Macchi_the_Slime
@Macchi_the_Slime@piefed.blahaj.zone
- Comment on No excuses 6 hours ago:
Depending on where you’re at in the States it varies. Around where I live in western NY state they mostly don’t care about speed necessarily it’s more reckless driving. You could be cruising what would be 15-20kph over the limit for y’all and generally speaking the cops don’t give a shit as long as you’re driving for the conditions and with the flow of traffic. But they’ll nail your ass to the wall for half that if they see you weaving through cars without leaving stopping distance.
In a lot of areas I go through regularly they’re way more likely to light you up if they see you brake hard when you see them posted up than if you just cruise past them at a reasonable speed even if it’s technically over the limit. Hell, I’ve had troopers in traffic with me doing what would be like 120 in a 100 in y’alls terms not giving a damn because everybody was leaving enough stopping distance and we were all doing a steady speed not driving erratically.
- Comment on No excuses 7 hours ago:
Exactly. The time for nice is when they are not currently operating a multi-ton death machine where their reckless behavior could literally kill someone. They’ll get every bit of kindness I can muster outside of that situation. In it though? There is no Nice.
- Comment on Government shutdown delays key monthly jobs report at pivotal moment for the U.S. economy 23 hours ago:
That’s not direct. “They don’t want to protect the healthcare of the American people” is not “We rejected their proposal because it directly increases healthcare costs for anyone making under 90k/year” or whatever the number that was put out recently was. It’s also not “Why should we agree to anything they put forward if the Republican president is allowed to just cancel our appropriations like he has been?”
I want them to be specific because even that statement plays into the whole right wing framing of it being a policy dispute and the Democrats wanting to give healthcare to illegal aliens. Democrats always do this. Even when they “resist” they do nothing to challenge the right wing framing
- Comment on Government shutdown delays key monthly jobs report at pivotal moment for the U.S. economy 1 day ago:
The amount of hatred I have for Schumer and Jeffries for not directly blaming Republicans and directly saying what their budget proposal does cannot be put into words. Instead they’re talking about what? That fucking AI video and how rude they’re being?
- Comment on Breaking news 4 days ago:
Right? I’m not a big conspiracy person either. But my Gods between the Epstein stuff, the live tweeting this investigation, and how hard they’ve pushed the left wing violence narrative it’s so hard to look at those messages and not think something is fishy. It feels so much like that time the Russians tried to brag about catching some Ukrainian terrorist and stage a photo with all the evidence they seized including 3 random copies of The Sims. Or that time the IDF tried to claim they found this pristine copy of Mein Kampf in a child’s bedroom they bombed. They’ve done so much lying that any info that’s convenient for them I have a hard time believing isn’t a lie.
The guy absolutely could just have been “Like That” and overshared. I’ve definitely known people like that. But with everything that’s happened I just can’t help but feel like it’s suspicious that the texts just so conveniently happen to just perfectly answer all these questions the administration has in just the perfect way.
- Comment on Breaking news 4 days ago:
Yeah no they’re fucking wild. Oh yeah let me just text my partner telling them the location of a note that I totally made admitting to doing it but that I planned on never telling anyone. A letter mind you that was apparently destroyed but not before taking a picture of for fucking posterity I guess? Oh and remember how I was engraving bullets the other day? That thing that you were presumably there for if I’m asking you if you remember.
- Comment on Breaking news 5 days ago:
I adore the meme that Patel’s FBI fabricated those texts between the alleged Kirk shooter and his partner. Just the fact that they’ve done such a poor job gaining public trust that the a bunch of people watching the story ended up like “Okay, I wouldn’t have thought the FBI would fabricate evidence like this before, but Kash Patel has utterly convinced me that they fabricated these texts. Look how conveniently they answer every single outstanding question for the investigation and sound like they were written by a 40 year old federal agent and not a college kid from Utah.”
It’s objectively fucking hilarious. Especially if the texts are actually real.
- Comment on Has anyone else experienced these psychological changes after eating meat? 5 days ago:
I beg your finest fucking pardon. The fuck did I just read? I get why other comments are saying bait.
I’ve done basically full carnivore back when my partner first had bariatric surgery because we don’t have the largest food budget and she needed to avoid carbs while having the highest amount of protein for the smallest possible volume of food so meat was basically the only thing that fit the bill.
What in the frosted mini fuck are you on about?
- Comment on Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say 1 week ago:
Nah, Cracker Barrel almost certainly wanted the redesign because that particular sector has been moving trying to avoid the whole “You can tell this used to be a Pizza Hut,” thing for a while.
They want to be able to just open up a store anywhere with minimal investment. Then if their store is super generic it’s real easy to offload the real estate if that location doesn’t work out. It’s easier for another firm to buy the real estate if they don’t have to spend a bunch of money making the former Cracker Barrel look like a Cracker Barrel.
- Comment on The horrors of aging 1 week ago:
OPs really “Posting through some shit,” huh?
- Comment on girls be like 1 week ago:
Idk, I’ve seen Deku Popeye’s. This is isn’t that bad.
- Comment on Ibuprofen 1 week ago:
I sent the image to my partner and accidentally caused her psychic damage by not immediately knowing that this was the Spice Girls too. I was born in ’90 while she was born in ’85 and I was like 26 when we got together, so we’re not that far apart in age. But where that gap falls is sometimes huge for us.
She’s apocalyptically gay, like “Mistook not being entirely repulsed by a boy for having a crush on them,” gay. So naturally, she was obsessed with the Spice Girls. I knew of them, but I didn’t really start branching out in my music tastes until the mid 2000’s. Before that it was basically entirely the Country music my Mom listened to or the Classic Rock my Dad listened to.
So yeah, this was another thing that I accidentally caused psychic damage to my partner with because of our age difference.
- Comment on Ibuprofen 1 week ago:
Omg that’s so good!
- Comment on Ibuprofen 1 week ago:
Oh is that what this is referencing? I definitely knew of the Spice Girls, I was just never really into them when I was younger. I was one of those kids whose family only really listened to Country music and didn’t really branch out much until like the mid 2000s. But when I did I was more into like Linkin Park, Celldweller, and like random DDR and anime music.
- Comment on Ibuprofen 1 week ago:
I would but acetaminophen does nothing for me and I’ve got liver function issues largely from being well… large. Doc has told me to just avoid acetaminophen.
All I can really do is just only take the ibuprofen when none of the non-medication remedies help.
- Comment on Ibuprofen 1 week ago:
No idea what this is referencing. But have “purse” ibuprofen, home ibuprofen, and even minivan ibuprofen.
Why yes, I do have chronic pain and migraines. How could you tell?
- Comment on at least no more trolley problems 2 weeks ago:
You're ignoring the part where I said this seems to be a memory of an earlier point in comic history for Superman we're seeing. This version of Superman is almost certainly nowhere near that fast.
He also doesn't need to weigh more than the train for the train itself to not be able to withstand the force of him pushing off.
- Comment on at least no more trolley problems 2 weeks ago:
Him starting off at the velocity of the train is the problem. It's not as simple as "Superman just goes a little faster," momentum has to be conserved. To launch himself forward he has to launch the train backward and the train likely doesn't survive that. Continuing to push the train was still likely the best option Superman had in this situation.
- Comment on at least no more trolley problems 2 weeks ago:
Not if he was already pushing the train when the kid entered the equation. If this is an earlier version of Superman as this seems to be and he was already pushing the train when the kid came into the picture, then the only way for him to accelerate off the train to grab the kid is if he pushes off the train. Which effectively creates the same "stopping the train too fast," problem.
- Comment on Oh Jesus he is cooked 2 weeks ago:
Right? No wonder they all make it about The Gays.
- Comment on at least no more trolley problems 2 weeks ago:
Depends on the time in which he had to do the deceleration. I did some more looking and I guess that this page comes from Action Comics 1000 from a short bit where the current iteration of Superman is getting deja vu like flashes of things that this iteration of the character has not done but were rather part of the overall character's history.
So this likely came from a very early iteration of Superman that A) wasn't nearly as strong or fast, and B) that the situation most likely _ began _ with attempting to stop a runaway train from crashing. Then while attempting to stop the train, a child wandered into the path of the train and Clark couldn't exactly let go of the train to move the kid out of harm's way.
- Comment on at least no more trolley problems 2 weeks ago:
So I did some more looking and it seems like this image is from a... basically a clip show of a "story" that's going through the history of Superman.
So in that context we're likely looking at a significantly less powerful Superman earlier in his history. Which also means that the situation was likely that the train itself was going to crash and he'd been pushing on it for much longer with the kid having wandered into the tracks while he was in the middle of stopping the train.
- Comment on at least no more trolley problems 2 weeks ago:
I personally like "Litigation of Karens" for how often their involvement tends to involve them threatening to sue or press charges on someone.
- Comment on at least no more trolley problems 2 weeks ago:
The idea is he's straining so hard because he's trying to use the exact amount of force he needs to stop the train without harming anyone inside. Too much force on the train and everyone in the train gets injured or killed, too little and it doesn't stop in time to save the kid, and I believe in this one he didn't have the option of just grabbing the kid because he would have been hurt too badly from the sudden acceleration.
If you've ever tried to assemble something where you've gotta snap together two pretty fragile pieces it's a similar idea. You absolutely can generate way more than the force needed to get the job done, the difficulty is in having the pieces survive the attempt.
I can tell you I have experienced it with models and computer components and you'd absolutely think I was arm wrestling a God with how much I was straining trying to push those parts together without breaking them.
- Comment on at least no more trolley problems 2 weeks ago:
Didn't they try to make something like that canon years ago? That Superman has some kind of field he extends to objects he touches that in part dampens some of the physics implications of the movements he's shown to be able to do carrying objects and people that don't immediately rip themselves apart from G forces? Or am I misremembering?
- Comment on When you're a child, cake for dinner feels great. When you're an adult, cake for dinner feels bad. 3 weeks ago:
Good thing I'm only pretending to be an adult with any idea what I'm doing.