JasonDJ

joined 11 months ago
[–] JasonDJ 1 points 28 minutes ago

G B♭ A D

The four notes whistled by Katniss. Became a central melody in the series.

[–] JasonDJ 5 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

No control group. They needed to have just as many kids who were never allowed to play or observe chess.

Also, small sample size.

[–] JasonDJ 5 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Nazis actually believed and were obsessed with shit like that. That's not even misinformation, that's historical fact.

Nazis weren't just put into Indiana Jones for the lulz. They legit tried to rewrite history and part of this was finding artifacts and making them work to their own story. There was an occult backstory to the Aryans as Hitler and the Nazis envisioned it.

One of my new favorite channels, Extra History, had a miniseries last month called "Nazi Occultism" recently...highly recommend.

[–] JasonDJ 1 points 4 hours ago

6 days after Christmas to find and beat the first dungeon without the internet? Sounds about right.

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[–] JasonDJ 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Don't tell my wife that. And honestly I knew that. I just wanted an excuse to buy a matching socket set.

My last one was a "task force" mechanic set that my parents got me nearly over 20 years ago when I got my license.

[–] JasonDJ 39 points 6 hours ago (4 children)

If anything, Luigi murdered a terrorist.

[–] JasonDJ 17 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

Bison are better mammals than humans. Especially American humans.

Also they were here first.

[–] JasonDJ 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (2 children)

The Odyssey just had a dead battery yesterday. Thats permissible, it's cold out, she's taking a lot of short trips (out getting last minute gifts on the big retail stroad), and the battery is 5 years old.

The battery died in the movie theater parking lot (getting gift cards), and that's how we found out that the only way to get it into neutral was to turn a little knob under the air filter with a pair of pliers, and hold it in place while moving the car.

Otherwise, the car must be running to shift into neutral. Who the fuck came up with that idea. Like, I understand the brake-shift-interlock. This was a push button shifter, and this was the override they chose.

So it was either wait for everybody to finish the Sunday matinee of Wicked so someone can move their car and I could slip in to jump it from mine...or buy a battery and get tools and replace it there in the parking lot.

I chose the latter. Didn't want to drive all the way home, though, and I "knew" I was missing all my 10mm sockets...fortunately BJs had a nice DeWalt mechanics toolset on clearance, and that plus the battery cost less than just a battery at the parts store.

[–] JasonDJ 8 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (6 children)

I know it's anecdotal..but my 2019 Odyssey has so far needed a lot more work than my 2013 Passat. Considering I got both of them at 1 year old.

This is completely counter to most expectations.

[–] JasonDJ 6 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Mary was an illegal immigrant seeking a green card and Jesus was an anchor baby.

Joseph was a pedophile who lived in Nazareth to dodge taxes.

Bethlehem was a sanctuary city.

They were all fugitives of Herod, although it was their fault Herod was out killing all the baby boys anyway.

This is canon.

[–] JasonDJ 3 points 12 hours ago

It doesn't need a GUI but browser plugins or some means of auto fill are just the bees knees.

 
 

The bumper...I don't know what it's called...that little clip with the snow that fades in and reveals the logo.

It's terrible.

For one, a lot of people actually don't know what TV static is. Analog broadcasts stopped almost 16 years ago, and before that, most younger people had cable.

For another, static is really difficult to compress. It looks horrible and consumes way too much bandwidth for just a couple of seconds that won't even load right. If anything, they should cache a local copy of the bumper in-app in a format that doesn't look like ass when every pixel changes every frame.

 

Apologies for the potato quality. My wife has an iPhone.

He's on a different side of that fence from where his run is attached.

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by JasonDJ to c/[email protected]
 

While $1m USD in 1988 is worth only $2.6m in 2024, if they just put it in the S&P 500 back then and left it there, it'd be worth over $44.6m today.

I don't know if the Dijon ketchup is really worth it.

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