I agree it's a risk, but I also don't think high-caste indians are interested in importing their lower-caste brethren.
yofuckreddit
11hr ago
Do you doubt in any way the pervasive culture of laziness in this country? His comment hit a nerve because deep down we know it's more true than not. It transcends racial lines. Talk to a millennial or Zoomer about hard work or striving. They're almost alien concepts.
I think American culture would be improved dramatically with 10% more striving: white included.
yofuckreddit
11hr ago
Infinity Indians isn't the argument I'm making, and I don't think Vivek ever made it either.
yofuckreddit
1d ago
This anti - Vivek rhetoric is wild to me. He was one of the most eloquent avid culture warriors and had the skin color and balls to say what everyone was thinking more than Trump or DeSantis.
I am tired of presidents that play dumb or are dumb. I want 4-syllable words in speeches and the worship of merit. I want to crush pro-black racial spoil systems, salt the earth so they never return, and I'll take any ally anywhere to accomplish it.
I understand that many in the red tribe don't want these things but I would have voted for him, easily, even with the scuzzy businesses.
yofuckreddit
1d ago
This is my comic book fantasy that I play in my head once a month so, congrats on that to start.
I think the advice of really leaving this to your wife and applying, if possible, negative pressure to ensure she actually wants to do it is the only way out of it sane and married.
Another piece of food for thought: If you don't get to enjoy the act of procreating with the "fetching" bisexual, you're getting a big chunk of risk in exchange for the thrill of expanding your contributions to the gene pool. That may be worth it but... who knows.
As fucking weird as all of this is, I want to put forward that it's less weird than a random sperm donor. If you know a guy who you like and has good genes, where some of that warmth in feeling will translate to the kid... isn't that obviously a superior choice to a crazy dice roll?
yofuckreddit
1d ago
I have been bemoaning the price increases for Seiko 5 watches for.... years. What was $50 is now close to $200. Heartbreaking.
All that said - link?
It's a total redditor answer but the Victorianox Fibrox knife is so good for around $50. I'm blown away with how affordable great guns are these days - S&W's M&P Pistol Line is extremely well regarded, will outlast the apocalypse, and can be had used for maybe $150, or a new PSA Dagger for $260 (!!!). A decent AR-15 is $400 new sometimes, and even the optics (that would have been more expensive than the rifle years ago) are cheap again.
I still think there's proverbial gold all over Harbor Freight as well.
yofuckreddit
7d ago
Months-to-years of wondering "What Could Have Been" is way more painful than a typical rejection. Especially if it's someone you're really into.
yofuckreddit
7d ago
Saying "No" is always acceptable. A block, and then kicking off drama in a (digital) friend group? Honestly bizzare, and not what a normal rejection should look like.
Sounds like home boy really misjudged the chemistry / who this woman was at a minimum.
yofuckreddit
15d ago
I've never built a plan F in high fidelity. I can find a job anywhere - one sufficient enough to live on and stabilize. I really only need a cardboard box as a house if my family abandons me.
After that, I'd pick a career where you're trading loneliness for currency. Working on an Oil Rig (if they hire people over 30 for that?) is a great example.
yofuckreddit
20d ago
I hate using the word "hope" for this, because I honestly just want human society in general to produce a lot of energy as efficiently as possible. But I hope that wind and solar build-outs slow down, if only for aesthetic reasons. I think they take up too much space relative to a nuclear plant's output.
I know intellectually this planet has so much space it shouldn't matter at all, and that we're generally smart about where we put these generation centers. But from an emotional standpoint, I prefer to leave even sparsely populated or classically ugly landscapes as untouched as possible. When I see massive solar or wind farms, I can't help but shrink back a little (admittedly more for the former than the latter).
I'd love it if Solar were something we could realistically just put on top of already industrialized space and be successful, and if offshore wind farms were more viable.
yofuckreddit
20d ago
I'm probably more aligned with you than you think on this. One weakness of capitalism is that it's not going to build "an energy abundance electro-state" when the demand isn't there. Especially when coal or gas is the shortest putt.
This has definitely been true for China up until very recently, and for the US as well. My point is that we've made Nuclear far more expensive than it needs to be, despite our relatively hungry first-world energy demands. In some cases, we've artificially depressed the price of fossil fuel generation and/or reduced the externalities associated with it through technology, which also hurts the case for nuclear.
yofuckreddit
21d ago
Gattsuru has already answered but we've always had a bit of a head start on the technology for high-quality fission plants. Expecting mind-bogglingly corrupt communist regimes to do it well seems counterintuitive.
yofuckreddit
22d ago
I finished Freedom this past week. In short, I think it's one of the best books I've read in a long time.
So few writers can pull off truly distinct characters without dressing them up in a variety of cultures or ethnicities. They had their own beliefs, decision-making process, and appearance to everyone else. In short, they all felt real.
Some of them were actually better than others, which seems like something other novelists are allergic to admitting when writing a book that's about just people. Other books devolve into sloppy morally-ambiguous mess, which was cool when I was 13 and is now totally insufferable.
Franzen apparently wrote it primarily before the culture war amped up, with it being published in 2010. I shudder to think what would have happened if he'd done it any later.
So many little things just stuck out and made me stop to think and savor. The way he writes about 9/11 felt like it captured what both it and Covid meant to me. Midwestern culture that so many people overlook and don't appreciate. The ways that love and lust and beauty influence us.
Any more and I'll spoil it, but I've already recommended it to 3 people and I don't do that as a rule.
yofuckreddit
22d ago
I'm not sure I believe that regulation is the reason why we don't have fission
I'm one degree removed from the industry and I'm sorry, but regulation => cost is the reason why we don't have more fission.
yofuckreddit
22d ago
It's a link to a YouTube review of the Check Out.
It's a full suspension gravel bike. Some people already consider gravel to be a "made up" segment, and manufacturers have been slowly making what were once essentially road bikes with bigger tires ever more heavy, plush and closer to mountain bikes. This is another step in that direction.
It has a ton of proprietary parts and is really fuckin' expensive ($5-8k), so the hipsters who can't shut up about having the same Surly frame since 2004 consider it an insult.
yofuckreddit
24d ago
I was watching a video today on a controversial new bicycle from Trek, and perhaps my favorite product of all time featured heavily. That product is Gorilla Tape.
When I was a kid and was first being taught how to repair things, I went through a long period of fascination with glue: Super, Hot, Epoxy, whatever. That same fascination extended to tape. While some liquids were cool to work with, I was always disappointed once adhesives were combined with fabric. I see this same pattern repeating itself in my son - he tries to build or fix the same way I did and can't help getting frustrated with Scotch, Package, etc.
I got my first roll of Gorilla Tape as an award ("Fix Anything!") at work while a frontline software guy. Rather than keep it on my desk, I decided to just use it. I did so for years, and it was a revelation.
This shit is almost a parody of what tape can be. A child's concept that should exist only in cartoons. Fuck self-driving cars, this is the apex of technology. It's a shield of protection, stays put for years, tears straight across with just your hands, and a single roll lasts forever. You can wrap it around your camping water bottle and repair your tent, a bike tire, a bike rack, or whatever else you need to just keep together. It's superbly sticky, but tolerant of being adjusted. I can't say enough about it.
yofuckreddit
28d ago
yofuckreddit
28d ago
I think I've circled around this point without hitting it so neatly. As games increased in quality, I found my burning need for books to be diminished.
There are still so many types of stories that don't work as a video game, but I think men migratting to them and culture war junk are to blame.
yofuckreddit
1mo ago
I'm reading through Jonathan Franzen's Freedom right now and damn, I've been devouring it. I was worried given the critical acclaim that I'd hate it, but it's been extremely enjoyable so far. Reminiscing about my days in the midwest and the people I knew from my time there.
yofuckreddit
1mo ago
I am not a git GUI guy, I've always used IDEs and the CLI. I've heard, however, that many high-caliber devs I know have historically paid for Kraken.
Some of the other things you demand here can and should be set up with pre-command hooks (outlawing other repos). Some can be accomplished by writing your own commands or overwriting the stock ones. I've written 3 for myself:
checkpush- single command to create a new branch on the remote and commit to itfullprune- removes local branches that were deleted in the remote after squash mergesrefresh- gets the latest commits from master and merges them into your current branch. If you squash, it's very reliable.
Making committing a single step (no staging) will be very simple this way.
yofuckreddit
1mo ago
Yeah seems like we're talking past each other here. I'm not disputing that at all. There's not a good reason to hide these costs from consumers.
yofuckreddit
1mo ago
You're misunderstanding. The medical complex knows how much treatment costs, what margins are, all of it.
An insurer - if they had that information - would use it for more leverage when negotiating their payment agreements. They can put together something like it when they're big enough to compare costs across multiple systems, but that's about it.
yofuckreddit
1mo ago
I know healthcare is complex, much more so than wrenching, but the idea that we don't know how to price things isn't true. There are codes for all this stuff, there's plenty of data on what a procedure involves (in terms of consumables/times/equipment) that can be used to blend it.
Any healthcare provider already does all of this for P&L reporting, care plans, etc. but they have to hide what they know to negotiate with insurers and the government.
I find my work interesting and would love to build a great post around it, despite it being profoundly boring to normies. I'll put one together soon about a historical project.
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