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derp
Jan 21, 2010

when i get up all i want to do is go to bed again

Lipstick Apathy

Aww yeah that's the stuff

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Kit Walker
Jul 10, 2010
"The Man Who Cannot Deadlift"

More specifically, they heard everyone posting about eyeballing doses and then asked how to do it specifically, implying that they thought it meant taking it through your eyeballs. I don’t think they actually tried it and I hope other posters quickly explained that that’s not what they meant

davidspackage
May 16, 2007

Nap Ghost

Persistence is key

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

You mess with the crabbo...



Fuckin Colorado drivers :arghfist:

SyNack Sassimov
May 4, 2006

Let the robot win.
            --Captain James T. Vader


bad_fmr posted:

No way. This is the funniest thing I have heard for a while. Is the thread goldmined by any chance?

You've been here since 2007 and you're not familiar with the joose threads? tsk tsk

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3204587&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=26#post367485310

That's the main joose story (the ambulance drivers in Ukraine). The trip report stuff is somewhere in the same thread I think, including the post with the editor's "note: it was not Monday anywhere in the world at the time this was posted".

Happy Landfill
Feb 26, 2011

I don't understand but I've also heard much worse
Crosspost from the Musk thread. Schad on anyone who gets suckered in to buying the loving cybertruck

Megillah Gorilla posted:

I have a 20 year old Ford Escape and it wouldn't even blink going up a slope like that. That pathetic thing is a loving embarrassment.


Video for those without Twitter.

(sound is an absolute must)


https://i.imgur.com/M4q39aO.mp4

Nenonen
Oct 22, 2009

Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa
I just realized what a horrible visibility forward the Cybertruck driver must have. Maybe not all that different from other SUVs but way worse than it looked on first glance.

Of course it's even worse on a track like this, the driver has no idea what's ahead except by looking through cameras.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS
The tires look to be supremely unsuited for a vehicle of its weight.

And is it the driver’s first day in a car or what?

credburn
Jun 22, 2016
Probation
Can't post for 6 hours!
Why is it called a cybertruck if it doesn't really have truck-like features? Specifically a bed. Doesn't a truck have to have a bed? Otherwise it's just a car, isn't it?

e: though in jailhouse vernacular, that definitely is a truck.

Bertha the Toaster
Jan 11, 2009

credburn posted:

Why is it called a cybertruck if it doesn't really have truck-like features? Specifically a bed. Doesn't a truck have to have a bed? Otherwise it's just a car, isn't it?

e: though in jailhouse vernacular, that definitely is a truck.

It has a bed. Its tiny and useless.

https://www.thedrive.com/news/the-tesla-cybertrucks-actual-bed-looks-even-less-usable-than-the-concepts

Nenonen
Oct 22, 2009

Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

credburn posted:

Why is it called a cybertruck if it doesn't really have truck-like features? Specifically a bed. Doesn't a truck have to have a bed? Otherwise it's just a car, isn't it?

e: though in jailhouse vernacular, that definitely is a truck.

There is a bed. On the right is what it was promised to look like.

Proteus Jones
Feb 28, 2013



Pvt. Parts posted:

does poker use some kind of sleeve of cards to prevent, I dunno, card counting? and if not do they bust out a new deck of cards every hand?

No, you can only play a legit game with a single deck at a time. The dealer does a full shuffle after every hand. They then open a fresh sealed deck after X number of hands have been played.

And while it's not so much "counting" like in Black Jack, but more that cards can get little dings and nicks over the course of a game to the point where an experience player can figure out where some of these cards are based on the marks from the wear and tear.

I did a quick google, but couldn't find anywhere to tell me the frequency of replacement.

bad_fmr
Nov 28, 2007

Nenonen posted:

I just realized what a horrible visibility forward the Cybertruck driver must have. Maybe not all that different from other SUVs but way worse than it looked on first glance.
Thats every modern truck tbh. Forward visibility sucks because of the ridiculously high and long bonnets.

bad_fmr
Nov 28, 2007

SyNack Sassimov posted:

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3204587&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=26#post367485310

That's the main joose story (the ambulance drivers in Ukraine). The trip report stuff is somewhere in the same thread I think, including the post with the editor's "note: it was not Monday anywhere in the world at the time this was posted".

Thanks. Dont have archives but I'll take your word for the lols contained within.

ante
Apr 9, 2005

SUNSHINE AND RAINBOWS

Proteus Jones posted:

No, you can only play a legit game with a single deck at a time. The dealer does a full shuffle after every hand. They then open a fresh sealed deck after X number of hands have been played.

And while it's not so much "counting" like in Black Jack, but more that cards can get little dings and nicks over the course of a game to the point where an experience player can figure out where some of these cards are based on the marks from the wear and tear.

I did a quick google, but couldn't find anywhere to tell me the frequency of replacement.

Most casinos use Continuous Shuffle Machines, I'd assume

boar guy
Jan 25, 2007

John Wick of Dogs posted:

LMAO if you think medical bills actually go to the doctors.

Like when some guy walks in the room and gives you a single shot and that shows up on your bill as Anesthetist Consult -$4000 Corzoraline Shot - $200 do you think that guy is actually getting $4000?

i had a colon surgery that cost close to 125k and the surgeon told me he made $1100 for his day that day

Kenning
Jan 11, 2009

I really want to post goatse. Instead I only have these🍄.




This is fantastic. Stay to the end, it's worth it.

Bored
Jul 26, 2007

Dude, ix-nay on the oice-vay.

That looks like a personalized license plate, too, isn’t it? There’s always a higher likelihood of someone being a huge turd if they have a personalized license plate.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

Bored posted:

That looks like a personalized license plate, too, isn’t it? There’s always a higher likelihood of someone being a huge turd if they have a personalized license plate.

And then there are the biggest turds of all: EXEMPT.

ilmucche
Mar 16, 2016

HelloIAmYourHeart posted:

A NASA astronaut dropped a tool bag while working on the ISS and it will be visible with binoculars for the next couple months.

https://earthsky.org/human-world/orbital-oopsy-a-tool-bag-is-now-orbiting-earth/

How is that not tethered??

Azhais
Feb 5, 2007
Switchblade Switcharoo

Nenonen posted:

There is a bed. On the right is what it was promised to look like.



I'm not sure which is worse

Baron von Eevl
Jan 24, 2005

WHITE NOISE
GENERATOR

🔊😴

Bored posted:

That looks like a personalized license plate, too, isn’t it? There’s always a higher likelihood of someone being a huge turd if they have a personalized license plate.

Yeah, I believe it says KINGTY. Also it's not a Bentley, it's a 20 year old Chrysler 300 with a Bentley grille glued to the front.

Apparently it took cops 15 minutes to show up.

Kit Walker
Jul 10, 2010
"The Man Who Cannot Deadlift"

Baron von Eevl posted:

Yeah, I believe it says KINGTY. Also it's not a Bentley, it's a 20 year old Chrysler 300 with a Bentley grille glued to the front.

Apparently it took cops 15 minutes to show up.

And apparently no one was arrested!

PurpleXVI
Oct 30, 2011

Spewing insults, pissing off all your neighbors, betraying your allies, backing out of treaties and accords, and generally screwing over the global environment?
ALL PART OF MY BRILLIANT STRATEGY!

I have legitimately had nightmares about driving, where I hosed everything up and eventually had to bail on the car and run away, where I did not gently caress up this badly.

grumplestiltzkin
Jun 7, 2012

Ass, gas, or grass. No one rides for free.

Nenonen posted:

I just realized what a horrible visibility forward the Cybertruck driver must have. Maybe not all that different from other SUVs but way worse than it looked on first glance.

Of course it's even worse on a track like this, the driver has no idea what's ahead except by looking through cameras.



many larger trucks have forward visibility which is comparable to a literal loving M1 Abrams main battle tank and worse than a literal big rig

Karate Bastard
Jul 31, 2007

Soiled Meat

Happy Landfill posted:

Crosspost from the Musk thread. Schad on anyone who gets suckered in to buying the loving cybertruck

That's the sounds of the most inept cyberfuckling I ever heard.

flubber nuts
Oct 5, 2005


John Wick of Dogs posted:

LMAO if you think medical bills actually go to the doctors.

Like when some guy walks in the room and gives you a single shot and that shows up on your bill as Anesthetist Consult -$4000 Corzoraline Shot - $200 do you think that guy is actually getting $4000?

not a doctor but as a scrub tech helping out scrubbed in with surgery i was making a cool $15 an hour. years after starting i learned they were charging nearly $400 an hour for my presence.

John Wick of Dogs
Mar 4, 2017

A real hellraiser


flubber nuts posted:

not a doctor but as a scrub tech helping out scrubbed in with surgery i was making a cool $15 an hour. years after starting i learned they were charging nearly $400 an hour for my presence.

And the hospitals are all broke and barely run, so who the gently caress is getting the money

Happy Landfill
Feb 26, 2011

I don't understand but I've also heard much worse

John Wick of Dogs posted:

And the hospitals are all broke and barely run, so who the gently caress is getting the money

Whoever owns the hospital

canyoneer
Sep 13, 2005


I only have canyoneyes for you

HelloIAmYourHeart posted:

A NASA astronaut dropped a tool bag while working on the ISS and it will be visible with binoculars for the next couple months.

https://earthsky.org/human-world/orbital-oopsy-a-tool-bag-is-now-orbiting-earth/

Visible even sooner if you turn off your monitor

Stupid_Sexy_Flander
Mar 14, 2007

Is a man not entitled to the haw of his maw?
Grimey Drawer
That's gotta hurt. Being called dumb as a bag of hammers your whole life and then you find out that the bag of hammers actually made it into space, and unlike you, was useful. drat...

Ruflux
Jun 16, 2012

PurpleXVI posted:

I have legitimately had nightmares about driving, where I hosed everything up and eventually had to bail on the car and run away, where I did not gently caress up this badly.

Same, but they're a semi-regular feature. I wouldn't call them nightmares, just annoying and frustrating themes. A common element is reversing but uh oh, the brakes don't do poo poo for some reason and you just keep plowing into things. Sometimes the same thing happens going forwards, other times I'm driving inside a mall because the road just turned into that for some reason. Occasionally I'll blow a red light or drive into a horribly confusing intersection and cause a pileup.

Like, I couldn't even imagine being in a situation similar to that video. My face got flush when I had to do an Austin Powers rear end 69-point turn outside my apartment last September because I misjudged how hard I could turn in reverse and boxed myself in by the neighboring building's bike rack and the bushes lining the side of my building, all because I didn't wanna be as big of a jackass as the construction crew working the building and cut across the lawn.

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dialhforhero
Apr 3, 2008
Am I 🧑‍🏫 out of touch🤔? No🧐, it's the children👶 who are wrong🤷🏼‍♂️

grumplestiltzkin posted:



many larger trucks have forward visibility which is comparable to a literal loving M1 Abrams main battle tank and worse than a literal big rig

Absolutely incredible that this image and comparisons even exists and that you also had it ready to post.

Happy Landfill
Feb 26, 2011

I don't understand but I've also heard much worse

Ruflux posted:

Same, but they're a semi-regular feature. I wouldn't call them nightmares, just annoying and frustrating themes. A common element is reversing but uh oh, the brakes don't do poo poo for some reason and you just keep plowing into things. Sometimes the same thing happens going forwards, other times I'm driving inside a mall because the road just turned into that for some reason. Occasionally I'll blow a red light or drive into a horribly confusing intersection and cause a pileup.

Like, I couldn't even imagine being in a situation similar to that video. My face got flush when I had to do an Austin Powers rear end 69-point turn outside my apartment last September because I misjudged how hard I could turn in reverse and boxed myself in by the neighboring building's bike rack and the bushes lining the side of my building, all because I didn't wanna be as big of a jackass as the construction crew working the building and cut across the lawn.

Heeeeey Gets Flustered Easily While Driving buddy :(:respek::(

Admiral Joeslop
Jul 8, 2010




https://i.imgur.com/fJcFoJz.mp4

schreibs
Oct 11, 2009


Staged but made me laugh, cheers!

Bald Stalin
Jul 11, 2004
Probation
Can't post for 8 hours!
Having the dog toy there to add to the 'this happened organically' didn't work

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

I was expecting a taser.

Takes No Damage
Nov 20, 2004

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.


Grimey Drawer

grumplestiltzkin posted:

yeah, i love it when strangers on the internet expose themselves as doing something in an insane way that nobody would consider even halfway reasonable

haha yeah me too HEY WAIT A MINUTE YOU FUCKER :argh:

Schad on all of us that we'll never live as well as the cat down at my local liquor store:

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Bored
Jul 26, 2007

Dude, ix-nay on the oice-vay.

Leon Sumbitches posted:

Thanks for rubbing it in on the last day of open enrollment, you jerk!!

November 1st was the first day of open enrollment through healthcare.gov.

Unperson_47 posted:

Open Enrollment is the Scholastic book fair except instead of getting Garfield joke books, it's the whole system that's the joke.

But this us true. Since my life sucks and likely I do too, I greet to start working the password reset job for healthcare.gov again. I also need to pick a plan for next year. Can’t wait to see how much worse the government has allowed the insurance offerings to get this year compared to last year.

Last year, I noticed that every plan had increased by at least $200 a month while covering far less,increasing the original out-of-pocket limit allowed to be permitted to list plans on healthcare.com, and increasing the deductible limit. For people who aren’t in the US, the insurance industry considers deductible and out-of-pocket costs as two different things.

Not just arguably worse. Actually worse. gently caress the insurance industry.

I can’t find any videos of anything unfortunate happening to insurance company execs right now. :( :retrogames:

Here’s an article about a UnitedHealthcare CEO stating his specification for the Biden administration not cracking down off insurance companies overcharging for Medicare Advantage plans, which are funded by the government but administered by private insurance companies. Centene also handles quite a few MedicareAdvantage/AllWell plans for our country’s elderly and medically fragile.

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