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Topic | The eclipse is eclipsing! |
rjsilverthorn 04/09/24 8:43:33 PM #33 | Jen0125 posted... Amazing I hope I can someday!There is one in Australia in 2028. |
Topic | Every time I hear an original version of a weird al song I have to go listen |
rjsilverthorn 04/08/24 9:10:32 PM #5 | There are plenty of Weird Al songs where I only know the Weird Al version. |
Topic | The eclipse is eclipsing! |
rjsilverthorn 04/08/24 5:01:22 PM #22 | Jen0125 posted... Yeah all I got was thisYeah, getting a decent photo with my phone was tough. The best ones I got were actually after the clouds rolled in and I could just take them without the filter. |
Topic | The eclipse is eclipsing! |
rjsilverthorn 04/08/24 3:42:41 PM #17 | https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/8/854d9b8f.jpg |
Topic | The eclipse is eclipsing! |
rjsilverthorn 04/08/24 3:06:15 PM #12 | https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/c/c7c9dfac.jpg |
Topic | The eclipse is eclipsing! |
rjsilverthorn 04/08/24 1:47:30 PM #4 | Greenfox111 posted... It's gonna get all cloudy over here just as its gonna startYeah, it was gorgeous here this morning and now it is overcast. |
Topic | The eclipse is eclipsing! |
rjsilverthorn 04/08/24 1:23:04 PM #2 | Still have about an hour to go here. |
Topic | Sucks to be a night owl post pandemic |
rjsilverthorn 04/08/24 12:46:26 AM #6 | Most of the places around here stopped being open 24 hours even before the pandemic. It might have made sense when there was one grocery store open late, because they'd at least get all the late night traffic, but once all of the other stores followed nobody was going to get enough business to make it cost effective to stay open. |
Topic | Massive Political Bungery and Silly News 2024 edition |
rjsilverthorn 04/07/24 9:07:35 PM #2 | The investigation in question being his relationship with a 15 year old girl also seems relevant. |
Topic | If you earn a million per year it'd still take 1000 years to be a billionaire |
rjsilverthorn 04/06/24 7:18:55 PM #7 | agesboy posted... it's mostly just an exercise in realizing how absolutely fucking big millions, billions, and trillions are, even with respect to each otherYeah, I remembered watching this video a while back and it does a good job of driving home just how much difference there is between the two. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YUWDrLazCg |
Topic | Musk to start an Email service... |
rjsilverthorn 04/05/24 11:29:12 PM #12 | EclairReturns posted... Surely, the author of this comment means "overestimating"? If one is underestimating the speed with which current users would quit G-Mail once given the opportunity, then that is equivalent to saying that those users would take a long time to wean off the e-mail platform. If one is overestimating the speed in question, then one would believe that those users would quit using G-Mail in a heartbeat in order to subscribe to this new and 'revolutionary' Elon-Mail platform.I think the author of the comment said exactly what he meant. The article implies that people would be reluctant to leave Gmail for Xmail and the commenter is suggesting that many people would be happy to flee gmail. Which is odd because it isn't like there aren't other email services already available and most of the issues that people have with Gmail would likely exist with Musk's service as well. Musk would probably force Tesla owners to use it and I can see him integrating it to Twitter as well to pad the number of 'active' users. |
Topic | Apparently an Earthquake Hit New York/New Jersey... |
rjsilverthorn 04/05/24 1:14:43 PM #2 | I felt it, but didn't realize it was an earthquake right away. We are pretty far from the epicenter so it just felt like a big truck driving by initially, but just kept going. |
Topic | What is the number one threat to Humanity! |
rjsilverthorn 04/04/24 11:21:40 PM #2 | Other-Humanity |
Topic | Im surprised people still believe stuff from Facebook |
rjsilverthorn 04/03/24 4:40:37 PM #3 | Ogurisama posted... CoWorker saw something on Facebook about next weeks solar eclipse will cause blackout outs and cause other issues with telecommunications. She fucking believed it. Like come on, use your head.People still fall for the Nigerian prince scams and believe they have to pay the IRS with Apple gift cards so I'm not really all that surprised. |
Topic | What grade would you give the movie Oppenheimer? |
rjsilverthorn 04/03/24 2:46:33 PM #4 | GranTurismo posted... heard the movie has like no action. And iirc many people expected it toWhy would people have expected it to have action? |
Topic | Musk to start an Email service... |
rjsilverthorn 04/02/24 12:41:36 PM #6 | I'm surprised he didn't just vastly overpay for an existing mail service and then drive it into the ground. |
Topic | How much should you spend on an engagement ring? |
rjsilverthorn 04/01/24 6:42:28 PM #9 | adjl posted... The traditional "three months' salary" thing has some merit in that your ability to spend that much money on something frivolous is a barometer for your financial stability, and you should aim to be financially stable before committing to spending your life with somebody (whether you'll be the primary breadwinner or not). At the same time, though, actually spending three months' salary on a piece of jewellery is pretty dumb and mostly comes across as trying to demonstrate your financial stability to convince somebody to be your mate. Buy something she'll like, and only consider cost insofar as you need to for your own financial comfort. If you've been living together and sharing finances for years, you've got nothing to prove, financially speaking, so there's no point spending more money than is needed to make her happy.I'm not really sure how well that holds up today. In the past it probably made sense since you would be taking on supporting your wife and would generally end up having kids shortly after, but now most couples are both working and already living together before they get married so it doesn't really make any major change in finances. |
Topic | SBF gets 25 Years... |
rjsilverthorn 04/01/24 6:13:04 PM #12 | Lokarin posted... idk, 25 years in jail for 8 billion dollars? seems like a fair trade.If he actually got to have the money maybe, now he is just largely broke and in prison. |
Topic | How much should you spend on an engagement ring? |
rjsilverthorn 04/01/24 4:52:36 PM #4 | Jen0125 posted... However much the ring she wants is within your financial means? I mean if she wants a $200 ring buy it for her. If she wants a 200k behemoth maybe say no. It's all about your own finances and the partners preference.This. My wife ended up picking out her ring while we were wandering through a store on vacation. No diamond, not gold, and only a couple hundred bucks but it was the ring she wanted. The whole concept that there is some appropriate amount of money to spend for an engagement ring was conceived by the people trying to sell you engagement rings and my general take is any person shallow enough to *demand* a ring over a certain cost is probably someone you shouldn't be marrying. |
Topic | I can't wait for the upcoming April release Dead Island 2. |
rjsilverthorn 03/31/24 1:47:52 AM #2 | I was actually just checking the other day to see when the next DLC was coming out. Haus wasn't great but it was relatively entertaining. |
Topic | Take-Two buys Borderlands Devs Gearbox... |
rjsilverthorn 03/28/24 7:48:48 PM #16 | Zareth posted... Nothing like selling something you bought for a third of the priceThey didn't sell all of the stuff they bought though, so while they are almost certainly losing money on the deal it is hard to say exactly how much. |
Topic | Mega Millions back over a Billion Again... |
rjsilverthorn 03/25/24 3:23:51 PM #5 | EvilResident posted... Definitely buy 1 or 2 tickets, why not ?This. I won't go crazy and buy tons of tickets, but I'll drop $2 on a ticket and know my odds are just as bad as everyone else's. |
Topic | What way do you eat your hot dogs? |
rjsilverthorn 03/22/24 4:58:01 PM #7 | Dikitain posted... When looking for a video of a stupid joke I heard about eating hotdogs, I came across this:The internet of course. |
Topic | Spring snow fall |
rjsilverthorn 03/21/24 3:01:48 PM #6 | OK, I feel less bad about it being mid-30's and windy today after being in the 70's earlier in the week. We had a day last week where we had intermitent snow, rain, hail and wind, but the temp was high enough that nothing stuck around. |
Topic | Pornhub gets blocked in Texas... |
rjsilverthorn 03/19/24 8:26:01 PM #35 | EatMan posted... So let me get it straight.Strictly speaking, TX passed a law that required adult content sites to validate ID's for TX residents and PornHub opted to just block TX rather than comply. I don't really see that as a free speech violation as it is a massive privacy violation. I also see it as being a largely meaningless law for all the other reasons stated in this thread. |
Topic | Pornhub gets blocked in Texas... |
rjsilverthorn 03/19/24 6:17:02 PM #24 | adjl posted... Or if not VPNs, to be active in enough online communities to find sites that don't have age verification and/or have not blocked Texas. It'll cut down a bit on kids accessing porn, but if they want to find it, they're going to, and the government won't be able to do anything to circumvent that until they make a genuine effort to understand what options are available to verify users' ages securely and without introducing major privacy concerns.I mean, it was hard enough to keep kids from porn even before the internet. Now it is just a hopeless endeavour, especially with sites hosted in countries that aren't really going to care about Texas trying to fine them. |
Topic | If an owner of one of the major sports teams in your city threatened |
rjsilverthorn 03/19/24 5:00:47 PM #47 | GranTurismo posted... Never heard it called that, thought it might be some wording workaround......Never heard which? Snapdragon? |
Topic | If an owner of one of the major sports teams in your city threatened |
rjsilverthorn 03/19/24 1:50:09 PM #44 | Dikitain posted... I think it is more a matter of "would the NFL allow a new team period". Only one team has been added in the 21st century, and only 11 teams have been added since the NFL and AFL merged (2 of those being AFL teams that got in a few years after).I think the NFL's focus on expansion now is outside the US, given the increasing number of international games each year. Overall though I was focusing more on the financial viability of that kind of ownership rather than the likelihood. |
Topic | If an owner of one of the major sports teams in your city threatened |
rjsilverthorn 03/19/24 1:19:56 PM #40 | slacker03150 posted... If memory serves, it is also how a lot of European football teams are handled. I think it would be doable. The question would be would the NFL allow a new team like that to enter the league.I don't think the NFL would care, they get their cut regardless, I'm just not sure you could raise the billions of dollars needed for an NFL team through, what is effectively, crowd-sourcing. The costs associated to running a team have greatly out-paced inflation. |
Topic | If an owner of one of the major sports teams in your city threatened |
rjsilverthorn 03/19/24 12:49:18 PM #36 | Smallville posted... oh, cool. Any downside to this method or way of doing it, like packers people have said it is to the traditional method?I have no idea if it would even be viable today. They did this back in the 1920's in a relatively new league, the amount of money you'd need to raise today would probably make it substantially more challenging. |
Topic | Attention: Face! |
rjsilverthorn 03/18/24 8:54:15 PM #6 | A joke I didn't get as a kid watching that show. |
Topic | If an owner of one of the major sports teams in your city threatened |
rjsilverthorn 03/18/24 6:22:08 PM #9 | Smallville posted... what is their arrangement though? have vaguely heard of it. So they don't have a billionaire owner? "The Packers are the only community-owned franchise in North America's four traditional major leagues. Rather than being the property of an individual, partnership, or corporate entity, they are held by stockholders, more than 537,000 in total as of 2022. No one is allowed to hold more than 200,000 shares." |
Topic | Have you played the popular Doom wad "Myhouse"? |
rjsilverthorn 03/16/24 5:53:16 PM #3 | I haven't played anything related to Doom since it was a new game. |
Topic | Stellar Blade eviscerated by the public |
rjsilverthorn 03/16/24 4:20:00 PM #12 | joemodda posted... Lmao who gives a shit what a bunch of fucking New Yorkers thinkI mean, depending on what you are selling, a lot of people, but for this particular topic I don't think very many people are going to care because it is meaningless data. |
Topic | I'm going to replay all the Zelda games in release order this year |
rjsilverthorn 03/16/24 12:48:43 PM #9 | faramir77 posted... I'm not a big fan of the fact that if you aren't at full health the game becomes WAY harder due to losing the ability to shoot sword beamsYeah, this was from the era where arcade games were still a major influence on game mechanics so it didn't really feel weird then but it does stand out as an odd choice now. |
Topic | Stellar Blade eviscerated by the public |
rjsilverthorn 03/16/24 11:13:43 AM #7 | adjl posted... I don't even know what this is, nor does a video of accosting random strangers and asking their opinions on a picture tell me much.Yeah, it is a very silly method to go about getting opinions on a video game. You could probably show any video game to a random sample of people on the street and get similar kinds of responses. |
Topic | Pornhub gets blocked in Texas... |
rjsilverthorn 03/15/24 7:15:20 PM #14 | Lokarin posted... https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/15/tech/vpn-searches-spike-texas-pornhub/index.htmlI'm fairly certain the existence of VPN's factored heavily into Pornhub's willingness to block states. |
Topic | Pornhub gets blocked in Texas... |
rjsilverthorn 03/15/24 5:23:01 PM #11 | JoeDangIt posted... North Carolina has apparently passed similar laws but my Internet thinks I'm in Tennessee.Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, North Carolina, Utah, Virginia and now Texas are all states that have age verification laws and have been blocked by PH. Of course, VPN's exist so this is largely a symbolic gesture. |
Topic | Pornhub gets blocked in Texas... |
rjsilverthorn 03/15/24 12:57:03 PM #4 | This is like 'solving' underage drinking by banning Budweiser... |
Topic | Do you think Elon Musk is smart/intelligent? |
rjsilverthorn 03/13/24 5:34:53 PM #12 | darkknight109 posted... I have met many people over the years who I wouldn't consider "smart" or "intelligent", but most of them still aren't complete idiots in every single category. Rare is the person who is an absolute moron in every single field of life. Hell, I knew one guy who was obviously pretty "slow" (later found out he was actually considered legally disabled by the government because he had an I.Q. below 80), but he could sail a boat better than I ever will.Self-driving cars was the first thing I can really remember him talking about where I remember thinking "This guy is kind of an idiot." |
Topic | Do you think Elon Musk is smart/intelligent? |
rjsilverthorn 03/13/24 4:55:18 PM #9 | He paid $40 billion dollars for Twitter and then changed it's name to X, thus discarding what was probably the single most valuable asset left in the company...so no, no I do not think he is intelligent. |
Topic | Give me your opinion on this chick |
rjsilverthorn 03/12/24 2:17:26 AM #4 | Not much to make a judgement about the woman, but the guy who posted it is a jackass. |
Topic | It's Official: Jake Paul to fight Mike Tyson... |
rjsilverthorn 03/08/24 1:43:23 AM #18 | Entity13 posted... One can only hope no one slips anything into Tyson's system to make him go berserk. That would be tragic.I'm hoping that somewhere Tyson is going through some Rocky-esque training montage so that he is absolutely jacked when he goes into the fight. |
Topic | Akira Toriyama has passed away Creator of Dragon Ball |
rjsilverthorn 03/08/24 1:42:06 AM #12 | Weird, his cause of death is given as acute subdural hematoma and that is generally caused by some kind of blow to the head but there is no mention of any kind of accident. Edit: Doubly weird that he died on March 1st and we are just hearing about it now. |
Topic | Rooster Teeth is officially dead (Makers of Red vs Blue, and RWBY) |
rjsilverthorn 03/08/24 12:04:49 AM #20 | SinisterSlay posted... I expect it was expensive.Well they were also effectively trying to sell Mythbusters, except with a more limited scope, at a time where Mythbusters popularity was already declining. |
Topic | It's Official: Jake Paul to fight Mike Tyson... |
rjsilverthorn 03/07/24 9:32:34 PM #15 | Devil_May_Cry posted... Jake is going to get fucked up. This is going to be like watching a dumpster fire I cant watch.Why would you feel bad for him, it isn't like someone is forcing him to do this, he literally went out of his way to make this happen. Jake Paul isn't just terrible by association, he's as big a jackass as his brother. |
Topic | Your new governor |
rjsilverthorn 03/07/24 6:04:56 PM #5 | slacker03150 posted... Is that the guy who said black people owe white people reparations for making them slaves and rescuing them from Africa?I can't find a specific reference to it, but it might be the only stupid thing he hasn't said. |
Topic | Your new governor |
rjsilverthorn 03/07/24 5:24:05 PM #2 | Not my governor thankfully. |
Topic | Hey, are you voting for trump?? |
rjsilverthorn 03/07/24 3:23:00 PM #3 | Dear god no. |
Topic | It's Official: Jake Paul to fight Mike Tyson... |
rjsilverthorn 03/07/24 1:30:26 PM #10 | Yellow posted... I don't think there's a single thing I like about Jake Paul. He's like Elon, he just embarrasses himself over and over for being hatable.Maybe the two of them could have a death match to be the first person to die on Mars. |
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