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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

He described the relief of seeing both people on board the boat pop open the hatch. “Oh my gosh, it’s just a miracle,” Ticknor said.

Ticknor being the event organizer.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=sSl2846EPl4

The pilots suffered multiple fractures, including a broken knee.

I'd call a broken knee alone a serious injury...

Had their injuries been more serious, they may have been unable to escape the sinking boat.

Had the boat landed in a different orientation, or done a different, completely undpredictable, uncontrolled aerial manuever, such that it impacted the water with more speed, the boat could have broken apart on landing or become structurally comprised much more seriously, and thus the pilots would be sinking much more rapidly, likely with more serious injuries.

Though this boat and its safety cage performed admirably in terms of structural stability... similar crashes to this have maimed and killed a good number of folks in the history of hydroplane/powerboat events.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 21 hours ago

Reinstate Eberhard and Tarpenning.

You know, the actual founders, who got forced out after the fascist Afrikaner failson pulled the same corpo tissy tantrum bullshit he did at Paypal?

All Musk did was follow the general strategic plan for the company that Eberhard and Tarpenning had laid out.

Then, when that outline was run out, and Elon had to actually think of something else, it all became a total shitshow, quite rapidly.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 21 hours ago

... No?

She had different kinds of cleaning routines/phobias/rituals.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 1 day ago

Can you provide a source proving you were born yesterday, or can we all agree that's a generally reasonable assumption?

Here's Walmart:

https://united4respect.org/reports/walmart-political-spending-2024/

Amazon:

https://united4respect.org/reports/amazon-political-spending-2024/

I very much hope I do not need to explain NewsCorp's 'political contributions' of all kinds to you.

Or WaPo, which Bezos personally intervened in, to prevent them from endorsing Kamala.

... The person you are incredulously doubting made a broad and general statement that is broadly generally true, but I am guessing you would want a comprehensive analysis of every company and corp in the US to validate the truth of it...

... When, as demonstrated above, it takes an entire organization to figure this shit out for even a few major corps, because our laws regarding political donations have been fucked since Citizens United, and you have to do a massive effort of sleuthing to untangle the nested shell corporation like structure that is now commonplace in PACs.

Costco is probably the only major retailer that leans more Dem than Rep.

...In the event qualifications are relevant to you for assessing claim veracity, I all say this as a person who has degrees in Econ and Poli Sci, one of many specializations being Poltical Economy, who has worked for MSFT and a Fortune 500 import export middleman firm based out of Seattle that is 100% certainly shitting its proverbial pants right now.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

And that is what I would describe as the only kind of miracle I believe can actually happen.

Roughly on par with 'bailed out of an airplane, crashed through some trees, landed in a snowbank, only suffered a few fractures and actually lived.'

Something like that happened a few times in WW2.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

Can Starbucks please die already?

I say this as a native Seattleite, who used to love going to actual coffee shops, comfy hangout all day and study or do work on a laptop... type coffee shops...

Untill Starbucks appropriated that aesthetic, and then turned into a corporate fast food franchise, and drove basically every actual independent coffee nook out of business.

Fuck Starbucks, fuck everyone who thinks their coffee flavored milkshakes are coffee.

... I will die on this hill.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago

... Set up firefox for windows via wine, if its a webapp?

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Yeah, I was gonna say, did the pilot live?

Good number of hydroplane/powerboat deaths/maimings over the years...

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Sha na na na na na Shingles, eeeeek!

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

Knowing Randall, I wouldn't be surprised if he actually got his own DnD group, or conducted some sort of poll, where he actually asked people already in certain alignment categories to describe their own egg carton balancing patterns... or lack thereof.

That would come closer to the actual alignments self representing...

But also I have no idea, this is just my head canon now rofl.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Chaotic good here.

Yep, I'm an Autist.

... Also had a mom with pretty severe OCD, so I always remember that 'good enough is good enough', in scenarios like this.

EDIT:

... Also also, I find the lawful evil solution to be utterly diabolical and actually makes me angry just being exposed to it conceptually... which I guess does make sense, opposite sections of the chart.

 

Y2K, as in it came out in the year 2000.

Link to the song again:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=xqvYBB6-yOg

Here are the lyrics, but as it is a song, I highly suggest you just listen to it!

If you receive an e-mail with a subject of "Badtimes", delete it immediately without reading it.

This is the most dangerous e-mail virus yet

...

It will re-write your hard drive.

Not only that, but it will scramble any disks that are even close to your computer.

It will recalibrate your refrigerator's coolness setting so all your ice cream melts.

It will demagnetize the strips on all your credit cards, screw up the tracking on your VCR and use subspace field harmonics to render any CDs you try to play unreadable.

It will give your ex-boy/girlfriend your new phone number.

It will mix antifreeze into your fishtank.

It will drink all your beer and leave its socks out on the coffee table when there's company coming over.

It will put a dead kitten in the back pocket of your good suit and hide your car keys when you are late for work

...

Badtimes will make you fall in love with a penguin.

It will give you nightmares about circus midgets.

It will pour sugar in your gas tank and shave off both your eyebrows while dating your current boy/girlfriend behind your back and billing the dinner and hotel room to your Visa card.

It will seduce your grandmother.

It does not matter if she is dead, such is the power of Badtimes, it reaches out beyond the grave to sully those things we hold most dear.

...

It moves your car randomly around parking lots so you can't find it.

It will kick your dog.

It will leave libidinous messages on your boss's voice mail in your voice.

It is insidious and subtle.

It is dangerous and terrifying to behold.

It is also a rather interesting shade of mauve.

...

Badtimes will give you Dutch Elm disease.

It will leave the toilet seat up.

It will make a batch of methamphetamine in your bathtub and then leave bacon cooking on the stove while it goes out to chase high school kids with your new snowblower.

These are just a few of the signs.

Be very, very careful.

 

Zillow projects that U.S. home prices will fall 1.7% between March 2025 and March 2026. Last month, Zillow economists still thought prices would rise this year.

The US Housing bubble has popped.

Everyone remembers how well that went last time, right?

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