It’s not just urinals. The first day of the year with shorts at home always brings a surprise chilly mist on my shins from a regular toilet. It is what it is. You’re doing it as good as it gets. Either you’re experiencing the normal amount of spray or your stream makes extra spray. Either way, it is what it is, it sounds. All you can do is lean forward and spread your feet asuch as you can to avoid collecting the mist. Side wall is my go-to. Lipped walls are my enemy.

Are you not entertained?

I was hoping for recommendations of reasonable discussion. I want to exhaust all logical explanations before getting to the purely… theoretical. These clips haven’t been covered by my usual channels so I wasn’t sure where to look to find where it’s been “discussed plenty” so if you have some recommendations, I’d appreciate you sharing them.

I’m all for logical explanations. I enjoy the debunking because it’s fascinating to see how a relatively mundane event can be so strange without full context. I went to one of the “drone” hotspots at some point and, while I do beleive there were some drones at some point, all I found were fields of people who had never looked at regular planes at night before. They had no concept of the idea they had no concept of distance and therefore no basis for determining altitude. Plus most didn’t know which direction the major airport was, likely because they follow a road labeled “north” despite going ENE for that stretch.

Thanks. That did at least bring me to Hank Green showing the 2025 UAP over the water discussing a number of details I wouldn’t have recognized on my own. The mileage readout and the wide shot made it make sense instantly

With or without the word, it was the same mentality elsewhere, too. Many Irish diasporas align with Italians. They clashed with each other because they arrived at the same time at the same place. They put each other down to try to climb up.

Then as they clowly rose neck and neck, dispersing into better neighborhoods, they freed space for the next bottom rung to move in. So naturally, the bitter rivals became best friends and, together, shit on the next diaspora.

The cycle repeats.

I might be off on the details, but about a year ago, the founder lost control of the site and it went down. He called all the users terrible people. Someone else picked it up and continued within like a week. Interesting take on the founder/long term operator.

Forgot to mention there’s the epstein connection to /pol/. Insane.

So yeah, it’s not just echo chambers. There’s plenty of accessible terrible places still around.

Yeah. I deleted my account during the API fiasco. I stopped surfing there entirely. I guess there’s also Discord communities that cover gaming bases too, but I struggle with that UI/organizer presentation when it comes to trying to find the right place for the info I need. So take your pick: Facebook, reddit, discord. They’re all apparently on the same slippery slope. Classic forums are dead (and no doubt the photo bucket debacle of 2017 pushed that).

But the cool thing is my life get suddenly busier around the same time I kicked reddit, and now I just don’t have that kind of time to get into hobbies deep enough to really need those places. Cool. [sad trombone sounds]

Other people covered the sneakily harmful stuff that’s publicly accepted. I’m still gonna say 4chan. I assume it’s still up. I like to think I grew out of it or that I had a good filter as a teen, but I’m sure it negatively affected my views at least for some time. But half of the evil shit just seemed funny. You can’t tell who is serious and who is trolling because they’re all in the same thread together, feeding equally. So now I’m occasionally reminded of the actual death, mutilation, and harm I saw there.

I don’t know what other boards are similar and active. I don’t know what other modernized sites have joined that niche. I’m aware regular social platforms push harmful conspiracy and fringe theories and create their own spiraling echo chambers. 4chan is still a terrible place.

No one in my real life left reddit. Reddit and Facebook are the only ones with active communities for many of my games and interests. I avoid it, but yes, it’s quite active and is now the only relevant search result on recent news and strategies.

Yes, and I appreciate that you have relevant input. I didn’t like Starbucks coffee all that much before, but I figured that’s just the flavor they choose. I guess that’s the charred flavor. I don’t choose it, but if it’s the only feasible option, I hope they have cold brew because while also unique, it tastes fine.

I’m just tired of the boring rhetoric on display here about how it’s “not real coffee” and “everything is a dairy sugar hijink”. No one is being forced to buy a triple whip frappe soy milk unicorn latte. It has 4 shots of espresso. The market continues to buy it. Plus, I swear, there’s a constant underlying masculinity thing berating women for buying what they want.

Side note, for movie theaters and mourning what’s lost. I enjoyed the drop in crowd size at first in the post-covid slump, but damn, I miss the parasocial community feeling. The buzz as everyone walks up, the chatter as everyone leaves. Plus, I know dwindling crowd size means dwindling theater options and amenities.

You are 1 of 3 people I see in this 50+ comment thread saying you were going to Starbucks prior to this statement. The rest of the thread is the type that says movies are dead because theaters charge too much for candy, as if they’re forced to buy candy to watch a movie.

ITT: people saying they still won’t go to Starbucks as if this CEO gives a shit

OK, don’t go. You didn’t go before you’re not going now. Nothing has changed.

The tire thing is becoming the only type of error I can reliably catch. Look into the details to check for consistency in patterns. Radial patterns such as spokes in a wheel. Symmetry across left and right features. If there’s multiples of an object, look for difference between them. Generated images keep copying source material, but it doesn’t understand the rules. Yes, there are times where things aren’t symmetrical or two items are slightly different models/versions, but there’s a point where if two things are very very similar, there probably won’t be a a weird difference.

Plus, not only are models getting better at generating images, but users are wising up as well and are using real pictures as the base. Generators will still tweak details into mild fantasy, but it’s drastically reduced. In the above blondie onlyfans military pics, I’m not seeing any vehicle detail issues. At least, none with the nose of a HMMV and I’m not familiar with the Toyota land cruiser. But then the question is, why is “she” in a land cruiser? I’m not aware of any regular US service using Toyota but there’s one that played a role in the Kabul airport… Taking? Evacuation? Even if the original post mentioned that honored truck, it’s missing the door graphic that seems to be original. Even still, the one pictured is pristine.

And this is why AI wins. It’s the gish gallop of imagery. It takes so much effort to examine, check, and report errors that it all spreads like wildfire before the first rebuttal gets posted.

Cape of Good Hope (Capetown)? That’s obviously there, but that’s the item I remember form school in regards to global sail routes

Interesting. My stock pixel keyboard has ℅ as an alternate long press to %. In SwiftKey, the alternate is ‰ while c/o seems to be nowhere to be found. I didn’t know I had either available as long press q from the main keyboard group is just % and nothing else (some keys have multiple alternates, like long press x shows $ but also has ¢£₹¥€, for example)

50% actual sugar, 50% simple carbs. Maybe 4oz of milk, more likely 8oz of sugar water juice. Pastries, toast, waffles, pancakes, donuts, neon cereal, processed oats, and orange juice.

Phone is ewwww, thumbs go brrrrt

While I do call, it’s frustrating that the call adds a significant opportunity for order error. I don’t use DoorDash, but many places don’t have a competent online system, or one at all.

It’s huge “I can’t fix this problem myself” mentality. Dominoes isn’t sending anyone to that neighborhood. Could you imagine the furthered dystopic trend if Dominoes (and others) COULD choose which neighborhoods to not serve AT ALL? If multi-brand corporations could so directly manipulate product availability like that?

There’s enough problems in poorer areas becoming “food deserts” by lacking proper groceries and only having garbage fast food available in walking/bussing distance. Let’s not give the French fry overlords any more power to tailor the markets through delivery denial.

A key distinction between terms here is that while Catholics are probably the largest single Christian group in the US, a larger Christian percentage belongs to various Protestant groups. They already don’t care about the pope and think Catholics are wrong

Exchange rate doesn’t tell you how expensive things really are. Take Hawaii for example. It’s a United State and uses the USD. Yet, everything there is more expensive because of shipping