jpreston2005

Woohoo!

So not only does putin get a big fat L, but the EU continues to grow! I believe from the EU and NATO partnerships, we will someday see 1 global, unifying government that will formalize conflict resolution, leading to a lasting and sustained peace on Earth. And what does global peace mean? It means a massive increase in standard of living for all, as well as expansion into SPACE! When we can unify as one people, only then can we truly embark on the journey Star Trek promised us.

I just wonder what our flag will look like.

But staying in the present, way to go Moldova. As a terrified American, it does me good to see favorable election results.

Perhaps counter-intuitively, if your pockets are full of Mom's spaghetti, you're more likely to be structurally sound.

Great list of websites to never visit 👍

I get enough hate-speech during on-line video games. By not using any of those apps, I successfully save myself from multitudes more, while also foregoing any potentially addictive status-seeking site-based-compulsions. I used to play Clash of Clans on my phone because it was a good way to waste a couple minutes while taking a shit. I quit when I began to play too much. I feel like Facebook, twitter, instagram, they're all just sites to waste time on. Which begs the question, why waste time on them at all? Why waste time?

I know not every moment can be spent fruitfully, but when something you do to waste a bit of time in between/during mundane tasks becomes something that now demands attention outside of that, then it's time to stop wasting time on it.

but the resulting fire can absolutely diminish their load capacity, making them frail and pliable like boiled spaghetti

lol, I love it.

C.S. Lewis - "I'm going to make the single most catholic fairy tale ever. This thing will be such catholic, woah, watch out, catholic comin' out of your ears with this fairy tale."

The Gays: Smiling, rubbing hands together, menacingly

Oh, Browns. Brownin' hard today, I see.

The single greatest take-away I got from medical school, is that some doctors can be incredibly stupid. They'll examine you, then step out into the hall and google your symptoms. I wish I was being facetious.

Yeah I could see how that would work, interesting design idea! they'd probably be pretty easy to mass produce too, so having a player pop in a new insert wouldn't be so laborious as to hinder the game.

But those liquid shock absorbers, now that's wild, seems like some Stanford peeps beat us to the punch 😅

think the hardest part from a engineering standpoint, is having a player encounter force enough to not fully utilize the crumple zone, but weaken it. The player wouldn't realize that his crumple zone has been structurally weakened, and the next play in which the player gets hit hard enough to fully utilize the crumple zone, the zones "crumple" doesn't work as well, which leaves the player worse off from a protection standpoint.

Same. Tonight is the last evening I could conceivably go out. I tried to get myself to go out last night, but after my workout I just wanted to put on my warm comfy house clothes and overeat while watching science fiction.

Now I have a new decision. Do I force myself to go out tonight? I'd love to go out dancing, but driving into the city in the dark (and having to drive back) is such a bummer.

They'd need to make the helmets big enough to accommodate it, and those helmets are already getting pretty unwieldy. Also those crumple zones would get used up like, every play for the interior linemen. Defensive and Offensive line would basically have to get a new helmet every play.

I remember my concussion. Immediately afterward I was like a goldfish, couldn't maintain short-term memory for more than like 10 seconds. I crashed on a group bicycle ride, after getting up and brushing myself off, I told the others to go on without me, and I'd just head back to my car. 15 seconds later, I'm biking back the opposite direction, and think "wait, where am I? where am I going?" repeated that for a few minutes, then an intense feeling of drowsiness hit me, so I pulled off the road to lie down on a grassy embankment in the sun. Passed out as soon as I got off my bike.

Woke up in the ambulance with tubes coming out of me, alongside some temperamental EMTs. Was scary, but I worked in a pharmacy at the time, and patients would identify themselves to me using their date of birth and name, so evidently I kept waking up, freaking out, telling them my name and date of birth, and then passing out again. They told me this later, but I did it a lot, which is why the EMTs were not happy to see me during the one instance of this I can recall.

woke up again in the hospital room, with more tubes coming out of me. The nurse at the time referred to the needle gauge they used for my IV as a "garden hose." It was like 18mm, and hurt like hell, bruising up my vein. Was just writhing in pain, trying not to cry for hours until they finally gave me a new (much smaller) IV, and took out the hose. Ended up staying for a night, left the next day. 1/10, would not recommend.

I'm sitting here all comfy/cozy. I'm warm, with a full fridge, and a house all to myself with today and tomorrow off work. The feral pack of kittens I feed is trusting me more and more.