His arms randomly fall off while he’s walking.

But a bunch of other elements don’t follow that pattern, why don’t they say “ironium”?

Maybe it’s just because I had the proper pronunciation drilled into me, it bothers me that I had went through a lot of arguments and effort to make myself better understood, and the people on these shows don’t even vaguely try despite having access to professional consultants or even just the internet.

I try to make myself understood, and hearing someone casually butcher a language I worked very hard to learn is frustrating.

Avocado

Pico de Gallo

Tortilla

Garage(from the French, and absolutely butchered by the British)

Aluminum(not really a loan word but what’s with the extra letters)

Those are the ones off the top of my head, but I might actually make a list.

It’s tor-tia

Not Tort-illa

Having a Mexican wife, and having learned Spanish, it makes me irrationally angry when I watch British cooking shows and watch them butcher the pronunciation of basic ingredients. Especially when those same ingredients sound fine when spoken in American English.

I also didn’t know wtf Gordon Ramsey was taking about when he kept saying Picko-Da-Gello, until they showed it on screen.

Y’all spend hundreds of years conquering the planet in search of spices, and failed to learn not only how to use them, but what they’re even called.

I think it’s more to due to the radius.

It’s hard to tell the exact size from the picture, but the diameter of that loop seems to be at least several meters.

The one at action park was like 2 wide.

A bigger circle means less G forces while going around the loop, and less injuries. But action park rides were designed and built by the owner, who was not an engineer and apparently did not know any engineers. I’m pretty sure if you mentioned angular velocity to him, he’d just say that’s a sick name for a ride and then run away to get to a hardware store as fast as possible.

Credit card isn’t a bank account, it’s a line of credit. you can freeze credit and charge it back for fraudulent purchases.

I guess you never buy anything off the internet then either.

And if you do buy off the internet, you should use credit, as it’s much safer to freeze a credit card than your entire bank account if your card gets leaked.

Also don’t get why you’re being so hostile to a comment that’s simply explaining how a different works. Must be a European thing.

Tell me you don’t know how tips work without telling me.

I had a small coffee shop put a 100% tip on my card. Went back the next day and they wouldn’t fix it, so I called the credit company and had it charged back.

Something like this would be very helpful to someone who doesn’t check their statements weekly like I do.

You grossly overestimate the intelligence of libertarians.

The slime people are worse, but I’ll leave that to your imagination in case you haven’t read all the books

I can handle spice.

My issue with most super hot food is that it tastes like absolute shit.

Everything above a habanero starts to taste more and more like eating mace.

Congratulations, you’ve just earned a stoning by the town mob.

Unless you can make an electric motor that goes with your electric generator, you’ll just be killed as a witch for making a device that hurts people with invisible energy.

Also, good luck not just getting brutally murdered for being a weird person that doesn’t speak the language and is dressed funny. For like half of human history, even describing a magnet would be nearly impossible, let alone finding enough magnets of similar size and strength, and having enough money to purchase those rare items and thinly drawn copper.

If a guy came up to you today, dressed funny and talking in broken Spanglish or something asked you for a small loan so he could buy some deuterium and promethium to make a fusion-tap-quark drive so he can advance humanity, you’d probably run away. A thousand years ago you’d probably just have been stabbed on general principles.

I’m friends with plenty of alcoholics and none of them listen to folk or country music.

They’re the “metal and whiskey makes the misery more fun” kind of people.

Or ask your parent/legal guardian if you’re finally old enough to use the stove like a big kid.

Gonna take like 30 minutes to melt the cheese on a decent grilled cheese with the method you describe. Just use a stove or hotplate like a normal human being.

I can’t imagine companies are willing to pay enough to offset the ridiculous electricity and maintenance cost on that many lights.

The issue with kascynski is that people have disconnected from the reality of the man and instead projected some kind of cultural symbolism onto his image, largely because he’s become known as the crazy guy who hates technology.

He’s become a symbol for that feeling you get when you hear of some deranged and dystopian new technology that’s being researched. I remember a couple years ago reading about an idea to use psychedelics to augment prisoners’ sense of time so that they can serve thousands of years of multiple life sentences in a couple of months. Or that feeling of dread you get when news breaks that a meat packing plant has been employing hundreds of literal children to clean for them. There are definitely some things in our society where a normal person looks at it and thinks that things are going a bit off the rails.

Weirdly, or perhaps not, Kascynski has become more known for the title of his deranged paper than the actual content or the real impact his bombing spree had. He’s been turned into a cultural symbol for “they were so focused on if they could, that they never stopped to think if they should”. As we advance technologically each year, and as corporations continue to get away with abusing the general public and the planet as a whole for the sake of profits, I think it’s only natural that some people look at it and think “maybe this isn’t going in the right direction”

It’s a stretch to think that any of these people actually condone or encourage being a deranged incel that mails bombs to random professors or computer stores. They’re just expressing the gnawing dread that many feel about the hostile takeover of our society by huge corporations that are designed to do nothing but extract huge amounts of money from us in exchange for ever less reliable technologies and a planet that will become more and more uninhabitable as time wears on.

Microsoft has a terrible track record with hardware.

About the only hardware they’ve ever sold that didn’t crap the bed was the Xbox, Xbox one, and Xbox series whatever the fuck.

The 360 would cook itself, instead of fixing it, they added red LEDs to tell you it was fucked. The windows phones were unresponsive and unimpressive garbage, and every tablet they’ve made has been mired in various hardware and screen issues.

It’s almost like a software company that has a business model that depends on selling people regular updates, can’t get its head around the idea that hardware should just work for the task it’s designed to do. They want you to buy a new tablet every year or two, because it makes them money. They don’t really care if the battery is going to cook itself in 5 years, when the plan is you’ll buy a new device in 2 years, because you really need to edit PowerPoint™ presentations while on the train and with a touchscreen.

Well, the companies work them like dogs and then the drivers kept hearing from the elongated muskrat that he was going to make them obsolete “next year™” so of course they found other work.

Wonder how those self driving death machines, I mean trucks, are coming along?

Congress is America’s most lavish nursing home