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Trivial things that please the ever living shit out of you

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lmao... so i had $400 of apple giftcards i redeemed from amex points. turns out, once you close the amex account, you cant access redemption codes on their website. i printed out the codes once, but lost the paper.

so in desperation i searched 'giftcards' in my googledrive to see if i saved a PDF copy.  and in that process, i discovered i had a $500 hotels.com GC from 6 years ago (genuinely dont remember where it came from), and turns out its still active and valid.

and for the apple card, amex was happy to issue a new physical ones sent to the mail.  a $400 loss just turned into a net $500 gain.

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the reason i was looking for it was to buy a replacement ipad for my kid.

turns out, i had no idea amazon's price on this ipad literally just bounced from 399 to 489 from week to week? the fuck kind of strategy is this. 

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On 8/21/2025 at 4:17 PM, 52-80 said:

lmao... so i had $400 of apple giftcards i redeemed from amex points. turns out, once you close the amex account, you cant access redemption codes on their website. i printed out the codes once, but lost the paper.

so in desperation i searched 'giftcards' in my googledrive to see if i saved a PDF copy.  and in that process, i discovered i had a $500 hotels.com GC from 6 years ago (genuinely dont remember where it came from), and turns out its still active and valid.

and for the apple card, amex was happy to issue a new physical ones sent to the mail.  a $400 loss just turned into a net $500 gain.

Wouldn’t it be a $900 gain?  

1 hour ago, Kennythetiger said:

Wouldn’t it be a $900 gain?  

Depends, do you work for the IRS? (You have to say if you do)

On 8/23/2025 at 10:17 AM, 52-80 said:

Depends, do you work for the IRS? (You have to say if you do)

I work my ass off all year long for the IRS.  Unfortunately, I pay them all the money, though.

  • 2 weeks later...

When I go to a restaurant of any kind and they have Coke products instead of Pepsi.

The fucking Pepsi shit is everywhere. They must be practically giving it away to restaurants. So aggravating. 

How the house smells when cooking a pot of beans. After wards will post into the other thread, but now, bacon, onions, beans. Fuck yeah. 

How the fart smells after you eat a bunch of beans with onions and jalapeno.

We were shooting the shit at an impromptu happy hour at the office. Somehow the conversation moved to global warming, and my science denying coworker harumphed and said global warming is a HOAX and scientists are pandering to the politicians for grant money so don't believe a word they say. He somehow got the idea that even if all the glaciers melted, the oceans would only raise about 2"!!!

So we did what geeks do on a Friday night. We googled the data and did the math...

Antarctic glacier area is 5,400,000 miles², with an average thickness of 1.4 miles, so 7,560,000 miles³ of ice.

The area of all the oceans is 139,000,000 miles².

So if the Antarctic glacier completely melted, sea levels would rise about 0.0544 miles, or ~287 feet

 

My coworker, who honestly is a really nice guy until you bring up uhhh.... science, harumphed again and said you can't trust the data.

Anyway. SCIENCE BITCHES!!!

 

Also, doing simple math 3 whiskies in on a Friday night is harder than you think.

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8 hours ago, Superhero said:

We were shooting the shit at an impromptu happy hour at the office. Somehow the conversation moved to global warming, and my science denying coworker harumphed and said global warming is a HOAX and scientists are pandering to the politicians for grant money so don't believe a word they say. He somehow got the idea that even if all the glaciers melted, the oceans would only raise about 2"!!!

So we did what geeks do on a Friday night. We googled the data and did the math...

Antarctic glacier area is 5,400,000 miles², with an average thickness of 1.4 miles, so 7,560,000 miles³ of ice.

The area of all the oceans is 139,000,000 miles².

So if the Antarctic glacier completely melted, sea levels would rise about 0.0544 miles, or ~287 feet

 

My coworker, who honestly is a really nice guy until you bring up uhhh.... science, harumphed again and said you can't trust the data.

Anyway. SCIENCE BITCHES!!!

 

Also, doing simple math 3 whiskies in on a Friday night is harder than you think.

Okay, but how much of that 1.4 miles of thickness is below the water level currently?  And does that take into account density of ice as a solid vs water as a liquid?  And also that the water basin is not straight up and down, but more conical?  

5 hours ago, PvilleStang said:

Okay, but how much of that 1.4 miles of thickness is below the water level currently?  And does that take into account density of ice as a solid vs water as a liquid?  And also that the water basin is not straight up and down, but more conical?  

Did you not read that last sentence about doing simple math after a long week and 3 whiskies?

 

 

6 hours ago, PvilleStang said:

Okay, but how much of that 1.4 miles of thickness is below the water level currently?  And does that take into account density of ice as a solid vs water as a liquid?  And also that the water basin is not straight up and down, but more conical?  

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15 hours ago, Superhero said:

We were shooting the shit at an impromptu happy hour at the office. Somehow the conversation moved to global warming, and my science denying coworker harumphed and said global warming is a HOAX and scientists are pandering to the politicians for grant money so don't believe a word they say. He somehow got the idea that even if all the glaciers melted, the oceans would only raise about 2"!!!

So we did what geeks do on a Friday night. We googled the data and did the math...

Antarctic glacier area is 5,400,000 miles², with an average thickness of 1.4 miles, so 7,560,000 miles³ of ice.

The area of all the oceans is 139,000,000 miles².

So if the Antarctic glacier completely melted, sea levels would rise about 0.0544 miles, or ~287 feet

 

My coworker, who honestly is a really nice guy until you bring up uhhh.... science, harumphed again and said you can't trust the data.

Anyway. SCIENCE BITCHES!!!

 

Also, doing simple math 3 whiskies in on a Friday night is harder than you think.

That math isn't even close to accurate but I will say that it is likely far more than 2 feet and far less than 287 feet.

Couple things to consider that Pville didn't bring up:

- It requires exponentially more water to raise the ocean level as you go up. You aren't climbing a 90 degree incline on the shorelines (i.e. the surface area of the oceans increases as sea-level increases).

- If it theoretically got hot enough to melt all the ice there would be a far greater amount of water vapor held in the atmosphere. 

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55 minutes ago, ztejas said:

That math isn't even close to accurate but I will say that it is likely far more than 2 feet and far less than 287 feet.

Couple things to consider that Pville didn't bring up:

- It requires exponentially more water to raise the ocean level as you go up. You aren't climbing a 90 degree incline on the shorelines (i.e. the surface area of the oceans increases as sea-level increases).

- If it theoretically got hot enough to melt all the ice there would be a far greater amount of water vapor held in the atmosphere. 

Wow, look at the big brain on Brad.

Yes and yes to Pville, and yes and yes to you.

 

And my coworker said 2 INCHES, not feet.

At the glacial maximum 20k years ago it looks like sea levels were about 400 ft lower. So you and your whiskeyed up buddies were absolutely dealing with the right types of measurements.

Now that is of course going in the other direction and the points that I brought up (and pville's point about the water basin being sloped downward - which is the same idea basically) would increase the rate of change in that instance instead of decreasing it. 

The coworker is correct.  As additional water is added to the ocean, the weight of the ocean increases, which pushes the floor of the ocean further down so that the ocean's level doesn't rise.

41 minutes ago, Ghost of NMAS said:

The coworker is correct.  As additional water is added to the ocean, the weight of the ocean increases, which pushes the floor of the ocean further down so that the ocean's level doesn't rise.

 

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From that data point alone, the weight of the glacier on Antarctica is causing the earth to be squished in the N-S axis.

If all that ice was equally distributed around the world, and making the assumption (for control reasons of course) that the continents have 250'H cliffs, then the planet would be a real sphere instead of a near sphere.

Good lord!

Superhero

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Doesn’t matter. Not my problem. My grandkids will figure it out. 

8 hours ago, Bevo&Pevo said:

IF If's and But's were candy and nuts, we'd all have a Merry Christmas. 

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9 hours ago, Bevo&Pevo said:

IF If's and But's were candy and nuts, we'd all have a Merry Christmas. 

my dad threw that one around.

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If my aunt had balls, she'd be my uncle. 

But would she be allowed to use the men's bathroom?

I realized yesterday we never turned on the sprinklers for the yard all summer and still had green grass.  Profit!

 

HOT shower after being out in the cold.  Run it hot, run it until the water heater is empty.

3 hours ago, Parliament said:

being out in the cold

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1 hour ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:

Watching my Latino neighbors shake their head in astonishment as I speak perfect Spanish to them

My old roommate was from Taiwan but grew up in Ecuador.

He always freaked the construction crew out when he bust out in perfect Spanish.

Having these in a pinch along with some wood glue to fix a stripped, wood hole. 

Always works like a charm. 

 

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On 9/4/2025 at 9:35 AM, PvilleStang said:

Okay, but how much of that 1.4 miles of thickness is below the water level currently?  And does that take into account density of ice as a solid vs water as a liquid?  And also that the water basin is not straight up and down, but more conical?  

Check out Bill fucking Nye….

On 9/4/2025 at 5:36 PM, Superhero said:

 

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From that data point alone, the weight of the glacier on Antarctica is causing the earth to be squished in the N-S axis.

If all that ice was equally distributed around the world, and making the assumption (for control reasons of course) that the continents have 250'H cliffs, then the planet would be a real sphere instead of a near sphere.

Good lord!

Superhero

 

The earth is being squished because it is rotating. not because of the weight of antartic glaciers. 

 

55 minutes ago, High Plains Drifter said:

 

The earth is being squished because it is rotating. not because of the weight of antartic glaciers. 

 

I hope you know I wasn’t being serious. 

My cousin and his family moved back into town a few weeks ago. He grew up in the OC but moved to China 10+ years ago for work. Now he’s back.

He’s not the most responsible person and I wonder how they’re getting by since him and his wife don’t have jobs at the moment.

But he’s always fun to be around and the glue of the family. If I die of alcohol poisoning in the next few years, it will because of him. 

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