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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best gift ever⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  When I was in college a million years ago, I had a class in Chaos Theory.

  The professor knew I worked on sets for the theater group, and he wanted me to build a full-size double pendulum that someone could ride on. I pointed out that it would likely kill the rider, tear itself apart, or both.

  Instead I wrote a double pendulum simulator. You could adjust the weights and lengths for each pendulum and the starting position. Run it with the exact same setup and see the exact same result, or make a tiny, tiny change and see the motion was completely different.

  I think I still have it somewhere. On a 3.5" floppy disk. Borland TurboPascal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study: Remote working benefits fathers while childless men miss sense of community⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My oldest has no children and works fully remote.

  When the pandemic started, his company decided to have everyone work from home. They very quickly discovered that they were just as productive, and the owner decided it made sense to dump their office space.

  A group of employees decided to go on vacation together, while still working. Since they are all remote, they didn’t actually have to work from home. They got an Airbnb with good Internet, worked during the day, and saw the sites and had fun together after work.

  If you’re remote and you miss that sense of community, reach out to your coworkers and ask them if they want to hang out after work. It’s possible they don’t and you’ll be disappointed. It’s also possible that they feel the same way but didn’t know they could do something about it.

  Either you’ll be the hero that saved everyone from their solitary existence, or you’ll have to accept that they don’t want to hang out with you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people hate drinking water?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s definitely because you were raised on soda.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do fancy cars look fancy and cheap cars don't? Can't you just slap a Lamborghini-style chassis onto a lawnmower engine if you want?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think our 2021 Honda Civic Sport looks pretty fancy. No one is going to mistake it for a Ferrari, but I think it’s pretty hot for the price.

  I also wouldn’t fit in any real sports car anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russia is at war with Britain and US is no longer a reliable ally, UK adviser says⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Duh?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the deal the miracles jesus chose to do?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a class in college about Jesus. It was taught by a Catholic priest.

  One thing he said that such with me is that people don’t see the real miracles.

  When they talk about the miracle of the loaves and fish, people talk about how enough food for the multitude was created out of just what a couple people brought for their own lunch. People think the miracle is the creation of food. However this priest pointed out that the real miracle is that people who didn’t know anyone else there gave all they had so that others could eat. Everyone shared so that no one went hungry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When will all the folks complaining about loss of Snap and health insurance realize the GOP wants us to die and has ZERO empathy for fellow Americans?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Trump didn’t hire Dr. Fauci.

  He was Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from November 2, 1984 to December 31, 2022.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finally. Its been keeping me up at night⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They should check in with Doc Hopper. Kermit isn’t the easiest frog to catch!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finally. Its been keeping me up at night⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Now ICE is going to be going after Kermit!!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People whose cooking videos say like, "These are so good I make them every week! I make this dish twice a week! I make these three times a week!..." must eat like 6 meals a day.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Last Monday we made sausage and spinach strombolis. 1/2 hot & 1/2 mild Italian sausage, chopped frozen spinach (thawed and drained), mozzarella and parmigiana cheese. Brown the sausage, cool it, mix with the spinach and cheese, wrap individually into single-serving strombolis. Roughly three pounds of sausage makes 12 strombolis.

  We’ve been eating them every day since Monday and had the last two yesterday.

  I wouldn’t make it every day, but only because a recipe makes 12. However, I wanted to make it again after six days of eating them so I could eat them for another six days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Religions have some of the wackiest rules⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  youtu.be/Ttw5a6xRj6c

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even his doctors are full of it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My wife lost an inch, then had to have a vertebrae fused in her neck and she got the inch back.

  Pissed off my daughter as she had just outgrown my wife, only for my wife to pass her and force her to do it again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even his doctors are full of it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They measured my height the last few times I was in for a physical.

  I think it’s because I’ve reached the age where they want to see if I’ve started to shrink.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you really have to let everyone know⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s called “advertising”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The US Secretary of Education referred to AI as ‘A1,’ like the steak sauce⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  She doesn’t have the job because she’s smart.

  She has the job because she’s on their side.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should visitors to a country (tourist / visa-holders / people staying temporarily) have the right to criticize the government? When should an immigrant have the right to criticize the government?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, it was yes.

  What we’re all seeing now is that the Constitution ultimately depends on our willingness to agree to collectively abide by it.

  It was always just a story, but while we all agreed to believe in it, it was a true story.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is anti-propaganda?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I managed to logic my parents out of one thing.

  My parents actually asked me if it was possible that the vaccines contained 5G micro robots.

  After taking a moment to maintain my composure and put on my “pretend I wasn’t asked a stupid question and answer seriously” face, I asked them to take out their phone.

  When the phone was in their hand, I asked them to consider the fact that it must be charged every day to keep working, and that the vast majority of the size of the phone was taken up by the battery. Then I pointed out that a device small enough to be injected wouldn’t have enough power to still be on when it left the needle.

  Luckily I didn’t have to go further than that.

  I think that’s the only time I’ve had any success pounding logic into them. I think the problem is they can’t think of me as anything but a child, except where computers are concerned.

  They paid for my computer science degree, and they know I’ve been working in IT for 32 years, and I answer all their computer questions. So, if the subject is computer-related, I’m their expert. Anything else and I’m just a deluded child.

  I haven’t tried talking to my mom about the SSA COBOL AI rewrite yet. I’m not sure if she heard about it or if she did whether she understood enough to even be concerned enough to ask me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would I describe myself?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I found this to be an interesting question.

  I don’t think of myself in terms like that. I’m American (as in United States of). If people ask where I’m from, I’d say Pennsylvania.

  If asked what I am, in terms of what countries my ancestors came from, I would typically just list my four grandparents. Since that encompasses four different European countries, it’s too complicated to think of myself as a hyphenated American. Maybe you’re in that situation.

  Ultimately, the label is yours, so you get to decide. No one else’s opinion matters. It’s your identity. Just say what feels right to you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What actually came first? The chicken or the egg?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, but is a chicken egg a chicken egg because it came out of a chicken or because a chicken comes out of it?

  That is the real question.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If restaurants just microwave their food can I just get the frozen version and cut out the middle man?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like Twice Baked Potatoes.

  My mom used to make them. My wife does too.

  To be extra fancy, use a piping bag with a star tip when you fill them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If restaurants just microwave their food can I just get the frozen version and cut out the middle man?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Never got it. I never did much drinking there.

  Back in the olden days, my order was:

  Potato skins Salad Filet mignon Deep Dish Apple Pie

  It broke my damn heart when they stopped offering that dessert.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did ChatGPT come up with Trump’s tariff rate formula? AI chatbots ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Grok all return the same formula for reciprocal tariff calculations, several X users claim.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re fishing for answers in the answer pond,

  Except, they’ve actually dropped their lines in the stupidity toilet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If restaurants just microwave their food can I just get the frozen version and cut out the middle man?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep.

  Sometimes the answer you need is to the question you didn’t ask.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If restaurants just microwave their food can I just get the frozen version and cut out the middle man?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My wife would kill me if we wasted any part of the potatoes.

  We’ve done a couple things with the insides. Sometimes we pan fry the bits in butter with some sauteed onions to have at breakfast the next day.

  Last time was the first time I used a melon baller.

  When we saw the almost perfect potato balls, it was almost automatic to deep fry them, add a little salt, and just eat them like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If restaurants just microwave their food can I just get the frozen version and cut out the middle man?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You mentioned TGI Fridays.

  When I was in college, we’d go to Fridays all the time, and the food was incredible.

  Then, over the years, it turned to shit. We stopped going.

  One day, we were craving the memory of what it was and decided to give it anorher chance.

  When we sat down, the manager stopped by our table to thank us for coming in and informed us that they had changed their process. She said that in recent years all their food was being prepared off-site, frozen, and just microwaved to order at the restaurant. However, they recently went back to doing all the prep from scratch in their kitchen.

  The food was incredible! Exactly what we remembered. We started going back.

  Then COVID hit. The Fridays that we would go to shut down.

  The last time we went to a Fridays, the restaurant was empty, the staff was disinterested, and the food was shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If restaurants just microwave their food can I just get the frozen version and cut out the middle man?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Where does Applebee’s get their potato skins?

  I’ll give you instructions for making potato skins.

  1. Since you referenced food from Applebee’s, first you’re going to need to wean yourself off whatever drugs you’re on so you can tell the difference between food and what Applebee’s sells.

  2. wash and dry some potatoes.

  3. pierce the potatoes several times, all around the outside with a fork.

  4. bake the potatoes in a preheated 400° F. oven until you can easily insert your poking fork all the way to the center of the potato (probably about an hour, depending on the potatoes).

  5. take the potatoes out of the oven and let them cool down.

  6. slice each potato in half

  7. scoop out the insides of each potato, leaving about a quarter inch thickness for the skins. Last time I did this, I used a melon baller and deep-fried all the potato balls.

  8. deep fry the scooped out skins at about 375°. I prefer beef tallow for frying.

  9. when they are golden brown, take them out and set them aside to drain.

  10. cook bacon until crispy, then brake it up into small pieces.

  11. arrange all the fried potato skins on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.

  12. season with salt, pepper, and garlic powder.

  13. fill each potato skin with shredded cheddar cheese, and sprinkle bacon pieces on top.

  14. bake in the oven at 350° until the cheese melts.

  Serve with sour cream and chopped scallions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Striking Motorcyclists More Than Any Other Brand: New Analysis⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They also happen to be linked up to a rapid and highly efficient super computer far outclassing anything that humanity has ever devised

  A neural network that has been in development for 650 million years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral: With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you can dislike pedophiles and even want to see them punished, yet still recognize that some asshole doing it to get revenue from their YouTube channel is not the right solution.

  Personally, I’m of the opinion that most crime is the result of either poverty or neurological flaws, and torture is not the best solution to either problem.

  People need to be kept safe, and the criminal justice system is ostensibly the mechanism we’ve decided to use for that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I clean this mess?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nuke it from orbit.

  It’s the only way to be sure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess I’d recommend watching Banshee.