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Trump straight-up blames Zelenskyy for current US diesel prices. Who agrees with him & how do you figure?
▲ 14 r/AskUS

Trump straight-up blames Zelenskyy for current US diesel prices. Who agrees with him & how do you figure?

Please explain how diesel prices are disconnected from the rest of the global oil supply chain.

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u/hippopalace — 4 days ago
▲ 4 r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly

The title character doesn’t win the girl. In fact she picks someone else right in front of him. But he’s delighted to take credit (and payment) for the relative humidity.

Hints go here, but you probably won’t need any.

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u/hippopalace — 2 months ago
▲ 3 r/askmusic

What is it about “Latch” by Disclosure (featuring Sam Smith) that breaks my brain during the chorus?

There’s some sort of perceived lag in the vocals during the chorus, but I think maybe it’s not that they shifted the vocals to be a fraction of a bit late, and instead what they actually did was just pump the track volume down and back up on every downbeat, such that it only becomes audible a tiny fraction of an instant after the downbeat and sounds like the singer is behind. Possibly the instruments are also being modulated like that, but certainly at least the vocals. Anyone else notice it and feel freaked out by it?

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u/hippopalace — 3 months ago
▲ 1 r/GolfSwing

Any observations appreciated!

I’m particularly interested to hear if you’d consider this over-swung at the top, but any and all insights are much appreciated.

u/hippopalace — 3 months ago
▲ 7 r/GolfSwing

Where does swing #2 start to go wrong, and how can I prevent this?

These were back to back swings. The first one was actually even a little shallow at delivery and came off well, but the second one was a hideous steep over the top swipe that tinked out to the left. I can’t even feel when this happens. What’s the cause and cure?

u/hippopalace — 3 months ago
▲ 1 r/HonestHotTakes

Ok I suddenly kinda like José Mourinho, thanks to a Kalshi advert.

I’ve never liked José, and in fact I’ve taken great joy in mocking him for years. I also utterly despise this new prediction market craze. But the advert Jose has done for Kalshi is charming, and he’s clearly poking fun at himself. And honestly he just does a good acting job in it. I suddenly don’t completely dislike him, owing only to that appearance.

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u/hippopalace — 4 months ago
▲ 1 r/writing

Submittable question: Why is the "withdraw" button not working for a recent submission?

I submitted something yesterday and just went back to withdraw it so that I could submit a tweaked version. The withdraw button is there, and when I click it & confirm, it even shows me the popup message that it was successfully withdrawn, but the submission is still there active on the submissions page (still showing in the "received" status). I can go back in there & go through the withdraw process again & again, as the button is back every time I go back in. I've never had this problem, and I've successfully withdrawn submissions to this exact publication multiple times recently. Does this perhaps mean the editors are holding it open in some way as they review it, or is it just a server-side Submittable bug?

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u/hippopalace — 4 months ago
▲ 7 r/AskUS

The Trump admin is scrapping plans for their $1.8 billion fund meant to pay Trump allies. Do you anticipate they’ll try again in some other form?

I’m curious if they are just scrapping this attempt in order to try again in some other form to get around the judges.
AP Article

u/hippopalace — 4 months ago
▲ 1 r/MetaAI

Chats/Media deletion lag?

I’ve always noticed that it says things are “scheduled“ for deletion when you delete stuff on there, but it’s typically pretty instant anyway. Today it all keeps just coming right back after I refresh. Is there a server problem of some sort?

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u/hippopalace — 4 months ago