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Homercles

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  1. My wife and I tend to have one show at a time we watch together, and right now this is it. I’d kinda given up on this show in the later third of season 1, but as the scope has expanded in season 2 I’m starting to enjoy it more. Obviously won’t be The Wire of New Orleans but I’m definitely enjoying it more. But one thing that bugs me is how there’s no sense of scale for the Desire or mafia gangs…like it’s supposed to be these epic forces in the city but all we ever see is like four people talking. The Wire especially did a great job using extras, dialog, staging shots and overall atmosphere to give you the sense that The Game never ceases. Speaking of The Wire…shiiiiit
  2. Definitely depends on the person. If you’re just a nicotine addict they work great, if it’s more the act/oral fixation then vaping seems to work well. 70 years is insane though wow
  3. My wife had a gastric sleeve put on, Dec 2019…lucky timing, in hindsight. She was always curvy but after the second kid just couldn’t keep the weight off. It worked wonders for her. Since you’re going to take it seriously as a means to forcefully change your eating habits, it’ll work wonders for you too. Do not fuck around with post-op eating guidelines. Regarding smoking, if you struggle with cold Turkey get yourself a good vape setup. Start with a high nicotine level but taper (mix with next lower mg levels) as soon as you can. This is gonna be awesome for you
  4. Fuck norovirus in the goat ass. Wife out of town past weekend, all going well with Daddy Rules (don’t fight, break anything or generally be assholes and we will mix fun with Roblox the likes of which you have never known). Sunday: Starting 3p my 9yo says his stomach hurts, think little of it as it’s often anxiety-driven. By 6pm he’s puking his guts up, 615pm his 6yo sister does the same. This continues at 30 minute intervals until approximately 1am. They can’t sleep due to nausea, finally end up with me in my daughters bed, her on the floor, and son sleeping on a towel in his room…after doing laundry until 3am. Monday: Doc visits for all. Get Zofran and a ‘good luck’. Diarrhea begins. I manage to get some work done. Wife gets home at 8p and I’m already asleep in the guest room. Tuesday: Kids well enough to go to school, wife bitches I didn’t make daughters bed perfectly. I can’t sleep and go to guest room. Wednesday: 1am, wake up with terrible gut pains. Ask myself ‘am I about to puke?’ Affirmative. Up until 4am. Spend all day in bed or sometimes puking between my legs as I pee out my butt. Wife says that’s disgusting. Thursday: 6am getting kids ready for school, 9yo says ‘bad news, mommy was throwing up all night’. She’s miserable, apologizes for ‘disgusting’ comment as she did the very same thing. She’s in bed all day. Friday: Work is insane, eat my first real meal since Tuesday 11am. Back to my pre-Christmas weight. Fuck norovirus. Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.
  5. Are you going to do it with someone experienced? Strongly recommend that. Someone should be there to remind you that it’s temporary in case you get a little wild and help ensure you don’t decide now is a good time to go visit a place of memories. Do not drive! Also strongly recommend you research ‘set and setting’. Set yourself up for a positive mindset entering the experience…clean your house, turn off your phone, turn off your Ring doorbell, make sure everything that needed doing that day is done, that you have nothing pressing the next day, have your favorite music loaded and ready to play, lock away your car keys, etc. You don’t want to be coming up and worried your phone will ring, or be tripping and unable to start the stereo, or staring at a sink of dirty dishes, etc.
  6. Last time I tripped on acid was when I smuggled a couple tabs in the spine of a book on a flight to visit family in germany, using jet lag as an excuse to stay behind for the day while they were out. I wandered their tiny village and marveled at the summer greenery, idly admiring the windmills and gorgeous countryside. It was amazing. That’s where I’ll leave my LSD experience because other times it felt too mechanical…like my brain was cracked open for the world to see like I was Neo coming out of the matrix. So yeah, posrep because I enjoy psilocybin more as well. Or at least I did before real responsibility got in the way.
  7. I’m telling y’all it’s drugs. Probably hopped up on goofballs
  8. Holy fuck that first sentence is a thing of awe inspiring beauty
  9. Yeah sadly you need to be very careful, detail-oriented and incredibly clean when inoculating jars…else you’re creating a wonderful environment for all kinds of nasty shit to grow. Once they’re fully covered in mycelium, the rest is (usually) very easy. Sometimes, it still doesn’t work out. It’s been 20 years so maybe things have changed, but that was my experience. I was also doing it in an apt on a students (non existent) income, I’m sure if it were legal it’d be a very inexpensive item to buy.
  10. Yeah I rolled quite a few times, but the comedown could be brutal even in my 20’s…I shudder to think of what it’d be like now at 42…though I expect I’d get talked to death by my wife before it even peaked.
  11. The department of…energy? I’m agnostic on this too, and feel endless energy is probably wasted given China has buried any evidence and murdered those in the know. But why is DoE investigating this?
  12. I’ve found Dilbert to very rarely be funny.
  13. Tech stack is a valid phrase when used properly…in essence, delivering content / interacting with data is often a production line-like series of events/handoffs between different software: web server, load balancer, database, various ad integration tools, security, presentation, etc. If you’re beyond Wix-like simplicity, tying multiple elements together is an efficient and proven way to customize without writing the whole shebang yourself. But no surprise a walking, talking prolapsed anus like Adams thinks he will sound smart by using the term to describe his army of idiots. Also no surprise Musk would throw it around along with an arbitrary count of software elements to try quantifying bloat in an ecosystem he doesn’t understand.
  14. Until Chief kills you and then escapes out the window
  15. They were apparently chasing someone in Cat Hollow, and apprehended them. Cops were slow cruising O’Connor and the chopper came out. At least per the Ring thread
  16. I thought that’s what the many infrastructure weeks were about?
  17. Shit she should sell it while everything still works.
  18. Holy shit. I owned a V1 for a decade, and most everything was pretty simple…cheap as shit that broke regularly…but no dumbass design like I’d expect in an Italian car. Sure the taillight flew off on 45 toll, I replaced half the sensors in the damn car, and catalytic converters were unobtanium, but everything came apart with a Phillips or Torx. Always wanted an XLR, even knowing they were problematic. Wonder what other gremlins lie within.
  19. I grew up in a RR family. Paternal grandfather went from shuffling index cards that represented rail manifests under steam power to VP of Operations at a large railroad in the NE by 1985. My uncle was the highest non-elected FRA official before he retired. His son drove trains for the CP. I still ogle trains like a kid. It is a very old industry, and advances at a snail’s pace. It’s lead by cautious leadership that increments efficiency and safety in a very conservative way…incredibly ‘old money’ style. Hell up until recently there was still trackage with semaphore signaling and mechanical interlocks for small yards. For all its flaws, the airline industry (sometimes kicking and screaming) has moved the state-of-the-art in safe, efficient transportation forward relatively rapidly. 9/11 lead to improved screening and armored cockpit doors, they’ve adopted computerized FMS and ADS-B to squeeze every dollar out of each gallon of Jet A, and regulations that are written in blood tend to stay put. Yes ATC is stretched thin and SWA is running on a Commodore 64, but generally they adopt new means effectively. I don’t see the RR industry changing jack shit after this fiasco.
  20. I haven’t tripped in 15 years. Would absolutely love to experience that with my wife…but I’d have be 500 miles away from my kids, with my phone locked up, nothing to do the next day and a few Xanax for emergencies/sleep. Basically it’ll never happen unless we take a trip to Colorado sometime, I can find it, and start with a low dose like 2g maybe.
  21. Great article summarizing the bill and associated lobbying to kill it that was meant to help prevent these situations https://theintercept.com/2023/02/21/east-palestine-rail-safety-congress/ “Thune’s legislation was part of an industry push to kill the ECP mandate, review of lobbying, congressional, and court records show. Around the same time as he advanced delaying provisions in omnibus transportation legislation, Thune also introduced another bill to entirely eliminate the mandate for implementation of ECP. Following the election of President Donald Trump and with Republican majorities in the House and Senate, the rule was indeed scuttled in 2018. Thune issued a celebratory press release.” … “Critics of the rail industry in recent days have pointed out that Norfolk Southern paid out $18 billion in stock buybacks and dividends over the last five years, an amount that eclipses the money spent on railway operations and safety.”
  22. Every time I see it, a voice pops up in my head saying ‘bitches, leave’
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