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  1. Aldarion

    Investing General Discussion

    Yeah, I guess I'm just saying this. The article seemed to make the claim that inflation is actually beaten, except for housing, which it claims is a different situation for various reasons. And the articles conclusion is that the Fed should stop raising rates as a result. This conclusion seems...
  2. Aldarion

    Investing General Discussion

    I can't get past this. This number is so far from reality I don't know what to believe from the article. Maybe theres some "official" source that matches this number. All I'm saying is, this number is fucking horse shit.
  3. Aldarion

    Investing General Discussion

    This is a good example of the lifestyle creep I bitch about from time to time. As a society our expectations for how a normal middle class person should expect to live have gone fucking bonkers during our lifetime. People usually bitch at me for political reasons when I bring it up, but...
  4. Aldarion

    Ancient Civilizations

    Not trying to start a fight, but I find this kind of "archaeology" exactly as convincing as tarot readings. I buy parts of it, e.g. the carbon dating. Its the speculation that "hey this random ass rock or log looks like X" that I find laughable. Its literally people looking at cloud...
  5. Aldarion

    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    In the restaurants I worked in that served pizza, the dough was always made the night before. If we had to make another batch we were not allowed to use it til the next day. Aging appears to matter, probably to get that right stretchiness.
  6. Aldarion

    Wheel of Time

    No, its what I've alway said - the fact that they dont stick to the source material in casting is a preview of their failure to stick to the source material throughout. As soon as raceswapped casting is announced, you can know in advance its gonna be garbage.
  7. Aldarion

    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    What I meant by hand tight was tightened by hand manually with a wrench rather than fucking absurdly tight with a power tool. The bolt in question cannot be accessed with a long wrench. Its a star head round bolt screwed into the bottom of the steering column. Screwed in with some kind of...
  8. Aldarion

    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    This is a recurring rustle for me so I dunno if I've posted before. It rustles the fuck outa my jimmies when bolts that have no reason to be tightened down like the fist of an angry god, are tightened down like the fist of an angry god. Then it gets stripped because they've tightened this...
  9. Aldarion

    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    literally not one person in my household drinks milk or eats it on cereal and we still use up at least a half gallon a week. wtf man
  10. Aldarion

    The Flash (2023)

    I watched this movie from a different perspective than most comic book movies, because of all the info before it was released. This was a movie about "what if the worst person in the world, just an absolute insufferable cunt with no redeeming qualities, had superspeed & time travel powers?"...
  11. Aldarion

    Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2022)

    Absolutely. The Flash deserves all the hate it gets. But I've never been able to make it to the halfway point in either Shazam movie. These things are just so bad.
  12. Aldarion

    The Paranormal, UFO's, and Mysteries of the Unknown

    Following up on this because as a longtime Project Bluebook fan I don't understand the comment. Everyone I know from all walks of life thought those ridiculous Mexican ETs were the most obvious fakes they'd ever seen. What was the master stroke you're referring to?
  13. Aldarion

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    The problem is we are fighting against this mentality. people who don't understand that zipper merging is the only acceptable merge shouldnt be allowed to drive.
  14. Aldarion

    The Fast Food Thread

    Man, @BrutulTM picks some weird hills to die on. "how dare this guy complain about visible amounts of actual shit in his food, what a supertaster!"
  15. Aldarion

    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    Mahers a tool but he's 100% right about this. Its annoying how politicians - almost all of whome have never stared mortal danger in the face - constantly call suicide bombers "cowards". There are a whole lot of reasons to criticize terrorists and other suicide bombers. Cowardice is the single...
  16. Aldarion

    The Paranormal, UFO's, and Mysteries of the Unknown

    Youre right to wonder. Those kinds of numbers (claiming to show surprisingly high similarity between humans and bacteria or bananas) are calculated in a bullshit way that overstates the similarity. Those numbers are generally based on aligning all the genes that match, and estimating the...
  17. Aldarion

    The Fast Food Thread

    Shrimp nuggets? What do you estimate is the probability that they deveined (removed the tube full of actual shit) those shrimp before grinding them up into nuggets? I don't like to come across as racist but I'm gonna have to say it here - shrimp served in a non-white establishment are...
  18. Aldarion

    90s songs that were OK the first time, but gave you cancer after they were played nonstop for months

    The Beastie Boys are the shittiest and cringiest band to ever exist in any universe The Watcher himself recoils in horror and refuses to look in on our universe any more after witnessing one of their songs The only good thing about the 90s being over is that now the only reason anyone plays...
  19. Aldarion

    The Fast Food Thread

    There is no fate too cruel for someone who orders chicken nuggets and calls them boneless wings.
  20. Aldarion

    TAYLOR SWIFT | THE ERAS TOUR (2023)

    Like I said, my comment wasnt about Swift. I agree that just a rich daddy wouldnt be enough to get her where she is. I'm just saying, if someones rich daddy paid to get them started in life, that fact alone is always deserving of mockery no matter how admirable the person may otherwise turn...
  21. Aldarion

    TAYLOR SWIFT | THE ERAS TOUR (2023)

    Look, I've got no opinion on Swift herself, but this is ridiculous. Having a rich daddy who helps start your career is the white equivalent of being an affirmative action hire. Its always appropriate to criticize anyone who gets their start that way.
  22. Aldarion

    90s songs that were OK the first time, but gave you cancer after they were played nonstop for months

    This is one of the best picks yet for me. Great at first but after a while it became a change the station now song. Some of the shit in this thread cracks me up. For fucks sake, nobody ever liked Cotton Eyed Motherfucking Joe. This isnt just "songs I remember from the 90s"
  23. Aldarion

    TAYLOR SWIFT | THE ERAS TOUR (2023)

    Theres this funny thing that happens on FoH sometimes when someone makes a sarcastic post mocking another poster ... and it wraps around and turns into 100% gospel truth.
  24. Aldarion

    90s songs that were OK the first time, but gave you cancer after they were played nonstop for months

    while you're right that its overplayed to the point a person could almost hate it, there is never a wrong time for Metallica so technically it doesnt count
  25. Aldarion

    90s songs that were OK the first time, but gave you cancer after they were played nonstop for months

    Is this some fake Mandela effect shit? I've never heard of or heard that song before just now.
  26. Aldarion

    90s songs that were OK the first time, but gave you cancer after they were played nonstop for months

    Yeah, its radio itself, not the decade. Even classic rock stations are unlistenable shit that end up making a person hate songs that were good in the first place. Its funny in the age of streaming music, where you can find thousands of examples of algorithm-generated playlists that are 1000x...
  27. Aldarion

    90s songs that were OK the first time, but gave you cancer after they were played nonstop for months

    Ya know chuck, I never got why people give you so much shit around here. You always seemed like an alright guy. But then you reminded me of Jamiroquai's existence. So fuck you
  28. Aldarion

    Ancient Civilizations

    No, thats inaccurate. 99% of youtube videos are some dude literally looking at the camera and talking, OR some dude talking while the screen shows a still image. Often rotating or panning over the still image while the dude talks. In both cases there was no fucking reason to make it into a...
  29. Aldarion

    Ancient Civilizations

    This. People talk shit about twitter and tiktok but youtube is one of the worst forces degrading the intelligence of modern Americans. Every piece of information worth knowing is written down in text and there are no exceptions. Fuck youtube and fuck the youtube humpers that have turned the...
  30. Aldarion

    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    Well, to be fair I was a little more specific than that. But yes, I get it, there are obviously different meanings for the word normal. You could use it in a purely descriptive sense to mean the matermatical average, mode, or median. And I guess you could argue for technical correctness...
  31. Aldarion

    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    Yesterday we took the family to a wildlife park. I havent done much people watching in a while cause I'm a misathnrope. I did some people watching yesterday. WTF, what happened to America in the last 10 years? I estimate less than 1/4 of the people I saw were healthy and phenotypically normal...
  32. Aldarion

    Dune: Part Two (2023)

    Don't do it. For the love of all thats holy, don't do it. You can't unread them and it forever diminishes the Dune universe. I read them all. God help me, I read some of them twice. When it comes to anything Dune related I'm like a heroin junkie in the late stages; I'm ashamed but can't stop...
  33. Aldarion

    Dune: Part Two (2023)

    Read them (5-6) but they are lower quality books, no question about it. On one hand you have to wade through pages of almost Larry Niven levels of cringe 70s sci-fi sex. On the other hand you get Miles Teg. Overall, its absolutely worth it.
  34. Aldarion

    AI: The Rise of the Machines... Or Just a Lot of Overhyped Chatbots?

    of all the downsides to the AI dystopia, the endless pages of AI "stories" and "poems" are by far the worst.
  35. Aldarion

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    fml I would pay RL money to ban Bubbles from the ability to post images Why is this not an option?
  36. Aldarion

    The Winter King

    guinevere merlin If you didnt look it up to check yourself, you'd probably think I was guilty of exaggerating for comic effect
  37. Aldarion

    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    The metrosexual part isnt the stubble, its the carefully crafted "mostly shaved except for these specific spots" look. See the neck.
  38. Aldarion

    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    The normalization of that weird metrosexual overly groomed beard, until this morning someone called Oliver Anthony a neckbeard. This is a neckbeard, as I have always understood the term. Very little actual beard. Just neck hair. This is a metrosexual overly groomed mostly shaved by still a...
  39. Aldarion

    Weather

    hope that bitch keeps headin north and hits OR. We havent seen a drop of rain all summer. Shits dying and wells are drying up.
  40. Aldarion

    Snow White (2024)

    lmao no, not even close.