is just purposely embracing the weekly release schedule in order to keep people subscribed to the service. I just didn't feel like it had enough of a story to tell, and there were no real surprises or anything to warrant the weekly schedule release combined with the short episodes , even if I did enjoy the series as a whole, I just felt like it didn't warrant it in the same way that shows like the boys, ST:Discovery ,or mando do.\n\nnobody even had an opinion, I just got comments about how I'm an idiot, and I should get fucked, etc. I was at -156 without a single comment trying to discuss it before I just deleted the comment because obviously nobody had an opinion they just didn't like anyone being critical of the series.","513"],["after living here for the past 6ish years, I'm astonished at how many albertans are ***so*** supportive of the oil industry and incredibly hardline that its the only industry alberta is capable of having\n\nwhile simultaneously having absolutely ***no*** idea as to how the industry actually functions, its capabilities, or even whats good or bad for it.\n\nlike the fact that we have literally one bitumen refinery in the entire country. Refining bitumen requires a coker unit. One of the most expensive additions a refinery can build.\n\nthe largest quantity of coke units is in america, and we're already exporting as much as they want because they have their own tar sands, and they're expanding them so their demand to buy outside is going to continue to shrink. nobody else wants our tar sands oil really. and pipelines to ship it over seas have been proven time and again to be pointless. Its the reason the oil companies themselves decided that no pipeline would ever reach ROI, and there was no point in building one.\n\ncapacity to ship doesn't make people want to buy it. Its like thinking if you have enough beanie babies to sell its going to make more people want them.","866"],["talk to your landlord and change the locks. \n\nSome people will say \"shes been there long enough she has squatters rights so you have to evict her\"\n\nwell sure that might *legally* be true, but what do you think the chances are of her actually exercising that situation? and what do you lose if she does? This is one of those, \"its better to ask for forgiveness than permission\" situations. \n\nTell her \"at the end of the month I'm changing the locks\" and fucking do it.","790"],["but what is she going to do if doesn't?\n\nhonestly to me this is one of those \"better to ask forgiveness than permission\" situations to me.\n\nif someone has to go through the legal process, let her be the one to do it, not \n\nif he doesn't own the property, theres basically no repercussions to just going to the landlord, telling him someone has keys that shouldn't and asking the locks to be changed. Even if she goes to court and wins, OP has very little to lose.\n\nI mean I fully agree that she probably *does* have squatters rights by this point, but chances are she knows what shes doing is wrong and if he just tell her \"I'm changing the locks at the end of the month\" and clears it with the landlord and does it, she'll just go away to find somewhere else to crash.\n\nhell if worse comes to worst, just move, tell your landlord you're cancelling your lease.\n\nbut going through a formal eviction with someone thats not even on the lease is honestly a waste of time, it can take 3-6 months to go through and even then they could just stay. I speak from a similar experience (ex not wanting to leave after a break-up) eventually I talked with my landlord, moved my lease to a different apartment one floor up and just moved my shit.","790"],["when you hear hoofbeats think horses not zebras.\n\nshes only been there for 1.5 months and hasn't paid any rent. This would have to be a pretty extraordinary circumstance if shes getting any mail delivered or has made any official paperwork saying she lives there. You would also have to get a pretty insane judge to rule in her favour saying she lives there. Plus she would have to have the money time and personal drive to take off work, take time out of her day and fill out the official paperwork to start a claim and small claims you can't sue for time lost or legal fees.\n\nof which there ***are*** fees, anyone whos ever actually gone through small claims will tell you it still costs almost $650 to file the paperwork and for the court fees to be heard, and it takes quite awhile to get it all put through, and since she has no legal paperwork stating she lives there, the cops won't let her stay there. If she has a lease and the landlord is evicting based off of non payment, then yes the cops will let them stay there and you have to prove that they can't. However if they have no paperwork to show, then she is kicked out until she can prove that she has a right to stay there, and *thats* where the hundreds to thousands come in, its for the money and frustration required to stay somewhere else in between and most people once they've found a new place won't bother going after their old place. Its the same situation as when landlords take the damage deposit's of the 19yr olds that move out with no cause, *could* they go back and sue in small claims, sure, but will they? 95% of them wont.\n\nyour advice sounds nice on paper, but it assumes she has started getting mail there within 1.5 months, which isn't even enough time to switch most paperworks over, assumes a judge ruling in her favour, assumes she has the time and money to go through the court, assumes she even has the drive to actually do it.\n\nmy advice assumes she gets kicked out screams \"FUCK YOU!\" at OP and just finds somewhere else to stay/goes back home to live wherever she was before.\n\nwhich do you honestly think is more likely?","790"],["this isn't news\n\n I mean although you picked awful examples, and continue to cherry pick posts that fit your narrative in the comments. Everyone knows a lot of the posts end up with a sexist slant in one way or another. \n\nits a pretty common thing in this sub for people to make shitposts the day of or the day after a very one sided post where it turns the tables and gets a completely opposite reaction from the sub simply because the genders are swapped. It's almost a meme at this point, if you daily the sub for any amount of time you'll see it probably once a day. Especially on high comment posts with a lot of back and forth and arguing going on in the comments, the next day you'll usually see a post thats eerily similar with gender swapped and it ***will*** get a very different reaction.\n\nbut are you really surprised? and do you really expect anything to change? how could you even possibly change it? men and women have different points of view, and depending on the wording of the post you'll get very different reactions from the commenters, thats just reddit.","247"],["who cares if its *technically* cheating or not? \n\nyou don't need our, or anyone elses approval to be hurt enough to end it for whatever reasons you want. \n\nyou obviously have a problem with this and thats enough, and for good reason in my opinion, you're right if she didn't think it was problem she wouldn't have hidden it. Of course ***he*** doesn't think its cheating, why would you even ask the guy shes cheating on you with? Hes getting his rocks off to your girlfriend and wants to keep doing it, of course he's going to say whatever it takes to keep it going, and she *helping* him get his rocks off.\n\nand also why are you only saying ***his*** response? what did your ***girlfriend*** have to say on the matter?\n\nalthough, what does it matter? you know and we know this is cheating and wrong. Dump her or she'll just continue doing this behind your back since its pretty obvious she wants to continue doing it too, and shes already been talking to him about lying to you about it.","901"],["I concur with /u/SuperGRB what (s)he has posted is the best course of action.\n\nit sounds like shes been giving the stock response to people up until this point, but when you *actually* went out and bought a ring it made it real to her and she had to honestly ask herself if she could marry you, and the answer was \"no\".\n\nthings will continue to get worse from this point on unless you follow /u/SuperGRB 's advice and hope that the reality of \"he might leave me\" hopefully makes her take stock and snaps her out of it to \"I can't imagine living without him\" and maybe changes her mind.\n\nbut as of right now she reached the crucible and it went poorly for you.","657"],["the only thing you should do is stop calling guys \"chads\" it makes you sound like an incel, neckbeard.\n\nother than that you should do absolutely nothing, shes dating someone, thats the end of it, you don't want to be the guy trying to encourage her to cheat, nobody likes that guy.\n\nyou need to decide, are you friends with her because you enjoy her company as a friend? or are you friends with her because you're awkwardly hoping she dumps her bf and starts loving you randomly.\n\none means you're a guy with a female friend who wants the best for her and you don't like her bf because hes genuinely a douche, although get used to that, plenty of your friends will date shitty people over the years, you just have to walk the line between voicing your opinions and being a preachy asshole since people are going to live their lives. The other makes you that creepy satellite guy that will eventually realize that shes just not into you then get angry and take it out on her as if she did something wrong by not being attracted to you.","657"],["if it makes you uncomfortable then thats, that. If she agreed to not do it again, would you be ok with that and be able to move on? is that something she offered? \n\nif this is something you just blatantly disagree on, she won't promise to not do it again, and for you, her showing her friends, guys and girls, her bare breasts is a deal breaker, then the math is simple.\n\nif you can live with this happening this one time since you never talked about it before, and shes willing to not do it again, then forgive her, never bring it up again, and move on and deal with it if it happens again.\n\nfor me personally, I *wouldn't* care if my gf did it with me there as long as she asked if I was ok with it first. There are some people I'd be ok with her doing it around and some who I wouldn't. However if I wasn't around, especially in the semi-romantic setting of a vacation in Spain, I would *not* be ok with it either.\n\nif you're just wondering for a 3rd opinion of \"is this objectively controlling and crazy\" I would say no.\n\nedit: I just figured I'd point out, *she* doesn't get to **tell** you what you have to be comfortable with, even if shes ok with you being nude around other people, that doesn't mean that you **have** to be ok with her being nude around other people. You're allowed to have different opinions about things.\n\nthe best way to approach it if shes saying its not a big deal to her is to just lay it out \"ok, I understand its not a big deal to you, but its a big deal *to me*, obviously I'm not convinced to your way of thinking, so do I matter enough to you, for you to stop doing it anyway, despite the fact that you don't think its a big deal.\" because thats really the question here if you can't both find a compromise. Most relationship disagreements boil down to that, can you compromise? if you can't is this something they're willing to change for you despite their different point of view? if they don't change for you is this something that you're willing to bite your tongue about and move past without stewing on it/waiting for it to boil over again later?","657"],["break up with him and don't go on the trip if he's going to go.\n\n It sucks that you're shooting down your friend trip for something thats nobody's fault, but its shitty to keep staying with him when you know you're done and want to break up.\n\nYou *could* go on the trip, and for the record ***you have absolutely every right to go if you want to*** I wan't that clear. \n\nhowever if you break up with him and go, then it will make it super awkward for everyone involved, plus theres always the chance that you or him will hook up with someone on the trip, and do you really want to put him through that right after dumping him, and do you really want to see that if you end up on the opposite end. The only other option is that *he* then decides to not go out of heartbreak and not wanting to be there during that stage.\n\nagain you have every right to go, and I wouldn't fault you if you went, however if you want to be kind, let him go and hopefully a little friend time helps heal his broken heart.","206"],["is this something that hes agreed to not do? If he refuses to stop following pornstars on reddit/twitter is that a dealbreaker for you?\n\nif this is something you can't agree on and its a deal breaker for you then dump him. If this is something you can get past and deal with then keep an eye on it to make sure its not excessive, but following a handful of pornstars on twitter I don't think is that crazy, the quantity that he follows, to me, is less important than the amount of time he spends looking at it. I have probably a couple hundred NSFW subs added on my reddit, but 99% of the time I have my app set to filter out NSFW posts and the amount of subs is only that high because I'm a daily redditor for the past 6yrs. So despite the large quantity of subs I only look at those subs *maybe* once every 3ish weeks. So if anyone thinks hes a sex/porn addict I think that very much so depends on how much time hes spending looking at it.\n\nconsidering you've pointed out it makes you uncomfortable, and hes sending/showing you posts of theirs, I think its pretty assholish behaviour. So the disrespect to me is deal breaker territory more than the porn.","518"],["its pretty human to feel a little jealous about it, but you should be keeping it to yourself and trying to squash that jealousy because you have no real right to feel that way.\n\nwhen children throw away a toy, sometimes they still don't want anyone to play with it. Thats what you're doing right now, its immature. \n\ndon't beat yourself up over it, but learn to get over it because really its none of your business who he dates or how soon now. Plus he's only talking to someone, even if they were fucking it would be fine, but talking to someone and getting friendly isn't anything you should be concerning yourself with.\n\nedit: also, for the record, a month isn't even that long to start getting back into dating. So no, this is super normal.","591"],["well if its public knowledge, like if you're subbed to him, you can see what hes subbed to. Then I wouldn't call it \"snooping\" its public knowledge. However if you're going onto his phone and logging into his account to see it then thats invasive and you should stop that. \n\nthats said, if its just something that annoys you but you think you can get over it, great. personally by the fact that you made this post, it sounds like its something thats going to eat at you and you'll always be wondering if hes looking at pornographic stuff in your presence. In which case it should be squashed, if its somewhere in between you get to play the compromise dance.\n\napproach it from the stance that you understand he's mostly doing it for the ridiculous stuff, but the amount makes you uncomfortable . Could he maybe create a seperate account for it that he only uses when he needs that type of stuff? would keeping it to a particular number of pornstars make it alright for you? is there a \"happy medium\" you two could maybe find together that would ease your mind about it and let you both feel like you've gotten a victory here?","518"],["really? and just keep dating and stringing along someone that she knows she wants to break up with, just to make it less awkward for herself?\n\npersonally I would consider that pretty selfish. Theres never a *good* time to break up with someone, and waiting like that just so that she can go on her trip without feeling awkward about it I don't think is right.","657"],["what did you *expect* from him after saying that?\n\nif my SO said that to me I would assume theres a *reason* shes bringing it up until she told me otherwise. I get quite a bit of anxiety sometimes as well, and sometimes theres no real \"source\" for it.\n\nbut even with me getting random anxiety, my *first* response would be to be asking, am I doing something to cause this that I need to stop? is there something I can do to help this and she wants me to do it? Then finally it would be, Does she just want me to acknowledge the anxiety so that I know?\n\nbut considering the coming nuptials, yes this would make me very worried if we were about to get married and out of nowhere my fiance said \"I'm anxious\" without giving me any clear indication as to ***why*** she was anxious.\n\nthat situation would make ***me*** anxious. I would start wondering if she was getting cold feet, is she not telling me something, is she hiding something etc. etc. etc.\n\nif theres no source you should be saying so \"I have no idea, I just feel like my heart is trying to rip out of my chest\"","52"],["just ask it as a question \"ok X so we're meeting at Y place for dinner right? ok and you said we're going to play some games afterwards? So how are we getting to **your** place afterwards?\"\n\nplay dumb and word it like a question that you either don't know where this place is that you're all going to play games, or that you thought it was her place since she never asked you.\n\nif she tries to do something like \"oh I thought it would be fine to go to your place afterwards\" its now simple to just say \"oh, sorry no I'm not really cool with that\" \n\nno excuses, no debates, just \"sorry, but no\"","432"],["ooof yeah you stepped in shit there. Thats not being honest, thats being immature. If you're only thinking of the superficial then she has every right to start doubting your relationship.\n\nA) if you're only worried about the physical attractiveness of your partner when you're thinking of the sexual attraction, you have some growing up to do, everyones body breaks down over time, if you can't adjust to that reality, I would doubt the long term viability of the relationship too.\n\nB) you took a major shot at her ego there, if your gf thought you had a small dick, would you appreciate the \"honesty\" of her telling you that? especially since its not really something you could change or avoid?\n\ndude..... you have some making up to do, and some self reflection, either that or you need to break it off and do some growing up before you start talking marriage and children with women.","657"],["> Did you not read the entire thing?\n\nif you're going to ask dumb questions in such an aggressive manner, don't be surprised when people act aggressively back towards you. I can read, I can also deal well with people and have an ounce of intuition as to how to deal with others. obviously you can't say the same.\n\nI also gave a reasoned and mature response to , instead of just crying \"fuckin women and their loaded questions!\" of which this most certainly is not. Its a valid body concern for plenty of women whether their partner will still be attracted to them afterwards.\n\nIts easy to call it a \"loaded question\" and claim \"oh if you say no she'll just say you're lying!\" well yeah, if all you say is \"yes of course\" and if you ***are*** lying then she'll be right to say so. but maturing enough to understand that bodies change and be sexually attracted to a person anyways takes a maturity you obviously don't have at your age.","971"],["I mean, the entire debate of lane splitting aside, thats not how proof works. If you make a claim, and they ask you to provide proof of said claim, you don't get to then say \"well prove me wrong\". nobody can prove a negative, and as well you don't get make claims and then because they don't have proof to the contrary call yourself right.","977"],["yeah I remember this, the shitty thing is, thats exactly what happened. This guy was douche all through this interaction, and was a douche afterwards flat out telling people that nothing was going to happen to him because hes rich and blah blah blah, and the court entirely let him off with a slap on the wrist and a finger wag of \"don't do that again\" just like he said and they completely dropped the charges against him. It was infuriating","98"],["> ***\"I mean, the entire debate of lane splitting aside,\"***\n\nif you're wanting to debate the merits of lane splitting, I don't care. you're commenting on the wrong person, I was never involved with the debate. I have no proof in either direction.\n\nI was commenting on the fact that you said\n\n/u/Goodspot \n\n > San Francisco medic here, splitting is for sure safer than sitting in rush hour traffic if done SMARTLY.\n\n\nto which /u/instenzHD wrote\n\n > No lane splitting is not safer and there is no data to back your claims up.\n\nand your response of\n\n/u/Goodspot \n\n > Provide data to prove me wrong.\n\nall I'm saying is, thats not how proof works, you don't get to make a claim and when someone asks for data or proof of that claim, then tell them they have to prove you wrong, otherwise that makes you right.\n\nwhether you actually ***are*** right or not, I don't really care, but if your definition of being right is making claims and if nobody can prove you wrong, that must make you right, is false and doesn't make any sense.","523"],["so the US court system relies on people showing up to say \"I didn't do it!\" ? no. the court(you) makes a claim \"You did this\" and the accused(/u/instenzHD) says \"Prove that I did\" and then the court(you) shows their proof.\n\none makes a claim, the other challenges and asks for proof, and the one that starts it backs that claim up with said proof.\n\n\nin this situation you made a claim, he challenged it, but when you should have provided proof, you said \"prove me wrong\"","12"],["Well considering I've had to repeat to you that \"I'm not talking about lane splitting\" multiple times, that I had to teach you how legal charges work in the US legal system (despite me not even being a US citizen, and *you* bringing it up), and the fact that you thought it was a valid line of argument to basically say, No you!, when asked for proof about his claims, coupled with your inability to just admit you are wrong about something, and resorting to smart ass comments and attempts to derail the conversation when you're backed into a corner about being wrong\n\nThen I'd say I've been acting a lot more intelligently, and making a lot more coherent responses than you have.","730"],["JC is fun, especially 3 as a sandbox \"blow everything up\" kind of game just like Mercs. \n\nbut it got repetitive pretty fast, by about 3/4 of the way through I was playing just so I could get some of the final weapons and upgrades.\n\nplus it gets *really* annoying how guys spawn anywhere you're not looking. You'll clear a rooftop and be having a blast blowing everything up and sniping guys then you get shot up by 3 guys that spawned directly behind you on top of an empty 6 story building. Or a helicopter that spawned directly behind you and fucked you up before you even realized you were being shot.","148"],["Yeah, at 31 from what I've gathered talking to those older than me and my peers that are the same age:\n\nat some point between 18-25 you stop mentally aging yourself anymore. If you talk to a 60yr old, chances are their mindset internally is pretty close to when they were in that age range. They still think, internally, that they're that age. Sure you get more experience with stuff, you still learn things, intellectually you know how old you are, but in your head you're not any older in your mental self image.\n\nI have a career, I own a house, I'm doing all the things that an adult does. but when asked I would still say I'm a \"guy\" not a \"man\" because I feel like I'm 20 still. \n\nI get moments of feeling like an adult, but thats it. Sometimes I'll be walking back to the garage to grab something, I'll step out of the house, look around, and realize \"this is mine\" o_O \"I have a career, a house, multiple cars, people that depend on me, I call my parents every week or two to just to check in, I'm fixing the furnace of my house on my weekend and doing chores without anyone even telling me to do it or being disappointed in me if I don't, I do what I want, when I want. holy shit do I feel like an actual adult in this moment, I finally made it\"\n\nthen the moment passes, I go back to the chores I'm taking care of before, and I end my night with a joint and watching the new episode of star trek or something while eating a bowl of archduke chocula cereal and playing video games until 2am feeling like I'm 20 again.....","881"],["he could have if he started braking when it turned yellow like he was supposed to. But as someone that has driven a loaded set just like it. He definitely decided when it was stale green \"fuck it, I'm going through, they'll stop for me\". Even fully loaded theres no light that you can't stop for if you're paying attention and the roads are clear. Its not exactly -20c and snowing, and that wasn't exactly the most loaded down set either, judging from the suspension ride height, I'd guess he was empty there. Especially since he's driving in the city so he shouldn't be going over 65.\n\nand the red car behind him *certainly* could have stopped.\n\ntrucks have longer stopping distances and times, but if a truck couldn't stop in the time it takes for a light to change, while driving city speeds, on a dry road, then it would have become a much bigger problem a long time ago before now.","523"],["Looks like they're just anodized aluminum (probably titanium actually for its natural antimicrobial qualities) . Anodizing is used as a durable coating to resist scratching and eliminate oxidation. Think of it like powder coating or painting. Except paint or powder coat can eventually flake off over time and wear off. But anodization, electrolyticaly oxidizes the surface of the material past what it can do in regular atmosphere. This means it's not just a layer on top, it's the metal itself has been changed.","304"],["there are plenty of multimeters out there with a dedicated audible continuity function, but plenty of the cheap ones that majority of people have don't.\n\nI worked at a couple different hardware stores for ~8yrs up until about 4yrs ago, and I had never seen a multimeter with audible continuity function until I started working in automotive and saw some of the nice FLUKE ones. I had seen light up or beeping continuity testers as a separate tool, but never combined until I saw some nice ones.\n\ngenerally if you are checking for continuity with a multimeter, you use the \"resistance\" function (ohms or Ω)","672"],["I'll start with: unplug everything first! Even in unplugged electronics you can get nasty shocks from charged capacitors. but safety first, unplug it, if possible leave it for a few hours before working on it or wait for as much to discharge as possible. If you don't know what it is or how it works, learn before poking at it, or don't touch it at all!\n\nso: generally if you are checking for continuity with a multimeter, (assuming one without audible continuity function, as most cheap ones do not have this) you use the \"resistance\" function (ohms or Ω).\n\nso if its a dial type, and you are expecting no resistance (as most fuses, wires, etc should be unless its something like a blower resistor in your car). but you will set it to its most sensitive setting which will generally be the *lowest* number. On most it is 200\n\non many this will also require you to plug your probes into the powered socket, and the black \"ground/resistance/continuity/COM\" socket.\n\nyou should be set up. your multimeter should say ***1*** when the probes are apart, and when touched together the numbers will start changing rapidly, but should be close to zero. I usually end up with something like .3 or .175.\n\n1= full resistance - aka nothing is getting through\n\n < 1 = continuity, *something* is getting through, however the higher the number the less is getting through. Its normal for even a good wire to have *some* resistance. However the lower the better.\n\nso if you touch your probes to each side of the fuse and see ***1*** on your multimeter, the fuse is blown and not allowing any electricity through it any more.","542"],["oh man, I was starting to think I was the only one who watched that show. I was so sad it was cancelled way back when. Me and my gf rewatched the whole series about 6 months ago. It probably doesn't hold up as well as I think it does, but nostalgia can give you some pretty rosy glasses.\n\nI always loved in that, his gigantic smile and merry demeanor pairs really well with being the devil.","60"],["Yes, in Canada our trade organization is much stricter. For example I'm a parts tech for a semi dealership. I had to go through 6 months of college schooling spread over a 3yr apprenticeship, working 1500hrs per year. I had to take 4 exams throughout, each in order to advance each year and one to pass the apprenticeship completely. If I decide I want to move provinces, I'll have to take another government test to show that my schooling is equivalent to the other provinces.\n\nThe text books I needed for my schooling are all paperback and fills 6 milk crates and in my basement.\n\nOur trade schooling is significantly more in depth than in America, we go much farther into theory. One of the techs I worked with described the difference as \"when I was a master tech in America, I knew all the important bits of an alternator, I knew how to select a replacement, all the different things to look for and how to diagnose one and what it meant. When I got my red seal in Canada, I could have designed you an alternator from the ground up, I knew both what it did and *how* it does what it does\"\n\nWith that said, I make about $47/hr as a parts tech (slightly above average). Last year I pulled in over 6 figures *after* taxes. For reference of buying power that gets you in Canada. I'm 31M with no other sources of income, I own a decent 4 bedroom house that I pay for by myself (no second income). I live a very comfortable life and would consider myself middle class on my wage alone.\n\nThe techs at my shop make $5/hr more than me, and the night shift makes $5/hr more than that.\n\nOh and trades school is *mandatory* for techs, you can't be a mechanic in Canada without going to school.","392"],["This is what I was told to do by my parents. It even saved me once from a shitty landlord. She got really angry when I crossed it out, said I would have to sign a new contract. I told her \"no I've done this on every other contract I've signed, and even ones lawyers have gone over have never mentioned it as a problem, it should be fine\" she got even angrier and really pissy about it. I got bad vibes and decided if she was going to get this pissy about something small, I didn't want to live with her as my landlord anyway and told her I would come back some other time to sign a different copy, and then just ghosted her.\n\n3 weeks later, I still hadn't found a place and needed to move by end of the month, so I called her up and decided to take the place. I was waiting for her to arrive and someone was moving out. It was mid-month and I made comment along the lines of \"smart, moving out before the end of the month, I always hate scrambling to do a move in one day right at the end.\"\n\nThe guy scoffed, and the woman with him helping him move (probably his SO) explained that the woman that rents the place is a real estate agent, and put shitty clauses in the rental agreement after you've signed it. she pulled out a photocopy of their agreement, and a copy of the one she had provided in order to kick them out. and told me they had given copies to everyone in the complex to warn them what she does. I honestly can't remember what it said exactly, stuff about maintenance requirements of tenants of the building, extra charges for usage of the communal garbage bin stuff like that. They said she was wanting a bunch of extra money from them and had been threatening to evict them, so they were leaving.\n\nit was all in the space that was left blank. I noped out and just left before she ever even got there. She called me a few minutes later and I just ignored the call and blocked her number.","790"],["to your edits:\n\nI am hyped for Dune, but I'm trying my best at keeping my expectations low. The book is one of my favourites so its difficult, but i'm trying my best to not pay attention to whats going on and forget it exists.\n\nas for Bond, WW84, and Black Widow. Even as a movie lover and a superhero movie lover.....meh.\n\nI grew up on Bond, I've never been a big fan of. Sure they're excellent spy movies. and even though I've never read the books, I hear its much closer to the book style Bond. However to me growing up watching Goldfinger and Thunderball. Thats the I'm interested in, so has never been great for me. and I've found them progressively more boring as time goes on.\n\nWonder Woman: I'm just not excited for it at all. The entire DC universe is kind of a write off to me. I just don't care. I've never thought of wonder woman as an especially interesting character even if I respect the significance of the character. But after watching trailers, I'm not going to be paying to see it.\n\nBlack Widow: I wasn't excited for, until I saw a couple trailers and it looks pretty interesting. I'm interested in hearing more about Black Widow's story, and its the first real advancement of the marvel universe story since endgame and I'm really curious as to where they're going to go from here. The only current characters I think I care about really are , and . Everyone else is either on their last movie, or I'm not interested.\n\nOther than that, not much on the docket that I'm interested in. Although the scarcity has gotten me watching a lot of movies I wouldn't normally watch. As well theres been a lot of good TV floating around lately doing the weekly episode drops so I still have something to watch every week. Discovery, Mandalorian, The Boys etc.","934"],["I'm from Canada in a province where theres been some major min-wage increases in the past 10ish years.\n\nfrom my experience if you're above the min wage mark, your increases will be minimal if at all. If the US is like CAN, then they aren't required to raise your wage unless its to bring above min-wage.\n\nif you're above min-wage already there really isn't any direct benefit to you personally by raising it. but there isn't really a detriment either. Someone elses gain, doesn't mean your loss.\n\nour min wage went from $7.50-$14/hr over the past years. No the cost of a burger didn't shoot up in price, and the cost of a gallon of milk didn't rise by any more than the rate it was already rising. those are boogeyman talking points from the conservative side. The cost of things is set by the market (the consumer) not by the cost of the business. As long as its a positive net income, prices won't rise unless people become able and willing to pay more for something.\n\nwhen I worked retail making 13.50 and they went from 8.50-10. There was no change to my daily life. The people who were making 8.50 had a decent change, but nobody was suddenly laid off. Our staff numbers didn't shrink. Basically nothing happened, except the people making min-wage were now a little better able to afford groceries and rent.","466"],["the whole post just reads like someone who has never been allowed to fail at anything their entire life. I'd bet mommy and daddy probably gave this guy quite the head start in life, and any time it looked like he might stumble there were always people to bail him out before anything truly went sideways.","459"],["lol, if you're working 2 jobs, 70hrs a week total, you've got $6 in your account, and you can't make rent and food at the same time, how the fuck do expect someone to up and start a landscaping company you dolt?\n\nall these people aren't in this situation because they bought a second car and got a school loan.\n\nthey're in that situation because their parents were too poor to take care of them, so they kicked them out at 16, so they couldn't finish highschool, They've been working min-wage since then and can't get out because they have no money or free time.\n\nIf you think its so easy to just create and sell music, or cartoons that you can just make a living off it just because you want to then tell that to all the starving artists. because not everyone can make a living off those things even if they've had the time to devote years of practice to it, to become truly good at it.\n\nif you start behind the 8-ball, its pretty difficult to get in front of it when you've never had the time or money to play pool before.","941"],["depends on how strong your stomach is.\n\n*disturbing warning* TLDR: > !a nuclear incident involving the irradiation of hundreds of workers, one of whom, , they attempted to keep alive after a *massive* dose of radiation. It was half way between medical treatment and horrible experimentation. He basically spent 3 months in the hospital under constant skin grafts, organ failures, transfusions etc. etc. basically constant medial procedures as his body basically melted on the table. The pictures are disturbing. his muscles and skin were melting off the bones while they kept him alive with numerous resuscitations over the ~85 days of hospitalization. From what I understand he was basically begging for them to just let him die.! <","421"],["well certainly with a statement being so confidently correct you have a lot of proof to back up such a statement right? May we see it? \n\nor is this going to be another one of those \"I'm going to drop this comment with a wild claim that goes against everything the news is telling me, but when asked why I believe it, I'm just going to ghost\" type of moments?\n\nbecause I get the feeling we're more likely to get a snarky comment calling all the libs dumb instead of any proof. At best maybe a single posting, but then when someone pokes a hole in it, or points out it proves nothing and why, you'll stick your head in the sand, pretend it didn't just happen and then just go make a wild claim somewhere else and start this all over again.","977"],["Taxes are not a \"buy what you want\" system, they're a buffet. You dont get to say \"I'm not paying full price because I only eat salad\".\n\nTheres always *someone* out there that doesn't think somethings important. You can't say \"well I'm not paying taxes because I don't want to pay for education when I have no kids in school\" because theres someone out there saying \"I don't own a car, why should I pay taxes for roads when I don't use them\" and you sure as shit expect that person to pay for the roads you use. Thats pretty much the entire idea of taxes, you may not use everything that they pay for personally, but society as a whole is made better by having those things, and you benefit from the society you live in being better.","322"],["for $100 CAD and an afternoon of poking about I now have my entire home running through a pfsense router, Pi hole added so nothing and nobody thats connected in my house gets ads on anything, and I set up a local VPN so all my personal devices route back through my house and everything is like I'm connected at home, so I have full access to my NAS, server VM's etc. as if I were local, and no ads wherever I go, as even my cellphone routes back through my house wherever I am.\n\nsimple to set up and maintain, Worth every penny. the internal VPN might be a little difficult to set up for some, but PiHole is pretty simple, and PFsense is drop dead easy to set up.","963"],["Wasn't sure what it was in Richmond, I know in Nanaimo back in the time tunnel ~10yrs ago when we had to call one it was $160 but I think there was a factor of distance involved. \n\nI just ballparked $200 because I figured the ambulance would be less, plus maybe a few extra costs here and there as not *everything* is free when you go to a hospital. Some things will still have small non-covered charges.\n\nI figured, carted in, to walking out, 3 days, $200 was probably a decent dart to throw.","610"],["so, I just came here from /r/all, I have no idea whats going on, but I've seen the funhaus sub show up on the front page a bunch of times over the past 6ish months.\n\nIf I have no idea what funhaus is, or whats going on, but I'm just interested in the gossip and wondering whats going on, could someone give me the cliff notes so I can share in whatever is going on?\n\nedit: apparently no, asking whats going on isn't ok. I guess you all aren't fans of new comers.","434"],["I live in Canada, and grew up as our green party has been gaining momentum in a few places. This is almost exactly what happened here, and from reading the comments here, you're exactly where we were 5ish years ago.\n\ngreen party was made fun of, and the general consensus was that they were a bunch of delusional tree huggers that would piss away all their money and get nothing done (to be fair, if you go back 10yrs, they kind of were, they didn't start with a well thought out plan of action, more just some wishy-washy ideals without a way to get it done properly), but over time they gained legitimacy, they started to put forth better thought out plans. In 2011 they finally gained a seat, they held it in 2015, and have done a decent job. This year their message was even better thought out, their candidates are level headed and smart, and now that they've gained some legitimacy they're now up to 3 seats and have been doing a good job so far.\n\nkeep pushing, it takes awhile for a new party to gain momentum against the old ideas, but some new blood can do great things.","578"],["a hermaphroditic species contains the organs for both sexes. So they contain both a sperm and an egg. In some species that will mean when they do the deed, both are impregnated by each other (both have young), in some one will fertilize the other (one will have young, which one depends on species and situation)\n\nsome worms are actually even A-sexual, in which case there is no sex, in the most basic of terms, one day it will start to consume more material, and its cells will start reproducing more and more, until it grows another of itself like a tumor. one day it'll will simply split apart and now you have two separate organisms.","262"],["I'm not a pilot, but a diver. Your ears get used to it the more you do it. If I haven't gone diving in over a year they might give me a bit of issue. but in general like any muscle the more it gets stretched/used, the more flexible it becomes. I (and many divers) can actually equalize my ears without having to even plug my nose now. it took a bit of trying and coaching when I was learning to use a full face mask where you can't plug your nose.","658"],["as much as I love my tort I would advise against getting one until your mid twenties. \n\nTorts require lots of space and when you're looking for a cheap first apartment, you'll be signing up for paying for a 2 bedroom as the tort will take up basically a room unto itself. That's too expensive for most people until they have a career position somewhere.\n\nWant to go for a weekend trip with your friends? Too bad, tort requires daily care, so unless you've got a roommate that isn't coming, you'll have to find someone willing to come by your house to change water, feed, bath etc. Every day.\n\nThe money for food, lighting etc. Is no problem now, what about in 4yrs when you are moved out and paying for your own bills?\n\nWant to go to college and stay in a dorm? Too bad, no pets, and not enough space.\n\nI could go on, but you get the gist, you're good on a tort now, but you'll be basically signing your parents up to keep and take care of it starting in 3-4yrs and for probably 6ish years after that.\n\nTorts also aren't pets to handle, they don't like being picked up and theyike to be left to their own devices. Mine likes a little petting on the head and neck, but \"likes to be handled\" would be a far stretch. They're more \"observe\" pets, than \"play with\" pets.","173"],["its all cosmetic, but you would be surprised how big the bill can be after a crash like this. Even when they have one of the big HERD/protection bumpers on them. the entire hood, fenders, fairings, etc. is all fiberglass. so even small impacts can cause it to shatter to pieces. \n\nThe hood *alone* (no brackets, hood pivots, lights, springs, hood struts, latches etc.) is ~$10k add in all the extras required that can't be transferred and you're looking at ~$14k . Thats just in parts before you pay the $170/hr labor rate to have someone install it.\n\na crash like this isn't going to twist the frame or anything, but no bill when it comes to semi trucks is a small bill. When your someone says \"any bill less than $1k for your car is a good one\" semi truck drivers think any bill less than $10k is a good one.\n\n(I work at a semi truck bodyshop)","352"],["too many people act like the only speed they have to pay attention to is the speed limit. My gf was like this when I met her \"as long as I'm not going over the speed limit I can drive whatever speed I want\" but shes also one of those people that when the light turns green it can take her a couple seconds to realize and start going. She never uses her phone in the car, even at red lights, she just isn't paying attention to the light until the car next to her starts moving.\n\nneedless to say I drive everywhere in our relationship, she doesn't get behind a wheel unless she has a gun to head.","523"],["I definitely didn't know, there were no roundabouts in my city, and they weren't a part of my testing/training back when I got my license.\n\nthat said its pretty easy to figure out, if you're exiting immediately, be in the right lane. This is like when you're in a double left hand turn lane, and the guy in the left most lane cuts you off because he needs to go into the parking lot on the right ***immediately*** after the turn. \"then why weren't you in the right hand turn lane motherfucker!?\".","523"],["I agree the slogan is dumb, but the movement to defund the police doesn't mean there would be no police. It means putting less money into police and equipment that escalates situations and splitting up responses into more facets that are targeted at the calls that police are having to deal with now that they have no training for, or just simply don't require a guy with a gun and police training to do it.\n\nthat way the cop with a gun that you need to deal with your home invasion isn't tied up dealing with a screaming homeless man on the corner by the 7/11. And the kid thats threatening to jump doesn't have armed gunmen showing up saying \"don't try and jump or we'll shoot you\" and instead has a negotiator trained in suicidal situations. \n\nand when that 7/11 worker hits the alarm because he's being robbed, the cops with guns can show up instead of sitting on their thumb for 45min while writing up a report about a neighbor that keeps throwing their dog shit over the fence.\n\nIt means you're ***more*** likely to get a response from emergency service that are tailored to your situation.","582"],["we do charge about $10 more per hour than most other shops in town. But thats because we're the only shop in town with full size paint/drying booths. We have 3 booths each can fit 2 hoods apiece. As well as 2 full size paint/dry booths that you can paint a tri-drive truck in (you could fit 2 tandems in each, but we would never put 2 trucks in at the same time). As well as 2 small item drying booths (same size as our hood booths, but only used for drying things like fenders and small items) and a large paint room for the small items. We also have a 12 bay assembly shop on the bodyshop side, and a 15 bay PDI shop to assemble our new trucks, and thats not counting the 6 LPG bays (although rarely used for LPG these days, its now the overflow from our main service shop down the road, its a 30 bay service center, and 8 bay engine overhaul shop). We're also the only shop in town that does LPG, and we're the only place in town with a tri-drive dyno.\n\nSo we get away with charging a little extra because we offer so many extra services.","610"],["a lot of people not used to trucks downvoting this.\n\ntheres a reason so many truck drivers have labels that say things like \"no pussy foot'n\" or \"no step\" on their fender, and this is ***exactly*** why. Because someone comes along thinking \"how do I reach the windshield\" and climbs onto the ***fiberglass*** fender and cracks it. Truck fenders are not load bearing parts, theres no metal framing inside there, its just fiberglass. If you're lucky theres a hard plastic rock guard inside. Hes even using the mirror mount as a hand hold, those are held in with 5/16 stainless bolts, threaded into shitty rivnuts in the aluminum cab corner, they'll rip right through that sheet metal.\n\nOpen the hood, stand on the tire, climb on the steering box, use the hood guide, hell stand on the engine if you want the valve cover will take it. just not the fender, it'll crack, or just even look at the slope of it, you'll slip and fall off and your claims adjuster will laugh at you when you try and get paid leave for it.","803"],["I didn't even realize it was a kid, I was already wondering what the fuck is wrong with this guy. First hit, ok I can write that off, accidents happen when somebody does something stupid, but this guy was an asshole. He obviously wanted to go flying down the hill as fast as he could, I can understand the frustration, its like getting stuck behind someone on a highway going 20 under the limit, but this was so excessive and deliberate, guy should be ashamed not grinning like a fucking lunatic.","449"],["we sell these at my truck shop and I hate them. They wont do any damage as they're just pop on plastic. (I recognize the brand, those are the TRUX kits #TNUT-C4). But even if they aren't dangerous I personally think they look trashy. They're just so, try hard/\"I'm a bad ass\". Especially on an aero truck like this. At least on a murdered out 367/T800 They'll match the vehicle style. \n\nbut at the end of the day, whatever makes the owner happy, I don't get to be the judge of his taste. Everyone gets their own.","493"],["Yes sir, pretty generous access to OT if you want it too, and if you take the night shift (4pm-12:30am) you get an extra $5/hr. I'm actually a journeyman partsman not a mechanic (hence why I know the price for the parts better than the labour hours for install). but even at the counter I make $47/hr. Last year my take home (after taxes, but with OT hours and bonuses/boot and tool etc.) was $98k. Not bad for only 2 months in college (course is 6 months, but I challenged my first and third year tests). You start at $27/hr, but every time you pass your 1st/2nd/3rd year tests you get a raise.\n\nmechanics have to work a lot harder for their dollar, and they have less access to OT, the job is harder on their body, and they have a 4yr course instead of a 3yr, but their job opportunities are more plentiful, they make an extra $3/hr, and their wage is protected by law (they're ***required*** to be paid at or above $39/hr, partsman wage is whatever the place decides the pay rate to be, as long as all the partsmen are paid the same its legal) As well they don't have to deal with customers generally.","392"],["that wasn't list price, thats just cash sale customer cost. List price is always something completely out to lunch. for example list price on that hood I was talking about is $14k list instead of $10k, but theres no way for me to even charge the customer that if I wanted to. My system wouldn't even let me unless I manually entered the price.\n\nour warranty certainly pays us out for our full customer sale price though. The only one that doesn't is Cummins, who only gives us 15% mark-up on parts.\n\nLabour is where we get fucked most of the time, companies often only give us like 30min to do a 1.5hr job. But it varies, bendix is usually alright, but scotseal never gives us anywhere near enough, cummins usually gives us more than we need, horton varies, fifth wheels they usually give us more, but fan clutches they never give enough. Its a bit of a crap shoot, but it can be seriously hard to make time on most warranty jobs.","565"],["I mean, I will say, small/local business owners are some of the worst to work for in a general sense, they micromanage when they shouldn't, they're penny pinchers especially when it comes to labour costs, and they're the most likely to break labour laws and try and force/talk employees into situations that they shouldn't be in.\n\nwith that said I understand why, when you're local you're running a business on razor thin margins, labour costs are some of the highest costs and a lot of people don't think about the fact that a $1/hr raise is costing their owner a few grande a year, that business is your baby and you *know* that 17yr old doesn't give a *shit* so of course you watch him like a hawk, you don't have the capital to absorb the costs that might be associated with a slow year or an accident of any kind really (a single workplace accident can *easily* sink a business), and plus larger corporations and franchises don't have to worry about things like advertising costs to bring in business.\n\nplus what pretty much ***everyone*** seems to forget about the ***RISK*** everyone likes to think about all the profits that an owner rakes in once the business is up and running, but if it was so easy everyone would do it. Nobody likes to talk about the fact that at *some* point this local business owner ponied up 10's of thousands of dollars worth of their own money/borrowed money that they'll owe the bank and gambled it all to try and *make* these profits. I have no love for corporations, but a local business is something that can easily fail and leave the prospective owner broke, bankrupt, and in the shit for the rest of their lives. So yeah, (s)he makes more money than their average employee, but complain when you've got $500k and you're willing to gamble it all on starting up a brick and mortar shop.","231"],["well then I would say this is a problem for your gf who needs to stand up and either stop telling her roommate that shes leaving at all, just leave. Or she needs to step up and say \"sorry we're looking for it to be just us\". Its your gf's roommate, its your gf letting her come along, its your gf's problem to sort out. Theres unfortunately not much ***you*** can do.","698"],["I'll say the same thing I always say when this comes up. Breaks don't work, a break is just a break up with a space in between.\n\nshe wants to get with another guy, its the only reason to ***ever*** suggest a break. If she just wanted time and space, you can do that without being on a break. Adults can just spend some time apart, the only reason to have a break is for the moral absolvement that comes with it when you sleep with someone else.\n\nthink about it logically, to suggest a break it means acknowledging that your SO might sleep with someone else. The only time you would be cool with that is if either you think so lowly of your SO that they either can't or wont sleep with anyone else themselves, or you want to sleep with someone so badly that you've got blinders on and don't *care* if your SO sleeps with someone else.\n\nshes not even wanting to give you the option to sleep with someone else, but she wants to have that option? why? I'm hoping this is just a troll post because the alternative is just sad.","657"],["well then I stand by what I said, you sound unhealthily infatuated with this girl and shes using it to walk all over you. a \"break\" thats just for her, is just an excuse for her to take a run at another guy while you wait in the wings.\n\nI suggest just broaching the subject of \"how about we just spend a week or two (or however long shes said she requires) of no contact for you to sort your stuff out, but without calling it a \"break\" or breaking up, we stay faithful to each other but just spend a little time apart\"\n\nshe'll either agree to it and you'll *forever* wonder if she slept with someone else anyways, or she'll dig her heels in about being able to \"act single\" and you'll know her true motivation ***is*** in fact to sleep with someone else.\n\nedit: but for the record my advice is to just break up with her, she's obviously infatuated with someone else, and by the time it gets to the point that shes asking for a break its already too late.","657"],["> Dude, don't make his medical condition about you:\n\nThat was my first thought too. As far as I know Viagra doesn't alter your mental state, it just physically gives you an erection. That means he's probably been having some problems down there so his ego is already bruised. Nothing is worse than having a problem that you've been internalizing for a long period of time, having it be involuntarily revealed, and then having the person you want to find out the least freak out and make it all about them so when you're having one of the worst times of your life, instead of *getting* support you're forced to *give* support to keep them happy.","524"],["well as far as I know, at east here in Canada, its actually *illegal* for him to work like this without a contract. It would be equivalent to working \"under the table\". with no contract hes not technically employed there, so entering a job site like that voids their insurance, means he can't pay taxes on the money hes earned, and leaves him at risk of not getting paid.","679"],["thats a dangerous way of thinking though, don't assume that just because the damage has disappeared from one place that it can't be present in other ways or be doing damage in ways that you can't easily see on the surface. A release of free radicals in your lungs won't necessarily show in the lungs directly, your circulatory system can bring those types of things all over the place.\n\nI'm not saying that vaping is necessarily bad, but I agree that long term studies are required to truly find out. Vaping has only really taken hold in the past 5+ish years. The entire debate of whether vaping is bad for your health is all conjecture at this point and is going to take 20yr long studies to really know.\n\nOn the surface I entirely agree that its healthier than cigarettes, I think thats relatively obvious though.","568"],["its the reason I was a little annoyed that they continued the \"fat thor\" thing through the whole movie. I was hoping we'd have a moment where all the sudden lighting would strike and he'd magically go back to normal.\n\nI felt the whole fat thor bit undercut the badassery of for the whole movie, even such a pivotal moment for the three of them going into whats supposed to be the biggest fight of their lives so far and theres looking like a fat chode in a moment where they're supposed to be menacing and looking like the gods that they are.","43"],["when I was younger, my dad moved to a different city for work, and my mom worked full time so we got a cleaner that would show up once a week on mondays.\n\nI was always so excited on pro-d days (days off for teachers to get things organized in school) to have the day off....until I got home and realized the cleaner was there, who didn't understand english but always wanted to talk to me and as often as not brought her 6yr old son over to watch tv while she worked. So I would get home, I couldn't watch tv because of the son, I couldn't play games because of the vacuum and I couldn't just sit around and read or anything because she was always trying to talk to me in her broken english and even if I tried to talk with her she never understood a word that I was saying so it was just frustrating.","713"],["sorry but YTB\n\nif its in the rules that you aren't allowed to sleep in the same dorm, you can't very well then be surprised when you miss out on promotional opportunities and your superiors now think less of you because of it.\n\nat a job, ***any*** job, if you start fraternizing while at work, even at places where its ***not*** against the rules (and here it was) the people above you will not take kindly to it because its unprofessional to mix business and personal.\n\nhere, yes the director didn't say anything, but you can't confuse turning a blind eye with acceptance/approval. Just because they're tolerating it, doesn't mean they're happy about it. It was apparently a situation of \"as long as nobody says anything I guess we'll let it slide\" but someone *did* say something, and you got bit by it. You *tolerate* a screaming baby on a plane because you understand they're human, but that doesn't mean you're happy about it.","402"],["I'm going to go with \n\nyou: because of your reasons, they may sound morally high, but as for A) whether shes a rebound or serious isn't for you to decide, as for B) you're not her protector, nor should you be judging your friend before hes actually done anything assholish. If you want her for yourself, be open about that fact. go to your friend and tell him you're still into her and its going to hurt you if he continues to pursue her.\n\nher: because if shes even considering dating your friend without either talking to you herself to clear it (if you two are still on good terms) or making sure your friend talked to you first to not split up/fuck up a friendship\n\nyour friend: because who TF thinks its a good idea to madly pursue their friends ex gf without speaking to them first.\n\nthe problems I see here is A) neither of you seem to be putting a whole lot of stock in what *she* may want, and if she even wants to date either you or your friend. B) even though \"dibs\" isn't a thing, pursuing a partner that you *know* a friend is interested in is shitty and C) pursuing the friend of an ex without telling one of them that its never going to happen or getting one of them to say they're ok with it is shitty behavior.\n\nits your friends decision if he want to ruin your friendship by pursuing this girl, its this girls choice who she wants to date not either of yours. and its your choice if you want to continue to pursue a relationship that failed once already to the possible detriment of a friendship.","657"],["seconded, I subbed to her snap a couple days ago...cuz y'know I'm a filthy animal, in the past 48hrs I've seen 6 guys rail her, all of them raw dog, and every one of them blew in her at least once (3-4 of them even went down on her....not sure if they knew they were licking some rando's spunk since she definitely didn't shower/bath in between)\n\nat first I thought she was just an escort using reddit to advertise, then I realized these guys aren't paying her unless you count her begging for uber eats to be ordered for her. pretty sure one guy just bought her mcdonalds.\n\ndon't get me wrong, I'm pretty sex positive, and obviously I find it hot (I'm still subbed to her snap) but this definitely surpasses regular sex stuff and noticeably has turned the corner into kinda dangerous. Shes obviously got a proper mental problem like nymphomania or shes a \"bug chaser\" or something. Honestly I'm pretty surprised, I don't get how you could watch her snap for more than a day or two and not bag it.","1017"],["Ummm am I the only one here that realizes this is clearly outside and not in the bay? This clearly out front/under the front overhang/\"carport\" area that's covered for dropping off and picking up cars.\n\nYou can see the glass to the right of the \"storefront\" of the dealership, theres no bay door, no lifts, no shop carts or tool boxes, oil stains etc. This is definitely outside.","449"],["Its obviously a case by case basis, but I totally agree with you, myself and most guys that I've talked to don't really care too much. It looks great in pictures, but in practice it just makes me worried I'm going to rip her expensive underwear. Plus they're usually harder to remove, and all the lace and fancy sewing makes it uncomfortable under the hand. I'll take a set of unmatching cotton any day of the week.\n\nnow if she wants to wear it because it makes ***her*** feel sexy, and therefore more confident, and usually therefore more sexually aggressive, I'm all for that. a comfortable girl is a confident girl, a confident girl is a happy girl, and a happy+confident girl is almost always better in bed","506"],["I mean, is he being a little difficult about the whole thing, yeah, definitely.\n\nat the same time, I don't think theres anything wrong with expecting you to pay your own way at restaurants and the like. Expecting your SO to pay for their own stuff isn't selfish like some people here are stating, theres nothing wrong with wanting a SO thats self sufficient and not a dependent, thats just equality. \n\nThrowing a tantrum over a smoothie doesn't bode well though, but I would say its on par with having a SO that thinks so low of me that she says where I work is just \"easy money\", Someone that thinks my families money is my money, and a SO that watches how and where I spend ***my*** money as closely as you seem to.\n\nI would say you ***both*** need to stop worrying about money as much as you are, he definitely needs to lighten up a bit about the small stuff, and you could stop expecting him to pay for dates because if you think he should pay for you, then you need to be ready to pay for him in equal measure.","312"],["yeah wow, ITT: Equality! (oh, except for if she thinks his family is rich, then he should be buying you more shit!)\n\nlike, seriously, his family money, isn't *his* money, no matter what kind of money they have and even if it ***was*** his money, that doesn't make him obligated to spend any more of it on her than any other SO would. I would also think it strange if my SO started asking me to buy her things in such a way, I wouldn't throw a tantrum about it, but if I knew they could pay their own way with it was just choosing not to and instead ask me to buy it for them that would be a red flag for me.\n\nand anyways, with the amount that shes analyzing how much he spends on himself in such detail, and how much he might have available to him, and the fact that she thinks that either of those factors mean anything when it comes to how much he should be spending on her, I have a feeling that theres a lot more to this than what has written. I get the feeling it was less of a \"fit\" and more of a couple questions as to why he should pay for it just because she doesn't want to use her CC on small purchases fo some reason. This reads like a guy that either has had gold digging GF's in the past, or is getting the feeling that is a digger and is trying to protect himself against it.","312"],["sounds like is trying to bang her and shes not into it, but also sounds like shes too naive about it, and she thinks she can turn this into a friendship type relationship when really if hes trying to get her into bed, telling her about his boners, getting her to sit on his lap etc. it is *not* going to turn into a friendship. This guy is never going to stop trying to get in her pants.\n\nhes not *too shy* thats just a BS excuse to separate you and the gf, and not even a **good** excuse\n\nSounds like your gf is faithful, but I wouldn't be comfortable with it either.","657"],["I'm not sure what that has to do with anything that I said. Sure it *could* be a possibility, but if we're going with unfounded assumptions, he *could* also have prostate cancer, he *could* be gay, he *could* just have a lower libido.\n\nits ***much*** safer to assume that he was just home from work, tired, stressed, unshowered and just plain feeling unsexy and therefore not really into the idea of having sex at the time based off of what information OP has provided.","524"],["> the 30k car I bought for myself but that she drives. She made me take the bus for 5 months until I was gifted a car that I fixed up to get running on the road\n\nwhy? why would you let that happen, and I mean it when I say \"let it\" you allowed this, its your car, in your name, you had the keys. Why did you give them to her, and why did you let her keep them?\n\nYes it does sound like shes a gold digger, but it also sounds like she found a pretty decent mark since you don't have a backbone and won't stand up for yourself.","257"],["It Is your body and your choice. You can wear whatever you want. He hasn't *demanded* that you not wear these things, he hasn't *forbidden* you, he's let you know what his preferences are and what is going to make him uncomfortable.\n\nYou can wear something that makes him uncomfortable if you want, just know that it *will* make him uncomfortable. This isn't a question with a cut and dry answer. if there had been demands then it would be more clear cut, but if all he's doing is letting you know where his boundary is, and whats going to make him uncomfortable then thats all he can do.\n\nthis is one of those \"free speech\" types of things. \"free speech\" allows you to say whatever you want, nobody is going to censor you. but it doesn't negate the *consequences* of those actions. You can still be tried for hate speech and slander despite \"free speech\".\n\nthis is the same thing, you have \"free speech\" over what you wear, but now you know where his boundary is and if you cross it you may find yourself without a boyfriend because of it. and him leaving you for crossing that boundary is just as ok as you wearing whatever you want.","442"],["Last I heard average stars, Males avg$200-$500 per shoot, females about $2000-$3000, the big stars/household name level fandom, M avg $1000-$2000 I've heard of few niche guys like making $3k per if theyre known reliable actors with fetish draws like BBC and such, F avg $5000-$8000 per shoot\n\nThat's not counting any back end deals, promotional contracts, conventions, merch (like pocket pussies or dildos molded etc)\n\nThat info is a couple years old though, pre cam craze which from what I've heard has lowered wages and upped competition in the industry","610"],["I do not think you're wrong at all, I would be expecting an apology after the way he acted. Don't fuck with my stuff if you're not going to be careful with it, especially my *really expensive* stuff. Don't goad me into being angry, then get surprised when I do in fact get angry afterwards. Don't make a scene in front of friends and then act surprised when I hold you accountable after you sober up.\n\nbeing drunk and \"having fun\" isn't a get out of jail free card for your actions when they affect those around you.","145"],["Theres a lot of hangout situations that get posted on this sub where I think guys are being over protective or overreacting and shooting themselves in the foot by freaking out over it.\n\nthis isn't one of those situations, hanging out with an ex, in a bathing suit, secluded on a boat, drinking, right after he wants to tout about him getting his life together and such, completely alone, after he noticeably and pointedly didn't invite me.\n\nthis would be a deal breaking hangout for me, I would never tell my gf what she can and can't do, but this would make me so uncomfortable theres no way I would tell her I'm ok with it. This would be a hard \"go if you want, but I wont be waiting for you when you get back\"\n\nat best I would basically say, \"tell him I'm coming along\" theres really no reason why you *shouldn't* be allowed to come on such an obviously uncomfortable circumstance. At least then you're there yourself to judge whether he respects your relationship or not.\n\nI also can't imagine your girlfriend ***not*** understanding how this makes you uncomfortable, and pressing for a \"but we're old friends and I want to catch up alone\" if shes so naive or so disrespectful of your feelings to tell you, you can't come. Then I can only think of one reason why she would gamble and disrespect your feelings in such an obviously leading circumstance.","591"],["I posted this in the last thread of this video and got downvoted with nobody saying anything, but I'm saying it again.\n\nIn event security you're told to pull the barrier if an overwhelming push is coming that you know it and you won't stand for. \n\nIn a multi-thousand person push/march, leaving the barrier is how people die at events. A standing one people can get crushed against, and a fallen one becomes a tripping hazard, and tripping leads to getting trampled by the crowd.\n\nI'm not saying it absolves everything, theres still some questions that need to be answered, I'm just saying the quick removal of the barrier isn't one of the questions that needs answering.","955"],["My basement home theater room gets so little light that the buttons on my remote don't even glow. I have a hard time believing my remote will be getting enough light to function properly.\n\nbut I guess if all I have to do is bring my remote upstairs for an hour once a week or something means no more batteries I'll live with the inconvenience. but in my eyes its hardly where resources should be spent considering I don't think I've had to change a remotes batteries since 2001. They're pretty energy efficient these days and don't exactly go through batteries every 6months like when I was a kid.","333"],["If a woman isnt willing to be the big spoon every once in awhile, then me and her aren't going to work out.\n\nits ok to be a man and want affection. It took me until probably 18-20 to realize it, but just because you're a man, doesn't mean you don't want to be oogled, cuddled, snuggled, and sometimes even taken care of or pitied.\n\nthese are normal feelings for people, just because you're a guy and its not the most societally accepted role for you, doesn't mean you don't have them.\n\nif you're like me, and you happen to usually be ok with the typical roles *most* of the time, but you just have your moments when you need a little affection in a reversed role, you just need to be willing to ask for it. Or spend enough time in a relationship with someone that they can tell when you need it (and they way they learn that, is by you asking).\n\njust don't be afraid to come home, sit next to your gf/SO and lay down and plop your head in her lap and say \"I had a shit day\". You'd be surprised how many women are entirely cool with that.\n\nMost ***real*** women, don't expect you to be the big, strong, stoic, man all the time. And in that position they'll treat you the way they like to be treated too. Because, again, all people feel this way sometimes.","971"],["agreed, I hate having majority of the links that seem to make top page on reddit are nothingburgers that nobody should care about.\n\nI'm not saying the democratic reps, shouldn't be calling for the resignation, they absolutely should be. I'm just saying, nobody needs to be reading a reddit post about it, a news story doesn't need to be written about it.\n\nNothing will come of this because \"calling for\" this, that, or the other thing means zero to the other side. So why do I care to hear about it?\n\nits like saying \"Democratic reps showed up for work today\"","945"],["I bought mine for $5k 4yrs ago '00 limited. Polished it, little bit of plastic restoration and kept the interior clean.\n\nEven with a couple of repaired rust spots and the usual wear and tear things like a torn driver's seat, flaked hood paint etc. I still had a guy offer me $10k for it a couple weeks ago.","352"],["My old manager when we had complaints would say:\n\n\"ok, so cry me a river, build me a bridge, and jump the fuck off of it, what do you want me to do about it?\"\n\nI fucking hated that guy. and if you're reading this, now you're a bartender that just lost his job because of being lazy, and now I'm the parts manager of the third largest dealership on the continent. Maybe if you took some fucking responsibility you wouldn't have gotten fired from your fucking father in laws fucking store! Fuck you !","428"],["This is what I'm expecting.\n\nI think they planned on putting out a few DLC's of new gear, maybe a new multi-part side mission. maybe a couple new iconics for the guns that didn't get them.\n\nbut because of that bad release, its not like their budget got *bigger* to account for it. That money is just going to be re-allocated from DLC extras, to finishing the game and fixing the problems.\n\nso now we'll still probably get some extra free DLC content, but it will probably be 1/10th what it would have been. but all that money that was going to go to making cool free stuff, is going to go to fixing things.\n\nthen in a year or two, we'll probably get a proper expansion that we'll have to pay for just like did.","838"],["ABSOLUTELY!\n\nas an alberta resident, this is exactly what blows me away. I have multiple /MAGA co-workers. I don't understand it, why are you so stoked about a leader whos entire platform is \"fuck everybody else, I'm out for myself\".\n\nits a pretty far cry from the \"Canada is proud of our multiculturalism, and traditions of being friendly and working with other countries\" that I remember from when I was a kid. \n\nI don't understand how so many people can have this aggressive mindset against every other country or why they feel so threatened. Working together isn't just some lovey-dovey bullshit, its economically proven to advance your country to work and form trade deals with other countries.\n\nthe \"rugged individualism\" might sound all tough, but working together is how you succeed. \"rugged individualism\" is how you end up cold and alone, cloistered in your country swaddled in xenophobia. Go ask north korea how well its worked out for them to turn their back on the world and try and go it alone.","760"],["When I was 16-17, me (dumbass) and my dumbass friends, used to take furniture that people left out as \"free\" on the side of the road, to the blacktop of an old school in my area, douse it in gasoline and light it on fire. We would then sit and smoke weed as it burned until the cops or fire department showed up (if they did at all).\n\nwe were 16-17yr old stoners and, while stoned mind you, we even had the braincells to know, to make a line of gas away from where your fire was going to be, and light it from far, far away.\n\nits astonishing that these guys had the braincells to even get this far out in the woods. They share the same IQ as the wood they're ~~burning~~ blowing up.","630"],["I think the variance in gasoline engines for energy conservation maxes out at something super small like 2-3% these days (of the engine mind you, not the car as a whole as aerodynamics are going to play a huge part in your cars advertised fuel efficiency).\n\nIIRC out of the entirety of mankind knowing about the internal combustion engine, we've increased the efficiency by something silly small like 20%. but its been a long time since college, and I've smoke a lot of weed between then and now.","726"],["I gotta say, I've never been a fan of 's comedy. I completely wrote him off as a \"low hanging fruit\" comedian using racial stereotypes and his \"haha hairy guy in a mankini\" type to get a laugh. Because of that, I never really looked into how many or what kind of characters he was playing past Borat.\n\nThat man just floored me. That speech was well articulated and powerful. He is a much deeper thinker than I gave him credit for. I may still not enjoy his comedy personally, like most personal tastes its not going to change where my funny bone is, but I sure have an entirely new respect for the man. I don't even really care if he started out his comedy with this mindset in mind. The man obviously has his heart and mind in the right place. I never thought I would say this, but I kind of wish more people out there were like borat....","323"],["They have spent ***a lot*** of money in both straight up just buying and as well R & D of military equipment in the past 20ish years. Their army isn't really the \"low cost, cheap equipment, throw more soldiers at them to compensate\" of old.\n\nThey have a lot of new toys that they've never really played with and like a drunk 20yr old thats been taking MMA lessons for the past 12yrs they're itching for a fight to show how tough they think they are.\n\nand I think you're right, just like how WW1 was preceded by a lot of romanticizing the great wars of old and wanting to try out the new toys their militaries were playing with. People over the generations forget how awful war is, and they get back into the \"I want to get into a fight\" mindset of romanticizing war. \n\nI'm split on whether China is starting to fall into the romanticizing war and itching to fight category, or whether they're just playing this game of antagonization because they don't believe any nation's that matter militarily to them will ever actually get into a full out war with them so they know they can get away with it.","753"],["This is exactly the same as the phone manufacturers getting rid of the headphone jack.\n\n***nobody*** wants a touch screen instead of tactile buttons/switches. Hard to change the volume on your stereo or adjust the heat while maintaining eyes on the road when its a touch screen. Just like nobody really wanted to give up the headphone jack.\n\nbut in the exact same thing as with phones, the manufacturers don't give a shit what you want, because touch screens look sleeker/more refined to execs and focus groups and in pictures, which to them = selling more cars. but unlike phone manufacturers, where there were some consumer benefits to the loss like waterproofing, and added space for newer larger radios, theres basically no benefit to consumers for the loss of buttons/switches in cars.\n\nabove all though, a single touch screen is ***way*** cheaper, and easier to replace than to produce a whole slew of custom switches, knobs, and buttons. Plus the blue collar car companies have been swallowing up the high end companies for the past while, they put their standard switches/controls in their high end brands to cut costs/make more money. this is why you have things like the shitty switches from a chrysler in your maserati. and they've been getting noticeable flak for it. So their solution is to just get rid of all switches wherever they can and add them into the \"infotainment system\".","393"],["although I've started to hear rumblings of complaints from people recently. I think Tesla is spared the flak because \n\nA) they have a well designed UI \n\nB) there aren't many of them on the road and they're a niche market where people know what they're getting and there aren't many people out there in general to complain about them.\n\nC) they provide a large enough screen, with enough real estate to put majority of daily use selections on the main screen instead of hiding it in some menu 6 options deep. \n\ndo you remember like 10-15yrs ago, when manufacturers first started putting screens in cars just for GPS? The screens were like 4\" screens. My phone has a larger screen than the one in my dads mid 00's volvo for GPS. We sold Garmin GPS's that had auto update maps, with better graphics, that worked smoother, with bigger screens, for like $50.\n\nyeah, most car manufacturers still think thats an ok thing to do, but then they think they can throw it all on a touch screen at the same time. You can't go touchscreen only, and then cheap out and throw a barely responsive 5\" screen in your car with a terrible UI and still have it fly. That doesn't mean they aren't going to try though.","49"],["exactly, focus groups, execs, and cost cutting are the reasons cars have touch screens.\n\nits just like phones doing away with the headphone jack, they don't think it'll make a better experience for you the consumer. They don't give a fuck what the consumers *want* as long as it sells more than the other guys, costs less and looks good to the execs and focus groups while doing it.","393"],["Yeah, I'm surprised more people don't go ubiquiti. They've made their stuff pretty user friendly to even non-power users these days.\n\none of my co-workers, a mechanic that would still be using a flip phone if it didn't get weird looks (hates tech), was looking for some home security solutions, and as well was looking for some wifi solutions at the same time because he has an acreage. He asked me what I use in my house. I gave him some help picking out which products to buy because he didn't understand the specs of what he was looking at. but I offered to help him out if he ran into any problems since I was the one that suggested ubiquiti stuff to him.\n\nnope the tech illiterate bugger was able to set up about 4 cameras, a video doorbell, 2 WAP's, and even a point to point bridge out to his workshop. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure theres some refinement to be had in his network, but from what I can tell he's done a pretty decent job.\n\nI guess their stuff comes at a bit of a premium, but honestly if you get equipment with similar specs and ease of installation, you're probably not saving *that* much by going with another brand. and the ability to self host is pretty priceless IMO. Service fees *always* go up, companies always jerk around their most loyal customers, and the fear of having all my equipment bricked just because the company goes under is enough for me to happily pay the extra.","465"],["heh, I dunno how long its going to be like this, but I was just looking and out of the top 20 posts there, 17 of them are for \"flaired users only\". The same people that make fun of others for needing a \"safe space\" are the same people locking up their sub to deliberately make it an echo chamber, and posting on almost every political sub post whining about how \"reddit is liberal trash\" and whining about why everyone downvotes them and doesn't agree with their ideals...","728"],["> reddit is a perfect representation of what happens with ~~liberal~~ mob rule,\n\nFTFY, liberal has nothing to do with it. It's a social media platform, not a news distribution platform where they have to pretend that all stances are equal. It's mob rule corner to corner, not just politics. It's literally a site wide popularity contest, and republicans are the minority in their own country, let alone the world, ***of course*** you're going to be downvoted, the vast, vast majority of the world (the mob) don't agree with the republican ideology. \n\nNot really sure what you were expecting.","126"],["this is my favourite way to play it. I honestly don't really mind answering a few calls here and there to help out my work, I'm 31 with no kids, I'm not exactly too busy. but this isn't a friendship, this is a \"you pay me, and I do shit for you\" relationship. Its business, and I expect to be paid for my efforts. If I can get some OT out of it, then I'm game.\n\nbut if I'm not being paid to do it, I'm not lifting a finger. Its not like the owner is going to show up at my house to help me move. So why should I be doing free favours for him? but if you want to have me on hourly, then you pay me $57, and I do whatever you want for an hour, thats the deal. If you don't pay me, I don't work.","1017"],["If he cared he would just be jealous of the numbers is putting up.\n\nmore drone strikes in first 2yrs of office than obamas full 8yrs\n\nmore civilians killed by them in the first year of admin than in obamas 8yrs\n\npast the first 2yrs, overturned obamas executive order of drone strikes being public record so he could hide his numbers because he knew they made him look bad.\n\n wasn't a saint or anything, but drone strikes isn't really something or his supporters probably want to bring up. If you're going to make snarky comments like that, maybe try and keep informed/up to date.","533"],["I'm foreign, but that's what surprised me too. I knew was going to be a loud mouthed idiot. But I figured at some point he would do something so blatent that the guys like and that bad mouthed him before the 2016 election would go back to hating him and take their chance to throw w him under the bus.\n\nBut it never came, they just kept towing the party line no matter what. To the point that even many Republicans started to flip. I never thought they would push the R's far enough to vote D/not show up","469"],["as far as total cost, they would definitely be better off just adding them all at once.\n\nbut a condo isn't an apartment, and total cost doesn't matter because the costs need to be either individual or shared by everyone.. You'd have to convince the condo board that its in the best interests of the entire building for everyone to chip in to add them.\n\nand even then, you have to find out some way to tell which stall is tied to which condo, to which charger. because the whole building isn't going to want to all start chipping in to charge your car for you. They're going to want it tied to your meter. Hence the daughter panel that he's talking about, the power to that charging station is obviously tied to the meter and power panel of their individual condo so that the electricity is billed to their unit.\n\nand if theres only a couple chargers per parking area, who gets the chargers? what if there are more people with EV's than chargers? what if there are less? \n\netc. etc.\n\nits just a whole bag of worms that needs to be figured out and each building needs to figure it out independently since they're all owned by the individuals.\n\nall these problems (and more) are solvable, its not like these are questions without answers, but there are different ways to solve it, and some people are going to be ok with a way, and others wont be. So it all needs to be hashed out.","202"],["and if it was a single/select few communal spot(s) for charging all the EV's who pays for it? does the whole building now pay for the electricity to charge the cars of the few that purchase EV's? do they have to install a swipe card \"charge it to this unit\" system?\n\nare you now helping to pay to charge my EV every night?\n\nif its an apartment building, who pays to upgrade to having a charging station? the landlord? if it wasn't a part of the original lease then why would the government have the ability to force him to upgrade the place with EV charging? If the government doesn't get involved, its hard enough to get your landlord to fix a broken appliance that ***is*** contractually a part of the lease, how hard do you think its going to be to get them to voluntarily install a charging station that costs 10x what the dishwasher cost.\n\nits a good idea to start thinking about mandating EV charging being available in new construction in more places than it already is, but just don't expect some big EV wave to come along and start changing all the old buildings to being EV capable any time soon. Its just not feasible for too many places.","202"],["Well a lot of guys are still in the, good ol' boy / \"diesel or nothing\" category. But theres enough of them that have told me that they're on the wait list for an EV that its surprised me. \n\nI work in a semi truck dealership, there are more truckers and farm guys coming in telling me they're going to be buying an EV here in AB, than there were people telling me they were going to be buying an EV 2yrs ago when I lived in BC and worked at a canadian tire in the suburbs. \n\nmaybe its just that they're more likely to talk about it, but the general \"talk\" at the counter has been surprisingly positive.","202"],["Depends on if I bought the car like that.\n\nMy 4runner has a cracked exhaust manifold so it ticks constantly and drives my gf nuts, but I don't even hear it anymore.\n\nMy sunroof started rattling a little when it's closed with the shade open about a week ago, and I swear that shit is going to make me go postal if I don't find our where its coming from in the next week.","400"],["I was super pissed when I realized they were doing this. \n\nI was stuck in the wasteland because of some other glitchy fuckery. I couldn't spawn a vehicle, because it would show the marker of my vehicle approaching, but it would just never arrive.\n\nso I started just running towards town hoping to jack a vehicle. there were always headlights in the distance, but a car never spawned. I ended up having to run, basically from the main nomad camp all the way into town. I didn't exactly time it, but I'm pretty sure it was a full 10-15min of running down a dark lifeless/empty highway until I found a car I could finally steal to get my as to a quick travel point.\n\nit was so frustrating.","8"],["Yeah, generally with these types of things they're required to provide at least *some* information. but not so much as to give away too much.\n\nthey usually set some sort of a baseline in the court as to whats unacceptable information to give out, and you're required to give any information up to the point of the baseline.\n\nso for example in the medical industry, if a doctor is doing a study, and needs a bunch of information, the baseline is usually individual identification. So they can pull whatever info they want, as long as, together, you wouldn't be able to figure out who the people are with the information provided.\n\nfor example they might be able to ask \"how many people in Nevada, died of lung cancer\" because thats going to give a list of thousands, but if they ask \"how many males between the ages of 46-48 died in Nevada of lung cancer between March 25 and march 30 in 2018.\" that would be rejected, Because that might only be a list of a handful of people, and from that list you might be able to take that information and say \"that death there must have been \" \n\nso its probably something similar where they're going to set a baseline of where Valve is allowed to start fighting back about the release of information and anything up to that point is fair game.","779"],["I dunno about you, but I also don't usually get along with people that call themselves stoners in their bio.\n\nI mean, yeah, I probably smoke enough weed to be put in the \"stoner\" category, but people who self identify as a stoner in things like social media, are often the same kind of people that think the fact that they smoke weed is a personality trait.","336"],["meh I'm torn on it.\n\nin the early seasons shes super supportive and ready to sacrifice everything for the family, but she goes through a long time in the middle seasons where shes barely connected to the rest of the cast because they're growing up, and shes off doing her own thing.\n\nand I think a lot of people forget all the awful shit she does throughout the series that kind of goes completely against that character trait, and shows shes just as selfish and shitty as everyone else in the show.\n\nfor most of seasons 2-3-4 shes fucking up the kids and (and plenty of other peoples) lives up a lot more than shes helping them.","513"],["Oh definitely, it fits with the character and fits with the show. Completely understandable to spiral a bit with the pressure and shit she's dealing with. And it makes sense that after raising the kids her whole life she has no idea how to be a responsible adult herself. Everyone is terrible and pretty selfish in the show.\n\nShe's a great character for the show, but I wouldn't call her a good person any more than the other characters.","522"],["Arguing that pretty much any of the clan is a good person is kind of nuts to me.\n\nThey're all excellent ***characters*** but that doesn't make them a good *person*.\n\n cheated on pretty much every guy she's with in the series, she squandered the rent money on more than one occasion, left loam to get into her cocaine and wanted to drop out of college so that she didn't have to plead guilty. And that's all in the first 4-5 seasons.\n\nSure it's understandable, she was under insane amounts of pressure, never really learned how to be a responsible adult herself, never was able to really catch a break.\n\nIt all make sense and makes her a great character, but everyone in the show has their moments where they do awful, selfish things that fuck over the people they love. None of them are really good people. It's kind of the whole shtick of the show, these peoples selfish and shitty moments mixed with their moments of redemption.","513"],["I'm not gay myself, but I've spent a lot of time and have a lot of friends in the scene with various gender identities and sexualities.\n\nSomething thats constantly brought up, is how there are ***a lot*** of people that identify as gay, that believe exactly that, you're either gay or straight and bisexual doesn't exist.\n\nI lived in a pretty progressive part of canada most of my life, but for every random homophobe I've met, I've probably met 2 gay people with an opinion of \"bisexual doesn't exist, people who say they're bi are just closet about being gay\" or \"bisexual doesn't exist they're just straight and looking for attention\"\n\nfor the record, I don't agree with that point of view, I firmly believe its all a spectrum and you can fall anywhere on it, at any point in time, with any particular person. but there are a lot of prejudiced gay people out there.","640"],["how is this karma?\n\nfrom the original thread, apparently some chick was smashing a phone (maybe hers, maybe her boyfriends) she threw it on the ground and started stomping on it and kicked it into the street and left it there. was drunk, wandered out there saw it, saw that she left it, took a look, and whipped it. Alright not the best idea. Then proceeds to get his ass beat out of nowhere by the bf, and the gf, they're literally stomping on him, kicking him in the head, kicking him in the stomach while hes down, thats how you fucking kill people. \n\nat **best** this is a complete over-reaction, although if anything this is the reverse of karma. the asshole shit kicking a guy while hes down gets off completely scot-free.","1012"],["nah, other way around, that center lane is called a \"suicide lane\" (slang term) its used as a left turn waiting lane for both directions of traffic (yes this has the obvious design flaw of two cars going opposite directions pulling into it and causing a head on collision).\n\nsince this is a legal lane of use (although not legal to use for *travel*) and its an active lane as opposed to a static intersection where the blue car was) then the pt cruiser therefore had the right of way and the blue car is supposed to yield to the moving traffic. Compounded with the fact that if you can't see where you're going you're not supposed to go.\n\nso the blue car was technically in the wrong.\n\nthis is of course assuming the pt cruiser was preparing to turn left into the driveway(?) of the business on the left side of the road here","523"],["> It wasn't. Not at that speed.\n\nthey very well could have been going for the second left in the frame of the video, theres really no way for ***either of us*** to say definitively. Its very possible they were actively slowing down to make a turn at the speed they were going, its not like they were flying along at 80km/hr. \n\nso unless you're a mind reader, or you were the one driving the silver car, theres no real way for you to speak that definitively.\n\nall that we ***can*** know, is that the blue car, pulled from a static lane onto an active lane, without being able to see where they were going","523"],["> You are only supposed to enter this lane to make a left turn when there are no left turns for the opposite flow of traffic\n\nthese lanes are specifically for roads where there are multiple turn outs on both sides of the road that would required left turn lanes, but they don't have the distance between each turn out to give them their own turn lanes. So they're pretty much *only* used when *both* lanes have left turns to make.\n\nAs for speed, Its not like they were flying at 80-90km/hr, maybe a little too fast to turn right away, maybe not, neither of us have a radar gun or know the speed limit of this road. The road I take to work every day is a 75km/hr zone and has one of these lanes down the entire road. and if they were trying to make the left thats in the frame, then thats a pretty reasonable distance to drop speed for a left turn.\n\nbut no matter what, pretty much any discussion as to speed is irrelevant since neither of us know any specifics about it, all that you can say for absolute certain. Is the silver was in an active lane, and blue car was in a static lane, and silver could see where he was going, and blue obviously couldn't.","523"],["yeah, but on that same hand there are far too many people in this sub that think someone driving in your blindspot makes *them* responsible for the collision. Sure its dumb to sit there in a blind spot, and I find it infuriating when someone just matches my speed and camps out in my blindspot. but at no point would I think its their fault if I hit them while changing lanes because of it.\n\nIts never someone ***elses responsibility*** to avoid someones blindspot, it is ***your responsibility*** to check the blindspot before changing lanes.\n\nso yeah, cammer was *dumb* to drive in this trucks blindspot like that, however the truck was ***dumber*** for hitting them because they weren't paying attention to the fact that someone entered their blindspot and never left, and if they can't keep track of that, not adding a mirror in an appropriate place to be able to monitor that area and eliminate the blindspot.","449"],["plus people on this sub like to act as if the equipment on your vehicle is some unchangeable act of god. If you drive a truck *you can add mirrors to the truck*. if you have a large enough blindspot that a car can fit into it *its your responsibility to add a mirror in an appropriate place to eliminate that blindspot.* Blindspots aren't some unchangeable fact of your vehicle, if you have one large enough to be problematic, you can solve the issue. If you don't then you don't then get to blame the other guy for just driving in their lane and ending up in your blindspot. its one thing to have blindspot where if I stand or put something small in just the right space you can't see it, but if your blindspot is right next to your truck, and large enough that a car can fit into it, then its still your fault for not eliminating such an obvious problem with your vehicle.","523"],["Yeah, and for all you know he *was* turning left, the rear of his car isn't in frame long enough before the collision to say whether his signal was on or not, and even without a signal that doesn't put him legally at fault for the blue driver to turn for the same reason as if someone *does* have their turn signal on so you pull out and get hit because they drive straight.\n\nAnd no matter what silver car was doing, blue car is at fault because you're still required to yield for an active lane if you're in a static lane, and you're still required to see where you're going before starting a maneuver.","523"],["> No, the silver car is illegally traveling in a turn lane,\n\nprove it.\n\nif the crux of your argument is the silver car traveling illegally down the center lane, prove it. From this video neither of us can prove it in either direction. your entire argument is based off of that *assumption* and thats all it is, is an assumption. He could very easily be heading for one of the two turn offs in the frame. Especially since he *is* noticeably slowing down since if you go frame by frame you can see his brake lights are lit up when he enters the frame.\n\nthe reason hes not in frame for very long is because the crash happens ***2 car lengths*** in front of the cam car. Hes not driving noticeably faster in his direction than any of the oncoming traffic is traveling in their direction, and you don't know the speed limit.\n\nand you can only ***prove*** that silver was on an active road, blue was on a static intersection, could see where he was going, couldn't see where he was going (obviously)","523"],["Honestly I just wanted to make the joke that google image search is fucking awful these days because it always goes to Pintrest and Pintrest is a dumpster fire since it strips all context, backstory, etc. Off the image it's just random crap that goes nowhere that kills your ability to use Google image search effectively.\n\nReally I'm just trying to say fuck Pintrest.","99"],["Well if you're good for \"a few hundred feet\" then I'm seriously curious as to how long you think these cars are. A pt cruiser is ~10' long and the crash happens 2 car lengths in front of cammer, so even of you count the cam car that's about 30' of travel, even if you add distance between cars you're maxing out at ~50' and that's assuming a full car length of distance between each car which there most certainly is not.","449"],["exactly. offshore accounts and corporations aren't used to hoard money, the money flows *through* the account, and then funneled at an appropriate rate back into high earning countries at a rate that lowers how much they pay on taxes and after diversifying to yet *more* countries and other corporations back to where they need it.Its all a shell game to create convoluted paths to lower how much they pay in taxes and fees. It doesn't make any sense to invest and leave a bunch of money in a country with low economic growth, you move it back to countries like china, US, Canada Etc. where the growth rate is significantly higher and you can make more money re-investing it there.\n\nthat way if company you own A in Country X makes too much money this year and is going to get taxed too heavily, you incorporate in country Y under Company B with a low tax rate then Company B \"charges\" company A for whatever made up bullshit you can justify to the tax man. Then you move *just* enough money back into Company A to get it to a net Zero \"profit\" so that it pays no tax, whatever is left over you move to a different company, country or whatever.\n\nthe game is making up companies in whatever country has the tax breaks or loopholes required for whatever it is you need that money to do, then moving it back to where it gets its maximum return under a heading that doesn't constitute \"personal income\" and therefore paying the lowest tax and creating the largest gain. The huge corporations move money from company to company and country to country the same way we move money from our savings account to chequing account to credit card.","786"],["> For one it's an HHR. Both are almost fifteen feet long.\n\nok, so still ~50' since I gave a full 10' between cars, even if I give you the benefit of keeping 10' between cars, that makes it ~60' so silver still has ***over double*** the distance we've seen traveled already before he's done anything illegal if they get \"a couple hundred feet\"\n\n > and he certainly wasn't going for that\n\nand please, tell me how you know which left he was going for? \n\n > and that guy was hauling.\n\noh? how fast was he going? what's the speed limit on the road they're on?\n\n > It's very obvious the silver car was illegally using the lane.\n\nif its so obvious then why is everything you're saying completely based off of assumptions with zero proof of any kind involved? \n\n > I didn't read all this but it's pretty simple.\n\nif you're going to blatantly state that you're not willing to read whats already written, and you're just going to ask the same questions that I've already answered to other people, then I'm done answering because if you're not willing to do the bare minimum of having a conversation then I don't think you really deserve the respect of an answer.\n\nThe only ***facts*** that we have, is was in a static lane, and was in an active lane, and could see where he was going and obviously couldn't","462"],["its not a myth because we're talking about the same thing. Sure some money is definitely going to be in stable long term investments just like anybody else. \n\nbut when you say \"By investing it more actively than that you can make a lot more without ever doing anything shady.\" I'm not sure if you know what that means, because active investment is exactly what I'm talking about. Just scaled up from what you or I could ever do and with a couple extra steps that aren't shady at all, I'm not exactly talking about money laundering here. Its just using the tax breaks provided by different governments since different governments give higher tax breaks in different sectors that they're looking to grow and using already owned assets and investments to move money around using income and expenditure sheets to try and zero out income so as to lower taxes in the areas that you would pay high taxes by moving that income to companies and revenue sheets that are losing money through internal re-investment plans.\n\nit ***is*** active investment, its just scaled up to the point where you're able to take that investment money and buy and make and use entire companies which aren't necessarily in the same country to do it.","786"],["I actually work at a heavy duty(semi's) truck shop, our in house welder has offered to give me some pointers for the price of a coffee a day, and I'm allowed to use the scrap metal from our metal pile stock for practice material.\n\njust learning to weld and making my own is where I'm leaning right now, especially since I know I'll be wanting to weld other things in the future. They'll even let me use the shop welder to practice with, although they wont let me build the bumper here unless I cart it back and forth every day since they don't want a project like that just lying around taking up space, and they won't let an employee vehicle actually *inside* the shop so no test fitting or removal or installation allowed, but I can do that at my garage at home anyway.","742"],["Yeah its like nobody remembers the start of Blu-ray or pretty much any new Sony tech. Sony refused to allow anyone to make a Blu-ray product for *years*. The only way you could get a Blu-ray player was by buying a Sony one. The only reason Blu-ray stuck around at all was because any Sony movie such as the matrix movies and such would *only* be released on Blu-ray, and even then it was failing until they made a gaming console with a Blu-ray player. They refused to let anyone in on it for a long ass time, in fact I'm surprised they ever opened it up to license other companies to use it.\n\nBut yeah, betamax , minidisc, Blu-ray, every Sony tech they won't share in the hopes that they can take over an industry with it. They're basically the Apple of the media industry.","854"],["definitely a streetable car, I've been going around through forums but I've seen what happens when guys just follow the advice of forums and end up with a mess of a build. Especially since you get a lot of guys with opinions based on numbers without experience, so sometimes they just recommend whatever gives the most power, but you end up with a car that you basically have to get it to 1800RPM-2000RPM before the damn thing starts moving.\n\nI don't want to make the mistake of following the advice of a guy whos giving it from the experience of a drag racer, because I'm not building a strip car. and I know enough to know that you can't have it both ways, the closer you get to making it into a drag car, the farther you'll be from a streetable daily driver.\n\nbut anyways, yes, streetable car, pump gas, I'm looking to build it as a \"weekend car\" since it'll only be driven for a few months a year, I have a dedicated winter vehicle, this is going to be a my fun summer vehicle.","54"],["Yeah, I love woodworking, and fixing general plumbing and electrical around the house. It's always cool to say \"I made that from scratch\" plus I get to have it be exactly what I want. I'm just worried about doing something like this myself since I would want it to be winch capable and such. I've also been playing with the idea of getting something like a Smitty one and modifying it to my taste, kind of splitting the difference, but the frame tie ins and winch mount are done professionally.","309"],["the problem with that is, ok I paid $700k for an ocean front property to retire on,I build a house, I spent the last of my money to buy it, in a beautiful island location. it stays there for 5yrs and a hurricane comes and destroys it, up to a few blocks inland. The town/city decides to not rebuild infrastructure in my area because they deem it non-financially viable to continue rebuilding in the area and pull the town/city limit back from the beachfront to higher ground where flooding during hurricanes is less likely to happen.\n\nnow what do I do? what is my property worth? am I still able to sell it? to whom? technically the property is still there and above ground once the hurricane recedes. does the city just now no longer allow beachfront property? where do I live now and how do I recoup costs? if someone pays, who? the insurance company? the city/town?\n\nI agree with your main point, sometimes if the weather continues to destroy property, at what point do you just say , enough is enough. some of these areas were first settled 100yrs ago when we didn't have all the history of regular destruction that we have now to tell them \"hey don't build here unless you want your home destroyed every 5yrs, maybe build a few 100 meters that way on the higher ground\" but at the same time there are so many gritty details about it that its hard to come up with a workable game plan for it.","69"],["I agree, thats where its headed, to the ranch becoming native land. (*eventually*)\n\nits really the only way I see to finally stop private companies from encroaching on the territory. \n\nthey've made a lot of hints towards \"what person needs this much land?\" and a lot of allusions to how it was originally taken from the natives. As well how and his wife want to live on the land but also the reservation. \n\nI have a feeling it'll be an annexation/donation. They'll make it all reserve land, so the reservation natives can use it for ranching and continuing their way of life, as well as distancing themselves from casinos which Rainwater has also said is his goal.\n\nthat tied with how Rainwater, and don't seem to actually have any real bad blood between them. Sure they're at odds, but only because of the situation. They seem to hold the same general values, and want the same sort of things.\n\nmy guess is in the end is going to die, and all the kids are going to want to give up the land to each other. They'll realize none of them really want it, so they're going to give it back to the reservation on condition that it stays being used for ranching.","233"],["My guess since season 1 has been that is going to die at the beginning of the last season, possibly at the same time as but I doubt it. \n\nI originally didn't think would survive the series, but lately I've been favoring the idea that is going to, in some way, sacrifice herself for . Possibly leaving him with a child if the series carries on long enough for it to happen. I have a strong feeling that after said something along the lines of, \"god never kills me, only the things that I love\" (paraphrased). That she'll finally get her chance to die for something she loves. This will leave in a similar widower circumstance to . Forever pining for his lost love, and possibly with a child to boot. \n\nThe last season will be the kids fighting about who gets what of the ranch, until the end when they all realize none of them really want the ranch, and they'll annex it to the reserve under condition that it stays a ranch.\n\nKayce and co. will live on the reserve/ranch helping the reservation take over and take care of the ranch. The ranch stays a ranch satisfying wishes, Kayce can be separate of the ranch, the reserve gets more land and in a way that keeps private interests from being able to take it ever again, all the \"city\" family members can go back to the city, the wife /son get to stay as part of the reservation like they wanted. etc. \n\nit seems to tick all the boxes of tragedy and happiness. So thats the theory I'm going with for now","311"],["I'm actually from Canada, but from what I understand Montana's winters are similar to where I am (-15c to -30c ish during the winter)\n\nI audibly laughed at one scene when they said it was winter and they were outside in just a regular calfskin jacket that they would wear in a summer scene but just with a scarf and pulled a little tighter. \n\nyou are not sitting outside in a rocking chair in -30c weather in just a calfskin jacket and enjoying yourself. past about -25c and the air starts to fucking hurt.","891"],["I always loved how in shows like CSI, they just pop a sample into a machine, wait 30sec and \"bing\" \"its a match!\"\n\nlol, no. In real life, you take a blood sample, you send it off to a facility to have it DNA tested, and you might hear back in 3 weeks. *maybe* if you get the paperwork to mark it as priority. If not, you're probably waiting 3 months.\n\ncrime scene testing facilities are notoriously backed up.","1"],["sort of. The lawlessness is slightly exaggerated, the poverty depends on the reservation but is mostly understated. \n\nThere is a certain degree of both in all reservations though. Its true that the disputes between jurisdiction are real. and most reservation police are underfunded, under staffed, and therefore have to let some stuff fall through the cracks. \n\nas well its true that most reservations have a higher percentage of people below the poverty line. \n\nits super hard to generalize though, because each reservation is different. I've seen res where you can't even tell you crossed a boundary into one because its so similar to the town its attached to.\n\nbut I've also seen some where they're basically a shanty town and its like stepping into a war torn country. \n\nit also depends on whos running the reservations. I've seen res's where those in power are crazy rich, and the rest of the res is basically poverty stricken. and some where those in power you wouldn't even notice because they're just like everyone.\n\nthe stories of forced sterilization, \"reservation schools\" where people tried to indoctrinate them/erase their heritage and gave them new names etc. and the general idea of cultural genocide is unfortunately very true, and quite underplayed though. Most of those with native heritage that you might meet these days might be a bit far removed from it. but pretty much every single family has *at least* one family member with a story about these horrific things.","276"],["> no one sold just the pump itself, they all sold the pump assembly. \n\nIt's rare that we get anyone that wants just the pump. Usually there's enough of a reason to just change the whole thing, and what you pay in part pricing you save in shop time.\n\n > this was the most angry I had ever been at a parts counter guy.\n\nExactly why I warn people before I sell them something like this. It's a mistake you only make once to order the universal style for one of your techs. Especially when they're paid by the job like my first partsman post was. It's one thing to screw up when it's hourly, another to screw up in a way that your tech now loses money today because of your screw up. \n\n > im guessing that the reason they sell you the entire assembly is to avoid just this situation.\n\nThat's exactly why I warn the customer if they're not getting an exact fit part. No parts guy wants to be the one on the other side of the counter in that situation. If frustration is going to be involved, make sure it's the customers choice. That way they can't blame you when they decide to cheap out on the \"universal\" NOX sensor that's $100 cheaper than the exact fit.","493"],["I didn't really catch on until my early twenties. My middle school and highschool were the same school (grades 7-12) so that same type of BS was pervasive all the way through.\n\nIt wasn't until I was out of HS that I realized, if you just say it confidently and with a smile, and own it, and have a sense of humour about it. There really isn't anything \"too childish\" to be into.\n\nI'm now 31 and I work with mechanics and truckers, and yesterday I was showing off my plex server and telling a guy \"fuck yeah I have reboot on my server! that shit was awesome back in the day. I have 90's spiderman and the clone wars too!\"\n\nit takes awhile, but eventually you realize people can only make fun of you, if you let it get to you. As long as, to you, its not something to be ashamed of. It just makes them look like the immature ass trying to pick on someone.\n\nchances are, if they're friends, theres at least one person there that will back you up because friends are usually into the same sorts of things.\n\nif everyone turns and starts joining in making fun of you, well, chances are these aren't really friends or not the right friends for you.","339"],["> So many pretend experts that never even hint that they're unsure or speaking hypothetically. They just make statements with an air of absolute certainty, yet they're totally wrong.\n\nreddit is a funny place for that. I'm a partsman by trade, so my usual mindset is to caveat ***everything***, talk ambiguously whenever I can, and try my best to never speak in absolutes whenever possible.\n\nyou'll notice when you talk to a partsguy, they try to *never* give you a straight answer. its always \"***if all goes well*** the part should arrive on this day\", or \"***unless something happens*** I expect it to go like this\", or \"***generally*** this is caused by, or ***usually*** happens like this\"\n\nbut even with all my caveats, and muddy statements, I still get comments all the time of people saying \"Thats not the way it works at my shop you're wrong!\" \n\nsomehow almost everyone on reddit seems to think every generalization ***must*** refer to them personally. and any form of vague statement is proved wrong simply by the fact that its not their personal experience, so therefore its impossible for it to be any different.","247"],["This can really kick you in the ass too. My parents are dealing with it right now where the first inspector for when they were getting the construction permit said the deck they're rebuilding would still count as a grandfathered installation as long as they don't change the footings or square footage. The second inspector that came in to certify it decided it doesn't count since its all new from the footings up.\n\nThe thing is, the bank behind the house has receded in the 40yrs since the original construction, so now the deck isn't to code for distance from the bank and he says they have to demolish the deck and rebuild. The new code would cut the deck down to 1/3rd the size of the original.\n\nAnd apparently once an inspector cites it as out of code it's next to impossible to reverse.","623"],["A lot of people mix up stainless steel and Nickle plated steel. They see a polished shine and assume its stainless. But stainless is used on very few products since the addition of chromium lowers its strength considerably.\n\nFor example in automotive we mostly use grade 8 bolts, grade 5 is considered ok if it's not structural, so for like body panels and such. stainless bolts are soft enough that they only go on trim pieces.\n\nYou're not breaking it by hand, but with a normal wrench a toddler could snap the head off of one.\n\nIf that stopper was made with true stainless steel, if you dropped a heavy pot filled with water onto it, it would probably bend.","304"],["unfortunately not an option, once its been cited for changes and the paperwork has been done for it to be called a new construction its grandfathered status is removed. Getting it reversed is close to impossible, especially with the original already demolished and the \"new\" one already built. it can take months during a good time if they even allow it at all, and because of covid backlogs, its been since the summer of 2019.","69"],["I mean, its obviously not quite as clear cut as that. There are a ***tonne*** of factors that go into it. but the overarching point that the national deficit isn't as bad or as important as people think it is, and has a lot of wiggle room in a country like america is semi-true. There are times where its actually a good thing to run a larger deficit, and there are times when you want to reign the deficit in.\n\nhowever people seem to think that any deficit is bad. They think of it like they think of their mortgage, as if the country owes someone money and has to keep up payments or they might lose the house. People make statements all the time about how \"america owes china so much money!\" but its not that simple.","264"],["yeah, like I said in my comment above, people think of the national debt like they think of their mortgage for some reason. Like its a bill that one day might come due, and if you can't pay they'll take the house.\n\nbut thinking that way is like thinking, because money is technically an IOU from the government, that I can show up at the Leg and demand \"payment\" for all the money I have and that I'm \"calling in the debt\" it just doesn't really make sense, and money doesn't work that way and even if it did, what would they \"pay\" me with?\n\nthe national deficit doesn't work like that either. Theres no \"bill\" coming.","264"],["They did actually look into that, but a retaining wall would have to be about 4 stories tall because of where a solid base could be found and would require a lot of special allowances. They live on the water, and the bank goes down to the beach. A retaining wall would be far too close to the ocean so they fall into the same problem as the deck vs bank distance, they would have a problem with the retaining wall vs ocean distance. You can only build so close to the shore. Plus its a lot harder to get a special allowance to build closer to the ocean than it is to build closer to a bank. You have to have environmental/marine studies done and get an engineer out there. \n\nThey looked into it a bit with their neighbor who owns a construction company, but he said to build a retaining wall that size it would cost a small fortune in construction because they have to install horizontal pilings (not sure what the technical name is when they're horizontal) to anchor the retaining wall into the bank, and the cost to fill would be insane for the amount of material it would need. Plus it would require removing all the foliage on the bank and destroy any privacy/the natural landscape view that they love so much.\n\nat least because of the long wait time, they've gotten to leave the deck up and they've been using it all summer haha.","69"],["dawww what a cutie, they're so adorable when they're so tiny. Take lots of pictures, they grow quickly and you'll forget how crazy small they start out.\n\nas an aside, I have a Hermanns myself and started out with a similar mix of substrate. when he was a bout a year old he started eating the mulch. I found a stick that was half the length of his body in his poop once and never went back. I switched to just a black earth/soil substrate. It means you have to mix it up and add water more often to keep it moist, and of course dirt/dust, but I find its a better substrate that I don't have to worry as much about.","173"],["a UVB specific bulb will work, or an MVB bulb will do both UVB and heat.\n\nif your local climate and sun doesn't allow for your torts temperature and light requirements then your tort should have a dedicated heat lamp of some sort (not a heat mat!).\n\nif you go with MVB be careful with the height of the bulb, they can get quite hot. and remember your torts shell is higher than the ground, check the temp at the torts height, not at ground level.","333"],["I have moved multiple times, a few apartments, and a few condos before I bought my house.\n\nI've never had a landlord consider my tort as a \"pet\" in the housing/apartment rental sense of the word. \n\ngenerally when they would mention its no pets I would awkwardly say \"well I do kind of have a pet, he's just a little tortoise though, he stays in his enclosure most off the time\"\n\nthe usual response was them laughing at me and saying \"no just cats and dogs are a problem\"\n\nusually followed up with asking for pictures or other questions about him, like what does he eat, and how big is he, and whats he like and other curiosity questions.\n\nthe only problem was ever finding an apartment with enough space to fit me, my stuff, and my enclosure. Tortoise enclosures take up a lot of your square footage.","287"],["Don't forget driving around with their load lights on, and the ultra bright LED's they throw in that they never re-aimed after their lift.\n\nI work in automotive, you wouldn't believe how many guys stand at the counter laughing about how people flash their high beams at them while they drive. It's a point of pride for them.\n\n\"haha, yeah I got those ultra bright LED's they're great! I get guys flashing their highs at me all the time, then I turn on my high beams back and just fucking blind them, Hahaha\"\n\n\"maybe you just need to aim them down a bit\" \n\n\"nah, I checked them on my garage door they look just fine, people just need to stop being pansies. Everyone has brighter headlights these days. You've got to have them or you can't see anything\" \n\nThat's a conversation I get probably 3 times a week. The lack of self reflection is fucking painful.","449"],["You're right that's definitely a problem I've seen. \n\nBut, I actually don't really ever see aftermarket HID's. Obviously some guys do have them, but it's probably been a year or two since I've seen a set of aftermarket ones. Sometimes factory ones in a Merc or something, but HID's didn't have that long of a hayday and most people are scared off from the high bulb replacement cost. Plus they're finicky as hell with the ballasts, and melted housings and whatnot. \n\nAftermarket LED's are everywhere these days though, so the exact same problems of non-projection lenses you're describing just a different style, and the LED'S these days are about just as bright. I get more vehicles in with aftermarket LED's, than I do stock headlights these days.\n\nSo same duck but by a different name. \n\nBut for some reason people think HID's need all these special things like projection housings and re-aiming, but for whatever reason they don't think LED's have the same requirements.","362"],["as others have said, thats a break-up and a make-up, different thing. sometimes that shakes people loose.\n\nalso \"time apart\" sometimes works, just spending some time separately from each other, without the option to sleep with other people. sometimes that can work as long as both people understand they have to keep it in their pants because they're still together.\n\na \"break\" however never works. its almost always instituted by one and forced onto the other, and even when its mutual, its generally because somebody has someone in mind that they want to fuck and they're just looking for the moral free ground to get away with it. That way later they can claim \"we were on a break\". Its an excuse to try their hand at someone else, because thats pretty much the only way you're going to agree to your SO having sex with other people, its if you have someone in mind that ***you*** want to have sex with, and you've got blinders on, and you either don't think your SO will do the same, or just simply don't care, both of which mean you've basically checked out of the current relationship.","901"],["well, your boyfriend is dumb, so hopefully thats ***your*** type. seriously, who is dumb enough to tell his gf that his \"type\" is the polar opposite of her?\n\nthat aside, people can like more than one thing, having a type doesn't mean thats the *only* type that you're interested in. I'm sure you've liked guys with blue eyes, and guys with brown eyes, you might prefer blue, but that doesn't mean you're never going to be attracted to a guy with brown eyes right?\n\nsame same\n\nplus your \"type\" can change over time without even realizing it, I used to be into gingers, when I searched for porn or on tinder, gingers were who I was after. Then I dated a ginger for 7yrs, afterwards now, I'm not turned on by it, it took me awhile to even realize that my tastes had changed, until I realized that porn with gingers didn't get me going anymore.","591"],["so grow a backbone and tell her it makes you super uncomfortable and this is a hard boundary for you.\n\nyou can't tell her shes not allowed to do it, but you can definitely tell her that if shes going to it'll be as a single girl.\n\nyou're right to not be telling her what she can and can't do, shes an adult, and she doesn't belong to you. but hiding how it makes you feel and just going along with whatever she wants to do without giving your true input is being a doormat. Pony up and tell her how you feel about things because giving her your blessing for whatever she wants to do then secretly harbouring resentment and stewing and stressing over her following through is just shooting yourself in the foot.","657"],["I don't understand how you can say \"theres hardly any difference\" there are very clear and definite differences in them.\n\na \"break\" assumes you're getting back together its temporary, but you act single, this allows for sex with other partners, this has a predetermined end at a particular time.\n\n\"time apart\" is just that, no acting single, no sleeping with other people, just a little distance to get some perspective.\n\na \"break up\" is exactly that, no predetermined plan to get back together, just straight up separation.\n\nso unless you consider your partner having sex with another person just petty non consequential semantics. Then they are most definitely ***not*** the same thing.\n\n > I don't know who hurt you but it's clear they weren't meant for you if you're that adamant it never works.\n\ndon't try and turn this into you projecting some deep seeded issue onto me, you'll be sorely disappointed all my relationships have been fairly well adjusted and normal. they of course each had their individual problems hence why they didn't work out, but I don't have any deep rooted hang-up's.\n\nyou and your girlfriend broke up, just because you got back together doesn't make it a break, a break would assume that you separated with a predetermined plan to get back together at a particular juncture. you didn't have any such plan. You ***did*** end up getting back together, but that doesn't change what it was when it happened. I also clearly stated that sometimes that ***does*** work. It's only the \"break\" that doesn't.\n\nwords matter, use the appropriate term for the appropriate action and things become less confusing","813"],["then my only mistake was taking you at your own word\n\n/u/Oh_Kerms \n\n > My gf and I (also a gay relationship) ***broke up*** for a month because I was being an asshat.\n\nthen you didn't \"break up\" you \"went on a break\"\n\nthese aren't terms that get to be defined by the people in the relationship as they see fit after the fact, these are predefined terms used to describe situations. Words mean things.\n\nand I'm not being defensive, I'm being ***corrective***, you're using the wrong words to describe things and then basing advice off of that.","458"],["looks like you're lacking in your linguistics and your research abilities.\n\nif you want to use urban dictionary *literally* the next one down, isn't a huge story of nonsensical bullshit and it reads:\n\n***When a couple decides to spend time apart without actually breaking up. The duration of the break is decided at the time the break begins.*** During this time their is little or no communication, and the couple spends absolutely NO time together. It is considered rude and nosy to check on the other persons whereabouts or activities and neither person has the right to do so. \"Breaks\" are usually taken after a number of problems within the relationship become to serious for the couple to stay together. Instead of braking up it allows for the opportunity to sort things out and to think about the relationship with the possibility of getting back together. Sometimes breaks are used as an excuse for one person to date around without having to give up the other person. In some cases the parameters of the break are established in such a way that neither party is allowed to date or spend time with someone whom they are sexually attracted to. If the break doesn't include such a rule, then it is each person's option to date and ''see other people'' as they choose. If this is the case then neither person needs to account for their time or actions to the other person in relation to any part of the \"break\" even after the break is over. Essentially the idea of a \"break\" is to momentarily cut all communication that isn't absolutely necessary so there is time to think and decide what needs to happen next: break up for good, or get back together.","317"],["> Call me uneducated\n\nOk I will: \"you're uneducated\" \n\nyou're trying to argue that a \"break\" a \"break up\" and \"time apart\" are all interchangeable, but its simply not true. You're the one that decided urban dictionary is going to be your reference, then you chose to only use the top definition. Then you chose a definition of nonsense that doesn't even prove your point, then selectively choose to ignore the very next line which proves you entirely wrong. now you're trying to use the fact that I like electronics as some sort of insult? \n\nand now because I can actually back up what I'm saying with logical reasoning I'm an asshole?\n\nI can at least define, definitively what each of these terms mean. You can't even keep straight what you're talking about, and then when you get stuck you resort to trying to project or put me down personally by judging my hobbies.\n\nto quote an uneducated person\n\n\"thanks goodbye\"","730"],["This sub is hilarious, you could have cock eyed A cups, with more hair than my uncle on her chest and get solid 9's all day. I once dared to vote 7 on a pair of fakes with a little scarring and I ended with -27 votes and 4 different comments from guys cussing me out for low ratings on \"a beautiful woman that's willing to show you her tits for free, how dare you!?\" and all I said was \"nice, 7/10\"","506"],["I don't know if you're Canadian or American, but as a long time lover of classic cars, from the way you're describing it I'd peg it at around $3k, $5k if the brakes and engine are good enough to have it be running+driving, but from the sounds of it, its running but not driving. It could go as high as $4k if it has anything rare or special about it, but from the sounds of it, its pretty \"normal\" and with the wiring damage I wouldn't pay over $3.5k.\n\nif it was fully restored it might hit $14k, depending on the quality of the resto (paint, how far you went into the suspension, trans rebuild etc.) it could go higher if there are added mods done.","352"],["Me and my GF are in a similar situation, I was in the process of closing on a house when we met, she's signed on as a tenant of the house. as far as paying rent but gaining no equity.\n\nno sympathy here, you didn't save up the down payment, you didn't have to prove that you had good enough credit to qualify, the mortgage isn't in your name, you don't pay the property taxes, you aren't going to gain or lose money because of a rising or falling market, you're not paying the condo fees, hopefully shes paying more of the expenses to compensate for this or you negotiated reasonable rent. If I were you I would start saving up a nest egg to \"buy in\" to the property, then in 3-5yrs when you two know whether you're going to go the distance or not and shes comfortable with it you have the $20k-$40k or whatever is needed at the time to equal out what she has paid and own half the property. I'm sure you understand there's a lot more that goes into buying a property than just paying the mortgage. \n\nAs well make sure to consider the fact that the more she pays into it, the more equity you're going to have to equal out, you won't just be paying what she paid in down payment and all the sudden getting 50% equity in the property. you'll be paying 1/2 of all the lawyers closing fees, real estate agent costs, ***and*** 50% of the difference between your rent and all the payments shes been making since then. If you want 50% equity you're going to have to pay the 50% of ***all*** the payments shes been making up to that point for it to be fair.\n\nbut as it stands now, you are a tenant, a tenant doesn't gain equity, thats just how it is, and even if you had the money together right now to buy in, I wouldn't blame her for refusing since the relationship is only 8 months right now, and a mortgage is generally around 25yrs.\n\nas for her monopolizing the furnishings and styling of the apartment, thats not fair *at all* she may own the property, but if you're paying your rent on time, then its 50% of your living space as long as you're living there. She has no more claim to the living spaces than you do. \n\nthis should be treated as a roommate/landlord-tenant living situations in all ways, if you ***decide*** to give up more than 50% of the living situation differences then thats your choice, but she has no more of an inherent claim to the living space than you do.\n\nalso keep in mind, if she wants you treated like a tenant (which is my personal recommendation for the moment) then that means shes your landlord and all the ***responsibilities*** that go along with it. That means if the fridge breaks, she should be paying ***100%*** of the cost. You don't own it, you take *no responsibility for it* if the washer breaks, her problem \n\nyour landlord isn't going to ask you pony up a few hundred extra if something breaks or needs attention, she shouldn't either.","224"],["I can't tell you what to do, but I do want to say it seems you're doing a lot of talking about what she wants, whats right or wrong with her, whether she'll break up with you later etc.\n\nwhat about ***you***, you need to analyze this as to why are ***you*** in the relationship. Sure she might make you feel good to be around, but what do you actually like doing together? does she make you a better person? do you find life is less complicated with her? does she make your life easier?\n\nmaybe its time to stop *reacting* to what shes doing and wanting and saying, and take a minute to analyze how you feel about her and all of this. Take charge of your life, let your wants and needs be known, don't push too hard, you aren't going to get all of them, compromise where you know you need to and if you can't live with the \"deal\" then move on.","657"],["And you have every right to feel that way, you're not a guest paying rent to stay in her condo you're a roommate, and you deserve to have the place feel like a home to you. She's going to have to make compromises. Maybe start coming up with some things that hardline \"must haves\" and start there. If there are pictures or posters that mean something to you explain the meaning to her and why it's important. In her eyes your stuff is exactly that, just stuff. Impress upon her that some of this is a part of you and you need to be surrounded by the stuff that's important to you.","698"]],"string":"[\n [\n \"I imagine it looks like half assed behavior to people like us that have to pay hundreds for some of the stuff they so casually mess with.\\n\\nbut its also a different environment because when you have shelves of CPU's you worry less about throwing a mid-tier one on a motherboard you haven't used in a year and was free, and zip tying a random chunk of aluminum to it to see if it cools well enough not to cook.\\n\\nthink of how you might treat your work copier, or that cook top, or whatever equipment you have at your work that isn't yours. Its easier to fall into a habit of not caring when you know you can just grab another one off the shelf, and you didn't pay for them, and nobody is going to care if you break it.\\n\\nI work at a semi truck shop. we'll buy $5k turbo's and $1k install kits, parts well into the thousands, and we'll just toss them around, rip open the boxes to play with them, and buy things \\\"just in case\\\" without a though. I didn't pay for it, and theres 12 more on the shelf, and I'll sell 3 today, if something breaks, nobody cares because we're just desensitized to it.\\n\\nthe funny thing is I'll order $100's of thousands of dollars in stuff in a day for a customers truck. Then I get off work and go to buy something for myself and I immediately become the cheapest bastard you've ever had to deal with, I'll spend $2k on a customers rad, then go to get one myself and be all \\\"$50 for a radiator!? thats highway robbery!\\\"\",\n \"217\"\n ],\n [\n \"Maybe you get kicked all the time cuz you sound kind of like an asshole. I mean I got that feeling straight from the get go with the \\\"hipster, soy latte\\\" line, but the rest of the post shit talking anyone that doesn't think like you do and acting mightier than thou, kind of solidified it. \\n\\nPeople didn't like the lack of base building because the creators had been spouting off about how \\\"we're going back to the basics of DOW1\\\" and \\\"we want to bring back the gameplay of the first one\\\" and \\\"we're really trying to channel the feeling of the first game after the departure of the second game\\\"\\n\\nThey dug their own grave with it. They amped everyone up who enjoys base building RTS games, and then had a severely lacklustre base building experience. Coupled with a badly balanced game, that cut tonnes of features and content. \\n\\nJust because you like a click fest MOBA experience, doesn't mean everyone does. It's hardly a good strategy game, when there's only one strategy to play. And a good MOBA game employs that too, DOW3 doesn't, there's one way to play each race and no amount of skill in the game can surmount the way the developers want you to play that race and it's rock, paper, scissors play style. In SC you can turtle with zerg and rush with protoss if you're good enough. You couldnt do that in DOW3 at launch, although I've heard they've fixed some of the balancing later, that doesn't save a game 8 months after launch.\\n\\nThe players didn't like it, the reviewers didn't like it, and in the end even the developers didn't like it. It's hard to want to get better at a game when the developers announce that all future DLC is cancelled and updates will cease after a year when the games only been out for 2-3 months. They announced they were completely abandoning it almost immediately after release. Hard to have a decent user base after that.\\n\\nJust because you like it and I like it, doesn't make it a good game, and it doesn't mean anyone who dislikes it is wrong. I don't think it was the hipsters that killed it, it was the developers and they knew it right from release. The only soy boy here is the one whining 3yrs after the release of a game about \\\"why don't people like what I like, they all suck because my taste is impeccable, so anyone that doesn't like what I like is weak\\\". grow up.\",\n \"896\"\n ],\n [\n \"The problem is, why pay twice as much for a driver that knows how to properly drive a semi with a stick, when you can pay $5k extra on the truck and then pay a driver that can only drive an auto half as much per hour and throw him behind the wheel and pay 1/10th of the cost in upkeep on the transmission to boot and better fuel mileage on top. \\n\\nThat lower wage and lower cost of ownership coupled with the mileage benefit, pay for the increased up front cost pretty quickly.\\n\\nThe crummy driver problem is basically a non-issue since there's always another driver out there who's good enough to not get in an accident, but crummy enough to work for cheap and drive your auto. and if you can't find one, you can make one in 7 weeks because there's always someone out there who dropped out of high school with no family to tie them down, or just moved to this country and wants to make above minimum wage with minimal training and doesn't mind driving all day. \\n\\nNot saying it's right, but I work at a semi truck dealership, and I've been around enough company owners who do this math in my office to know this is the way they think. They don't give 2 shits that 1/5 drivers that come into the service center can't back up their own truck properly. Because the owner of the company feels no shame about the fact that drivers regularly show up asking us to back up their truck for them, or ask for us to get their btrain out of our parking lot because they're too dumb to read the 4' sign saying they won't be able to get through. As long as the delivery payments keep coming in, and profits exceed expenditures, the owner doesn't care.\\n\\nIt sucks and I wish a good driver was valued more, bad semi truck drivers, and the owners that employ them are the bane of my fucking existence.\",\n \"257\"\n ],\n [\n \"Because the damage caused by the bump with proper bumpers is basically non existent. It's like asking why spilt fire wood with an axe when you could buy a tablesaw, measure it and cut it perfectly in half.\\n\\nBecause the tablesaw might be precise, but precision has no measureable benefit for the application of fire wood, and the axe is precise enough in the hands of a skilled worker, and chopping with an axe is fast, cheap, and available pretty much everywhere.\",\n \"696\"\n ],\n [\n \"It wasn't like 1 or 2 though. It was another complete redesign/departure of the game genre and then slapped the name DOW on it calling it a sequel despite the only thing being in common was it being Warhammer 40k.\\n\\n1 was a a traditional style base builder RTS\\n\\n2 was a COH style, squad based RTS\\n\\n3 was a MOBA styled APM based strategy.\\n\\nIf they wanted to make 3 completely different games, why call them sequels? Tonnes of people complained when they went to a squad based combat model in 2 as well. It was one of the main reasons it wasn't well received either. At least with 2 though, they had the excuse that they were avoiding going up against SC2 as a traditional RTS since they knew the releases would be close together and they knew they would never be able to compete against SC2's built in user base. Plus they at least did a semi decent job of making a squad based RTS. So the people that like a squad based combat saved it from being a complete failure. \\n\\nDow3 was another complete departure when they made it like a MOBA. They only wanted a MOBA because they were getting popular at the time and they wanted to try their hand at wedging into the competitive play scene. except their want to add in base building to appease those that wanted to go back to #1 style play made it a shitty MOBA. And despite the industry wanting to act like traditional RTS players and MOBA players are the same user base just because the MOBA was born from the traditional RTS game of WC3, they really aren't the same people most of the time.\\n\\nNot to mention just the simple mistakes they made at release like bad balancing, lack of features, lack of content etc. And then the nail in the coffin, when they announced like 2-3 months after release that they were cancelling all plans for DLC, additional races, and updates past the first year, and your game isn't going to do well.\",\n \"896\"\n ],\n [\n \"> 2 wasn't like 1, ergo it's a complete redesign with the DoW name \\\"slapped on\\\" by your logic.\\n\\nCorrect, hence why I stated that it was a squad based strategy, and not a traditional based strategy, none of the titles in the series have much in common other than Warhammer and a name. I listed them all out with pointing out the different genres that inspired them for a reason. Specifically to point out how none of them are really attached to one another. \\n\\n > MOBA MOBA MOBA drones the meme... tell me, have you ever actually looked up the definition of \\\"MOBA\\\"?\\n\\nIt's almost like there's a reason I never blatantly called it a MOBA. It's almost like there's a reason there are always caveats before I draw a similarity. Notice how I say \\\"a MOBA styled APM based RTS\\\" and not just a MOBA. In fact I called it a shitty MOBA because of the addition of non-MOBA mechanics.\\n\\n > Speaking of DoW2, your list of \\\"simple mistakes they made at release\\\" applies just as hard to that, \\n\\nYeah, no shit, that's why I pointed out that DOW2 suffered upon release as well. It was just better at being a squad based game and better at appealing to the fans of that genre, than DOW3 did of emulating a MOBA and appealing to the MOBA fans.\",\n \"250\"\n ],\n [\n \"You say that like it's an accomplishment. democrats make up the majority of the American country. Did you forget that never even won the popular vote? Majority of the world is more liberal than even the democrats of America so its no wonder things like this end up at the top. The republicans have been the minority imposing their will on the majority from the very beginning of presidency.\",\n \"313\"\n ],\n [\n \"I'm still not convinced is coming back in a seriously meaningful way. She might pop up in a semi-comedic way, they're in a fight, she happens to be waiting at a bus stop nearby, pop's someone and then with an eye roll wanders off. That type of deal.\\n\\nbut with how quickly they used up lamplighter, I have a hard time believing that shes going to be pivotal since they spent less time with her than they did with lamplighter.\\n\\nI don't think shes going to be some season ender lynchpin anyway\",\n \"311\"\n ],\n [\n \"yeah, I'm not sure why so many people are so obsessed with and believe so certainly that shes coming back in a meaningful way.\\n\\nI'm pretty sure she's just a one off/two off character. they might bring her back for a semi-comedic cameo, but I highly doubt shes going to be a seriously pivotal character in any way.\\n\\npretty sure her getting in that car was meant to be her \\\"ride off into the sunset\\\" moment.\",\n \"807\"\n ],\n [\n \"yes and no, You lose out in power with them and they shift \\\"funny\\\" compared to pretty much any other engine (mostly because of the lost power) so you end up having to shift them earlier in the power range than what you're used to.\\n\\nits like learning to drive all over again, except worse because you've already made the habit of when to shift that matches pretty much every other engine on the market.\\n\\nyou can definitely tell that theres a power difference when the load is heavy.\\n\\nthat said, statistically they actually do have longer uptime hours and a longer lifespan on the road both between rebuilds and overall. I think its mostly because with the paccars if something goes wrong they might leave you on the side of the road but it'll be repairable, where the cummins have a tendency to blow the fuck up or eat themselves from the inside out haha.\",\n \"726\"\n ],\n [\n \"dunno why everyone is being so critical of you, you're ***partially*** right.\\n\\nfirst you have to differentiate the crude oil we pull up from a well, and the bitumen tar we pull from the sands.\\n\\na significant portion of our crude oil is refined into gasoline and other products within canada. \\n\\nvery little of our bitumen however, which these days is the bulk of our oil production, from the tar sands is refined into gasoline in canada. In fact, very little of it is refined ***at all*** in Canada. \\n\\nIts one of the primary criticisms of the pipeline which will be for bitumen. There aren't many countries *globally* with the facilities, or want, to refine bitumen tar. Its extremely expensive, difficult, and dirty to refine. The countries with the capability to refine it, have more than enough of it themselves. and there is more than enough crude well oil being put onto the market to make refining bitumen a very unattractive option.\",\n \"866\"\n ],\n [\n \"I feel the same way. I was originally looking for a long throw myself, but it was such a good deal I couldn't say no. I figured even if the bulb only lasted one day it was still worth it. It ended up lasting, I think it was 450hrs before it went though. Hopefully the third bulb arrives soon it died 6 days ago, and the bulb was supposed to be here 4 days ago.\",\n \"333\"\n ],\n [\n \"Holy shit I hope so. Because of covid my work split us into 2 shifts, 3 days on 12hrs a day then 4 days off.\\n\\nThe amount my life has Improved is immeasurable. The 12hrs is a little much, so I would be happy splitting the difference and going to 4x 10's a week. And if I could do 4x 8's I could deal.\\n\\nThe extra time off is great, working 2.5x's the amount of time you have off is a ridiculously disgusting work - life ratio that you only notice how bad it is once you're outside of it.\",\n \"975\"\n ],\n [\n \"I think we all know, thats exactly what would happen. On Monday they'd go on the news and send out tweets about how important the separation between church and state is.\\n\\nthen on Tuesday they would be telling everyone about how its against gods will to swear the oath of office on anything but a bible, homosexuality is wrong because it says so in the bible.\\n\\nThey'd fuck their mister on Wednesday.\\n\\nthen drive their daughter for an abortion on Thursday.\\n\\nThen campaign against abortion on Friday.\",\n \"754\"\n ],\n [\n \"I'm surprised I don't see it here when I ctrl+F\\n\\nbut the fermi paradox.\\n\\nbasically a scientific theory about life outside our earth that states (paraphrased and dumbed down)\\n\\nwe're either rare, first, or fucked.\\n\\nso when it comes to life in the universe, we haven't found any signs of it. Despite the billions of stars and planets in just our galaxy and the billions of years its all existed allowing a civilization to flourish we see nothing out there. Which means there must be some sort of barrier that keeps it from being super common. This barrier is referred to as \\\"the great filter\\\". So we need to place ourselves on the scale of before or after this \\\"filter\\\"\\n\\nSo this means either we're rare: complex life, or at least the ability to reach beyond your own system is super rare and we very well might be alone in the universe or practically so via inability to reach beyond. Either that or its so sparse we may never see another life form. We're past the barrier that gatekeeps complex life. A scary proposition by itself, but not the worst.\\n\\nwe're first: a variation on rare, but that we're just the first ones to get here, maybe thats because there is no filter and theres a lot of life growing in the galaxy, maybe there is and just no life has made it there yet. This one is a bit of a mixed bag, again could be worse, but who knows what kind of life we might encounter in the future, and why we haven't seen anything from anything else.\\n\\nwe're fucked: there is a great filter and its ahead of us. Something keeps complex life from ever reaching the stars or leaving its planet. Something is coming and its going to wipe our life from the face of the galaxy., or at least keep us contained to our system.\\n\\nif we find bacteria or signs of previous life on another planet ***especially*** within our solar system, it very well could be the worst news humanity could ever hear. because that means its common enough to start on not one, but two planets in just a single system. which would mean we're common, and something is coming that stops us from reaching beyond.\",\n \"366\"\n ],\n [\n \"Because you and them are focusing on the wrong part of the statement. \\n\\nIt's not the fact that they're paying you in cash vs other method, it's the fact that they have it ***now***, no running to the ATM, no \\\"I'll pick up tomorrow\\\" and then ghosting, no haggling further or showing up with less money than they agreed, and no time to rethink and change their mind or \\\"can you hold it for me\\\"\\n\\nBasically \\\"no bullshit, here's the offer\\\"\\n\\nThe problem is they think that deserves like a 50% discount. And half the time they say that then tell you \\\"alright I'll just have to run to the ATM and I'll meet you\\\" (well then I guess you *don't* have cash in hand now do you?) \\n\\nI'll take someone \\\"cash in hand\\\" for a small portion less than the guy who \\\"I get paid on Friday and we can meet on Saturday?\\\"\",\n \"879\"\n ],\n [\n \"last I saw it posted, that was one of the prevailing theories: lack of available energy sources. The ones you have easy access to when your civilization is young destroy your planet, and the ones required to do it safely aren't accessible to early enough civilization to be effective. \\n\\nits also one of the \\\"rare\\\" theories, that our access to oil is special to our planet. Most civilizations in the galaxy don't have the dead previous life cycles that formed oil to make it available to them. and there aren't any other sources of such concentrated energy available to advance the civilization.\",\n \"366\"\n ],\n [\n \"you're assuming the ability of complex thought comes with the inherent ability to feel.\\n\\nhe could see them, know what happened and feel absolutely nothing, like a computer would while digesting information.\\n\\nits possible the mind stone is what gave him the ability to feel emotion. without it, hes just a hollow shell with visions memories.\\n\\nor it could be its just going to take time for him to digest it all and form those connections with what hes \\\"seeing\\\" in his head.\",\n \"926\"\n ],\n [\n \"yeah, the fanboys are out in full force after the finale downvoting anything critical of the show.\\n\\nI made a comment stating that after the finale and finally knowing what story the series was trying to tell/set up, I felt even stronger that it should have been a single season drop, and it now made me feel even more that is just purposely embracing the weekly release schedule in order to keep people subscribed to the service. I just didn't feel like it had enough of a story to tell, and there were no real surprises or anything to warrant the weekly schedule release combined with the short episodes , even if I did enjoy the series as a whole, I just felt like it didn't warrant it in the same way that shows like the boys, ST:Discovery ,or mando do.\\n\\nnobody even had an opinion, I just got comments about how I'm an idiot, and I should get fucked, etc. I was at -156 without a single comment trying to discuss it before I just deleted the comment because obviously nobody had an opinion they just didn't like anyone being critical of the series.\",\n \"513\"\n ],\n [\n \"after living here for the past 6ish years, I'm astonished at how many albertans are ***so*** supportive of the oil industry and incredibly hardline that its the only industry alberta is capable of having\\n\\nwhile simultaneously having absolutely ***no*** idea as to how the industry actually functions, its capabilities, or even whats good or bad for it.\\n\\nlike the fact that we have literally one bitumen refinery in the entire country. Refining bitumen requires a coker unit. One of the most expensive additions a refinery can build.\\n\\nthe largest quantity of coke units is in america, and we're already exporting as much as they want because they have their own tar sands, and they're expanding them so their demand to buy outside is going to continue to shrink. nobody else wants our tar sands oil really. and pipelines to ship it over seas have been proven time and again to be pointless. Its the reason the oil companies themselves decided that no pipeline would ever reach ROI, and there was no point in building one.\\n\\ncapacity to ship doesn't make people want to buy it. Its like thinking if you have enough beanie babies to sell its going to make more people want them.\",\n \"866\"\n ],\n [\n \"talk to your landlord and change the locks. \\n\\nSome people will say \\\"shes been there long enough she has squatters rights so you have to evict her\\\"\\n\\nwell sure that might *legally* be true, but what do you think the chances are of her actually exercising that situation? and what do you lose if she does? This is one of those, \\\"its better to ask for forgiveness than permission\\\" situations. \\n\\nTell her \\\"at the end of the month I'm changing the locks\\\" and fucking do it.\",\n \"790\"\n ],\n [\n \"but what is she going to do if doesn't?\\n\\nhonestly to me this is one of those \\\"better to ask forgiveness than permission\\\" situations to me.\\n\\nif someone has to go through the legal process, let her be the one to do it, not \\n\\nif he doesn't own the property, theres basically no repercussions to just going to the landlord, telling him someone has keys that shouldn't and asking the locks to be changed. Even if she goes to court and wins, OP has very little to lose.\\n\\nI mean I fully agree that she probably *does* have squatters rights by this point, but chances are she knows what shes doing is wrong and if he just tell her \\\"I'm changing the locks at the end of the month\\\" and clears it with the landlord and does it, she'll just go away to find somewhere else to crash.\\n\\nhell if worse comes to worst, just move, tell your landlord you're cancelling your lease.\\n\\nbut going through a formal eviction with someone thats not even on the lease is honestly a waste of time, it can take 3-6 months to go through and even then they could just stay. I speak from a similar experience (ex not wanting to leave after a break-up) eventually I talked with my landlord, moved my lease to a different apartment one floor up and just moved my shit.\",\n \"790\"\n ],\n [\n \"when you hear hoofbeats think horses not zebras.\\n\\nshes only been there for 1.5 months and hasn't paid any rent. This would have to be a pretty extraordinary circumstance if shes getting any mail delivered or has made any official paperwork saying she lives there. You would also have to get a pretty insane judge to rule in her favour saying she lives there. Plus she would have to have the money time and personal drive to take off work, take time out of her day and fill out the official paperwork to start a claim and small claims you can't sue for time lost or legal fees.\\n\\nof which there ***are*** fees, anyone whos ever actually gone through small claims will tell you it still costs almost $650 to file the paperwork and for the court fees to be heard, and it takes quite awhile to get it all put through, and since she has no legal paperwork stating she lives there, the cops won't let her stay there. If she has a lease and the landlord is evicting based off of non payment, then yes the cops will let them stay there and you have to prove that they can't. However if they have no paperwork to show, then she is kicked out until she can prove that she has a right to stay there, and *thats* where the hundreds to thousands come in, its for the money and frustration required to stay somewhere else in between and most people once they've found a new place won't bother going after their old place. Its the same situation as when landlords take the damage deposit's of the 19yr olds that move out with no cause, *could* they go back and sue in small claims, sure, but will they? 95% of them wont.\\n\\nyour advice sounds nice on paper, but it assumes she has started getting mail there within 1.5 months, which isn't even enough time to switch most paperworks over, assumes a judge ruling in her favour, assumes she has the time and money to go through the court, assumes she even has the drive to actually do it.\\n\\nmy advice assumes she gets kicked out screams \\\"FUCK YOU!\\\" at OP and just finds somewhere else to stay/goes back home to live wherever she was before.\\n\\nwhich do you honestly think is more likely?\",\n \"790\"\n ],\n [\n \"this isn't news\\n\\n I mean although you picked awful examples, and continue to cherry pick posts that fit your narrative in the comments. Everyone knows a lot of the posts end up with a sexist slant in one way or another. \\n\\nits a pretty common thing in this sub for people to make shitposts the day of or the day after a very one sided post where it turns the tables and gets a completely opposite reaction from the sub simply because the genders are swapped. It's almost a meme at this point, if you daily the sub for any amount of time you'll see it probably once a day. Especially on high comment posts with a lot of back and forth and arguing going on in the comments, the next day you'll usually see a post thats eerily similar with gender swapped and it ***will*** get a very different reaction.\\n\\nbut are you really surprised? and do you really expect anything to change? how could you even possibly change it? men and women have different points of view, and depending on the wording of the post you'll get very different reactions from the commenters, thats just reddit.\",\n \"247\"\n ],\n [\n \"who cares if its *technically* cheating or not? \\n\\nyou don't need our, or anyone elses approval to be hurt enough to end it for whatever reasons you want. \\n\\nyou obviously have a problem with this and thats enough, and for good reason in my opinion, you're right if she didn't think it was problem she wouldn't have hidden it. Of course ***he*** doesn't think its cheating, why would you even ask the guy shes cheating on you with? Hes getting his rocks off to your girlfriend and wants to keep doing it, of course he's going to say whatever it takes to keep it going, and she *helping* him get his rocks off.\\n\\nand also why are you only saying ***his*** response? what did your ***girlfriend*** have to say on the matter?\\n\\nalthough, what does it matter? you know and we know this is cheating and wrong. Dump her or she'll just continue doing this behind your back since its pretty obvious she wants to continue doing it too, and shes already been talking to him about lying to you about it.\",\n \"901\"\n ],\n [\n \"I concur with /u/SuperGRB what (s)he has posted is the best course of action.\\n\\nit sounds like shes been giving the stock response to people up until this point, but when you *actually* went out and bought a ring it made it real to her and she had to honestly ask herself if she could marry you, and the answer was \\\"no\\\".\\n\\nthings will continue to get worse from this point on unless you follow /u/SuperGRB 's advice and hope that the reality of \\\"he might leave me\\\" hopefully makes her take stock and snaps her out of it to \\\"I can't imagine living without him\\\" and maybe changes her mind.\\n\\nbut as of right now she reached the crucible and it went poorly for you.\",\n \"657\"\n ],\n [\n \"the only thing you should do is stop calling guys \\\"chads\\\" it makes you sound like an incel, neckbeard.\\n\\nother than that you should do absolutely nothing, shes dating someone, thats the end of it, you don't want to be the guy trying to encourage her to cheat, nobody likes that guy.\\n\\nyou need to decide, are you friends with her because you enjoy her company as a friend? or are you friends with her because you're awkwardly hoping she dumps her bf and starts loving you randomly.\\n\\none means you're a guy with a female friend who wants the best for her and you don't like her bf because hes genuinely a douche, although get used to that, plenty of your friends will date shitty people over the years, you just have to walk the line between voicing your opinions and being a preachy asshole since people are going to live their lives. The other makes you that creepy satellite guy that will eventually realize that shes just not into you then get angry and take it out on her as if she did something wrong by not being attracted to you.\",\n \"657\"\n ],\n [\n \"if it makes you uncomfortable then thats, that. If she agreed to not do it again, would you be ok with that and be able to move on? is that something she offered? \\n\\nif this is something you just blatantly disagree on, she won't promise to not do it again, and for you, her showing her friends, guys and girls, her bare breasts is a deal breaker, then the math is simple.\\n\\nif you can live with this happening this one time since you never talked about it before, and shes willing to not do it again, then forgive her, never bring it up again, and move on and deal with it if it happens again.\\n\\nfor me personally, I *wouldn't* care if my gf did it with me there as long as she asked if I was ok with it first. There are some people I'd be ok with her doing it around and some who I wouldn't. However if I wasn't around, especially in the semi-romantic setting of a vacation in Spain, I would *not* be ok with it either.\\n\\nif you're just wondering for a 3rd opinion of \\\"is this objectively controlling and crazy\\\" I would say no.\\n\\nedit: I just figured I'd point out, *she* doesn't get to **tell** you what you have to be comfortable with, even if shes ok with you being nude around other people, that doesn't mean that you **have** to be ok with her being nude around other people. You're allowed to have different opinions about things.\\n\\nthe best way to approach it if shes saying its not a big deal to her is to just lay it out \\\"ok, I understand its not a big deal to you, but its a big deal *to me*, obviously I'm not convinced to your way of thinking, so do I matter enough to you, for you to stop doing it anyway, despite the fact that you don't think its a big deal.\\\" because thats really the question here if you can't both find a compromise. Most relationship disagreements boil down to that, can you compromise? if you can't is this something they're willing to change for you despite their different point of view? if they don't change for you is this something that you're willing to bite your tongue about and move past without stewing on it/waiting for it to boil over again later?\",\n \"657\"\n ],\n [\n \"break up with him and don't go on the trip if he's going to go.\\n\\n It sucks that you're shooting down your friend trip for something thats nobody's fault, but its shitty to keep staying with him when you know you're done and want to break up.\\n\\nYou *could* go on the trip, and for the record ***you have absolutely every right to go if you want to*** I wan't that clear. \\n\\nhowever if you break up with him and go, then it will make it super awkward for everyone involved, plus theres always the chance that you or him will hook up with someone on the trip, and do you really want to put him through that right after dumping him, and do you really want to see that if you end up on the opposite end. The only other option is that *he* then decides to not go out of heartbreak and not wanting to be there during that stage.\\n\\nagain you have every right to go, and I wouldn't fault you if you went, however if you want to be kind, let him go and hopefully a little friend time helps heal his broken heart.\",\n \"206\"\n ],\n [\n \"is this something that hes agreed to not do? If he refuses to stop following pornstars on reddit/twitter is that a dealbreaker for you?\\n\\nif this is something you can't agree on and its a deal breaker for you then dump him. If this is something you can get past and deal with then keep an eye on it to make sure its not excessive, but following a handful of pornstars on twitter I don't think is that crazy, the quantity that he follows, to me, is less important than the amount of time he spends looking at it. I have probably a couple hundred NSFW subs added on my reddit, but 99% of the time I have my app set to filter out NSFW posts and the amount of subs is only that high because I'm a daily redditor for the past 6yrs. So despite the large quantity of subs I only look at those subs *maybe* once every 3ish weeks. So if anyone thinks hes a sex/porn addict I think that very much so depends on how much time hes spending looking at it.\\n\\nconsidering you've pointed out it makes you uncomfortable, and hes sending/showing you posts of theirs, I think its pretty assholish behaviour. So the disrespect to me is deal breaker territory more than the porn.\",\n \"518\"\n ],\n [\n \"its pretty human to feel a little jealous about it, but you should be keeping it to yourself and trying to squash that jealousy because you have no real right to feel that way.\\n\\nwhen children throw away a toy, sometimes they still don't want anyone to play with it. Thats what you're doing right now, its immature. \\n\\ndon't beat yourself up over it, but learn to get over it because really its none of your business who he dates or how soon now. Plus he's only talking to someone, even if they were fucking it would be fine, but talking to someone and getting friendly isn't anything you should be concerning yourself with.\\n\\nedit: also, for the record, a month isn't even that long to start getting back into dating. So no, this is super normal.\",\n \"591\"\n ],\n [\n \"well if its public knowledge, like if you're subbed to him, you can see what hes subbed to. Then I wouldn't call it \\\"snooping\\\" its public knowledge. However if you're going onto his phone and logging into his account to see it then thats invasive and you should stop that. \\n\\nthats said, if its just something that annoys you but you think you can get over it, great. personally by the fact that you made this post, it sounds like its something thats going to eat at you and you'll always be wondering if hes looking at pornographic stuff in your presence. In which case it should be squashed, if its somewhere in between you get to play the compromise dance.\\n\\napproach it from the stance that you understand he's mostly doing it for the ridiculous stuff, but the amount makes you uncomfortable . Could he maybe create a seperate account for it that he only uses when he needs that type of stuff? would keeping it to a particular number of pornstars make it alright for you? is there a \\\"happy medium\\\" you two could maybe find together that would ease your mind about it and let you both feel like you've gotten a victory here?\",\n \"518\"\n ],\n [\n \"really? and just keep dating and stringing along someone that she knows she wants to break up with, just to make it less awkward for herself?\\n\\npersonally I would consider that pretty selfish. Theres never a *good* time to break up with someone, and waiting like that just so that she can go on her trip without feeling awkward about it I don't think is right.\",\n \"657\"\n ],\n [\n \"what did you *expect* from him after saying that?\\n\\nif my SO said that to me I would assume theres a *reason* shes bringing it up until she told me otherwise. I get quite a bit of anxiety sometimes as well, and sometimes theres no real \\\"source\\\" for it.\\n\\nbut even with me getting random anxiety, my *first* response would be to be asking, am I doing something to cause this that I need to stop? is there something I can do to help this and she wants me to do it? Then finally it would be, Does she just want me to acknowledge the anxiety so that I know?\\n\\nbut considering the coming nuptials, yes this would make me very worried if we were about to get married and out of nowhere my fiance said \\\"I'm anxious\\\" without giving me any clear indication as to ***why*** she was anxious.\\n\\nthat situation would make ***me*** anxious. I would start wondering if she was getting cold feet, is she not telling me something, is she hiding something etc. etc. etc.\\n\\nif theres no source you should be saying so \\\"I have no idea, I just feel like my heart is trying to rip out of my chest\\\"\",\n \"52\"\n ],\n [\n \"just ask it as a question \\\"ok X so we're meeting at Y place for dinner right? ok and you said we're going to play some games afterwards? So how are we getting to **your** place afterwards?\\\"\\n\\nplay dumb and word it like a question that you either don't know where this place is that you're all going to play games, or that you thought it was her place since she never asked you.\\n\\nif she tries to do something like \\\"oh I thought it would be fine to go to your place afterwards\\\" its now simple to just say \\\"oh, sorry no I'm not really cool with that\\\" \\n\\nno excuses, no debates, just \\\"sorry, but no\\\"\",\n \"432\"\n ],\n [\n \"ooof yeah you stepped in shit there. Thats not being honest, thats being immature. If you're only thinking of the superficial then she has every right to start doubting your relationship.\\n\\nA) if you're only worried about the physical attractiveness of your partner when you're thinking of the sexual attraction, you have some growing up to do, everyones body breaks down over time, if you can't adjust to that reality, I would doubt the long term viability of the relationship too.\\n\\nB) you took a major shot at her ego there, if your gf thought you had a small dick, would you appreciate the \\\"honesty\\\" of her telling you that? especially since its not really something you could change or avoid?\\n\\ndude..... you have some making up to do, and some self reflection, either that or you need to break it off and do some growing up before you start talking marriage and children with women.\",\n \"657\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Did you not read the entire thing?\\n\\nif you're going to ask dumb questions in such an aggressive manner, don't be surprised when people act aggressively back towards you. I can read, I can also deal well with people and have an ounce of intuition as to how to deal with others. obviously you can't say the same.\\n\\nI also gave a reasoned and mature response to , instead of just crying \\\"fuckin women and their loaded questions!\\\" of which this most certainly is not. Its a valid body concern for plenty of women whether their partner will still be attracted to them afterwards.\\n\\nIts easy to call it a \\\"loaded question\\\" and claim \\\"oh if you say no she'll just say you're lying!\\\" well yeah, if all you say is \\\"yes of course\\\" and if you ***are*** lying then she'll be right to say so. but maturing enough to understand that bodies change and be sexually attracted to a person anyways takes a maturity you obviously don't have at your age.\",\n \"971\"\n ],\n [\n \"I mean, the entire debate of lane splitting aside, thats not how proof works. If you make a claim, and they ask you to provide proof of said claim, you don't get to then say \\\"well prove me wrong\\\". nobody can prove a negative, and as well you don't get make claims and then because they don't have proof to the contrary call yourself right.\",\n \"977\"\n ],\n [\n \"yeah I remember this, the shitty thing is, thats exactly what happened. This guy was douche all through this interaction, and was a douche afterwards flat out telling people that nothing was going to happen to him because hes rich and blah blah blah, and the court entirely let him off with a slap on the wrist and a finger wag of \\\"don't do that again\\\" just like he said and they completely dropped the charges against him. It was infuriating\",\n \"98\"\n ],\n [\n \"> ***\\\"I mean, the entire debate of lane splitting aside,\\\"***\\n\\nif you're wanting to debate the merits of lane splitting, I don't care. you're commenting on the wrong person, I was never involved with the debate. I have no proof in either direction.\\n\\nI was commenting on the fact that you said\\n\\n/u/Goodspot \\n\\n > San Francisco medic here, splitting is for sure safer than sitting in rush hour traffic if done SMARTLY.\\n\\n\\nto which /u/instenzHD wrote\\n\\n > No lane splitting is not safer and there is no data to back your claims up.\\n\\nand your response of\\n\\n/u/Goodspot \\n\\n > Provide data to prove me wrong.\\n\\nall I'm saying is, thats not how proof works, you don't get to make a claim and when someone asks for data or proof of that claim, then tell them they have to prove you wrong, otherwise that makes you right.\\n\\nwhether you actually ***are*** right or not, I don't really care, but if your definition of being right is making claims and if nobody can prove you wrong, that must make you right, is false and doesn't make any sense.\",\n \"523\"\n ],\n [\n \"so the US court system relies on people showing up to say \\\"I didn't do it!\\\" ? no. the court(you) makes a claim \\\"You did this\\\" and the accused(/u/instenzHD) says \\\"Prove that I did\\\" and then the court(you) shows their proof.\\n\\none makes a claim, the other challenges and asks for proof, and the one that starts it backs that claim up with said proof.\\n\\n\\nin this situation you made a claim, he challenged it, but when you should have provided proof, you said \\\"prove me wrong\\\"\",\n \"12\"\n ],\n [\n \"Well considering I've had to repeat to you that \\\"I'm not talking about lane splitting\\\" multiple times, that I had to teach you how legal charges work in the US legal system (despite me not even being a US citizen, and *you* bringing it up), and the fact that you thought it was a valid line of argument to basically say, No you!, when asked for proof about his claims, coupled with your inability to just admit you are wrong about something, and resorting to smart ass comments and attempts to derail the conversation when you're backed into a corner about being wrong\\n\\nThen I'd say I've been acting a lot more intelligently, and making a lot more coherent responses than you have.\",\n \"730\"\n ],\n [\n \"JC is fun, especially 3 as a sandbox \\\"blow everything up\\\" kind of game just like Mercs. \\n\\nbut it got repetitive pretty fast, by about 3/4 of the way through I was playing just so I could get some of the final weapons and upgrades.\\n\\nplus it gets *really* annoying how guys spawn anywhere you're not looking. You'll clear a rooftop and be having a blast blowing everything up and sniping guys then you get shot up by 3 guys that spawned directly behind you on top of an empty 6 story building. Or a helicopter that spawned directly behind you and fucked you up before you even realized you were being shot.\",\n \"148\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yeah, at 31 from what I've gathered talking to those older than me and my peers that are the same age:\\n\\nat some point between 18-25 you stop mentally aging yourself anymore. If you talk to a 60yr old, chances are their mindset internally is pretty close to when they were in that age range. They still think, internally, that they're that age. Sure you get more experience with stuff, you still learn things, intellectually you know how old you are, but in your head you're not any older in your mental self image.\\n\\nI have a career, I own a house, I'm doing all the things that an adult does. but when asked I would still say I'm a \\\"guy\\\" not a \\\"man\\\" because I feel like I'm 20 still. \\n\\nI get moments of feeling like an adult, but thats it. Sometimes I'll be walking back to the garage to grab something, I'll step out of the house, look around, and realize \\\"this is mine\\\" o_O \\\"I have a career, a house, multiple cars, people that depend on me, I call my parents every week or two to just to check in, I'm fixing the furnace of my house on my weekend and doing chores without anyone even telling me to do it or being disappointed in me if I don't, I do what I want, when I want. holy shit do I feel like an actual adult in this moment, I finally made it\\\"\\n\\nthen the moment passes, I go back to the chores I'm taking care of before, and I end my night with a joint and watching the new episode of star trek or something while eating a bowl of archduke chocula cereal and playing video games until 2am feeling like I'm 20 again.....\",\n \"881\"\n ],\n [\n \"he could have if he started braking when it turned yellow like he was supposed to. But as someone that has driven a loaded set just like it. He definitely decided when it was stale green \\\"fuck it, I'm going through, they'll stop for me\\\". Even fully loaded theres no light that you can't stop for if you're paying attention and the roads are clear. Its not exactly -20c and snowing, and that wasn't exactly the most loaded down set either, judging from the suspension ride height, I'd guess he was empty there. Especially since he's driving in the city so he shouldn't be going over 65.\\n\\nand the red car behind him *certainly* could have stopped.\\n\\ntrucks have longer stopping distances and times, but if a truck couldn't stop in the time it takes for a light to change, while driving city speeds, on a dry road, then it would have become a much bigger problem a long time ago before now.\",\n \"523\"\n ],\n [\n \"Looks like they're just anodized aluminum (probably titanium actually for its natural antimicrobial qualities) . Anodizing is used as a durable coating to resist scratching and eliminate oxidation. Think of it like powder coating or painting. Except paint or powder coat can eventually flake off over time and wear off. But anodization, electrolyticaly oxidizes the surface of the material past what it can do in regular atmosphere. This means it's not just a layer on top, it's the metal itself has been changed.\",\n \"304\"\n ],\n [\n \"there are plenty of multimeters out there with a dedicated audible continuity function, but plenty of the cheap ones that majority of people have don't.\\n\\nI worked at a couple different hardware stores for ~8yrs up until about 4yrs ago, and I had never seen a multimeter with audible continuity function until I started working in automotive and saw some of the nice FLUKE ones. I had seen light up or beeping continuity testers as a separate tool, but never combined until I saw some nice ones.\\n\\ngenerally if you are checking for continuity with a multimeter, you use the \\\"resistance\\\" function (ohms or Ω)\",\n \"672\"\n ],\n [\n \"I'll start with: unplug everything first! Even in unplugged electronics you can get nasty shocks from charged capacitors. but safety first, unplug it, if possible leave it for a few hours before working on it or wait for as much to discharge as possible. If you don't know what it is or how it works, learn before poking at it, or don't touch it at all!\\n\\nso: generally if you are checking for continuity with a multimeter, (assuming one without audible continuity function, as most cheap ones do not have this) you use the \\\"resistance\\\" function (ohms or Ω).\\n\\nso if its a dial type, and you are expecting no resistance (as most fuses, wires, etc should be unless its something like a blower resistor in your car). but you will set it to its most sensitive setting which will generally be the *lowest* number. On most it is 200\\n\\non many this will also require you to plug your probes into the powered socket, and the black \\\"ground/resistance/continuity/COM\\\" socket.\\n\\nyou should be set up. your multimeter should say ***1*** when the probes are apart, and when touched together the numbers will start changing rapidly, but should be close to zero. I usually end up with something like .3 or .175.\\n\\n1= full resistance - aka nothing is getting through\\n\\n < 1 = continuity, *something* is getting through, however the higher the number the less is getting through. Its normal for even a good wire to have *some* resistance. However the lower the better.\\n\\nso if you touch your probes to each side of the fuse and see ***1*** on your multimeter, the fuse is blown and not allowing any electricity through it any more.\",\n \"542\"\n ],\n [\n \"oh man, I was starting to think I was the only one who watched that show. I was so sad it was cancelled way back when. Me and my gf rewatched the whole series about 6 months ago. It probably doesn't hold up as well as I think it does, but nostalgia can give you some pretty rosy glasses.\\n\\nI always loved in that, his gigantic smile and merry demeanor pairs really well with being the devil.\",\n \"60\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yes, in Canada our trade organization is much stricter. For example I'm a parts tech for a semi dealership. I had to go through 6 months of college schooling spread over a 3yr apprenticeship, working 1500hrs per year. I had to take 4 exams throughout, each in order to advance each year and one to pass the apprenticeship completely. If I decide I want to move provinces, I'll have to take another government test to show that my schooling is equivalent to the other provinces.\\n\\nThe text books I needed for my schooling are all paperback and fills 6 milk crates and in my basement.\\n\\nOur trade schooling is significantly more in depth than in America, we go much farther into theory. One of the techs I worked with described the difference as \\\"when I was a master tech in America, I knew all the important bits of an alternator, I knew how to select a replacement, all the different things to look for and how to diagnose one and what it meant. When I got my red seal in Canada, I could have designed you an alternator from the ground up, I knew both what it did and *how* it does what it does\\\"\\n\\nWith that said, I make about $47/hr as a parts tech (slightly above average). Last year I pulled in over 6 figures *after* taxes. For reference of buying power that gets you in Canada. I'm 31M with no other sources of income, I own a decent 4 bedroom house that I pay for by myself (no second income). I live a very comfortable life and would consider myself middle class on my wage alone.\\n\\nThe techs at my shop make $5/hr more than me, and the night shift makes $5/hr more than that.\\n\\nOh and trades school is *mandatory* for techs, you can't be a mechanic in Canada without going to school.\",\n \"392\"\n ],\n [\n \"This is what I was told to do by my parents. It even saved me once from a shitty landlord. She got really angry when I crossed it out, said I would have to sign a new contract. I told her \\\"no I've done this on every other contract I've signed, and even ones lawyers have gone over have never mentioned it as a problem, it should be fine\\\" she got even angrier and really pissy about it. I got bad vibes and decided if she was going to get this pissy about something small, I didn't want to live with her as my landlord anyway and told her I would come back some other time to sign a different copy, and then just ghosted her.\\n\\n3 weeks later, I still hadn't found a place and needed to move by end of the month, so I called her up and decided to take the place. I was waiting for her to arrive and someone was moving out. It was mid-month and I made comment along the lines of \\\"smart, moving out before the end of the month, I always hate scrambling to do a move in one day right at the end.\\\"\\n\\nThe guy scoffed, and the woman with him helping him move (probably his SO) explained that the woman that rents the place is a real estate agent, and put shitty clauses in the rental agreement after you've signed it. she pulled out a photocopy of their agreement, and a copy of the one she had provided in order to kick them out. and told me they had given copies to everyone in the complex to warn them what she does. I honestly can't remember what it said exactly, stuff about maintenance requirements of tenants of the building, extra charges for usage of the communal garbage bin stuff like that. They said she was wanting a bunch of extra money from them and had been threatening to evict them, so they were leaving.\\n\\nit was all in the space that was left blank. I noped out and just left before she ever even got there. She called me a few minutes later and I just ignored the call and blocked her number.\",\n \"790\"\n ],\n [\n \"to your edits:\\n\\nI am hyped for Dune, but I'm trying my best at keeping my expectations low. The book is one of my favourites so its difficult, but i'm trying my best to not pay attention to whats going on and forget it exists.\\n\\nas for Bond, WW84, and Black Widow. Even as a movie lover and a superhero movie lover.....meh.\\n\\nI grew up on Bond, I've never been a big fan of. Sure they're excellent spy movies. and even though I've never read the books, I hear its much closer to the book style Bond. However to me growing up watching Goldfinger and Thunderball. Thats the I'm interested in, so has never been great for me. and I've found them progressively more boring as time goes on.\\n\\nWonder Woman: I'm just not excited for it at all. The entire DC universe is kind of a write off to me. I just don't care. I've never thought of wonder woman as an especially interesting character even if I respect the significance of the character. But after watching trailers, I'm not going to be paying to see it.\\n\\nBlack Widow: I wasn't excited for, until I saw a couple trailers and it looks pretty interesting. I'm interested in hearing more about Black Widow's story, and its the first real advancement of the marvel universe story since endgame and I'm really curious as to where they're going to go from here. The only current characters I think I care about really are , and . Everyone else is either on their last movie, or I'm not interested.\\n\\nOther than that, not much on the docket that I'm interested in. Although the scarcity has gotten me watching a lot of movies I wouldn't normally watch. As well theres been a lot of good TV floating around lately doing the weekly episode drops so I still have something to watch every week. Discovery, Mandalorian, The Boys etc.\",\n \"934\"\n ],\n [\n \"I'm from Canada in a province where theres been some major min-wage increases in the past 10ish years.\\n\\nfrom my experience if you're above the min wage mark, your increases will be minimal if at all. If the US is like CAN, then they aren't required to raise your wage unless its to bring above min-wage.\\n\\nif you're above min-wage already there really isn't any direct benefit to you personally by raising it. but there isn't really a detriment either. Someone elses gain, doesn't mean your loss.\\n\\nour min wage went from $7.50-$14/hr over the past years. No the cost of a burger didn't shoot up in price, and the cost of a gallon of milk didn't rise by any more than the rate it was already rising. those are boogeyman talking points from the conservative side. The cost of things is set by the market (the consumer) not by the cost of the business. As long as its a positive net income, prices won't rise unless people become able and willing to pay more for something.\\n\\nwhen I worked retail making 13.50 and they went from 8.50-10. There was no change to my daily life. The people who were making 8.50 had a decent change, but nobody was suddenly laid off. Our staff numbers didn't shrink. Basically nothing happened, except the people making min-wage were now a little better able to afford groceries and rent.\",\n \"466\"\n ],\n [\n \"the whole post just reads like someone who has never been allowed to fail at anything their entire life. I'd bet mommy and daddy probably gave this guy quite the head start in life, and any time it looked like he might stumble there were always people to bail him out before anything truly went sideways.\",\n \"459\"\n ],\n [\n \"lol, if you're working 2 jobs, 70hrs a week total, you've got $6 in your account, and you can't make rent and food at the same time, how the fuck do expect someone to up and start a landscaping company you dolt?\\n\\nall these people aren't in this situation because they bought a second car and got a school loan.\\n\\nthey're in that situation because their parents were too poor to take care of them, so they kicked them out at 16, so they couldn't finish highschool, They've been working min-wage since then and can't get out because they have no money or free time.\\n\\nIf you think its so easy to just create and sell music, or cartoons that you can just make a living off it just because you want to then tell that to all the starving artists. because not everyone can make a living off those things even if they've had the time to devote years of practice to it, to become truly good at it.\\n\\nif you start behind the 8-ball, its pretty difficult to get in front of it when you've never had the time or money to play pool before.\",\n \"941\"\n ],\n [\n \"depends on how strong your stomach is.\\n\\n*disturbing warning* TLDR: > !a nuclear incident involving the irradiation of hundreds of workers, one of whom, , they attempted to keep alive after a *massive* dose of radiation. It was half way between medical treatment and horrible experimentation. He basically spent 3 months in the hospital under constant skin grafts, organ failures, transfusions etc. etc. basically constant medial procedures as his body basically melted on the table. The pictures are disturbing. his muscles and skin were melting off the bones while they kept him alive with numerous resuscitations over the ~85 days of hospitalization. From what I understand he was basically begging for them to just let him die.! <\",\n \"421\"\n ],\n [\n \"well certainly with a statement being so confidently correct you have a lot of proof to back up such a statement right? May we see it? \\n\\nor is this going to be another one of those \\\"I'm going to drop this comment with a wild claim that goes against everything the news is telling me, but when asked why I believe it, I'm just going to ghost\\\" type of moments?\\n\\nbecause I get the feeling we're more likely to get a snarky comment calling all the libs dumb instead of any proof. At best maybe a single posting, but then when someone pokes a hole in it, or points out it proves nothing and why, you'll stick your head in the sand, pretend it didn't just happen and then just go make a wild claim somewhere else and start this all over again.\",\n \"977\"\n ],\n [\n \"Taxes are not a \\\"buy what you want\\\" system, they're a buffet. You dont get to say \\\"I'm not paying full price because I only eat salad\\\".\\n\\nTheres always *someone* out there that doesn't think somethings important. You can't say \\\"well I'm not paying taxes because I don't want to pay for education when I have no kids in school\\\" because theres someone out there saying \\\"I don't own a car, why should I pay taxes for roads when I don't use them\\\" and you sure as shit expect that person to pay for the roads you use. Thats pretty much the entire idea of taxes, you may not use everything that they pay for personally, but society as a whole is made better by having those things, and you benefit from the society you live in being better.\",\n \"322\"\n ],\n [\n \"for $100 CAD and an afternoon of poking about I now have my entire home running through a pfsense router, Pi hole added so nothing and nobody thats connected in my house gets ads on anything, and I set up a local VPN so all my personal devices route back through my house and everything is like I'm connected at home, so I have full access to my NAS, server VM's etc. as if I were local, and no ads wherever I go, as even my cellphone routes back through my house wherever I am.\\n\\nsimple to set up and maintain, Worth every penny. the internal VPN might be a little difficult to set up for some, but PiHole is pretty simple, and PFsense is drop dead easy to set up.\",\n \"963\"\n ],\n [\n \"Wasn't sure what it was in Richmond, I know in Nanaimo back in the time tunnel ~10yrs ago when we had to call one it was $160 but I think there was a factor of distance involved. \\n\\nI just ballparked $200 because I figured the ambulance would be less, plus maybe a few extra costs here and there as not *everything* is free when you go to a hospital. Some things will still have small non-covered charges.\\n\\nI figured, carted in, to walking out, 3 days, $200 was probably a decent dart to throw.\",\n \"610\"\n ],\n [\n \"so, I just came here from /r/all, I have no idea whats going on, but I've seen the funhaus sub show up on the front page a bunch of times over the past 6ish months.\\n\\nIf I have no idea what funhaus is, or whats going on, but I'm just interested in the gossip and wondering whats going on, could someone give me the cliff notes so I can share in whatever is going on?\\n\\nedit: apparently no, asking whats going on isn't ok. I guess you all aren't fans of new comers.\",\n \"434\"\n ],\n [\n \"I live in Canada, and grew up as our green party has been gaining momentum in a few places. This is almost exactly what happened here, and from reading the comments here, you're exactly where we were 5ish years ago.\\n\\ngreen party was made fun of, and the general consensus was that they were a bunch of delusional tree huggers that would piss away all their money and get nothing done (to be fair, if you go back 10yrs, they kind of were, they didn't start with a well thought out plan of action, more just some wishy-washy ideals without a way to get it done properly), but over time they gained legitimacy, they started to put forth better thought out plans. In 2011 they finally gained a seat, they held it in 2015, and have done a decent job. This year their message was even better thought out, their candidates are level headed and smart, and now that they've gained some legitimacy they're now up to 3 seats and have been doing a good job so far.\\n\\nkeep pushing, it takes awhile for a new party to gain momentum against the old ideas, but some new blood can do great things.\",\n \"578\"\n ],\n [\n \"a hermaphroditic species contains the organs for both sexes. So they contain both a sperm and an egg. In some species that will mean when they do the deed, both are impregnated by each other (both have young), in some one will fertilize the other (one will have young, which one depends on species and situation)\\n\\nsome worms are actually even A-sexual, in which case there is no sex, in the most basic of terms, one day it will start to consume more material, and its cells will start reproducing more and more, until it grows another of itself like a tumor. one day it'll will simply split apart and now you have two separate organisms.\",\n \"262\"\n ],\n [\n \"I'm not a pilot, but a diver. Your ears get used to it the more you do it. If I haven't gone diving in over a year they might give me a bit of issue. but in general like any muscle the more it gets stretched/used, the more flexible it becomes. I (and many divers) can actually equalize my ears without having to even plug my nose now. it took a bit of trying and coaching when I was learning to use a full face mask where you can't plug your nose.\",\n \"658\"\n ],\n [\n \"as much as I love my tort I would advise against getting one until your mid twenties. \\n\\nTorts require lots of space and when you're looking for a cheap first apartment, you'll be signing up for paying for a 2 bedroom as the tort will take up basically a room unto itself. That's too expensive for most people until they have a career position somewhere.\\n\\nWant to go for a weekend trip with your friends? Too bad, tort requires daily care, so unless you've got a roommate that isn't coming, you'll have to find someone willing to come by your house to change water, feed, bath etc. Every day.\\n\\nThe money for food, lighting etc. Is no problem now, what about in 4yrs when you are moved out and paying for your own bills?\\n\\nWant to go to college and stay in a dorm? Too bad, no pets, and not enough space.\\n\\nI could go on, but you get the gist, you're good on a tort now, but you'll be basically signing your parents up to keep and take care of it starting in 3-4yrs and for probably 6ish years after that.\\n\\nTorts also aren't pets to handle, they don't like being picked up and theyike to be left to their own devices. Mine likes a little petting on the head and neck, but \\\"likes to be handled\\\" would be a far stretch. They're more \\\"observe\\\" pets, than \\\"play with\\\" pets.\",\n \"173\"\n ],\n [\n \"its all cosmetic, but you would be surprised how big the bill can be after a crash like this. Even when they have one of the big HERD/protection bumpers on them. the entire hood, fenders, fairings, etc. is all fiberglass. so even small impacts can cause it to shatter to pieces. \\n\\nThe hood *alone* (no brackets, hood pivots, lights, springs, hood struts, latches etc.) is ~$10k add in all the extras required that can't be transferred and you're looking at ~$14k . Thats just in parts before you pay the $170/hr labor rate to have someone install it.\\n\\na crash like this isn't going to twist the frame or anything, but no bill when it comes to semi trucks is a small bill. When your someone says \\\"any bill less than $1k for your car is a good one\\\" semi truck drivers think any bill less than $10k is a good one.\\n\\n(I work at a semi truck bodyshop)\",\n \"352\"\n ],\n [\n \"too many people act like the only speed they have to pay attention to is the speed limit. My gf was like this when I met her \\\"as long as I'm not going over the speed limit I can drive whatever speed I want\\\" but shes also one of those people that when the light turns green it can take her a couple seconds to realize and start going. She never uses her phone in the car, even at red lights, she just isn't paying attention to the light until the car next to her starts moving.\\n\\nneedless to say I drive everywhere in our relationship, she doesn't get behind a wheel unless she has a gun to head.\",\n \"523\"\n ],\n [\n \"I definitely didn't know, there were no roundabouts in my city, and they weren't a part of my testing/training back when I got my license.\\n\\nthat said its pretty easy to figure out, if you're exiting immediately, be in the right lane. This is like when you're in a double left hand turn lane, and the guy in the left most lane cuts you off because he needs to go into the parking lot on the right ***immediately*** after the turn. \\\"then why weren't you in the right hand turn lane motherfucker!?\\\".\",\n \"523\"\n ],\n [\n \"I agree the slogan is dumb, but the movement to defund the police doesn't mean there would be no police. It means putting less money into police and equipment that escalates situations and splitting up responses into more facets that are targeted at the calls that police are having to deal with now that they have no training for, or just simply don't require a guy with a gun and police training to do it.\\n\\nthat way the cop with a gun that you need to deal with your home invasion isn't tied up dealing with a screaming homeless man on the corner by the 7/11. And the kid thats threatening to jump doesn't have armed gunmen showing up saying \\\"don't try and jump or we'll shoot you\\\" and instead has a negotiator trained in suicidal situations. \\n\\nand when that 7/11 worker hits the alarm because he's being robbed, the cops with guns can show up instead of sitting on their thumb for 45min while writing up a report about a neighbor that keeps throwing their dog shit over the fence.\\n\\nIt means you're ***more*** likely to get a response from emergency service that are tailored to your situation.\",\n \"582\"\n ],\n [\n \"we do charge about $10 more per hour than most other shops in town. But thats because we're the only shop in town with full size paint/drying booths. We have 3 booths each can fit 2 hoods apiece. As well as 2 full size paint/dry booths that you can paint a tri-drive truck in (you could fit 2 tandems in each, but we would never put 2 trucks in at the same time). As well as 2 small item drying booths (same size as our hood booths, but only used for drying things like fenders and small items) and a large paint room for the small items. We also have a 12 bay assembly shop on the bodyshop side, and a 15 bay PDI shop to assemble our new trucks, and thats not counting the 6 LPG bays (although rarely used for LPG these days, its now the overflow from our main service shop down the road, its a 30 bay service center, and 8 bay engine overhaul shop). We're also the only shop in town that does LPG, and we're the only place in town with a tri-drive dyno.\\n\\nSo we get away with charging a little extra because we offer so many extra services.\",\n \"610\"\n ],\n [\n \"a lot of people not used to trucks downvoting this.\\n\\ntheres a reason so many truck drivers have labels that say things like \\\"no pussy foot'n\\\" or \\\"no step\\\" on their fender, and this is ***exactly*** why. Because someone comes along thinking \\\"how do I reach the windshield\\\" and climbs onto the ***fiberglass*** fender and cracks it. Truck fenders are not load bearing parts, theres no metal framing inside there, its just fiberglass. If you're lucky theres a hard plastic rock guard inside. Hes even using the mirror mount as a hand hold, those are held in with 5/16 stainless bolts, threaded into shitty rivnuts in the aluminum cab corner, they'll rip right through that sheet metal.\\n\\nOpen the hood, stand on the tire, climb on the steering box, use the hood guide, hell stand on the engine if you want the valve cover will take it. just not the fender, it'll crack, or just even look at the slope of it, you'll slip and fall off and your claims adjuster will laugh at you when you try and get paid leave for it.\",\n \"803\"\n ],\n [\n \"I didn't even realize it was a kid, I was already wondering what the fuck is wrong with this guy. First hit, ok I can write that off, accidents happen when somebody does something stupid, but this guy was an asshole. He obviously wanted to go flying down the hill as fast as he could, I can understand the frustration, its like getting stuck behind someone on a highway going 20 under the limit, but this was so excessive and deliberate, guy should be ashamed not grinning like a fucking lunatic.\",\n \"449\"\n ],\n [\n \"we sell these at my truck shop and I hate them. They wont do any damage as they're just pop on plastic. (I recognize the brand, those are the TRUX kits #TNUT-C4). But even if they aren't dangerous I personally think they look trashy. They're just so, try hard/\\\"I'm a bad ass\\\". Especially on an aero truck like this. At least on a murdered out 367/T800 They'll match the vehicle style. \\n\\nbut at the end of the day, whatever makes the owner happy, I don't get to be the judge of his taste. Everyone gets their own.\",\n \"493\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yes sir, pretty generous access to OT if you want it too, and if you take the night shift (4pm-12:30am) you get an extra $5/hr. I'm actually a journeyman partsman not a mechanic (hence why I know the price for the parts better than the labour hours for install). but even at the counter I make $47/hr. Last year my take home (after taxes, but with OT hours and bonuses/boot and tool etc.) was $98k. Not bad for only 2 months in college (course is 6 months, but I challenged my first and third year tests). You start at $27/hr, but every time you pass your 1st/2nd/3rd year tests you get a raise.\\n\\nmechanics have to work a lot harder for their dollar, and they have less access to OT, the job is harder on their body, and they have a 4yr course instead of a 3yr, but their job opportunities are more plentiful, they make an extra $3/hr, and their wage is protected by law (they're ***required*** to be paid at or above $39/hr, partsman wage is whatever the place decides the pay rate to be, as long as all the partsmen are paid the same its legal) As well they don't have to deal with customers generally.\",\n \"392\"\n ],\n [\n \"that wasn't list price, thats just cash sale customer cost. List price is always something completely out to lunch. for example list price on that hood I was talking about is $14k list instead of $10k, but theres no way for me to even charge the customer that if I wanted to. My system wouldn't even let me unless I manually entered the price.\\n\\nour warranty certainly pays us out for our full customer sale price though. The only one that doesn't is Cummins, who only gives us 15% mark-up on parts.\\n\\nLabour is where we get fucked most of the time, companies often only give us like 30min to do a 1.5hr job. But it varies, bendix is usually alright, but scotseal never gives us anywhere near enough, cummins usually gives us more than we need, horton varies, fifth wheels they usually give us more, but fan clutches they never give enough. Its a bit of a crap shoot, but it can be seriously hard to make time on most warranty jobs.\",\n \"565\"\n ],\n [\n \"I mean, I will say, small/local business owners are some of the worst to work for in a general sense, they micromanage when they shouldn't, they're penny pinchers especially when it comes to labour costs, and they're the most likely to break labour laws and try and force/talk employees into situations that they shouldn't be in.\\n\\nwith that said I understand why, when you're local you're running a business on razor thin margins, labour costs are some of the highest costs and a lot of people don't think about the fact that a $1/hr raise is costing their owner a few grande a year, that business is your baby and you *know* that 17yr old doesn't give a *shit* so of course you watch him like a hawk, you don't have the capital to absorb the costs that might be associated with a slow year or an accident of any kind really (a single workplace accident can *easily* sink a business), and plus larger corporations and franchises don't have to worry about things like advertising costs to bring in business.\\n\\nplus what pretty much ***everyone*** seems to forget about the ***RISK*** everyone likes to think about all the profits that an owner rakes in once the business is up and running, but if it was so easy everyone would do it. Nobody likes to talk about the fact that at *some* point this local business owner ponied up 10's of thousands of dollars worth of their own money/borrowed money that they'll owe the bank and gambled it all to try and *make* these profits. I have no love for corporations, but a local business is something that can easily fail and leave the prospective owner broke, bankrupt, and in the shit for the rest of their lives. So yeah, (s)he makes more money than their average employee, but complain when you've got $500k and you're willing to gamble it all on starting up a brick and mortar shop.\",\n \"231\"\n ],\n [\n \"well then I would say this is a problem for your gf who needs to stand up and either stop telling her roommate that shes leaving at all, just leave. Or she needs to step up and say \\\"sorry we're looking for it to be just us\\\". Its your gf's roommate, its your gf letting her come along, its your gf's problem to sort out. Theres unfortunately not much ***you*** can do.\",\n \"698\"\n ],\n [\n \"I'll say the same thing I always say when this comes up. Breaks don't work, a break is just a break up with a space in between.\\n\\nshe wants to get with another guy, its the only reason to ***ever*** suggest a break. If she just wanted time and space, you can do that without being on a break. Adults can just spend some time apart, the only reason to have a break is for the moral absolvement that comes with it when you sleep with someone else.\\n\\nthink about it logically, to suggest a break it means acknowledging that your SO might sleep with someone else. The only time you would be cool with that is if either you think so lowly of your SO that they either can't or wont sleep with anyone else themselves, or you want to sleep with someone so badly that you've got blinders on and don't *care* if your SO sleeps with someone else.\\n\\nshes not even wanting to give you the option to sleep with someone else, but she wants to have that option? why? I'm hoping this is just a troll post because the alternative is just sad.\",\n \"657\"\n ],\n [\n \"well then I stand by what I said, you sound unhealthily infatuated with this girl and shes using it to walk all over you. a \\\"break\\\" thats just for her, is just an excuse for her to take a run at another guy while you wait in the wings.\\n\\nI suggest just broaching the subject of \\\"how about we just spend a week or two (or however long shes said she requires) of no contact for you to sort your stuff out, but without calling it a \\\"break\\\" or breaking up, we stay faithful to each other but just spend a little time apart\\\"\\n\\nshe'll either agree to it and you'll *forever* wonder if she slept with someone else anyways, or she'll dig her heels in about being able to \\\"act single\\\" and you'll know her true motivation ***is*** in fact to sleep with someone else.\\n\\nedit: but for the record my advice is to just break up with her, she's obviously infatuated with someone else, and by the time it gets to the point that shes asking for a break its already too late.\",\n \"657\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Dude, don't make his medical condition about you:\\n\\nThat was my first thought too. As far as I know Viagra doesn't alter your mental state, it just physically gives you an erection. That means he's probably been having some problems down there so his ego is already bruised. Nothing is worse than having a problem that you've been internalizing for a long period of time, having it be involuntarily revealed, and then having the person you want to find out the least freak out and make it all about them so when you're having one of the worst times of your life, instead of *getting* support you're forced to *give* support to keep them happy.\",\n \"524\"\n ],\n [\n \"well as far as I know, at east here in Canada, its actually *illegal* for him to work like this without a contract. It would be equivalent to working \\\"under the table\\\". with no contract hes not technically employed there, so entering a job site like that voids their insurance, means he can't pay taxes on the money hes earned, and leaves him at risk of not getting paid.\",\n \"679\"\n ],\n [\n \"thats a dangerous way of thinking though, don't assume that just because the damage has disappeared from one place that it can't be present in other ways or be doing damage in ways that you can't easily see on the surface. A release of free radicals in your lungs won't necessarily show in the lungs directly, your circulatory system can bring those types of things all over the place.\\n\\nI'm not saying that vaping is necessarily bad, but I agree that long term studies are required to truly find out. Vaping has only really taken hold in the past 5+ish years. The entire debate of whether vaping is bad for your health is all conjecture at this point and is going to take 20yr long studies to really know.\\n\\nOn the surface I entirely agree that its healthier than cigarettes, I think thats relatively obvious though.\",\n \"568\"\n ],\n [\n \"its the reason I was a little annoyed that they continued the \\\"fat thor\\\" thing through the whole movie. I was hoping we'd have a moment where all the sudden lighting would strike and he'd magically go back to normal.\\n\\nI felt the whole fat thor bit undercut the badassery of for the whole movie, even such a pivotal moment for the three of them going into whats supposed to be the biggest fight of their lives so far and theres looking like a fat chode in a moment where they're supposed to be menacing and looking like the gods that they are.\",\n \"43\"\n ],\n [\n \"when I was younger, my dad moved to a different city for work, and my mom worked full time so we got a cleaner that would show up once a week on mondays.\\n\\nI was always so excited on pro-d days (days off for teachers to get things organized in school) to have the day off....until I got home and realized the cleaner was there, who didn't understand english but always wanted to talk to me and as often as not brought her 6yr old son over to watch tv while she worked. So I would get home, I couldn't watch tv because of the son, I couldn't play games because of the vacuum and I couldn't just sit around and read or anything because she was always trying to talk to me in her broken english and even if I tried to talk with her she never understood a word that I was saying so it was just frustrating.\",\n \"713\"\n ],\n [\n \"sorry but YTB\\n\\nif its in the rules that you aren't allowed to sleep in the same dorm, you can't very well then be surprised when you miss out on promotional opportunities and your superiors now think less of you because of it.\\n\\nat a job, ***any*** job, if you start fraternizing while at work, even at places where its ***not*** against the rules (and here it was) the people above you will not take kindly to it because its unprofessional to mix business and personal.\\n\\nhere, yes the director didn't say anything, but you can't confuse turning a blind eye with acceptance/approval. Just because they're tolerating it, doesn't mean they're happy about it. It was apparently a situation of \\\"as long as nobody says anything I guess we'll let it slide\\\" but someone *did* say something, and you got bit by it. You *tolerate* a screaming baby on a plane because you understand they're human, but that doesn't mean you're happy about it.\",\n \"402\"\n ],\n [\n \"I'm going to go with \\n\\nyou: because of your reasons, they may sound morally high, but as for A) whether shes a rebound or serious isn't for you to decide, as for B) you're not her protector, nor should you be judging your friend before hes actually done anything assholish. If you want her for yourself, be open about that fact. go to your friend and tell him you're still into her and its going to hurt you if he continues to pursue her.\\n\\nher: because if shes even considering dating your friend without either talking to you herself to clear it (if you two are still on good terms) or making sure your friend talked to you first to not split up/fuck up a friendship\\n\\nyour friend: because who TF thinks its a good idea to madly pursue their friends ex gf without speaking to them first.\\n\\nthe problems I see here is A) neither of you seem to be putting a whole lot of stock in what *she* may want, and if she even wants to date either you or your friend. B) even though \\\"dibs\\\" isn't a thing, pursuing a partner that you *know* a friend is interested in is shitty and C) pursuing the friend of an ex without telling one of them that its never going to happen or getting one of them to say they're ok with it is shitty behavior.\\n\\nits your friends decision if he want to ruin your friendship by pursuing this girl, its this girls choice who she wants to date not either of yours. and its your choice if you want to continue to pursue a relationship that failed once already to the possible detriment of a friendship.\",\n \"657\"\n ],\n [\n \"seconded, I subbed to her snap a couple days ago...cuz y'know I'm a filthy animal, in the past 48hrs I've seen 6 guys rail her, all of them raw dog, and every one of them blew in her at least once (3-4 of them even went down on her....not sure if they knew they were licking some rando's spunk since she definitely didn't shower/bath in between)\\n\\nat first I thought she was just an escort using reddit to advertise, then I realized these guys aren't paying her unless you count her begging for uber eats to be ordered for her. pretty sure one guy just bought her mcdonalds.\\n\\ndon't get me wrong, I'm pretty sex positive, and obviously I find it hot (I'm still subbed to her snap) but this definitely surpasses regular sex stuff and noticeably has turned the corner into kinda dangerous. Shes obviously got a proper mental problem like nymphomania or shes a \\\"bug chaser\\\" or something. Honestly I'm pretty surprised, I don't get how you could watch her snap for more than a day or two and not bag it.\",\n \"1017\"\n ],\n [\n \"Ummm am I the only one here that realizes this is clearly outside and not in the bay? This clearly out front/under the front overhang/\\\"carport\\\" area that's covered for dropping off and picking up cars.\\n\\nYou can see the glass to the right of the \\\"storefront\\\" of the dealership, theres no bay door, no lifts, no shop carts or tool boxes, oil stains etc. This is definitely outside.\",\n \"449\"\n ],\n [\n \"Its obviously a case by case basis, but I totally agree with you, myself and most guys that I've talked to don't really care too much. It looks great in pictures, but in practice it just makes me worried I'm going to rip her expensive underwear. Plus they're usually harder to remove, and all the lace and fancy sewing makes it uncomfortable under the hand. I'll take a set of unmatching cotton any day of the week.\\n\\nnow if she wants to wear it because it makes ***her*** feel sexy, and therefore more confident, and usually therefore more sexually aggressive, I'm all for that. a comfortable girl is a confident girl, a confident girl is a happy girl, and a happy+confident girl is almost always better in bed\",\n \"506\"\n ],\n [\n \"I mean, is he being a little difficult about the whole thing, yeah, definitely.\\n\\nat the same time, I don't think theres anything wrong with expecting you to pay your own way at restaurants and the like. Expecting your SO to pay for their own stuff isn't selfish like some people here are stating, theres nothing wrong with wanting a SO thats self sufficient and not a dependent, thats just equality. \\n\\nThrowing a tantrum over a smoothie doesn't bode well though, but I would say its on par with having a SO that thinks so low of me that she says where I work is just \\\"easy money\\\", Someone that thinks my families money is my money, and a SO that watches how and where I spend ***my*** money as closely as you seem to.\\n\\nI would say you ***both*** need to stop worrying about money as much as you are, he definitely needs to lighten up a bit about the small stuff, and you could stop expecting him to pay for dates because if you think he should pay for you, then you need to be ready to pay for him in equal measure.\",\n \"312\"\n ],\n [\n \"yeah wow, ITT: Equality! (oh, except for if she thinks his family is rich, then he should be buying you more shit!)\\n\\nlike, seriously, his family money, isn't *his* money, no matter what kind of money they have and even if it ***was*** his money, that doesn't make him obligated to spend any more of it on her than any other SO would. I would also think it strange if my SO started asking me to buy her things in such a way, I wouldn't throw a tantrum about it, but if I knew they could pay their own way with it was just choosing not to and instead ask me to buy it for them that would be a red flag for me.\\n\\nand anyways, with the amount that shes analyzing how much he spends on himself in such detail, and how much he might have available to him, and the fact that she thinks that either of those factors mean anything when it comes to how much he should be spending on her, I have a feeling that theres a lot more to this than what has written. I get the feeling it was less of a \\\"fit\\\" and more of a couple questions as to why he should pay for it just because she doesn't want to use her CC on small purchases fo some reason. This reads like a guy that either has had gold digging GF's in the past, or is getting the feeling that is a digger and is trying to protect himself against it.\",\n \"312\"\n ],\n [\n \"sounds like is trying to bang her and shes not into it, but also sounds like shes too naive about it, and she thinks she can turn this into a friendship type relationship when really if hes trying to get her into bed, telling her about his boners, getting her to sit on his lap etc. it is *not* going to turn into a friendship. This guy is never going to stop trying to get in her pants.\\n\\nhes not *too shy* thats just a BS excuse to separate you and the gf, and not even a **good** excuse\\n\\nSounds like your gf is faithful, but I wouldn't be comfortable with it either.\",\n \"657\"\n ],\n [\n \"I'm not sure what that has to do with anything that I said. Sure it *could* be a possibility, but if we're going with unfounded assumptions, he *could* also have prostate cancer, he *could* be gay, he *could* just have a lower libido.\\n\\nits ***much*** safer to assume that he was just home from work, tired, stressed, unshowered and just plain feeling unsexy and therefore not really into the idea of having sex at the time based off of what information OP has provided.\",\n \"524\"\n ],\n [\n \"> the 30k car I bought for myself but that she drives. She made me take the bus for 5 months until I was gifted a car that I fixed up to get running on the road\\n\\nwhy? why would you let that happen, and I mean it when I say \\\"let it\\\" you allowed this, its your car, in your name, you had the keys. Why did you give them to her, and why did you let her keep them?\\n\\nYes it does sound like shes a gold digger, but it also sounds like she found a pretty decent mark since you don't have a backbone and won't stand up for yourself.\",\n \"257\"\n ],\n [\n \"It Is your body and your choice. You can wear whatever you want. He hasn't *demanded* that you not wear these things, he hasn't *forbidden* you, he's let you know what his preferences are and what is going to make him uncomfortable.\\n\\nYou can wear something that makes him uncomfortable if you want, just know that it *will* make him uncomfortable. This isn't a question with a cut and dry answer. if there had been demands then it would be more clear cut, but if all he's doing is letting you know where his boundary is, and whats going to make him uncomfortable then thats all he can do.\\n\\nthis is one of those \\\"free speech\\\" types of things. \\\"free speech\\\" allows you to say whatever you want, nobody is going to censor you. but it doesn't negate the *consequences* of those actions. You can still be tried for hate speech and slander despite \\\"free speech\\\".\\n\\nthis is the same thing, you have \\\"free speech\\\" over what you wear, but now you know where his boundary is and if you cross it you may find yourself without a boyfriend because of it. and him leaving you for crossing that boundary is just as ok as you wearing whatever you want.\",\n \"442\"\n ],\n [\n \"Last I heard average stars, Males avg$200-$500 per shoot, females about $2000-$3000, the big stars/household name level fandom, M avg $1000-$2000 I've heard of few niche guys like making $3k per if theyre known reliable actors with fetish draws like BBC and such, F avg $5000-$8000 per shoot\\n\\nThat's not counting any back end deals, promotional contracts, conventions, merch (like pocket pussies or dildos molded etc)\\n\\nThat info is a couple years old though, pre cam craze which from what I've heard has lowered wages and upped competition in the industry\",\n \"610\"\n ],\n [\n \"I do not think you're wrong at all, I would be expecting an apology after the way he acted. Don't fuck with my stuff if you're not going to be careful with it, especially my *really expensive* stuff. Don't goad me into being angry, then get surprised when I do in fact get angry afterwards. Don't make a scene in front of friends and then act surprised when I hold you accountable after you sober up.\\n\\nbeing drunk and \\\"having fun\\\" isn't a get out of jail free card for your actions when they affect those around you.\",\n \"145\"\n ],\n [\n \"Theres a lot of hangout situations that get posted on this sub where I think guys are being over protective or overreacting and shooting themselves in the foot by freaking out over it.\\n\\nthis isn't one of those situations, hanging out with an ex, in a bathing suit, secluded on a boat, drinking, right after he wants to tout about him getting his life together and such, completely alone, after he noticeably and pointedly didn't invite me.\\n\\nthis would be a deal breaking hangout for me, I would never tell my gf what she can and can't do, but this would make me so uncomfortable theres no way I would tell her I'm ok with it. This would be a hard \\\"go if you want, but I wont be waiting for you when you get back\\\"\\n\\nat best I would basically say, \\\"tell him I'm coming along\\\" theres really no reason why you *shouldn't* be allowed to come on such an obviously uncomfortable circumstance. At least then you're there yourself to judge whether he respects your relationship or not.\\n\\nI also can't imagine your girlfriend ***not*** understanding how this makes you uncomfortable, and pressing for a \\\"but we're old friends and I want to catch up alone\\\" if shes so naive or so disrespectful of your feelings to tell you, you can't come. Then I can only think of one reason why she would gamble and disrespect your feelings in such an obviously leading circumstance.\",\n \"591\"\n ],\n [\n \"I posted this in the last thread of this video and got downvoted with nobody saying anything, but I'm saying it again.\\n\\nIn event security you're told to pull the barrier if an overwhelming push is coming that you know it and you won't stand for. \\n\\nIn a multi-thousand person push/march, leaving the barrier is how people die at events. A standing one people can get crushed against, and a fallen one becomes a tripping hazard, and tripping leads to getting trampled by the crowd.\\n\\nI'm not saying it absolves everything, theres still some questions that need to be answered, I'm just saying the quick removal of the barrier isn't one of the questions that needs answering.\",\n \"955\"\n ],\n [\n \"My basement home theater room gets so little light that the buttons on my remote don't even glow. I have a hard time believing my remote will be getting enough light to function properly.\\n\\nbut I guess if all I have to do is bring my remote upstairs for an hour once a week or something means no more batteries I'll live with the inconvenience. but in my eyes its hardly where resources should be spent considering I don't think I've had to change a remotes batteries since 2001. They're pretty energy efficient these days and don't exactly go through batteries every 6months like when I was a kid.\",\n \"333\"\n ],\n [\n \"If a woman isnt willing to be the big spoon every once in awhile, then me and her aren't going to work out.\\n\\nits ok to be a man and want affection. It took me until probably 18-20 to realize it, but just because you're a man, doesn't mean you don't want to be oogled, cuddled, snuggled, and sometimes even taken care of or pitied.\\n\\nthese are normal feelings for people, just because you're a guy and its not the most societally accepted role for you, doesn't mean you don't have them.\\n\\nif you're like me, and you happen to usually be ok with the typical roles *most* of the time, but you just have your moments when you need a little affection in a reversed role, you just need to be willing to ask for it. Or spend enough time in a relationship with someone that they can tell when you need it (and they way they learn that, is by you asking).\\n\\njust don't be afraid to come home, sit next to your gf/SO and lay down and plop your head in her lap and say \\\"I had a shit day\\\". You'd be surprised how many women are entirely cool with that.\\n\\nMost ***real*** women, don't expect you to be the big, strong, stoic, man all the time. And in that position they'll treat you the way they like to be treated too. Because, again, all people feel this way sometimes.\",\n \"971\"\n ],\n [\n \"agreed, I hate having majority of the links that seem to make top page on reddit are nothingburgers that nobody should care about.\\n\\nI'm not saying the democratic reps, shouldn't be calling for the resignation, they absolutely should be. I'm just saying, nobody needs to be reading a reddit post about it, a news story doesn't need to be written about it.\\n\\nNothing will come of this because \\\"calling for\\\" this, that, or the other thing means zero to the other side. So why do I care to hear about it?\\n\\nits like saying \\\"Democratic reps showed up for work today\\\"\",\n \"945\"\n ],\n [\n \"I bought mine for $5k 4yrs ago '00 limited. Polished it, little bit of plastic restoration and kept the interior clean.\\n\\nEven with a couple of repaired rust spots and the usual wear and tear things like a torn driver's seat, flaked hood paint etc. I still had a guy offer me $10k for it a couple weeks ago.\",\n \"352\"\n ],\n [\n \"My old manager when we had complaints would say:\\n\\n\\\"ok, so cry me a river, build me a bridge, and jump the fuck off of it, what do you want me to do about it?\\\"\\n\\nI fucking hated that guy. and if you're reading this, now you're a bartender that just lost his job because of being lazy, and now I'm the parts manager of the third largest dealership on the continent. Maybe if you took some fucking responsibility you wouldn't have gotten fired from your fucking father in laws fucking store! Fuck you !\",\n \"428\"\n ],\n [\n \"This is what I'm expecting.\\n\\nI think they planned on putting out a few DLC's of new gear, maybe a new multi-part side mission. maybe a couple new iconics for the guns that didn't get them.\\n\\nbut because of that bad release, its not like their budget got *bigger* to account for it. That money is just going to be re-allocated from DLC extras, to finishing the game and fixing the problems.\\n\\nso now we'll still probably get some extra free DLC content, but it will probably be 1/10th what it would have been. but all that money that was going to go to making cool free stuff, is going to go to fixing things.\\n\\nthen in a year or two, we'll probably get a proper expansion that we'll have to pay for just like did.\",\n \"838\"\n ],\n [\n \"ABSOLUTELY!\\n\\nas an alberta resident, this is exactly what blows me away. I have multiple /MAGA co-workers. I don't understand it, why are you so stoked about a leader whos entire platform is \\\"fuck everybody else, I'm out for myself\\\".\\n\\nits a pretty far cry from the \\\"Canada is proud of our multiculturalism, and traditions of being friendly and working with other countries\\\" that I remember from when I was a kid. \\n\\nI don't understand how so many people can have this aggressive mindset against every other country or why they feel so threatened. Working together isn't just some lovey-dovey bullshit, its economically proven to advance your country to work and form trade deals with other countries.\\n\\nthe \\\"rugged individualism\\\" might sound all tough, but working together is how you succeed. \\\"rugged individualism\\\" is how you end up cold and alone, cloistered in your country swaddled in xenophobia. Go ask north korea how well its worked out for them to turn their back on the world and try and go it alone.\",\n \"760\"\n ],\n [\n \"When I was 16-17, me (dumbass) and my dumbass friends, used to take furniture that people left out as \\\"free\\\" on the side of the road, to the blacktop of an old school in my area, douse it in gasoline and light it on fire. We would then sit and smoke weed as it burned until the cops or fire department showed up (if they did at all).\\n\\nwe were 16-17yr old stoners and, while stoned mind you, we even had the braincells to know, to make a line of gas away from where your fire was going to be, and light it from far, far away.\\n\\nits astonishing that these guys had the braincells to even get this far out in the woods. They share the same IQ as the wood they're ~~burning~~ blowing up.\",\n \"630\"\n ],\n [\n \"I think the variance in gasoline engines for energy conservation maxes out at something super small like 2-3% these days (of the engine mind you, not the car as a whole as aerodynamics are going to play a huge part in your cars advertised fuel efficiency).\\n\\nIIRC out of the entirety of mankind knowing about the internal combustion engine, we've increased the efficiency by something silly small like 20%. but its been a long time since college, and I've smoke a lot of weed between then and now.\",\n \"726\"\n ],\n [\n \"I gotta say, I've never been a fan of 's comedy. I completely wrote him off as a \\\"low hanging fruit\\\" comedian using racial stereotypes and his \\\"haha hairy guy in a mankini\\\" type to get a laugh. Because of that, I never really looked into how many or what kind of characters he was playing past Borat.\\n\\nThat man just floored me. That speech was well articulated and powerful. He is a much deeper thinker than I gave him credit for. I may still not enjoy his comedy personally, like most personal tastes its not going to change where my funny bone is, but I sure have an entirely new respect for the man. I don't even really care if he started out his comedy with this mindset in mind. The man obviously has his heart and mind in the right place. I never thought I would say this, but I kind of wish more people out there were like borat....\",\n \"323\"\n ],\n [\n \"They have spent ***a lot*** of money in both straight up just buying and as well R & D of military equipment in the past 20ish years. Their army isn't really the \\\"low cost, cheap equipment, throw more soldiers at them to compensate\\\" of old.\\n\\nThey have a lot of new toys that they've never really played with and like a drunk 20yr old thats been taking MMA lessons for the past 12yrs they're itching for a fight to show how tough they think they are.\\n\\nand I think you're right, just like how WW1 was preceded by a lot of romanticizing the great wars of old and wanting to try out the new toys their militaries were playing with. People over the generations forget how awful war is, and they get back into the \\\"I want to get into a fight\\\" mindset of romanticizing war. \\n\\nI'm split on whether China is starting to fall into the romanticizing war and itching to fight category, or whether they're just playing this game of antagonization because they don't believe any nation's that matter militarily to them will ever actually get into a full out war with them so they know they can get away with it.\",\n \"753\"\n ],\n [\n \"This is exactly the same as the phone manufacturers getting rid of the headphone jack.\\n\\n***nobody*** wants a touch screen instead of tactile buttons/switches. Hard to change the volume on your stereo or adjust the heat while maintaining eyes on the road when its a touch screen. Just like nobody really wanted to give up the headphone jack.\\n\\nbut in the exact same thing as with phones, the manufacturers don't give a shit what you want, because touch screens look sleeker/more refined to execs and focus groups and in pictures, which to them = selling more cars. but unlike phone manufacturers, where there were some consumer benefits to the loss like waterproofing, and added space for newer larger radios, theres basically no benefit to consumers for the loss of buttons/switches in cars.\\n\\nabove all though, a single touch screen is ***way*** cheaper, and easier to replace than to produce a whole slew of custom switches, knobs, and buttons. Plus the blue collar car companies have been swallowing up the high end companies for the past while, they put their standard switches/controls in their high end brands to cut costs/make more money. this is why you have things like the shitty switches from a chrysler in your maserati. and they've been getting noticeable flak for it. So their solution is to just get rid of all switches wherever they can and add them into the \\\"infotainment system\\\".\",\n \"393\"\n ],\n [\n \"although I've started to hear rumblings of complaints from people recently. I think Tesla is spared the flak because \\n\\nA) they have a well designed UI \\n\\nB) there aren't many of them on the road and they're a niche market where people know what they're getting and there aren't many people out there in general to complain about them.\\n\\nC) they provide a large enough screen, with enough real estate to put majority of daily use selections on the main screen instead of hiding it in some menu 6 options deep. \\n\\ndo you remember like 10-15yrs ago, when manufacturers first started putting screens in cars just for GPS? The screens were like 4\\\" screens. My phone has a larger screen than the one in my dads mid 00's volvo for GPS. We sold Garmin GPS's that had auto update maps, with better graphics, that worked smoother, with bigger screens, for like $50.\\n\\nyeah, most car manufacturers still think thats an ok thing to do, but then they think they can throw it all on a touch screen at the same time. You can't go touchscreen only, and then cheap out and throw a barely responsive 5\\\" screen in your car with a terrible UI and still have it fly. That doesn't mean they aren't going to try though.\",\n \"49\"\n ],\n [\n \"exactly, focus groups, execs, and cost cutting are the reasons cars have touch screens.\\n\\nits just like phones doing away with the headphone jack, they don't think it'll make a better experience for you the consumer. They don't give a fuck what the consumers *want* as long as it sells more than the other guys, costs less and looks good to the execs and focus groups while doing it.\",\n \"393\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yeah, I'm surprised more people don't go ubiquiti. They've made their stuff pretty user friendly to even non-power users these days.\\n\\none of my co-workers, a mechanic that would still be using a flip phone if it didn't get weird looks (hates tech), was looking for some home security solutions, and as well was looking for some wifi solutions at the same time because he has an acreage. He asked me what I use in my house. I gave him some help picking out which products to buy because he didn't understand the specs of what he was looking at. but I offered to help him out if he ran into any problems since I was the one that suggested ubiquiti stuff to him.\\n\\nnope the tech illiterate bugger was able to set up about 4 cameras, a video doorbell, 2 WAP's, and even a point to point bridge out to his workshop. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure theres some refinement to be had in his network, but from what I can tell he's done a pretty decent job.\\n\\nI guess their stuff comes at a bit of a premium, but honestly if you get equipment with similar specs and ease of installation, you're probably not saving *that* much by going with another brand. and the ability to self host is pretty priceless IMO. Service fees *always* go up, companies always jerk around their most loyal customers, and the fear of having all my equipment bricked just because the company goes under is enough for me to happily pay the extra.\",\n \"465\"\n ],\n [\n \"heh, I dunno how long its going to be like this, but I was just looking and out of the top 20 posts there, 17 of them are for \\\"flaired users only\\\". The same people that make fun of others for needing a \\\"safe space\\\" are the same people locking up their sub to deliberately make it an echo chamber, and posting on almost every political sub post whining about how \\\"reddit is liberal trash\\\" and whining about why everyone downvotes them and doesn't agree with their ideals...\",\n \"728\"\n ],\n [\n \"> reddit is a perfect representation of what happens with ~~liberal~~ mob rule,\\n\\nFTFY, liberal has nothing to do with it. It's a social media platform, not a news distribution platform where they have to pretend that all stances are equal. It's mob rule corner to corner, not just politics. It's literally a site wide popularity contest, and republicans are the minority in their own country, let alone the world, ***of course*** you're going to be downvoted, the vast, vast majority of the world (the mob) don't agree with the republican ideology. \\n\\nNot really sure what you were expecting.\",\n \"126\"\n ],\n [\n \"this is my favourite way to play it. I honestly don't really mind answering a few calls here and there to help out my work, I'm 31 with no kids, I'm not exactly too busy. but this isn't a friendship, this is a \\\"you pay me, and I do shit for you\\\" relationship. Its business, and I expect to be paid for my efforts. If I can get some OT out of it, then I'm game.\\n\\nbut if I'm not being paid to do it, I'm not lifting a finger. Its not like the owner is going to show up at my house to help me move. So why should I be doing free favours for him? but if you want to have me on hourly, then you pay me $57, and I do whatever you want for an hour, thats the deal. If you don't pay me, I don't work.\",\n \"1017\"\n ],\n [\n \"If he cared he would just be jealous of the numbers is putting up.\\n\\nmore drone strikes in first 2yrs of office than obamas full 8yrs\\n\\nmore civilians killed by them in the first year of admin than in obamas 8yrs\\n\\npast the first 2yrs, overturned obamas executive order of drone strikes being public record so he could hide his numbers because he knew they made him look bad.\\n\\n wasn't a saint or anything, but drone strikes isn't really something or his supporters probably want to bring up. If you're going to make snarky comments like that, maybe try and keep informed/up to date.\",\n \"533\"\n ],\n [\n \"I'm foreign, but that's what surprised me too. I knew was going to be a loud mouthed idiot. But I figured at some point he would do something so blatent that the guys like and that bad mouthed him before the 2016 election would go back to hating him and take their chance to throw w him under the bus.\\n\\nBut it never came, they just kept towing the party line no matter what. To the point that even many Republicans started to flip. I never thought they would push the R's far enough to vote D/not show up\",\n \"469\"\n ],\n [\n \"as far as total cost, they would definitely be better off just adding them all at once.\\n\\nbut a condo isn't an apartment, and total cost doesn't matter because the costs need to be either individual or shared by everyone.. You'd have to convince the condo board that its in the best interests of the entire building for everyone to chip in to add them.\\n\\nand even then, you have to find out some way to tell which stall is tied to which condo, to which charger. because the whole building isn't going to want to all start chipping in to charge your car for you. They're going to want it tied to your meter. Hence the daughter panel that he's talking about, the power to that charging station is obviously tied to the meter and power panel of their individual condo so that the electricity is billed to their unit.\\n\\nand if theres only a couple chargers per parking area, who gets the chargers? what if there are more people with EV's than chargers? what if there are less? \\n\\netc. etc.\\n\\nits just a whole bag of worms that needs to be figured out and each building needs to figure it out independently since they're all owned by the individuals.\\n\\nall these problems (and more) are solvable, its not like these are questions without answers, but there are different ways to solve it, and some people are going to be ok with a way, and others wont be. So it all needs to be hashed out.\",\n \"202\"\n ],\n [\n \"and if it was a single/select few communal spot(s) for charging all the EV's who pays for it? does the whole building now pay for the electricity to charge the cars of the few that purchase EV's? do they have to install a swipe card \\\"charge it to this unit\\\" system?\\n\\nare you now helping to pay to charge my EV every night?\\n\\nif its an apartment building, who pays to upgrade to having a charging station? the landlord? if it wasn't a part of the original lease then why would the government have the ability to force him to upgrade the place with EV charging? If the government doesn't get involved, its hard enough to get your landlord to fix a broken appliance that ***is*** contractually a part of the lease, how hard do you think its going to be to get them to voluntarily install a charging station that costs 10x what the dishwasher cost.\\n\\nits a good idea to start thinking about mandating EV charging being available in new construction in more places than it already is, but just don't expect some big EV wave to come along and start changing all the old buildings to being EV capable any time soon. Its just not feasible for too many places.\",\n \"202\"\n ],\n [\n \"Well a lot of guys are still in the, good ol' boy / \\\"diesel or nothing\\\" category. But theres enough of them that have told me that they're on the wait list for an EV that its surprised me. \\n\\nI work in a semi truck dealership, there are more truckers and farm guys coming in telling me they're going to be buying an EV here in AB, than there were people telling me they were going to be buying an EV 2yrs ago when I lived in BC and worked at a canadian tire in the suburbs. \\n\\nmaybe its just that they're more likely to talk about it, but the general \\\"talk\\\" at the counter has been surprisingly positive.\",\n \"202\"\n ],\n [\n \"Depends on if I bought the car like that.\\n\\nMy 4runner has a cracked exhaust manifold so it ticks constantly and drives my gf nuts, but I don't even hear it anymore.\\n\\nMy sunroof started rattling a little when it's closed with the shade open about a week ago, and I swear that shit is going to make me go postal if I don't find our where its coming from in the next week.\",\n \"400\"\n ],\n [\n \"I was super pissed when I realized they were doing this. \\n\\nI was stuck in the wasteland because of some other glitchy fuckery. I couldn't spawn a vehicle, because it would show the marker of my vehicle approaching, but it would just never arrive.\\n\\nso I started just running towards town hoping to jack a vehicle. there were always headlights in the distance, but a car never spawned. I ended up having to run, basically from the main nomad camp all the way into town. I didn't exactly time it, but I'm pretty sure it was a full 10-15min of running down a dark lifeless/empty highway until I found a car I could finally steal to get my as to a quick travel point.\\n\\nit was so frustrating.\",\n \"8\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yeah, generally with these types of things they're required to provide at least *some* information. but not so much as to give away too much.\\n\\nthey usually set some sort of a baseline in the court as to whats unacceptable information to give out, and you're required to give any information up to the point of the baseline.\\n\\nso for example in the medical industry, if a doctor is doing a study, and needs a bunch of information, the baseline is usually individual identification. So they can pull whatever info they want, as long as, together, you wouldn't be able to figure out who the people are with the information provided.\\n\\nfor example they might be able to ask \\\"how many people in Nevada, died of lung cancer\\\" because thats going to give a list of thousands, but if they ask \\\"how many males between the ages of 46-48 died in Nevada of lung cancer between March 25 and march 30 in 2018.\\\" that would be rejected, Because that might only be a list of a handful of people, and from that list you might be able to take that information and say \\\"that death there must have been \\\" \\n\\nso its probably something similar where they're going to set a baseline of where Valve is allowed to start fighting back about the release of information and anything up to that point is fair game.\",\n \"779\"\n ],\n [\n \"I dunno about you, but I also don't usually get along with people that call themselves stoners in their bio.\\n\\nI mean, yeah, I probably smoke enough weed to be put in the \\\"stoner\\\" category, but people who self identify as a stoner in things like social media, are often the same kind of people that think the fact that they smoke weed is a personality trait.\",\n \"336\"\n ],\n [\n \"meh I'm torn on it.\\n\\nin the early seasons shes super supportive and ready to sacrifice everything for the family, but she goes through a long time in the middle seasons where shes barely connected to the rest of the cast because they're growing up, and shes off doing her own thing.\\n\\nand I think a lot of people forget all the awful shit she does throughout the series that kind of goes completely against that character trait, and shows shes just as selfish and shitty as everyone else in the show.\\n\\nfor most of seasons 2-3-4 shes fucking up the kids and (and plenty of other peoples) lives up a lot more than shes helping them.\",\n \"513\"\n ],\n [\n \"Oh definitely, it fits with the character and fits with the show. Completely understandable to spiral a bit with the pressure and shit she's dealing with. And it makes sense that after raising the kids her whole life she has no idea how to be a responsible adult herself. Everyone is terrible and pretty selfish in the show.\\n\\nShe's a great character for the show, but I wouldn't call her a good person any more than the other characters.\",\n \"522\"\n ],\n [\n \"Arguing that pretty much any of the clan is a good person is kind of nuts to me.\\n\\nThey're all excellent ***characters*** but that doesn't make them a good *person*.\\n\\n cheated on pretty much every guy she's with in the series, she squandered the rent money on more than one occasion, left loam to get into her cocaine and wanted to drop out of college so that she didn't have to plead guilty. And that's all in the first 4-5 seasons.\\n\\nSure it's understandable, she was under insane amounts of pressure, never really learned how to be a responsible adult herself, never was able to really catch a break.\\n\\nIt all make sense and makes her a great character, but everyone in the show has their moments where they do awful, selfish things that fuck over the people they love. None of them are really good people. It's kind of the whole shtick of the show, these peoples selfish and shitty moments mixed with their moments of redemption.\",\n \"513\"\n ],\n [\n \"I'm not gay myself, but I've spent a lot of time and have a lot of friends in the scene with various gender identities and sexualities.\\n\\nSomething thats constantly brought up, is how there are ***a lot*** of people that identify as gay, that believe exactly that, you're either gay or straight and bisexual doesn't exist.\\n\\nI lived in a pretty progressive part of canada most of my life, but for every random homophobe I've met, I've probably met 2 gay people with an opinion of \\\"bisexual doesn't exist, people who say they're bi are just closet about being gay\\\" or \\\"bisexual doesn't exist they're just straight and looking for attention\\\"\\n\\nfor the record, I don't agree with that point of view, I firmly believe its all a spectrum and you can fall anywhere on it, at any point in time, with any particular person. but there are a lot of prejudiced gay people out there.\",\n \"640\"\n ],\n [\n \"how is this karma?\\n\\nfrom the original thread, apparently some chick was smashing a phone (maybe hers, maybe her boyfriends) she threw it on the ground and started stomping on it and kicked it into the street and left it there. was drunk, wandered out there saw it, saw that she left it, took a look, and whipped it. Alright not the best idea. Then proceeds to get his ass beat out of nowhere by the bf, and the gf, they're literally stomping on him, kicking him in the head, kicking him in the stomach while hes down, thats how you fucking kill people. \\n\\nat **best** this is a complete over-reaction, although if anything this is the reverse of karma. the asshole shit kicking a guy while hes down gets off completely scot-free.\",\n \"1012\"\n ],\n [\n \"nah, other way around, that center lane is called a \\\"suicide lane\\\" (slang term) its used as a left turn waiting lane for both directions of traffic (yes this has the obvious design flaw of two cars going opposite directions pulling into it and causing a head on collision).\\n\\nsince this is a legal lane of use (although not legal to use for *travel*) and its an active lane as opposed to a static intersection where the blue car was) then the pt cruiser therefore had the right of way and the blue car is supposed to yield to the moving traffic. Compounded with the fact that if you can't see where you're going you're not supposed to go.\\n\\nso the blue car was technically in the wrong.\\n\\nthis is of course assuming the pt cruiser was preparing to turn left into the driveway(?) of the business on the left side of the road here\",\n \"523\"\n ],\n [\n \"> It wasn't. Not at that speed.\\n\\nthey very well could have been going for the second left in the frame of the video, theres really no way for ***either of us*** to say definitively. Its very possible they were actively slowing down to make a turn at the speed they were going, its not like they were flying along at 80km/hr. \\n\\nso unless you're a mind reader, or you were the one driving the silver car, theres no real way for you to speak that definitively.\\n\\nall that we ***can*** know, is that the blue car, pulled from a static lane onto an active lane, without being able to see where they were going\",\n \"523\"\n ],\n [\n \"> You are only supposed to enter this lane to make a left turn when there are no left turns for the opposite flow of traffic\\n\\nthese lanes are specifically for roads where there are multiple turn outs on both sides of the road that would required left turn lanes, but they don't have the distance between each turn out to give them their own turn lanes. So they're pretty much *only* used when *both* lanes have left turns to make.\\n\\nAs for speed, Its not like they were flying at 80-90km/hr, maybe a little too fast to turn right away, maybe not, neither of us have a radar gun or know the speed limit of this road. The road I take to work every day is a 75km/hr zone and has one of these lanes down the entire road. and if they were trying to make the left thats in the frame, then thats a pretty reasonable distance to drop speed for a left turn.\\n\\nbut no matter what, pretty much any discussion as to speed is irrelevant since neither of us know any specifics about it, all that you can say for absolute certain. Is the silver was in an active lane, and blue car was in a static lane, and silver could see where he was going, and blue obviously couldn't.\",\n \"523\"\n ],\n [\n \"yeah, but on that same hand there are far too many people in this sub that think someone driving in your blindspot makes *them* responsible for the collision. Sure its dumb to sit there in a blind spot, and I find it infuriating when someone just matches my speed and camps out in my blindspot. but at no point would I think its their fault if I hit them while changing lanes because of it.\\n\\nIts never someone ***elses responsibility*** to avoid someones blindspot, it is ***your responsibility*** to check the blindspot before changing lanes.\\n\\nso yeah, cammer was *dumb* to drive in this trucks blindspot like that, however the truck was ***dumber*** for hitting them because they weren't paying attention to the fact that someone entered their blindspot and never left, and if they can't keep track of that, not adding a mirror in an appropriate place to be able to monitor that area and eliminate the blindspot.\",\n \"449\"\n ],\n [\n \"plus people on this sub like to act as if the equipment on your vehicle is some unchangeable act of god. If you drive a truck *you can add mirrors to the truck*. if you have a large enough blindspot that a car can fit into it *its your responsibility to add a mirror in an appropriate place to eliminate that blindspot.* Blindspots aren't some unchangeable fact of your vehicle, if you have one large enough to be problematic, you can solve the issue. If you don't then you don't then get to blame the other guy for just driving in their lane and ending up in your blindspot. its one thing to have blindspot where if I stand or put something small in just the right space you can't see it, but if your blindspot is right next to your truck, and large enough that a car can fit into it, then its still your fault for not eliminating such an obvious problem with your vehicle.\",\n \"523\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yeah, and for all you know he *was* turning left, the rear of his car isn't in frame long enough before the collision to say whether his signal was on or not, and even without a signal that doesn't put him legally at fault for the blue driver to turn for the same reason as if someone *does* have their turn signal on so you pull out and get hit because they drive straight.\\n\\nAnd no matter what silver car was doing, blue car is at fault because you're still required to yield for an active lane if you're in a static lane, and you're still required to see where you're going before starting a maneuver.\",\n \"523\"\n ],\n [\n \"> No, the silver car is illegally traveling in a turn lane,\\n\\nprove it.\\n\\nif the crux of your argument is the silver car traveling illegally down the center lane, prove it. From this video neither of us can prove it in either direction. your entire argument is based off of that *assumption* and thats all it is, is an assumption. He could very easily be heading for one of the two turn offs in the frame. Especially since he *is* noticeably slowing down since if you go frame by frame you can see his brake lights are lit up when he enters the frame.\\n\\nthe reason hes not in frame for very long is because the crash happens ***2 car lengths*** in front of the cam car. Hes not driving noticeably faster in his direction than any of the oncoming traffic is traveling in their direction, and you don't know the speed limit.\\n\\nand you can only ***prove*** that silver was on an active road, blue was on a static intersection, could see where he was going, couldn't see where he was going (obviously)\",\n \"523\"\n ],\n [\n \"Honestly I just wanted to make the joke that google image search is fucking awful these days because it always goes to Pintrest and Pintrest is a dumpster fire since it strips all context, backstory, etc. Off the image it's just random crap that goes nowhere that kills your ability to use Google image search effectively.\\n\\nReally I'm just trying to say fuck Pintrest.\",\n \"99\"\n ],\n [\n \"Well if you're good for \\\"a few hundred feet\\\" then I'm seriously curious as to how long you think these cars are. A pt cruiser is ~10' long and the crash happens 2 car lengths in front of cammer, so even of you count the cam car that's about 30' of travel, even if you add distance between cars you're maxing out at ~50' and that's assuming a full car length of distance between each car which there most certainly is not.\",\n \"449\"\n ],\n [\n \"exactly. offshore accounts and corporations aren't used to hoard money, the money flows *through* the account, and then funneled at an appropriate rate back into high earning countries at a rate that lowers how much they pay on taxes and after diversifying to yet *more* countries and other corporations back to where they need it.Its all a shell game to create convoluted paths to lower how much they pay in taxes and fees. It doesn't make any sense to invest and leave a bunch of money in a country with low economic growth, you move it back to countries like china, US, Canada Etc. where the growth rate is significantly higher and you can make more money re-investing it there.\\n\\nthat way if company you own A in Country X makes too much money this year and is going to get taxed too heavily, you incorporate in country Y under Company B with a low tax rate then Company B \\\"charges\\\" company A for whatever made up bullshit you can justify to the tax man. Then you move *just* enough money back into Company A to get it to a net Zero \\\"profit\\\" so that it pays no tax, whatever is left over you move to a different company, country or whatever.\\n\\nthe game is making up companies in whatever country has the tax breaks or loopholes required for whatever it is you need that money to do, then moving it back to where it gets its maximum return under a heading that doesn't constitute \\\"personal income\\\" and therefore paying the lowest tax and creating the largest gain. The huge corporations move money from company to company and country to country the same way we move money from our savings account to chequing account to credit card.\",\n \"786\"\n ],\n [\n \"> For one it's an HHR. Both are almost fifteen feet long.\\n\\nok, so still ~50' since I gave a full 10' between cars, even if I give you the benefit of keeping 10' between cars, that makes it ~60' so silver still has ***over double*** the distance we've seen traveled already before he's done anything illegal if they get \\\"a couple hundred feet\\\"\\n\\n > and he certainly wasn't going for that\\n\\nand please, tell me how you know which left he was going for? \\n\\n > and that guy was hauling.\\n\\noh? how fast was he going? what's the speed limit on the road they're on?\\n\\n > It's very obvious the silver car was illegally using the lane.\\n\\nif its so obvious then why is everything you're saying completely based off of assumptions with zero proof of any kind involved? \\n\\n > I didn't read all this but it's pretty simple.\\n\\nif you're going to blatantly state that you're not willing to read whats already written, and you're just going to ask the same questions that I've already answered to other people, then I'm done answering because if you're not willing to do the bare minimum of having a conversation then I don't think you really deserve the respect of an answer.\\n\\nThe only ***facts*** that we have, is was in a static lane, and was in an active lane, and could see where he was going and obviously couldn't\",\n \"462\"\n ],\n [\n \"its not a myth because we're talking about the same thing. Sure some money is definitely going to be in stable long term investments just like anybody else. \\n\\nbut when you say \\\"By investing it more actively than that you can make a lot more without ever doing anything shady.\\\" I'm not sure if you know what that means, because active investment is exactly what I'm talking about. Just scaled up from what you or I could ever do and with a couple extra steps that aren't shady at all, I'm not exactly talking about money laundering here. Its just using the tax breaks provided by different governments since different governments give higher tax breaks in different sectors that they're looking to grow and using already owned assets and investments to move money around using income and expenditure sheets to try and zero out income so as to lower taxes in the areas that you would pay high taxes by moving that income to companies and revenue sheets that are losing money through internal re-investment plans.\\n\\nit ***is*** active investment, its just scaled up to the point where you're able to take that investment money and buy and make and use entire companies which aren't necessarily in the same country to do it.\",\n \"786\"\n ],\n [\n \"I actually work at a heavy duty(semi's) truck shop, our in house welder has offered to give me some pointers for the price of a coffee a day, and I'm allowed to use the scrap metal from our metal pile stock for practice material.\\n\\njust learning to weld and making my own is where I'm leaning right now, especially since I know I'll be wanting to weld other things in the future. They'll even let me use the shop welder to practice with, although they wont let me build the bumper here unless I cart it back and forth every day since they don't want a project like that just lying around taking up space, and they won't let an employee vehicle actually *inside* the shop so no test fitting or removal or installation allowed, but I can do that at my garage at home anyway.\",\n \"742\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yeah its like nobody remembers the start of Blu-ray or pretty much any new Sony tech. Sony refused to allow anyone to make a Blu-ray product for *years*. The only way you could get a Blu-ray player was by buying a Sony one. The only reason Blu-ray stuck around at all was because any Sony movie such as the matrix movies and such would *only* be released on Blu-ray, and even then it was failing until they made a gaming console with a Blu-ray player. They refused to let anyone in on it for a long ass time, in fact I'm surprised they ever opened it up to license other companies to use it.\\n\\nBut yeah, betamax , minidisc, Blu-ray, every Sony tech they won't share in the hopes that they can take over an industry with it. They're basically the Apple of the media industry.\",\n \"854\"\n ],\n [\n \"definitely a streetable car, I've been going around through forums but I've seen what happens when guys just follow the advice of forums and end up with a mess of a build. Especially since you get a lot of guys with opinions based on numbers without experience, so sometimes they just recommend whatever gives the most power, but you end up with a car that you basically have to get it to 1800RPM-2000RPM before the damn thing starts moving.\\n\\nI don't want to make the mistake of following the advice of a guy whos giving it from the experience of a drag racer, because I'm not building a strip car. and I know enough to know that you can't have it both ways, the closer you get to making it into a drag car, the farther you'll be from a streetable daily driver.\\n\\nbut anyways, yes, streetable car, pump gas, I'm looking to build it as a \\\"weekend car\\\" since it'll only be driven for a few months a year, I have a dedicated winter vehicle, this is going to be a my fun summer vehicle.\",\n \"54\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yeah, I love woodworking, and fixing general plumbing and electrical around the house. It's always cool to say \\\"I made that from scratch\\\" plus I get to have it be exactly what I want. I'm just worried about doing something like this myself since I would want it to be winch capable and such. I've also been playing with the idea of getting something like a Smitty one and modifying it to my taste, kind of splitting the difference, but the frame tie ins and winch mount are done professionally.\",\n \"309\"\n ],\n [\n \"the problem with that is, ok I paid $700k for an ocean front property to retire on,I build a house, I spent the last of my money to buy it, in a beautiful island location. it stays there for 5yrs and a hurricane comes and destroys it, up to a few blocks inland. The town/city decides to not rebuild infrastructure in my area because they deem it non-financially viable to continue rebuilding in the area and pull the town/city limit back from the beachfront to higher ground where flooding during hurricanes is less likely to happen.\\n\\nnow what do I do? what is my property worth? am I still able to sell it? to whom? technically the property is still there and above ground once the hurricane recedes. does the city just now no longer allow beachfront property? where do I live now and how do I recoup costs? if someone pays, who? the insurance company? the city/town?\\n\\nI agree with your main point, sometimes if the weather continues to destroy property, at what point do you just say , enough is enough. some of these areas were first settled 100yrs ago when we didn't have all the history of regular destruction that we have now to tell them \\\"hey don't build here unless you want your home destroyed every 5yrs, maybe build a few 100 meters that way on the higher ground\\\" but at the same time there are so many gritty details about it that its hard to come up with a workable game plan for it.\",\n \"69\"\n ],\n [\n \"I agree, thats where its headed, to the ranch becoming native land. (*eventually*)\\n\\nits really the only way I see to finally stop private companies from encroaching on the territory. \\n\\nthey've made a lot of hints towards \\\"what person needs this much land?\\\" and a lot of allusions to how it was originally taken from the natives. As well how and his wife want to live on the land but also the reservation. \\n\\nI have a feeling it'll be an annexation/donation. They'll make it all reserve land, so the reservation natives can use it for ranching and continuing their way of life, as well as distancing themselves from casinos which Rainwater has also said is his goal.\\n\\nthat tied with how Rainwater, and don't seem to actually have any real bad blood between them. Sure they're at odds, but only because of the situation. They seem to hold the same general values, and want the same sort of things.\\n\\nmy guess is in the end is going to die, and all the kids are going to want to give up the land to each other. They'll realize none of them really want it, so they're going to give it back to the reservation on condition that it stays being used for ranching.\",\n \"233\"\n ],\n [\n \"My guess since season 1 has been that is going to die at the beginning of the last season, possibly at the same time as but I doubt it. \\n\\nI originally didn't think would survive the series, but lately I've been favoring the idea that is going to, in some way, sacrifice herself for . Possibly leaving him with a child if the series carries on long enough for it to happen. I have a strong feeling that after said something along the lines of, \\\"god never kills me, only the things that I love\\\" (paraphrased). That she'll finally get her chance to die for something she loves. This will leave in a similar widower circumstance to . Forever pining for his lost love, and possibly with a child to boot. \\n\\nThe last season will be the kids fighting about who gets what of the ranch, until the end when they all realize none of them really want the ranch, and they'll annex it to the reserve under condition that it stays a ranch.\\n\\nKayce and co. will live on the reserve/ranch helping the reservation take over and take care of the ranch. The ranch stays a ranch satisfying wishes, Kayce can be separate of the ranch, the reserve gets more land and in a way that keeps private interests from being able to take it ever again, all the \\\"city\\\" family members can go back to the city, the wife /son get to stay as part of the reservation like they wanted. etc. \\n\\nit seems to tick all the boxes of tragedy and happiness. So thats the theory I'm going with for now\",\n \"311\"\n ],\n [\n \"I'm actually from Canada, but from what I understand Montana's winters are similar to where I am (-15c to -30c ish during the winter)\\n\\nI audibly laughed at one scene when they said it was winter and they were outside in just a regular calfskin jacket that they would wear in a summer scene but just with a scarf and pulled a little tighter. \\n\\nyou are not sitting outside in a rocking chair in -30c weather in just a calfskin jacket and enjoying yourself. past about -25c and the air starts to fucking hurt.\",\n \"891\"\n ],\n [\n \"I always loved how in shows like CSI, they just pop a sample into a machine, wait 30sec and \\\"bing\\\" \\\"its a match!\\\"\\n\\nlol, no. In real life, you take a blood sample, you send it off to a facility to have it DNA tested, and you might hear back in 3 weeks. *maybe* if you get the paperwork to mark it as priority. If not, you're probably waiting 3 months.\\n\\ncrime scene testing facilities are notoriously backed up.\",\n \"1\"\n ],\n [\n \"sort of. The lawlessness is slightly exaggerated, the poverty depends on the reservation but is mostly understated. \\n\\nThere is a certain degree of both in all reservations though. Its true that the disputes between jurisdiction are real. and most reservation police are underfunded, under staffed, and therefore have to let some stuff fall through the cracks. \\n\\nas well its true that most reservations have a higher percentage of people below the poverty line. \\n\\nits super hard to generalize though, because each reservation is different. I've seen res where you can't even tell you crossed a boundary into one because its so similar to the town its attached to.\\n\\nbut I've also seen some where they're basically a shanty town and its like stepping into a war torn country. \\n\\nit also depends on whos running the reservations. I've seen res's where those in power are crazy rich, and the rest of the res is basically poverty stricken. and some where those in power you wouldn't even notice because they're just like everyone.\\n\\nthe stories of forced sterilization, \\\"reservation schools\\\" where people tried to indoctrinate them/erase their heritage and gave them new names etc. and the general idea of cultural genocide is unfortunately very true, and quite underplayed though. Most of those with native heritage that you might meet these days might be a bit far removed from it. but pretty much every single family has *at least* one family member with a story about these horrific things.\",\n \"276\"\n ],\n [\n \"> no one sold just the pump itself, they all sold the pump assembly. \\n\\nIt's rare that we get anyone that wants just the pump. Usually there's enough of a reason to just change the whole thing, and what you pay in part pricing you save in shop time.\\n\\n > this was the most angry I had ever been at a parts counter guy.\\n\\nExactly why I warn people before I sell them something like this. It's a mistake you only make once to order the universal style for one of your techs. Especially when they're paid by the job like my first partsman post was. It's one thing to screw up when it's hourly, another to screw up in a way that your tech now loses money today because of your screw up. \\n\\n > im guessing that the reason they sell you the entire assembly is to avoid just this situation.\\n\\nThat's exactly why I warn the customer if they're not getting an exact fit part. No parts guy wants to be the one on the other side of the counter in that situation. If frustration is going to be involved, make sure it's the customers choice. That way they can't blame you when they decide to cheap out on the \\\"universal\\\" NOX sensor that's $100 cheaper than the exact fit.\",\n \"493\"\n ],\n [\n \"I didn't really catch on until my early twenties. My middle school and highschool were the same school (grades 7-12) so that same type of BS was pervasive all the way through.\\n\\nIt wasn't until I was out of HS that I realized, if you just say it confidently and with a smile, and own it, and have a sense of humour about it. There really isn't anything \\\"too childish\\\" to be into.\\n\\nI'm now 31 and I work with mechanics and truckers, and yesterday I was showing off my plex server and telling a guy \\\"fuck yeah I have reboot on my server! that shit was awesome back in the day. I have 90's spiderman and the clone wars too!\\\"\\n\\nit takes awhile, but eventually you realize people can only make fun of you, if you let it get to you. As long as, to you, its not something to be ashamed of. It just makes them look like the immature ass trying to pick on someone.\\n\\nchances are, if they're friends, theres at least one person there that will back you up because friends are usually into the same sorts of things.\\n\\nif everyone turns and starts joining in making fun of you, well, chances are these aren't really friends or not the right friends for you.\",\n \"339\"\n ],\n [\n \"> So many pretend experts that never even hint that they're unsure or speaking hypothetically. They just make statements with an air of absolute certainty, yet they're totally wrong.\\n\\nreddit is a funny place for that. I'm a partsman by trade, so my usual mindset is to caveat ***everything***, talk ambiguously whenever I can, and try my best to never speak in absolutes whenever possible.\\n\\nyou'll notice when you talk to a partsguy, they try to *never* give you a straight answer. its always \\\"***if all goes well*** the part should arrive on this day\\\", or \\\"***unless something happens*** I expect it to go like this\\\", or \\\"***generally*** this is caused by, or ***usually*** happens like this\\\"\\n\\nbut even with all my caveats, and muddy statements, I still get comments all the time of people saying \\\"Thats not the way it works at my shop you're wrong!\\\" \\n\\nsomehow almost everyone on reddit seems to think every generalization ***must*** refer to them personally. and any form of vague statement is proved wrong simply by the fact that its not their personal experience, so therefore its impossible for it to be any different.\",\n \"247\"\n ],\n [\n \"This can really kick you in the ass too. My parents are dealing with it right now where the first inspector for when they were getting the construction permit said the deck they're rebuilding would still count as a grandfathered installation as long as they don't change the footings or square footage. The second inspector that came in to certify it decided it doesn't count since its all new from the footings up.\\n\\nThe thing is, the bank behind the house has receded in the 40yrs since the original construction, so now the deck isn't to code for distance from the bank and he says they have to demolish the deck and rebuild. The new code would cut the deck down to 1/3rd the size of the original.\\n\\nAnd apparently once an inspector cites it as out of code it's next to impossible to reverse.\",\n \"623\"\n ],\n [\n \"A lot of people mix up stainless steel and Nickle plated steel. They see a polished shine and assume its stainless. But stainless is used on very few products since the addition of chromium lowers its strength considerably.\\n\\nFor example in automotive we mostly use grade 8 bolts, grade 5 is considered ok if it's not structural, so for like body panels and such. stainless bolts are soft enough that they only go on trim pieces.\\n\\nYou're not breaking it by hand, but with a normal wrench a toddler could snap the head off of one.\\n\\nIf that stopper was made with true stainless steel, if you dropped a heavy pot filled with water onto it, it would probably bend.\",\n \"304\"\n ],\n [\n \"unfortunately not an option, once its been cited for changes and the paperwork has been done for it to be called a new construction its grandfathered status is removed. Getting it reversed is close to impossible, especially with the original already demolished and the \\\"new\\\" one already built. it can take months during a good time if they even allow it at all, and because of covid backlogs, its been since the summer of 2019.\",\n \"69\"\n ],\n [\n \"I mean, its obviously not quite as clear cut as that. There are a ***tonne*** of factors that go into it. but the overarching point that the national deficit isn't as bad or as important as people think it is, and has a lot of wiggle room in a country like america is semi-true. There are times where its actually a good thing to run a larger deficit, and there are times when you want to reign the deficit in.\\n\\nhowever people seem to think that any deficit is bad. They think of it like they think of their mortgage, as if the country owes someone money and has to keep up payments or they might lose the house. People make statements all the time about how \\\"america owes china so much money!\\\" but its not that simple.\",\n \"264\"\n ],\n [\n \"yeah, like I said in my comment above, people think of the national debt like they think of their mortgage for some reason. Like its a bill that one day might come due, and if you can't pay they'll take the house.\\n\\nbut thinking that way is like thinking, because money is technically an IOU from the government, that I can show up at the Leg and demand \\\"payment\\\" for all the money I have and that I'm \\\"calling in the debt\\\" it just doesn't really make sense, and money doesn't work that way and even if it did, what would they \\\"pay\\\" me with?\\n\\nthe national deficit doesn't work like that either. Theres no \\\"bill\\\" coming.\",\n \"264\"\n ],\n [\n \"They did actually look into that, but a retaining wall would have to be about 4 stories tall because of where a solid base could be found and would require a lot of special allowances. They live on the water, and the bank goes down to the beach. A retaining wall would be far too close to the ocean so they fall into the same problem as the deck vs bank distance, they would have a problem with the retaining wall vs ocean distance. You can only build so close to the shore. Plus its a lot harder to get a special allowance to build closer to the ocean than it is to build closer to a bank. You have to have environmental/marine studies done and get an engineer out there. \\n\\nThey looked into it a bit with their neighbor who owns a construction company, but he said to build a retaining wall that size it would cost a small fortune in construction because they have to install horizontal pilings (not sure what the technical name is when they're horizontal) to anchor the retaining wall into the bank, and the cost to fill would be insane for the amount of material it would need. Plus it would require removing all the foliage on the bank and destroy any privacy/the natural landscape view that they love so much.\\n\\nat least because of the long wait time, they've gotten to leave the deck up and they've been using it all summer haha.\",\n \"69\"\n ],\n [\n \"dawww what a cutie, they're so adorable when they're so tiny. Take lots of pictures, they grow quickly and you'll forget how crazy small they start out.\\n\\nas an aside, I have a Hermanns myself and started out with a similar mix of substrate. when he was a bout a year old he started eating the mulch. I found a stick that was half the length of his body in his poop once and never went back. I switched to just a black earth/soil substrate. It means you have to mix it up and add water more often to keep it moist, and of course dirt/dust, but I find its a better substrate that I don't have to worry as much about.\",\n \"173\"\n ],\n [\n \"a UVB specific bulb will work, or an MVB bulb will do both UVB and heat.\\n\\nif your local climate and sun doesn't allow for your torts temperature and light requirements then your tort should have a dedicated heat lamp of some sort (not a heat mat!).\\n\\nif you go with MVB be careful with the height of the bulb, they can get quite hot. and remember your torts shell is higher than the ground, check the temp at the torts height, not at ground level.\",\n \"333\"\n ],\n [\n \"I have moved multiple times, a few apartments, and a few condos before I bought my house.\\n\\nI've never had a landlord consider my tort as a \\\"pet\\\" in the housing/apartment rental sense of the word. \\n\\ngenerally when they would mention its no pets I would awkwardly say \\\"well I do kind of have a pet, he's just a little tortoise though, he stays in his enclosure most off the time\\\"\\n\\nthe usual response was them laughing at me and saying \\\"no just cats and dogs are a problem\\\"\\n\\nusually followed up with asking for pictures or other questions about him, like what does he eat, and how big is he, and whats he like and other curiosity questions.\\n\\nthe only problem was ever finding an apartment with enough space to fit me, my stuff, and my enclosure. Tortoise enclosures take up a lot of your square footage.\",\n \"287\"\n ],\n [\n \"Don't forget driving around with their load lights on, and the ultra bright LED's they throw in that they never re-aimed after their lift.\\n\\nI work in automotive, you wouldn't believe how many guys stand at the counter laughing about how people flash their high beams at them while they drive. It's a point of pride for them.\\n\\n\\\"haha, yeah I got those ultra bright LED's they're great! I get guys flashing their highs at me all the time, then I turn on my high beams back and just fucking blind them, Hahaha\\\"\\n\\n\\\"maybe you just need to aim them down a bit\\\" \\n\\n\\\"nah, I checked them on my garage door they look just fine, people just need to stop being pansies. Everyone has brighter headlights these days. You've got to have them or you can't see anything\\\" \\n\\nThat's a conversation I get probably 3 times a week. The lack of self reflection is fucking painful.\",\n \"449\"\n ],\n [\n \"You're right that's definitely a problem I've seen. \\n\\nBut, I actually don't really ever see aftermarket HID's. Obviously some guys do have them, but it's probably been a year or two since I've seen a set of aftermarket ones. Sometimes factory ones in a Merc or something, but HID's didn't have that long of a hayday and most people are scared off from the high bulb replacement cost. Plus they're finicky as hell with the ballasts, and melted housings and whatnot. \\n\\nAftermarket LED's are everywhere these days though, so the exact same problems of non-projection lenses you're describing just a different style, and the LED'S these days are about just as bright. I get more vehicles in with aftermarket LED's, than I do stock headlights these days.\\n\\nSo same duck but by a different name. \\n\\nBut for some reason people think HID's need all these special things like projection housings and re-aiming, but for whatever reason they don't think LED's have the same requirements.\",\n \"362\"\n ],\n [\n \"as others have said, thats a break-up and a make-up, different thing. sometimes that shakes people loose.\\n\\nalso \\\"time apart\\\" sometimes works, just spending some time separately from each other, without the option to sleep with other people. sometimes that can work as long as both people understand they have to keep it in their pants because they're still together.\\n\\na \\\"break\\\" however never works. its almost always instituted by one and forced onto the other, and even when its mutual, its generally because somebody has someone in mind that they want to fuck and they're just looking for the moral free ground to get away with it. That way later they can claim \\\"we were on a break\\\". Its an excuse to try their hand at someone else, because thats pretty much the only way you're going to agree to your SO having sex with other people, its if you have someone in mind that ***you*** want to have sex with, and you've got blinders on, and you either don't think your SO will do the same, or just simply don't care, both of which mean you've basically checked out of the current relationship.\",\n \"901\"\n ],\n [\n \"well, your boyfriend is dumb, so hopefully thats ***your*** type. seriously, who is dumb enough to tell his gf that his \\\"type\\\" is the polar opposite of her?\\n\\nthat aside, people can like more than one thing, having a type doesn't mean thats the *only* type that you're interested in. I'm sure you've liked guys with blue eyes, and guys with brown eyes, you might prefer blue, but that doesn't mean you're never going to be attracted to a guy with brown eyes right?\\n\\nsame same\\n\\nplus your \\\"type\\\" can change over time without even realizing it, I used to be into gingers, when I searched for porn or on tinder, gingers were who I was after. Then I dated a ginger for 7yrs, afterwards now, I'm not turned on by it, it took me awhile to even realize that my tastes had changed, until I realized that porn with gingers didn't get me going anymore.\",\n \"591\"\n ],\n [\n \"so grow a backbone and tell her it makes you super uncomfortable and this is a hard boundary for you.\\n\\nyou can't tell her shes not allowed to do it, but you can definitely tell her that if shes going to it'll be as a single girl.\\n\\nyou're right to not be telling her what she can and can't do, shes an adult, and she doesn't belong to you. but hiding how it makes you feel and just going along with whatever she wants to do without giving your true input is being a doormat. Pony up and tell her how you feel about things because giving her your blessing for whatever she wants to do then secretly harbouring resentment and stewing and stressing over her following through is just shooting yourself in the foot.\",\n \"657\"\n ],\n [\n \"I don't understand how you can say \\\"theres hardly any difference\\\" there are very clear and definite differences in them.\\n\\na \\\"break\\\" assumes you're getting back together its temporary, but you act single, this allows for sex with other partners, this has a predetermined end at a particular time.\\n\\n\\\"time apart\\\" is just that, no acting single, no sleeping with other people, just a little distance to get some perspective.\\n\\na \\\"break up\\\" is exactly that, no predetermined plan to get back together, just straight up separation.\\n\\nso unless you consider your partner having sex with another person just petty non consequential semantics. Then they are most definitely ***not*** the same thing.\\n\\n > I don't know who hurt you but it's clear they weren't meant for you if you're that adamant it never works.\\n\\ndon't try and turn this into you projecting some deep seeded issue onto me, you'll be sorely disappointed all my relationships have been fairly well adjusted and normal. they of course each had their individual problems hence why they didn't work out, but I don't have any deep rooted hang-up's.\\n\\nyou and your girlfriend broke up, just because you got back together doesn't make it a break, a break would assume that you separated with a predetermined plan to get back together at a particular juncture. you didn't have any such plan. You ***did*** end up getting back together, but that doesn't change what it was when it happened. I also clearly stated that sometimes that ***does*** work. It's only the \\\"break\\\" that doesn't.\\n\\nwords matter, use the appropriate term for the appropriate action and things become less confusing\",\n \"813\"\n ],\n [\n \"then my only mistake was taking you at your own word\\n\\n/u/Oh_Kerms \\n\\n > My gf and I (also a gay relationship) ***broke up*** for a month because I was being an asshat.\\n\\nthen you didn't \\\"break up\\\" you \\\"went on a break\\\"\\n\\nthese aren't terms that get to be defined by the people in the relationship as they see fit after the fact, these are predefined terms used to describe situations. Words mean things.\\n\\nand I'm not being defensive, I'm being ***corrective***, you're using the wrong words to describe things and then basing advice off of that.\",\n \"458\"\n ],\n [\n \"looks like you're lacking in your linguistics and your research abilities.\\n\\nif you want to use urban dictionary *literally* the next one down, isn't a huge story of nonsensical bullshit and it reads:\\n\\n***When a couple decides to spend time apart without actually breaking up. The duration of the break is decided at the time the break begins.*** During this time their is little or no communication, and the couple spends absolutely NO time together. It is considered rude and nosy to check on the other persons whereabouts or activities and neither person has the right to do so. \\\"Breaks\\\" are usually taken after a number of problems within the relationship become to serious for the couple to stay together. Instead of braking up it allows for the opportunity to sort things out and to think about the relationship with the possibility of getting back together. Sometimes breaks are used as an excuse for one person to date around without having to give up the other person. In some cases the parameters of the break are established in such a way that neither party is allowed to date or spend time with someone whom they are sexually attracted to. If the break doesn't include such a rule, then it is each person's option to date and ''see other people'' as they choose. If this is the case then neither person needs to account for their time or actions to the other person in relation to any part of the \\\"break\\\" even after the break is over. Essentially the idea of a \\\"break\\\" is to momentarily cut all communication that isn't absolutely necessary so there is time to think and decide what needs to happen next: break up for good, or get back together.\",\n \"317\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Call me uneducated\\n\\nOk I will: \\\"you're uneducated\\\" \\n\\nyou're trying to argue that a \\\"break\\\" a \\\"break up\\\" and \\\"time apart\\\" are all interchangeable, but its simply not true. You're the one that decided urban dictionary is going to be your reference, then you chose to only use the top definition. Then you chose a definition of nonsense that doesn't even prove your point, then selectively choose to ignore the very next line which proves you entirely wrong. now you're trying to use the fact that I like electronics as some sort of insult? \\n\\nand now because I can actually back up what I'm saying with logical reasoning I'm an asshole?\\n\\nI can at least define, definitively what each of these terms mean. You can't even keep straight what you're talking about, and then when you get stuck you resort to trying to project or put me down personally by judging my hobbies.\\n\\nto quote an uneducated person\\n\\n\\\"thanks goodbye\\\"\",\n \"730\"\n ],\n [\n \"This sub is hilarious, you could have cock eyed A cups, with more hair than my uncle on her chest and get solid 9's all day. I once dared to vote 7 on a pair of fakes with a little scarring and I ended with -27 votes and 4 different comments from guys cussing me out for low ratings on \\\"a beautiful woman that's willing to show you her tits for free, how dare you!?\\\" and all I said was \\\"nice, 7/10\\\"\",\n \"506\"\n ],\n [\n \"I don't know if you're Canadian or American, but as a long time lover of classic cars, from the way you're describing it I'd peg it at around $3k, $5k if the brakes and engine are good enough to have it be running+driving, but from the sounds of it, its running but not driving. It could go as high as $4k if it has anything rare or special about it, but from the sounds of it, its pretty \\\"normal\\\" and with the wiring damage I wouldn't pay over $3.5k.\\n\\nif it was fully restored it might hit $14k, depending on the quality of the resto (paint, how far you went into the suspension, trans rebuild etc.) it could go higher if there are added mods done.\",\n \"352\"\n ],\n [\n \"Me and my GF are in a similar situation, I was in the process of closing on a house when we met, she's signed on as a tenant of the house. as far as paying rent but gaining no equity.\\n\\nno sympathy here, you didn't save up the down payment, you didn't have to prove that you had good enough credit to qualify, the mortgage isn't in your name, you don't pay the property taxes, you aren't going to gain or lose money because of a rising or falling market, you're not paying the condo fees, hopefully shes paying more of the expenses to compensate for this or you negotiated reasonable rent. If I were you I would start saving up a nest egg to \\\"buy in\\\" to the property, then in 3-5yrs when you two know whether you're going to go the distance or not and shes comfortable with it you have the $20k-$40k or whatever is needed at the time to equal out what she has paid and own half the property. I'm sure you understand there's a lot more that goes into buying a property than just paying the mortgage. \\n\\nAs well make sure to consider the fact that the more she pays into it, the more equity you're going to have to equal out, you won't just be paying what she paid in down payment and all the sudden getting 50% equity in the property. you'll be paying 1/2 of all the lawyers closing fees, real estate agent costs, ***and*** 50% of the difference between your rent and all the payments shes been making since then. If you want 50% equity you're going to have to pay the 50% of ***all*** the payments shes been making up to that point for it to be fair.\\n\\nbut as it stands now, you are a tenant, a tenant doesn't gain equity, thats just how it is, and even if you had the money together right now to buy in, I wouldn't blame her for refusing since the relationship is only 8 months right now, and a mortgage is generally around 25yrs.\\n\\nas for her monopolizing the furnishings and styling of the apartment, thats not fair *at all* she may own the property, but if you're paying your rent on time, then its 50% of your living space as long as you're living there. She has no more claim to the living spaces than you do. \\n\\nthis should be treated as a roommate/landlord-tenant living situations in all ways, if you ***decide*** to give up more than 50% of the living situation differences then thats your choice, but she has no more of an inherent claim to the living space than you do.\\n\\nalso keep in mind, if she wants you treated like a tenant (which is my personal recommendation for the moment) then that means shes your landlord and all the ***responsibilities*** that go along with it. That means if the fridge breaks, she should be paying ***100%*** of the cost. You don't own it, you take *no responsibility for it* if the washer breaks, her problem \\n\\nyour landlord isn't going to ask you pony up a few hundred extra if something breaks or needs attention, she shouldn't either.\",\n \"224\"\n ],\n [\n \"I can't tell you what to do, but I do want to say it seems you're doing a lot of talking about what she wants, whats right or wrong with her, whether she'll break up with you later etc.\\n\\nwhat about ***you***, you need to analyze this as to why are ***you*** in the relationship. Sure she might make you feel good to be around, but what do you actually like doing together? does she make you a better person? do you find life is less complicated with her? does she make your life easier?\\n\\nmaybe its time to stop *reacting* to what shes doing and wanting and saying, and take a minute to analyze how you feel about her and all of this. Take charge of your life, let your wants and needs be known, don't push too hard, you aren't going to get all of them, compromise where you know you need to and if you can't live with the \\\"deal\\\" then move on.\",\n \"657\"\n ],\n [\n \"And you have every right to feel that way, you're not a guest paying rent to stay in her condo you're a roommate, and you deserve to have the place feel like a home to you. She's going to have to make compromises. Maybe start coming up with some things that hardline \\\"must haves\\\" and start there. If there are pictures or posters that mean something to you explain the meaning to her and why it's important. In her eyes your stuff is exactly that, just stuff. Impress upon her that some of this is a part of you and you need to be surrounded by the stuff that's important to you.\",\n \"698\"\n ]\n]"},"cluster":{"kind":"number","value":500,"string":"500"},"retrieval_idx":{"kind":"list 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recordings or metadata, telemetry from your Amazon devices. \n\n_URL_1_\n\nI found it after reading this article, and all of my settings were already disabled/off, and I had no voice history at all showing in the app or settings. \n\nNow, if I have no voice history and those settings are disabled, and the police still obtain recordings, or are able to remotely turn it on 'live' and listen-in, or use [parallel construction](_URL_0_) to justify how they obtained any recordings after they've *always* been disabled, they'll have some serious explaining to do.","672"],["> I don’t think just pushing the mute button helps. There’s nothing that guarantee us that the device is not listening unless there is no power to it.\n\nThey're working on that too. MIT demonstrated remotely powering up devices, even just momentarily, using ambient WiFi signals in the area near the device. \n\nAndroid and iOS devices have also already been caught staying \"on\" while the device pretended to be powered off (literally choosing the \"Power Off\" option, no screen, no LEDs, implying to the user that the device was powered off, yet it wasn't, and was still gathering and storing precise location data). \n\nThere's a reason devices now have an integrated battery, vs. the much cheaper, more serviceable user-replaceable batteries that we had only a few years ago: To prevent devices from being *physically powered off* by battery removal. \n\nThe solution? Get yourself a Faraday bag. I've been using them for years, and they work great! \n\nDon't trust the switch, LED or screen/icon indicators that your device is in a given state. Trust, but Verify, is our credo. \n\nIf you can't verify, then use a secondary means to ensure the security of the device. \n\nIf it has a mic, use a dummy 3.5mm audio cable (oops, look at that, they're removing those too, also not because of customer pressure or thinning of devices, but so you can't bypass the audio). Or put the device into a sealed container with no external audio possible (eg: an ammo box or jar with soundproofing foam inside). \n\nIf it has sensors, radios (gps, bluetooth, wifi, data network), then drop it into a Faraday bag. \n\nIf it has a camera, obscure the camera/cover the lens. For under-screen cameras, make sure you use a folio-style case that covers the camera when closed (\"book\" style).","672"],["> A stingray is a device used by law enforcement that tricks your phone into thinking its talking to an actual cell tower. This is passed on to a real tower, so someone on the street would never notice an issue with their connection. \n\nDisabling 2G fallback on your phone is one preventative measure you can use to prevent this, as is using a tool like [AIMSICD](_URL_0_), to detect when your phone requests switching to a 'tower' that is not identifying itself as being owned by the telcos your phone supports. \n\nThey also did this for many of the BLM protests, with low-flying helos that the crowds incorrectly misinterpreted as trying to disperse them with chopper blade winds, but was actually used to gather dense IMSI data from protester's mobile devices in the crowds of protesters, so they could track down who was there, who was transmitting data to whom, and who was connected to whom during and after the protests.\n\nAlso, if you don't already use a SIM card lock (pin) on your device, set that up *immediately*. Any attempt to clone and re-use your SIM elsewhere, would be delayed/prevented by using a pin code. 3 wrong attempts at the pin code, disables the SIM, and the telco can track where it was used and which towers were in range when it was disabled.","443"],["> Your phone thinks a stingray is. \n\nThe only reason it thinks so, is \n\n1. Because you permit your phone to connect to \"stronger-powered\" devices (you can prevent this)\n2. You allow your device to fall back to 2G, unencrypted communications with that \"stronger tower\"\n\nDisable 2G (and 3G if possible) on your device, and lock it down so it can only use towers already known to belong to the telco, not just the closest or strongest signal. \n\nAlso, secure your phone's SIM with a pin code, so any attempt to clone your SIM and reuse it in another remote device, would be thwarted if they tried more than 3 times with the wrong code. \n\n > It's legal, but very loosely.\n\nActually, not legal at all. That's why police departments and federal agencies are all using [Parallel Construction](_URL_0_) to hide their use of the Stingray devices. It's a direct violation of FCC regulations, even if you're also the .gov or a police department using it.","443"],["> Even if they did, the metadata like phone number and imei would still be visibile. That alone is enough to create a target list when you attend a protest.\n\n\"[Full tower dumps](_URL_0_)\" are becoming increasingly popular, and when police use [Parallel Construction](_URL_1_) to justify requesting those dumps, with the real intent on getting a full list of the thousands of devices connected to the towers at any given time, they get a LOT more data than they should be given access to.","779"],["> Don’t bring your phone to a protest **or put it in airplane mode**!\n\nAirplane mode is irrelevant, when the device is still requesting and storing precise location data, which is then transmitted later when you're back on any network. Android and iOS devices have both been caught doing this in Airplane Mode, as well as when \"Powered off\". \n\nDon't trust what the UI is telling you, in many to most cases, it's lying. \n\nGet a Faraday bag, or don't bring the device with you.","697"],["> You can't know someone was involved in something like this from phone data alone. You can only know proximity.\n\nNot really.. Since most people blindly (and terrifyingly) keep Bluetooth, WiFi and GPS/Location Services enabled, you can get *incredibly precise* positioning of the device at any given moment, remotely. \n\nYou can tell, within a range of about a meter, where that device was, and whether that device was within range of other devices in the same vicinity, via BLE beacons. You can do this all without user knowledge or consent. \n\nIt's not just about \"These 4,000 devices were all connected to Tower-A at 11:00pm\", but \"These 500 devices were all on this same city block between 11:00pm and 11:17pm\"","443"],["> Especially not your primary one!\n\nPrimary, backup or burner, it won't matter, since all of those are tied to a single human being now anyway. \n\nEven burner phones now require presenting a driver's license to purchase, and cannot be purchased with cash anymore. You must have a valid ID and a credit card to buy one.","927"],["> If I said \"Sorry, I don't carry a phone\" to my boss, he'd probably tell me to get a phone or find a new job.\n\nDoes you talk to your boss on the phone *that often* to justify that extreme response? If so, he should be providing you with a business phone, which you expense the use of and it gets turned off after your work day ends, and turned back on the next day when it begins again.","882"],["> How is that even possible? It's not! GPS data might transmitted to, say Google, via an internet connection after you turn off flight mode, but that data is usually encrypted.\n\nThe use of the GPS radio does not require any data access or cell signal for that matter. \n\nOn Android devices, there are 3 modes, GPS (\"coarse\" positioning), and 2 aGPS modes (which requires WiFi to enhance precision, by comparing your location data to neighboring WiFi hotspots that Google has mapped on their own via Street View routes). \n\nYour device can activate and gather GPS all day long, while in Airplane Mode. There are even navigation apps like OSMand that use offline maps and disconnected GPS support to function. \n\nThis video from several years ago might also provide some context: \n\n_URL_0_","443"],["> In any case, you need the locations of the cell towers / wifi networks around you. Where do you get that list of locations from? From Google / Apple. If you don't have that list on your phone, you won't be able to use aGPS without an internet connection.\n\nI think you've missed the point there. You don't need Internet access at the time the data is gathered. Your phone isn't going to stay in Airplane Mode forever, is it? \n\nOnce you re-enable a data network, eg: join a WiFi network or enable your mobile data, that data will be transmitted (as the video I linked shows), and the GPS coordinates and WiFi SSIDs your device was in proximity of, are unioned together with what Google already knows from its Street View drivers, and creates a timeline of where your device was, for how long, and at what speed (walking, driving, etc.) while it was in Airplane Mode.","697"],["> I’ve also heard that far right groups have seeded rowdy and violent protestors within rally’s to create a bad images for groups like BLM\n\nDon't forget the \"Magical Brick Fairy\" too, dropping off pallets of bricks directly in line where the police were forcing protesters to egress. \n\nIn Hong Kong, the protesters there were taking the bricks and instead of using them to smash windows and cars, [they built little towers in the road](_URL_0_), so the police vehicles couldn't accelerate and run them down.","577"],["> Your phone will always connect to the “strongest“ tower that is available for it. Interception devices will pretend to be a tower of your network with good reception, so your phone will connect\n\nAs the links I've previously provided show, you can prevent your phone from doing this, when it attaches to an unrecognized tower. Please read the links and project page to understand how it works. \n\nFor those with the less-secure, less configurable iOS devices, this may not be possible, but if you're after security and privacy, you wouldn't choose to use one of those devices anyway. \n\nI have personal, first-hand knowledge of this, because I have seen Stingray devices in use in NYC (it's saturated with them now). \n\nAfter many, many years of prior trips to NYC, my phone knows where the actual towers are, so any 'rogue' tower positions that claim to be a valid tower and show up as 'new', are ignored and my phone drops mobile data when in their presence.","927"],["> then you later turn it back on that even if Google gets it that info, the FBI’s Stingray device won’t get it.\n\nMore than the FBI are using Stingray devices, local police departments are using them as well. NYC has several deployed and has had them in service for the last few years, large sections of lower Manhattan are saturated. \n\nBut it doesn't matter anyway, the FBI (via the NSA) will get the location data anyway, through [Five-Eyes agreements](_URL_0_), once your device is back on the network and reports its location data to Google/Apple. \n\nBetween tower dumps, Stingray devices, Five-Eyes agreements and Parallel Construction to hide SIM cloning and other data interception, they're going to get the data anyway. \n\nAlso, any photos you may take during the time your device is in Airplane Mode, will have EXIF data that includes not only location tags, but also can have image analysis run on them to determine where you are/were, when the photo was taken. \n\nMicrosoft had a program almost a decade ago, that took community photos from every angle at popular tourist areas, seamed them together and created a full 3D view of these locations (like detailed walkthroughs of the inside of large churches or major monuments). \n\nThe technology makes it incredibly easy and accessible, the legal loopholes make it impossible to prevent, and the implicit trust too many people put in their devices being truthful with the user's intent, misleads too many into believing they're \"anonymous\". \n\nThey're nothing but.","697"],["> But isn't cell signal required for the device to pick up any info from your phone? \n\nAlmost. If your phone is in Airplane Mode, any nearby phone that happens to have cell signal if both have Bluetooth on (eg: BLE beacons can be received), then the other phones can report it was in proximity to your device, while that second phone is communicating through the Stingray. \n\nIf you block any and all radios (and they're almost all SoC these days, not discrete chips per-radio), you'll be in better shape. That includes NFC, Bluetooth, WiFi, GPS and mobile network. \n\nMany people carelessly leave WiFi and Bluetooth on at all times, even when they're not using them, which leaves your phone incredibly vulnerable to inspection from neighboring sources. \n\n > It was my understanding that they acted like a man in the middle between your phone and the cell mast.\n\nThey just present a \"stronger\" signal to connect to, so your device (by default) prefers to connect to the stronger tower, eg: the Stingray. \n\n > So it wouldn't matter what your phone is recording if it has no cell signal.\n\nRight, they won't get your data directly through the Stingray capture, but they'll get its location data afterwards, when you're back at your flat and switch Airplane Mode off. \n\nAt that point, your phone transmits its stored location datapoints back upstream to Google/Apple, where the agencies can request it through other legal (eg: tower dumps, Five-Eyes agreements) or loophole (eg: parallel construction) methods.","443"],["The money earned from that rise in productivity is going somewhere, let’s see a visualization of that, overlaid with the flattening of wages. \n\nWhile millions of people were furloughed or lost their jobs completely during this pandemic, wealth of the top 1% grew staggeringly fast, $42 billion per week during the peak of job losses for the top 600 richest Americans. \n\n* _URL_0_\n\n* _URL_1_\n\n* _URL_2_\n\nThe total wealth of American billionaires has grown by nearly a quarter, from just under $3 trillion to $3.66 trillion since the pandemic lockdown began. \n\nHow is that even possible, if the money is already there to be disbursed to others but not being shared in times of downturn?","580"],["> \tYeah, no. Nice FUD, that would completely nuke the battery in a few hours.\n\nNo, it does not. \n\nThe SoC for the radios in modern phones are incredibly power efficient, and with device deep sleep states you can go a long, long time before needing a charge. The screen is the biggest battery drain there is and with that off, simulating a power off state, you’ll go days before needing to top off. \n\nMy personal Android daily driver device goes a full 3+ days between charges, and that’s with active to moderate usage patterns and data/WiFi enabled, listening to podcasts, fetching mail, using other apps. My iOS device, even with its aggressive phone home frequency, still goes a good 36 hours between charges. \n\nIf I cut the screen-on time to zero, turned off background data for those chatty apps and left only the critical location tracking and phone home services, it would last even longer. \n\nI’m not sure what you’re doing with your device or what it’s doing, but modern mobile devices are easily capable of 1-2 days per charge, unless you’re spending 8 hours a day on the device with the screen turned on.","706"],["> \tThe odds of an unregistered nuclear device getting that close to the continental US is almost zero.\n\nThey don’t need ICBMs at all. \n\nHere’s a thought exercise: \n\nWith the frighteningly high amount of missing/stolen uranium around the world that can’t be located, all it would take is a small, tactical, dirty nuke in a suitcase in Manhattan to shut down NY and surrounding boroughs for the next 40 years. \n\nSince we don’t know where any of the missing uranium is, portions of it may very well already be within our borders. \n\nThink 9/11 caused a ripple in our economy and loss of life? Imagine NYC, the financial nucleus of our economy being wiped out along with 18+ million citizens and quarantined for over 4 decades.","470"],["> \tThere would be blackouts, maybe half the country. Maybe for a few weeks. But the entire country wouldn’t fall back to the 16th century. There would definitely be turmoil for possibly hundreds of millions of people, far worse than Covid. \n\nI think you may be underestimating the amount of damage an EMP can do. Even a modest EMP will take out vehicles, computers, phones, infrastructure, PLCs that run equipment, relays, sensors. \n\nThat means electronic door locks to your work or apartment fail, cars dead on the road, cell service down (and down for weeks to months). No laptop, no phone, no cell, no DSL or cable modems, no cars, no computers... for a very large radius from the EMP epicenter. \n\nIf they targeted power or utility Infrastructre, that means no food supply can be brought in, no access to digital funds via ATM or credit cards (how do you pay for food at the market with no power and no way to restock because the roads are blocked by hundreds of abandoned, dead vehicles?) and the delivery vehicles and inventory systems are also down. \n\nThere aren’t enough HAM licensed people in every area with EMF isolated and protected gear around to tie the communities severed by an EMP back together. \n\nNo, not down for weeks. Likely several months to years, depending on the severity and need for rebuilding or restocking parts that suddenly take months to build and become the highest in demand. Those surplus parts don’t exist at all today. \n\nMontreal was hit with a “small” solar flare in the late 1980s that [wiped them out for 12 hours and impacted 96 separate utilities and 200 power grid problems from US coast to coast within minutes](_URL_0_) \n\nThat was well before every little device had its own microprocessor and IoT devices connected everything to everything.\n\nA handful of coordinated, targeted EMP strikes executed stateside would be devastating for our country.","270"],["> \tIf I remember right, we had one barely miss earth a few years back.\n\nIt didn’t miss, if wiped out power in Montreal for a sustained period and caused interruption to 96 electrical utilities in New England within minutes and a ripple effect of 200 power grid problems from US coast to coast. That was a minor event. \n\n_URL_0_","270"],["Many people don’t realize that if you earn less than $69,000 gross income, your tax preparation is 100% free. You don’t have to pay to have your taxes prepared or filed. \n\nI’ve hired an accountant years ago to do my taxes and I would never go back. Not only are they up to date on all of the new, complex tax laws that change year over year, but they’re legally liable for the accuracy of the filing. \n\nThis includes the new laws with caps on claimed exemptions, cross state credits/taxes when working in other states, alternating child dependency exemptions in alternating years, claiming home office space and Internet when working from home (will be critical when filing 2020 taxes since many of us are exclusively working from home), and many others. \n\nThe point and click tax filing software doesn’t catch all of the nuances that a skilled accountant can. They’re on your side, not on the side of increasing software revenue margins.","51"],["> \tWhat about supporting legislation to pay for slightly more police training?\n\nHaving an advanced education in social justice, a license to practice and CEUs that have to be renewed and maintained each year like many other levels of licensure would be a great start. \n\nWe do this for doctors, mental health therapists, massage therapists, lawyers, anesthesiologists, plumbers, electricians, sports coaches and dozens of other fields. \n\nI would hope that a job that requires carrying weapons of lethal force and puts themselves and others in danger every day, should absolutely be licensed to practice, have a degree in recognizing and negotiating complex social issues and be required to regularly update that training through re-education.","582"],["They do not support macOS, not any recent versions after 2017 anyway. \n\nMy 23-key Koolertron came in today, and I've hit nothing but dead-ends trying to program it using a Windows VM on my Linux machine, or natively on macOS (their software doesn't support anything newer than Sierra). \n\nIt doesn't matter what ports your device has, if it's running macOS, you're out of luck. \n\nUnless you have Windows 10 running on a baremetal host somewhere that you can run their 'amag' software on, or a somewhat ancient Mac OS X machine with USB-A ports, you're dead in the water. \n\nLook for another product from a vendor that has demonstrated support for modern hardware and with software that runs on an OS that is current/recent.\n\nMine is going right back in the box for a return, less than 1 hour after opening it.","689"],["> We the ~~consumer~~ **customer** are going to get nickel and dimed.\n\nThere, FTFY. \n\nWe really need to stop using the word \"consumer\" across the board, because it just validates their policies that are not focused on the customer but focused on the profits. \n\nWe do not *consume* their services like some endlessly hungry animal, we **pay for them**, and that makes us their customer. \n\nIn exchange, we: \n\n- require that our personal data not be sold, stolen or traded, and\n- expect that we will receive fair services for our money, and\n- expect that when services are down, we will recoup a prorated amount commensurate with the outage timeframe, and\n- expect that we will have a voice in all decisions that impact our ability to use the service, and \n- expect that there will be a fair market to choose the supplier of the services we pay for, to ensure good competition and no monopolistic behaviors. \n\nWe are the **customer**, not the consumer.","717"],["> According to Oxford Dictioary a consumer is a person who purchases goods and services for personal use.\n\nAs we've learned over the years, the OED and the social misuse of the terms, rarely agree. \n\nA '[hacker](_URL_0_)' for example, is almost always deemed a criminal in today's context, but without hackers like myself and millions of others, technology like radio transmitters, television, Internet, solid state storage, self-driving cars and so on, would not exist. \n\nUntil these companies start treating us as their *customer*, the word *consumer* will continue to have a different meaning.","157"],["> If we completely ignore the dictionary definition of consumer, you're right\n\nIt's true, *WE* don't ignore those definitions, but the companies who use the term 'consumer', view the definition more like the [battery scene from the Matrix](_URL_1_). \n\nWe don't exist in partnership with the companies we purchase services or products from, we exist purely to line their wallets. They rarely, if ever, ask for our input on decisions that impact us, and widen their margins. Wood pulp in cheese? Sure, let's have more of that. 60% sugar in each serving size of Nutella? Why not. 40% high fructose corn syrup in \"all natural jelly\"? What could be wrong with that? Mislabeling the origin of meats and poultry we consume, to obscure its origin from tainted farms? Yes, I'm sure all the customers voted for that one too. \n\n[Shrinkflation](_URL_0_) would not exist, if the customer was an important part of the decision to reduce quantity and double the price, or put fillers in foods that are known to cause GI, brain and blood health issues, reformulating products with cheaper ingredients that can increase margins even further.\n\nHave you seen the paperback-book-sized cereal boxes of food lately, selling at prices 1.5x the cost of their previously larger counterparts? It's across the board from shampoos to cookies to energy bars and Pop-Tarts. \n\nIf all we are is a 'consumer' (by *their* definition, not OED), then we exist purely to line up at the door and willingly give our hard-earned money to companies to keep them alive, not because we need their products or services, but because *WE* care about *their* survival. \n\nBut the OED and literal definition is quite a bit different in practice, vs. spirit. \n\nThat was my point. I'm not suggesting we try to change the *definition* of the word, that is correct and accurate, I'm suggesting we change the *corporate interpretation* of the definition.","976"],["> Then 7 days later Amazon enabled the feature, meaning everyone who had previously thought this was disabled already on their end now had it unknowingly turned on.\n\nAdmittedly, their app design and the wording of their email could have been a bit more clear about that. With the slider initially in the 'off' position in the app, many probably assumed this meant \"disabled\", not the true meaning of \"Not rolled out and enabled yet\", so they didn't feel the need to check it. \n\nDay later, when the service was rolled out and that feature toggled from \"Unavailable\" to \"Enabled\", many probably thought their previous option to keep it turned off, was reverted. It wasn't. \n\nWhat they should have done, was add a checkbox near the slider that the user has to check, to opt-out, labeled something like: \"Do not opt me into this service when it becomes available in my area\". \n\nThat way, from a backend development standpoint, anyone who did not check that box, implicitly allows themselves to be enabled for the service (slider in the 'Unavailable' position to start with). Those who checked the box, you can ensure the slider doesn't move to the 'Enabled' position. \n\nWithout that secondary checkbox, if you ran a query to say: \"Enable all Sidewalk users in Area-12345 who have the option in the default 'Unavailable' position\", you'd get everybody. \n\nAlternately, even with the service unavailable in certain areas, a default *opt-in* stance, would allow users to move that sllder to the 'Enabled' position, even if Sidewalk hadn't been rolled out yet. It would just be a no-op, until services were made available. \n\nSo #FAIL on Amazon's part, poor wording and app design. I can see how this is confusing to end users, but without some bit to query that allows knowing one of the following, it's near impossible to get the correct state of that option: \n\n1. This user chose to opt out (explicit deny)\n2. This user chose to enable the service (explicit allow)\n3. This user did nothing (implicit allow, or prompt for action)","707"],["> \tonce this is over, you will have the antibodies just like those who got the vaccine\n\nThose antibodies last up to 3 months and are only effective against exposure the strain of SARS-CoV-2 that triggered your body to produce them. Other strains you come in contact with would be unaffected. \n\nThere are hundreds of strains now and we don’t have a way to track down which antibodies are effective against which strains yet. \n\nNobody has developed a confirmed immunity yet, out of the 63 million global cases. \n\nWe still have 5+ billion more people on the planet not exposed or recorded as being exposed, so there’s many years of this left to go, before we have enough to have a really solid chance at developing broad immunity.","235"],["> \t... but the scientific community has been clear for months now for the overwhelming majority of people that have had COVID immunity will last for a very long time (some even think years/decades based on similar viruses).\n\nThat’s definitely odd because front-line healthcare workers are seeing reinfection and re-hospitalization rates of prior patients 2-3 months after they’ve been treated and released, climbing back up again. \n\nThere’s a HUGE amount of variability in how people respond to treatment and how their own immune systems respond in the presence of a viral load sufficient enough to trigger the body’s immune response. \n\nWe’ve had the flu vaccines since the 1940s and people haven’t yet developed an immunity to that either, after decades of annual inoculations. \n\nA single exposure to SARS-CoV-2 that triggers the body to produce antibodies proven to be effective for years/decades, would be an epidemiological unicorn.","235"],["> \tEdit: I get it, my mistake, I thought it was happening more often.\n\nReinfection rates *are* climbing, and anecdotal evidence shows that the antibodies become ineffective after about 3 months. \n\nThere’s a very large and growing number of strains of SARS-CoV-2 out there and it’s not predictable which one you may come in contact with, or several, in an amount that triggers your body to produce enough antibodies to sustain months to years of protection against *that* strain.","235"],["> \t\"More than 38 million people worldwide have been infected with the coronavirus, and as of Monday, fewer than five of those cases have been confirmed by scientists to be reinfections.\n\nI’m not sure how many months old those numbers are, but we’re at almost double those numbers now at 63.5 million infected with 45 million people listed as “recovered” from their initial exposure. \n\nReinfection numbers are climbing, but it’s hard to determine the rate since we don’t have good testing for all of the hundreds of independent strains of SARS-CoV-2 out there. \n\nHealthcare workers have been seeing previously released patients showing back up in the ICU with COVID-positive symptoms again 2-3 months after their first bout in the hospital.","266"],["> \tNah see you can't just say it concretely like that. \n\n[...]\n\n > \tMost people who get COVID will get through it fine and won't have any long term effects.\n\nYou just contradicted yourself there. \n\nSo far, only 0.82% of the global population (65 million) has registered an exposure to this virus, and that sample size is way, WAY too small to make any sweeping generalizations about the long term impacts of this virus, when 99% of the worlds population hasn’t confirmed their own exposure. \n\nEven the WHOs numbers claiming 10% of the global population has contracted an exposure to SARS-CoV-2, means a much greater percentage probably haven’t been exposed, than do. \n\nWe have many, many years left fighting this virus before we can finally say we have any accurate data about its epidemiological impacts on the human immune system.\n\nWe’ve been studying and vaccinating people against the seasonal flu since the 1940s, and we still don’t have a confirmed cure for that virus either, so each year we get inoculated with a different, annually changing cocktail of antibodies in an effort to help our bodies fight that off. \n\nLet’s be careful with using statements like *“Most people...”* when your sample size is less than 1%.","235"],["> They've thought about it and they're proud of what these guys did\n\nThe odd hypocrisy is that these same people cry \"Muh freedoms!\" when they're told to wear a mask, and get violent when they can't adhere to the rules of a private business, and at the same time, are violently fighting to establish a Fascist regime here in the US. \n\nThe two don't normally go together. Demand your freedoms, by pushing for a rule of government that guarantees you have none.","651"],["> They actually sideswiped one of the vans that was escorting the bus, none the less still fucked up practically attempted man slaughter.\n\nI'm not taking sides on this one, but it certainly looks to me, like that white SUV was in the trucks lane, half-way, and the truck pushed it back into its own lane. \n\nWas the white SUV forced into the truck's lane by someone to their left, off-camera? Because it does look like they instigated that pushback.","449"],["> In the united states, if someone enters your lane and you intentially drive your car into them and push them back into their previous lane you are at fault, you hit them end of discussion.\n\nAfter looking at the expanded video coverage of that incident, in this case, the white SUV was legally in their lane, directly behind the bus, the black truck was behind the SUV, then circled to the white SUV's right, pushing it out of the lane, taking up its own position directly behind the campaign bus. \n\nThe black truck was 100% clearly in the wrong, and aggressively road-raged a vehicle legally in its own lane, out of the lane, putting lives at risk, not only in the white SUV, but other vehicles nearby who could have caused an accident as well.","449"],["> Also look into the state tenant laws regarding security deposits. If they don't give it within a certain amount of days, the former tenant is due extra money for compensation for the delay.\n\nSome states also require that the security deposit be held in an interest-bearing escrow account, so the final repayment *cannot* be from the landlord's own personal checking account (and thus, cannot \"bounce\", since the money is always present in escrow).\n\nIn those states, when your security deposit is returned, you get the full deposit + any interest gained on that deposit, delivered to you via a check drawn directly from the escrow account.","790"],["> Oh man those “God given right to breathe oxygen” idiots don’t even have the Pope on their side ...\n\nYou have all the rights in the world to breathe the oxygen produced by algae in the ocean and trees, but you *don't* have the right to exhale deadly viral particulates back into the atmosphere the rest of us have to breathe.\n\nMasks help both the wearer and others, by reducing the amount of foreign particulates, in particular droplets carrying a deadly virus, from entering the respiratory airway of people nearby. \n\n* If you increase the distance, you reduce the risk. \n* If you wear a mask, you filter what enters (or exits) your respiratory airway. \n* If you sterilize your hands, surfaces you touch, you reduce the chance the virus will be picked up and transported to someone else's airway or mucous membranes (eyes, nose, mouth). \n\nWhy people still struggle to put these concepts together, still eludes me.","80"],["> Unfortunately, in the US at least, a great majority of those people probably don't recognize the authority (or wisdom) of the Pope, even if they're supposed to.\n\nLet's be fair, they also don't recognize the authority or wisdom of degreed scientists, viral epidemiologists who have studied these viruses for decades, pharmaceutical lab engineers who are working on a vaccine, the head of the CDC and tens of millions of healthcare workers struggling with patients dying from this virus every single day. \n\nWhat they *do* believe, is that one post that their sister's grandmother found online and posted to Facebook. ***That*** is taken as irrefutable fact.","19"],["> They absolutely refuse to wear a mask because it's a Chinese hoax\n\nWell, that \"Chinese hoax\" is about to start costing people who don't wear a mask, a steep fine and jail time. Many states are getting onboard with stiff and steep penalties for failure to wear a mask, wear it properly and limit assembly of large crowds. \n\nThey can claim Chinese hoax all they want, and they can think it over in a jail cell while they wait to get bonded out and present their case in court, where they'll be *forced* to wear a mask, and argue down their fine for refusing to wear their mask.","855"],["> People are just selfish as hell..\n\nSelfish is now becoming expensive, as states impose fines for failure to wear a mask, and arresting offenders who refuse to wear one. Don't wear your mask? Can't shop here. Sorry, you'll have to travel 25 miles to the next supermarket who doesn't have this state's policy about masks. \n\nNow when you go to get your next job and they run a background check and find your arrest record, you may be passed over. \n\nThere are significant, lasting impacts to poor choices, and it's obvious that many people who refuse to wear a mask, really have thought out the long-term results of that poor decision.","855"],["The two most-important tools you'll need, can't fit in that BoB, and can't be bought on Amazon. \n\n* Your health, sanity, wits and wisdom \n* A plan\n\nMost people fail to pack both of those when they prep. \n\nIf you don't have a contacts list, a plan of where you'll go, which direction, under what conditions, you'll end up recalculating hour by hour, and never survive the Zombie Apocalypse.\n\nIf you don't keep your sanity, wits and health about you, you'll never make it through the first 25 miles of hiking through back yards and forest. You need stamina, clarity of thought, rest and focus to push ahead. \n\nThere are other basic items you'll need of course: \n\n* Buried caches of items along your route, to re-pack and restock as you go. You're not going to carry 2 weeks of food and 75 pounds of supplies on your back while hiking 25+ miles per-day, are you? \n* A sewing kit, because in many cases the clothes you're wearing or carrying are also your shelter and protection from the elements. One you tear your pants or jacket wide open, what do you do then? \n* Anti-bacterial/anti-diarrhea medicines, since you'll be living on foods that fit in a bag, not a microwave, so your digestive system may not do well on a week of energy bars or military rations. You need to make sure you're hearty enough to endure the elements, less caloric intake, less natural and more processed foods, until you reach a safe destination. \n\nThere are other items that many here will mention, so I'll defer to those, but I've often seen the focus on \"things\" that fit in a bag or pack, and less about the ethos of survival, and what it takes to make it from A to B to C, day after day. \n\nGood luck!","949"],["> marksmanship with a bow or a gun (if allowed legally where you are), the list goes on\n\nHunting small game with a portable, packable slingshot is also a useful skill, and many states that forbid bows or firearms, permit things like slingshots. \n\nObviously check your local laws and the laws of the counties and states you intend to travel through, but a hot meal of small game over a campfire can sometimes be the difference between lasting another week, or giving up.","498"],["> Is it like that in the states? Here in Canada, an arrest won’t show up on a background check unless you get charged with something serious.\n\nIn the states, public arrest is often public record, and you can search local town/state police blotters to see who was arrested and charged, and for what offenses. \n\nBackground checks depend on the agency conducting the check, and while they won't go into the grey areas (private investigators will, however), they can uncover things that would taint a successful hiring process if found (especially in the context of say, applying for a role in a nursing home or healthcare industry, where working directly with sick patients *requires* wearing a mask, full-time, while you're there.)","260"],["It’s amazing that it only took a global, viral, pandemic hoax coordinated across 149 countries and tens of thousands of hospitals and millions of healthcare workers, massive corruption by the USPS, nationwide election and voter fraud, thousands of reports of FAKE NEWS by the corrupt media and lies from lawyers, accountants and tax attorneys to bring down. /s","19"],["Every time one of these events happens, I wonder where we went so wrong with the Internet. \n\nDARPANET and later on, designed the Internet and WWW to survive simultaneous nuclear strikes, so important information, comms, would be routed around the devastated areas. \n\nInstead, we went the opposite direction, where a single site outage, brings down hundreds to thousands of other sites and links. \n\nEpic failure.","199"],["> had several alexa plugs that stopped working and couldn't figure out why i couldn't get the reconfigured.\n\nNot to worry! Soon, your neighbors will be able to be your failover site when your network goes down. No really, Amazon is going to opt you into sharing your IoT devices with your neighbors, so they can control your devices in case your network goes down. \n\n > *\"[Amazon Sidewalk](_URL_0_)\", when enabled, uses a small portion of your Internet bandwidth to provide these services to you and your neighbors. This setting will apply to all of your supported Echo and Ring devices that are linked to your Amazon account.\"*\n\nI'm not sure if they're sharing your WiFi password with your neighbors, or simply sharing your linked devices in your Amazon account with your neighbors, but both are terrifying options, and that they're opting everyone in by default, is very, *VERY* concerning.","685"],["> That’s not even remotely true\n\nStraight from their literature: \n\n > *\"When enabled, Sidewalk uses a small portion of your Internet bandwidth to provide these services to you and your neighbors. This setting will apply to all of your supported Echo and Ring devices that are linked to your Amazon account.\"*\n\n[...]\n\n > *\"Amazon Sidewalk creates a low-bandwidth network with the help of Sidewalk Bridge devices including select Echo and Ring devices. These Bridge devices share a small portion of your internet bandwidth which is pooled together to provide these services to you and your neighbors. And when more neighbors participate, the network becomes even stronger.\"*","938"],["> Amazon explicitly state you won’t even know when devices are attached.\n\nThe email we all received, specifically says that your Echo and Ring devices will be connected to neighbor's networks and vice-versa, \"so they can stay connected and continue to work over longer distances\". \n\nWhy I would want the Echo in my garage or Ring cameras inside my home to be connected to the neighbor's network, when they can't realistically *use* those devices when they're out of voice range, is still beyond me. \n\nThis is pretty hand-wavey, shady and will have security researchers crawling all over it. The potential for class action lawsuits is immense as well, especially with providers now clamping down with *STEEP* fines for overages and implementing caps. \n\nFor devices to be silently pinching off bandwidth, bandwidth you can't isolate, limit, or identify, is incredibly suspicious. \n\n > *\"Preserving customer privacy and security is foundational to how we’ve built Amazon Sidewalk. Information transferred over Sidewalk Bridges is encrypted and Bridge customers are not able to see that Sidewalk-enabled devices are connected to their Bridge. Customers who own Sidewalk-enabled devices will know they are connected to Sidewalk but will not be able to identify which Bridge they are connected to.\"*\n\nUnless they publicly identify the ports and protocols so these actions can be denied, QoS'd, throttled and limited, people are going to get pretty upset over time, as their neighbors on higher-bandwidth connections, start saturating lower-bandwidth neighbors with data that pushes them over their caps or causes additional charges for overages. \n\nIt's effectively a compulsory, opt-out (not opt-in), (purportedly) encrypted mesh network using your bandwidth and devices; you don't know what's being captured, transmitted, and many thousands of customers won't even realize they're participating in it. \n\nThis should be fun to watch unfold. popcorn.gif","779"],["Let's also not forget that is just a single person, but polarized millions of people in the US over the last 4 years who made visible their racism, their privilege, their illusion of power. \n\nEven if we successfully remove from the POTUS chair, our struggle is not done. shined a bright light on a dark stain on our country's health. \n\nWe still have millions of livid, racist, violent individuals who have to be identified, reasoned with and helped, through education, mental health treatment and any other means possible to keep our country peaceful, safe and cooperative.\n\nThis is going to be a multi-year struggle, not only to clean up the mess in the White House (and not just sterilizing every single surface against a deadly, viral pandemic), but also clean up the mess in our economy, our housing/rental market and the Americans who work hard every day to support this country, Red, Blue, Green, racist or otherwise. \n\nWe can't just breathe a sigh of relief when the final votes are counted, we have a long, long journey ahead.","134"],["> \tNo knock warrants are one of those things that would totally fine if the people who used them could be trusted to use them appropriately.\n\nIf there’s one thing the police have earned the reputation of, it’s that they can’t be trusted with *any* of the gear they have. Tasers, firearms, canines, zip cuffs, body cameras, batons, all of it. They even obscure their badges to avoid detection and prosecution. \n\nNo, they need to earn the right to carry and use that gear, through regular, repeated training and certification. \n\nAny misuse, you lose your taser/canine/firearm license until you recertify and pass a training course. \n\nTasering a subdued, handcuffed, disabled suspect 7 times in the back of your police cruiser should be a clear warning to other officers that you’re going to lose your job, pension, go bankrupt in a civil lawsuit and if you don’t end up in jail, land in a desk job or ejected. \n\nWhy we continue to tolerate these abuses, I just don’t know. The police are NOT above the law and if they’re not performing lawful duties, they should be replaced. Period.","141"],["> \tIt means that an average citizen must second guess if an intruder is legally or illegally breaking into their house which could lead to a hesitation that might get them killed by an actual criminal.\n\nThis presumes the police officers have a right to protect or defend the lives of people, innocent or guilty.\n\nThey do not. The Supreme Court struck down the “Serve and Protect” in 2005, around the same time the police rebranded themselves as “law enforcement”. \n\nThey do not have to protect you, me, the neighbors, the guilty or the innocent. They are supposed to defend the law, even unjust laws, even if it means they themselves break the law to enforce the law. \n\nPolice kill an average of 1,100 people each year, every year and have for the last 5-7 years. \n\nNot 100, not 200, not 500, but over 1,000 people a year die at the hands of the police in the United States, before they even reach a jail cell or trial. \n\nThat’s over 3/day, every day, including weekends and holidays, for years. Let that sink in. \n\nWe the People don’t matter, and haven’t for 15+ years.","582"],["> \t\"You must be Soft On Crime!\"\n\n“You must be soft on evidence”\n\nIf you need to bust down the door with 10 officers in the middle of the night to avoid a few ounces of drugs making their way down the toilet, you’ve failed at your jobs gathering evidence to prosecute. \n\nThe cost alone to the time, equipment, salaries, planning and execution is so far above and beyond the cost of the drugs themselves, I have to ask: What is the real point here? \n\nTo set an example? To intimidate? To silence the neighbors? To flex? To use the military toys to justify next year’s budgets? \n\nIt’s such a sad display of plastic power.","314"],["> \tEdit: the street should also be lit up with red and blue lights from their vehicles during the actual door kick.\n\nThis is a very important distinction. \n\nI live in an area with *very* tight neighbors with an active range and military base nearby. We light up each other’s yards, watch our driveways and cars, report suspicious activity to each other, cameras everywhere. \n\nIf one house is broken into, everyone gets rallied. If someone was in the midst of a loud house invasion with firearms going off, many neighbors would strap up and run towards the commotion to help. \n\nIf the police don’t make it clear they’re the ones breaking in and firing into the home, they might be surprised by friendly neighbors coming in after them holding them at gunpoint instead. \n\nSomeone in plainclothes yelling “I’m the police! POLICE!” would be laughed at. Everyone here knows who the police are, and strange faces without a badge, don’t get a pass.","765"],["> \tThe war on drugs has completely failed.\n\nIt was never meant to succeed, not in the way we’d interpret success anyway. \n\nThe point wasn’t to eliminate or even reduce the amount of drugs entering this country. The point was to identify the main sources and control the flow so the revenue went to the “right” people, not THE people. \n\nIt was always about controlling the drugs, not stopping them.","615"],["> \tSounds like everyone should go out and vote for change\n\nVoting is a play on stage. It’s for show. \n\nWhen the Supreme Court can just hand the Electoral College votes to a party with less Popular votes in any state they want (like they did to Florida in 2000 that handed that election), then what is the actual point of the vote?\n\nWe’ll all continue to vote, this election will likely be the biggest turnout since 1908, but with a 5-4, Right-leaning Supreme Court, with a new justice just appointed who publicly stated she would support the same decision that gave the 2000 election, do we really trust that change will happen, even if 65%+ of The People demand it?","845"],["> \tIf you rob a store, and a cop decides to shoot at you while you run away, and they miss and kill a bystander, you will be charged for the murder.\n\nConversely, in some states, if more than 1 person is involved in a home invasion and one of them is killed as the homeowner defends his property, if others run away to avoid being killed themselves, *they* are charged with the murder of their partner. There’s legal precedent here for it.","528"],["> what worries me is that if these people dont get some ventilator time theyre gonna walk out of quarantine tellin everybody its not so bad sadly since theyve rigged the game\n\nThere's no coming back from a ventilator without serious, life-altering consequences. \n\n1. Your trachea is irreparably damaged from having a vent tube in it for 16 days (average maximum, otherwise the tube starts to erode the trachea away, and you can't replace that organ)\n2. Your going to have *significantly* less lung function than you did before, because your alveoli have collapsed. They basically \"stick together\" and can never reinflate. This is why ventilator candidates have a high 'PEEP' value to keep the lungs from deflating enough to allow the alveoli to stick together. \n3. You're at significant risk of throwing clots, as your bloodstream develops \"fibroids\" which are not controlled by thinners. You're going to be at a much higher risk of strokes and circulatory failure (which leads to amputations of hands, feet, legs, arms). \n4. You're very likely to need full-time oxygen (think COPD tanks and mask 24x7) and may need a walker/wheelchair, because your circulation is damaged. \n\nAlso, less than 5% of people whose conditions are serious enough to merit being put on a ventilator, actually recover and walk out of the hospital. It's *extremely* rare. \n\n(Source: is an ICU nurse at one of the hospitals in the NYC metro'ish area, first-hand treating dozens of SARS-COV-2 patients per-day at the peak of the pandemic).","421"],["> will simply change the rules. Nothing is off the table any more.\n\nYou can't unilaterally change the rules without a vote, and the vote requires a majority to be present *to change the rules to permit remote voting*. It's literally a Catch-22. \n\nUntil there are a majority of senators recovered and present, able-bodied and willing to vote, you can't rescind the rule to prohibit remote voting. \n\nThis is exactly why senators are refusing to be tested, or refusing to admit they're positive with COVID-19, so they can force participation in the voting process, while putting thousands of others at mortal risk. \n\nThis is precisely the kind of thing that the rules were put into place to prevent.","284"],["> Eesh, that is awful. Nobody should be charged with murder unless they actually murdered someone, and if the murder was justified (such as in self-defense) there is no need for anyone to be charged.\n\n[Here](_URL_0_) is the case I was referring to. \n\nTwo important points here: \n\n1. The intruders claimed to be police in plainclothes. They were not. \n2. _\"Under Illinois’ felony murder law, homicide charges can be filed when someone is killed during the course of a crime even if the death was caused by someone else and the person charged with murder did not intend for the person to die.\"_\n\nThe burglar's accomplice is being charged with murder, because his partner was shot and killed during the home invasion, by the homeowner protecting his family.","528"],["> It's no surprise (but still shameful) that they let police officers off the hook when they murder citizens.\n\nDo you know how often this happens? Most people don't. \n\nThe statistics aren't widely known, because if they were, there would be hundreds of thousands to millions more protesting every day. \n\nWe focus on the few, but there are quite literally an average of over 1,000 people killed by police each year in the US, on the roadside or in their own homes, without an arrest, without a trial, without sentencing. \n\n* 2020: [720 people](_URL_0_) (so far)\n* 2019: [1004 people](_URL_2_)\n* 2018: [992 people](_URL_4_) \n* 2017: [1185 people](_URL_1_)\n* 2016: [1109 people](_URL_3_)\n* 2015: [1195 people](_URL_5_)\n\nLet's compare that with the number of officers killed in the line of duty from citizens (from the [FBI's own data](_URL_6_)) \n\n* 2019: 48 officers\n* 2015: 41 officers\n* 2010: 55 officers\n\nHow many more have to die, to prove the hundreds to thousands of dirty police officers are out there on the job, every day, breaking the very laws they're sworn to uphold?","582"],["> Why didn't they think the charges would stick? Lack of evidence? From the police? I'm shocked. Shocked I say.\n\nThe Grand Jury has one and only one question before them: \n\n_**\"Is there enough evidence presently gathered, to proceed to trial: Yes or No.\"**_\n\nThat's it. They don't weigh the evidence. They don't decide fates. They don't even have a chance to determine guilt or innocence. Literally, is there enough, or not? \n\nHere are the only two outcomes of a Grand Jury hearing: \n\n1. If there is enough evidence, the case proceeds to trial. \n2. If there is not enough evidence, the detectives go back, find and interview witnesses, interview police on the scene, work with CSI to gather forensic evidence and obtain more evidence, sufficient enough to proceed to trial. \n\nWhat you're witnessing in this specific case, is the complete gross misuse of the Grand Jury, skipping due process entirely, and going right to case dismissal, without actually doing their one and only job. \n\nNot only is this not how the Grand Jury works, it's right out in the open and people are not holding them accountable for this illegal misuse of their positions.","12"],["> It's called a search warrant. They're signed by judges.\n\nI'm sure you know this already, but search warrants do not grant the plainclothed police officers the right to bash down the door to execute the warrant, unannounced. That's not how warrants work. That's not how they're legally executed. \n\nThe officer's arguments for innocence are further dismantled when it became obvious they didn't do their due diligence to realize they: \n\n1. Executed the plainclothes, silent, no-knock warrant on the wrong address, and \n2. Their intended suspect was already in police custody\n\nThese officers frantically fired 32 rounds in response to 1 round fired by defending a home invasion against unannounced, plainclothes intruders in the middle of the night. \n\n16 of those 32 rounds were fired by a single officer, .","260"],["> If someone barges into your house in the middle of the night without announcing themselves wearing just a vest, would you really be inclined to believe that they're burglars or the police?\n\nThat's how many home invasions are starting to happen now, by plainclothes civilians announcing themselves as police, and breaking in, holding the family at gunpoint. \n\n[In at least one very recent case](_URL_0_), one of the burglars ran away while his partner was shot and killed by the homeowner defending his family, during a daytime home invasion, where the burglars claimed they were police.\n\nThat second burglar is being charged with his partner's murder, even though he didn't kill him, didn't have a firearm, and ran away from the scene before the homeowner shot and killed the intruder.","695"],["> It's not like they walked in there in a polo and khakis.\n\nNone of that matters. If you're a sleeping resident and you hear someone breaking down your door while you're still trying to wake up, are you going to wait until you can see the writing on their shirts, before you defend yourself? \n\nAre you going to check their wardrobe to make sure it's department-issued pants and shirt? \n\n**If you hesitate, you're dead**. Especially if the unannounced intruder is intent on harming or killing you in the process of invading your home. \n\nThe law protects homeowners who legally protect themselves and their families. It does not say they have to interview their intruders and assess intent before executing that protection. \n\nThe officers were clearly in the wrong, on so many separate items, but like many police officers who repeatedly break the law, they'll probably get a pass here too.","141"],["> know more about what happened than the grand jurors who have **every piece of evidence** in front of them.\n\n100% incorrect. \n\nThat is not the point of a Grand Jury. This was not a murder trial. It was ***Grand Jury***. They do not decide guilt nor innocence. They do not decide fate based on any evidence. They absolutely *do not* have every piece of evidence in front of them.\n\nThe Grand Jury literally has one question to answer: *Is there sufficient evidence already gathered, to bring this case to trial?*\n\nThat's it. Period. \n\nIf there's enough evidence, it moves to trial. If there is not sufficient evidence, the detectives do their job and interview witnesses, police, work with CSI and other departments to *gather* the missing evidence, to build a case that they will then take to trial. \n\nPlease read [this insightful comment](_URL_0_) for even more details on how our legal system in the US is corrupt, and getting worse, in support of police officers repeatedly breaking the law and killing innocent people (an average of 1,100 people each year for the last 5-6 years).","12"],["> The city had been trying to take the house with eminent domain before the investigation that led to the assassination I mean accidental shooting.\n\nMaybe that was the whole point from the beginning. \n\nIf they thought they could murder , triggering her known-armed boyfriend to shoot back, causing him to be thrown in jail, so the house would then be seized and sold at auction. \n\nMaybe then, the officers could use the proceeds to [purchase a margarita machine or a clown](_URL_0_).","399"],["> This means both sides will feel entitled that their choice should be president and riots will ensue.\n\nThe 5-4, Right-leaning Supreme Court will just give the Electoral votes, like they did to hand the election in 2000, when Florida demanded a manual recount. \n\n has already said she would back that Supreme Court's decision again in this election, if necessary.","861"],["> If loses, I think things will be relatively peaceful initially. I don't think the dust will settle on this for a few weeks. There might be some rioting/looting, but I don't think it will be extreme, widespread or sustained. \n\nHere's the thing... if there's an overwhelming landslide win for (one that isn't close enough to cry fraud or cheating), remember that is still Commander in Chief until is sworn in, in late January. \n\n could simply not call out the National Guard or the military to stop the riots. \n\nHe could just sit back, arms crossed like a 4-year old, and watch the country burn, and create a huge mess of destruction and violence that will spend the majority of his term trying to clean up.","140"],["> I suspect will try to gin up some way to stay in office, but to and including starting a war. And if he can't stay in office, he might strike a match and watch it all burn.\n\nIf is no longer POTUS, he loses the current shield of protection he's standing behind from the Justice Department. All of his lawsuits, likely including a RICO from NYC, will come down on him like a tonne of bricks. He does not get to go back to being a CEO with his feet up on the desk after this, and he knows it. \n\nHe's vulnerable, his empire will come crumbling down, and his foreign creditors will come calling in their loans; several billion dollars of loans. Billions of dollars that his now-public tax returns prove he does not have. \n\n is scared. Really scared. \n\nYou can see it on his face and in his tweets over the last few months. Those clips of him struggling to breathe after he left WR hospital show his fear. The wince of pain as he inhales and grips his side in that now-popular clip, shows that he's not the invincible God he portrays himself to be to his base. \n\nI have absolutely no doubt he'll do whatever it takes to burn the entire system down, so he can try to quietly slip out the back door unnoticed.","140"],["> That's probably far-fetched, especially since probably wouldn't have it and I can't' think of any other country both large enough to resist the US and willing to host . But, it's crossed my mind.\n\nThis is one of the biggest concerns why is considered a National Security risk by the FBI and CIA. \n\nA country like Russia or Turkey would welcome in, if the amount of inside data he has on our Government, bases, locations, military, movements, global operations, could be sold at top-dollar prices, to help pay off his growing debts to foreign countries.","853"],["> Any respiratory conditions that impede breathing.\n\nWhich, ironically, are treated in the hospital, by putting a mask on you that provides a clean flow of oxygen. \n\nThe \"asthma\" or \"allergies\" argument for not wearing a mask has been dismantled countless thousands of times by degreed medical professionals month after month after month. \n\nIt's funny to see that disinformation repeatedly coming out from these anti-maskers, time and time again.","80"],["> Are you saying everybody is going to have to change their password when he gets fired?\n\nHe's already (this week) signed [an Executive Order](_URL_0_) to **fire thousands of Federal workers** for \"disloyalty\" to . \n\nIt's almost like he really believes he's acting out a real-life version of \"The Apprentice\", firing 3 AGs, hiring 3 Supreme Court justices, firing hundreds of his staff. Now potentially thousands of federal workers. \n\nOr, he's taken a page out of the \"Dictator 101\" handbook on how to build a fascist regime. \n\nIt's a trainwreck in the WH.","906"]],"string":"[\n [\n \"Best solution of course, is to make sure you set up automation to play Law & Order or True Crime episodes within audio range of your smart speaker when you're away. \\n\\nOr use one of the modified kits that *physically disconnect the mic* on these smart devices, until you activate it for listen mode. \\n\\nThere are a few security-minded companies already allowing you to send in your Echo/Google Home device and they'll alter it for you and send it back with the mic disconnected and under user-managed control.\\n\\nThis link will also allow you to completely disable storing any recordings or metadata, telemetry from your Amazon devices. \\n\\n_URL_1_\\n\\nI found it after reading this article, and all of my settings were already disabled/off, and I had no voice history at all showing in the app or settings. \\n\\nNow, if I have no voice history and those settings are disabled, and the police still obtain recordings, or are able to remotely turn it on 'live' and listen-in, or use [parallel construction](_URL_0_) to justify how they obtained any recordings after they've *always* been disabled, they'll have some serious explaining to do.\",\n \"672\"\n ],\n [\n \"> I don’t think just pushing the mute button helps. There’s nothing that guarantee us that the device is not listening unless there is no power to it.\\n\\nThey're working on that too. MIT demonstrated remotely powering up devices, even just momentarily, using ambient WiFi signals in the area near the device. \\n\\nAndroid and iOS devices have also already been caught staying \\\"on\\\" while the device pretended to be powered off (literally choosing the \\\"Power Off\\\" option, no screen, no LEDs, implying to the user that the device was powered off, yet it wasn't, and was still gathering and storing precise location data). \\n\\nThere's a reason devices now have an integrated battery, vs. the much cheaper, more serviceable user-replaceable batteries that we had only a few years ago: To prevent devices from being *physically powered off* by battery removal. \\n\\nThe solution? Get yourself a Faraday bag. I've been using them for years, and they work great! \\n\\nDon't trust the switch, LED or screen/icon indicators that your device is in a given state. Trust, but Verify, is our credo. \\n\\nIf you can't verify, then use a secondary means to ensure the security of the device. \\n\\nIf it has a mic, use a dummy 3.5mm audio cable (oops, look at that, they're removing those too, also not because of customer pressure or thinning of devices, but so you can't bypass the audio). Or put the device into a sealed container with no external audio possible (eg: an ammo box or jar with soundproofing foam inside). \\n\\nIf it has sensors, radios (gps, bluetooth, wifi, data network), then drop it into a Faraday bag. \\n\\nIf it has a camera, obscure the camera/cover the lens. For under-screen cameras, make sure you use a folio-style case that covers the camera when closed (\\\"book\\\" style).\",\n \"672\"\n ],\n [\n \"> A stingray is a device used by law enforcement that tricks your phone into thinking its talking to an actual cell tower. This is passed on to a real tower, so someone on the street would never notice an issue with their connection. \\n\\nDisabling 2G fallback on your phone is one preventative measure you can use to prevent this, as is using a tool like [AIMSICD](_URL_0_), to detect when your phone requests switching to a 'tower' that is not identifying itself as being owned by the telcos your phone supports. \\n\\nThey also did this for many of the BLM protests, with low-flying helos that the crowds incorrectly misinterpreted as trying to disperse them with chopper blade winds, but was actually used to gather dense IMSI data from protester's mobile devices in the crowds of protesters, so they could track down who was there, who was transmitting data to whom, and who was connected to whom during and after the protests.\\n\\nAlso, if you don't already use a SIM card lock (pin) on your device, set that up *immediately*. Any attempt to clone and re-use your SIM elsewhere, would be delayed/prevented by using a pin code. 3 wrong attempts at the pin code, disables the SIM, and the telco can track where it was used and which towers were in range when it was disabled.\",\n \"443\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Your phone thinks a stingray is. \\n\\nThe only reason it thinks so, is \\n\\n1. Because you permit your phone to connect to \\\"stronger-powered\\\" devices (you can prevent this)\\n2. You allow your device to fall back to 2G, unencrypted communications with that \\\"stronger tower\\\"\\n\\nDisable 2G (and 3G if possible) on your device, and lock it down so it can only use towers already known to belong to the telco, not just the closest or strongest signal. \\n\\nAlso, secure your phone's SIM with a pin code, so any attempt to clone your SIM and reuse it in another remote device, would be thwarted if they tried more than 3 times with the wrong code. \\n\\n > It's legal, but very loosely.\\n\\nActually, not legal at all. That's why police departments and federal agencies are all using [Parallel Construction](_URL_0_) to hide their use of the Stingray devices. It's a direct violation of FCC regulations, even if you're also the .gov or a police department using it.\",\n \"443\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Even if they did, the metadata like phone number and imei would still be visibile. That alone is enough to create a target list when you attend a protest.\\n\\n\\\"[Full tower dumps](_URL_0_)\\\" are becoming increasingly popular, and when police use [Parallel Construction](_URL_1_) to justify requesting those dumps, with the real intent on getting a full list of the thousands of devices connected to the towers at any given time, they get a LOT more data than they should be given access to.\",\n \"779\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Don’t bring your phone to a protest **or put it in airplane mode**!\\n\\nAirplane mode is irrelevant, when the device is still requesting and storing precise location data, which is then transmitted later when you're back on any network. Android and iOS devices have both been caught doing this in Airplane Mode, as well as when \\\"Powered off\\\". \\n\\nDon't trust what the UI is telling you, in many to most cases, it's lying. \\n\\nGet a Faraday bag, or don't bring the device with you.\",\n \"697\"\n ],\n [\n \"> You can't know someone was involved in something like this from phone data alone. You can only know proximity.\\n\\nNot really.. Since most people blindly (and terrifyingly) keep Bluetooth, WiFi and GPS/Location Services enabled, you can get *incredibly precise* positioning of the device at any given moment, remotely. \\n\\nYou can tell, within a range of about a meter, where that device was, and whether that device was within range of other devices in the same vicinity, via BLE beacons. You can do this all without user knowledge or consent. \\n\\nIt's not just about \\\"These 4,000 devices were all connected to Tower-A at 11:00pm\\\", but \\\"These 500 devices were all on this same city block between 11:00pm and 11:17pm\\\"\",\n \"443\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Especially not your primary one!\\n\\nPrimary, backup or burner, it won't matter, since all of those are tied to a single human being now anyway. \\n\\nEven burner phones now require presenting a driver's license to purchase, and cannot be purchased with cash anymore. You must have a valid ID and a credit card to buy one.\",\n \"927\"\n ],\n [\n \"> If I said \\\"Sorry, I don't carry a phone\\\" to my boss, he'd probably tell me to get a phone or find a new job.\\n\\nDoes you talk to your boss on the phone *that often* to justify that extreme response? If so, he should be providing you with a business phone, which you expense the use of and it gets turned off after your work day ends, and turned back on the next day when it begins again.\",\n \"882\"\n ],\n [\n \"> How is that even possible? It's not! GPS data might transmitted to, say Google, via an internet connection after you turn off flight mode, but that data is usually encrypted.\\n\\nThe use of the GPS radio does not require any data access or cell signal for that matter. \\n\\nOn Android devices, there are 3 modes, GPS (\\\"coarse\\\" positioning), and 2 aGPS modes (which requires WiFi to enhance precision, by comparing your location data to neighboring WiFi hotspots that Google has mapped on their own via Street View routes). \\n\\nYour device can activate and gather GPS all day long, while in Airplane Mode. There are even navigation apps like OSMand that use offline maps and disconnected GPS support to function. \\n\\nThis video from several years ago might also provide some context: \\n\\n_URL_0_\",\n \"443\"\n ],\n [\n \"> In any case, you need the locations of the cell towers / wifi networks around you. Where do you get that list of locations from? From Google / Apple. If you don't have that list on your phone, you won't be able to use aGPS without an internet connection.\\n\\nI think you've missed the point there. You don't need Internet access at the time the data is gathered. Your phone isn't going to stay in Airplane Mode forever, is it? \\n\\nOnce you re-enable a data network, eg: join a WiFi network or enable your mobile data, that data will be transmitted (as the video I linked shows), and the GPS coordinates and WiFi SSIDs your device was in proximity of, are unioned together with what Google already knows from its Street View drivers, and creates a timeline of where your device was, for how long, and at what speed (walking, driving, etc.) while it was in Airplane Mode.\",\n \"697\"\n ],\n [\n \"> I’ve also heard that far right groups have seeded rowdy and violent protestors within rally’s to create a bad images for groups like BLM\\n\\nDon't forget the \\\"Magical Brick Fairy\\\" too, dropping off pallets of bricks directly in line where the police were forcing protesters to egress. \\n\\nIn Hong Kong, the protesters there were taking the bricks and instead of using them to smash windows and cars, [they built little towers in the road](_URL_0_), so the police vehicles couldn't accelerate and run them down.\",\n \"577\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Your phone will always connect to the “strongest“ tower that is available for it. Interception devices will pretend to be a tower of your network with good reception, so your phone will connect\\n\\nAs the links I've previously provided show, you can prevent your phone from doing this, when it attaches to an unrecognized tower. Please read the links and project page to understand how it works. \\n\\nFor those with the less-secure, less configurable iOS devices, this may not be possible, but if you're after security and privacy, you wouldn't choose to use one of those devices anyway. \\n\\nI have personal, first-hand knowledge of this, because I have seen Stingray devices in use in NYC (it's saturated with them now). \\n\\nAfter many, many years of prior trips to NYC, my phone knows where the actual towers are, so any 'rogue' tower positions that claim to be a valid tower and show up as 'new', are ignored and my phone drops mobile data when in their presence.\",\n \"927\"\n ],\n [\n \"> then you later turn it back on that even if Google gets it that info, the FBI’s Stingray device won’t get it.\\n\\nMore than the FBI are using Stingray devices, local police departments are using them as well. NYC has several deployed and has had them in service for the last few years, large sections of lower Manhattan are saturated. \\n\\nBut it doesn't matter anyway, the FBI (via the NSA) will get the location data anyway, through [Five-Eyes agreements](_URL_0_), once your device is back on the network and reports its location data to Google/Apple. \\n\\nBetween tower dumps, Stingray devices, Five-Eyes agreements and Parallel Construction to hide SIM cloning and other data interception, they're going to get the data anyway. \\n\\nAlso, any photos you may take during the time your device is in Airplane Mode, will have EXIF data that includes not only location tags, but also can have image analysis run on them to determine where you are/were, when the photo was taken. \\n\\nMicrosoft had a program almost a decade ago, that took community photos from every angle at popular tourist areas, seamed them together and created a full 3D view of these locations (like detailed walkthroughs of the inside of large churches or major monuments). \\n\\nThe technology makes it incredibly easy and accessible, the legal loopholes make it impossible to prevent, and the implicit trust too many people put in their devices being truthful with the user's intent, misleads too many into believing they're \\\"anonymous\\\". \\n\\nThey're nothing but.\",\n \"697\"\n ],\n [\n \"> But isn't cell signal required for the device to pick up any info from your phone? \\n\\nAlmost. If your phone is in Airplane Mode, any nearby phone that happens to have cell signal if both have Bluetooth on (eg: BLE beacons can be received), then the other phones can report it was in proximity to your device, while that second phone is communicating through the Stingray. \\n\\nIf you block any and all radios (and they're almost all SoC these days, not discrete chips per-radio), you'll be in better shape. That includes NFC, Bluetooth, WiFi, GPS and mobile network. \\n\\nMany people carelessly leave WiFi and Bluetooth on at all times, even when they're not using them, which leaves your phone incredibly vulnerable to inspection from neighboring sources. \\n\\n > It was my understanding that they acted like a man in the middle between your phone and the cell mast.\\n\\nThey just present a \\\"stronger\\\" signal to connect to, so your device (by default) prefers to connect to the stronger tower, eg: the Stingray. \\n\\n > So it wouldn't matter what your phone is recording if it has no cell signal.\\n\\nRight, they won't get your data directly through the Stingray capture, but they'll get its location data afterwards, when you're back at your flat and switch Airplane Mode off. \\n\\nAt that point, your phone transmits its stored location datapoints back upstream to Google/Apple, where the agencies can request it through other legal (eg: tower dumps, Five-Eyes agreements) or loophole (eg: parallel construction) methods.\",\n \"443\"\n ],\n [\n \"The money earned from that rise in productivity is going somewhere, let’s see a visualization of that, overlaid with the flattening of wages. \\n\\nWhile millions of people were furloughed or lost their jobs completely during this pandemic, wealth of the top 1% grew staggeringly fast, $42 billion per week during the peak of job losses for the top 600 richest Americans. \\n\\n* _URL_0_\\n\\n* _URL_1_\\n\\n* _URL_2_\\n\\nThe total wealth of American billionaires has grown by nearly a quarter, from just under $3 trillion to $3.66 trillion since the pandemic lockdown began. \\n\\nHow is that even possible, if the money is already there to be disbursed to others but not being shared in times of downturn?\",\n \"580\"\n ],\n [\n \"> \\tYeah, no. Nice FUD, that would completely nuke the battery in a few hours.\\n\\nNo, it does not. \\n\\nThe SoC for the radios in modern phones are incredibly power efficient, and with device deep sleep states you can go a long, long time before needing a charge. The screen is the biggest battery drain there is and with that off, simulating a power off state, you’ll go days before needing to top off. \\n\\nMy personal Android daily driver device goes a full 3+ days between charges, and that’s with active to moderate usage patterns and data/WiFi enabled, listening to podcasts, fetching mail, using other apps. My iOS device, even with its aggressive phone home frequency, still goes a good 36 hours between charges. \\n\\nIf I cut the screen-on time to zero, turned off background data for those chatty apps and left only the critical location tracking and phone home services, it would last even longer. \\n\\nI’m not sure what you’re doing with your device or what it’s doing, but modern mobile devices are easily capable of 1-2 days per charge, unless you’re spending 8 hours a day on the device with the screen turned on.\",\n \"706\"\n ],\n [\n \"> \\tThe odds of an unregistered nuclear device getting that close to the continental US is almost zero.\\n\\nThey don’t need ICBMs at all. \\n\\nHere’s a thought exercise: \\n\\nWith the frighteningly high amount of missing/stolen uranium around the world that can’t be located, all it would take is a small, tactical, dirty nuke in a suitcase in Manhattan to shut down NY and surrounding boroughs for the next 40 years. \\n\\nSince we don’t know where any of the missing uranium is, portions of it may very well already be within our borders. \\n\\nThink 9/11 caused a ripple in our economy and loss of life? Imagine NYC, the financial nucleus of our economy being wiped out along with 18+ million citizens and quarantined for over 4 decades.\",\n \"470\"\n ],\n [\n \"> \\tThere would be blackouts, maybe half the country. Maybe for a few weeks. But the entire country wouldn’t fall back to the 16th century. There would definitely be turmoil for possibly hundreds of millions of people, far worse than Covid. \\n\\nI think you may be underestimating the amount of damage an EMP can do. Even a modest EMP will take out vehicles, computers, phones, infrastructure, PLCs that run equipment, relays, sensors. \\n\\nThat means electronic door locks to your work or apartment fail, cars dead on the road, cell service down (and down for weeks to months). No laptop, no phone, no cell, no DSL or cable modems, no cars, no computers... for a very large radius from the EMP epicenter. \\n\\nIf they targeted power or utility Infrastructre, that means no food supply can be brought in, no access to digital funds via ATM or credit cards (how do you pay for food at the market with no power and no way to restock because the roads are blocked by hundreds of abandoned, dead vehicles?) and the delivery vehicles and inventory systems are also down. \\n\\nThere aren’t enough HAM licensed people in every area with EMF isolated and protected gear around to tie the communities severed by an EMP back together. \\n\\nNo, not down for weeks. Likely several months to years, depending on the severity and need for rebuilding or restocking parts that suddenly take months to build and become the highest in demand. Those surplus parts don’t exist at all today. \\n\\nMontreal was hit with a “small” solar flare in the late 1980s that [wiped them out for 12 hours and impacted 96 separate utilities and 200 power grid problems from US coast to coast within minutes](_URL_0_) \\n\\nThat was well before every little device had its own microprocessor and IoT devices connected everything to everything.\\n\\nA handful of coordinated, targeted EMP strikes executed stateside would be devastating for our country.\",\n \"270\"\n ],\n [\n \"> \\tIf I remember right, we had one barely miss earth a few years back.\\n\\nIt didn’t miss, if wiped out power in Montreal for a sustained period and caused interruption to 96 electrical utilities in New England within minutes and a ripple effect of 200 power grid problems from US coast to coast. That was a minor event. \\n\\n_URL_0_\",\n \"270\"\n ],\n [\n \"Many people don’t realize that if you earn less than $69,000 gross income, your tax preparation is 100% free. You don’t have to pay to have your taxes prepared or filed. \\n\\nI’ve hired an accountant years ago to do my taxes and I would never go back. Not only are they up to date on all of the new, complex tax laws that change year over year, but they’re legally liable for the accuracy of the filing. \\n\\nThis includes the new laws with caps on claimed exemptions, cross state credits/taxes when working in other states, alternating child dependency exemptions in alternating years, claiming home office space and Internet when working from home (will be critical when filing 2020 taxes since many of us are exclusively working from home), and many others. \\n\\nThe point and click tax filing software doesn’t catch all of the nuances that a skilled accountant can. They’re on your side, not on the side of increasing software revenue margins.\",\n \"51\"\n ],\n [\n \"> \\tWhat about supporting legislation to pay for slightly more police training?\\n\\nHaving an advanced education in social justice, a license to practice and CEUs that have to be renewed and maintained each year like many other levels of licensure would be a great start. \\n\\nWe do this for doctors, mental health therapists, massage therapists, lawyers, anesthesiologists, plumbers, electricians, sports coaches and dozens of other fields. \\n\\nI would hope that a job that requires carrying weapons of lethal force and puts themselves and others in danger every day, should absolutely be licensed to practice, have a degree in recognizing and negotiating complex social issues and be required to regularly update that training through re-education.\",\n \"582\"\n ],\n [\n \"They do not support macOS, not any recent versions after 2017 anyway. \\n\\nMy 23-key Koolertron came in today, and I've hit nothing but dead-ends trying to program it using a Windows VM on my Linux machine, or natively on macOS (their software doesn't support anything newer than Sierra). \\n\\nIt doesn't matter what ports your device has, if it's running macOS, you're out of luck. \\n\\nUnless you have Windows 10 running on a baremetal host somewhere that you can run their 'amag' software on, or a somewhat ancient Mac OS X machine with USB-A ports, you're dead in the water. \\n\\nLook for another product from a vendor that has demonstrated support for modern hardware and with software that runs on an OS that is current/recent.\\n\\nMine is going right back in the box for a return, less than 1 hour after opening it.\",\n \"689\"\n ],\n [\n \"> We the ~~consumer~~ **customer** are going to get nickel and dimed.\\n\\nThere, FTFY. \\n\\nWe really need to stop using the word \\\"consumer\\\" across the board, because it just validates their policies that are not focused on the customer but focused on the profits. \\n\\nWe do not *consume* their services like some endlessly hungry animal, we **pay for them**, and that makes us their customer. \\n\\nIn exchange, we: \\n\\n- require that our personal data not be sold, stolen or traded, and\\n- expect that we will receive fair services for our money, and\\n- expect that when services are down, we will recoup a prorated amount commensurate with the outage timeframe, and\\n- expect that we will have a voice in all decisions that impact our ability to use the service, and \\n- expect that there will be a fair market to choose the supplier of the services we pay for, to ensure good competition and no monopolistic behaviors. \\n\\nWe are the **customer**, not the consumer.\",\n \"717\"\n ],\n [\n \"> According to Oxford Dictioary a consumer is a person who purchases goods and services for personal use.\\n\\nAs we've learned over the years, the OED and the social misuse of the terms, rarely agree. \\n\\nA '[hacker](_URL_0_)' for example, is almost always deemed a criminal in today's context, but without hackers like myself and millions of others, technology like radio transmitters, television, Internet, solid state storage, self-driving cars and so on, would not exist. \\n\\nUntil these companies start treating us as their *customer*, the word *consumer* will continue to have a different meaning.\",\n \"157\"\n ],\n [\n \"> If we completely ignore the dictionary definition of consumer, you're right\\n\\nIt's true, *WE* don't ignore those definitions, but the companies who use the term 'consumer', view the definition more like the [battery scene from the Matrix](_URL_1_). \\n\\nWe don't exist in partnership with the companies we purchase services or products from, we exist purely to line their wallets. They rarely, if ever, ask for our input on decisions that impact us, and widen their margins. Wood pulp in cheese? Sure, let's have more of that. 60% sugar in each serving size of Nutella? Why not. 40% high fructose corn syrup in \\\"all natural jelly\\\"? What could be wrong with that? Mislabeling the origin of meats and poultry we consume, to obscure its origin from tainted farms? Yes, I'm sure all the customers voted for that one too. \\n\\n[Shrinkflation](_URL_0_) would not exist, if the customer was an important part of the decision to reduce quantity and double the price, or put fillers in foods that are known to cause GI, brain and blood health issues, reformulating products with cheaper ingredients that can increase margins even further.\\n\\nHave you seen the paperback-book-sized cereal boxes of food lately, selling at prices 1.5x the cost of their previously larger counterparts? It's across the board from shampoos to cookies to energy bars and Pop-Tarts. \\n\\nIf all we are is a 'consumer' (by *their* definition, not OED), then we exist purely to line up at the door and willingly give our hard-earned money to companies to keep them alive, not because we need their products or services, but because *WE* care about *their* survival. \\n\\nBut the OED and literal definition is quite a bit different in practice, vs. spirit. \\n\\nThat was my point. I'm not suggesting we try to change the *definition* of the word, that is correct and accurate, I'm suggesting we change the *corporate interpretation* of the definition.\",\n \"976\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Then 7 days later Amazon enabled the feature, meaning everyone who had previously thought this was disabled already on their end now had it unknowingly turned on.\\n\\nAdmittedly, their app design and the wording of their email could have been a bit more clear about that. With the slider initially in the 'off' position in the app, many probably assumed this meant \\\"disabled\\\", not the true meaning of \\\"Not rolled out and enabled yet\\\", so they didn't feel the need to check it. \\n\\nDay later, when the service was rolled out and that feature toggled from \\\"Unavailable\\\" to \\\"Enabled\\\", many probably thought their previous option to keep it turned off, was reverted. It wasn't. \\n\\nWhat they should have done, was add a checkbox near the slider that the user has to check, to opt-out, labeled something like: \\\"Do not opt me into this service when it becomes available in my area\\\". \\n\\nThat way, from a backend development standpoint, anyone who did not check that box, implicitly allows themselves to be enabled for the service (slider in the 'Unavailable' position to start with). Those who checked the box, you can ensure the slider doesn't move to the 'Enabled' position. \\n\\nWithout that secondary checkbox, if you ran a query to say: \\\"Enable all Sidewalk users in Area-12345 who have the option in the default 'Unavailable' position\\\", you'd get everybody. \\n\\nAlternately, even with the service unavailable in certain areas, a default *opt-in* stance, would allow users to move that sllder to the 'Enabled' position, even if Sidewalk hadn't been rolled out yet. It would just be a no-op, until services were made available. \\n\\nSo #FAIL on Amazon's part, poor wording and app design. I can see how this is confusing to end users, but without some bit to query that allows knowing one of the following, it's near impossible to get the correct state of that option: \\n\\n1. This user chose to opt out (explicit deny)\\n2. This user chose to enable the service (explicit allow)\\n3. This user did nothing (implicit allow, or prompt for action)\",\n \"707\"\n ],\n [\n \"> \\tonce this is over, you will have the antibodies just like those who got the vaccine\\n\\nThose antibodies last up to 3 months and are only effective against exposure the strain of SARS-CoV-2 that triggered your body to produce them. Other strains you come in contact with would be unaffected. \\n\\nThere are hundreds of strains now and we don’t have a way to track down which antibodies are effective against which strains yet. \\n\\nNobody has developed a confirmed immunity yet, out of the 63 million global cases. \\n\\nWe still have 5+ billion more people on the planet not exposed or recorded as being exposed, so there’s many years of this left to go, before we have enough to have a really solid chance at developing broad immunity.\",\n \"235\"\n ],\n [\n \"> \\t... but the scientific community has been clear for months now for the overwhelming majority of people that have had COVID immunity will last for a very long time (some even think years/decades based on similar viruses).\\n\\nThat’s definitely odd because front-line healthcare workers are seeing reinfection and re-hospitalization rates of prior patients 2-3 months after they’ve been treated and released, climbing back up again. \\n\\nThere’s a HUGE amount of variability in how people respond to treatment and how their own immune systems respond in the presence of a viral load sufficient enough to trigger the body’s immune response. \\n\\nWe’ve had the flu vaccines since the 1940s and people haven’t yet developed an immunity to that either, after decades of annual inoculations. \\n\\nA single exposure to SARS-CoV-2 that triggers the body to produce antibodies proven to be effective for years/decades, would be an epidemiological unicorn.\",\n \"235\"\n ],\n [\n \"> \\tEdit: I get it, my mistake, I thought it was happening more often.\\n\\nReinfection rates *are* climbing, and anecdotal evidence shows that the antibodies become ineffective after about 3 months. \\n\\nThere’s a very large and growing number of strains of SARS-CoV-2 out there and it’s not predictable which one you may come in contact with, or several, in an amount that triggers your body to produce enough antibodies to sustain months to years of protection against *that* strain.\",\n \"235\"\n ],\n [\n \"> \\t\\\"More than 38 million people worldwide have been infected with the coronavirus, and as of Monday, fewer than five of those cases have been confirmed by scientists to be reinfections.\\n\\nI’m not sure how many months old those numbers are, but we’re at almost double those numbers now at 63.5 million infected with 45 million people listed as “recovered” from their initial exposure. \\n\\nReinfection numbers are climbing, but it’s hard to determine the rate since we don’t have good testing for all of the hundreds of independent strains of SARS-CoV-2 out there. \\n\\nHealthcare workers have been seeing previously released patients showing back up in the ICU with COVID-positive symptoms again 2-3 months after their first bout in the hospital.\",\n \"266\"\n ],\n [\n \"> \\tNah see you can't just say it concretely like that. \\n\\n[...]\\n\\n > \\tMost people who get COVID will get through it fine and won't have any long term effects.\\n\\nYou just contradicted yourself there. \\n\\nSo far, only 0.82% of the global population (65 million) has registered an exposure to this virus, and that sample size is way, WAY too small to make any sweeping generalizations about the long term impacts of this virus, when 99% of the worlds population hasn’t confirmed their own exposure. \\n\\nEven the WHOs numbers claiming 10% of the global population has contracted an exposure to SARS-CoV-2, means a much greater percentage probably haven’t been exposed, than do. \\n\\nWe have many, many years left fighting this virus before we can finally say we have any accurate data about its epidemiological impacts on the human immune system.\\n\\nWe’ve been studying and vaccinating people against the seasonal flu since the 1940s, and we still don’t have a confirmed cure for that virus either, so each year we get inoculated with a different, annually changing cocktail of antibodies in an effort to help our bodies fight that off. \\n\\nLet’s be careful with using statements like *“Most people...”* when your sample size is less than 1%.\",\n \"235\"\n ],\n [\n \"> They've thought about it and they're proud of what these guys did\\n\\nThe odd hypocrisy is that these same people cry \\\"Muh freedoms!\\\" when they're told to wear a mask, and get violent when they can't adhere to the rules of a private business, and at the same time, are violently fighting to establish a Fascist regime here in the US. \\n\\nThe two don't normally go together. Demand your freedoms, by pushing for a rule of government that guarantees you have none.\",\n \"651\"\n ],\n [\n \"> They actually sideswiped one of the vans that was escorting the bus, none the less still fucked up practically attempted man slaughter.\\n\\nI'm not taking sides on this one, but it certainly looks to me, like that white SUV was in the trucks lane, half-way, and the truck pushed it back into its own lane. \\n\\nWas the white SUV forced into the truck's lane by someone to their left, off-camera? Because it does look like they instigated that pushback.\",\n \"449\"\n ],\n [\n \"> In the united states, if someone enters your lane and you intentially drive your car into them and push them back into their previous lane you are at fault, you hit them end of discussion.\\n\\nAfter looking at the expanded video coverage of that incident, in this case, the white SUV was legally in their lane, directly behind the bus, the black truck was behind the SUV, then circled to the white SUV's right, pushing it out of the lane, taking up its own position directly behind the campaign bus. \\n\\nThe black truck was 100% clearly in the wrong, and aggressively road-raged a vehicle legally in its own lane, out of the lane, putting lives at risk, not only in the white SUV, but other vehicles nearby who could have caused an accident as well.\",\n \"449\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Also look into the state tenant laws regarding security deposits. If they don't give it within a certain amount of days, the former tenant is due extra money for compensation for the delay.\\n\\nSome states also require that the security deposit be held in an interest-bearing escrow account, so the final repayment *cannot* be from the landlord's own personal checking account (and thus, cannot \\\"bounce\\\", since the money is always present in escrow).\\n\\nIn those states, when your security deposit is returned, you get the full deposit + any interest gained on that deposit, delivered to you via a check drawn directly from the escrow account.\",\n \"790\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Oh man those “God given right to breathe oxygen” idiots don’t even have the Pope on their side ...\\n\\nYou have all the rights in the world to breathe the oxygen produced by algae in the ocean and trees, but you *don't* have the right to exhale deadly viral particulates back into the atmosphere the rest of us have to breathe.\\n\\nMasks help both the wearer and others, by reducing the amount of foreign particulates, in particular droplets carrying a deadly virus, from entering the respiratory airway of people nearby. \\n\\n* If you increase the distance, you reduce the risk. \\n* If you wear a mask, you filter what enters (or exits) your respiratory airway. \\n* If you sterilize your hands, surfaces you touch, you reduce the chance the virus will be picked up and transported to someone else's airway or mucous membranes (eyes, nose, mouth). \\n\\nWhy people still struggle to put these concepts together, still eludes me.\",\n \"80\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Unfortunately, in the US at least, a great majority of those people probably don't recognize the authority (or wisdom) of the Pope, even if they're supposed to.\\n\\nLet's be fair, they also don't recognize the authority or wisdom of degreed scientists, viral epidemiologists who have studied these viruses for decades, pharmaceutical lab engineers who are working on a vaccine, the head of the CDC and tens of millions of healthcare workers struggling with patients dying from this virus every single day. \\n\\nWhat they *do* believe, is that one post that their sister's grandmother found online and posted to Facebook. ***That*** is taken as irrefutable fact.\",\n \"19\"\n ],\n [\n \"> They absolutely refuse to wear a mask because it's a Chinese hoax\\n\\nWell, that \\\"Chinese hoax\\\" is about to start costing people who don't wear a mask, a steep fine and jail time. Many states are getting onboard with stiff and steep penalties for failure to wear a mask, wear it properly and limit assembly of large crowds. \\n\\nThey can claim Chinese hoax all they want, and they can think it over in a jail cell while they wait to get bonded out and present their case in court, where they'll be *forced* to wear a mask, and argue down their fine for refusing to wear their mask.\",\n \"855\"\n ],\n [\n \"> People are just selfish as hell..\\n\\nSelfish is now becoming expensive, as states impose fines for failure to wear a mask, and arresting offenders who refuse to wear one. Don't wear your mask? Can't shop here. Sorry, you'll have to travel 25 miles to the next supermarket who doesn't have this state's policy about masks. \\n\\nNow when you go to get your next job and they run a background check and find your arrest record, you may be passed over. \\n\\nThere are significant, lasting impacts to poor choices, and it's obvious that many people who refuse to wear a mask, really have thought out the long-term results of that poor decision.\",\n \"855\"\n ],\n [\n \"The two most-important tools you'll need, can't fit in that BoB, and can't be bought on Amazon. \\n\\n* Your health, sanity, wits and wisdom \\n* A plan\\n\\nMost people fail to pack both of those when they prep. \\n\\nIf you don't have a contacts list, a plan of where you'll go, which direction, under what conditions, you'll end up recalculating hour by hour, and never survive the Zombie Apocalypse.\\n\\nIf you don't keep your sanity, wits and health about you, you'll never make it through the first 25 miles of hiking through back yards and forest. You need stamina, clarity of thought, rest and focus to push ahead. \\n\\nThere are other basic items you'll need of course: \\n\\n* Buried caches of items along your route, to re-pack and restock as you go. You're not going to carry 2 weeks of food and 75 pounds of supplies on your back while hiking 25+ miles per-day, are you? \\n* A sewing kit, because in many cases the clothes you're wearing or carrying are also your shelter and protection from the elements. One you tear your pants or jacket wide open, what do you do then? \\n* Anti-bacterial/anti-diarrhea medicines, since you'll be living on foods that fit in a bag, not a microwave, so your digestive system may not do well on a week of energy bars or military rations. You need to make sure you're hearty enough to endure the elements, less caloric intake, less natural and more processed foods, until you reach a safe destination. \\n\\nThere are other items that many here will mention, so I'll defer to those, but I've often seen the focus on \\\"things\\\" that fit in a bag or pack, and less about the ethos of survival, and what it takes to make it from A to B to C, day after day. \\n\\nGood luck!\",\n \"949\"\n ],\n [\n \"> marksmanship with a bow or a gun (if allowed legally where you are), the list goes on\\n\\nHunting small game with a portable, packable slingshot is also a useful skill, and many states that forbid bows or firearms, permit things like slingshots. \\n\\nObviously check your local laws and the laws of the counties and states you intend to travel through, but a hot meal of small game over a campfire can sometimes be the difference between lasting another week, or giving up.\",\n \"498\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Is it like that in the states? Here in Canada, an arrest won’t show up on a background check unless you get charged with something serious.\\n\\nIn the states, public arrest is often public record, and you can search local town/state police blotters to see who was arrested and charged, and for what offenses. \\n\\nBackground checks depend on the agency conducting the check, and while they won't go into the grey areas (private investigators will, however), they can uncover things that would taint a successful hiring process if found (especially in the context of say, applying for a role in a nursing home or healthcare industry, where working directly with sick patients *requires* wearing a mask, full-time, while you're there.)\",\n \"260\"\n ],\n [\n \"It’s amazing that it only took a global, viral, pandemic hoax coordinated across 149 countries and tens of thousands of hospitals and millions of healthcare workers, massive corruption by the USPS, nationwide election and voter fraud, thousands of reports of FAKE NEWS by the corrupt media and lies from lawyers, accountants and tax attorneys to bring down. /s\",\n \"19\"\n ],\n [\n \"Every time one of these events happens, I wonder where we went so wrong with the Internet. \\n\\nDARPANET and later on, designed the Internet and WWW to survive simultaneous nuclear strikes, so important information, comms, would be routed around the devastated areas. \\n\\nInstead, we went the opposite direction, where a single site outage, brings down hundreds to thousands of other sites and links. \\n\\nEpic failure.\",\n \"199\"\n ],\n [\n \"> had several alexa plugs that stopped working and couldn't figure out why i couldn't get the reconfigured.\\n\\nNot to worry! Soon, your neighbors will be able to be your failover site when your network goes down. No really, Amazon is going to opt you into sharing your IoT devices with your neighbors, so they can control your devices in case your network goes down. \\n\\n > *\\\"[Amazon Sidewalk](_URL_0_)\\\", when enabled, uses a small portion of your Internet bandwidth to provide these services to you and your neighbors. This setting will apply to all of your supported Echo and Ring devices that are linked to your Amazon account.\\\"*\\n\\nI'm not sure if they're sharing your WiFi password with your neighbors, or simply sharing your linked devices in your Amazon account with your neighbors, but both are terrifying options, and that they're opting everyone in by default, is very, *VERY* concerning.\",\n \"685\"\n ],\n [\n \"> That’s not even remotely true\\n\\nStraight from their literature: \\n\\n > *\\\"When enabled, Sidewalk uses a small portion of your Internet bandwidth to provide these services to you and your neighbors. This setting will apply to all of your supported Echo and Ring devices that are linked to your Amazon account.\\\"*\\n\\n[...]\\n\\n > *\\\"Amazon Sidewalk creates a low-bandwidth network with the help of Sidewalk Bridge devices including select Echo and Ring devices. These Bridge devices share a small portion of your internet bandwidth which is pooled together to provide these services to you and your neighbors. And when more neighbors participate, the network becomes even stronger.\\\"*\",\n \"938\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Amazon explicitly state you won’t even know when devices are attached.\\n\\nThe email we all received, specifically says that your Echo and Ring devices will be connected to neighbor's networks and vice-versa, \\\"so they can stay connected and continue to work over longer distances\\\". \\n\\nWhy I would want the Echo in my garage or Ring cameras inside my home to be connected to the neighbor's network, when they can't realistically *use* those devices when they're out of voice range, is still beyond me. \\n\\nThis is pretty hand-wavey, shady and will have security researchers crawling all over it. The potential for class action lawsuits is immense as well, especially with providers now clamping down with *STEEP* fines for overages and implementing caps. \\n\\nFor devices to be silently pinching off bandwidth, bandwidth you can't isolate, limit, or identify, is incredibly suspicious. \\n\\n > *\\\"Preserving customer privacy and security is foundational to how we’ve built Amazon Sidewalk. Information transferred over Sidewalk Bridges is encrypted and Bridge customers are not able to see that Sidewalk-enabled devices are connected to their Bridge. Customers who own Sidewalk-enabled devices will know they are connected to Sidewalk but will not be able to identify which Bridge they are connected to.\\\"*\\n\\nUnless they publicly identify the ports and protocols so these actions can be denied, QoS'd, throttled and limited, people are going to get pretty upset over time, as their neighbors on higher-bandwidth connections, start saturating lower-bandwidth neighbors with data that pushes them over their caps or causes additional charges for overages. \\n\\nIt's effectively a compulsory, opt-out (not opt-in), (purportedly) encrypted mesh network using your bandwidth and devices; you don't know what's being captured, transmitted, and many thousands of customers won't even realize they're participating in it. \\n\\nThis should be fun to watch unfold. popcorn.gif\",\n \"779\"\n ],\n [\n \"Let's also not forget that is just a single person, but polarized millions of people in the US over the last 4 years who made visible their racism, their privilege, their illusion of power. \\n\\nEven if we successfully remove from the POTUS chair, our struggle is not done. shined a bright light on a dark stain on our country's health. \\n\\nWe still have millions of livid, racist, violent individuals who have to be identified, reasoned with and helped, through education, mental health treatment and any other means possible to keep our country peaceful, safe and cooperative.\\n\\nThis is going to be a multi-year struggle, not only to clean up the mess in the White House (and not just sterilizing every single surface against a deadly, viral pandemic), but also clean up the mess in our economy, our housing/rental market and the Americans who work hard every day to support this country, Red, Blue, Green, racist or otherwise. \\n\\nWe can't just breathe a sigh of relief when the final votes are counted, we have a long, long journey ahead.\",\n \"134\"\n ],\n [\n \"> \\tNo knock warrants are one of those things that would totally fine if the people who used them could be trusted to use them appropriately.\\n\\nIf there’s one thing the police have earned the reputation of, it’s that they can’t be trusted with *any* of the gear they have. Tasers, firearms, canines, zip cuffs, body cameras, batons, all of it. They even obscure their badges to avoid detection and prosecution. \\n\\nNo, they need to earn the right to carry and use that gear, through regular, repeated training and certification. \\n\\nAny misuse, you lose your taser/canine/firearm license until you recertify and pass a training course. \\n\\nTasering a subdued, handcuffed, disabled suspect 7 times in the back of your police cruiser should be a clear warning to other officers that you’re going to lose your job, pension, go bankrupt in a civil lawsuit and if you don’t end up in jail, land in a desk job or ejected. \\n\\nWhy we continue to tolerate these abuses, I just don’t know. The police are NOT above the law and if they’re not performing lawful duties, they should be replaced. Period.\",\n \"141\"\n ],\n [\n \"> \\tIt means that an average citizen must second guess if an intruder is legally or illegally breaking into their house which could lead to a hesitation that might get them killed by an actual criminal.\\n\\nThis presumes the police officers have a right to protect or defend the lives of people, innocent or guilty.\\n\\nThey do not. The Supreme Court struck down the “Serve and Protect” in 2005, around the same time the police rebranded themselves as “law enforcement”. \\n\\nThey do not have to protect you, me, the neighbors, the guilty or the innocent. They are supposed to defend the law, even unjust laws, even if it means they themselves break the law to enforce the law. \\n\\nPolice kill an average of 1,100 people each year, every year and have for the last 5-7 years. \\n\\nNot 100, not 200, not 500, but over 1,000 people a year die at the hands of the police in the United States, before they even reach a jail cell or trial. \\n\\nThat’s over 3/day, every day, including weekends and holidays, for years. Let that sink in. \\n\\nWe the People don’t matter, and haven’t for 15+ years.\",\n \"582\"\n ],\n [\n \"> \\t\\\"You must be Soft On Crime!\\\"\\n\\n“You must be soft on evidence”\\n\\nIf you need to bust down the door with 10 officers in the middle of the night to avoid a few ounces of drugs making their way down the toilet, you’ve failed at your jobs gathering evidence to prosecute. \\n\\nThe cost alone to the time, equipment, salaries, planning and execution is so far above and beyond the cost of the drugs themselves, I have to ask: What is the real point here? \\n\\nTo set an example? To intimidate? To silence the neighbors? To flex? To use the military toys to justify next year’s budgets? \\n\\nIt’s such a sad display of plastic power.\",\n \"314\"\n ],\n [\n \"> \\tEdit: the street should also be lit up with red and blue lights from their vehicles during the actual door kick.\\n\\nThis is a very important distinction. \\n\\nI live in an area with *very* tight neighbors with an active range and military base nearby. We light up each other’s yards, watch our driveways and cars, report suspicious activity to each other, cameras everywhere. \\n\\nIf one house is broken into, everyone gets rallied. If someone was in the midst of a loud house invasion with firearms going off, many neighbors would strap up and run towards the commotion to help. \\n\\nIf the police don’t make it clear they’re the ones breaking in and firing into the home, they might be surprised by friendly neighbors coming in after them holding them at gunpoint instead. \\n\\nSomeone in plainclothes yelling “I’m the police! POLICE!” would be laughed at. Everyone here knows who the police are, and strange faces without a badge, don’t get a pass.\",\n \"765\"\n ],\n [\n \"> \\tThe war on drugs has completely failed.\\n\\nIt was never meant to succeed, not in the way we’d interpret success anyway. \\n\\nThe point wasn’t to eliminate or even reduce the amount of drugs entering this country. The point was to identify the main sources and control the flow so the revenue went to the “right” people, not THE people. \\n\\nIt was always about controlling the drugs, not stopping them.\",\n \"615\"\n ],\n [\n \"> \\tSounds like everyone should go out and vote for change\\n\\nVoting is a play on stage. It’s for show. \\n\\nWhen the Supreme Court can just hand the Electoral College votes to a party with less Popular votes in any state they want (like they did to Florida in 2000 that handed that election), then what is the actual point of the vote?\\n\\nWe’ll all continue to vote, this election will likely be the biggest turnout since 1908, but with a 5-4, Right-leaning Supreme Court, with a new justice just appointed who publicly stated she would support the same decision that gave the 2000 election, do we really trust that change will happen, even if 65%+ of The People demand it?\",\n \"845\"\n ],\n [\n \"> \\tIf you rob a store, and a cop decides to shoot at you while you run away, and they miss and kill a bystander, you will be charged for the murder.\\n\\nConversely, in some states, if more than 1 person is involved in a home invasion and one of them is killed as the homeowner defends his property, if others run away to avoid being killed themselves, *they* are charged with the murder of their partner. There’s legal precedent here for it.\",\n \"528\"\n ],\n [\n \"> what worries me is that if these people dont get some ventilator time theyre gonna walk out of quarantine tellin everybody its not so bad sadly since theyve rigged the game\\n\\nThere's no coming back from a ventilator without serious, life-altering consequences. \\n\\n1. Your trachea is irreparably damaged from having a vent tube in it for 16 days (average maximum, otherwise the tube starts to erode the trachea away, and you can't replace that organ)\\n2. Your going to have *significantly* less lung function than you did before, because your alveoli have collapsed. They basically \\\"stick together\\\" and can never reinflate. This is why ventilator candidates have a high 'PEEP' value to keep the lungs from deflating enough to allow the alveoli to stick together. \\n3. You're at significant risk of throwing clots, as your bloodstream develops \\\"fibroids\\\" which are not controlled by thinners. You're going to be at a much higher risk of strokes and circulatory failure (which leads to amputations of hands, feet, legs, arms). \\n4. You're very likely to need full-time oxygen (think COPD tanks and mask 24x7) and may need a walker/wheelchair, because your circulation is damaged. \\n\\nAlso, less than 5% of people whose conditions are serious enough to merit being put on a ventilator, actually recover and walk out of the hospital. It's *extremely* rare. \\n\\n(Source: is an ICU nurse at one of the hospitals in the NYC metro'ish area, first-hand treating dozens of SARS-COV-2 patients per-day at the peak of the pandemic).\",\n \"421\"\n ],\n [\n \"> will simply change the rules. Nothing is off the table any more.\\n\\nYou can't unilaterally change the rules without a vote, and the vote requires a majority to be present *to change the rules to permit remote voting*. It's literally a Catch-22. \\n\\nUntil there are a majority of senators recovered and present, able-bodied and willing to vote, you can't rescind the rule to prohibit remote voting. \\n\\nThis is exactly why senators are refusing to be tested, or refusing to admit they're positive with COVID-19, so they can force participation in the voting process, while putting thousands of others at mortal risk. \\n\\nThis is precisely the kind of thing that the rules were put into place to prevent.\",\n \"284\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Eesh, that is awful. Nobody should be charged with murder unless they actually murdered someone, and if the murder was justified (such as in self-defense) there is no need for anyone to be charged.\\n\\n[Here](_URL_0_) is the case I was referring to. \\n\\nTwo important points here: \\n\\n1. The intruders claimed to be police in plainclothes. They were not. \\n2. _\\\"Under Illinois’ felony murder law, homicide charges can be filed when someone is killed during the course of a crime even if the death was caused by someone else and the person charged with murder did not intend for the person to die.\\\"_\\n\\nThe burglar's accomplice is being charged with murder, because his partner was shot and killed during the home invasion, by the homeowner protecting his family.\",\n \"528\"\n ],\n [\n \"> It's no surprise (but still shameful) that they let police officers off the hook when they murder citizens.\\n\\nDo you know how often this happens? Most people don't. \\n\\nThe statistics aren't widely known, because if they were, there would be hundreds of thousands to millions more protesting every day. \\n\\nWe focus on the few, but there are quite literally an average of over 1,000 people killed by police each year in the US, on the roadside or in their own homes, without an arrest, without a trial, without sentencing. \\n\\n* 2020: [720 people](_URL_0_) (so far)\\n* 2019: [1004 people](_URL_2_)\\n* 2018: [992 people](_URL_4_) \\n* 2017: [1185 people](_URL_1_)\\n* 2016: [1109 people](_URL_3_)\\n* 2015: [1195 people](_URL_5_)\\n\\nLet's compare that with the number of officers killed in the line of duty from citizens (from the [FBI's own data](_URL_6_)) \\n\\n* 2019: 48 officers\\n* 2015: 41 officers\\n* 2010: 55 officers\\n\\nHow many more have to die, to prove the hundreds to thousands of dirty police officers are out there on the job, every day, breaking the very laws they're sworn to uphold?\",\n \"582\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Why didn't they think the charges would stick? Lack of evidence? From the police? I'm shocked. Shocked I say.\\n\\nThe Grand Jury has one and only one question before them: \\n\\n_**\\\"Is there enough evidence presently gathered, to proceed to trial: Yes or No.\\\"**_\\n\\nThat's it. They don't weigh the evidence. They don't decide fates. They don't even have a chance to determine guilt or innocence. Literally, is there enough, or not? \\n\\nHere are the only two outcomes of a Grand Jury hearing: \\n\\n1. If there is enough evidence, the case proceeds to trial. \\n2. If there is not enough evidence, the detectives go back, find and interview witnesses, interview police on the scene, work with CSI to gather forensic evidence and obtain more evidence, sufficient enough to proceed to trial. \\n\\nWhat you're witnessing in this specific case, is the complete gross misuse of the Grand Jury, skipping due process entirely, and going right to case dismissal, without actually doing their one and only job. \\n\\nNot only is this not how the Grand Jury works, it's right out in the open and people are not holding them accountable for this illegal misuse of their positions.\",\n \"12\"\n ],\n [\n \"> It's called a search warrant. They're signed by judges.\\n\\nI'm sure you know this already, but search warrants do not grant the plainclothed police officers the right to bash down the door to execute the warrant, unannounced. That's not how warrants work. That's not how they're legally executed. \\n\\nThe officer's arguments for innocence are further dismantled when it became obvious they didn't do their due diligence to realize they: \\n\\n1. Executed the plainclothes, silent, no-knock warrant on the wrong address, and \\n2. Their intended suspect was already in police custody\\n\\nThese officers frantically fired 32 rounds in response to 1 round fired by defending a home invasion against unannounced, plainclothes intruders in the middle of the night. \\n\\n16 of those 32 rounds were fired by a single officer, .\",\n \"260\"\n ],\n [\n \"> If someone barges into your house in the middle of the night without announcing themselves wearing just a vest, would you really be inclined to believe that they're burglars or the police?\\n\\nThat's how many home invasions are starting to happen now, by plainclothes civilians announcing themselves as police, and breaking in, holding the family at gunpoint. \\n\\n[In at least one very recent case](_URL_0_), one of the burglars ran away while his partner was shot and killed by the homeowner defending his family, during a daytime home invasion, where the burglars claimed they were police.\\n\\nThat second burglar is being charged with his partner's murder, even though he didn't kill him, didn't have a firearm, and ran away from the scene before the homeowner shot and killed the intruder.\",\n \"695\"\n ],\n [\n \"> It's not like they walked in there in a polo and khakis.\\n\\nNone of that matters. If you're a sleeping resident and you hear someone breaking down your door while you're still trying to wake up, are you going to wait until you can see the writing on their shirts, before you defend yourself? \\n\\nAre you going to check their wardrobe to make sure it's department-issued pants and shirt? \\n\\n**If you hesitate, you're dead**. Especially if the unannounced intruder is intent on harming or killing you in the process of invading your home. \\n\\nThe law protects homeowners who legally protect themselves and their families. It does not say they have to interview their intruders and assess intent before executing that protection. \\n\\nThe officers were clearly in the wrong, on so many separate items, but like many police officers who repeatedly break the law, they'll probably get a pass here too.\",\n \"141\"\n ],\n [\n \"> know more about what happened than the grand jurors who have **every piece of evidence** in front of them.\\n\\n100% incorrect. \\n\\nThat is not the point of a Grand Jury. This was not a murder trial. It was ***Grand Jury***. They do not decide guilt nor innocence. They do not decide fate based on any evidence. They absolutely *do not* have every piece of evidence in front of them.\\n\\nThe Grand Jury literally has one question to answer: *Is there sufficient evidence already gathered, to bring this case to trial?*\\n\\nThat's it. Period. \\n\\nIf there's enough evidence, it moves to trial. If there is not sufficient evidence, the detectives do their job and interview witnesses, police, work with CSI and other departments to *gather* the missing evidence, to build a case that they will then take to trial. \\n\\nPlease read [this insightful comment](_URL_0_) for even more details on how our legal system in the US is corrupt, and getting worse, in support of police officers repeatedly breaking the law and killing innocent people (an average of 1,100 people each year for the last 5-6 years).\",\n \"12\"\n ],\n [\n \"> The city had been trying to take the house with eminent domain before the investigation that led to the assassination I mean accidental shooting.\\n\\nMaybe that was the whole point from the beginning. \\n\\nIf they thought they could murder , triggering her known-armed boyfriend to shoot back, causing him to be thrown in jail, so the house would then be seized and sold at auction. \\n\\nMaybe then, the officers could use the proceeds to [purchase a margarita machine or a clown](_URL_0_).\",\n \"399\"\n ],\n [\n \"> This means both sides will feel entitled that their choice should be president and riots will ensue.\\n\\nThe 5-4, Right-leaning Supreme Court will just give the Electoral votes, like they did to hand the election in 2000, when Florida demanded a manual recount. \\n\\n has already said she would back that Supreme Court's decision again in this election, if necessary.\",\n \"861\"\n ],\n [\n \"> If loses, I think things will be relatively peaceful initially. I don't think the dust will settle on this for a few weeks. There might be some rioting/looting, but I don't think it will be extreme, widespread or sustained. \\n\\nHere's the thing... if there's an overwhelming landslide win for (one that isn't close enough to cry fraud or cheating), remember that is still Commander in Chief until is sworn in, in late January. \\n\\n could simply not call out the National Guard or the military to stop the riots. \\n\\nHe could just sit back, arms crossed like a 4-year old, and watch the country burn, and create a huge mess of destruction and violence that will spend the majority of his term trying to clean up.\",\n \"140\"\n ],\n [\n \"> I suspect will try to gin up some way to stay in office, but to and including starting a war. And if he can't stay in office, he might strike a match and watch it all burn.\\n\\nIf is no longer POTUS, he loses the current shield of protection he's standing behind from the Justice Department. All of his lawsuits, likely including a RICO from NYC, will come down on him like a tonne of bricks. He does not get to go back to being a CEO with his feet up on the desk after this, and he knows it. \\n\\nHe's vulnerable, his empire will come crumbling down, and his foreign creditors will come calling in their loans; several billion dollars of loans. Billions of dollars that his now-public tax returns prove he does not have. \\n\\n is scared. Really scared. \\n\\nYou can see it on his face and in his tweets over the last few months. Those clips of him struggling to breathe after he left WR hospital show his fear. The wince of pain as he inhales and grips his side in that now-popular clip, shows that he's not the invincible God he portrays himself to be to his base. \\n\\nI have absolutely no doubt he'll do whatever it takes to burn the entire system down, so he can try to quietly slip out the back door unnoticed.\",\n \"140\"\n ],\n [\n \"> That's probably far-fetched, especially since probably wouldn't have it and I can't' think of any other country both large enough to resist the US and willing to host . But, it's crossed my mind.\\n\\nThis is one of the biggest concerns why is considered a National Security risk by the FBI and CIA. \\n\\nA country like Russia or Turkey would welcome in, if the amount of inside data he has on our Government, bases, locations, military, movements, global operations, could be sold at top-dollar prices, to help pay off his growing debts to foreign countries.\",\n \"853\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Any respiratory conditions that impede breathing.\\n\\nWhich, ironically, are treated in the hospital, by putting a mask on you that provides a clean flow of oxygen. \\n\\nThe \\\"asthma\\\" or \\\"allergies\\\" argument for not wearing a mask has been dismantled countless thousands of times by degreed medical professionals month after month after month. \\n\\nIt's funny to see that disinformation repeatedly coming out from these anti-maskers, time and time again.\",\n \"80\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Are you saying everybody is going to have to change their password when he gets fired?\\n\\nHe's already (this week) signed [an Executive Order](_URL_0_) to **fire thousands of Federal workers** for \\\"disloyalty\\\" to . \\n\\nIt's almost like he really believes he's acting out a real-life version of \\\"The Apprentice\\\", firing 3 AGs, hiring 3 Supreme Court justices, firing hundreds of his staff. Now potentially thousands of federal workers. \\n\\nOr, he's taken a page out of the \\\"Dictator 101\\\" handbook on how to build a fascist regime. \\n\\nIt's a trainwreck in the WH.\",\n \"906\"\n ]\n]"},"cluster":{"kind":"number","value":495,"string":"495"},"retrieval_idx":{"kind":"list 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And when faced with two evils, choosing the lesser is the **rational** choice. Refraining from participating increases the probability of the greater of the two evils winning, relative to voting for the lesser.\n\n > Fervent idealism, which places support for a certain candidate above all practical consequences of that support, is foolhardy. According to ethicists, it’s also immoral.\n\n > “The purpose of voting is not to express your fidelity to a worldview. It’s not to wave a flag or paint your face in team colors; it’s to produce outcomes,” says , a philosopher at Georgetown University and author of *The Ethics of Voting*. “If they’re smart, they’ll vote for the candidate likely to best produce the outcome they want. That might very well be compromising, but if voting for a far-left or far-right candidate means that you’re just going to lose the election, then you’ve brought the world further away from justice rather than closer to it.”^[1]\n\nWhat do you think of that?\n\n***\n\n1. *Quartz*: [\"Ethicists say voting with your heart, without a care about the consequences, is actually immoral.\"](_URL_1_) June 26, 2016.","845"],["> I'd like to see an example of just one \"Clean Water\" or \"Clean Emission\" regulation he rolled back.\n\nThe count is past 60.^[1]\n\n > The trade war has been going on for decades. We lost. He's just bringing us back to the table.\n\nCould you provide some sources for those claims? I'm skeptical because it appears that 's own White House Council of Economic Advisers is internally indicating that the trade war is a bad idea.^[2] Also many economists dislike it.^[3]\n\n > His propaganda attacks?\n\n > > We're talking rationality here. What's an example?\n\nIt's hard to call it \"lying\" because we can't peek inside his brain and confirm his motivation, but surely you acknowledge that he routinely spreads false information that coincidentally fits his narratives.^[4] Even if that's not technically lying, I hope that we can agree that it's an atrocious trait to have in a chief executive.\n\n***\n\n1. *The New York Times*: [\"67 environmental rules on\nthe way out under .\"](_URL_3_) January 31, 2018.\n\n2. *The New York Times*: [\"White House analysis finds tariffs will hurt growth, as officials insist otherwise.\"](_URL_0_) June 7, 2018.\n\n3. *CBS*: [\"Trade war drums raise risk of recession in next year or two, economists say.\"](_URL_2_) June 4, 2018.\n\n4. *The Washington Post*: [\"The 2016 Election Fact Checker.\"](_URL_1_) November 3, 2016.","771"],["> Which action promotes dirty water and dirty air? Which regulatory rollback, specifically, will make our water and air dirtier?\n\nPer my source, he overturned:\n\n* Ban on use of lead ammunition on federal lands\n\n* Anti-dumping rule for coal companies\n\nand rollbacks are in progress for:\n\n* Permitting process for air-polluting plants\n\n* Coal ash discharge regulations\n\nHow can you see the policies listed in that article and then ask, \"Which regulatory rollback, specifically, will make our water and air dirtier?\" Why don't you think that those will make our water and air dirtier?\n\n > Canada: 245 percent for cheese, 298 percent for butter for example. Then there are plenty of non-monetary trade barriers. _URL_0_\n\nI see your point. But do 's tariffs move us closer to or farther away from free trade? What leads you to believe that they will accomplish what you want them to? Could you point to historical evidence or expert opinion? And is your goal worth hurting our economy? (See the sources in my previous comment for his trade war being bad for the economy.)\n\n > This is his use of \"over exaggeration\" tactics, also clearly outlined in his book.\n\nIt seems like you're saying that he's knowingly making false statements (i.e. lying) but implying that it's okay because it gets people talking about what he wants them to talk about.","771"],["Why clog up chat when you can simply wait a few minutes, or just watch 820 again in a few hours. It's selfishly putting your needs over the usability of a public resource.\n\nWatching for someone to say \"I found trial X\" is plenty good enough. People aren't entitled to speeding the process up at the cost of turning 820 into a useless cesspool of LF messages.","882"],["> Hey kiddo.\n\nWhy are you responding to being called out for antisocial behavior by being condescending?\n\nAnyways. I wasn't saying that you *can't* do it, so announcing that you can do it is off-topic. I was saying that you *shouldn't* do it, for reasons which I outlined above but am more than happy to repeat. It's:\n\n1. not especially useful, because you're asking for a random encounter\n\n2. not especially necessary, because people post them frequently anyways\n\n3. useless spam from the perspective of many other people in chat","480"],["First things first, I want to say thanks for this discussion! It's refreshing to find someone else who is so willing to having a dialog.\n\n > This \"ban\" was issued without consultation of any local stakeholders\n\nSource?\n\n > resulted in the closings of thousands of trails, preserves and lands run by the Fish & Wildlife Services due to inability to enforce\n\nSource?\n\n > it wound up forcing the closing of many recreational fishing areas\n\nSource?\n\nYou made three unsourced claims in your first two sentences. I'd really, *really* like to know where you're getting them. Where did you find those?\n\nAlso, could you respond to my other questions/remarks in that comment? You skipped them. I've copied them below for your convenience:\n\n > > Canada: 245 percent for cheese, 298 percent for butter for example. Then there are plenty of non-monetary trade barriers. _URL_0_\n\n > I see your point. But do 's tariffs move us closer to or farther away from free trade? What leads you to believe that they will accomplish what you want them to? Could you point to historical evidence or expert opinion? And is your goal worth hurting our economy? (See the sources in my previous comment for his trade war being bad for the economy.)\n\n > > This is his use of \"over exaggeration\" tactics, also clearly outlined in his book.\n\n > It seems like you're saying that he's knowingly making false statements (i.e. lying) but implying that it's okay because it gets people talking about what he wants them to talk about.","866"],["> Then the Angles and Saxons came, they didn’t replace the Celts either, ruled them and integrated and brought their language and customs, but didn’t replace them. Same with the Vikings and the Normans. The indigenous population got merged with the invaders but was never replaced. As an English person you share a high degree of genetic similarity to the Celtic world.\n\nSource?","842"],["Yeah, 50 years ago. Now it's a different story.\n\n > While there is room for improvement in every country, the U.S. stands out for having the highest costs and lowest performance — the U.S. spent $8,508 per person on health care in 2011, compared with $3,406 in the United Kingdom, which ranked first overall.^[1]\n\nWere you aware of that?\n\n***\n\n1. *The Commonwealth Fund*: [\"US health system ranks last among eleven countries on measures of access, equity, quality, efficiency, and healthy lives.\"](_URL_0_) June 16, 2014.","661"],["Would you be comfortable with someone taking advantage of you and then justifying it by saying that they were trying to teach you a lesson?\n\nIf he really *just* wanted to teach a lesson, shouldn't he give it back afterward? Or is it important that he lose the currency permanently? Seems suspiciously convenient, doesn't it?\n\nWho are you to determine that he *must* be taught that lesson? Who are you to announce that you know his best interests better than he does and so rationalize scamming him as actually doing him a favor?\n\nPerhaps he would be better off with that lesson. Probably, even. But it's not a stranger's place to make that determination, and certainly not if he's gaining something in the transaction. He's not impartial.","925"],["Who are you to make the decision for him that he has to learn that lesson? Especially when you're profiting from that decision, can you really pretend to be acting in his best interest?\n\n**What bothers me is this rationalization of scamming for profit by saying that *really* what's happening is you're helping some poor fellow out.** Come on. That's not why people are doing it. You want to separate a sucker from his money, and you're trying to find ways to justify that. At least have the balls to own your antisocial tendencies.","219"],["> If someone decides to buy a shitty item for an unreasonable price, thats on them.\n\nNot entirely. You can't overlook the role that OP played. If he takes actions that intentionally try to increase the likelihood of someone else screwing himself over, and then the other person screws himself over, OP can't throw his hands in the air and say, \"Hey, that's not on me.\" **OP knowingly facilitated the other person's mistake.**\n\nOP is the one trying to take advantage of someone by listing something for the price of a similar but much more expensive item. It's not then the buyer's fault for falling victim to an active attempt at deception.","618"],["> I just wouldn't believe you didn't act on anything, at all, to include CP.\n\nAre you saying that your fundamental answer to \"How would you feel about a friend who suddenly tells you he/she is a non-practicing paedophile?\" is \"I wouldn't believe that he/she is actually non-practicing\"?\n\n > The fantasies in your head--even though never acted upon--are nonconsensual.\n\nDo people need to consent to being fantasized about? Does a teenaged girl need consent from or ?","442"],["Because he doesn't have control over his sexual orientation, only his actions? And the human, compassionate, empathetic response to someone struggling with something he was born with, assuming he hasn't acted on it, isn't to \"beat the fuck out of him\"?\n\nAlso, what the fuck would beating him up accomplish? He already said he isn't practicing and presumably thinks it's wrong. He doesn't need to be \"convinced\". All you're doing is hurting someone who 1) is in a terrible situation through no fault of his own and 2) hasn't hurt anyone.\n\nHave you considered any of that?","219"],["> Being a veteran doesn't give you more of a stake than anyone else. People of different backgrounds sacrifice different things, for different reasons, in different jobs, in different cities and towns, in different ways. Military members made a choice to serve, just as a fast food employee chose to work at McDonald's\n\nJust want to make sure I have this right: Are you comparing the sacrifices of veterans to the sacrifices of McDonald's employees?","920"],["> Researchers at the Medical University of Vienna, led by senior authors Dr. and Dr. , show that administration of the male hormone testosterone in female-to-male transsexuals raises brain levels of SERT, the protein that transports the chemical messenger serotonin into nerve cells.\n\n > In contrast, male-to-female transsexuals who received a testosterone blocker and the female hormone estrogen showed decreased levels of this protein in the brain.\n\n > SERT plays an important role in the treatment of mood and anxiety disorders, as many common antidepressants, such as Prozac, block its activity by inhibiting serotonin reuptake. In addition, some genetics studies have suggested that higher levels of serotonin transporter may increase resilience to stress and reduce risk for stress and mood disorders.^[1]\n\n***\n\n1. , et al. [\"High-Dose Testosterone Treatment Increases Serotonin Transporter Binding in Transgender People.\"](_URL_0_) *Society of Biological Psychiatry* 78, No. 8: 525-33. October 15, 2015.","398"],["> So it's actually much easier to make currency in HC as a casual\n\nAren't casuals notoriously bad at price-checking items and identifying good rares to sell? Are they selling much? Don't you have to know a decent amount about a lot of different builds in order to know what people might find useful?\n\n > In SC once the league is a couple weeks old a pretty large gap gets created where just ok rares are dirt cheap and really good ones are super expensive.\n\n1. The prices of ok rares affect way more people than the prices of really good ones\n\n2. Really good ones are super expensive, but still less expensive than in HC. For example, compare steel rings, 400+ pdps 1h swords and axes, and INT armour helms","532"],["> meaning as a casual player you cant sell items for nearly as much as on hardcore\n\nAren't casuals notoriously bad at price-checking items and identifying good rares to sell? Are they selling much? Don't you have to know a decent amount about a lot of different builds in order to know what people might find useful?\n\n > decent items are way more expensive on softcore because of the exalt price\n\nWhat do you define as \"decent items\"? The things that I'm looking at (Kaom's Heart, Kaom's Way, Belly of the Beast, Brass Dome, Starforge, Disfavour, statsticks, steel rings, Shavronne's Wrappings, 400pdps 1hand swords and axes) are all much cheaper in SC.","532"],["> SC items are cheap for mediocre items\n\nAnd as a casual player who would never make enough for the super expensive items anyways, that's fine with me!\n\n > you’ll make more selling drops to make up for it\n\nAren't casuals notoriously bad at price-checking items and identifying good rares to sell? Are they selling much? Don't you have to know a decent amount about a lot of different builds in order to know what people might find useful?\n\n > At the same time the true endgame items are a bit cheaper since there’s less inflation.\n\nI'm not sure what you define to be \"true endgame items\" but the things that I'm looking at (Kaom's Heart, Kaom's Way, Belly of the Beast, Brass Dome, Starforge, Disfavour, statsticks, steel rings, Shavronne's Wrappings, 400pdps 1hand swords and axes, ...) are all much cheaper in SC.","532"],["Is this a joke?\n\nTheir discretion and diligence ensures that they 1) don't publish incorrect stories and 2) don't compromise ongoing investigations, both of which are important for protecting their reputation and therefore their continued ability to conduct journalism at a high level.\n\nAnd your response to their professionalism is to reject it and turn to \"open source reporting from random twitter accounts\"? And you're *presenting this as a good idea*?","624"],["And and race in HC a lot, so you'd expect them to be good racers in HC...\n\nWhat's your point? Being really good due to extensive practice doesn't change the fact that they're really good. It doesn't make sense to diminish someone's ability by saying, \"Well, they had to spend a lot of time to reach that level.\" That's how everyone gets good.","77"],["> Owning a gun in itself doesn't make you want to kill people, that's mental illness that goes untreated.\n\nWhy do you say that?\n\n > Our group at Duke recently published a study of approximately 82,000 people diagnosed with serious mental illnesses in Florida between 2002 and 2011. We found that those with serious mental health disorders with records in the public behavioral health system were no more likely than the general adult population in Florida to use a gun to harm others (about 213 vs. 217 gun crimes per 100,000 people per year), and they were only slightly more likely to die in a gun-related suicide (about 13 vs. 9 gun suicides per 100,000 people per year). **Thus, people with mental illnesses are no more dangerous to others when they have equal access to guns.**^[1]\n\n***\n\n1. *The Washington Post*: [\"The ban on mentally ill people buying guns wasn't ever based on evidence.\"](_URL_0_) February 10, 2017.","701"],["> There are 33 genders and doctors are bigots\n\nThe medical community agrees that there are many different genders. Gender isn't the same thing as sex.\n\n > Stand on the graves of dead kids to push our agenda!\n\nAnd the right stands on the graves of people killed by immigrants to push their agenda. \"Politicization\" is just how societies enact large-scale change based on real-life events.","68"],["That's a fair point. The answer is that there's a socially determined range of what might be reasonably considered to be emotionally harmful. Finding physical sexual harassment emotionally harmful would be reasonable. Finding a bad pun emotionally harmful would be unreasonable.\n\n**It's an informal application of the legal fiction called the [reasonable person standard](_URL_0_).** Someone going to court and claiming they were wronged via a butt grab would make sense (that'd almost definitely be deemed sexual harassment) whereas going to court for a bad pun wouldn't.\n\nDoes that seem fair to you?","219"],["Allow me to give you five. In the U.S., we've needed to be protected from corporations via means such as:\n\n* laws enforcing the 8 hour standard workday (instead of 12)\n\n* child labor laws\n\n* laws preventing companies from dumping industrial waste in residential communities\n\n* laws enforcing ethics practices for pharmaceutical trials\n\n* laws mandating safety protocols for miners\n\nDo those not constitute \"protection from corporations\"? If not, why? Are the phenomena that I described (child labor, dumping toxic waste near houses, unsafe mining practices, etc.) not bad? If we agree that they are bad: Are corporations not the ones primarily responsible for them?","23"],["I think the point was to push back against the narrative that Europeans were somehow uniquely inhumane in their treatment of other people by noting that other cultures were also genocidal. Peoples from every region carried out destructive acts to their fullest capacity; Europeans were unusual simply in that their technological advancement made them better able to destroy.\n\nJust because a point doesn't completely rebut what's being said doesn't make it irrelevant. Adding context is also useful.","267"],["You didn't say it made it easier, you said it was convenience. Convenience implies that people would be able to clear content without it but this simply makes it, well, more convenient to do what they already can. Easier might mean making something easier to the point at which someone can be accomplished in the first place, which is what I'm talking about. Some of my builds, as I play them, need curses to clear trash mobs in T13+ maps.\n\nDon't assume that just because something is merely a convenience for you means that it's merely a convenience for others.","360"],["> it's not the government's place to tell business how to run their operations\n\nWithout government intervention, ISPs are free to extort tolls from content providers and block those that don't comply. **Verizon has literally admitted in court (during oral arguments for Verizon v. FCC 2014) that they're interested in blocking websites that don't pay fees**:\n\n > In court last week, the judges asked whether the company intended to favor certain websites over others.\n\n > “I’m authorized to state from my client today,” Verizon attorney said, “that but for these rules we would be exploring those types of arrangements.”\n\n > ’s admission might have gone unnoticed had she not repeated it at least five times during oral arguments.\n\n > In response to Judge ’s line of questioning about whether Verizon should be able to block any website or service that doesn’t pay the company’s proposed tolls, said: “I think we should be able to; in the world I'm positing, you would be able to.” ([source](_URL_0_))\n\nAre we in agreement that that would be a bad thing?\n\n > > But the truth is that most Americans have no more than one, maybe two, choices when it comes to high-speed internet.\n\n > THIS IS THE REAL PROBLEM.\n\nLet's assume we break down the monopolies/duopolies. What if each of the 3-4 ISPs in an area tries to block content providers that don't pay tolls? Would that not be an issue? Or do you have some guarantee that this wouldn't happen?","717"],["> The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States government created by statute (47 U.S.C. § 151 and 47 U.S.C. § 154) to regulate interstate communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable. The FCC works towards six goals in the areas of broadband, competition, the spectrum, the media, public safety and homeland security, and modernizing itself. ([Wikipedia](_URL_0_))\n\nIt sounds like they have a lot of business regulating the internet.","717"],["> You realize that Verizon won that case right?\n\nYes. The ruling was that Congress hadn't given them the power to prevent blocking yet. I'm saying that Congress should give them that power. What was your point?\n\n > as juvenile as that sounds\n\nDid you mean to be condescending?\n\n > the government has a very poor track record at attempting to regulate/legislate the internet.\n\nI disagree. But let's assume that you're right. Why then is the conclusion that we should stop trying entirely? Are we supposed to give up on regulating ISPs entirely?\n\n > With regards to your toll metaphor, ISPs who run their own networks should be able to charge whatever toll they want.\n\n[Tech experts](_URL_0_) and consumer advocates disagree with you. The ISPs themselves agree with you. I know which side I'm on.","717"],["> I don’t think ending net neutrality will destroy or hobble the internet. In fact. If the current leading ISPs were to start and attempt tiered internet I’d like to think it would spurn the growth and development of competition.\n\nTech start-ups think that they know:\n\n > After ’s announcement, a group of more than 800 names in tech sent a business-minded denouncement of his plans to strip away the rules that shape net neutrality.\n\n > > Without net neutrality, the incumbents who provide access to the Internet would be able to pick winners or losers in the market. They could impede traffic from our services in order to favor their own services or established competitors. Or they could impose new tolls on us, inhibiting consumer choice. Those actions directly impede an entrepreneur’s ability to “start a business, immediately reach a worldwide customer base, and disrupt an entire industry.” ([source](_URL_0_))\n\nHaving read that, are you still unsure of the impact that tiered internet might have on competition?","717"],["> They behave the same way, only in an apartment.\n\nMany of them don't:\n\n > Homeless services once worked like a reward system. Kick an addiction, get a home. Take some medication, get counseling. But ’s model, called “housing first,” said the order was backward. Someone has the best chance of improving if they’re stabilized in a home.\n\n > ...\n\n > Several years later, the federal government tested the model on 734 homeless across 11 cities, finding the model dramatically reduced levels of addiction as well as shrank health related costs by half. “Adults who have experienced chronic homelessness may be successfully housed and can maintain their housing,” the report declared.^[1]\n\n***\n\n1. *The Washington Post*: [\"Meet the outsider who accidentally solved chronic homelessness.\"](_URL_0_) May 6, 2015.","681"],["> that the response being an accusation that the accusation is disrespectful is to admit to the grievous deeds\n\nI don't think saying, \"Your accusation was leveled in a disrespectful manner\" is equivalent to saying, \"I admit to doing what you have accused me of\".\n\nI mean, it would if the accusation of disrespectful location/timing was itself an instance of systemic oppression of people of color, but I have a suspicion that if a white player kneeled during the anthem to draw attention to, say, the plight of the homeless or the mentally ill, it would also be viewed as disrespectful.","389"],["> I’m sorry you think I’m condescending\n\nYour \"I understand to someone as young and inexperienced you are (based on your typing skills)\" comment was absolutely condescending. You directly called him inexperienced while correcting him.\n\nFYI, \"I'm sorry you think I did X...\" is a pretty bad apology template. Instead of saying that your actions were wrong, you're saying that the other person's interpretation of your actions was wrong.","730"],["What exactly constitutes the American empire?\n\nI'd argue we're interventionist. But with a few small exceptions we don't govern territory that isn't ours, so we're not strictly speaking an empire. There is a single American people, subdivided though we may be. We don't need to worry about revolts by self-contained ethnic groups living on land that we annexed. I understand that we're similar to an empire in that we have a large sphere of influence, but that's more fundamentally just a feature of states that are much stronger than others, empire or not.\n\nAlso worth noting is that a feature that almost completely overlaps with that list is dynasticism/monarchism. I'm definitely not an expert and only gave the list a brief skim, but from what I can tell the United States appears to be the only polity on the list that 1) doesn't include large units of foreign land/people and 2) is a democracy. (The Poland-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Roman Republic were both democracies but had substantial foreign holdings.) For those reasons I think it's reasonable to consider the United States only figuratively an empire, and so an exception to the rule.","593"],["> a tyranny of the majority\n\nIf simple majority rule constitutes \"tyranny of the majority\" then minority rule is \"tyranny of the minority\". It's even less defensible. It's like the old quote about how democracy is the worst system of government imaginable - except for all the other ones. Majority rule is potentially abusable, but the alternative of minority rule is much less stable.\n\nAlso, if your argument is that the minority faces an existential threat if it's not in power, then the only ethical conclusion there is that \"the minority *should* be in power.\" In which case, well, just drop the pretense of democracy entirely. You're actively advocating for minority rule.\n\nYou're saying, \"We can't let both sides have social and legal power because we'll be taken advantage of, so how about you get the undeniable social power that comes from being the majority, and we get the legal power.\" How sustainable is that?\n\nAnyways, many governments have checks in place to prevent a tyranny of the majority. Not all administration is conducted through elected representatives. That's why we have the Supreme Court in the US, for example.\n\n > frothing at the mouth about how \"every vote must carry equal weight\"\n\n[\"One man, one vote\"](_URL_0_) is the core mechanic behind [proportional representation](_URL_1_), which is literally the most fundamental democratic principle. \"Frothing at the mouth\" about democracy seems reasonable enough to me.","593"],["I had some issues with the article:\n\n > Democrats are nearly as complicit in this as Republicans. Instead of joining their GOP counterparts in suckling at the greasy teats of telcom, they’ve sold out the American people for votes. Rather than fight with everything they have, they’ve watched as net neutrality was destroyed.\n\nWhat exactly were Democrats supposed to do? appointed the Republican majority on the FCC board, and Democrats in Congress can't overturn the board's policies because of the Republican majority in the House. Once the election was concluded, so was net neutrality.","468"],["> this was the best thing that could have happened for the future of technology\n\nNot according to tech start-ups:\n\n > After ’s announcement, a group of more than 800 names in tech sent a business-minded denouncement of his plans to strip away the rules that shape net neutrality.^[1]\n\nThe only group fighting against net neutrality is ISPs.\n\n***\n\n1. *TechCrunch*: [\"More than 800 startups ask FCC chair to not kill net neutrality.\"](_URL_0_) April 26, 2017.","717"],["> wouldn't it be fair to say they had plenty of chances in the past to ensure net neutrality couldn't be destroyed so easily?\n\nSince 2000, there has only been a Democratic president + Democratic congress in 2009-2010. Only two years. They pushed through as much as they could during that narrow window, and they couldn't fit this in. So no, I don't think it would be fair to say that they had \"plenty of chances\" to keep this from becoming a problem.\n\nAnyway, I was more broadly taking issue with the false equivalence. If Republicans are the ones trying to destroy net neutrality, and Democrats are the ones trying to save it, how are they both similarly responsible for net neutrality breaking down? Clearly the Republicans are responsible.","468"],["> We should address those things you mention: subsidies, false advertising, monopolies. Net neutrality policy addresses none of those things. I'm 100% on board on finding a solution for those problems\n\nHe also mentioned something else:\n\n > Limiting small business growth is going to be the biggest long term effect of this, essentially making small businesses pay a lot more for service that would not cost them nearly as much before.\n\nDo you not have a problem with ISPs blocking/slowing content providers that don't pay fees? What about the potential for unethical behavior like slowing competitors' websites? Does it not worry you that the internet would no longer be a level playing field?","717"],["That's fine, everyone makes mistakes.\n\nNo, the majority wasn't for the full term. Democrats only had a majority in Congress for the first half of his first term. It was the 111th U.S. Congress, if you're curious. And they really did try very hard:\n\n > This Congress has been considered one of the most productive Congresses in history in terms of legislation passed since the 89th Congress, during Great Society. ([Wikipedia](_URL_0_))","826"],["**Verizon has literally admitted in court (during oral arguments for Verizon v. FCC 2014) that they're interested in blocking websites that don't pay fees**:\n\n > In court last week, the judges asked whether the company intended to favor certain websites over others.\n\n > “I’m authorized to state from my client today,” Verizon attorney said, “that but for these rules we would be exploring those types of arrangements.”\n\n > ’s admission might have gone unnoticed had she not repeated it at least five times during oral arguments.\n\n > In response to Judge ’s line of questioning about whether Verizon should be able to block any website or service that doesn’t pay the company’s proposed tolls, said: “I think we should be able to; in the world I'm positing, you would be able to.” ([source](_URL_0_))\n\nWere you aware of that?","717"],["> Was Net neutrality warranted?\n\nYes. Were you aware that **Verizon has literally admitted in court (during oral arguments for Verizon v. FCC 2014) that they're interested in blocking websites that don't pay tolls?**\n\n > In court last week, the judges asked whether the company intended to favor certain websites over others.\n\n > “I’m authorized to state from my client today,” Verizon attorney said, “that but for these rules we would be exploring those types of arrangements.”\n\n > ’s admission might have gone unnoticed had she not repeated it at least five times during oral arguments.\n\n > In response to Judge ’s line of questioning about whether Verizon should be able to block any website or service that doesn’t pay the company’s proposed tolls, said: “I think we should be able to; in the world I'm positing, you would be able to.” ([source](_URL_0_))","717"],["> Saying, \"I think we should be able to\"\n\nThey said more than that. Look at the second paragraph of my quote. She said \"but for these rules [i.e. the Open Internet Order, which is what the case was about] we would be exploring those types of arrangements.\" How could that be any clearer?\n\nSeriously, please, I'm genuinely trying to reach across the aisle and understand our communication disconnect. It seems very obvious to me that she explicitly stated that Verizon was actively interested in those policies.\n\nAlso, why would someone *go to court* to say \"I think we should be able to do this\" if they didn't want to do it?\n\nEdit: Also, what kind of argument is \"It never happened, and won't happen in the future\"? Even if we ignore the excerpt that I provided above in which they literally said they were interested in it, how do you know that it won't happen? And even if it won't happen, then there's still no harm in outlawing it, right? What is the downside of making it illegal for ISPs to block content providers that don't pay their tolls?","717"],["> Whichever side feels and reacts positively with empathy is the right side.\n\nBut what happens when each side defines \"feeling and reacting positively with empathy\" differently?\n\nNot a conservative or pro-lifer, but the abortion issue is a good example of this. Democrats view ourselves as being empathetic to the mother. Republicans view themselves as being empathetic to a fetus, which they see as a future citizen and having been already given life. They consider it to be alive, and so act empathetically toward it. You can call it unreasonable all you want, but it doesn't make sense to deny that it's empathetic in its own way.","674"]],"string":"[\n [\n \"We have and will continue to have a \\\"lesser of two evils\\\" mentality as long as we have a two-party system ([which we will have as long as we use first-post-the-post voting](_URL_0_)). And when faced with two evils, choosing the lesser is the **rational** choice. Refraining from participating increases the probability of the greater of the two evils winning, relative to voting for the lesser.\\n\\n > Fervent idealism, which places support for a certain candidate above all practical consequences of that support, is foolhardy. According to ethicists, it’s also immoral.\\n\\n > “The purpose of voting is not to express your fidelity to a worldview. It’s not to wave a flag or paint your face in team colors; it’s to produce outcomes,” says , a philosopher at Georgetown University and author of *The Ethics of Voting*. “If they’re smart, they’ll vote for the candidate likely to best produce the outcome they want. That might very well be compromising, but if voting for a far-left or far-right candidate means that you’re just going to lose the election, then you’ve brought the world further away from justice rather than closer to it.”^[1]\\n\\nWhat do you think of that?\\n\\n***\\n\\n1. *Quartz*: [\\\"Ethicists say voting with your heart, without a care about the consequences, is actually immoral.\\\"](_URL_1_) June 26, 2016.\",\n \"845\"\n ],\n [\n \"> I'd like to see an example of just one \\\"Clean Water\\\" or \\\"Clean Emission\\\" regulation he rolled back.\\n\\nThe count is past 60.^[1]\\n\\n > The trade war has been going on for decades. We lost. He's just bringing us back to the table.\\n\\nCould you provide some sources for those claims? I'm skeptical because it appears that 's own White House Council of Economic Advisers is internally indicating that the trade war is a bad idea.^[2] Also many economists dislike it.^[3]\\n\\n > His propaganda attacks?\\n\\n > > We're talking rationality here. What's an example?\\n\\nIt's hard to call it \\\"lying\\\" because we can't peek inside his brain and confirm his motivation, but surely you acknowledge that he routinely spreads false information that coincidentally fits his narratives.^[4] Even if that's not technically lying, I hope that we can agree that it's an atrocious trait to have in a chief executive.\\n\\n***\\n\\n1. *The New York Times*: [\\\"67 environmental rules on\\nthe way out under .\\\"](_URL_3_) January 31, 2018.\\n\\n2. *The New York Times*: [\\\"White House analysis finds tariffs will hurt growth, as officials insist otherwise.\\\"](_URL_0_) June 7, 2018.\\n\\n3. *CBS*: [\\\"Trade war drums raise risk of recession in next year or two, economists say.\\\"](_URL_2_) June 4, 2018.\\n\\n4. *The Washington Post*: [\\\"The 2016 Election Fact Checker.\\\"](_URL_1_) November 3, 2016.\",\n \"771\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Which action promotes dirty water and dirty air? Which regulatory rollback, specifically, will make our water and air dirtier?\\n\\nPer my source, he overturned:\\n\\n* Ban on use of lead ammunition on federal lands\\n\\n* Anti-dumping rule for coal companies\\n\\nand rollbacks are in progress for:\\n\\n* Permitting process for air-polluting plants\\n\\n* Coal ash discharge regulations\\n\\nHow can you see the policies listed in that article and then ask, \\\"Which regulatory rollback, specifically, will make our water and air dirtier?\\\" Why don't you think that those will make our water and air dirtier?\\n\\n > Canada: 245 percent for cheese, 298 percent for butter for example. Then there are plenty of non-monetary trade barriers. _URL_0_\\n\\nI see your point. But do 's tariffs move us closer to or farther away from free trade? What leads you to believe that they will accomplish what you want them to? Could you point to historical evidence or expert opinion? And is your goal worth hurting our economy? (See the sources in my previous comment for his trade war being bad for the economy.)\\n\\n > This is his use of \\\"over exaggeration\\\" tactics, also clearly outlined in his book.\\n\\nIt seems like you're saying that he's knowingly making false statements (i.e. lying) but implying that it's okay because it gets people talking about what he wants them to talk about.\",\n \"771\"\n ],\n [\n \"Why clog up chat when you can simply wait a few minutes, or just watch 820 again in a few hours. It's selfishly putting your needs over the usability of a public resource.\\n\\nWatching for someone to say \\\"I found trial X\\\" is plenty good enough. People aren't entitled to speeding the process up at the cost of turning 820 into a useless cesspool of LF messages.\",\n \"882\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Hey kiddo.\\n\\nWhy are you responding to being called out for antisocial behavior by being condescending?\\n\\nAnyways. I wasn't saying that you *can't* do it, so announcing that you can do it is off-topic. I was saying that you *shouldn't* do it, for reasons which I outlined above but am more than happy to repeat. It's:\\n\\n1. not especially useful, because you're asking for a random encounter\\n\\n2. not especially necessary, because people post them frequently anyways\\n\\n3. useless spam from the perspective of many other people in chat\",\n \"480\"\n ],\n [\n \"First things first, I want to say thanks for this discussion! It's refreshing to find someone else who is so willing to having a dialog.\\n\\n > This \\\"ban\\\" was issued without consultation of any local stakeholders\\n\\nSource?\\n\\n > resulted in the closings of thousands of trails, preserves and lands run by the Fish & Wildlife Services due to inability to enforce\\n\\nSource?\\n\\n > it wound up forcing the closing of many recreational fishing areas\\n\\nSource?\\n\\nYou made three unsourced claims in your first two sentences. I'd really, *really* like to know where you're getting them. Where did you find those?\\n\\nAlso, could you respond to my other questions/remarks in that comment? You skipped them. I've copied them below for your convenience:\\n\\n > > Canada: 245 percent for cheese, 298 percent for butter for example. Then there are plenty of non-monetary trade barriers. _URL_0_\\n\\n > I see your point. But do 's tariffs move us closer to or farther away from free trade? What leads you to believe that they will accomplish what you want them to? Could you point to historical evidence or expert opinion? And is your goal worth hurting our economy? (See the sources in my previous comment for his trade war being bad for the economy.)\\n\\n > > This is his use of \\\"over exaggeration\\\" tactics, also clearly outlined in his book.\\n\\n > It seems like you're saying that he's knowingly making false statements (i.e. lying) but implying that it's okay because it gets people talking about what he wants them to talk about.\",\n \"866\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Then the Angles and Saxons came, they didn’t replace the Celts either, ruled them and integrated and brought their language and customs, but didn’t replace them. Same with the Vikings and the Normans. The indigenous population got merged with the invaders but was never replaced. As an English person you share a high degree of genetic similarity to the Celtic world.\\n\\nSource?\",\n \"842\"\n ],\n [\n \"Yeah, 50 years ago. Now it's a different story.\\n\\n > While there is room for improvement in every country, the U.S. stands out for having the highest costs and lowest performance — the U.S. spent $8,508 per person on health care in 2011, compared with $3,406 in the United Kingdom, which ranked first overall.^[1]\\n\\nWere you aware of that?\\n\\n***\\n\\n1. *The Commonwealth Fund*: [\\\"US health system ranks last among eleven countries on measures of access, equity, quality, efficiency, and healthy lives.\\\"](_URL_0_) June 16, 2014.\",\n \"661\"\n ],\n [\n \"Would you be comfortable with someone taking advantage of you and then justifying it by saying that they were trying to teach you a lesson?\\n\\nIf he really *just* wanted to teach a lesson, shouldn't he give it back afterward? Or is it important that he lose the currency permanently? Seems suspiciously convenient, doesn't it?\\n\\nWho are you to determine that he *must* be taught that lesson? Who are you to announce that you know his best interests better than he does and so rationalize scamming him as actually doing him a favor?\\n\\nPerhaps he would be better off with that lesson. Probably, even. But it's not a stranger's place to make that determination, and certainly not if he's gaining something in the transaction. He's not impartial.\",\n \"925\"\n ],\n [\n \"Who are you to make the decision for him that he has to learn that lesson? Especially when you're profiting from that decision, can you really pretend to be acting in his best interest?\\n\\n**What bothers me is this rationalization of scamming for profit by saying that *really* what's happening is you're helping some poor fellow out.** Come on. That's not why people are doing it. You want to separate a sucker from his money, and you're trying to find ways to justify that. At least have the balls to own your antisocial tendencies.\",\n \"219\"\n ],\n [\n \"> If someone decides to buy a shitty item for an unreasonable price, thats on them.\\n\\nNot entirely. You can't overlook the role that OP played. If he takes actions that intentionally try to increase the likelihood of someone else screwing himself over, and then the other person screws himself over, OP can't throw his hands in the air and say, \\\"Hey, that's not on me.\\\" **OP knowingly facilitated the other person's mistake.**\\n\\nOP is the one trying to take advantage of someone by listing something for the price of a similar but much more expensive item. It's not then the buyer's fault for falling victim to an active attempt at deception.\",\n \"618\"\n ],\n [\n \"> I just wouldn't believe you didn't act on anything, at all, to include CP.\\n\\nAre you saying that your fundamental answer to \\\"How would you feel about a friend who suddenly tells you he/she is a non-practicing paedophile?\\\" is \\\"I wouldn't believe that he/she is actually non-practicing\\\"?\\n\\n > The fantasies in your head--even though never acted upon--are nonconsensual.\\n\\nDo people need to consent to being fantasized about? Does a teenaged girl need consent from or ?\",\n \"442\"\n ],\n [\n \"Because he doesn't have control over his sexual orientation, only his actions? And the human, compassionate, empathetic response to someone struggling with something he was born with, assuming he hasn't acted on it, isn't to \\\"beat the fuck out of him\\\"?\\n\\nAlso, what the fuck would beating him up accomplish? He already said he isn't practicing and presumably thinks it's wrong. He doesn't need to be \\\"convinced\\\". All you're doing is hurting someone who 1) is in a terrible situation through no fault of his own and 2) hasn't hurt anyone.\\n\\nHave you considered any of that?\",\n \"219\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Being a veteran doesn't give you more of a stake than anyone else. People of different backgrounds sacrifice different things, for different reasons, in different jobs, in different cities and towns, in different ways. Military members made a choice to serve, just as a fast food employee chose to work at McDonald's\\n\\nJust want to make sure I have this right: Are you comparing the sacrifices of veterans to the sacrifices of McDonald's employees?\",\n \"920\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Researchers at the Medical University of Vienna, led by senior authors Dr. and Dr. , show that administration of the male hormone testosterone in female-to-male transsexuals raises brain levels of SERT, the protein that transports the chemical messenger serotonin into nerve cells.\\n\\n > In contrast, male-to-female transsexuals who received a testosterone blocker and the female hormone estrogen showed decreased levels of this protein in the brain.\\n\\n > SERT plays an important role in the treatment of mood and anxiety disorders, as many common antidepressants, such as Prozac, block its activity by inhibiting serotonin reuptake. In addition, some genetics studies have suggested that higher levels of serotonin transporter may increase resilience to stress and reduce risk for stress and mood disorders.^[1]\\n\\n***\\n\\n1. , et al. [\\\"High-Dose Testosterone Treatment Increases Serotonin Transporter Binding in Transgender People.\\\"](_URL_0_) *Society of Biological Psychiatry* 78, No. 8: 525-33. October 15, 2015.\",\n \"398\"\n ],\n [\n \"> So it's actually much easier to make currency in HC as a casual\\n\\nAren't casuals notoriously bad at price-checking items and identifying good rares to sell? Are they selling much? Don't you have to know a decent amount about a lot of different builds in order to know what people might find useful?\\n\\n > In SC once the league is a couple weeks old a pretty large gap gets created where just ok rares are dirt cheap and really good ones are super expensive.\\n\\n1. The prices of ok rares affect way more people than the prices of really good ones\\n\\n2. Really good ones are super expensive, but still less expensive than in HC. For example, compare steel rings, 400+ pdps 1h swords and axes, and INT armour helms\",\n \"532\"\n ],\n [\n \"> meaning as a casual player you cant sell items for nearly as much as on hardcore\\n\\nAren't casuals notoriously bad at price-checking items and identifying good rares to sell? Are they selling much? Don't you have to know a decent amount about a lot of different builds in order to know what people might find useful?\\n\\n > decent items are way more expensive on softcore because of the exalt price\\n\\nWhat do you define as \\\"decent items\\\"? The things that I'm looking at (Kaom's Heart, Kaom's Way, Belly of the Beast, Brass Dome, Starforge, Disfavour, statsticks, steel rings, Shavronne's Wrappings, 400pdps 1hand swords and axes) are all much cheaper in SC.\",\n \"532\"\n ],\n [\n \"> SC items are cheap for mediocre items\\n\\nAnd as a casual player who would never make enough for the super expensive items anyways, that's fine with me!\\n\\n > you’ll make more selling drops to make up for it\\n\\nAren't casuals notoriously bad at price-checking items and identifying good rares to sell? Are they selling much? Don't you have to know a decent amount about a lot of different builds in order to know what people might find useful?\\n\\n > At the same time the true endgame items are a bit cheaper since there’s less inflation.\\n\\nI'm not sure what you define to be \\\"true endgame items\\\" but the things that I'm looking at (Kaom's Heart, Kaom's Way, Belly of the Beast, Brass Dome, Starforge, Disfavour, statsticks, steel rings, Shavronne's Wrappings, 400pdps 1hand swords and axes, ...) are all much cheaper in SC.\",\n \"532\"\n ],\n [\n \"Is this a joke?\\n\\nTheir discretion and diligence ensures that they 1) don't publish incorrect stories and 2) don't compromise ongoing investigations, both of which are important for protecting their reputation and therefore their continued ability to conduct journalism at a high level.\\n\\nAnd your response to their professionalism is to reject it and turn to \\\"open source reporting from random twitter accounts\\\"? And you're *presenting this as a good idea*?\",\n \"624\"\n ],\n [\n \"And and race in HC a lot, so you'd expect them to be good racers in HC...\\n\\nWhat's your point? Being really good due to extensive practice doesn't change the fact that they're really good. It doesn't make sense to diminish someone's ability by saying, \\\"Well, they had to spend a lot of time to reach that level.\\\" That's how everyone gets good.\",\n \"77\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Owning a gun in itself doesn't make you want to kill people, that's mental illness that goes untreated.\\n\\nWhy do you say that?\\n\\n > Our group at Duke recently published a study of approximately 82,000 people diagnosed with serious mental illnesses in Florida between 2002 and 2011. We found that those with serious mental health disorders with records in the public behavioral health system were no more likely than the general adult population in Florida to use a gun to harm others (about 213 vs. 217 gun crimes per 100,000 people per year), and they were only slightly more likely to die in a gun-related suicide (about 13 vs. 9 gun suicides per 100,000 people per year). **Thus, people with mental illnesses are no more dangerous to others when they have equal access to guns.**^[1]\\n\\n***\\n\\n1. *The Washington Post*: [\\\"The ban on mentally ill people buying guns wasn't ever based on evidence.\\\"](_URL_0_) February 10, 2017.\",\n \"701\"\n ],\n [\n \"> There are 33 genders and doctors are bigots\\n\\nThe medical community agrees that there are many different genders. Gender isn't the same thing as sex.\\n\\n > Stand on the graves of dead kids to push our agenda!\\n\\nAnd the right stands on the graves of people killed by immigrants to push their agenda. \\\"Politicization\\\" is just how societies enact large-scale change based on real-life events.\",\n \"68\"\n ],\n [\n \"That's a fair point. The answer is that there's a socially determined range of what might be reasonably considered to be emotionally harmful. Finding physical sexual harassment emotionally harmful would be reasonable. Finding a bad pun emotionally harmful would be unreasonable.\\n\\n**It's an informal application of the legal fiction called the [reasonable person standard](_URL_0_).** Someone going to court and claiming they were wronged via a butt grab would make sense (that'd almost definitely be deemed sexual harassment) whereas going to court for a bad pun wouldn't.\\n\\nDoes that seem fair to you?\",\n \"219\"\n ],\n [\n \"Allow me to give you five. In the U.S., we've needed to be protected from corporations via means such as:\\n\\n* laws enforcing the 8 hour standard workday (instead of 12)\\n\\n* child labor laws\\n\\n* laws preventing companies from dumping industrial waste in residential communities\\n\\n* laws enforcing ethics practices for pharmaceutical trials\\n\\n* laws mandating safety protocols for miners\\n\\nDo those not constitute \\\"protection from corporations\\\"? If not, why? Are the phenomena that I described (child labor, dumping toxic waste near houses, unsafe mining practices, etc.) not bad? If we agree that they are bad: Are corporations not the ones primarily responsible for them?\",\n \"23\"\n ],\n [\n \"I think the point was to push back against the narrative that Europeans were somehow uniquely inhumane in their treatment of other people by noting that other cultures were also genocidal. Peoples from every region carried out destructive acts to their fullest capacity; Europeans were unusual simply in that their technological advancement made them better able to destroy.\\n\\nJust because a point doesn't completely rebut what's being said doesn't make it irrelevant. Adding context is also useful.\",\n \"267\"\n ],\n [\n \"You didn't say it made it easier, you said it was convenience. Convenience implies that people would be able to clear content without it but this simply makes it, well, more convenient to do what they already can. Easier might mean making something easier to the point at which someone can be accomplished in the first place, which is what I'm talking about. Some of my builds, as I play them, need curses to clear trash mobs in T13+ maps.\\n\\nDon't assume that just because something is merely a convenience for you means that it's merely a convenience for others.\",\n \"360\"\n ],\n [\n \"> it's not the government's place to tell business how to run their operations\\n\\nWithout government intervention, ISPs are free to extort tolls from content providers and block those that don't comply. **Verizon has literally admitted in court (during oral arguments for Verizon v. FCC 2014) that they're interested in blocking websites that don't pay fees**:\\n\\n > In court last week, the judges asked whether the company intended to favor certain websites over others.\\n\\n > “I’m authorized to state from my client today,” Verizon attorney said, “that but for these rules we would be exploring those types of arrangements.”\\n\\n > ’s admission might have gone unnoticed had she not repeated it at least five times during oral arguments.\\n\\n > In response to Judge ’s line of questioning about whether Verizon should be able to block any website or service that doesn’t pay the company’s proposed tolls, said: “I think we should be able to; in the world I'm positing, you would be able to.” ([source](_URL_0_))\\n\\nAre we in agreement that that would be a bad thing?\\n\\n > > But the truth is that most Americans have no more than one, maybe two, choices when it comes to high-speed internet.\\n\\n > THIS IS THE REAL PROBLEM.\\n\\nLet's assume we break down the monopolies/duopolies. What if each of the 3-4 ISPs in an area tries to block content providers that don't pay tolls? Would that not be an issue? Or do you have some guarantee that this wouldn't happen?\",\n \"717\"\n ],\n [\n \"> The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States government created by statute (47 U.S.C. § 151 and 47 U.S.C. § 154) to regulate interstate communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable. The FCC works towards six goals in the areas of broadband, competition, the spectrum, the media, public safety and homeland security, and modernizing itself. ([Wikipedia](_URL_0_))\\n\\nIt sounds like they have a lot of business regulating the internet.\",\n \"717\"\n ],\n [\n \"> You realize that Verizon won that case right?\\n\\nYes. The ruling was that Congress hadn't given them the power to prevent blocking yet. I'm saying that Congress should give them that power. What was your point?\\n\\n > as juvenile as that sounds\\n\\nDid you mean to be condescending?\\n\\n > the government has a very poor track record at attempting to regulate/legislate the internet.\\n\\nI disagree. But let's assume that you're right. Why then is the conclusion that we should stop trying entirely? Are we supposed to give up on regulating ISPs entirely?\\n\\n > With regards to your toll metaphor, ISPs who run their own networks should be able to charge whatever toll they want.\\n\\n[Tech experts](_URL_0_) and consumer advocates disagree with you. The ISPs themselves agree with you. I know which side I'm on.\",\n \"717\"\n ],\n [\n \"> I don’t think ending net neutrality will destroy or hobble the internet. In fact. If the current leading ISPs were to start and attempt tiered internet I’d like to think it would spurn the growth and development of competition.\\n\\nTech start-ups think that they know:\\n\\n > After ’s announcement, a group of more than 800 names in tech sent a business-minded denouncement of his plans to strip away the rules that shape net neutrality.\\n\\n > > Without net neutrality, the incumbents who provide access to the Internet would be able to pick winners or losers in the market. They could impede traffic from our services in order to favor their own services or established competitors. Or they could impose new tolls on us, inhibiting consumer choice. Those actions directly impede an entrepreneur’s ability to “start a business, immediately reach a worldwide customer base, and disrupt an entire industry.” ([source](_URL_0_))\\n\\nHaving read that, are you still unsure of the impact that tiered internet might have on competition?\",\n \"717\"\n ],\n [\n \"> They behave the same way, only in an apartment.\\n\\nMany of them don't:\\n\\n > Homeless services once worked like a reward system. Kick an addiction, get a home. Take some medication, get counseling. But ’s model, called “housing first,” said the order was backward. Someone has the best chance of improving if they’re stabilized in a home.\\n\\n > ...\\n\\n > Several years later, the federal government tested the model on 734 homeless across 11 cities, finding the model dramatically reduced levels of addiction as well as shrank health related costs by half. “Adults who have experienced chronic homelessness may be successfully housed and can maintain their housing,” the report declared.^[1]\\n\\n***\\n\\n1. *The Washington Post*: [\\\"Meet the outsider who accidentally solved chronic homelessness.\\\"](_URL_0_) May 6, 2015.\",\n \"681\"\n ],\n [\n \"> that the response being an accusation that the accusation is disrespectful is to admit to the grievous deeds\\n\\nI don't think saying, \\\"Your accusation was leveled in a disrespectful manner\\\" is equivalent to saying, \\\"I admit to doing what you have accused me of\\\".\\n\\nI mean, it would if the accusation of disrespectful location/timing was itself an instance of systemic oppression of people of color, but I have a suspicion that if a white player kneeled during the anthem to draw attention to, say, the plight of the homeless or the mentally ill, it would also be viewed as disrespectful.\",\n \"389\"\n ],\n [\n \"> I’m sorry you think I’m condescending\\n\\nYour \\\"I understand to someone as young and inexperienced you are (based on your typing skills)\\\" comment was absolutely condescending. You directly called him inexperienced while correcting him.\\n\\nFYI, \\\"I'm sorry you think I did X...\\\" is a pretty bad apology template. Instead of saying that your actions were wrong, you're saying that the other person's interpretation of your actions was wrong.\",\n \"730\"\n ],\n [\n \"What exactly constitutes the American empire?\\n\\nI'd argue we're interventionist. But with a few small exceptions we don't govern territory that isn't ours, so we're not strictly speaking an empire. There is a single American people, subdivided though we may be. We don't need to worry about revolts by self-contained ethnic groups living on land that we annexed. I understand that we're similar to an empire in that we have a large sphere of influence, but that's more fundamentally just a feature of states that are much stronger than others, empire or not.\\n\\nAlso worth noting is that a feature that almost completely overlaps with that list is dynasticism/monarchism. I'm definitely not an expert and only gave the list a brief skim, but from what I can tell the United States appears to be the only polity on the list that 1) doesn't include large units of foreign land/people and 2) is a democracy. (The Poland-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Roman Republic were both democracies but had substantial foreign holdings.) For those reasons I think it's reasonable to consider the United States only figuratively an empire, and so an exception to the rule.\",\n \"593\"\n ],\n [\n \"> a tyranny of the majority\\n\\nIf simple majority rule constitutes \\\"tyranny of the majority\\\" then minority rule is \\\"tyranny of the minority\\\". It's even less defensible. It's like the old quote about how democracy is the worst system of government imaginable - except for all the other ones. Majority rule is potentially abusable, but the alternative of minority rule is much less stable.\\n\\nAlso, if your argument is that the minority faces an existential threat if it's not in power, then the only ethical conclusion there is that \\\"the minority *should* be in power.\\\" In which case, well, just drop the pretense of democracy entirely. You're actively advocating for minority rule.\\n\\nYou're saying, \\\"We can't let both sides have social and legal power because we'll be taken advantage of, so how about you get the undeniable social power that comes from being the majority, and we get the legal power.\\\" How sustainable is that?\\n\\nAnyways, many governments have checks in place to prevent a tyranny of the majority. Not all administration is conducted through elected representatives. That's why we have the Supreme Court in the US, for example.\\n\\n > frothing at the mouth about how \\\"every vote must carry equal weight\\\"\\n\\n[\\\"One man, one vote\\\"](_URL_0_) is the core mechanic behind [proportional representation](_URL_1_), which is literally the most fundamental democratic principle. \\\"Frothing at the mouth\\\" about democracy seems reasonable enough to me.\",\n \"593\"\n ],\n [\n \"I had some issues with the article:\\n\\n > Democrats are nearly as complicit in this as Republicans. Instead of joining their GOP counterparts in suckling at the greasy teats of telcom, they’ve sold out the American people for votes. Rather than fight with everything they have, they’ve watched as net neutrality was destroyed.\\n\\nWhat exactly were Democrats supposed to do? appointed the Republican majority on the FCC board, and Democrats in Congress can't overturn the board's policies because of the Republican majority in the House. Once the election was concluded, so was net neutrality.\",\n \"468\"\n ],\n [\n \"> this was the best thing that could have happened for the future of technology\\n\\nNot according to tech start-ups:\\n\\n > After ’s announcement, a group of more than 800 names in tech sent a business-minded denouncement of his plans to strip away the rules that shape net neutrality.^[1]\\n\\nThe only group fighting against net neutrality is ISPs.\\n\\n***\\n\\n1. *TechCrunch*: [\\\"More than 800 startups ask FCC chair to not kill net neutrality.\\\"](_URL_0_) April 26, 2017.\",\n \"717\"\n ],\n [\n \"> wouldn't it be fair to say they had plenty of chances in the past to ensure net neutrality couldn't be destroyed so easily?\\n\\nSince 2000, there has only been a Democratic president + Democratic congress in 2009-2010. Only two years. They pushed through as much as they could during that narrow window, and they couldn't fit this in. So no, I don't think it would be fair to say that they had \\\"plenty of chances\\\" to keep this from becoming a problem.\\n\\nAnyway, I was more broadly taking issue with the false equivalence. If Republicans are the ones trying to destroy net neutrality, and Democrats are the ones trying to save it, how are they both similarly responsible for net neutrality breaking down? Clearly the Republicans are responsible.\",\n \"468\"\n ],\n [\n \"> We should address those things you mention: subsidies, false advertising, monopolies. Net neutrality policy addresses none of those things. I'm 100% on board on finding a solution for those problems\\n\\nHe also mentioned something else:\\n\\n > Limiting small business growth is going to be the biggest long term effect of this, essentially making small businesses pay a lot more for service that would not cost them nearly as much before.\\n\\nDo you not have a problem with ISPs blocking/slowing content providers that don't pay fees? 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She said \\\"but for these rules [i.e. the Open Internet Order, which is what the case was about] we would be exploring those types of arrangements.\\\" How could that be any clearer?\\n\\nSeriously, please, I'm genuinely trying to reach across the aisle and understand our communication disconnect. It seems very obvious to me that she explicitly stated that Verizon was actively interested in those policies.\\n\\nAlso, why would someone *go to court* to say \\\"I think we should be able to do this\\\" if they didn't want to do it?\\n\\nEdit: Also, what kind of argument is \\\"It never happened, and won't happen in the future\\\"? Even if we ignore the excerpt that I provided above in which they literally said they were interested in it, how do you know that it won't happen? And even if it won't happen, then there's still no harm in outlawing it, right? 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That's not such a big deal today with broadband internet and file sharing services, but it was a pretty big deal a long time ago when it might take several minutes to send a file by email and store it on a smaller capacity drive. Every little bit you could save helped.","171"],["I currently live in a $160k house that I bought 10 years ago. I’m shopping for a new one now. Zillow says I can afford $450k. Redfin says I can afford $320k. My own comfort level says $250k. I believe in buying what you need, not in spending as much as you can possibly afford. I have other things I’d rather save for & spend money on. That’s why I’ve been in my cheap house for so long.","488"],["Democrat/Republican is political party affiliation.\n\nLiberal/Conservative is a position on issues. The terms are often used as blanket labels, but one person could easily have conservative opinions on issues regarding crime and liberal opinions on issues concerning same sex marriage. You can also consider yourself to be either liberal or conservative without being affiliated with the Democratic or Republican parties. The Libertarian party generally considers itself socially liberal and fiscally conservative.\n\nLeft Wing/Right Wing has become something of an insult. Liberal/Conservative is a spectrum. Not everyone falls on the same spot on the spectrum. These labels are usually reserved for people on the more extreme ends of the spectrum and they have opinions that the majority of others in the same group do not share.","285"],["Are you taking pictures just because you feel obligated to post something on social media? That sounds miserable if so. No wonder you have a block. Go take pictures just for fun & don’t post any of them. \n\nTry changing genres. Go shoot landscapes if you are usually a portrait person. Be a tourist in your own city & shoot the attractions. Pick up an interior design magazine from the library & try to take similar pictures at your house. Libraries are usually pretty cool. Take some pictures while you are there. Experiment with night photography, long exposures, macro, or some other new technique. I always have more fun when I’m practicing a new skill.","560"],["I switched to Apple as my primary service at the beginning of the year & dropped Spotify down to the free tier. They gave me a 3 months for $10 offer not long after that so I went back to premium. I think I’ll drop back down to the free tier after this. I still listen to the daily mixes sometimes but don’t use Spotify much other than that.","465"],["> \tIve been considering switching but i heard the user interface for apple isn’t as smooth.\n\nI did the Apple trial several times over the years and never liked the UI as much as Spotify. Tried it again this year and liked it. \n\nIn terms of UI, my biggest like compared to Spotify is that it responds to long press and you can customize the context menu to an extent. My biggest dislike compared to Spotify is that I have to use the < < arrows > > because I can’t swipe the cover art. \n\nAnother big plus is Apple doesn’t move UI elements around with every update.","697"],["> Spotify is still vastly superior in recommendations and music discover\n\nOne of the main reasons I went to Apple Music was that Spotify's recommendations had become so fine tuned after 5 years that it felt like every new song was more of the same and I was getting tired of it. At that point it didn't even matter if Apple's recommendations were worse than Spotify's because I was skipping over so many of Spotify's recommendations anyway. \n\nI've been very surprised and quite pleased with Apple's recommendations. It has come up with many songs I love that I still have never even heard on Spotify. I go back to Spotify every week for Discover Weekly, Release Radar, and to check the Daily Mixes. Going back to check now, I have added 15 songs to my library in the last 2 months. 8 came from Apple. 4 came from Spotify. 3 came from stuff I Shazamed.\n\nApple just added auto play at the end of albums and playlists which is one of the major features it was missing compared to Spotify. It does a pretty good job.","21"],["How would knowing someone's identity (a complete stranger to you) make a reporter's story more credible? You don't know anything about this source or their motivation for coming forward with the information. \n\nThe primary reason for a source to want to remain anonymous is fear of retaliation. It may be that a reporter would prefer to use a source they can credit, but given the choice of using an anonymous source or not getting the information at all, using the anonymous source is the better choice.","624"],["They run because they believe their party has the best platform and ideas on how to run the government. One of them could theoretically win the election next month. All it takes is enough people choosing not to vote for the garbage Democrat or Republican candidates.\n\nFYI, Libertarian got 5 million votes in 2016. Green got 1 million. Democrat & Republican got 65 million each. I can't even comprehend how 65 million people would have wanted either of those candidates to be president.","313"],["Joint checking account for shared expenses. Joint savings account for shared goals.\n\nYou decide whether each person contributes a fixed dollar amount, a fixed percentage of the expenses, or a fixed percentage of their income.\n\nWhatever each of you have left over after contributing to the joint account goes into your own personal account to spend or save as you please.","290"],["I've only taken a quick look at Playlisty, but it has a spot to paste links shared from Spotify in addition to direct access to your library. So you can copy the playlist link from any playlist (doesn't have to be in your library), and it will grab the songs from that. Not sure how Spotify could stop that from working other than shutting down the sharing features. It's probably not as full featured as what SongShift can do, but looks like it would work for the playlists you are talking about.","391"],["If you accidentally (or intentionally) delete a picture from your phone and go looking for it later, what happens on Apple compared to Google? If you end up wanting it back more than 30 days later you are shit out of luck with Apple. It will still be there on Google. That’s a backup. \n\nDo you use Time Machine or any other kind of backup on an external drive for your computer? Think about how much less useful that would be if you could never recover anything more than 30 days old. That’s how useless iCloud is as a backup. It is really good at sync though.","697"],["> \tpresumably to view your photos in order to be able to delete them, you have to browse your library, which is, I assume, \n\nPresumably and assume?? Are you trying to argue about a service that you don’t even use or know how it works?\n\n\n > \tAre you saying that if you delete a photo from your Google Photos library that it is never permanently deleted?\n\nNo, I’m saying that if you delete a picture from your phone, it is automatically deleted from iCloud whether you want it to be or not. AmIf that photo has already been backed up to Google Photos, it is not automatically deleted from there when you delete it from your phone. It remains on their servers safety backed up where you can view or retrieve it anytime you want. It’s that simple.","697"],["> \tIf I put an app full screen will the dock disappear?\n\nA maximized window like in Windows and full screen are 2 different things. The dock always disappears in full screen. You can set it to auto-hide when not in full screen mode so it only shows when you hover your cursor over the dock location. \n\n > \tDoes it have the snapping tool that I can just move an app to one side of the screen and it will fill this entire section?\n\nNo, but there’s a pretty decent $1 app called Magnet that will do this.","707"],["> \tFull screen is a very windows way of working.\n\nIt’s a task specific way of working for me, regardless of OS. Things like web browsers and file managers are generally not full screen. Anything that has content in the center and tool panels on the sides like photo or video editing will always be full screen. Other tasks might be best suited for two equally sized windows side by side. I spend equal time on Mac & Windows and work the same on both. If I am on a monitor 24” or smaller then everything is always full screen.","707"],["Maybe 1,000 songs in my library. \n\nI have never added an entire album. I never like every song on an album. No different than before streaming when I used to buy physical albums for specific songs and never listen to the others. \n\nI have playlists by year that I added songs to my library. I have 2 or 3 for mood. \n\nI most often listen to my library in recently added order. By the time I get tired of hearing songs, they have moved further down the list and get less play. I sometimes shuffle the entire library although I do it less often on Apple than I did on Spotify. I’m more likely to play my personalized station on Apple. I prefer random, mixed genres.","854"],["I’ve been wanting to replace my Gen 3 for about a year now but kept waiting for a new model. Finally said fuck it and bought a 4K on Black Friday when they were giving the $50 gift cards. It came with 1 year of ATV+ and the gift card covered 5 months of my music subscription. I don’t even care about a new one now. I couldn’t be happier to finally be rid of that Gen 3.","352"],["> \tInstagram is the most useless social network that does not improve the quality of life of people who scroll through the feed by looking at photos of celebrities\n\nYou’re using it wrong. \n\n > \tbut only makes you procrastinate and experience the worst feelings - anger, envy, oppression.\n\n\nYou’re definitely using it wrong. \n\n > \tI spend 2 hours a day looking for new music\n\n\nWith all the algorithms and curated & personalized playlists, you should not have to put much effort into this at all.","611"],["> \tShe’s the type who believes you should wash your dishes after you finish a meal; I will do them if/when I need to use the dishes\n\nStack them in the sink all day. Load & run the dishwasher before bed. Put away clean dishes in the morning while I drink coffee & browse the news. \n\n > \tShe wants to vacuum the carpet regularly, regardless of what it looks like; I don’t think it’s necessary until it looks noticeably dirty.\n\nI don’t have carpet. I spot sweep the floor as I see things that catch my attention. I vacuum/mop every 7-10 days.\n\n > \tDon’t get me started on dusting\n\nI never get started on dusting.","713"],["The city/county ordinance could be removed or changed. This would have no effect on the equivalent state law. \n\nAlso, police departments can make internal policies not to arrest and prosecutor offices can make internal policies not to prosecute. \n\nAll 3 of these things have happened where I live. You can no longer be arrested on a city marijuana charge and prosecuted in city court, but you could still be arrested and prosecuted for the exact same thing by using the state level charge instead. You only would have been charged on the city level for a misdemeanor anyway; they always use the state charge for felonies.","260"],["> \tWhy would I spend 2 dollars more for the same product at another grocery store?\n\nFor the satisfaction of never stepping foot into a Walmart, never getting irritated with people in their crowded aisles, not having the brands you like removed from the shelves and replaced with Great Value, never standing in a ridiculous line because 15 registers are closed. That’s the way I remember it anyway. I haven’t been inside a Walmart in 9 years.","18"],["> \tOne bathtub in ohio does not represent all bathtubs in America... like any product, sizes vary from tub to tub. Some\n\nI lived in 3 different homes with my parents and rented 5 different apartments before buying my own home. Every one of those places had the exact same 14” high alcove bathtub. I’m pretty sure that’s all that was used up to a certain point, so anything built before a certain year is going to have them unless it has been remodeled.","229"],["> Hannaford is owned by a Dutch company that isn't paying their employees any more money than Walmart is but is charging me a lot more money for the same product.\n\nI've never heard of Hannaford but I have no idea what employees are being paid anywhere I shop. I've never asked an employee at a grocery store, library, mechanic shop, or anywhere else how much they make. \n\n & #x200B;\n\n > I enjoy having money in a savings account a lot more than feeling smug about where I shop.\n\nI'm glad to be in a place where I no longer have to worry about that. I remember being irritated with my wife because she refused to go in a Walmart long before I stopped going. Her grocery trips were usually $25 or so more than mine - certainly not $2 per item. As I said, it's been a long time and prices have changed, so that could be different now.\n\nMost of my shopping now is at a small locally owned store that I pass on my way home where I can be in & out in just a few minutes without having to deal with crowded aisles and parking lots. It makes it a much more pleasant experience.","18"],["> \tSorry I’m not rich like you\n\nOr maybe we make the exact same money and I manage mine better or choose to spend it differently. I don’t go out to eat, I don’t have cable, I drive a car that’s been paid off for 10 years, I make all kinds of budget choices that allow me to buy groceries wherever I want.","482"],["> \tIf you aren’t getting paid with payroll taxes taken out in the US, then it isn’t a “real job”.\n\nThis is not correct. As long as you report your income and pay your taxes at the end of the year, that is all that is required. \n\n > \tBut it isn’t a real, legal job. Social Security thinks you aren’t working. The IRS and your state think you aren’t working. Unemployment thinks you aren’t working.\n\nThis is not correct. They know you are working when you file your taxes. They know you are working when you send in quarterly or annual tax payments. \n\nYou can have a W-2 job, you can have a 1099 job, or you can have a job that doesn’t fill out any forms and leaves it up to you. They are all the same to the IRS & Social Security. They get their money just the same.","51"],["There’s no way to make the suggestions go away, but if you subscribe to a couple podcasts all your suggestions should change to be more like that. You probably don’t even need to listen to them. Just look up dogs, books, cooking, exercise, finance, or whatever you like and subscribe to a couple. \n\nI am also annoyed by the podcasts. It’s one of the reasons I dropped down to the free tier and started using a different service.","620"],["I don't really believe that you are a poor person, but yes, poor people waste money on things just like rich people do. No matter what kind of ridiculous comment you make, that doesn't change the fact prioritizing items in your budget allows you to spend more money on the things that you prioritize. Basic financial literacy goes a long way.","482"],["> \tDon’t really care.\n\nApparently you do because here you are commenting on it. \n\n > \tFucking condescending piece of shit. \n\nI see your overall literacy is about as high as your financial literacy. \n\n > \tGood lord you rich people have your head shoved so for up your ass.\n\nAs you type on your expensive phone and high speed internet. \n\n > \tFinancial literacy is spending more money on the same food? Fucking moron lol.\n\nSince I e already explained it several times and you aren’t able to understand, I won’t bother to repeat it this time. I’ll wait for your next reply since you obviously want to keep the conversation going.","482"],["> \tMoron\n\nIs this your favorite word or did you just learn it today so you are trying to use it as much as you can?\n\n > \tI mean coming from the guy who thinks poor people should shop at fancy grocery stores I don’t think that means much lol.\n\nYou’re the one who brought up fancy grocery stores. You probably let it slip because that’s where you shop. I said I shop at a small locally owned store. Scroll back & see for yourself. \n\n > \tIf poor people have a busted out Iphone 5 and basic internet they should be rich enough to shop at expensive stores\n\nWhat’s your deal with the expensive stores? You are the only one fixated on shopping there. \n\n > \tNo explain again why spending more on the same food is “financial literacy”\n\nSpend less on one thing and you have more to spend on another thing. It’s a really simple concept. Maybe you shop at Walmart because you think you can’t afford anything else but at the same time you are grabbing a drink & snack at the gas station every day. Or smoking a carton of cigarettes a week. Or spending money on who knows what. If you wanted to shop at a less shitty place than Walmart, you might have money that can be saved somewhere else. \n\n > \tYou are the most condescending piece of shit I’ve come across.\n\nReally? You must have lived a very sheltered life if an internet conversation about grocery stores is your worst experience.","18"],["The Canon 100mm f/2 is a fantastic lens. It’s one of my favorites I’ve ever owned and I easily like the pictures as much if not more than my 70-200 f/2.8. I used the 100 on a 50D, 5D, and 6D. \n\nI have the Canon 28/ combination. I have thought about trading them for the Sigma 35/1.4 & 85/1.4 for the convenience of having one less lens to deal with. I probably would if I shot with the primes more often. \n\nWhy are you looking at the Canon 85 instead of the Sigma? I might take the Sigma 85/1.4 over the 100 but not the Canon 85/1.8.\n\nI also have the Canon 16-35 f/4, 24-105, and the 17, 24, 50, 90 TS-E lenses. Even with all of those to compare it to, I still think the 100 has fantastic image quality.","548"],["> \tShe did pay, it was a $50 deposit and the total he charged was $190.\n\nAssuming prices have increased since then, I would either refund the money or give that amount as a credit towards today’s current session price. I would not reshoot at the old price after 2 years. Tell them it’s been too long for that. \n\nHe really should have refunded the money a long time ago and been done with them instead of waiting around to hear from the client again.","610"],["> \tThe Contacts app does it better.\n\nThere is no difference between the two. They look and function identically. \n\n > \tPersonally, I think the ‘edit contact’ function in the phone app should just open the Contacts app.\n\nI don’t see why the phone app needs the contacts tab at all. The area above the keypad where you can only paste a phone number should work like the messages app where you can type in a name or hit the + to scroll through your list from there.","697"],["> I haven’t noticed that but if that’s the case, it’s a huge improvement.\n\nI don't see it as an improvement since I can already play the songs in my library without the station.\n\n & #x200B;\n\n > but what Apple Music severely lacks is functionality along the lines of “You have a a 10,000 song library that is hard to go through because it’s so large. Here are X, Y, and Z from your library!”\n\nMy Library > Songs > Shuffle. The way My Station is currently functioning for me isn't much different from this, except it has a concentration on recently added or played music. \n\n & #x200B;\n\n > I might want to listen to something like “My favorite metal songs from the 80s”, but there’s no way to do that besides manually creating a playlist.\n\nI would go to Library > Genres > Metal for this.\n\n & #x200B;\n\n > Think of iTunes Smart Playlists, but they’d function like filters, so you don’t have to manually create, manage, and delete them. You just select filter criteria and bam, you get it. That what Apple Music is sorely lacking.\n\nThis would be a great feature.","697"],["> Everyone says car warranties are huge rip offs and make you waste all your money.\n\nWarranties, like all insurance, are a gamble. You are betting that something bad is going to happen, and when it does, it will cost more to fix it than you paid in premiums. Usually that is not the case (which is why insurance companies are profitable), but the possibility is always there. It's a risk/reward situation that is different for everyone.\n\n & #x200B;\n\n > Why should I trust any mechanic? They make all their income off of car repairs. I'm sure they'd try to find as many things wrong with the car as possible. \n\nDo you feel that people working in all skilled trades are dishonest or only mechanics? What about doctors, plumbers, electricians, or other people you only see when something is wrong? They all make money by fixing things that are broken.","396"],["> I feel like everyone in my life kind of forgets about me unless I reach out to them. If I don’t reach out to them it could be weeks, or months before i’d even hear from them.\n\nFirst thing is to realize you have both gone the same amount of time without contacting each other. They may be thinking the exact same thing about you. \n\n & #x200B;\n\n > Some people I just gave up on because it is exhausting. What would you do in my position?\n\nI would contact them if they were important to me or not contact them if they are not important to me. Most of the people I have considered my best friends at some point in life I only see or talk to a few times a year now.","204"],["> But I'll guess I'll have to upgrade to Big Sur eventually. Staying on Mojave isn't really viable.\n\nI skipped Catalina on my desktop and just went from Mojave to Big Sur about a month ago. My laptop is still on Mojave.\n\n & #x200B;\n\n > Darn CS6 and it's lack of a non-subscription upgrade path (And Affinity is neat, but it still can't do everything that Illustrator can).\n\nI bought the entire Affinity suite last year when they first had the 50% off sale. I could replace Photoshop with Photo for the work I do (compositing, layering, luminosity masking). I had not previously used InDesign or Illustrator, so can't comment on how Designer or Publisher compare to those. They work well enough for the minimal use I'll give them though.","44"],["> Do I really need to be concerned about the speed of the drive (or connection) for the photos folder?\n\nI keep the current year's photos on my internal drive. I have everything else on a [12TB G-Technology RAID enclosure](_URL_0_) that uses 7200rpm HGST drives. I don't see any speed or performance differences when editing something from the internal drive compared to the external drive.\n\n & #x200B;\n\n > I plan on buying a new Mac in the future, so maybe I need something fast so that I can work exclusively off the external drive.\n\nI'm using the drive I linked on a Mac. Thunderbolt connections are pretty fast.","448"],["Typical fitness requirements are pretty meaningless and aren’t that relevant to your job. I’d rather see practical things like dragging a 150lb dummy 50 yards away from a simulated car crash or jumping a fence in an obstacle course like you are chasing a crackhead through back yards. I guarantee you will never have to do a sit up in the line of duty.","798"],["So if you go to Edit > Edit Keyboard Shortcuts in the C1 menu, you see \"Edit With\" as a keyboard shortcut under the Image section? I want to see a screen shot of that.\n\nI've had 3 different versions of C1 installed on 3 different computers. I've never seen a keyboard shortcut for that. That would be one hell of a bug to affect different machines through different versions of the software. It also isn't listed in the documentation with the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. It should still be documented under the keyboard shortcuts even if a bug stopped it from working on a specific installation.","707"],["That’s more like it. There is no significant difference in fitness or ability to do the job between a person who can do 20 push-ups in 90 seconds and a person who can only do 15. As long as you can get yourself up off the ground quickly when you get knocked down, that’s the only push-up you need.\n\nThere was a time when I could do 60 push-ups in 1 minute. I can’t come close to that now, but I can bench press 100 pounds more than I could at that time. Which one means I’m in better shape? \n\nSame with running. 2 people might complete the course in the required time, but one did it in 12 minutes and can’t breathe while the other did it in 9 minutes and is ready to fight the bad guy. Both pass. What was the point?","9"],["Where I live, bicycles are required to use the road and follow the same traffic laws as cars. It is illegal to ride a bike on the sidewalk. \n\nIt is illegal for pedestrians to use the street *if* there is a sidewalk available. You are required to walk in the opposite direction of traffic when walking in the street. \n\nDespite having sidewalks available, I still walk in the street in my neighborhood. There are usually more walkers than there are cars.","990"],["It’s not strange to me. I’ve gone months without turning on my tv before and I will skip a week or so fairly regularly. When I do watch tv, it’s never more than a single episode of something. I get too bored just sitting there for hours. I don’t know how people can binge watch entire seasons of shows in a day.","367"],["> than what some of my friends paid for their wedding photographers.\n\nI could tell in the sentences leading up to this that you were talking about wedding photography. The things you said definitely do not apply to commercial photography.\n\n & #x200B;\n\n > However, one type of photography still does sell well, portraiture. \n\nAdvertising, architecture, real estate, tourism, food, corporate events & headshots, plus many others are still doing very well.\n\n & #x200B;\n\n > if I really wanted to I could maybe make 3K a month shooting portraitures full time\n\nYou can make a hell of a lot more than that.","560"],["> 3K is modest I guess\n\nIt's more than some people make with their full time jobs.\n\n & #x200B;\n\n > again I think the barrier of entry for digital photography has gone down quite a bit in recent years\n\nSure, for Craigslist portrait photographers and the $500 wedding photographer. Even though that's what most people think of when trying to make some extra money from photography, it doesn't have to be that way at all. You could easily get a solid real estate portfolio by shooing your own home and a few of your family or friends. Send that out to some realtors and you can pick up an easy $1k per weekend shooting houses. Instead of shooting the low budget portrait, go for a slightly higher tier client and sell them an expensive album of their session. There's plenty of money to be made. Low barrier to entry is only affecting the lowest end of the market. You don't want to be there anyway.\n\n & #x200B;\n\n > It's shocking what the iphone can do with its algorithms.\n\nAlgorithms can't get you clients, can't develop a connection or rapport with them, can't pose them, can't upsell them on wall art, can't know the best angle to shoot a room, and can't know the best way to light a product. They most certainly can't solve the million little problems that always come up during a shoot.\n\nPhones aren't taking business away from skilled or creative people. People who are already skilled or creative can use phones in amazing ways to increase their business though. Those are two totally different things.","560"],["> Most servers make $2.13/hr and nearly all their paychecks are $0.\n\nWhy would anyone willingly take a job that pays so little? Because they know customers are guilted into tipping and they end up averaging more per hour than most of their customers make.\n\n & #x200B;\n\n > The hostess is making minimum wage and so is the kitchen.\n\nSo are tens of thousands of other people all over the country.\n\n & #x200B;\n\n > If you are eating out I'm guessing you make more then minimum wage so what's the holdup on a couple bucks.\n\nBecause they have an employer who should be responsible for paying them.\n\n & #x200B;\n\n > Go to a drive thru\n\nHow much do you think the person at the drive thru makes?","973"],["> It's not their battle to get paid more by the employer because in America their position according to the Government is considered a tipped wage position.\n\nThis is a law that benefits the employer by allowing them to not pay their employees properly. It benefits the employee by allowing them to make much more than minimum wage. It screws the customer by making them subsidize the employer's payroll. This law could be changed, but the employers and the servers's don't want to change it. Why would a server fight for minimum wage when they can make double that under the current system?\n\n & #x200B;\n\n > If you feel guilted into leaving a tip then go to the drive thru or eat at home. \n\nI definitely do not feel guilted into leaving a tip. As I've already said, that's not my employee and it's not my job to pay them. I know other people feel the guilt though. Nobody *wants* to pay extra for a meal at a restaurant any more than they want to pay extra for groceries at the store.\n\n & #x200B;\n\n > Just appreciated for waiting on you\n\nThat's their job. Like anyone else with a job, they would be fired if they didn't do it.","973"],["> \tThe food would get much more expensive to absorb the cost that they’re currently saving by paying servers so little.\n\nSo you should start tipping the cashier at the grocery store so the price of food goes down. \n\n > \tPlus, not many people would receive exceptional service very often if servers were making regular ol’ minimum wage. What’s the incentive to ensure that your drink is full and your meal is correct if they’re making the same amount of money?\n\nI’m going to start taking this approach at my job. Either start paying me extra or I’m going to do shitty work. \n\n\n > \tIt doesn’t sound like you’ve ever worked in the industry\n\nI haven’t but my wife did for about 5 years. It would drive her crazy when I walked out without leaving a tip. I’ve said all these same things to her. She knew she could make more money at that alleged $2 job than she could anywhere else. \n\nMy neighbor is a very attractive bartender. She averages $300/night. Poor her working for tips.","973"],["There are no issues if he pays in full for all damages plus your rental while the truck is being repaired. I’ve done it on minor damage. \n\nThe risk is with him actually paying in full. You can get an estimate and demand that amount up front, but what if the shop finds more damage when they start taking things apart? What if the repair takes 10 days instead of the estimated 5 days and now your rental car bill just doubled? Will he pay the extra once it’s all done? You will have to if not.","667"],["Lightroom can do all of this. As long as you use Lightroom Classic and not Lightroom CC, all of your data will remain on your computer. You will have to set up an account with Adobe and pay for the subscription service.\n\nFor the editing part, you can hide that section so you never see it. You can turn off everything except the library and map screens.","44"],["> \tNot all of them are, actually - some can literally run on for 10 minutes and I can link you some if you like.\n\nYes, please provide a TikTok link for a 10 minute video. \n\n > \tEither way, don’t you think its a better idea to “blow off some stress” (aka try to kickstart your onlyfans butt pic career) when you’re not in a place where you’re better put to use saving people’s lives?\n\nIt makes no difference at all. \n\n > \tOr are you just omega simping for female nurses because you like ass? \n\nIf you want to see nurses showing their actual asses, there are Reddit subs for that.","123"],["I consider my tripod to be equally important as any camera or lens I own.\n\n & #x200B;\n\n > My assumption is that it's definitely needed when using longer shutter speeds to reduce the chance of blur.\n\nIt eliminates blur from camera shake. It can help you capture motion blur from people, cars, clouds, or other things in your shot.\n\n & #x200B;\n\n > It's also not very useful when photographing subjects that are moving around (for pretty obvious reasons).\n\nAs long as they are moving within the field of view of your lens, then you can still use a tripod. If you have the right kind of tripod head, then they can be moving anywhere. Wildlife photographers using super telephoto lenses shoot on tripods with gimbal heads.\n\n & #x200B;\n\n > I've noticed from looking at videos that nature photographers (landscapes etc) very often use tripods. Is this because their subject isn't moving so they can take their time composing the shot? Therefore the tripod is more convenient rather than necessary?\n\nI'd argue that it is necessary. Careful, well thought out compositions can be the difference between a snapshot and a fantastic image.\n\n & #x200B;\n\n > If you didn't have access to a tripod (say you accidentally left it at home or whatever), are there types of shots/settings that you just wouldn't bother with at all as you know there is no real point without the tripod?\n\nLots of them. It would be a lot harder to get landscape shots from high or low angles. I wouldn't be able to shoot brackets or multiple exposures for post processing later on. I wouldn't be able to use my 6 or 10 stop ND filters. I wouldn't be able to be in the shot. I wouldn't be able make changes to things in front of the camera while keeping the exact same composition.","596"],["> Release Radar: Spotify does a fantastic job of compiling a lengthy playlist that features new tracks from artists that I follow.\n\nAgree. Wish Apple had this. I use the MusicHarbor app to duplicate this functionality.\n\n & #x200B;\n\n > Daily Mixes: Spotify does a great job of compiling genre based daily mixes that play songs by artists in the same genre.\n\nThese used to be great, but not for a couple of years since Spotify changed the way they work. Now they are 75-85% music already in your library with barely any new music at all.\n\n & #x200B;\n\n > Home Page: Spotify consistently does a good job of keeping the content on the home page relevant and refreshed.\n\nAnd filled with podcasts, which I wish I could disable. I'm not overly impressed with the home page on either service.\n\n & #x200B;\n\n > Autoplay/ Radio stations: Spotify does an excellent job of populating radio stations based on both individual tracks and artists as well as what was previously playing.\n\nAgreed. I also like to seed playlists with 3-4 songs and play radio stations based on those. Apple's infinity play isn't as good as Spotify's autoplay, but it's not bad.\n\n & #x200B;\n\n > Apple Music’s now playing screen is minimal, which prevents quick access to adding/loving a song \n\nLong press > Tap, which while not as simple as Spotify, I've also never accidentally removed a song from my library with Apple because I mistakenly tapped the heart. Easy enough to add back, but then my chronological order of date added is screwed.\n\n & #x200B;\n\n > Queue: Apple Music allows users to choose whether the music they queue will be played in front of or after what is currently playing with its Play Next and Play Later Options.\n\nApple's queue is horrible in comparison to Spotify's. I hate it.\n\n & #x200B;\n\n > Apple Music also offers 4 personalized playlists for users based on listening history, however the Favorites, Get up and Chill Mix do not seem to be dedicated to new music discover based on my personal experience\n\nThey have about as much new music as a Daily Mix on Spotify. This week's Get Up Mix only has 7 songs from my library although almost everything is from a familiar artist. Chill Mix has 0 songs from my library. I love the Favorites Mix. I use it for my daily alarm, played through an automation.\n\n & #x200B;\n\n > *Spotify:* Spotify sports Spotify Connect which allows a user to control playback via devices logged into the same account.\n\nThis is probably my biggest complaint about Apple Music. I can't even comprehend how with all the device integration and connectivity, my ipad has no idea what song is playing on my iphone and I can't control one from the other.\n\n & #x200B;\n\n > *Spotify:* Spotify has an open API which allows other services and developers to create functionality and tools.\n\n[_URL_1_](_URL_0_) is awesome","697"],["I use the default Reminders app on my iPhone for this. One of my lists is nothing but recurring tasks. \n\nI’m not sure what you mean by it unchecks itself though. Mine shows as a task to be completed. I check it off when I am done. It shows as an overdue task if I don’t check it off. Once I mark it as complete, the next scheduled one shows up.","672"],["> \tIf the human race survives a thousand years, are we still going to have “first black person to walk on Jupiter” or “first woman to president of Saturn”? When do we stop with the novelty headlines and see people as people?\n\nThis isn’t a worldwide issue. It is particularly bad in the United States though. Look at how big of a deal we made about being the first woman Vice President, then look at all the female leaders around the world. This just shows how small minded we are in the US.","227"],["I’ve never had this problem. I prefer my home grilled burgers to most restaurant burgers. Restaurants use a lot of salt and butter, both on the patty and the bun. That’s one of the reasons I like them less, but also why many people like them more. \n\nI only use ground tenderloin for burgers. I’ve never used tenderizer on meat. If your meat has a gristly texture then you need to use higher quality meat (not mixed with lower quality meat).","530"],["> Who am I to tell people what to wear and how to wear their clothes/accessories right?\n\nYou are the one being paid to provide a quality service and deliver a quality product.\n\n & #x200B;\n\n > Would it be rude to send an email reminder a day or two in advance about this? If so how would you word it? Do you already have something like this in place?\n\nI am an architectural photographer, not a portrait photographer, but the same principle applies that the pictures will look best when the thing being photographed looks best.\n\nI send all clients a checklist in advance of the shoot to make sure all the common issues I encounter are addressed: remove signs or memos that are taped to windows, remove seasonal decorations, make sure all lights are in working order, raise all window shades to the same level, tend to lawns and flower beds to give a neat appearance, turn off sprinklers so we don't have puddles in the parking lot, etc.\n\nThere is no reason you can't send a similar checklist to your clients: Men - do these things, Women - do these things, Couples - do these things. This is where you give general advice to wear solid colors instead of prints, make sure clothing items are wrinkle free, suggest that couples wear complimentary or contrasting outfits, etc. As in the example of my list, it can be something short and to the point like \"turn off sprinklers\" or you can offer a little explanation so they understand why they should do what you ask like \"turn off sprinklers so we don't have puddles in the parking lot\". For you that could be \"small details make a big impact and we've noticed that manicured nails with fresh polish always take portraits up a notch.\"\n\nEveryone gets the same list with tips for men, women, and couples. Maybe everything on that list applies to a specific client or maybe nothing does. It doesn't matter. I'm just trying to make life easier on myself. Having a list that covers all topics also keeps clients from being offended by any particular items since it's obvious that it's a generic list that goes out to everyone. So when your woman with chipped nails coming in for a solo portrait sees that there is also stuff for men and couples on your list, it keeps her from being offended by any particular items and it shows her that you are experienced in working with a variety of clients and handling a variety of situations.\n\nThis is what you want -\n\nHi Client, don't forget our shoot next week. Here's a PDF with a list of small stuff that can help me get the best pictures of you. See you soon.","560"],["All pictures and catalogs are stored on external drives and backed up to a second set of external drives. I have 32TB of external storage that sits on my desk. The current year's projects are also stored on my internal drive and a portable drive that I keep with me. All internal and external drives are backed up online to Backblaze.\n\nAll edited pictures are exported as JPG and stored in an archive section of my website in a year\\\\month\\\\date-subject folder structure. I started this archive in 2007 and have tens of thousands of pictures stored here. Phone pictures are duplicated on iCloud and Google Photos. The ones I really like have been saved to my computer and become part of the external drive backup.","171"],["> I like to use a shortcut (e.g. ⌘-9) to switch to a certain vault. The vaults are ordered alphabetically, and because I just created a new vault, which ended up somewhere in the middle of all the others, the numbers have shifted as well. ⌘-9 now lands me in a different vault.\n\nInstead of Personal, Work, you can use 1-Personal, 2-Work. That will keep them in the order you want. I don't do this, but I do use one with a ! and one with a z to keep them at the top/bottom of the list.","446"],["> I love the car, but I'm considering selling it for $14,000 and using that money to buy a car that is worth $24,000 that is newer and more reliable.\n\nIn what way is your current car unreliable? Timing chain is a known, scheduled maintenance item that is probably listed in the owner's manual. 84,000 miles shouldn't be much more than half of the car's expected life span. \n\n & #x200B;\n\n > Does it make sense to invest money into a paid off car\n\nYes, to a certain point. That point is subjective to each person. You may be able to pay that $2000 and drive it maintenance free for a few more years. That would be more cost efficient that replacing it if cost efficiency is your primary concern.\n\nThe only thing that doesn't make sense is to pay for the maintenance then sell it shortly after anyway because you can't resist getting a newer car.","352"],["> When slightly more than a majority of our Senators, for example, are women; then it won’t be a very big deal.\n\nIt's already not a big deal to me. New media has a specific goal of attracting viewers and readers though, so they use headlines to get that attention. After the first woman it is first black woman, then first black gay woman, then first black gay woman under the age of 35, then first ....\n\n > Until then, you need to question why, in this example, so many men, a disproportionate number in fact, are ending up in positions of decision making and power.\n\nThe simplest and most common answer is because women aren't running for these positions. You can't elect a candidate that's not on the ballot. There has never been a female candidate for Sheriff or Police Chief where I live. Our sheriff is elected and the police chief is appointed by the mayor (currently a female), but I don't think she considered any female candidates when she made her appointment.\n\nOn the other hand, my city/state has had a female governor, mayor, state & US representatives & senators, city council members, state agency department heads, and most other positions. Despite this, I guarantee there will be \"first female police chief\" headlines when that time comes.","497"],["There’s nothing wrong with cinnamon. No need to remove that. There’s also nothing wrong with peanut butter, but you need to use the types with only 2 or 3 ingredients- skip the sugar and additives or grind your own. \n\nI like shakes for breakfast. My favorite is 1 frozen banana, 1 container Greek yogurt, 1/2 cup oats, 2 tbsp almond butter or ~35g whole almonds, and 1/2 cup water or milk. That’s about 600 calories, 30g protein, 60g carbs, 25g fat. I can make it & drink it in under 5 minutes. It usually keeps me full for a few hours.","559"],["> \tWhat’s to watch on Amazon except for the 3 or so good shows they have? \n\nThis is how I feel about every streaming service. It takes 1 year on average to make a season of a show and 1 week to watch it, and none of them have much that I want to watch in the first place. This is why I cycle between them and sometimes go weeks or even months with no tv service at all. I haven’t had anything at all in a couple months now but might take advantage of Hulu’s $1.99 Black Friday special for a month or two.","526"],["If you are freelancing and you are soley responsible for the entire project from start to finish, then no one cares what you use as long as you deliver the product.\n\nIf you are working for someone else, then of course they are. You will likely be using the software they provide. You may be part of a team where projects are worked on by multiple teams or individuals and your part needs to be compatible with someone else's part. You may need to pull up last year's project. There's probably no room for someone using Affinity in an Adobe operation.\n\nJust in terms of you learning, the are definitely differences, but the Affinity products are similar enough to Adobe products that you could get by in either one if you know the other. You obviously won't be proficient since there will be slightly different workflows, tool icons, keyboard shortcuts, etc but you'd figure it out. Affinity would be good enough for a job that requires familiarity with Adobe but not for a job that required proficiency with Adobe.","561"],["> I've gotta admit, after looking into it a bit, I'm tempted to give Affinity Designer a try.\n\nI've been using Photoshop & Lightroom for well over 10 years. I've never used Adobe InDesign or Illustrator or any other similar product. I bought the entire Affinity suite in April when it was on sale. I created a promotional PDF in Designer (which integrates nicely with Photo) the day I bought it, sent it to a potential client, and got the job I was soliciting. It's very good software and definitely worth the sale price.","44"],["> Capture One Pro: expensive, doesn't support DNGs, limited DAM; very advanced raw editing (too advanced for me)\n\nCurious how lack of DNG is a drawback for you? It's not a default for any camera or editing software that I know of. I'm a long time Adobe user and never convert my files to DNG.\n\nIf you can use Lightroom, then Capture One is not too advanced for you. They have almost identical sliders that do the same thing. They even have a menu option (Window > Workspace > Migration) that configures all the tool panels and placement to mimic Lightroom to make the transition easier. \n\nIn terms of DAM, it is not as good as Lightroom for my specific workflow but it does have keywords, smart collections, star ratings, color labels, and most of the other tools Lightroom has. \n\nC1 is 30% off for Black Friday so it's a good time to buy if you want it.\n\n & #x200B;\n\nDoes Windows have a built in photo editing tool that is good enough for your needs? If so, you can use Adobe Bridge for DAM (it's free) and use whatever Windows has to edit your pictures.","44"],["I started in 2006. I went from RawShooter > Lightroom (Adobe bought RawShooter) > Capture One > Aperture > Lightroom > Capture One. I still have the Lightroom subscription but have primarily been using Capture One for the past year. I've never used Acdsee.\n\n[I just saw a new sale this morning](_URL_0_): Capture One 20 for $199, free upgrade to v21 when it comes out in a few weeks, plus a $25 gift card to either B & H Photo or Adorama depending on where you choose to buy it.\n\nCapture One frequently has 25% - 30% sales through out the year, so you can always wait for one of those for future upgrades to keep your costs down. You also don't need to upgrade every version. I'm skipping 21.","888"],["> On the PC desktop app specifically, I once could click an artists name in my Artist's Collection page, and it would show me all the thumbed tracks from that artist. I used this all the time, and now these links just take you to the artist's page. \n\nSame on Mac\n\n & #x200B;\n\n > I can't fine a way to view all thumbed tracks from a single artist, other than searching through my Liked Songs playlist, which also doesn't work.\n\nAre you using the search bar or the filter bar (does windows have that?). Using the filter bar directly above the song list but below the search bar should do exactly what you want.\n\n & #x200B;\n\n > I don't know why Spotify likes removing features, but a quick look through this sub's posts tells me it's nothing new.\n\nIt's definitely nothing new. It's the main reason I dropped down to the free tier and moved to Apple Music.","391"],["Many administrative traffic laws in a state will apply only to vehicles registered in that state. For example, if your car is registered in a state that requires front and back plates, you can not be ticketed for having a back plate only outside of your home state. If your state does not require an inspection sticker or emissions test, you can't be ticketed for not having that when you are in a state that does require it.\n\nMoving violations like speeding, turn signals, wearing a seatblet are enforced on everyone no matter where the car is registered. It's your job to be aware of the laws in the places you travel. If your state did not require seatbelts for your specific vehicle and it was not manufactured with them, then you could not be ticketed in another state for not having them. If it has them and you choose not to wear it, then you could still be ticketed in a state that requires you to wear it.","353"],["I quit drinking soda maybe 10 years ago. I stopped buying it at the store so it was never in my house for me to drink. I would still drink them whenever I went out to eat. Over time, I went out to eat less often so also had sodas less often. Eventually I was having them so infrequently that it was easy to just stop. \n\n > \tItll be hard since I work in fast food and they dont have much stuff besides soda lol\n\nBring a refillable water bottle to work.","1002"]],"string":"[\n [\n \"Zip files compress data making the overall file size smaller. That's not such a big deal today with broadband internet and file sharing services, but it was a pretty big deal a long time ago when it might take several minutes to send a file by email and store it on a smaller capacity drive. Every little bit you could save helped.\",\n \"171\"\n ],\n [\n \"I currently live in a $160k house that I bought 10 years ago. I’m shopping for a new one now. Zillow says I can afford $450k. Redfin says I can afford $320k. My own comfort level says $250k. I believe in buying what you need, not in spending as much as you can possibly afford. I have other things I’d rather save for & spend money on. That’s why I’ve been in my cheap house for so long.\",\n \"488\"\n ],\n [\n \"Democrat/Republican is political party affiliation.\\n\\nLiberal/Conservative is a position on issues. The terms are often used as blanket labels, but one person could easily have conservative opinions on issues regarding crime and liberal opinions on issues concerning same sex marriage. You can also consider yourself to be either liberal or conservative without being affiliated with the Democratic or Republican parties. The Libertarian party generally considers itself socially liberal and fiscally conservative.\\n\\nLeft Wing/Right Wing has become something of an insult. Liberal/Conservative is a spectrum. Not everyone falls on the same spot on the spectrum. These labels are usually reserved for people on the more extreme ends of the spectrum and they have opinions that the majority of others in the same group do not share.\",\n \"285\"\n ],\n [\n \"Are you taking pictures just because you feel obligated to post something on social media? That sounds miserable if so. No wonder you have a block. Go take pictures just for fun & don’t post any of them. \\n\\nTry changing genres. Go shoot landscapes if you are usually a portrait person. Be a tourist in your own city & shoot the attractions. Pick up an interior design magazine from the library & try to take similar pictures at your house. Libraries are usually pretty cool. Take some pictures while you are there. Experiment with night photography, long exposures, macro, or some other new technique. I always have more fun when I’m practicing a new skill.\",\n \"560\"\n ],\n [\n \"I switched to Apple as my primary service at the beginning of the year & dropped Spotify down to the free tier. They gave me a 3 months for $10 offer not long after that so I went back to premium. I think I’ll drop back down to the free tier after this. I still listen to the daily mixes sometimes but don’t use Spotify much other than that.\",\n \"465\"\n ],\n [\n \"> \\tIve been considering switching but i heard the user interface for apple isn’t as smooth.\\n\\nI did the Apple trial several times over the years and never liked the UI as much as Spotify. Tried it again this year and liked it. \\n\\nIn terms of UI, my biggest like compared to Spotify is that it responds to long press and you can customize the context menu to an extent. My biggest dislike compared to Spotify is that I have to use the < < arrows > > because I can’t swipe the cover art. \\n\\nAnother big plus is Apple doesn’t move UI elements around with every update.\",\n \"697\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Spotify is still vastly superior in recommendations and music discover\\n\\nOne of the main reasons I went to Apple Music was that Spotify's recommendations had become so fine tuned after 5 years that it felt like every new song was more of the same and I was getting tired of it. At that point it didn't even matter if Apple's recommendations were worse than Spotify's because I was skipping over so many of Spotify's recommendations anyway. \\n\\nI've been very surprised and quite pleased with Apple's recommendations. It has come up with many songs I love that I still have never even heard on Spotify. I go back to Spotify every week for Discover Weekly, Release Radar, and to check the Daily Mixes. Going back to check now, I have added 15 songs to my library in the last 2 months. 8 came from Apple. 4 came from Spotify. 3 came from stuff I Shazamed.\\n\\nApple just added auto play at the end of albums and playlists which is one of the major features it was missing compared to Spotify. It does a pretty good job.\",\n \"21\"\n ],\n [\n \"How would knowing someone's identity (a complete stranger to you) make a reporter's story more credible? You don't know anything about this source or their motivation for coming forward with the information. \\n\\nThe primary reason for a source to want to remain anonymous is fear of retaliation. It may be that a reporter would prefer to use a source they can credit, but given the choice of using an anonymous source or not getting the information at all, using the anonymous source is the better choice.\",\n \"624\"\n ],\n [\n \"They run because they believe their party has the best platform and ideas on how to run the government. One of them could theoretically win the election next month. All it takes is enough people choosing not to vote for the garbage Democrat or Republican candidates.\\n\\nFYI, Libertarian got 5 million votes in 2016. Green got 1 million. Democrat & Republican got 65 million each. I can't even comprehend how 65 million people would have wanted either of those candidates to be president.\",\n \"313\"\n ],\n [\n \"Joint checking account for shared expenses. Joint savings account for shared goals.\\n\\nYou decide whether each person contributes a fixed dollar amount, a fixed percentage of the expenses, or a fixed percentage of their income.\\n\\nWhatever each of you have left over after contributing to the joint account goes into your own personal account to spend or save as you please.\",\n \"290\"\n ],\n [\n \"I've only taken a quick look at Playlisty, but it has a spot to paste links shared from Spotify in addition to direct access to your library. So you can copy the playlist link from any playlist (doesn't have to be in your library), and it will grab the songs from that. Not sure how Spotify could stop that from working other than shutting down the sharing features. It's probably not as full featured as what SongShift can do, but looks like it would work for the playlists you are talking about.\",\n \"391\"\n ],\n [\n \"If you accidentally (or intentionally) delete a picture from your phone and go looking for it later, what happens on Apple compared to Google? If you end up wanting it back more than 30 days later you are shit out of luck with Apple. It will still be there on Google. That’s a backup. \\n\\nDo you use Time Machine or any other kind of backup on an external drive for your computer? Think about how much less useful that would be if you could never recover anything more than 30 days old. That’s how useless iCloud is as a backup. It is really good at sync though.\",\n \"697\"\n ],\n [\n \"> \\tpresumably to view your photos in order to be able to delete them, you have to browse your library, which is, I assume, \\n\\nPresumably and assume?? Are you trying to argue about a service that you don’t even use or know how it works?\\n\\n\\n > \\tAre you saying that if you delete a photo from your Google Photos library that it is never permanently deleted?\\n\\nNo, I’m saying that if you delete a picture from your phone, it is automatically deleted from iCloud whether you want it to be or not. AmIf that photo has already been backed up to Google Photos, it is not automatically deleted from there when you delete it from your phone. It remains on their servers safety backed up where you can view or retrieve it anytime you want. It’s that simple.\",\n \"697\"\n ],\n [\n \"> \\tIf I put an app full screen will the dock disappear?\\n\\nA maximized window like in Windows and full screen are 2 different things. The dock always disappears in full screen. You can set it to auto-hide when not in full screen mode so it only shows when you hover your cursor over the dock location. \\n\\n > \\tDoes it have the snapping tool that I can just move an app to one side of the screen and it will fill this entire section?\\n\\nNo, but there’s a pretty decent $1 app called Magnet that will do this.\",\n \"707\"\n ],\n [\n \"> \\tFull screen is a very windows way of working.\\n\\nIt’s a task specific way of working for me, regardless of OS. Things like web browsers and file managers are generally not full screen. Anything that has content in the center and tool panels on the sides like photo or video editing will always be full screen. Other tasks might be best suited for two equally sized windows side by side. I spend equal time on Mac & Windows and work the same on both. If I am on a monitor 24” or smaller then everything is always full screen.\",\n \"707\"\n ],\n [\n \"Maybe 1,000 songs in my library. \\n\\nI have never added an entire album. I never like every song on an album. No different than before streaming when I used to buy physical albums for specific songs and never listen to the others. \\n\\nI have playlists by year that I added songs to my library. I have 2 or 3 for mood. \\n\\nI most often listen to my library in recently added order. By the time I get tired of hearing songs, they have moved further down the list and get less play. I sometimes shuffle the entire library although I do it less often on Apple than I did on Spotify. I’m more likely to play my personalized station on Apple. I prefer random, mixed genres.\",\n \"854\"\n ],\n [\n \"I’ve been wanting to replace my Gen 3 for about a year now but kept waiting for a new model. Finally said fuck it and bought a 4K on Black Friday when they were giving the $50 gift cards. It came with 1 year of ATV+ and the gift card covered 5 months of my music subscription. I don’t even care about a new one now. I couldn’t be happier to finally be rid of that Gen 3.\",\n \"352\"\n ],\n [\n \"> \\tInstagram is the most useless social network that does not improve the quality of life of people who scroll through the feed by looking at photos of celebrities\\n\\nYou’re using it wrong. \\n\\n > \\tbut only makes you procrastinate and experience the worst feelings - anger, envy, oppression.\\n\\n\\nYou’re definitely using it wrong. \\n\\n > \\tI spend 2 hours a day looking for new music\\n\\n\\nWith all the algorithms and curated & personalized playlists, you should not have to put much effort into this at all.\",\n \"611\"\n ],\n [\n \"> \\tShe’s the type who believes you should wash your dishes after you finish a meal; I will do them if/when I need to use the dishes\\n\\nStack them in the sink all day. Load & run the dishwasher before bed. Put away clean dishes in the morning while I drink coffee & browse the news. \\n\\n > \\tShe wants to vacuum the carpet regularly, regardless of what it looks like; I don’t think it’s necessary until it looks noticeably dirty.\\n\\nI don’t have carpet. I spot sweep the floor as I see things that catch my attention. I vacuum/mop every 7-10 days.\\n\\n > \\tDon’t get me started on dusting\\n\\nI never get started on dusting.\",\n \"713\"\n ],\n [\n \"The city/county ordinance could be removed or changed. This would have no effect on the equivalent state law. \\n\\nAlso, police departments can make internal policies not to arrest and prosecutor offices can make internal policies not to prosecute. \\n\\nAll 3 of these things have happened where I live. You can no longer be arrested on a city marijuana charge and prosecuted in city court, but you could still be arrested and prosecuted for the exact same thing by using the state level charge instead. You only would have been charged on the city level for a misdemeanor anyway; they always use the state charge for felonies.\",\n \"260\"\n ],\n [\n \"> \\tWhy would I spend 2 dollars more for the same product at another grocery store?\\n\\nFor the satisfaction of never stepping foot into a Walmart, never getting irritated with people in their crowded aisles, not having the brands you like removed from the shelves and replaced with Great Value, never standing in a ridiculous line because 15 registers are closed. That’s the way I remember it anyway. I haven’t been inside a Walmart in 9 years.\",\n \"18\"\n ],\n [\n \"> \\tOne bathtub in ohio does not represent all bathtubs in America... like any product, sizes vary from tub to tub. Some\\n\\nI lived in 3 different homes with my parents and rented 5 different apartments before buying my own home. Every one of those places had the exact same 14” high alcove bathtub. I’m pretty sure that’s all that was used up to a certain point, so anything built before a certain year is going to have them unless it has been remodeled.\",\n \"229\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Hannaford is owned by a Dutch company that isn't paying their employees any more money than Walmart is but is charging me a lot more money for the same product.\\n\\nI've never heard of Hannaford but I have no idea what employees are being paid anywhere I shop. I've never asked an employee at a grocery store, library, mechanic shop, or anywhere else how much they make. \\n\\n & #x200B;\\n\\n > I enjoy having money in a savings account a lot more than feeling smug about where I shop.\\n\\nI'm glad to be in a place where I no longer have to worry about that. I remember being irritated with my wife because she refused to go in a Walmart long before I stopped going. Her grocery trips were usually $25 or so more than mine - certainly not $2 per item. As I said, it's been a long time and prices have changed, so that could be different now.\\n\\nMost of my shopping now is at a small locally owned store that I pass on my way home where I can be in & out in just a few minutes without having to deal with crowded aisles and parking lots. It makes it a much more pleasant experience.\",\n \"18\"\n ],\n [\n \"> \\tSorry I’m not rich like you\\n\\nOr maybe we make the exact same money and I manage mine better or choose to spend it differently. I don’t go out to eat, I don’t have cable, I drive a car that’s been paid off for 10 years, I make all kinds of budget choices that allow me to buy groceries wherever I want.\",\n \"482\"\n ],\n [\n \"> \\tIf you aren’t getting paid with payroll taxes taken out in the US, then it isn’t a “real job”.\\n\\nThis is not correct. As long as you report your income and pay your taxes at the end of the year, that is all that is required. \\n\\n > \\tBut it isn’t a real, legal job. Social Security thinks you aren’t working. The IRS and your state think you aren’t working. Unemployment thinks you aren’t working.\\n\\nThis is not correct. They know you are working when you file your taxes. They know you are working when you send in quarterly or annual tax payments. \\n\\nYou can have a W-2 job, you can have a 1099 job, or you can have a job that doesn’t fill out any forms and leaves it up to you. They are all the same to the IRS & Social Security. They get their money just the same.\",\n \"51\"\n ],\n [\n \"There’s no way to make the suggestions go away, but if you subscribe to a couple podcasts all your suggestions should change to be more like that. You probably don’t even need to listen to them. Just look up dogs, books, cooking, exercise, finance, or whatever you like and subscribe to a couple. \\n\\nI am also annoyed by the podcasts. It’s one of the reasons I dropped down to the free tier and started using a different service.\",\n \"620\"\n ],\n [\n \"I don't really believe that you are a poor person, but yes, poor people waste money on things just like rich people do. No matter what kind of ridiculous comment you make, that doesn't change the fact prioritizing items in your budget allows you to spend more money on the things that you prioritize. Basic financial literacy goes a long way.\",\n \"482\"\n ],\n [\n \"> \\tDon’t really care.\\n\\nApparently you do because here you are commenting on it. \\n\\n > \\tFucking condescending piece of shit. \\n\\nI see your overall literacy is about as high as your financial literacy. \\n\\n > \\tGood lord you rich people have your head shoved so for up your ass.\\n\\nAs you type on your expensive phone and high speed internet. \\n\\n > \\tFinancial literacy is spending more money on the same food? Fucking moron lol.\\n\\nSince I e already explained it several times and you aren’t able to understand, I won’t bother to repeat it this time. I’ll wait for your next reply since you obviously want to keep the conversation going.\",\n \"482\"\n ],\n [\n \"> \\tMoron\\n\\nIs this your favorite word or did you just learn it today so you are trying to use it as much as you can?\\n\\n > \\tI mean coming from the guy who thinks poor people should shop at fancy grocery stores I don’t think that means much lol.\\n\\nYou’re the one who brought up fancy grocery stores. You probably let it slip because that’s where you shop. I said I shop at a small locally owned store. Scroll back & see for yourself. \\n\\n > \\tIf poor people have a busted out Iphone 5 and basic internet they should be rich enough to shop at expensive stores\\n\\nWhat’s your deal with the expensive stores? You are the only one fixated on shopping there. \\n\\n > \\tNo explain again why spending more on the same food is “financial literacy”\\n\\nSpend less on one thing and you have more to spend on another thing. It’s a really simple concept. Maybe you shop at Walmart because you think you can’t afford anything else but at the same time you are grabbing a drink & snack at the gas station every day. Or smoking a carton of cigarettes a week. Or spending money on who knows what. If you wanted to shop at a less shitty place than Walmart, you might have money that can be saved somewhere else. \\n\\n > \\tYou are the most condescending piece of shit I’ve come across.\\n\\nReally? You must have lived a very sheltered life if an internet conversation about grocery stores is your worst experience.\",\n \"18\"\n ],\n [\n \"The Canon 100mm f/2 is a fantastic lens. It’s one of my favorites I’ve ever owned and I easily like the pictures as much if not more than my 70-200 f/2.8. I used the 100 on a 50D, 5D, and 6D. \\n\\nI have the Canon 28/ combination. I have thought about trading them for the Sigma 35/1.4 & 85/1.4 for the convenience of having one less lens to deal with. I probably would if I shot with the primes more often. \\n\\nWhy are you looking at the Canon 85 instead of the Sigma? I might take the Sigma 85/1.4 over the 100 but not the Canon 85/1.8.\\n\\nI also have the Canon 16-35 f/4, 24-105, and the 17, 24, 50, 90 TS-E lenses. Even with all of those to compare it to, I still think the 100 has fantastic image quality.\",\n \"548\"\n ],\n [\n \"> \\tShe did pay, it was a $50 deposit and the total he charged was $190.\\n\\nAssuming prices have increased since then, I would either refund the money or give that amount as a credit towards today’s current session price. I would not reshoot at the old price after 2 years. Tell them it’s been too long for that. \\n\\nHe really should have refunded the money a long time ago and been done with them instead of waiting around to hear from the client again.\",\n \"610\"\n ],\n [\n \"> \\tThe Contacts app does it better.\\n\\nThere is no difference between the two. They look and function identically. \\n\\n > \\tPersonally, I think the ‘edit contact’ function in the phone app should just open the Contacts app.\\n\\nI don’t see why the phone app needs the contacts tab at all. The area above the keypad where you can only paste a phone number should work like the messages app where you can type in a name or hit the + to scroll through your list from there.\",\n \"697\"\n ],\n [\n \"> I haven’t noticed that but if that’s the case, it’s a huge improvement.\\n\\nI don't see it as an improvement since I can already play the songs in my library without the station.\\n\\n & #x200B;\\n\\n > but what Apple Music severely lacks is functionality along the lines of “You have a a 10,000 song library that is hard to go through because it’s so large. Here are X, Y, and Z from your library!”\\n\\nMy Library > Songs > Shuffle. The way My Station is currently functioning for me isn't much different from this, except it has a concentration on recently added or played music. \\n\\n & #x200B;\\n\\n > I might want to listen to something like “My favorite metal songs from the 80s”, but there’s no way to do that besides manually creating a playlist.\\n\\nI would go to Library > Genres > Metal for this.\\n\\n & #x200B;\\n\\n > Think of iTunes Smart Playlists, but they’d function like filters, so you don’t have to manually create, manage, and delete them. You just select filter criteria and bam, you get it. That what Apple Music is sorely lacking.\\n\\nThis would be a great feature.\",\n \"697\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Everyone says car warranties are huge rip offs and make you waste all your money.\\n\\nWarranties, like all insurance, are a gamble. You are betting that something bad is going to happen, and when it does, it will cost more to fix it than you paid in premiums. Usually that is not the case (which is why insurance companies are profitable), but the possibility is always there. It's a risk/reward situation that is different for everyone.\\n\\n & #x200B;\\n\\n > Why should I trust any mechanic? They make all their income off of car repairs. I'm sure they'd try to find as many things wrong with the car as possible. \\n\\nDo you feel that people working in all skilled trades are dishonest or only mechanics? What about doctors, plumbers, electricians, or other people you only see when something is wrong? They all make money by fixing things that are broken.\",\n \"396\"\n ],\n [\n \"> I feel like everyone in my life kind of forgets about me unless I reach out to them. If I don’t reach out to them it could be weeks, or months before i’d even hear from them.\\n\\nFirst thing is to realize you have both gone the same amount of time without contacting each other. They may be thinking the exact same thing about you. \\n\\n & #x200B;\\n\\n > Some people I just gave up on because it is exhausting. What would you do in my position?\\n\\nI would contact them if they were important to me or not contact them if they are not important to me. Most of the people I have considered my best friends at some point in life I only see or talk to a few times a year now.\",\n \"204\"\n ],\n [\n \"> But I'll guess I'll have to upgrade to Big Sur eventually. Staying on Mojave isn't really viable.\\n\\nI skipped Catalina on my desktop and just went from Mojave to Big Sur about a month ago. My laptop is still on Mojave.\\n\\n & #x200B;\\n\\n > Darn CS6 and it's lack of a non-subscription upgrade path (And Affinity is neat, but it still can't do everything that Illustrator can).\\n\\nI bought the entire Affinity suite last year when they first had the 50% off sale. I could replace Photoshop with Photo for the work I do (compositing, layering, luminosity masking). I had not previously used InDesign or Illustrator, so can't comment on how Designer or Publisher compare to those. They work well enough for the minimal use I'll give them though.\",\n \"44\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Do I really need to be concerned about the speed of the drive (or connection) for the photos folder?\\n\\nI keep the current year's photos on my internal drive. I have everything else on a [12TB G-Technology RAID enclosure](_URL_0_) that uses 7200rpm HGST drives. I don't see any speed or performance differences when editing something from the internal drive compared to the external drive.\\n\\n & #x200B;\\n\\n > I plan on buying a new Mac in the future, so maybe I need something fast so that I can work exclusively off the external drive.\\n\\nI'm using the drive I linked on a Mac. Thunderbolt connections are pretty fast.\",\n \"448\"\n ],\n [\n \"Typical fitness requirements are pretty meaningless and aren’t that relevant to your job. I’d rather see practical things like dragging a 150lb dummy 50 yards away from a simulated car crash or jumping a fence in an obstacle course like you are chasing a crackhead through back yards. I guarantee you will never have to do a sit up in the line of duty.\",\n \"798\"\n ],\n [\n \"So if you go to Edit > Edit Keyboard Shortcuts in the C1 menu, you see \\\"Edit With\\\" as a keyboard shortcut under the Image section? I want to see a screen shot of that.\\n\\nI've had 3 different versions of C1 installed on 3 different computers. I've never seen a keyboard shortcut for that. That would be one hell of a bug to affect different machines through different versions of the software. It also isn't listed in the documentation with the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. It should still be documented under the keyboard shortcuts even if a bug stopped it from working on a specific installation.\",\n \"707\"\n ],\n [\n \"That’s more like it. There is no significant difference in fitness or ability to do the job between a person who can do 20 push-ups in 90 seconds and a person who can only do 15. As long as you can get yourself up off the ground quickly when you get knocked down, that’s the only push-up you need.\\n\\nThere was a time when I could do 60 push-ups in 1 minute. I can’t come close to that now, but I can bench press 100 pounds more than I could at that time. Which one means I’m in better shape? \\n\\nSame with running. 2 people might complete the course in the required time, but one did it in 12 minutes and can’t breathe while the other did it in 9 minutes and is ready to fight the bad guy. Both pass. What was the point?\",\n \"9\"\n ],\n [\n \"Where I live, bicycles are required to use the road and follow the same traffic laws as cars. It is illegal to ride a bike on the sidewalk. \\n\\nIt is illegal for pedestrians to use the street *if* there is a sidewalk available. You are required to walk in the opposite direction of traffic when walking in the street. \\n\\nDespite having sidewalks available, I still walk in the street in my neighborhood. There are usually more walkers than there are cars.\",\n \"990\"\n ],\n [\n \"It’s not strange to me. I’ve gone months without turning on my tv before and I will skip a week or so fairly regularly. When I do watch tv, it’s never more than a single episode of something. I get too bored just sitting there for hours. I don’t know how people can binge watch entire seasons of shows in a day.\",\n \"367\"\n ],\n [\n \"> than what some of my friends paid for their wedding photographers.\\n\\nI could tell in the sentences leading up to this that you were talking about wedding photography. The things you said definitely do not apply to commercial photography.\\n\\n & #x200B;\\n\\n > However, one type of photography still does sell well, portraiture. \\n\\nAdvertising, architecture, real estate, tourism, food, corporate events & headshots, plus many others are still doing very well.\\n\\n & #x200B;\\n\\n > if I really wanted to I could maybe make 3K a month shooting portraitures full time\\n\\nYou can make a hell of a lot more than that.\",\n \"560\"\n ],\n [\n \"> 3K is modest I guess\\n\\nIt's more than some people make with their full time jobs.\\n\\n & #x200B;\\n\\n > again I think the barrier of entry for digital photography has gone down quite a bit in recent years\\n\\nSure, for Craigslist portrait photographers and the $500 wedding photographer. Even though that's what most people think of when trying to make some extra money from photography, it doesn't have to be that way at all. You could easily get a solid real estate portfolio by shooing your own home and a few of your family or friends. Send that out to some realtors and you can pick up an easy $1k per weekend shooting houses. Instead of shooting the low budget portrait, go for a slightly higher tier client and sell them an expensive album of their session. There's plenty of money to be made. Low barrier to entry is only affecting the lowest end of the market. You don't want to be there anyway.\\n\\n & #x200B;\\n\\n > It's shocking what the iphone can do with its algorithms.\\n\\nAlgorithms can't get you clients, can't develop a connection or rapport with them, can't pose them, can't upsell them on wall art, can't know the best angle to shoot a room, and can't know the best way to light a product. They most certainly can't solve the million little problems that always come up during a shoot.\\n\\nPhones aren't taking business away from skilled or creative people. People who are already skilled or creative can use phones in amazing ways to increase their business though. Those are two totally different things.\",\n \"560\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Most servers make $2.13/hr and nearly all their paychecks are $0.\\n\\nWhy would anyone willingly take a job that pays so little? Because they know customers are guilted into tipping and they end up averaging more per hour than most of their customers make.\\n\\n & #x200B;\\n\\n > The hostess is making minimum wage and so is the kitchen.\\n\\nSo are tens of thousands of other people all over the country.\\n\\n & #x200B;\\n\\n > If you are eating out I'm guessing you make more then minimum wage so what's the holdup on a couple bucks.\\n\\nBecause they have an employer who should be responsible for paying them.\\n\\n & #x200B;\\n\\n > Go to a drive thru\\n\\nHow much do you think the person at the drive thru makes?\",\n \"973\"\n ],\n [\n \"> It's not their battle to get paid more by the employer because in America their position according to the Government is considered a tipped wage position.\\n\\nThis is a law that benefits the employer by allowing them to not pay their employees properly. It benefits the employee by allowing them to make much more than minimum wage. It screws the customer by making them subsidize the employer's payroll. This law could be changed, but the employers and the servers's don't want to change it. Why would a server fight for minimum wage when they can make double that under the current system?\\n\\n & #x200B;\\n\\n > If you feel guilted into leaving a tip then go to the drive thru or eat at home. \\n\\nI definitely do not feel guilted into leaving a tip. As I've already said, that's not my employee and it's not my job to pay them. I know other people feel the guilt though. Nobody *wants* to pay extra for a meal at a restaurant any more than they want to pay extra for groceries at the store.\\n\\n & #x200B;\\n\\n > Just appreciated for waiting on you\\n\\nThat's their job. Like anyone else with a job, they would be fired if they didn't do it.\",\n \"973\"\n ],\n [\n \"> \\tThe food would get much more expensive to absorb the cost that they’re currently saving by paying servers so little.\\n\\nSo you should start tipping the cashier at the grocery store so the price of food goes down. \\n\\n > \\tPlus, not many people would receive exceptional service very often if servers were making regular ol’ minimum wage. What’s the incentive to ensure that your drink is full and your meal is correct if they’re making the same amount of money?\\n\\nI’m going to start taking this approach at my job. Either start paying me extra or I’m going to do shitty work. \\n\\n\\n > \\tIt doesn’t sound like you’ve ever worked in the industry\\n\\nI haven’t but my wife did for about 5 years. It would drive her crazy when I walked out without leaving a tip. I’ve said all these same things to her. She knew she could make more money at that alleged $2 job than she could anywhere else. \\n\\nMy neighbor is a very attractive bartender. She averages $300/night. Poor her working for tips.\",\n \"973\"\n ],\n [\n \"There are no issues if he pays in full for all damages plus your rental while the truck is being repaired. I’ve done it on minor damage. \\n\\nThe risk is with him actually paying in full. You can get an estimate and demand that amount up front, but what if the shop finds more damage when they start taking things apart? What if the repair takes 10 days instead of the estimated 5 days and now your rental car bill just doubled? Will he pay the extra once it’s all done? You will have to if not.\",\n \"667\"\n ],\n [\n \"Lightroom can do all of this. As long as you use Lightroom Classic and not Lightroom CC, all of your data will remain on your computer. You will have to set up an account with Adobe and pay for the subscription service.\\n\\nFor the editing part, you can hide that section so you never see it. You can turn off everything except the library and map screens.\",\n \"44\"\n ],\n [\n \"> \\tNot all of them are, actually - some can literally run on for 10 minutes and I can link you some if you like.\\n\\nYes, please provide a TikTok link for a 10 minute video. \\n\\n > \\tEither way, don’t you think its a better idea to “blow off some stress” (aka try to kickstart your onlyfans butt pic career) when you’re not in a place where you’re better put to use saving people’s lives?\\n\\nIt makes no difference at all. \\n\\n > \\tOr are you just omega simping for female nurses because you like ass? \\n\\nIf you want to see nurses showing their actual asses, there are Reddit subs for that.\",\n \"123\"\n ],\n [\n \"I consider my tripod to be equally important as any camera or lens I own.\\n\\n & #x200B;\\n\\n > My assumption is that it's definitely needed when using longer shutter speeds to reduce the chance of blur.\\n\\nIt eliminates blur from camera shake. It can help you capture motion blur from people, cars, clouds, or other things in your shot.\\n\\n & #x200B;\\n\\n > It's also not very useful when photographing subjects that are moving around (for pretty obvious reasons).\\n\\nAs long as they are moving within the field of view of your lens, then you can still use a tripod. If you have the right kind of tripod head, then they can be moving anywhere. Wildlife photographers using super telephoto lenses shoot on tripods with gimbal heads.\\n\\n & #x200B;\\n\\n > I've noticed from looking at videos that nature photographers (landscapes etc) very often use tripods. Is this because their subject isn't moving so they can take their time composing the shot? Therefore the tripod is more convenient rather than necessary?\\n\\nI'd argue that it is necessary. Careful, well thought out compositions can be the difference between a snapshot and a fantastic image.\\n\\n & #x200B;\\n\\n > If you didn't have access to a tripod (say you accidentally left it at home or whatever), are there types of shots/settings that you just wouldn't bother with at all as you know there is no real point without the tripod?\\n\\nLots of them. It would be a lot harder to get landscape shots from high or low angles. I wouldn't be able to shoot brackets or multiple exposures for post processing later on. I wouldn't be able to use my 6 or 10 stop ND filters. I wouldn't be able to be in the shot. I wouldn't be able make changes to things in front of the camera while keeping the exact same composition.\",\n \"596\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Release Radar: Spotify does a fantastic job of compiling a lengthy playlist that features new tracks from artists that I follow.\\n\\nAgree. Wish Apple had this. I use the MusicHarbor app to duplicate this functionality.\\n\\n & #x200B;\\n\\n > Daily Mixes: Spotify does a great job of compiling genre based daily mixes that play songs by artists in the same genre.\\n\\nThese used to be great, but not for a couple of years since Spotify changed the way they work. Now they are 75-85% music already in your library with barely any new music at all.\\n\\n & #x200B;\\n\\n > Home Page: Spotify consistently does a good job of keeping the content on the home page relevant and refreshed.\\n\\nAnd filled with podcasts, which I wish I could disable. I'm not overly impressed with the home page on either service.\\n\\n & #x200B;\\n\\n > Autoplay/ Radio stations: Spotify does an excellent job of populating radio stations based on both individual tracks and artists as well as what was previously playing.\\n\\nAgreed. I also like to seed playlists with 3-4 songs and play radio stations based on those. Apple's infinity play isn't as good as Spotify's autoplay, but it's not bad.\\n\\n & #x200B;\\n\\n > Apple Music’s now playing screen is minimal, which prevents quick access to adding/loving a song \\n\\nLong press > Tap, which while not as simple as Spotify, I've also never accidentally removed a song from my library with Apple because I mistakenly tapped the heart. Easy enough to add back, but then my chronological order of date added is screwed.\\n\\n & #x200B;\\n\\n > Queue: Apple Music allows users to choose whether the music they queue will be played in front of or after what is currently playing with its Play Next and Play Later Options.\\n\\nApple's queue is horrible in comparison to Spotify's. I hate it.\\n\\n & #x200B;\\n\\n > Apple Music also offers 4 personalized playlists for users based on listening history, however the Favorites, Get up and Chill Mix do not seem to be dedicated to new music discover based on my personal experience\\n\\nThey have about as much new music as a Daily Mix on Spotify. This week's Get Up Mix only has 7 songs from my library although almost everything is from a familiar artist. Chill Mix has 0 songs from my library. I love the Favorites Mix. I use it for my daily alarm, played through an automation.\\n\\n & #x200B;\\n\\n > *Spotify:* Spotify sports Spotify Connect which allows a user to control playback via devices logged into the same account.\\n\\nThis is probably my biggest complaint about Apple Music. I can't even comprehend how with all the device integration and connectivity, my ipad has no idea what song is playing on my iphone and I can't control one from the other.\\n\\n & #x200B;\\n\\n > *Spotify:* Spotify has an open API which allows other services and developers to create functionality and tools.\\n\\n[_URL_1_](_URL_0_) is awesome\",\n \"697\"\n ],\n [\n \"I use the default Reminders app on my iPhone for this. One of my lists is nothing but recurring tasks. \\n\\nI’m not sure what you mean by it unchecks itself though. Mine shows as a task to be completed. I check it off when I am done. It shows as an overdue task if I don’t check it off. Once I mark it as complete, the next scheduled one shows up.\",\n \"672\"\n ],\n [\n \"> \\tIf the human race survives a thousand years, are we still going to have “first black person to walk on Jupiter” or “first woman to president of Saturn”? When do we stop with the novelty headlines and see people as people?\\n\\nThis isn’t a worldwide issue. It is particularly bad in the United States though. Look at how big of a deal we made about being the first woman Vice President, then look at all the female leaders around the world. This just shows how small minded we are in the US.\",\n \"227\"\n ],\n [\n \"I’ve never had this problem. I prefer my home grilled burgers to most restaurant burgers. Restaurants use a lot of salt and butter, both on the patty and the bun. That’s one of the reasons I like them less, but also why many people like them more. \\n\\nI only use ground tenderloin for burgers. I’ve never used tenderizer on meat. If your meat has a gristly texture then you need to use higher quality meat (not mixed with lower quality meat).\",\n \"530\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Who am I to tell people what to wear and how to wear their clothes/accessories right?\\n\\nYou are the one being paid to provide a quality service and deliver a quality product.\\n\\n & #x200B;\\n\\n > Would it be rude to send an email reminder a day or two in advance about this? If so how would you word it? Do you already have something like this in place?\\n\\nI am an architectural photographer, not a portrait photographer, but the same principle applies that the pictures will look best when the thing being photographed looks best.\\n\\nI send all clients a checklist in advance of the shoot to make sure all the common issues I encounter are addressed: remove signs or memos that are taped to windows, remove seasonal decorations, make sure all lights are in working order, raise all window shades to the same level, tend to lawns and flower beds to give a neat appearance, turn off sprinklers so we don't have puddles in the parking lot, etc.\\n\\nThere is no reason you can't send a similar checklist to your clients: Men - do these things, Women - do these things, Couples - do these things. This is where you give general advice to wear solid colors instead of prints, make sure clothing items are wrinkle free, suggest that couples wear complimentary or contrasting outfits, etc. As in the example of my list, it can be something short and to the point like \\\"turn off sprinklers\\\" or you can offer a little explanation so they understand why they should do what you ask like \\\"turn off sprinklers so we don't have puddles in the parking lot\\\". For you that could be \\\"small details make a big impact and we've noticed that manicured nails with fresh polish always take portraits up a notch.\\\"\\n\\nEveryone gets the same list with tips for men, women, and couples. Maybe everything on that list applies to a specific client or maybe nothing does. It doesn't matter. I'm just trying to make life easier on myself. Having a list that covers all topics also keeps clients from being offended by any particular items since it's obvious that it's a generic list that goes out to everyone. So when your woman with chipped nails coming in for a solo portrait sees that there is also stuff for men and couples on your list, it keeps her from being offended by any particular items and it shows her that you are experienced in working with a variety of clients and handling a variety of situations.\\n\\nThis is what you want -\\n\\nHi Client, don't forget our shoot next week. Here's a PDF with a list of small stuff that can help me get the best pictures of you. See you soon.\",\n \"560\"\n ],\n [\n \"All pictures and catalogs are stored on external drives and backed up to a second set of external drives. I have 32TB of external storage that sits on my desk. The current year's projects are also stored on my internal drive and a portable drive that I keep with me. All internal and external drives are backed up online to Backblaze.\\n\\nAll edited pictures are exported as JPG and stored in an archive section of my website in a year\\\\\\\\month\\\\\\\\date-subject folder structure. I started this archive in 2007 and have tens of thousands of pictures stored here. Phone pictures are duplicated on iCloud and Google Photos. The ones I really like have been saved to my computer and become part of the external drive backup.\",\n \"171\"\n ],\n [\n \"> I like to use a shortcut (e.g. ⌘-9) to switch to a certain vault. The vaults are ordered alphabetically, and because I just created a new vault, which ended up somewhere in the middle of all the others, the numbers have shifted as well. ⌘-9 now lands me in a different vault.\\n\\nInstead of Personal, Work, you can use 1-Personal, 2-Work. That will keep them in the order you want. I don't do this, but I do use one with a ! and one with a z to keep them at the top/bottom of the list.\",\n \"446\"\n ],\n [\n \"> I love the car, but I'm considering selling it for $14,000 and using that money to buy a car that is worth $24,000 that is newer and more reliable.\\n\\nIn what way is your current car unreliable? Timing chain is a known, scheduled maintenance item that is probably listed in the owner's manual. 84,000 miles shouldn't be much more than half of the car's expected life span. \\n\\n & #x200B;\\n\\n > Does it make sense to invest money into a paid off car\\n\\nYes, to a certain point. That point is subjective to each person. You may be able to pay that $2000 and drive it maintenance free for a few more years. That would be more cost efficient that replacing it if cost efficiency is your primary concern.\\n\\nThe only thing that doesn't make sense is to pay for the maintenance then sell it shortly after anyway because you can't resist getting a newer car.\",\n \"352\"\n ],\n [\n \"> When slightly more than a majority of our Senators, for example, are women; then it won’t be a very big deal.\\n\\nIt's already not a big deal to me. New media has a specific goal of attracting viewers and readers though, so they use headlines to get that attention. After the first woman it is first black woman, then first black gay woman, then first black gay woman under the age of 35, then first ....\\n\\n > Until then, you need to question why, in this example, so many men, a disproportionate number in fact, are ending up in positions of decision making and power.\\n\\nThe simplest and most common answer is because women aren't running for these positions. You can't elect a candidate that's not on the ballot. There has never been a female candidate for Sheriff or Police Chief where I live. Our sheriff is elected and the police chief is appointed by the mayor (currently a female), but I don't think she considered any female candidates when she made her appointment.\\n\\nOn the other hand, my city/state has had a female governor, mayor, state & US representatives & senators, city council members, state agency department heads, and most other positions. Despite this, I guarantee there will be \\\"first female police chief\\\" headlines when that time comes.\",\n \"497\"\n ],\n [\n \"There’s nothing wrong with cinnamon. No need to remove that. There’s also nothing wrong with peanut butter, but you need to use the types with only 2 or 3 ingredients- skip the sugar and additives or grind your own. \\n\\nI like shakes for breakfast. My favorite is 1 frozen banana, 1 container Greek yogurt, 1/2 cup oats, 2 tbsp almond butter or ~35g whole almonds, and 1/2 cup water or milk. That’s about 600 calories, 30g protein, 60g carbs, 25g fat. I can make it & drink it in under 5 minutes. It usually keeps me full for a few hours.\",\n \"559\"\n ],\n [\n \"> \\tWhat’s to watch on Amazon except for the 3 or so good shows they have? \\n\\nThis is how I feel about every streaming service. It takes 1 year on average to make a season of a show and 1 week to watch it, and none of them have much that I want to watch in the first place. This is why I cycle between them and sometimes go weeks or even months with no tv service at all. I haven’t had anything at all in a couple months now but might take advantage of Hulu’s $1.99 Black Friday special for a month or two.\",\n \"526\"\n ],\n [\n \"If you are freelancing and you are soley responsible for the entire project from start to finish, then no one cares what you use as long as you deliver the product.\\n\\nIf you are working for someone else, then of course they are. You will likely be using the software they provide. You may be part of a team where projects are worked on by multiple teams or individuals and your part needs to be compatible with someone else's part. You may need to pull up last year's project. There's probably no room for someone using Affinity in an Adobe operation.\\n\\nJust in terms of you learning, the are definitely differences, but the Affinity products are similar enough to Adobe products that you could get by in either one if you know the other. You obviously won't be proficient since there will be slightly different workflows, tool icons, keyboard shortcuts, etc but you'd figure it out. Affinity would be good enough for a job that requires familiarity with Adobe but not for a job that required proficiency with Adobe.\",\n \"561\"\n ],\n [\n \"> I've gotta admit, after looking into it a bit, I'm tempted to give Affinity Designer a try.\\n\\nI've been using Photoshop & Lightroom for well over 10 years. I've never used Adobe InDesign or Illustrator or any other similar product. I bought the entire Affinity suite in April when it was on sale. I created a promotional PDF in Designer (which integrates nicely with Photo) the day I bought it, sent it to a potential client, and got the job I was soliciting. It's very good software and definitely worth the sale price.\",\n \"44\"\n ],\n [\n \"> Capture One Pro: expensive, doesn't support DNGs, limited DAM; very advanced raw editing (too advanced for me)\\n\\nCurious how lack of DNG is a drawback for you? It's not a default for any camera or editing software that I know of. I'm a long time Adobe user and never convert my files to DNG.\\n\\nIf you can use Lightroom, then Capture One is not too advanced for you. They have almost identical sliders that do the same thing. They even have a menu option (Window > Workspace > Migration) that configures all the tool panels and placement to mimic Lightroom to make the transition easier. \\n\\nIn terms of DAM, it is not as good as Lightroom for my specific workflow but it does have keywords, smart collections, star ratings, color labels, and most of the other tools Lightroom has. \\n\\nC1 is 30% off for Black Friday so it's a good time to buy if you want it.\\n\\n & #x200B;\\n\\nDoes Windows have a built in photo editing tool that is good enough for your needs? If so, you can use Adobe Bridge for DAM (it's free) and use whatever Windows has to edit your pictures.\",\n \"44\"\n ],\n [\n \"I started in 2006. I went from RawShooter > Lightroom (Adobe bought RawShooter) > Capture One > Aperture > Lightroom > Capture One. I still have the Lightroom subscription but have primarily been using Capture One for the past year. I've never used Acdsee.\\n\\n[I just saw a new sale this morning](_URL_0_): Capture One 20 for $199, free upgrade to v21 when it comes out in a few weeks, plus a $25 gift card to either B & H Photo or Adorama depending on where you choose to buy it.\\n\\nCapture One frequently has 25% - 30% sales through out the year, so you can always wait for one of those for future upgrades to keep your costs down. You also don't need to upgrade every version. I'm skipping 21.\",\n \"888\"\n ],\n [\n \"> On the PC desktop app specifically, I once could click an artists name in my Artist's Collection page, and it would show me all the thumbed tracks from that artist. I used this all the time, and now these links just take you to the artist's page. \\n\\nSame on Mac\\n\\n & #x200B;\\n\\n > I can't fine a way to view all thumbed tracks from a single artist, other than searching through my Liked Songs playlist, which also doesn't work.\\n\\nAre you using the search bar or the filter bar (does windows have that?). Using the filter bar directly above the song list but below the search bar should do exactly what you want.\\n\\n & #x200B;\\n\\n > I don't know why Spotify likes removing features, but a quick look through this sub's posts tells me it's nothing new.\\n\\nIt's definitely nothing new. It's the main reason I dropped down to the free tier and moved to Apple Music.\",\n \"391\"\n ],\n [\n \"Many administrative traffic laws in a state will apply only to vehicles registered in that state. For example, if your car is registered in a state that requires front and back plates, you can not be ticketed for having a back plate only outside of your home state. If your state does not require an inspection sticker or emissions test, you can't be ticketed for not having that when you are in a state that does require it.\\n\\nMoving violations like speeding, turn signals, wearing a seatblet are enforced on everyone no matter where the car is registered. It's your job to be aware of the laws in the places you travel. If your state did not require seatbelts for your specific vehicle and it was not manufactured with them, then you could not be ticketed in another state for not having them. If it has them and you choose not to wear it, then you could still be ticketed in a state that requires you to wear it.\",\n \"353\"\n ],\n [\n \"I quit drinking soda maybe 10 years ago. I stopped buying it at the store so it was never in my house for me to drink. I would still drink them whenever I went out to eat. Over time, I went out to eat less often so also had sodas less often. 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Brilliant moments pepper sprayed onto a bland soap opera-ish format.","513"],["I think the point of that scene, or his reaction, was to show us that the Saviors aren't mindless killer robots that worship .\n\nThey are just people, and are as different as any group of people can be. The guy that shot the kid is the idiot on a power trip type, while the leader of that small group is the type that would rather be back at home restoring his hot rod or something.\n\nThey are a good mix of people that are trying to survive by any means necessary - and shooting that kid was not necessary for the situation. All that guy wants to do is pick up 's tribute so he and his loved ones can survive another day.\n\nI could be wrong, but that's my take anyway.","942"],["Shit, I never thought about how little you really knew about the guy yet he was one of the best characters.\n\nThat is definitely due to the actor.\n\nI know this gets said with every other comment about the walking dead on reddit but it's a shame that there are these talented actors that get the material that they get and just have to work it for all they can. If that makes sense.","735"],["Sorry Sweden.\n\nI have no idea why our idiot president and his cult have decided to single out your country as the hotbed of terrorism that it isn't.\n\nThere are cultists working day and night, feverishly working to find some kind of evidence of a white person being hurt by someone with a dark skin color in your country - as if that has anything to do with America or her interests.\n\nBelieve me, there are people here that would want nothing more than an attack in your country by a muslim. To them it will prove something, they don't know what it will prove, but it will prove something to them.\n\nApologies,\n\nAmerican Citizen","690"],["These things happen.\n\nI have had a strange dynamic between my mother and her mother.\n\nMy grandmother has been a godsend unto me, and the complete opposite with her daughter - my mother.\n\nIf my grandmother passed away tomorrow it would be traumatic to me but great for my mother, who I love and I want the best for.\n\nIt has and always will be the strangest relationship I can ever imagine anyone having. Someone you love more than anything - two people, being strangely dependent on the other one in a terrible way. Ugh... dont ask me to take sides","981"],["*During the Cold War*\n\nRepublicans: We hate Russia!\n\nDemocrats: Wait bro, why do you hate Russia so much?\n\n*After the Cold War*\n\nRepublicans: We love Russia!\n\nDemocrats: Wait a fucking second, why do you love Russia so much?\n\n*goddamnit*\n\nSeriously, ever since the Cold War ended, Republicans really haven't had much of a rallying cry against anything. Sure, they stood against things, but never really had a reason to. They hated things, but didn't know why they did.\n\nThe only real motivation for Republicans after the Cold War seems to be money.","853"],["This is really great press for him --- makes me wonder if he didn't do this type of shit on purpose.\n\nHe can use this as a rallying cry for free money. I am sure there are a lot of racists that aren't bright enough to understand that he doesn't need it and there are a lot of cult members that aren't even racist that will donate to him, because, .\n\nIt is a good time to be in the business of racism. I bet he makes a lot of money shilling his bullshit on behalf of the pussies on the right that are too scared to come out as a racist in public, so they would rather speak through him.\n\nI bet he does well for himself, seriously.","936"],["Only once.\n\nDallas TX, March 8th 1997.\n\n